WTH? You can no longer buy an old school pressure and trigger SuperSoaker type water gun anymore!

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TheCrazedTank@reddit

Basically, the company tried to screw over the inventor who was also the patent holder… it didn’t work out well.

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madredr1@reddit

Super soakers ruined squirt gun fights.

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stoneworther@reddit

Yeah, I was disappointed that none of the guns I could buy my kids were anything close to the quality of what you could get in the mid 90's.

Modern nerf guns are pretty cool though. But I'd rather have both.

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Peelboy@reddit

There are people out there making upgraded or redesigned nerf guns, I have a neighbor guy who has been designing high powered nerf guns, I need to chat with him soon to find out more.

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I’m assuming you have to dive roll and hide behind obstacles while traversing your neighbors lawn as they pepper you from all directions while standing on their roof wearing a leotard. American Gladiator style. Your neighbor isn’t named Lazer are they?

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Frasier_fanatic@reddit

Look into modding the nerf guns. Just using higher gauge wire on some of the flywheel boys gets you more fps quick.

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whyneedaname77@reddit

Modern nerf guns are kind of crazy.

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proto_synnic@reddit

Nerf Elite whistler darts have been one of my favorite aspects of modern society.

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CaRbZ1313@reddit

Used to work at EB Games. We kept nerf guns stashed throughout the store. After a rush of customers, while we were fixing up the store I’d sneak my nerf revolver out and send a whistling dart at one of my coworkers and everyone would dive for cover and scramble to get one of the stashed guns. War would ensue until the next customer came in and we’d pickup all the darts and re-stash the guns. Man that was a fun job.

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Emergency-Box-5719@reddit

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Antique_futurist@reddit

Nerf Mega Whistler darts going over the cubicle walls triggered a co-worker/veteran’s PTSD. He was actually pretty impressed, but we stopped using them to not be total asses.

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stevesie1984@reddit

Would be cool if dude was more understanding.

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Easy_Lion@reddit

If you think nerf is crazy you should check what Dartzone/Adventure Force and the 3d printing/modding scene are doing

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LeperFriend@reddit

You can walk into Walmart or target and buy an off the shelf blarer that hits almost 200fps......yeah crazy

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Inevitable_Professor@reddit

Especially if you have a screwdriver and a nearby hardware store with various assorted springs for sale.

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Taliesin5899@reddit

https://youtu.be/hqqNyFbhock?si=qVjMKg1qZxIVH3sv

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djseifer@reddit

That Nerf minigun that came out years ago was pretty nuts.

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battery19791@reddit

The Vulcan? With the belt feed?

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AmputeeHandModel@reddit

My kid's has a drum.

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sysiphean@reddit

Yea, drum feed is way better than the belt feed, plus it’s interchangeable with every other nerf magazine.

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BeardedPuffin@reddit

I had one (parents caved after I begged for one for Christmas). It was awesome until it you had to walk around the house picking up darts, or until the belt feed jammed.

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TheWildTofuHunter@reddit

I thought it would be a great idea to get three Nerf dart guns for my family, and we could play indoors along with 2000 nerf darts. Don’t ask why I thought it was a good idea, and even worse picking up allllll of the darts around the house.

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Boogut@reddit

Ahhh yes, war is hell.

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dirtyasseating@reddit

My wife got me the Minigun for Christmas.

She said she knew I was going like it, but the look of pure joy as I ambushed our children like I was John Rambo was slightly unnerving.

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Yagoua81@reddit

You and me both, I still find them throughout the house.

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TheWildTofuHunter@reddit

My favorite is a pink dart that made it into a chandelier in our entryway. No clue how we’re going to get it out, so I just admire it in the meantime.

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Specific-Library-312@reddit

With another dart gun

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rivalpinkbunny@reddit

Objectively a great decision

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BeardedPuffin@reddit

We had the same idea, except we bought the fancy new Nerf guns that fire the little yellow balls. That was like 6 years ago and we still occasionally find one under the furniture or in a tight corner. On the bright side, our cats LOVE them.

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chalupa4me@reddit

Lol! My cat will sit by the closet door on occasion so we can open the door for him. 9 times out of 10, there is a little nerf ball that he was chasing and got stuck in there. 🤣

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TheWildTofuHunter@reddit

Haha, your cats are in heaven!

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Torringtonn@reddit

Our neighbor gave my son all his kids nerf guns (they had outgrown them) and that was one of them. Its amazing except what you said and having to take 10 minutes to reload lol.

Its the dad gun of choice though.

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djseifer@reddit

Our test team got one for our lead for his birthday. We proceeded to spend our breaks for the next few days trying to see how many darts we could deflect with a lightsaber.

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ClassiFried86@reddit

Yea, but it ain't no Ballzooka

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ChalupaBatman616@reddit

I still haven't forgiven my brother for chucking mine across the street and breaking it. Best nerf gun ever.

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TheWildTofuHunter@reddit

Nooooo!! 😔

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armchair_viking@reddit

I think it was also the same engineer that invented both of them.

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pr0zach@reddit

NERF doesn’t make guns. They make “blasters.”

They are very adamant on that point.

But fuck yeah, modern NERF guns are cool AF and I love playing with my boys and feeling like a kid. lol

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Redux01@reddit

I never got to use a super soaker that didn't leak constantly and barely hold pressure. They were not high quality.

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TheBroWhoLifts@reddit

Could probably 3D print a pretty badass one these days...

