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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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[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

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?

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Fallout aesthetics

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Also you can just think of it as Albuquerque themed

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