While attending a local toy show yesterday, I came across (and subsequently bought) an exciting little Major Matt Mason piece, a Buck Rogers Draconian Marauder (missing the engines of course), and four hard-to-find Jedi Knights from the Geonosis Arena battle (loose in mint condition, with extra robes). Upon my return home, I found I had a box at the door containing not one but three 1:18 scale flying saucers that someone on social media had recommended. Reflecting on my purchases late in the day, I realized this covers a pretty wide span of space adventure, from a long time ago, to 1950s Roswell, to the 1960s space race, to a post-apocalyptic future 500 years from now. What exactly is our fascination with space toys? Star Wars was brilliant in the way it introduced the story... "in medias ray" and as though it was recounting a tale that had actually occurred at some point in time. The idea of an extraterrestrial craft crashing in the desert amongst a government coverup is still the focal point of many mainstream channels. Matt Mason is an interesting one. The toy line started in 1966 and captured the imagination of kids visualizing what it would be like to live and work on the Moon, but after we actually landed on the Moon in 1969 it seems like interest in the toy line completely vanished. (Perhaps whoever lives inside the hollow celestial body wants us to forget about moving there one day.) And Buck Rogers... interesting that many of the shows that present the most hopeful versions of our future take place hundreds of years from now (Star Trek and Babylon 5 come to mind). Kevin Flynn once said that our future was "in there," meaning a digital frontier. I still think that our future is "out there," at the far end of space travel. Space toys will always be my favorite, above all of the super hero, military and fantasy lines. Space is where I think our future resides.