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TheWildTofuHunter@reddit

As someone who just upgrade their 3D printer and has some point vacation….

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YekcheeHleh@reddit

The comment below linked to the inventor's AMA, from which I browsed some recent comments. He shared the patent that's in the public domain: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4591071A/en

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dox1842@reddit

nerf owns super soaker now

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Annhl8rX@reddit

I was out on Nerf as soon as they switched from foam balls to darts.

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jonsnowflaker@reddit

There was nothing more satisfying than the sound those golf ball sized foam balls made struck home.

But the darts are good fun too.

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secret_rye@reddit

Try to buy an old one at a garage sale or on eBay, they still work amazingly well

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wrenwood2018@reddit

The battery powered ones that shoot 100 darts are crazy. I regret not getting the one that was a pulse rifle from Aliens ... hmm for my kids. Yeah the kids.

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LitRonSwanson@reddit

Years ago I was messing around with rebuilding a nerf gun w some upgrades, was semi satisfied with it. Then the n-strike came out and was blown away

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LarryGoldwater@reddit

I have searched far and wide

They are not available at a reasonable price

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WLH7M@reddit

$10 at Ollie's

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wekilledbambi03@reddit

Is $26 not reasonable?

https://a.co/d/0dDsgawW

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emarkd@reddit

By all accounts those newer guns are absolute garbage, don't work well, and fall apart immediately.

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Karma_Doesnt_Matter@reddit

They had some in my local target, the pump almost snapped in half when I was messing with it in the store. I imagine a kid would break it in 30 minutes max.

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t3hmuffnman9000@reddit

Apparently Hasbro lost a $72.9M lawsuit against the original inventor of Super Soakers. They decided to stop manufacturing them in order to avoid having to pay more royalties on top of that.

"We stopped making one of our most successful products because we couldn't be assed to pay the inventor."

As far as stupid reasons for discontinuing a product go, that's pretty high up there...

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Banjo-Oz@reddit

Sounds absolutely right for Hasbro.

A few years back they decided to make the only VW transforming Bumblebee they'd made in decades a US Walmart exclusive. Bumblebee. So, not like a character people around the world would want and buy by the truckload at all, right?

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FidgitForgotHisL-P@reddit

The same Hasbri that own Magic the gathering and have been relentlessly releasing new sets at a previously unfathomable rate, bundling in any IP they can get their greasy fingers on in a desperate effort to squeeze every cent out of people buying for the “collectable” part of “collectable card game”, diluting decades of goodwill to the point where they will probably ruin the whole game as folks give up on this obvious cash grab?

That Hasbro? Well I never….

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Federal_Difficulty@reddit

Remember when they reused the same back for Arabian Nights in 1993 rather than a different one as a originally intended? That was going to be the death of magic too!

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MechanicalDruid@reddit

Same company that sent the Pinkertons to someone's house after a distributer sent them the wrong box of magic cards and he spoiled the entire set before Wizards even sent out previews to the public.

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hanwookie@reddit

Pinkertons?

These kind?

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Latter_Percentage739@reddit

Yes, exactly that kind. They went from being a detective style agency to being corporate intelligence and threat protection around the turn of the millennium. They are the guys you hire to stop corporate espionage...

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TeaKingMac@reddit

They went from being a detective style agency to being corporate intelligence and threat protection around the turn of the millennium.

Do you mean the turn of the (last) century? They were famously already shitheads in the early 1900s

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hanwookie@reddit

That's what I thought too...like, they were Wells Fargo lackeys way back. They were a proto secret service, and they were always corrupt.

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insideoutfit@reddit

How is stocking it at the largest retailer in the largest consumer market on earth "impossible to get"?

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FidgitForgotHisL-P@reddit

Maybe not impossible, literally, but if you were say one of the hundreds of millions of transformers fans outside the US, they have immediately determine that you shall not have what was obviously going to be a highly sought after toy.

OP didn’t mention that Walmart almost certainly paid a tonne of money to Hasbro to make this an exclusive for them. Hasbro have evidentially determined the value of what Walmart paid them exceeded what outside US toy markets would have made them. Sucks to be anywhere else.

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TheFluBug@reddit

Take this as some thought. While Sonic the Hedgehog figures had more shelf space, you could not find very specific characters anywhere. Most that were on the shelves were just Sonic. While characters such as Blaze, Chaos 0, and even most recently Tikal can not be found at stores anywhere. While they are available in nearly all stores that have a big enough toy section, they were impossible for normal people who just go in once a week/ every other week to find. Now lower the number of available stores by half. And now you've got a much lesser area to find them, and the scalpers/hard core collectors are more concentrated on those stores.

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GhostofBeowulf@reddit

Right but this is likely a function of supply constraints, storage, or ability to warehouse the product, actual economic conditions. Not Hasbro trying to increase after market sales lol.

They will make as many as they believe to earn the highest marginal revenue, and then won't stop until they begin losing money beyond the nominal cost. These businesses have analysts and economists who earn hundreds of thousands of dollars per year figuring our production pricing curves to make the optimal amount of money. Sometimes they make mistakes (see supersoaker,) but they aren't doing a damned thing for scalpers or the resale market. They don't care, they do not make any more per unit.

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t3hmuffnman9000@reddit

Yeah, pretty on-brand for Hasbro - not gonna lie.

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Weird_Department_332@reddit

Why would you lie to me?

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Anglofsffrng@reddit

Generally to make myself feel better, occasionally to make someone else look worse, and every so often just to fuck with you.

