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

[posterchild336]

he has been collecting checks from them for the longest though, he is loaded with $$

 

[unit321]

Of course it would have to be a gun

Don't even. It's a water gun.
Samuel Colt and John Browning made real guns... and they were white.

 

[unit321]

$73 million in royalties.

If that amount of cash came my way, I would be ordering a custom Lamborghini, not something off the showroom floor.

 

[King Poetic]

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.

 

[TrifeGod]

Inspiration

 

[Kilgore Trout]

the super soaker backpack

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I'm happy he got some compensation, but they made almost a billion off of it and only gave the man 72 mil? Better than nothing, I suppose. He should have received more, though.

yeah...thats what they probably SETTLED on.

If dude had taken them to court he'd probably have banked off that.

 

[ll_simon]

My grandma bought me this one for my 7th bday right after we moved to the burbs and my fukkin mom returned it.

 

[ZEupTWN]

I was too poor for one

Same here looking back at it them joints where overpriced so I could see why my parents refused to buy it......I had to settle for the knockoff that got either broke or started leaking at the bottom after a while

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I dunno...seems like he could be entitled to WAY more. That 72.9M was probably just some side change.

 

[Takerstani]

We had the smaller ones. I always wanted the one with the backpack. My cousin had a huge one.

 

[boskey]

72 million is only for royalties from 2007 thru 2012. Read the article brehs...

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 20012.

Hasbro tried to okie doke him and put out some "Super Squirters" without paying him. OG Lonnie wasn't going for it...

 

[kingdizzy01]

the super soaker backpack

My grandma bought me this one for my 7th bday right after we moved to the burbs and my fukkin mom returned it.

i got ran up on by some goons with them jawns at school back in the day.

wasnt strapped up with the 50 that day so i had to take that L all the way home

 

[TEKBEATZ]

Dog, my dad had the joint with the backpack at the church picnic. We would all have the little ones, some others had the big joints. My pops would come out the cut laughing spraying us in the fukking face every damn picnic brehs. On some New Challenger enters the game and shyt. Then he'll just leave.

That is good memory especially with your father.

 

[Skip b]

yo my cousin cracked the barrel on his 100 and gave it to me cause I was young then his parents copped him the SS 300 and he shut the whole block down that summer.

all the kids was

this the one that you wore on your back with the extra tanks.

First time you see that kid coming down the block with the backpack attached

I thought I was the shyt cause I had one of these.....

Then a local ass cat from like 3 blocks down comes to my block dolo, with a backpack on storming thru the hood like a ghost buster after we ran through his block, and buddy humbled my ass real quick, nikka made me reevaluate my life up to that point and put a end to my water fight days swiftly