Supreme x Super Soaker 50
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About the original
The Super Soaker 50 was the first commercially successful pressurized water gun, released by Philadelphia toy company Larami in 1990 under the original name Power Drencher and rebranded the following year. It was invented by NASA and Air Force aerospace engineer Lonnie Johnson, who stumbled onto the concept in 1982 while prototyping a heat-pump refrigeration system that used water as the working fluid. The Super Soaker uses a manual air pump to pressurize an internal reservoir, then releases a sustained high-velocity stream, a mechanical departure from the squeeze-bottle water pistols it displaced. Larami sold more than two million units in the summer of 1991. The Supreme SS2019 collab is the original 1990 tooling reissued with Supreme red and co-branding.
About Super Soaker
The Super Soaker is a pressurized water gun invented in 1982 by Lonnie Johnson, an Air Force and NASA engineer who built the first prototype in his Mobile, Alabama bathroom from PVC pipe, Plexiglas, and a two-liter soda bottle while testing a heat-pump refrigeration concept. Johnson licensed the design to Philadelphia toy company Larami in 1989. It launched in 1990 as the Power Drencher and was renamed Super Soaker the following year, generating $200 million in sales in 1991. Hasbro acquired Larami in 1995. Supreme has collaborated with Super Soaker on co-branded water guns.
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