I was born in 1962 and my brother and I had these toys. The spaceship, space station, bubble vehicle, Calypso, anyway... I have very fond memories of playing with these toys in the time of the Apollo missions. What a great time to grow up! Thanks for the video!

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

Yuo are most welcome. This line was so awesome.

@MrDoneboy

2 жыл бұрын

I was born in1961, and my neighbor was 2 years older, and an only child .He had a lot of awesome toys, that fit into the times, of the late, 19 teen sixties! He had all of the Major Matt Mason equipment, that I only wished for.

Just found Major Matt Mason and his crawler in Mom’s garage. Wish I’d had mine to share with my son. 15 now, so that boat’s sailed.

I never saw the MMM toyline in person, but I remember seeing his ads in the comics during the 70's (fleamarket 10cent boxes).

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

They were awesome. Before my time, but UI got to play with some at Mattel.

I had these when I was a kid....FAVORITE TOY!

My favorite toy after G.I. Joe. I still have my Sergeant Storm.

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

Nice. A worthy line to love.

Wow. I went to SDCC 2012 and saw that Major Matt Display. I thought it was amazing. I was twelve then and was really into retro revival lines. Four Horsemen's Outer Space Men was one of the first "collector" lines I started buying at cons with my birthday money. My teenage self would have bought every one of those Matt Mason figures.

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

Tried so hard to make this happen! Glad you liked the display.

I would of LOVED a Major Matt Mason in MOTUC.

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

So close we were!

I think the pandemic messed up the completion of Major Matt Mason. In the late 60s I had GI Joe with the whole Vietnam Soldier outfit and M16. I wanted Major Matt mason figures so bad because of those commercials in 1969. A few years later some one was selling a whole box of the Major Matt Mason figures, Moonwalker and a few other things at the Swap Meet. I scored because I was the proud owner of a Box of Major Matt Mason toys.

The He-Man figure at 13 minutes looks like Iggy Pop! As for a Major Matt Mason movie, that would have been fun, as well as restarting the toy line. I was a little young for MMM, but My older brother's friends had everything and I got to watch them play and have fun with them. It would have been interesting to see if the line would regain popularity, as it was action figures were huge in the 80's and 90's, shame design wouldn't get on board.

Also, if management is "on board" how do design have the power to say no? Don't all teams eventually report to the same management team?

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

You would be amazed at how much internal politics can destroy a toy line if design is not interested in working on it.

This is kind of fascinating. I'll have to look up the year, but I was contracted by Mattel at one point to write a history of the Matt Mason toy, complete with NASA crossovers. It was tied-in with the Tom Hanks film proposal that didn't take off, so it was shelved.

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

I so wish that Tom Hank movie happened!

Thanks for doing this video! I know only a little about this line, but I would have loved this as a kid! Excellent work as always!

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

I so wish we could have gotten this line off the ground! (no pun intended)

1960s G.I.Joe, Maj. Matt Mason & Hot Wheels. When Christmas was Christmas. (smile)

Anyone know what color red would match Sergeant Storm’s uniform? If I wanted to touch it up would acrylic paint be the thing to use?

It's a shame that Major Matt Mason wasn't at least included as a single slot in the MOTU Classics line, the same way Hasbro introduced Matt Tracker from MASK into their GI Joe line. It would have also made sense from a trademark protection point of view.

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

I did try every angle. It just hit a lot of resistance from the design group.

Fun video, very informative. My albatross in my entire toy collection is Defiant Shuttle Launch Complex. Space toys have always resonated strongly with me. Space movies, TV shows, anything Space. Even today, I think the "idea" and "spirit" of Major Matt Mason is alive and well, especially with the US Space Force. You just never know what the future will bring to Toy Fair.

@spectorcreative1872

2 жыл бұрын

Bloody Albatross flavor!

Do you still have the Food Fighters Classics sketches somewhere?

I do hope Major Matt Mason will get off the ground as a franchise one day with merchandise to match and a re-issue of some classic figures.

