Merchants of Space Death

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The influence of Star Wars is incredibly obvious in any Christmas Catalog from 1978 to about 1982. Space Toys were pretty much in the minority prior to 1978, then all of a sudden cool, crazy stuff like these helmets and pistols started popping up. "Space Swords" were my favourite, awesome "nudge, nudge, don't sue us!" stuff like this is the best.

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[starsky]

i've always wanted those laser guns!!

[jwyblejr]

I had a gun similar to those but was white.

[vulcan2074]

Damn those are cool. The purple helmet reminds me of a Cylon
Sammy

[Meule]

Damn those are cool. The purple helmet reminds me of a Cylon
Sammy

I was thinking the same thing

[Earth 2 Chris]

That green and yellow helmet looks like Bug from Micronauts merged with Super Powers Cyclotron and Golden Age Sandman. That's a cool design!

Chris

[Meule]

And the white one sorta looks like a Stormtrooper

[wyldpny]

Damn those are cool. The purple helmet reminds me of a Cylon
Sammy

"By your command"....

[nvmbrsdoom5]

I LOVE toys like this. And that green/yellow helmet does totally remind me of Bug, which is incredible.

[toys2cool]

I like that green one

[ScottA]

You just know someone collects these and it's a collection I'd love to see.

[generic]

I had a gun similar to those but was white.

I had a white laser gun also...two of them, in fact. There was a knob on the side that let you change the sound the guns made when you pulled the trigger. I think there were at least three different sounds. For some reason, my parents never had any of the right size batteries for it though...I wonder why

[MysteryWho]

That stuff is great! The yellow/green helmet looks like something Kirby drew!