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hanwookie@reddit

On the internet?

Not likely..

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arcxjo@reddit

And then the day after posting this, t3hmuffnman9000 woke up to a squad of Pinkerton agents holding socks full of nickels.

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W5SNx@reddit

I think you mean socks full of thnickels.

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jinglesan@reddit

I preferred a sock full of pennies - great for bashing some cents into someone

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gayjoystick@reddit

This guy knows you can't have a sock full of nickels in this economy.

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lehilaukli@reddit

r/unexpecteddcc

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arcxjo@reddit

No, that's just a thing Hasbro does to people that don't like.

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Dengar96@reddit

Surely there's a better way to carry your nickels

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timzilla@reddit

Sapient crusty nickel sock named Jefferson would be my preference

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lebo_riley@reddit

Little DCC fan are we?

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parkinglotviews@reddit

Never trust a sapient weapon.

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Nanocephalic@reddit

The pinks are going to helpfully offer them to this guy, perhaps so the nickels can be stored in his face.

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gothbloodman@reddit

And now we all get sub-par water guns…

Also Lonnie Johnson is a genius and you should read about him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Johnson_(inventor)

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t3hmuffnman9000@reddit

Yeah, dudes a legend. I think he started out working for NASA and stuff. Super cool!

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Dexion1619@reddit

I mean, this is the same company that's trying its hardest to kill the golden goose of both DnD and MTG

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t3hmuffnman9000@reddit

Don't I know it? 🙄

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who_even_cares35@reddit

Capitalism knows no bounds when it comes to fucking people over

My manager says he went to college with the original inventor

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chromix@reddit

He's also a redditor

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here_in_seattle@reddit

How much was he asking for?

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who_even_cares35@reddit

I have no idea

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OtherwiseAlbatross14@reddit

Nah that lawsuit was in 2013. They'd almost completely stopped making the constant pressure system by 2011 other than one model.

The constant pressure system required much thicker plastic so the most likely reasoning is just plain old cost cutting. Saving a 2% royalty is a nice bonus but they're not going to abandon the design over that alone when they'd been paying for decades.

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jumbee85@reddit

The only thing making for hasbro is magic the gathering and they working that golden goose to death.

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t3hmuffnman9000@reddit

Hey, that's not trueThey also have Dungeons and Dragons, which they've gradually been converting into a pen and paper freemium mobile game for the last ten years. 🙄

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KoalaOriginal1260@reddit

When does the patent run out?

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ReverendDizzle@reddit

In the United States a "utility" patent lasts for 20 years. Utility, in this context, means a patent on how something works. Design patents, which cover how something looks, last for 15 years.

I don't know when the original Super Soaker patent was filed. But they were already patented and in production in 1991... which was 35 years ago.

I'm sure Hasbro would sue the absolute shit out of you and try to keep you tied up in court... but at this point the only real legal issue regarding making an air-pressurized chamber-based squirt gun with a pump action pressurization mechanism would be if you called it a "Super Soaker."

That would would infringe not on the utility patent or the design patent, but on the company's trademark and IP (which is a whole separate thing).

The only thing stopping anybody from making a 1:1 replica of the OG Super Soakers is a desire to avoid fighting Hasbro.

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t3hmuffnman9000@reddit

In the early 2000s, interestingly enough. It is perfectly legal for anyone to make pressurized water guns these days. Wikipedia says that there have been a few, but it direct offer details beyond that.

As for why they're not cluttering toy store shelves like they did back in 90s? No clue. But if I had to guess, it might be related to some lawsuits involving children rupturing their ear drums a few decades ago. Those CPS models were no joke.

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TP_Crisis_2020@reddit

They usually last for 20 years, but you can sue for retroactive infringement of them for the entire time they were active.

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ShortBrownAndUgly@reddit

Water gun tech mostly regressed and it’s ghastly. I discovered this years Ago when I wanted to buy waterguns for the kids

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Unusual_Tune8749@reddit

Seriously check out the XShot ones.

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PokesBo@reddit

My son just got this. Got to admit it's pretty cool.

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Unusual_Tune8749@reddit

Just here to chime in and say check out the XShot ones. Fast fill opening is amazing, not only for the fill, but for dumping them out and leaving them open to dry! https://a.co/d/0gsLGQfZ

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WLH7M@reddit

They have them at Ollie's

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Longjumping_Phase902@reddit

No lol my brother and I figured this out 10 years ago lol

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MasterPhilip@reddit

There's always eBay.

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Rubik842@reddit

Make one. soft drink bottles hold about 60 psi reliably.

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toondoggie@reddit

Good thing I still have one.

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Iconshero@reddit

I used the double barrel super soaker all the way through college, till the glue gave and both o rings blew out.

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DisposableSaviour@reddit

I had one of the first line CPS, the CPS 2000. Still considered the most powerful commercial watergun to date. Used it until the pressure valves or whatever gave out.

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CyDJester@reddit

Found the rich kid!

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Fappy_as_a_Clam@reddit

I had that one too.

I think I laid $50 for it in 1997. My friend made fun of me because they couldn't believe if spend that much money on a water gun and not pot.

That water gun was absolutely brutal though, and totally worth it.

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DisposableSaviour@reddit

All my birthday money that year. My mom was like, “Are you sure?” I was then, and I stand by that decision now. Thing was a fucking ***beast*** that could take off skin at close range.

