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This Is What They Meant By Making America Great Again? (lemmy.ml)
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Kix cereal once offered 'Atomic Bomb Ring' with radioactive material as a promotion?

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok Kix, why did a cowboy have an atom bomb toy? What was the tie-in? Did Tonto help Oppenheimer? Was this just a way to sell a few tons of used polonium?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The just post WWII times were a weird hybrid of nostalgia for the old west “cowboys and Indians” stories and the space/atomic age becoming en vogue. Toys like this that tried to appeal to both are the result.

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