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The Super Soaker story

Super Soakers are a familiar part of summer fun, but did you know the toy was inspired by a part meant for a refrigerator? It’s true! An accident sparked its creation, but its success took years of hard work.

Lonnie Johnson, A ___________, has always been interested in how things work. As a kid, he took his toys apart and put them back together, B ___________.

In 1982, Johnson’s day job was working on spacecraft in California. In the evening, he worked on his own inventions. One of his projects was a refrigerator that cooled with water C _____________. One evening, he hooked a part he’d made to a bathroom sink so he could test it. It sprayed a strong stream of water across the sink! It made Johnson think D ___________.

He made the plastic parts for his water blaster in his basement, put it together, and asked his seven-year-old daughter to test it. As he watched her water fight with the other kids, he realised she was able to drench them E _____________.

Johnson wanted to make and sell the water blaster himself, F _____________. He didn’t have that much extra money, so he decided to find a toy company as a partner. He tried and failed for the next 7 years. Since then, the Super Soaker became one of the best-selling toys of all time and has brought a lot of fun to kids everywhere.

1) before her friends even got close with their squirt guns

2) called the Power Blaster, came out in 1990 and ever since

3) which led his friends to nickname Lonnie “The Professor”

4) but it would cost $200,000 to make 1,000 of them

5) instead of the environmentally harmful chemical used then

6) the man behind the invention of the Super Soaker

7) that a high-powered water blaster might be a lot of fun