Major Matt Mason - toy commercial

[djx64]

Toys of the 60's & 70's ruled.. 63 to about 74 were just incredible years for toy manufacturing and design… Aurora, Mattel, Ideal, Hasbro, Palitoy, Marx.. all had amazing ideas and concepts. I think toy design these days is so flat and bland in comparison.

[maureencora1]

This and Hot Wheels cars were the Best Toys in the late 1960s.

[mustangcharger1]

That moon rover thing was really hard to kill. My brothers got it when it was new, and I was still trying, vainly, to wreck it.. Just kept going through D batteries for ten years!

[jonzfriend]

What happened to his "jet pack"?

[kb6kgx]

I had Major Matt Mason, also... had the walker thingy and the moon suit... didn't have the space station (protected by solar panels), though.

[neilyoungster]

OMG! I had forgotten all about MMM! I had one, and one of those suction cup walker thingy's too!

[ardvarkkkkk]

I had everything in this commercial and more. Had his jet pack, tracked vehicle, his alien friend

Callisto.

[renecrod3]

I had a Major Matt Mason.

[tdickensheets]

@renecrod3

I had Major Matt Mason too.

[ucbf1]

@hardtobluff I don't get it. I am a 3rd degree Mason now, but I never became an astronaut!

[jsilence418]

@ucbf1 You have to be 33rd degree! these were the greatest !

[ucbf1]

@jsilence418 Yeah, I loved playing with these along time ago. When I was raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason, I asked when I would get my space helmet! ;) (not really, of course!)

[1969pontiac1]

My brother, had the whole set the space station the crawler, just think if you had all that in the box it came in. For Christmas I got 1016 commericals and I cannot believe the toys they had in the 50 and 60s. They had some advanced stuff back then. Some of the robot on there they are 2 feet high and follow your command can bring 3,000.00 in the box now. They would have the price at the end of the commerical, That was 13.98. Hard to belivie that, but time moves on.

[thesixtiesguy]

This stuff is like gold right now. I sold a loose Matt Mason 4 months ago for $90. I used to have a Scorpio in the box. Complete.

[riverdale999]

I had the crawler, moon suit, space sled, jet pack ... loved that stuff!!!

[sean57]

if you notice the company ripped all the desighn right from Kubrick

[KSFALLGUY]

my fav. mmm toy was his glider, used to trow it off our 3 story school building, it would fly about 75 yrds on a windy day, when your 8 that seems like a mile!

[flipwiggins]

I bought the Spacecrawler and the Station from a friend when I was in the sixth grade (72). You could take the crawler, turn it sideways and lock one of the wheels into the top of the spacestation, then attach MMM to the extended tow line, turn the crawler on and MMM would zing around the station like some kooky nut. I then proceeded to take the crawler apart, never to be reassembled. I could probably get it together today though, if I hadn't lit it on fire!

[burnedbycaustic]

Yeah, I blew up all my MMM stuff with firecrackers! Then we executed my GI Joe by BB gun firing squad for war crimes and tried to make our Hot Wheels rocket-propelled by taping bottlerockets to them. That was a lot of fun back then, but now all that stuff is collectable, DOH!

[tdickensheets]

@burnedbycaustic

Woody will not save him!

[MrYamato67]

@burnedbycaustic Bottlerockets? we used estes model rocket engines! LOL ...Great times!! when kids had imagination and the toys kicked ass!!!

[Captmiloman]

I just missed out on this line. Wish I had a few of these. Another line that deserves a revival. (cough)Diamond Select(cough).

[therebymorning]

The Space Crawler had a battery powered winch on it too! And it was made to pull other MMM add-ons behind it. My friend had the Space Bubble with the seat in it that attached to the crawler. Matt could sit in and you'd pull him around the backyard. So cool.

[abacab987]

MM. Mason, the leader in white, Sgt. Storm, the security detail in red, Doug Davis, The scientist / radiologist in yellow, and Jeff Long, the rocket / gravity drive engineer in blue made up the team. Callisto, the translucent allied humanoid, Scorpio, the insectoid, and Captain Laser, the gigantic homonid completed the cast. The Colorform aliens and the Zeroids robots were their aftermarket buddies. I collect all of them. Could space colonization be one answer to the dilemma of population boom ?

[thehoffmanns]

I had the MOON SUIT and SPACE CRAWLER...and now, thanks to this video, I'll surely have FLASHBACKS as well!

[philmfan]

Yep, another man who had the crawler over here. I don't recall having the station but there are blank spots in the old memory so maybe I did. My favorite thing was always just the spacemen themselves, on that rocket sled, and that jet pack with the string that always seemed to get tangled up in things. These commercials seem to remind me of the wonder of outer space better than anything else.

[dumbbo1]

Damn, I had this!!!!

[abaneyone]

Mattel toys were always the best!

[thecoolconejoman]

Mason like the illuminati?

[Scaredforlife0]

Funny you bring the Illuminati up....

[SgtRock57]

Man I loved this toy. I had the space station, but never got the crawler. Bummer. I did have Captain Lazer, but grew tired of him real quick.

[waltonmt]

HaHa SgtRock57-I had the crawler-and it was way cool.

[SgtRock57]

Man, you were lucky. I wanted the crawler so bad.I should look for it on Ebay and get it anyway. However, the last I saw the good Major was almost $400.00. Whoa!

[waltonmt]

Ebay is a very dangerous place for nostalgic old farts with credit cards like us,Sarge.

[Cheessa]

I had the space Crawler as well, but not the space station (sigh). This was a great toy back then, esp when every little boy wanted to be an astronaut, or a baseball player (like Tom Seaver, Johnny Bench, Willie Mccovey etc..)

The space age seemed so incredible to our generation, sadly the younger generation won't feel any of this...but at least they get to kill lots of people in computer games ;)

[SgtRock57]

LOL!  So true..

[Stepper11]

What an awesome line that was. Great toys and great times.

[therebymorning]

MMM was such a great toy line. My favorite as a kid. I had the space crawler and my cousin ad the space station.

[ArizonaDelRio]

I had the space crawler, too. Ran forever on two D batteries, I think.

[Gnillob802]

I won everything shown in that ad from a Sunday comics coloring contest by Funny Face drink mix (similar to Kool-Aid). A year after entering the contest we finally got notice that the package was in storage at the airport (I was a kid, my dad picked it up). By that time to hype died down but it was pretty neat for a while.

[BondoFox]

I remember that commercial!!

THANKS, man!