![]() ![]() These amazing new hybrids grow larger and live longer than any "natural" variety of brine shrimp. We not only unlocked the most elusive secrets of their life cycle, we created new formulas to keep them alive under conditions found in the average home - an accomplishment never before achieved!įinally, after years of cross-breeding, we developed a hybrid. Sea-Monkeys® are a unique type of brine shrimp, known by the scientific name of Artemia NYOS. Conceived in 1960 as a biological novelty, the fantasy has transformed into brilliant reality. It is one of the outstanding educational experiences of a lifetime, because the entire life-cycle of these unique creatures are fully recreated. The joy of watching Sea-Monkeys® grow offers a lot more than just pure fun. Sea-Monkeys® are real Time-Travelers asleep in biological time capsules for their strange journey into the future! The instant-life crystals, in which the eggs are enclosed, preserve their viability and help to extend still further their un-hatched life span! They exist in suspended animation inside their tiny eggs for many years. Quarantine is really taking its toll on me.Sea-Monkeys® are a true miracle of nature. Harold von Braunhut didn't exactly have the reputation of being an honest businessman. Now, of course, there's the whole debate of whether Artemia NYOS are even really different from wild brine shrimp at all. My packets are dated at being packed in 2018 and Made in the USA by Transcience, as opposed to (according to redditors from around 2014) the packets Made in China by Big Time Toys. The Sea-Monkey official site speaks highly of Yolanda as fighting tooth and nail for the Sea-Monkey brand, so it seems that Transcience corporation is now producing the packets again. ![]() I don't have concrete sources on these, I'll have to dig around the WayBack Machine.Īround some time in 2016, the official Sea-Monkey website (which is owned and operated by Transcience, independent of Big Time Toys) stated that all legal disputes were resolved and that products would be restocked soon. ![]() Those same reddit threads also seem to say that sea-monkey kits suffered a major drop in quality around that time. At some point during this time, the Sea-Monkey official site stopped stocking products, according to some reddit threads around the same time. There are articles up until 2016 about the legal battle, so I believe she did exactly that. Naturally, she sued sometime in 2010-2014, and the court resolved that Big Time Toys hadn't really breached contract, aside from not paying her proper royalties, and that she can pursue further legal action later on if she wasn't happy with the court's decision. They stopped paying Yolanda royalties and told her that they effectively owned the trademark now, so she was no longer necessary. However, Big Time Toys decided that it would be much cheaper to cut the middle man out and just supply their own packets, since brine shrimp, salt and algae are dirt cheap. Yolanda made an agreement with Big Time Toys, the producers of the Sea-Monkey tanks and accessories, that she would continue to supply sea-monkey packets to put in their kits and the rights to use the Sea-Monkey trademark, in exchange for royalties. Essentially, Yolanda von Braunhut, Harold von Braunhut's widow and heir to the Transcience corporation, owns the barn which Harold mixed and packaged all of his Sea-Monkey instant life packets until his death. ![]()
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