{"id":18,"date":"2017-05-22T02:33:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T02:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toyfun.me\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2017-05-22T02:33:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T02:33:56","slug":"super-soaker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/toyfun.me\/?page_id=18","title":{"rendered":"SUPER SOAKER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Super Soaker<\/b> is a brand of recreational <a title=\"Water gun\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Water_gun\">water gun<\/a> that utilizes manually-pressurized air to shoot water with greater power, range, and accuracy than conventional squirt pistols. The Super Soaker was invented in 1982 by <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"African American\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_American\">African American<\/a> engineer <a title=\"Lonnie Johnson (inventor)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lonnie_Johnson_(inventor)\">Lonnie Johnson<\/a>. The prototype combined <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"PVC pipe\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PVC_pipe\">PVC pipe<\/a>, <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Acrylic glass\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acrylic_glass\">acrylic glass<\/a>, and an empty plastic <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"2-liter bottle\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2-liter_bottle\">soda bottle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally sold by <a title=\"Larami\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larami\">Larami<\/a> and now produced by <a title=\"Hasbro\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hasbro\">Hasbro<\/a> under the <a title=\"Nerf\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nerf\">Nerf<\/a> brand, Super Soaker has generated more than $1 billion in total sales.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Ryssdal_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_Soaker#cite_note-Ryssdal-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> The first Super Soaker went on sale in 1990 and was originally called the Power Drencher, or the &#8220;Shaw&#8221; because of its ability to shoot straight and narrow. <sup id=\"cite_ref-:0_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_Soaker#cite_note-:0-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_Soaker#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup> Rebranding the name to Super Soaker occurred in 1991 together with a series of TV advertisements that resulted in 2 million water guns being sold.<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Super Soakers were popular for many years \u2014 so popular, in fact, that the term <i>super soaker<\/i> is sometimes used <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Genericised trademark\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genericised_trademark\">generically<\/a>, to refer to any type of toy pressurized water gun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Soaker is a brand of recreational water gun that utilizes manually-pressurized air to shoot water with greater power, range, and accuracy than conventional squirt pistols. The Super Soaker was invented in 1982 by African American engineer Lonnie Johnson. The prototype combined PVC pipe, acrylic glass, and an empty plastic soda bottle Originally sold by <a href=\"https:\/\/toyfun.me\/?page_id=18\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyfun.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyfun.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyfun.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyfun.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyfun.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyfun.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/toyfun.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyfun.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}