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I have one that has all the paperwork and shipping box it came with.
I have pumped it up and shot it a few times.
I also had one as a kid but it sadly broke and was thrown away.Everything is always for sale but I paid alot for this item.

This was one of the best toys I had as a kid. They always seemed to break too easy though. I think I had three total before they were finally yanked off the shelf. Oddly enough, my last one came after they had been recalled. I lived in California and we were vacationing in Seattle, WA. They had a whole bunch of them in a huge toy store there.

This was back when toys were interesting and exciting, not the wimpy things they have in the stores now.

I had one as a young boy, we didn't get much for Christmas and I was totally over-joyed when I got mine. My father loved it as much as I did shooting Dixie cups off of the kitchen table from across the room. Sadly I am one of the people that loss some hearing from it, and have a permanent high pitched ringing in my left ear.

Hello! Here is a 52 year old kid that had a mattel sonic blaster when they first came out! One of my favorite toys that I ever owned! That thing was so wonderfully loud and fun to play with! Yes, I may be a relic, but how great it was to grow up in an era of Real Toys! Kids nowdays just have no clue, do they? Thanks for the flashback! Pat

I had something very like this when I was little back in the early '70's. Only it was a smaller hand-held version that came with a cardboard box target. The target had hanging strips of mylar printed with a picture of a spaceship on it. The gun was about the size of a mid-sized Nerf gun... I have no idea who made it, but it sure was fun. You could knock over action figures and such at about 30 feet.

My brothers and I had both the Mattel Sonic Blaster and the Wham-O Air Blaster which is the pistol type gun that 7LeagueBoots described. We used to pump these things up, shove the end of the barrel in mud and blast muddy grit at each other. Hurts like hell. Amazingly, no one lost an eye. I do remember my ears ringing though.

I am looking for,Mattel Agent Sonic Blaster . Tell me your price.

I loved the one I had as a kid, but it eventually broke. I thought about it fondly in college when shaving cream fights would break out in the dorm. I always loved to imagine the look of horror the instigators would get when they found a barrel full of shaving cream aimed right at them and their puny can with its tiny little short range stream of shaving cream :-).

By the way, I took mine apart after it broke. The red lever operated a pump - the more you pumped it, the bigger charge you could build up till it started leaking around the edge of the cover that the trigger released on the business end of the compression chamber. Basically just like your ordinary air cannon used on MythBusters to shoot chickens or at the punkin chunkin contest.

Never fear guys, I'm on it!I've been searching high & low,every garage & yard sale, since my second childhood started.That's right, I'm another boy in a mans body.So,I figured, since I can't find one, I'll make one.Like that other guy said,the air cannon toy is just like those bigger cannons on TV.
As a B'day present for myself I sent away for the Mattle pattent application drawings from a supplier in N.C..It's the closest I've gotten to the real thing since 1970 when I got my real one at a flea market.I still don't know what happened to that one.My mother denies any involvement & there were some older brothers of my friends whom I suspected at the time but the fact is it "disapeared" regaurdless.
So, now a new mission,and I will have my revenge.Those cats that have been shittin' in my garden won't know what hit them.
I'll keep you posted.The way I figure it w/ the drawings as a guide & some ABS plumbing partz combined w/ some simple machined partz, I should have some good resultz by summer.What ever happens I'll pass on the results via this site.
We'll show these thumb strong new kids what a real toy used to be.Wish me luck.And I'd appreciate any info or tips y'all have.

PEACE