Thirty-five years ago right about now, after supper in jammies, my brothers and I would be breaking out the Major Matt Mason stuff, a line of Mattel space toys from the late 1960s. We don’t have any left, unlike the author of this site where I quietly pocketed a copy of the photo above. There was a rather effective little rocket launcher that had spring loaded cap-gun cap explosive power capacities. I recall launching a barrage of these at the neighbours during a dinner party the folks put on. Many shins knew the wrath. An effective distraction as we made off with cherry cheesecake. Sometimes the results were not so kind to Matt as this photo play shows.
As my older brothers moved on to GI Joe and fighting Vietnam or, care of Action Man gift packs from Grannie in Scotland, taking care of the Nazis one more time, I got Captain Lazar (Ed.:shown above left) and the Firebolt Space Cannon which beat the hell out of the GI Joes even with the jeep. Weird thinking part of my childhood play was zapping Nazi dolls with a space lazar cannon.