Saturday, November 25, 2017

The Dark Past of Sea Monkeys

This is the story of how a tiny, magical creature was transformed into a cultural phenomenon by inventor, marketing genius and complicated eccentric Harold von Braunhut.



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2 comments:

  1. Sharktooth6:10 pm

    It looks like there's a new saga to add to this. His widow, with her own past, is embroiled with Big Time Toys.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/magazine/the-battle-over-the-sea-monkey-fortune.html

    ...and another link related to his white supremacist history
    http://articles.latimes.com/2000/oct/01/magazine/tm-29473

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