This site was linked to me by a member on my site.
This was the first thread I opened and your this answer was the ONLY answer I was looking for. I seriously came to these forums looking for what those little dudes were called. I couldn't remember it for the life of me. Those little things were awesome. I remember when I was around 8ish and those things were all over school.
OK... here's one for ya. They were toys which had little guys that had magnets on their feet. They had these futuristic vehicles which shot air powered 'soft' missles which you launched from an acordian style bellow. I believe it was called magnetron or something. There were the spring loaded missles, but the air powered missles and the guys with magnets on their feet were the identifing factors of the toy.