major miss mason mystery miss 2

Well, the first mystery major miss mason was just too easy.

How about this space lady for the Matt Mason dream factory?

Who is she?

Did you rush home after school for something?

Did you ever have anything going on in your young life that you simply couldn't wait to get home from school for?

Maybe a new toy, game or comic or maybe a telly programme?

The one I remember vividly was a project I had on the go in 1974 or 5, a home made Japanese scroll. It was a long thin piece of wallpaper on which I wrote in Japanese words. The subject matter was martial arts and I think they were moves of a kata or exercise which I'd made up, possible for the use of swords and spears.

I recall rushing home from school around 3.30 in the afternoon, dashing into my bedroom where I'd left it on the carpet the day before and carrying on writing where I'd left off.

I was so excited it's untrue. Nothing at school came close. I did that scroll with a passion that only the obsessions of early teenage can generate. I adored doing it and still have it today but sadly can no longer read it as my teenage brain drive has been wiped!

How about you? Did you dash home readers?

kev's project sword hover tank hovers!

More pics of Kevin's beautiful model of the Project SWORD Hover Tank. This time it's hovering...sort of!

major miss mason mystery miss 1

Searching for a female Major Miss Mason concept

here is a first mystery contender from vintage popular culture.

So readers, put your retro goggles on and tell us who she is!

dinosaurs in a bag

These little monsters are available in Wilkos in the UK at present. Part of their party favours offer they come in a small baggy and are beautifully sculpted with smooth edges and bright colours. There are four different dinosaurs in each bag. I would have adored them as a kid!

As soon as I saw them on the shop rack I thought of much older sets like these MPC dinosaurs and wondered if they were Wilkos' inspiration?

Googling plastic dinosaurs I was amazed just how many have been made and continue to be made. Its a whole collecting arena in itself.

Toy Solders HQ's cool website gives us a clue just how many MPC dinosaurs there are and that's just one brand!

http://www.angelfire.com/biz/toysoldierhq/MPCanc.html

Do you recall any plastic dinosaurs and do you still have any readers?

kev's creations; ufo, blake's 7 and star cops

From my email archive:

Hi,

Meant to send you these (totally unrelated) images some time ago and forgot!

The first is a flight of UFO's, the Konami, Product Enterprises and SHED ones. (Spin courtesy of photoshop).

The second is a rebuild of my Scorpio Clipgun from season 4 of Blakes 7

Thirdly, a quick photoshop of my little Star Cops shuttle.

Take care,

Kevin

Major miss Mason: mattel's lady in space

I was always surprised that there wasn't a female version of Major Matt Mason. I think Mattel missed a trick personally since girls were no doubt swept up in the space race as much as boys. Or?

Marx did it for the McDare range making the line a family affair. They even got a dog!

I'm not saying that Matt needed a female companion as such, a Mrs. Mason. After all he did have mates. When I say mates I mean the Northern England idea of friends!

There was Callisto and Captain Lazer to knock about with as well as Seargant Storm. Not sure about Scorpio. Was he a baddie? Little Or, bless him, never even got to the toy shops.

So, if you were running Mattel back then what name and rank would you give to a female version of Matt Mason?

moon rover caption comp

So readers, what are these two fellows saying to each other?

The funnier the better!