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CyDJester@reddit

I genuinely wish I could have managed that. It would have been epic

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Iconshero@reddit

I just looked up the xxp 175 i got as my birthday gift the year it came out. Google said it retailed for $20-25 bucks.

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CyDJester@reddit

That’s like $50+ in today money. There was zero hope of me getting one!

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Iconshero@reddit

Yeah and my parents probably spent 22 cents in gas going to and from the mall in 1995. 😭

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Opus-the-Penguin@reddit

What happened to our rights under the 2nd amendment?!?!!

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oskich@reddit

There are way more powerful water guns nowadays. Built-in booster pump and charges via USB-C.

Spyra 3 Water Gun Review

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UnfortunateSnort12@reddit

Maybe, but recharging a water gun just doesn’t sound like summer to me.

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TigerIll6480@reddit

I had a battery powered UZI water gun in the 80s. It kind of sucked.

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OneWorldly8847@reddit

Duuuuuude, with the extra magazines for your belt! It did suck, I loved it so much

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Atarihouse@reddit

Lol. Pretty sure either I or a neighbor kid did and yup, definitely sucked.

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quint21@reddit

Entertech!

https://youtu.be/99UPQEFSGVQ

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TigerIll6480@reddit

Even that ad was a rip on UZI adverting of the day. 🤣

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Whyudoodat@reddit

Cant remember if it had 4 AA batteries or 8. No red tip either

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TigerIll6480@reddit

I don’t remember either. I know that it went through a lot of them for little actual effect.

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Zerba@reddit

I had the Uzi one and yeah, it sucked.

The new ones though, they are the real deal.

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Fight_those_bastards@reddit

I had that same one. It sucked, but also was cool as fuck

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jacksonmills@reddit

I still remember the sound it made.

Whew whew whew whew whew

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samwise58@reddit

Definitely played Terminator and Predator with that Uzi. I…. didn’t win.

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eggs_erroneous@reddit

Yeah, I think I had more fun just playing regular pretend guns with that battery-powered uzi. I also remember pretending we were fighting a Predator for sure. Being a kid in the 80s was fantastic.

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jbenze@reddit

I think we were all issued that same water gun in 1986.

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Chuckeltard@reddit

More cool as fuck than suck... It would rust out the battery compartment, but that wasn’t until next summer

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Designohmatic@reddit

Oh shit I remember that!

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_R_A_@reddit

All waterguns suck. It's an inherent part of their function.

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Witty-Common-1210@reddit

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fairlyaveragetrader@reddit

Oh I remember those I think the brand was something like entertech? They would work for about a day and then die 😂

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neon_farts@reddit

Thing also costs $170. Inaccessible for many kids

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UnfortunateSnort12@reddit

For reals? I didn’t even look it up because it wasn’t in the spirit of a water gun fight…. Plus three shot burst? wtf. I get they are going the video game angle, but the summer is about soaking your friends.

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Ok_Ruin4016@reddit

That sounds super lame tbh. I don't want to have to charge my supersoaker

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BrainSawce@reddit

I used to be able to pump up my Super Soaker 200 to such a pressure that it actually hurt to get sprayed with it. No batteries required!

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OdinsGhost@reddit

Not more powerful than hooking a super soaker 50 up to a standard garden hose, there’s not. God bless standard fittings.

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asdf130@reddit

OMG. I was today years old when I had this epiphany..

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OdinsGhost@reddit

Yeah. Put it this way: from ten feet a way it could leave welts and from a foot or two away you could carve trenches in the lawn. At close range it could probably cut skin but even I wasn’t dumb enough as a kid to try it. It was basically a kids toy modded to be a pressure washer and somehow was actually strong enough to not break when you did it.

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jbenze@reddit

I had these water pistols that hooked directly to the hose with a splitter and the goal was to try to fill the other person's vest with water. I think we did that once and then realized it was way more fun to just blast bottles and destroy things with them.

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No_Recognition7426@reddit

With just a little water in the tank. We would pump Althea super soaker 50 up until we couldn’t anymore . Then unscrew the tank and launch the tank two yards over.

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HorseWorking@reddit

Idk i just watched that video and they don’t look like they have anything on an og super soaker

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ken830@reddit

Spyra 4 just released a few weeks ago. I just bought a pair of Spyra Gos for me sons. People that don't want rechargeable blasters can buy the Spyra dash.

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Dedb4dawn@reddit

Why does everything need to be a battery though?

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Kalorama_Master@reddit

Because it needs electricity for AI

I mean lithium batteries on a water toy that will be absused by kids…what could possibly go wrong

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Alone-Chemical-1160@reddit

Also bonus wifi capabilities!

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GeetarEnthusiast85@reddit

So this is basically a pulse rifle but in water gun form? COOL!

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oskich@reddit

Yeah, kids are so spoiled today 😁

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Opus-the-Penguin@reddit

Well GOD BLESS MURICA!!!

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_R_A_@reddit

No one better stand in the way of my right to bear arms

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battery19791@reddit

I support the right to arm bears.

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texan01@reddit

What kind of bears we talkin here? Grizzlies, browns, black bears, pandas -those are sneaky bastards, koalas, drop bears, or human bears?

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battery19791@reddit

Yes.

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korar67@reddit

Are you in Poland? Cause they did that already.

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glazedfaith@reddit

Safety is only a concern when you aren't talking about deadly weapons!

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puppycatisselfish@reddit

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uber-judge@reddit

This is why magic the gathering sucks now.

