If you were a child of the 90's and early 00's you had the honor and privilege to play with some of the coolest SW toys ever made. That's right, the MicroMachines Star Wars Action Fleet!

If you were lucky to have kept some or luckier to have dutiful parents that kept some, just to let you know, they make great terrain!

Not exactly 1:1 scale to SWL, but they sure do look good on your battlefield. Broken ones look even better! So if you dont have the time or the money to 3D print damaged starships, go to your local toyshop and look for these beautiful treasures!

They typically run anywhere from 12 bucks to 50 bucks. Still cheaper and faster than 3D printing, unless you got the hookups or have your own printer!!!

http://imgur.com/gallery/a4YKwNP

Pics to show what they look like

OMG, the Action Fleet ships were the best and are the toys I'm still most bitter about my younger brother breaking.

Somewhere I still have the original 6 in sealed packaging.

1 hour ago, ndogg229 said:

OMG, the Action Fleet ships were the best and are the toys I'm still most bitter about my younger brother breaking.

But that's the good part, they make better terrain broken!!! Lol.

1 hour ago, TauntaunScout said:

Somewhere I still have the original 6 in sealed packaging.

Noice! Take them out and play with em bro! Toys dont deserve to be boxed up!

But seriously they really arnt worth much unless you have the Milenium Falcon or LAAT (Republic Gunship) still boxed up. Those two can be worth a couple of hundred dollars to the right chump...lol!!!

6 hours ago, Docgimmethenews said:

Noice! Take them out and play with em bro! Toys dont deserve to be boxed up!

But seriously they really arnt worth much unless you have the Milenium Falcon or LAAT (Republic Gunship) still boxed up. Those two can be worth a couple of hundred dollars to the right chump...lol!!!

I was too old for them. People knew I liked Star Wars, and I liked... small things.... So they were gifts from people who don't really know what to get a teenager. I used to keep them on my desk, with the clear fronted box they really displayed well.

10 hours ago, Docgimmethenews said:

If you were a child of the 90's and early 00's you had the honor and privilege to play with some of the coolest SW toys ever made. That's right, the MicroMachines Star Wars Action Fleet!

If you were lucky to have kept some or luckier to have dutiful parents that kept some, just to let you know, they make great terrain!

Not exactly 1:1 scale to SWL, but they sure do look good on your battlefield. Broken ones look even better! So if you dont have the time or the money to 3D print damaged starships, go to your local toyshop and look for these beautiful treasures!

They typically run anywhere from 12 bucks to 50 bucks. Still cheaper and faster than 3D printing, unless you got the hookups or have your own printer!!!

They were really cool indeed. Recently I though of using my Action Fleet snowspeeder (the damaged one that came with the Hoth base) as terrain and compared it to the SWL snowspeeder and the difference in size was minimal as you said. In the end I didn't make the terrain, but I know that someday it will happen.

Do you have any pictures of terrain made with those toys?

I have a pretty decent collection myself. Most are too off-scale for me to want to use for terrain, but I do plop down the T-16 as it's just about right. I also have an extra damaged snowspeeder that came with the Hoth playset that is close to the right scale, looks great on the board.

On 1/31/2019 at 6:14 AM, Lemmiwinks86 said:

They were really cool indeed. Recently I though of using my Action Fleet snowspeeder (the damaged one that came with the Hoth base) as terrain and compared it to the SWL snowspeeder and the difference in size was minimal as you said. In the end I didn't make the terrain, but I know that someday it will happen.

Do you have any pictures of terrain made with those toys?

The WotC T-47 in close to scale. I sawed the front off one and crashed it in a crater for terrain. They’re around $10 last I saw on eBay.

So. I was, for various reasons, not into the Action Fleet. However, I recently acquired a nearly complete fold-out AF Hoth playset, as part of a lot of items. I intended to sell the AF stuff, and some of the other stuff in the lot.

Then my kids found it.

Holy cow. Frankly, they are too young for it, so it stays out of the way folded up and comes out as a special thing. They are obsessed. It was missing the Golan Arms turret, but I happened to have a spare in a pile of Warhammer bits off eBay. It doesn't quite have enough figures to keep the two kids from fighting, but I happened to have an AF Bib Fortuna from a similar source. The 2 year old is thus convinced the basement has everything he wants in it and only my stinginess keeps me from producing the other missing parts of the set. LOL.

I am sourcing spare figures on eBay and it is a lot of fun. I have a sealed Darth Vader TIE fighter I'll bring out for a rainy day at some point. Just DAYS before the kids discovered this thing, I sold a lot of the original 6 vehicles, sealed in very beat up boxes, for dead cheap. Shoulda just kept them for the figs!

Okay, I finally made the terrain with the AF Snowspeeder. You'll note that I am terrible making terrain 😋 , but at least you can see the size comparison which at least for this particular toy, fits almost perfectly with Legion scale.

I have an action fleet X-wing sitting on my desk at work.

The Hoth base was such a hit that we've acquired (roughly) 400 metric tonnes of extra figures and the Yavin base.

1 hour ago, TauntaunScout said:

The Hoth base was such a hit that we've acquired (roughly) 400 metric tonnes of extra figures and the Yavin base.

Nice!!!!

44 minutes ago, Docgimmethenews said:

Nice!!!!

Yeah. I also recently carefully catalogued and sold my old Galoob Army Gear playsets. Kept one for nostalgia but that's it. Anyways, it's clear to me now, how much the experiences of making Army Gear impacted Galoob's designers when making SW Action Fleet. The figures were the same size and bend only at the waist, the playsets folded out and up, etc. For those unfamiliar, Army Gear was a series of semi-realistic military playsets (in the vein of early GI Joe) which, when folded up, were kid-sized toy weapons, canteens, flashlights etc. If you were the right age for Army Gear (1988) you were probably too old for Action Fleet.

