![]() So let's take a look at the company that once sat around a boardroom, looked to one another before someone said, "You know what kids aren't doing enough of these days? Running around the neighborhood with an arsenal of Uzis that make them look like extras in a Lethal Weapon movie."Įither way, the design was approved, and production rolled out. ![]() ![]() Perhaps no company better embodied the blurring of the toy lines quite like Entertech, most famous as a line of absurdly realistic-looking water guns for a stretch in the '80s. Back in the kids' aisle of the '80s, you'd have lifelike figures from Aliens to your right and actual live grenades that had been spray-painted neon green (because they're kids' toys) to your left. ![]() Forget walking down the aisle (or, let's be real, just running for an Amazon search for: "I don't know, just show me Hulk hands or some Paw Patrol shit" when you forgot it was your nephew's birthday) today and seeing anything but focus-group approved hunks of plastic featuring the latest kid-friendly property. ![]() In the '80s and early-'90s, kids' toys were absolutely wild. ![]()
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