Eagle 1 Spaceship

March 9, 2018 By Mantooth In Uncategorized 3 Comments

I absolutely adore the Mattel Space:1999 Eagle and have never met a kid who had it, whose eyes didn’t glaze over when I mention it.

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Tags: Mattel, space 1999, Toylove

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Mantooth

AKA Brian Heiler author of "Rack Toys: Cheap, Crazed Playthings" and co-editor of "Toy-Ventures Magazine". Co-Host of the "Pod Stallions" podcast. Host of the Brick Mantooth Youtube channel, painter, designer, writer, mental health advocate, toy collector, Mego, and Mego Knock-Off enthusiast. I have large feet, ADHD and I live in Canada. Talk toys, not others.

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Hauntedheadful on March 10, 2018

$14.99…brand new…I better get crackin'on my time travel research.

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benestro138 on March 11, 2018

This was the best toy ever. I played with it forever and lost it a piece at a time. It served as the millennium falcon for a time.

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Anonymous on March 12, 2018

Some of us got hooked on Space 1999 when it went back into syndication to ride the Star Wars wave. For some reason, the Eagles never made it into the rural New England store chains. Maybe it was too little, too late. For what it's worth, the region was the absolute pits when it came to action figure variety in general.

I know I wanted an Eagle which is saying a lot because and I was fairly finicky when it came to vehicles and play-sets. A bunch of kids I knew were literally hooked on getting vehicles, even more than the action-figures themselves. Action figures were mostly just "set dressing" for their vehicles. If a character didn't appear in a vehicle, he wasn't important. Cloud Car Pilot? Sure, they needed TWO of those dudes. Bespin Guard? Lobot? Ughnaut? Lando? Nope.

Point is, they all wanted an Eagle even more than I did. Fisher Price's "space" line fit worked with Star Wars figures, but the Eagle was magnficent. One look at it and you could see it would "fit in" perfectly. If any of the local stores had been carrying it, those kids would have known.

Well… *sigh* When Hauntedheadful finishes their time-travel machine, I'm sure a few of us will have one or two things we'll want them to bring back for us from Aldens.

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