If licensing/marketability weren’t an issue, what line and in what scale would you most like to see get made?

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

Any line any scale? Savage Dragon figures in 6"

Great video! Wish MOTUC could have done the Fuerza-T repaints, would have loved that.

@spectorcreative1872

4 жыл бұрын

That might have been a legal issue, believe it or not!

@jackmagicdotcom

3 жыл бұрын

@@spectorcreative1872 The Masters of the Universe Origins Battle Cat packaging artwork features silhouettes of the Fuerza-T villains! Top front flap, left side.

I'm a big MMM fan. (The jet pack is one of the best toys ever made -- despite the fact that the rocker nozzles kept breaking off.) A pity you couldn't revive the line. Your approach sounds near perfect.

When this video was posted, I was 35 years old. I'm a fan of Major Matt Mason and I do not really think that I am "too old", as opposed to Mattel's former design team's claim. ;-)

@spectorcreative1872

Жыл бұрын

I do wish they would bring it back!

@subraxas

Жыл бұрын

@@spectorcreative1872 Yep! Tom Hanks would star in the commercials. 😀

We could have gotten a new Street Sharks line? That would have been Jawsome! And Food Fighters!? I had some of those as a kid, I'd buy the hell out of those!

@spectorcreative1872

2 жыл бұрын

Truly!

Dude, sign me up for Classics Food Fighters.

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

You got it! Get Mattel on the phone

I would have been ALL IN for those

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

Alright! We have one customer!

My favorite toy line ever. If only this were made again, at any point, I would buy every single item. Twice.

@didimo1963

3 жыл бұрын

I have a full collection of the original series.

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

You hear that Mattel!

Really unfortunate that this never panned out. I would have loved to have seen the Lt Marlena Glenn fig to round out this line too

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

Oh i feel the same. Alas it became a bridge too far

Major Matt Mason Classics and Dino-Riders would've been great lines to have . . . but I would've been SO broke! 🤣

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

I hear dino riders is making a comeback. In pog form!

@Beedo_Sookcool

3 жыл бұрын

@@spectorcreative1872 🤣

It is truly a joy to be going back and watching all these videos. This video is especially important to me because you bring up Dino Riders. I remember I THINK it was the comic con the year after you left... and Matty was doing a slide show and ONE slide...ha... had a mention to all the old properties that they had that they could revisit.. and Dino Riders was one. It left such an impression on me that I still remember it. I see in the comments that you already know about the Entertainment Earth lauch... im not sure if you know or can speak to it, but was there any further talk about the brand? Do you think that Entertainment Earth set is a way to test demand for any further projects? Thank you... these videos are truly and honestly the best. Get some merch... haha. I'll get it.

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

Oh boy did I want to find a way to bring back Dino Riders! They kinda did it in Imaginiext, just without the name.

Cool video.

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked! Made with love

I'd love to see more vids on Dino Riders... always thought that line should have lasted a lot longer.

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

Will add that to the list!

@Canoby

3 жыл бұрын

@@spectorcreative1872 Looking forward to seeing it! Glad an industry insider had the same reaction I had to those Imaginext armored dinosaur toys :)

Ahhh.......if only.

No Apollo Gamma Ray-gun? That's just what the government wanted you to think (X-files music plays)

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

He's on to us...

I'm sorry to hear for your sake that the effort you put in researching and trying to come up with new ideas didn't pan out but I would have had no interest in any of these lines you were considering for Classics so I can't say I'm disappointed. BraveStarr, Blackstar, Thundarr, Silverhawks, Tigersharks, D&D or a Frank Frazetta character line would all have been great fits with Classics and even expanding the line with things like Centurions, Inhumanoids or C.O.P.S. would have been cool too! I realize licensing and royalties would play a part but in the same way Super 7 is making it work, Matty could have too.

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, we tried REALLY hard on this one, but design was dead set against it.

