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Super Soakers were awesome back in the day. If you had the backpack you were Juggernaut status.
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-e...232255648.htmlIt’s been nearly 25 years since former NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson first licensed the water gun toy that became the iconic Super Soaker. On Wednesday, the inventor soaked Hasbro (HAS) in arbitration, reportedly receiving $72.9 million worth of sales royalties from the toymaker as part of a dispute over underpaid royalties.
“In the arbitration we got everything we asked for,” Johnson’s attorney Leigh Baier told The Atlanta Journal-Cons ution. “The arbitrator ruled totally in Lonnie’s favor.”
According to the newspaper, the agreement stemmed from a 2001 inventors dispute in which Hasbro had agreed to pay Johnson royalties for the sales of his products...
Congratulations Lonnie and thanks for inventing something that brought me happiness as a kid. Also, thanks for your many other inventions that opened the way to improving the way we do things globally.
Super Soakers were awesome back in the day. If you had the backpack you were Juggernaut status.
they were awesome until they inevitably broke a couple weeks/months later.
I had one of those, bullied s around the block. I was literally the super soaker version of Omar, kids running inside when I approached.
I was poor as a kid so I got the medium sized one but I still loved it. I used to get jealous of the kids holding the big ones tho.
They were fragile, but worth it. But running up on a group of people with the backpack is summer time gold, Scarface tbh.
Yeah, that's why you always stuck a regular water pistol in your back pocket, to shoot people in the eyes when your super soaker broke
The ones with the plug in the back where you filled itYeah, that's why you always stuck a regular water pistol in your back pocket, to shoot people in the eyes when your super soaker broke
This is the closeest pic I could find:
I was poor as a kid so I got the medium sized one but I still loved it. I used to get jealous of the kids holding the big ones tho.
was not fair AT ALL, the nozzle just pumped out a big tube of water.
We had the 50 and 100 growing up. Damn 100's air pressure ball always got water in it :/
sons that little guy was a lifesaver. You definitely aim for the eyes with that one.The ones with the plug in the back where you filled it
I remember those days--walking around like John Matrix and blastin' fools with two of the heavy-duty cannons...it was fun though often times we'd have to play in the backyard most of the time because folks with the real weaponry often were patrolling the neighborhood.
Mine never broke. You must have been the kid everyone pushed to the ground.
water balloon launchers were our thing. we'd always have launcher fights with the neighbors across the street...and sometimes tried to hit people on motorcycles with them.
we'd build potato guns too. that was dangerous but fun as .
I remember when my parents bought me the monster xl. Took the east side park by storm. That was a good summer.
u know its bull when u have 3-4 bottles to fill up to attached to the soaker, didnt fkn make sense why the need for multiple bottles when 1 should be enough and light enough to run around with
i had the one where u can rotate handle on the nozzle where it shoots, lol instead of shooting straight it would shoot the person to my right or left even though the gun isnt pointed at them...
Only TDMVPDPOY could ruin his own childhood with a Super Soaker.
Yep, I knew a kid with one - king of the mf'ing neighborhood. I had this one, got the damn job done, tbh.
We bought some of those in college on clearance for like $10 in '97Yep, I knew a kid with one - king of the mf'ing neighborhood. I had this one, got the damn job done, tbh.
Man this thread brings back some old,but good memories.
We bought some of those in college on clearance for like $10 in '97
Negative, Ghostrider. broke all the time when they first came out in 1990.
Had two of these (actually still have them, and they still work). I would use the shoulder strap and tether the two together, sling them over shoulders, and have a gun in both hands. Get the air chambers loaded, and full blast, double barrel. Could also tuck them behind my arms and have arms free to launch water balloons.Yep, I knew a kid with one - king of the mf'ing neighborhood. I had this one, got the damn job done, tbh.
They are over 15 years old and they still work. Had them in a plastic crate for about a decade until my nephew was old enough.
Glad this guy got his dues. Can't imagine life without my Super Soakers.
Avante chasing kids around the hood back in 95, tbh
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