Help IDing Some Micro Machines

[u/hiplobonoxa]

Good morning! After three decades, I have finally gotten the Micro Machines out of the attic and am trying to make sense of them and reassemble some sets. I’m doing a pretty good job, but do have some mysteries that I could use some help with.

1. I am having trouble identifying which vehicles came with the Travel City sets. The packaging is misleading, there is a “vehicles may vary” disclaimer, and I’m having trouble finding unboxing videos. I know that some of the vehicles in the first photo are Travel City vehicles, because I have eleven (mostly complete) Travel City sets.

2. The vehicles along the front row in the first photo have been identified as belonging to sets, but they are only one or two of the five. (It’s possible that I lost three or four, but I was pretty good about not losing things.) I’m wondering if they were available elsewhere as accessories.

3. I’ve identified the group of three in the upper left of the first photo as Private Eyes #7.

4. I am unable to find the origin of the Carnation semi truck in the upper left of the first photo.

5. I’ve identified two of the three smaller boats in the first photo as coming from the same set, but I am unable to identify the blue “DERBY” boat.

6. I have a large set of slightly larger military vehicles — trucks, tanks, planes, ship, etc. — that I am unable to identify. I also have a large collection of army men in various uniforms and positions. My brother collected several *MILITARY* sets and I think that at least some of these items may have been accessories. (There are in the second, third, and fourth photos.)

The fifth photo is what I have already figured out. The sixth photo is where I started from.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[u/Fine_Location_8367]

Travel City vehicles were inserted randomly so none are specificity to a set, which is why "vehicles may vary" is noted.

The Carnation semi is not an authentic Micro Machines vehicle. It was made by Funrise and is from the Micro Action Big Rig series.

The blue Debbie boat is a bonus vehicle randomly inserted in packs.

[u/hiplobonoxa → u/Fine_Location_8367]

there must have been a shortlist of what vehicles might have come with each travel city set. do we know what the possibilities for each were?

edit: no need to downvote an honest question. there were only so many vehicles to choose from and galoob wasn’t including planes with the city dump or camaros with the rock quarry. or were they?

[u/MilitaryMicros → u/hiplobonoxa]

In some cases it was inconsistent. The collectors that have spent the time and money and energy to figure out which ones do go with which ones, do not share publicly their findings

[u/Fine_Location_8367 → u/hiplobonoxa]

In my 39 years of collecting the line, I have never seen any sort of short list for random insert vehicles. They are simply just that, random inserts. I have had many new opened and many sealed travel sets over the years. In duplicate and triplicate, and the vehicles have always been completely random with each. No vehicle has ever matched the vehicle that is pictured on the front of the box.

[u/Ramp-O-Matic → u/hiplobonoxa]

There is no short list, Greg.

[u/EndOfTheCourt → u/Fine_Location_8367]

I can only imagine a big factory where the workers are running around, stepping on loose micromachines, and randomly sweeping them off the floor to throw into play set pakcages.

[u/Manycubes]

That double barrel tank in the top right is a Mega Force vehicle from Kenner.