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?
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.
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?
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.
Fallout aesthetics
Also you can just think of it as Albuquerque themed
Promotion of war propaganda into the culture? “Mom, why am I growing a 6th finger?”
https://www.nine.com.au/entertainment/latest/9now-body-bizarre-desilva-family-brazil-six-fingers-polydactyly/93d5fd33-1b6d-4a14-ac92-efd2fb4ed528