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Soszai@reddit

I’m shocked Temu or something with looser opinions on IP hasn’t exploited this gap in the market.

I can get a 1:1 rep Rolex that’s so good it will take genuine parts, but I can’t get a Super Soaker…boo

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Stuffleapugus@reddit

This was the one right here.

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ZestycloseProject130@reddit

We had the ridiculous one with the backpack tank and that's thing weighed like 50lbs when full. The 1000 maybe?

But the mobility of the 50 was clutch. Even if you had to constantly run back to the bucket of his water to refill.

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Stuffleapugus@reddit

The backpack one was stupid. There was always a stereotypical big kid with a 100 or 200, like s heavy machine gunner. The 50s were for infantry. They allowed to to move around quickly.

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ButterscotchFar1629@reddit

Every unit needs heavy fire support, and it’s usually the big dumb guy who gets to lug that shit around.

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Stuffleapugus@reddit

Never been in the military but in Super Soakers, that big kid wasn't moving around too fast anyway. Might as well carry around the big gun.

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GorchestopherH@reddit

The 300 was the backpack. The 250 was the largest you could just hold.

The 100 and 150 were very similar to the 50, just slightly larger capacity

In the late 90s the 2500 and the 3000 came out which were legitimate upgrades to the original 250 and 300.

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Ghia149@reddit

The 100 had the second smaller tank so you could maintain pressure easily even as the main tank water volume was exhausted. But they all had the same range so it was hard to beat the 50. I’d love to have 4 of them for me and my kids right now. Wish I still had mine.

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GorchestopherH@reddit

Correct, beyond the 50 it was mostly just extra tanks until the 300.

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AwarenessOpen4042@reddit

We used to keep a 5 gallon bucket filled with water ready for reloading and we had water gun fights. The 50 was perfect because it loaded pretty quick getting dunked in that 5 gallon bucket. It also still fit when the bucket was kind of low.

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TP_Crisis_2020@reddit

Damn, that one was rich kid stuff!!

I always ran circles around the kids with the backpack one, you just had to be quick enough so that they would run out of water quick, and then they were vulnerable on the massive refill operation!

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Jealous_Worker_931@reddit

The backpack model was the 200. I remember wanting it soooo bad. My brother had the SS100 and gave me the SS20 lol

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cortesoft@reddit

No, the backpack was the 300. The 200 had the double, side by side, barrels on top.

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cortesoft@reddit

The 300 was awesome, but would go through water so fast and it took forever to fill that tank up.

The 200 was cool, too, but was pretty heavy to carry (the backpack for the 300 was easier)

I was the perfect age for super soaker peak, my birthday in June, and I grew up in a place that would get into the 100s in June and July. A LOT of my birthdays were water war birthdays, and I would often get water guns for my birthday. I had quite the arsenal.

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johnvalley86@reddit

I believe that was the CPS 3000 if memory serves. I had the CPS 1500 back in the day and it weighed a ton with a full tank. It had a shoulder strap and held around a half gallon of water but you would blow through it in like 30 seconds

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vapre@reddit

CPS2500 was the platonic ideal for me.

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johnvalley86@reddit

Buddy of mine had one and I was super jealous of the design over my 1500. The 2500s looked like a blaster out of the Aliens movies

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vapre@reddit

Yeah, good looking gun

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ArcadeKingpin@reddit

I had one that we filled with piss all winter and then took it out on a hot summer day.

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tableleg7@reddit

I had the 200.

I crushed my enemies, saw them driven before me, and heard the lamentations of their women.

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habitualtroller@reddit

I quoted that at work once and forgot just how old that movie is.

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wunderballl@reddit

Then sucked off a guy or two sounds like 🤣

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Plenty_Structure_861@reddit

Someone has never seen Conan

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typically_wrong@reddit

Tf?

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wunderballl@reddit

Ask him

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ThaScoopALoop@reddit

gif

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Sophet_Drahas@reddit

You know what is best in life.

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jimicus@reddit

The 500 was better.

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Al_Tilly_the_Bum@reddit

Just bigger. The 50 was a workhorse

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Ltimbo@reddit

The XP 75 was the best. It had the form-factor of the 50 and power of the 100. The XP 75 became my go-to.

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Stuffleapugus@reddit

Naw, that's some new school b.s. The 50 got it done. It wad the M-16/M-4 of early 90's water fights.

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One_Purchase_3127@reddit

I just bought two of these last year and they’re selling them at Ollie’s.

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thatsradddd@reddit

A surf company called Urt makes a pretty good one called the sqURT'r. I bought one and it was actually pretty decent. I ended up leaving it with my nephew on a trip and he still has it.

https://urturt.com/products/urt-gun?srsltid=AfmBOopgVAdadhcxJJNF4r1bFuTKC6b8reW-74tZPdYmMkLNjDu9xfYX

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ATRavenousStorm@reddit

Apparently the inventor was receiving royalties after his company was bought out by Hasbro. The royalties were somehow miscalculated and he took Hasbro to court and was paid $73 million in unpaid royalties. Since then Hasbro was like "Ehhhh... Fucking that. We just won't use his patent and we'll do our own thing instead".

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Background-Park4359@reddit

The guy that invented this got fucked on the royalties and it was a huge legal battle til years later. I think he was awarded 50-70 million? That’s why.

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ItsbeenBroughton@reddit

Nerf bought the naming rights but not the patents. I picked up two of their modern super soakers and they are lackluster at best.

