Super Soaker Creator Gets $72.9M from Hasbro

[wr]

While we're on the topic...
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sheesh

 

[getyashinebox]

No wonder he won big
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[wr]

It's a gun invention, of course

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[mynameismyname]

$72.9 MM from sales that have approached almost $1B? 

Am I reading that right? Seems like he should have gotten more. 

 

[simba king]

It's a gun invention, of course

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[blade br0wn]

Man if you ain't have a supersoaker back in the day it was quiet for you. No other watergun came remotely close. If you had the joint with the backpack you were a god.

Dude around my way came through the block one summer with the XP joint that had the backpack... Sent everybody in the house

I read about dude a few years ago in Engineering Orientation at school... Always thought it was cool that a black engineer played such an integral part in our childhood...

And yes, I think he deserves more $$ than what they settled for...

 

[wr]

$72.9 MM from sales that have approached almost $1B? 

Am I reading that right? Seems like he should have gotten more. 

royalties. not sales. He sued for unpaid royalties. He could still be getting percentage of sales or other cashflow from them. he just wants all he is owed. It's one man again departments of patent lawyers though. Companies staff hundreds of people to avoid taxes and patent liability. Anything to make as much money as possible.

 

[solematic j21]

Son i use to come out guns blazing! I remember this one dude from upstairs name Derek would have the best super soakers in the block.

This dude walk down the stairs from my building and kick the door mad hard and scream " YA THIRSTY" and start wetting everyone in the block.

The ones with the tank in the back? GOD!

 

[mike honcho]

Super Soaker 2000 sent all them **** boys runnin down the block

 

[sn00pee]

also, to add, Lady GAGA's former manager is a black man. didnt know that at all.

Troy Carter - tech investor

 

[superb]

i love these guns as a kid and begged my parents to cop me one but they never did

seems like your parents was racist?

 

[wr]

started out with

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upgraded to this


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Thought I was boss because I had a power gauge

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I was at the water fountain every 2 minutes though.

This bad boy reigned supreme

Super Soaker 2000 sent all them **** boys runnin down the block

 

[oidreez]

Learned about him back in college at an african american inventors exhibit

 

[ravagebx]

 

Man if you ain't have a supersoaker back in the day it was quiet for you. No other watergun came remotely close. If you had the joint with the backpack you were a god.

Dude around my way came through the block one summer with the XP joint that had the backpack... Sent everybody in the house

 

Joint was the Tommy Gun of water guns lol. Spray the block, literally.

 

[knicksallday]

glad he got paid 

 

[sfc415]

Super Soaker 2000 sent all them **** boys runnin down the block

I had this only problem with the big guns is that they took forever to refill

 

[ayzee]

 

[macbk]

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Remember running with this one for a while. Old reliable . Super Soakers were a staple of my summer youth.

 

[fontaine]

Black inventors appreciation thread ...

I aineem mad...

Do kids still play with these?

 

[wr]

Black inventors appreciation thread ...

I aineem mad...

Do kids still play with these?

Some kid gets hit with water from super soaker...

Mom thinks son is being bullied...

finds out water came from "watergun"....

Gun control debate ensues

 

[mr marcus]

Black man

 

[bowflex]

Got this beast from my cousin one summer. Every water fight, people came knocking on my door because I had the game changer.

Fill up by placing it on that thing that attached to the hose

 

[Mark Antony]

I'm surprised people are just knowing he was black. I remember learning about him and other folk like that on discovery/history/TLC back in the 90s. Then again those channels are nothing like they used to be, so i'll retract that, i'm not surprised.

 

[deuce king]

Black man

 

Man if you ain't have a supersoaker back in the day it was quiet for you. No other watergun came remotely close. If you had the joint with the backpack you were a god.

Dude around my way came through the block one summer with the XP joint that had the backpack... Sent everybody in the house

 

No doubt.  If you have the joint with the backpack you were Omar from The Wire coming down the block. 

 

[big atz]

Got this beast from my cousin one summer. Every water fight, people came knocking on my door because I had the game changer.

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Fill up by placing it on that thing that attached to the hose

This joint was dumb heavy though.