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Slammer Whammers were a brand of Milk caps made by the
Los Angeles
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-based company
Imperial Toy Corporation Imperial Toy Corporation is a North Hills, California-based toy company founded in April 1969 by Fred Kort, best known for producing rubber animals. One of their best known products is an articulated Godzilla action figure that is available in sev ...
, in the 1990s. They were one of the leading brands of pogs during the milk cap craze that swept Canada, the
United States
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and the
United Kingdom
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in 1994–5.
Product
The standard Slammer Whammers product was a
blister pack
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The primary component of a blister pack is a cavity or pocket made from a formable web, usually a thermoforme ...
containing 24 milkcaps and 2 slammers. Imperial Toy Corp. released various sets of milkcaps under the Slammer Whammers name, for example ''Biker Bugs'', ''Wise Guys'', ''Skull Squad'' and ''Wild Things''.
There were 288 slammer whammers to collect. This 288 set comprised 12 individual sets of 24 caps to collect. There were also sets of 24 caps that were not part of the 288 big set (for example Dino Dudes, Ink Drops, Pure Poison, Cyberdudes, Mini Monsters and Splatter Bugs).
In 2006,
Funrise
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History
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Toy Corporation relaunched their brand of pogs, so Imperial Toy Corp. decided to revive "Slammer Whammers". The motive behind this move was that if pogs became popular again like in 1994, Imperial Toy Corp. would be ready with their product already in the marketplace.