what happened to super soaker

The Super Soaker is a brand of recreational water gun that uses manually-pressurized air to shoot water with greater power, range, and accuracy than conventional squirt pistols. The first Super Soaker went on sale in 1990 and was originally called the Power Drencher. 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. However, in 2009, the Super Soaker brand technically disappeared. What actually happened was that Hasbro slapped the Nerf name onto the Super Soaker brand, making them Nerf Super Soakers rather than just Super Soakers. While Hasbro still owns the Super Soaker name and does continue producing water guns, the products in this line are certainly not the type of Super Soakers that were popular in the 1990s. In 2023, Hasbro decided to reboot its original pressurized water guns, the Super Soaker XP20, XP30, and XP100 blasters.