What's the name of this gun?

[Joe K.]

Came across this at a local thrift shop:

There's a sticker on the bottom that identifies it as a Radio Shack piece, but both side stickers are missing.

Found an eBay listing that showed the left side that still had the sticker:

Yes, when the trigger is pulled, the gun makes eight different electronic sounds as the four, different color, barrel tubes light up in a rotating pattern.

The eBay offering was missing the right side sticker that, I assume, had the name of the gun.

Anyone know that name?

[mrmovieprop]

Mine does not have a sticker on the other side either. I think it was just labeled on one side like this with the 8 sound sticker. The box which I have seen before just calls it laser cannon.

Its possible like some other radio shack toy guns from the past it was a generic toy that was available not via radio shack as well.

[Joe K.]

Thanks for the info, mrmp. That did the trick!

Here's a side view of the Laser Cannon box:

And the top:

Now, to scour the Radio Shack catalogs to find a date:

http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/catalog_directory.html

 

[mrmovieprop]

Thats an interesting site. You collect other radio shack toy guns or 70s and after toy guns?

[Joe K.]

No, not really. I spotted this Laser Cannon (now that I know it's name, thank you very much) in a local Goodwill Store, liked the look of it, and for $1.97 just couldn't pass it up.

I find that Radio Shack catalog web site comes in handy when trying to track down the dates for their robot toys.