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Major Matt Mason Product Page

A 'mostly complete' listing of Major Matt Mason toys.
Updated 6-20-96

This page will be updated at the end of July to have matching pictures for most of the toys described. This page is really just getting started...

Other Major Matt Mason Toys

• Space Probe Pak
• Rocket Launcher Pak
• Reconjet Pak
• Satellite Launcher Pak
• Space Shelter This portable SP-7 Space 'tent' had a hand pump device which you used to inflate it. Sold both on a card and in a boxed set.
• Space Power Suit
• XRG-1 Reentry Glider This toy may have included a figure because you needed one in the cockpit to properly weight the plane for flying. The glider was molded from a thin Vacuuform white plastic in a sort of triangular shape with a bulge at the nose for the cockpit and an aerelon sticking up from the tip of each wing. You would hold the plane from a knub underneath to throw it and watch it fly. Mark DeCew thinks that his flew out into the street and was run-over by a car.
• Flight Set / Space Travel Pak This was one of the last of the Paks to come out. It included the Space Sled (with Sled Control Handle), Jet Proplusion Pak, and the Chemical Decontamination Gun (with Chemical Tank).
  
  The Jet Pack was molded is a grey plastic, with "jets" extending out the bottom, a black and bright red spiral disk that would spin as you would "fly". It came with a long string (with hooks on each end) that you could attach to chairs or the Space Station. The pack itself would go on your astronauts back and then attach around his waist. He could then "fly" up or down the string!
  
  The Space Sled came in two parts. Both molded in white plastic with parts painted black, the control handle would attach to the bottom piece giving your astronaut "control". Any of the figures could stand on the sled, and their boots would lock into special holes. The Sled could fly in two ways. One is with the astronaut having the Jet Pack on his back, though this made for some weird flights! Best was to take the belt off of the Jet Pack and attach it to the sled. Then you could run the string between the astronauts legs and through the control handle it would just barely balance.
  
  The chemical gun was supposed to be used to decontaminate your astronauts and neutralize radioactivity. Yeah right! I know I used it to squirt Scorpio all the time, 'til his arms and legs fell off! Anyway, the yellow chemical bottle pack would strap onto your astronauts back, and a black tube went from the tanks to the bottom of the gun. To "fire" the gun you would squeeze the tanks. To re-fill them, you would squeeze the air out of the tanks, stick the end of the gun in some water, de-contamination fluid, or I liked "anti-alien acid" best, and release the pressure on the tanks and let them fill up again and again!!
  Special thanks to Tom Langland for this detailed report and the matching picture!
  
  
• My second favorite Major Matt Mason toy was the Supernaut Power-Limbs (circa 1968). I aquired this toy along with what was left of the card it was packaged with a few years ago. Anyone who watched Aliens would instantly realize where they got the idea for the power fork lift from. This striking yellow exo-skeleton attached to any of the Major Matt Mason figures (except perhaps for Scorpio). It was sold, as many of the Major Matt Mason toys were, on cardboard blister packs with color pictures on the front and the toy in a clear plastic bubble and the instructions usualy printed in blue and black on the back of the card. This toy had adjustable legs and a "grip-jaw" for wone arm and a "power scoop" for the other. It also had a crane attached to the back with a tiny hook for lifting... whatever. The pictures showed the toy hauling some plastic straws.
• Another toy which really had a nifty gimic was the Gama Ray-Gard (circa 1968) which was a nifty ray gun. According to the pak "Launches telescoping gama reay-gard probes! Deflests dangerous solar gama rays in space!" What it was was a nifty ray gun that fired these rolled up pieces of mylar. They were rolled so that when you load them into the cannon they were put under pressure. The device held four of these probes. When you tuned the dial on the back one would be released and it would expand at a rapid pace out of the Gama Ray-Gard. It was really nifty and the "probes" still work today. This toy may or may not have been included along with the Space Station platform.
• There was the Talking Major Mat Mason whose jet pack was replaced with a talking jet pack which played back several messages.
• The Space Station One of the coolest accessories was The Space Station. Two hexagonel floor section of white plastic (these sections were thick, but were webbed or honeycombed or something) The floor sections were conected by six red plastic girder supports; three to raise the first platform from the floor and three to connect the floors. The top floor then had a central column which connected to a smaller hexagon on the very top of the station. Sticking out from the column was a ring of control panels and the column itself had a loop of kodalith film printed with screens and gauges which lit up from a light bulb in the column. (This console was again used in the Space 1999 sereis of toys for the Moonbase Alpha Control Centere) The top pf the console had a flashing beacon, recessed into a chrome dish reflector. I think the switch had off, on and flash settings. If it was flashing, the panel flashed too, if I recall correctly (same light source). I think there were stickers on the ring of panels. The top floor of the station around the console could be closed in by flat tinted plastic screens that were hinged on each side of the top floor hex. The panels had a single bend as they tapered slightly to click shut on the top of the central console. Matt's Crawler could be attached to the very top of the station, locking one of its leg/wheels on, resting on its side. Using the crawler's power winch, this made it a crane. Pretty spiffy, and I think it was shown this way on the Station box.
• There evidently was also a Big Little book, which had a story about giant moonworms and moon-rabbits.

Another toy which I had when I was young was the Talking Comand Console which was a carying case with a pull string mechanism. This was a carying case that opened up to reveal two seats (vacuformed and held to the seat with elastic) for figures to sit in. The window of the spaceship was semi transparent. The talking part did not work all that well and I pulled it to death in the early 70's. It also has some blinking lights in the front console.
There were evidently several other types of carying cases including the "satelite Locker" wwhich held up to four figures. There were alos a series of Major Matt Mason figures sold in individual cases with really nifty art and transparent sections.