I was reading James Gillam's Space Toys of the 60's last month. I got the book when it first came out years ago and the author kindly signed it for me.
Its a great book to dip into - have you got it? - here's the cover:
James loves Major Matt Mason and there's a great chapter on the Major.
He mentions some parts recycling too. One I didn't know about was about the MMM Space Station.
James talks about the re-use of part of it in the Space Moon Base 1999 set.
Here's the Major Matt station dashboard:
and here it is with different graphics for Mattel's Moon Base Alpha dash.
Have you come across this before readers?
Is there any more MMM/ 1999 recycling?
There's a tiny picture of the 1999 set in the prototypes & rumours section I wrote for Wildtoys here
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wildtoys.com/MMMPage/MMMPrototypes/mmmProtoDifferences.asp
which is all we had at the time. And afaik that was it.
Best -- Paul
Thanks a bunch Paul. Wildtoys was pioneering!
DeleteEarly Madelman borrowed chrome hand tools, a hand held radio and binoculars, from the MMM range, Woodsy :)
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that Tone. Was there a link between Madelman and Mattel?
DeleteNot familiar with this book, but if it covers foreign toys as well (such as Japanese?) I might need to search for it...
ReplyDeleteDon't think it does Zigg. I have Dana Cain's Japanese monster book which is good https://www.amazon.com/Collecting-Japanese-Movie-Monsters-Dana/dp/0930625552 and Kitahara's book is the first one I ever got on the subject of old toys - its iconic and important to me https://www.amazon.com/Yesterdays-Toys-Robots-Spaceships-Monsters/dp/0877016305 Have you got either of these?
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