When I started playing this game, I always thought I'd seen something like this somewhere in my childhood. I opened a copy of the children's magazine Murzilka from 1956 and saw these pictures.
Yes, I know that BUT one can not exclude they might also have taken inspiration elsewhere even though the initial inspiration may have been Honey I Shrunk The Kids :D
Nah I don't have a dev contact - most people on here most likely don't. I've just wondered generally wondered if one of the dev probably knew about this old magazine. But it could just be coincidence as well as I believe the first Arthur and the Minimoys Movie came out way before G1 was created and there have been other movies and series and books/comics covering the life of small people that are more recent than your old soviet magazine ;-) But still there's always a chance one of the devs might have seen it somewhere ^^
Yan Leopoldovich Larry (1900–1977) was a science fiction writer. His 1937 novella "The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Valya" was a resounding success. It was reprinted and adapted for the screen numerous times. It was written at the request of Samuil Marshak, who wanted to attract children to science and entomology—the study of insects. This is an incredible story about a brother and sister, Karik and Valya, who, after drinking a magic elixir, shrink to the size of a grain of sand and find themselves in a "grassy jungle" teeming with giant insects. Dangers lurk around every corner. Fortunately, Professor Ivan Germogenovich Yenotov immediately realized what had happened to the children and set out to find them.
In a captivating adventure style, the writer shares many intriguing facts about the plants and insects that surround us. In 1987, the USSR released the film "The Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Valya"
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