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Larami

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Former type
  
Subsidiary

Successor
  
Nerf

Defunct
  
2002

Industry
  
Toys

Founded
  
1947

Parent organization
  
Hasbro

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Products
  
Water guns, Action figures

Larami super soaker 50 vintage 1989 water gun review and test


Larami Corp. was founded in 1947 and was a toy company whose products usually ranged from the cost of $0.39 to $0.99. Larami Corp. was eventually acquired by Hasbro Inc., becoming Larami Inc. in 1995. The Larami company name was finally retired in 2002.

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Products

Larami toys were produced based on several movies, television shows, etc. By the 1980s, Larami Corp. had a growing water gun product line. It was Larami Corp. that eventually marketed and sold the Power Drencher, rebranded as the Super Soaker in 1991.

Movies

  • One Hundred and One Dalmatians
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Star Wars
  • Television shows

  • The A-Team
  • The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
  • Banana Splits
  • Batman
  • Battlestar Galactica
  • The Brady Bunch
  • CHiPs
  • Deputy Dawg
  • Hawaii Five-0
  • Knight Rider
  • Land of the Lost
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
  • Space: 1999
  • Star Trek
  • Underdog
  • Battlestar Galactica Cylon Bubble Machine

    In 1978, Larami created a Cylon soap bubble toy called the Battlestar Galactica Cylon Bubble Machine to coincide with the television series of the same name. In the same year, a commercial was also made for the product featuring its use in dispensing "big bunches of bubbles" and a jingle. In a Los Angeles Times article covering Battlestar Galactica's influence on Facebook, the toy's Facebook Fan Page is noted alongside the book The Science of Battlestar Galactica's.

    ..CYLON BUBBLE MACHINE!" and in an interview Re-imagined Series comics writer Greg Pak as said "I still periodically find myself humming the tune song [sic] to the Cylon Bubble Machine commercial."

    References

    Larami Wikipedia