Would say that I do believe this can be reverse engineered and 3d printed.

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Wonderful-Emu-8716@reddit

https://www.walmart.com/ip/NERF-Super-Soaker-XP100-AP-Water-Blaster/133001598?classType=REGULAR This looks like the updated version. It has a trigger. The pump just creates the pressure.

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krispy662@reddit

I don’t about this one. I always look for them in the summer for the kids and I can only find the ones you’re talking about. Although last year I did find these awful mini type super soaker things at dollar tree. They worked but barely.

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ChiefSampson@reddit

I bought one off Amazon (some manufacturer I'd never heard of) to squirt pigeons in my backyard who bully the mourning doves I feed. Lasted a grand total of like 5 weeks before it broke and began leaking everywhere.

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pyrowipe@reddit

Anyone else turn their mechanical pencil into a BB shooter?

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zooomenhance@reddit

Those got classified as weapons at our school. Bunch of kids got suspended, it was a whole thing

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pyrowipe@reddit

Yup, I got suspended.

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TIRACS@reddit

I had this one

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ManateeNipples@reddit

Be the change you want to see in the world, the patent is expired and they aren't banned, you can technically make them yourself

I looked into this 😂

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rift321@reddit

I kinda want to design and manufacture a machined stainless steel version with laminar flow and 200+psi. For adults and experimental research only

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tjdux@reddit

That's just r/pressurewasherporn

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Ditzy_Davros@reddit

Hmmm... time to dust off the 3d printer

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boner79@reddit

I've always coveted my cousin's SuperSoaker 100 since the early 90s. Saw Target had them and on sale for like $15, so picked up a couple for my kids. These SS100s were such pieces of shit I'm offended for the 90s.

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Omfggtfohwts@reddit

Which means the value of one is 1000% more

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mrniceguy777@reddit

I remember turning the water reservoir from this exact water gun into a perc for a masssive home made bong I created for my buddies birthday in highschool in like 2008 lol

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somecoolname42@reddit

The tech is pretty basic, just build your own.

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SunshineInDetroit@reddit

In high school, I had a Ford aerostar with captain chairs that swiveled.

You could lock the side door open.

A 5 gallon bucket of water and pool water guns.

Good times.

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30sumthingSanta@reddit

We took the sliding door (singular, just the right side in those days) off of a friend’s mom’s van one February and would drive by supersoaker and water balloon friends. It was great until someone called the cops.

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Additional_Shine_509@reddit

Not sure if it's been posted, but you can get the Nerf Super Soaker XP100 on Amazon. It looks just like the one my parents never bought me.

https://a.co/d/02qvhDzi

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Revolutionary_Gas551@reddit

Ohh man! I mowed a lot of yards when I was 12 to save up to buy that! That thing was awesome!

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atomxv@reddit

Still have my xp150 and it still fucking super soaks.

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ooooooootreyngers@reddit

Did anyone here ever pump the sh#t out of a 50 and then flip it over so the bottle was facing twords the sky or away from you at least, and then slowly unscrew the bottle until it ejected from the pressure and was sent very high in the air at a very serious velocity!??

This is the reason I always assumed they were not produced anymore. It was super fun though when my brother and I figured that out.

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yukonnut@reddit

Political correctness has sucked all the fun out of being an A**hole

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justvisiting34@reddit

I ruined our tv with this thing.

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jimicus@reddit

The inventor did an AMA a few years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6gacna/i_am_lonnie_johnson_inventor_of_the_super_soaker/

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d3r3k1@reddit

“A few” 8 yrs ago lol

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jimicus@reddit

Yeah, well, at our age I think we're very much justified and ancient.

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d3r3k1@reddit

Nah I agree I just thought it was funny.

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EmperorZuul@reddit

All bound for Mu Mu Land

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FifteendollarShell@reddit

There was a good podcast on super soakers, called "the consumers" couple comedians talking about random brands.

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LandBetweenTheCakes@reddit

I love Randy and The Consumers

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rdldr1@reddit

I’ve learned about his story and the creator is pretty cool

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WrongfullyIncarnated@reddit

yeha he didnt get paid for it until recently inheard

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farquin_helle@reddit

temubatterypowered,selfrefilling,multiplefiremodesfuturisticlookingblasterssaywhat

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lastwarrior81@reddit

Side question: Did anyone else turn theirs's into a flame thrower?

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TP_Crisis_2020@reddit

Yes, but that turned them into a one-time-use gun.. cause there was no way you weren't melting that thing down.

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namdekan@reddit

No but knew a kid that would always piss into his.

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Banjo-Oz@reddit

Aka the side-story payoff in the movie "The Boy Who Could Fly". :)

"That's not water. It's PISS!"

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Abidarthegreat@reddit

No but some of my college buddies filled on with silver nitrate...

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HomelessKitchenCat@reddit

Oh hell yeah. I put lighter fluid in mine and taped a zippo under the nozzle.
Thats about as mad as Ive ever seen my dad.

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FriedBreakfast@reddit

SHIT! Why the hell didn't I think to do this?

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Checked_Out_6@reddit

We did gasoline and a blowtorch. It was awesome for about 20 seconds, then it melted, we got scared and threw it into the pond.

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TigerIll6480@reddit

JAYZUS

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HomelessKitchenCat@reddit

thats about as good as an outcome as you could hope for using gas, damn dude haha

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Checked_Out_6@reddit

Omg! Yes!

