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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
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Subject: Re: remember mattel spacemen?
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 10:10:46 EDT
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>From: allyn@sdcsvax.UUCP (Allyn Fratkin)
>Organization: U.C. San Diego
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>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.

The most well-known of them was Major Matt Mason who was in this stunning
white space suit. (I also had one of the other ones- in a red suit.)

They were very much like a Gumby- soft rubber over a wire frame.

Each man came with his helmet and a jetpack. The jetpack was an interesting
affair: a long black thread on an internal pulley. You would hook a little
hook that came out of the top of the pack onto something and then pull on
the string which came out the back of the jetpack and, voila, flight! (Do
you know how hard it was to untangle/fix one of those things?)

I never had the space (moon?) station, but I did have the moon buggy. It
was a large single-passenger vehicle with the most enormous sponge-covered
wheels.
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On a related topic:

Does anyone else remember when G.I.Joe was an 11" doll (11.5"?) ? There
used to be a whole bunch of them as I recall also- Marine, Sailor,
Astronaut, etc.

I used to have the talking Marine G.I.Joe. God, it seems like yesterday:

	"G.I. Joe, U.S. Marine Corps reporting for duty!"



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