Brother that invented the Super Soaker awarded $72.9M from Hasbro

[Yakno1]

The Atlanta-based company behind the Super Soaker water gun and Nerf toy guns has been awarded nearly $73 million in royalties from toymaker Hasbro Inc., according to the law firm King & Spalding.

Johnson, a nuclear engineer, Tuskegee University Ph.D. and former NASA scientist, founded his company in 1989. It was the same year he first licensed the Super Soaker, which generated more than $200 million in retail sales two years later, the company said. The toy was licensed to Larami Corp., which was later purchased by Hasbro.
Johnson holds more than 80 patents, with more than 20 pending, the company said, which said sales of the Super Soaker have approached nearly $1 billion.

http://www.ajc.com/news/business/super-soaker-creator-awarded-729m-from-hasbro/nbjmm/

 

[BlvdBrawler]

 

[MikelArteta]

 

[sanityovar8ted]

i used to have a super soaker

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Malikthegod]

Black Excellence.

 

[GoPro]

Of course it would have to be a gun

 

[LA Fisher]

Of course it would have to be a gun

 

[beanz]

i always wanted one of these

i remember everybody in the hood had one of these. shyt was as common as an uzi or someshyt

 

[Chill]

Put a nerf gun in my hands couldn't tell me nothing

 

[yo moms]

thats nothing really compared to what hasbro made off that. this nikka lost.

 

[No_bammer_weed]

Of course it would have to be a gun

 

[Yakno1]

thats nothing really compared to what hasbro made off that. this nikka lost.

goes to show you that most corporations are greedy fukks and will try to rape at all cost

 

[Chill]

Damn this would be a perfect thread for a don't be a menace gif where one of toothpicks goons was pumping the super soaker

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Super soak That Hoooo!