the star trek phaser was actually a pretty cool toy when I was a very young boy back in the early 70's, a great product of the "science of the 70's", I was probably only 4 or 5, but it was super cool, it made sounds, lights, differently little plastic disk filters to put in front of the light so that you could project an image of klingon or starfleet ship on a wall in a dark room.... oh... those were the days...