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NoContextCarl@reddit

Of all the crazy shit I did as a teenager, I'm surprised that never crossed my mind. 😅

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DingbattheGreat@reddit

We used to wear them out and overpressure it and the bottle would pop off.

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Emergency_Rooster511@reddit

The thread on the bottle is the same as the male end on a garden hose, in case you like infinite pre-pressurized water.

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StomachCommercial69@reddit

Used to do that with mine also, shot far too.

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Banjo-Oz@reddit

TIL!

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Jovial_Candidate_508@reddit

That’s how it starts , pump action only .
Then they’ll take away anything with a pistol grip .
Before you know it , there taking the pump action ones away too .

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The_Pandalorian@reddit

I had a pump-action shotgun water gun when I was a kid. That thing didn't have much range, but would soak the ever-living fuck out of some poor kid who I could get within about 10 feet. It was the best.

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spilt_milk@reddit

Yes you can, I bought two for my kids at Ollie's a month ago.

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TheManOfSpaceAndTime@reddit (OP)

Do they actually use a pressure and trigger system? If so, can you link? And were they any good?

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spilt_milk@reddit

Another person linked to it already, but I also checked the model (XP-50AP) and even the Amazon listing says:

FILL, PUMP AND START: The tank is filled and the handle is pumped to build pressure, and the trigger is pressed to let water splash down

As far as performance, my sons were underwhelmed, as was I. The pressure/flow was not as good as some Zuru ones that I bought for my daughters.

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SecondRandomRedditor@reddit

https://www.ollies.com/products/nerf-super-soaker-xp50-ap

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Mortifine@reddit

Yeah, me too. They seem to work pretty much the same as I remember. Dunno what OP is on about.

I think they were like $8 each, too. Cheaper than when I was a kid.

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CyDJester@reddit

I bought one from Ollie’s and it failed on the first day 🤷‍♂️

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ForceTimesTime@reddit

My high school students just did a senior assassins game with water guns and they all had guns with a little electric pump! They hadn't heard of Super Soaker when I asked 😭

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Witchfinger84@reddit

It is a conspiracy against black entrepeneurs.

All my man wanted to do was soak a ho's titties through her tshirt at the cookout, is that so wrong?

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Banjo-Oz@reddit

The revised poster art from the film "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood" featured a similar water gun for a reason besides censorship then?

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CyDJester@reddit

Ok, but for real, anyone printing these a-la-the OG Laramie Super Soaker 50??? You got a customer for one, probably two, right here!

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theonlypeanut@reddit

They make a very similar one still the only real difference is that the tank is filled with a cap and not removable.

I have 4 of them and the smaller ones that function the same way. My son and the neighbor kids go ham on them and they have lasted a couple years already. I have been personally blasted many times and they are pretty much the same ones from the 90s.

xp50

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Robot-Candy@reddit

Not true.

Hasbro acquired super soaker, the pressure tank identical to this is still produced, just nerf branded.

Maybe not the same quality, but exact same layout and pressure etc

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duckwingducks@reddit

50 feet my ass

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KudosOfTheFroond@reddit

I did a quick search on Amazon and found an air-pressurized, trigger activated Super Soaker in about 5 seconds of scrolling.

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NW_Forester@reddit

https://www.amazon.com/NERF-SUPERSOAKER-E6285-XP100-Soaker/dp/B07TCFNPSY

is that not what you're looking for?

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Lehk@reddit

How can you post this and ruin the “they don’t make em anymore” circlejerk?

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Havering_To_You@reddit

It's not even close to the same thing as the old ones. This has already been talked about for years in many places.

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ijustsailedaway@reddit

I sometimes feel like these posts are stealth ads. I’m not mad about it really. Just an observation of how many times I forget about a product, it gets mentioned here, and I go buy it for my kids.

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MeepleMaster@reddit

A stealth ad for water guns a week before what is considered the start of summer and bbq season?! … oh

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GreenZebra23@reddit

These kids today don't even play outside 😢

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interstellarboyz1013@reddit

I bought 3 a year ago. Absolute garbage quality. They broke within a day. Cheap thin plastic, shitty trigger. Forever ruined a potential multi generation brand loyalty. The zuru electric squirt guns are pretty good.

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LardLad00@reddit

To be fair, the old ones were always broken too.

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CantaloupeAsleep502@reddit

I was gonna say, they look like trash. I think you can still get og on eBay if you're willing to pay

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1CryptographerFree@reddit

The problem is the plastic is extremely brittle in the vintage ones. They shouldn’t be used at this point unless you’re fine ruining it.

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PA_Blue9@reddit

I have one of these and it’s just as good as what we had back in the day.

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TheManOfSpaceAndTime@reddit (OP)

I believe when it states "continuous blast" it means that it's pump operated. I double checked and there is no definitive real usable trigger system description, and usually the ones with s trigger specifically day so.

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cnhn@reddit

the back panel shows it to be tigger operated

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TheManOfSpaceAndTime@reddit (OP)

Good eye. Some one pointed out some information on the page and I changed again and realized that my mobile app hides the full description and i missed it.

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CorgiMonsoon@reddit

“AIR-PRESSURISED CONTINUOUS BLAST: Pump to pressurise the chamber with air, then pull the trigger for a continuous, air-pressurised blast of water from the Nerf Super Soaker XP100 water blaster”

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TheManOfSpaceAndTime@reddit (OP)

Nice. Thank you!

