{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "remembering the last year of squirt guns before Super Soakers there was a decent trend where they rigged up this disappearing...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/187070816368/", "html": "<p>remembering the last year of squirt guns before Super Soakers</p><p>there was a decent trend where they rigged up this disappearing ink so it looked like you stained someone pretty bad but then it faded, there was an ad campaign about it and all</p><p>they were still riffing off of real-life weapons i guess? like I remember the hot thing was modeled off an Uzi and it was even kinda automatic, with a 9v battery it\u2019d go dvt-dvt-dvt-dvt</p><p>They maybe made a small cap of the nozzle be hunter orange after the first year? But part of the appeal was it toootaly looked like an Uzi otherwise</p><p>not like the older-style water pistols that coexisted with the SuperSoaker 100 and 150, that were shaped like replica 1911s now you\u2019d rack the slide and shoot a long hard squirt except they were in this weird light blue/dark blue leopard Street Sharks camo now<br/></p>"}