$72.9M Owed Royalties Finally Paid To Super Soaker Creator

[feelosofer]

Good for him. He should get his own show or something, I'd love to hear his insights.

 

[agpxknt]

A lot and mean a lot been stolen from black folks.

Needs to be an official thread on it

 

[At30wecashout]

Kids gotta go outside first.


And not just to look for pokemon either

Thiiiiiiis! im only 28 but I got to see the transition. It started with video game consoles afte the arcades started closing up, and I saw when cell phones were beginning to get into the hands of pre-teens. Same thing with hanging at malls and whatnot...kids aint doing it the way we used to. I would kill to see a game of flashlight tag lke we used to do, and I was coming up in a gang-infested neighborhood

 

[CM_Burns]

Cps 2000

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Thiiiiiiis! im only 28 but I got to see the transition. It started with video game consoles afte the arcades started closing up, and I saw when cell phones were beginning to get into the hands of pre-teens. Same thing with hanging at malls and whatnot...kids aint doing it the way we used to. I would kill to see a game of flashlight tag like we used to do, and I was coming up in a gang-infested neighborhood

I'm 34 but 28 definitely sound like the tail end of the "free range kid" (shyt you not, that's the term they use to describe kids nowadays who's parents let them roam around the neighborhood).

I seriously think I might have hung out in a 1-2 mile radius as a shorty. All I needed was my bike

 

[DAlbert]

this is old ass news

Super Soaker creator awarded $72.9M from Hasbro | www.ajc.com

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Cps 2000

that arms race was real

youngins was getting wet up for real when the Cps 2000 got pulled out



I know homeboy worked for nasa before he made the super soaker but I gotta salute this man for making my childhood

 

[SheWantTheD]

Only 73 million dollars though? We know damn well they made billions all these years off them nerf guns and shyt!

 

[Lord_nikon]

Why don't I see super soakers anymore? these were heavy in the streets when I was a kid

this happened

 

[At30wecashout]

I'm 34 but 28 definitely sound like the tail end of the "free range kid" (shyt you not, that's the term they use to describe kids nowadays who's parents let them roam around the neighborhood).

I seriously think I might have hung out in a 1-2 mile radius as a shorty. All I needed was my bike

Yup. Leaving the house, say during the summer, at 10 am and not coming back till dark, and by then my friends and I have biked all over the city.

Miss those days of ripping and running, finessing moms outta an allowance every weekend

 

[Clayton Endicott]

Saw him on CNBC, glad he finally got his money.

Mike putting in work

 

[Clayton Endicott]

Do they still sell them?

I remember these were huge as a kid

That Super Soaker XL 2000
Coming out the crib looking like a Ghostbuster while everybody with the squirt guns are like

 

[Milk]

Google who invented the original formula and they never paid him for it....

One of the source I found was this: Slave was behind Jack Daniel's recipe but was whitewashed from history

 

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$72.9M Owed Royalties Finally Paid To Super Soaker Creator
By Forest Parks -

June 13, 2016
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Imagine seeing every kid on every corner playing with a water gun you invented and licensed…. But not seeing a damn penny from it!

Well, Lonnie Johnson had to do that for a while but now a lawsuit has seen royalties he was owed in excess of $72.9m paid back to him by Hasbro!

Aazah.com reported

Johnson Research and Development Co. and founder Lonnie Johnson have been in a royalty dispute with Hasbro since February, when the company filed a claim against the giant toy company. According to King & Spalding, which along with the A. Leigh Baier P.C. law firm represented Johnson, Hasbro underpaid royalties for the Nerf line toys from 2007 to 2012.
“In the arbitration we got everything we asked for,” said Atlanta attorney Leigh Baier. “The arbitrator ruled totally in Lonnie’s favor.” The attorney also said Johnson “is very pleased” with the outcome.

The suit says Hasbro sold water guns that were “visually similar and based upon the appearance of Super Soaker water guns that incorporate Johnson’s technology.” Johnson also wanted the court to force Hasbro to open its books to determine sales of Super Soaker products from 2006 to 2012.

Johnson holds more than 80 patents, with more than 20 pending, the company said, which said sales of the Super Soaker have approached nearly

$72.9M Owed Royalties Finally Paid To Super Soaker Creator | Urban Intellectuals

sounds underpaid

 

[shutterguy]

GOAT outdoor toy as a kid, other kids in our rundown apt complex was rocking water pistols, I'm up here with Super Soaker feeling like....