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Major Matt Mason action figures
Major Matt Mason was an early action figure from the 1960's, an astronaut who lived and worked on the Moon. Mason's space-suited body was molded of a rubber-like material over a wire armature, with a separately-attached head and a removable space helmet based on early NASA helmets. The toy system included four astronaut action figures, sharing a common body, but different paint jobs and heads.
Mason had a dark brown crew cut and a white suit; Sgt. Storm had blond hair and a red suit; civilian astronaut Doug Davis had a yellow suit and brown hair; civilian astronaut Jeff Long was African-American, with a blue suit. Captain Lazer was a Martian giant who towered over the astronauts (and in fact is rumored to have originally been intended for some other Mattel toy system), with glowing red eyes, a glowing breastplate, and a permanently-attached pistol body in his right hand, all powered by AA batteries in a backpack, and controlled by buttons on that backpack. Callisto was a Jovian with a transparent green head, the same size as the astronauts, while Scorpio was a battery powered, purple and pink colored, Insect-like alien with a glowing head.
There was also another Insect-like alien called Or who came with an Orbitor flying vehicle - unproduced beyond test shots. Also in the toyline were a three-story space station (actually a moonbase), various lunar surface and flying vehicles, mostly battery powered, and various accessories, powered by springs, pneumatics, strings, or batteries.
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Figures Major Matt Mason Callisto* Captain Lazer* Doug Davis* Jeff Long* Scorpio Sgt. Storm Space Mission Team |
Vehicles & Accessories Astro Trac Missile Convoy Set Astro-Trak Doug Davis w/ Cat Trac Firebolt Space Cannon Firebolt Space Cannon Super Action Set Gamma Ray Gard Pak Jeff Long w/ Cat Trac Lunar Base Command Set Major Matt Mason w/ Cat Trac Major Matt Mason w/ Moon Suit Mobile Launch Pad Moon Suit Pak Reconojet Pak Rocket Launch Pak* Satellite Launch Pak* Satellite Locker* Sgt. Storm w/ Cat Trac Space Bubble Space Crawler |
Space Crawler Action Set Space Discovery Set Space Power Suit* Space Power Suit Pak Space Probe Pak Space Shelter Pak Space Station & Space Crawler Deluxe Action Set Space Station Set Space Travel Pak Spaceship Carry Case Star Seeker* Star Seeker Walk in Space Set Super Power Set Supernaut Power Limbs Pak Talking Command Console* Talking Major Matt Mason* Uni-Tred & Space Bubble Uni-Tred Space Hauler XRG-1 Reentry Glider XRG-1 Reentry Glider w/ Major Matt Mason |