Mattel's Man in Space
Anyone who has a Moon Suit in their collection likely has lost the rubber arms due to age. I currently have three moon suits. Two came to me with missing arms. One I bought 20 years ago with fully intact and working arms. Since that time the rubber has become brittle and the arms have cracked apart just like egg shells. Recently I decided to do something about that and restore all 3 moon suits.
Isn’t this just the coolest Matt item never built!? These are early catalogue images released to stores, but show prototypes and not what actually shipped. I am constructing the red Matt Mason prototype Cattrac out of sheet styrene. Planning: I started this project by examining the 3 images of this vehicle (shown above) and deriving […]
Here is the bi-lingual box art of the Canadian issue of the Space Crawler. I managed to grab this at a toy show up here many years ago. I remade the cardboard insert and my crawler sits inside like it did when it was first shipped. I also have the insert sheet that came with […]
40 years later … He’s still a much-loved toy! In fact, very possibly the best conceived toy ever on the market. This site (like all sites) is Under Construction, but I am working away on it as you read this! I started this site years ago, in fact it was in the 1990’s that I first started […]