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space toy nostalgia
Published May. 15, 2008
Anybody remember this guy?
Major Matt Mason!
I was crazy about this toy. He was Mattel's "Man In Space", and came with plenty of cool accessories and vehicles. NASA was working towards the moon and kids like me were already there... Any sandpile became an exotic planet. My best friend as a kid had as much of this stuff as I did, and we'd spend entire Saturdays playing with "The Masons". One of the coolest vehicles in Mason's spaceport was the "Space Crawler", which ran on 2 D cells and had a transmission you could manipulate. It would crawl over most anything, or could use it's power to raise and lower a motorized winch....fun stuff. Anyone else play with this stuff when you were a kid?
This one's moving really slowly - maybe I should have blogged about Hot Wheels??
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Child of the 70's yes, from up north, no! I guess I started my geek career early :) I was a NASA freak from age 6 on, so Santa had no problem choosing Major Matt Mason... The coolest thing about these toys was the many ways they could be combined! You could snap the space crawler into the top of the space station, and use the jet packs to propel the skids around....my friend even had their alien pal Callisto. It takes me back to being 8 & 9 years old every time I see these toys.
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GOLO member since March 18, 2008
May 15, 2008 8:59 p.m.
I NEVER MET ANYONE ELSE that even knew who Major Matt Mason was. I was told it was mostly a northern phenomenon.
I too was nuts about this toy as a kid.
GOLO member since July 2, 2007
May 15, 2008 4:01 p.m.
Holy Cow! That was an ideal location. I've been down to Canaveral a few times when I lived in FL and have seen 1 shuttle launch, but I can only imagine what it would be like to see (and feel) a Saturn V booster going up.
GOLO member since March 18, 2008
May 15, 2008 3:00 p.m.
Of course, in my back yard you could look over a fence at the Banana River and the REAL moon rockets. We lived in Cape Canaveral itself and our house faced Kennedy Space Center.
Man, those were the days.
GOLO member since August 16, 2007
May 15, 2008 2:45 p.m.
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