What could be cooler than a whole lorry that folds down out into a whole city for you to explore with your stunt cars? We all know that Christmas shopping can be a stressful and expensive time for parents with young children. Thankfully Morrisons is here to help as they’ve just launched a mega sale on toys in store, to help customers prepare for Christmas. None could compare to the might of Star Wars, which never met a licensing or merchandising opportunity it couldn’t make its own and absolutely dominate. Early Micro Machines television commercials were famous for featuring actor John Moschitta Jr., who was (at the time) listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's fastest talker. As a result of his work in the commercials, Moschitta came to be known as the "Micro Machines man". [1]

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While the Micro Machines collection is known primarily for sizing down automobiles, it has also featured several playsets including 1991's fold-out Super Van City. Licensed character products would often be fold-open heads including miniature characters and vehicles interactive with their playset environment. Micro Machines also utilized several diverse features such as color-changing cars and "Private Eyes" vehicles that even allowed one to peek inside and view an illustration of the contents.

At the 2020 New York Fair, [2] new Micro Machines were announced and are available in stores as of August 2020. [3] Sets include Muscle Cars, Farm, Racing, Construction, and Off-Road, and an updated version of the Super Van City is available as well. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. There were loads of individual city sets hat could be combined to make bigger and more varied environments, but having a single set that tried to do it all was amazing. And that’s where Super Van City came in.

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That’s what Insiders were: normal looking Micro Machines with a secret, even tinier vehicle hidden inside them. Micro Machines are a line of toys originally made by Galoob (now part of Hasbro) in the mid-1980s and throughout the 1990s. Micro Machines are tiny scale component style "playsets" and vehicles that are slightly larger than N scale. Yep, you too can give your kid a head start on a lifelong obsession with voyeurism – thanks to Micro Machines Private Eyes!

Bellomo, Mark (September 2010). Totally Tubular '80s Toys. Krause Publications. p.171. ISBN 978-1-4402-1647-3 . Retrieved August 26, 2013. [ permanent dead link] For 3 to 4 years, Micro Machines was the largest selling toy car line in the US with total dollar sales exceeding the combined sales of the next top-selling lines: Hot Wheels, Matchbox and Majorette.