Microman is a line of toys manufacture by Takara (since 2006 known as TOMY in English and K.K. Takara-Tomy [株式会社タカラトミー ] in Japanese ) from 1974 to the present. Microman toys were originally imported to the United States by Mego Corporation as Micronauts until they went bankrupt in 1982. Later some of the toys became a part of the first line of Transformers.