major matt manson

found this visual-feature of Mattel's Major Matt Mason spaceman-inspired toy (circa 1966-71) on World Of Kane ~ including a link to fan toy image-archives. *heh*

bandai museum

t'was with great interest and joy when i'd just discovered the existence of a Bandai Museum, with images of my childhood favs, captured in this flickr-set [images via]with promises of a Gundam Museum and Character Museum - with classics like Ultraman, Masked (Kamen) Rider, Godzilla, Mazinger-Z, Power Ranges and even a life-sized-Gundam, all housed within a 9-storey building! *woot*and then the

vintage toy rayguns

:: RETRO / TOYS :: found: Justin Pinchot's Toy Ray Guns has a uber-cool gallery of images and descriptions of vintage toy rayguns; from american 30's to 60's, european and japanese styles = designs > in tin, plastic and even cardboard! plus loads of cool info! (would loveta see a gallery of china-made ones tho *nyuknyuk* ;p)"From the exuberant Art Deco disintegrator pistols of the 1930s, to the