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From: alan@cae780.UUCP (Alan M. Steinberg)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: remember mattel spacemen?
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 02:20:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 02:20:28 1985
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In article <888@sdcsvax.UUCP> allyn@sdcsvax.UUCP (Allyn Fratkin) writes:
>In the very late 60's or early 70's Mattel had a line of spacemen (each
>sold separately) and a whole bunch of gadgets to go along with them (e.g.,
>a space station, etc).  These men were about 6 inches high, and were molded
>plastic/rubber, sort of like a gumby.  Each wore a differently colored
>space suit.
>Does anyone remember the names of these men?  I recently found one of them.
>I seem to recall they had names like "Major Matt".  The one I have is wearing
>a blue space suit.

Major Matt Mason and his pals were hot stuff during the Age of Imagination
(pre-PacMan).  I never got one, but I did have a Major Matt Mason puzzle.
One of the big accessories for the little men was a moon-walker.  I don't
remember any bad guys.  If you look at the packages for today's toy dolls,
such as He-Man, you'll see them labeled "good" or "evil".  Can't a kid decide 
for himself?  Whoops.  This isn't net.flame.  
	What kind of Hot Wheels cars are there now?   Remember the Splittin'
Image, and the Beatnik Bandit?  
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