On 1/31/2019 at 12:17 AM, Docgimmethenews said:

Noice! Take them out and play with em bro! Toys dont deserve to be boxed up!

But seriously they really arnt worth much unless you have the Milenium Falcon or LAAT (Republic Gunship) still boxed up. Those two can be worth a couple of hundred dollars to the right chump...lol!!!

You have really helped start me down the road of 90's micro madness. Sigh. I opened some old MM playsets and sourced more figures off eBay. Hope you're satisfied. I won't be, until I flesh out two more planets from the OT and fully blingerize out the small foldout TFA sets (Jakku, Starkiller Base) and the multi-environment Rogue 1 Death Star playset. Thanks. Just what I needed. I even did a custom repaint of an old Han Solo to get a Finn in Stormtrooper armor for when my Jakkuu playset arrives.

58 minutes ago, TauntaunScout said:

You have really helped start me down the road of 90's micro madness. Sigh. I opened some old MM playsets and sourced more figures off eBay. Hope you're satisfied. I won't be, until I flesh out two more planets from the OT and fully blingerize out the small foldout TFA sets (Jakku, Starkiller Base) and the multi-environment Rogue 1 Death Star playset. Thanks. Just what I needed. I even did a custom repaint of an old Han Solo to get a Finn in Stormtrooper armor for when my Jakkuu playset arrives.

Outside of my lego collection as a kid, i think the MM Echo base is the toy i spent most time playing with

29 minutes ago, Minimaddog said:

Outside of my lego collection as a kid, i think the MM Echo base is the toy i spent most time playing with

Was it the only one that you had? Or was it just the favorite?

You are so welcome! Action Fleet were my absolute favorite toys to play with and I'm so happy that they can be incorporated into a great game.

Captain Planet would be proud of the reduce, reuse, recycle of these things!

9 hours ago, Docgimmethenews said:

You are so welcome! Action Fleet were my absolute favorite toys to play with and I'm so happy that they can be incorporated into a great game.

Captain Planet would be proud of the reduce, reuse, recycle of these things!

Oh it just keeps going on and on and on. I have acquired 3x Veers's, and I have another snowtrooper coming in the mail, so my Imperial Might on Hoth is pretty well fleshed out... still need a wampa though.

I've got a huge pile of TFA stuff coming in the mail and a broad assortment of old spare SW MM figures to use as repaints. Once my TFA sets are complete I'll tackle Rogue One. I'll probably add this character to Jakkuu, looks like a good random desert peasant fleeing from First Order explosions. Could be from the opening massacre, or the chase to the Falcon.

I repainted this old Han. I think he just looks like normal old Han, in the pic. But in person it's clear that now his hair is black and his skin is brown.

When all my stuff arrives in the mail Jakkuu should be pretty well blinged out and I'll have a decent start on Starkiller Base.

At some point I've got to circle back to Tatooine and Endor as well. I have loads of figures for Tatooine but no playset, and a sealed Endor playset with no spare figures.

Three events conspired to take me down this road. The first being this thread. The second is, I collect old Marx dinosaurs and I have a bunch of them on loan to a local museum, displayed below my dinos are someone's SW micro machines collection. So I had all these ideas rolling around. The third was I found a ton of sealed MM sets for free. Plus, my kids enthusiasm for AF is like throwing gas on a camp fire. I find big mixed lots, give them the AF, keep the standard MM, and resell the extras.

15 hours ago, TauntaunScout said:

Was it the only one that you had? Or was it just the favorite?

I had just about all of them. Was easily my favourite. Endor was another good one as was threepio/mos eisley

you guys are making me feel old just because I was too old to ever even look at these toys other than just to give it a passing glance.

I do remember my mother dumping me at someone's house when I was young and playing with the original Death Star playset

https://www.etsy.com/listing/722849063/1978-kenner-death-star-playset-complete?gpla=1&gao=1&utm_campaign=shopping_us_AlwaysWantedOne_sfc_osa&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_custom1=0&utm_content=8899120&gclid=EAIaIQobChMInqSxg_Wo5gIVAdvACh2QhAACEAQYASABEgLzSPD_BwE

I have no memory of who was there or where I was, just that he had no interest in it, and it was the biggest and most awesome thing I had ever played with.

The rest of my childhood, my brothers and I would build huge bases out of our blocks that actually towered over this set, but this was definately the inspiration.

That guy's little sister had one of these that was pretty fun as well

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiR3LXz9ajmAhVEnKwKHfKRCsEQjRx6BAgBEAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goretro.com%2F2014%2F06%2Fthe-most-pointless-toy-ever-made-sit-n.html&psig=AOvVaw3UNSJHFxBNZAQqJdo0SmZy&ust=1575993088048722

sorry about the links, I wish I knew how to imbed the pictures

1 hour ago, buckero0 said:

you guys are making me feel old just because I was too old to ever even look at these toys other than just to give it a passing glance.

So was I, being born too late to see them as anything but potential collectible fun. Then I had kids. You know how when you get past a certain age, toys lose their ability to create a reality for you to inhabit? When you have kids it comes back.

1 hour ago, buckero0 said:

The rest of my childhood, my brothers and I would build huge bases out of our blocks that actually towered over this set, but this was definately the inspiration.

We used styrofoam packing materials. Great training for making miniatures scenery. My brothers and I never knew about the original Death Star set until after it was long out of production. Then we found an old catalog and were like "WHAT?!?! They made a Death Star toy?!" We did have an ewok village and a ton of other stuff though.

This guy's work is amazing. I wonder what material he's using. He sculpts and paints his own SW MM figures. They look great.

https://swmicromachinesguy.wordpress.com/