@jeremymullens7167

2 жыл бұрын

DnD might be a license hard to get seeing as hasbro owns them. But nothing stops Mattel from doing wizards / warriors / thief’s and clerics. I think it ends up just looking like motu though. Motu borrows a lot from pulp like DND and Star Wars did. Motu is more a mash up like DnD. Just roll up a Barbarian and you’ve got He-man. I think leaning into the He-man from the jungle origin and tying in a land of the lost feel would allow Dino riders to slot in. Or just connect them to preternia somehow.

An African-American astronaut outranking two Caucasian astronauts? That was pretty progressive for action-figures of the mid-1960's! Way to go, Mattel. 🙂

I played with the 3 caucasion astronauts and some of their accessories. They were my favorite(s).

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

MMM was such a great line. I wish it could come back, but it is a bit of a product of its time.

I might be part of your problem on this one. I collect vintage/antique space toys and have grown a bit familiar with Matt Mason despite not growing up with the line. While it has intrigued me at times (mostly when coupled with the unofficial sister line of Outer Space Men Colorforms put out), I've never gotten involved because I've never really been fond of bendy figures in general. Your plans for Marlena make me regret my disinterest.

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

Oh it wasn't the fans or potential customers at all, it was Mattel internal design members who just didn't want to work on this.

That would have been coool but maybe he would have been cool to go in Bravestarr and did you ever push to do Bravestarr Bravestarr is also a mettle character and if you didn’t push for Bravestarr why not?

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

Bravestarr wasn't owned by Mattel the way Major Matt was. So there would have been more complications to making that happen

I love the original Matt Mason toys, but I am also glad this never happened. Matt Mason figures in the style of Glyos and Mel Birnkrant's The Outer Space Men would have been incredible. It would not have worked using the 7 inch Classics buck.

@Stevesalmonuk

4 жыл бұрын

I have to agree with you, Alan. Matt Mason was my all-time favourite. IMHO it would have been great if Mattel had re-launched the same line, with additional astronauts (at least 2 FEMALES, for Heaven's sake!), and suit re-designs for other space-faring nations, say, Russian and Chinese; plus new vehicles, habitats, equipment - and landers, like the Madelman Mars Lander... Etc., etc.

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that was the idea. But hey, we were close on this one

Mattel screwed the pooch on this one, I would have spent lots of money if you came out with a good Major Matt Mason figure. He was one of my go to toys as a kid, him and G.I. Joe.

Yep reissue but do space x

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

That would be so on point!

I am glad this never came to fruition.

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

Well can't please em all. Or maybe we can by NOT doing something...

It's a shame this line didn't happen! I would have been all in!

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

I knew there would be fans! Thanks.

Scott, as well as you know Pixel Dan, you would have made his life if you would have been able to do Food Fighters! ha ha ha

@spectorcreative1872

4 жыл бұрын

I did try!!!! Maybe Mattel will some day. ;-)

@allmusicfan88

4 жыл бұрын

@@spectorcreative1872 I know you did. That would be great to see happen one day. :)

This is crazy. You would have had every guy over the age of 45 ( with huge amount of disposable money) buy at least two sets of everything you produced. I also think from that younger people would have bought into it as well. Meanwhile Mattel loses the license for Halo.

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

I know I wish this could have happened!

Such a missed opportunity.

Food fighters Classics, where is pixel dan lol

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

He can do all the voice over for a new cartoon

Try 8 to 10 years before Starwars, not 20 years

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

You know Math attacked my village as a child

This sounds like Scott N. I liked the work He did with MOTU, but He never considered doing them(or any other lines) in 3 3/4 scale.👎

Bad idea re-designing them, especially the scale. I wouldn't buy that.

@spectorcreative1872

3 жыл бұрын

Well we never did it, so ...yeah?

Mattel sucks they dropped the ball. Toys suck now same crap no innovation same stupid lines stick the classics still Gen-Xers who would buy MMM