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ClarkGablesTeeth@reddit

Other people quoted the 2 parts i was gonna. But also, did you even look at it? There's no pump on this thing other than the manual air pump.

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UsidoreTheLightBlue@reddit

My friend, 4th bullet point down.

“FILL, PUMP AND BLAST: Fill the tank, pump to pressurise and pull the trigger to deliver a deluge of soakage”

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Desperate_Jicama219@reddit

You can find them, they’re out there

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dark_lord_of_theSith@reddit

I don't believe. I can't believe that. Also, I'm not going to look it up or fact check in any way because it's so absurd. 🙈🙉🙊

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Emotional-Film5261@reddit

damn, i had this exact same Super Soaker as a kid. this really flooded my brain with memories. thanks

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thrance@reddit

I loved my Super Soaker 50 & 100. I played with them every summer from like 1991 until 1996. That’s about when they broke and I was thinking I was too old for that anymore. I wish I knew better

Expensive but, still I the box!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/287178336086

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Moons_of_Moons@reddit

Oh man I loved this thing

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Certain_Site_8764@reddit

Had the 100. What a great water gun. One-liter soda bottles fit near perfect and were good for backup ammo

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SpookDaDook@reddit

But, can we 3d print it. STL’s welcome 👇

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CyDJester@reddit

The original is literally the only version I want.

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wolfattack81@reddit

I picked up my 8 year old a super soaker 35 I think and it's a pump and shoot one

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mahelious82@reddit

My favorite thing about the 50 was the nozzle threading allowed a garden hose without needing an adapter. It sacrificed mobility but allowed endless, pressurized stream as point and shoot without pumping or refills.

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PennydumbTheClown@reddit

Hasbro or whoever never owned the patent for the pump system. They pissed off the guy who does own it

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M4N14C@reddit

https://www.walmart.com/ip/NERF-Super-Soaker-XP100-Water-Blaster/744268338

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Hyche862@reddit

We don’t want these kids getting hit with high pressure water but we are fine with the toy water gun electrocution risk

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firsttfdrummer@reddit

I remember my friend had a water gun with a backpack that would fill with water. That thing weighed like 80lbs but if you could handle it, it was a beast

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redditcreditcardz@reddit

https://ebay.us/m/bnbKYc

20 bucks for a super soaker 50

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GlowersConstrue@reddit

IDK. Weird. Incidentally, if you take a wire and set a zippo about 8" in front of the nozzle then fill with lighter fluid you can light the campfire for scout camp and then get a long lecture about fire safety the next day.

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TargetOfPerpetuity@reddit

I had this exact one. Still do, somewhere.

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PA_Blue9@reddit

Sure you can, bought one of these and the 1 size down model a few years ago for my kid.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/NERF-Super-Soaker-XP100-Water-Blaster/744268338

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RanmaSao@reddit

Nerf took over super soaker, this is the closest I've found to the ones we used as kids.. https://a.co/d/03MKUzBg

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UniqueIndividual3579@reddit

We had the one with the tank underneath and a hose into the tank. We would use them in the pool without the tank, just the hose in the water. Infinite ammo glitch.

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booztedmike@reddit

Definitely miss having water gun fights in our old neighborhood and wish I'd have kept my old super soakers. Honestly I wish I'd have wrote down some plans for the PVC ones my neighbors built in the garage back then. They were way more powerful and faster to reload than any of the store bought guns we had.

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kalitarios@reddit

I had this exact one!

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fir4ge@reddit

The XP50 and XP100 are remakes that are a few years old and might be going out of stock now.

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DjNormal@reddit

Most of the original models were flimsy and many of mine broke. I had a pressure tank failure on the 250 shortly before a managed to snap the barrel.

Now, the XP150 on the other hand. I have one that’s still working like new. Those were built to last.

I had two. I turned the other one into a laser tag gun and painted it black.

I have a couple of the 20s that still work. Gotta be careful with them though. The plastic is getting brittle after 35 years.

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Appropriate_train841@reddit

https://www.walmart.com/ip/744268338?sid=A7C38707-C247-48B5-A0DC-1BB9E2C5E931

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hahanawmsayin@reddit

All of us are the sheep increasingly corralled by surveillance and “you don’t own what you own” legislation

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wekilledbambi03@reddit

There’s at least 5-6 versions on Amazon that are pump and shoot from the super soaker brand alone.

https://www.amazon.com/s?srs=2601614011&rh=p_89%3ASuper%2BSoaker

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wrenwood2018@reddit

Kids today will never know the glory of someone bringing the backpack super soaker to a watergun fight.

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m0h3k4n@reddit

Not sure I understand the designers choice to pull his patent from Hasbro. Yeah, they were fucking him on royalties, but it’s not like they were his competition. His work is otherwise completely separate from toys.

His choice was to get $0 dollars and take all the joy away from kids rather than allow them joy while making more than $0.

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brandonspade17@reddit

I think Ollie's has them. Or a generic knockoff anyway.

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BadAtExisting@reddit

It seems Nerf bought them

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Accadius@reddit

You just described the knockoff dollar tree soaker my little brother got because he wanted to join the big kids.

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lordnecro@reddit

You can, I bought one last year. Complete trash, my son used it once and we hated it.

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Redux01@reddit

They were always all hype and no performance.

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SeductiveGodofThundr@reddit

To be fair, it feels about right for the one in the pic too. The two I got sprung leaks pretty quickly

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TheManOfSpaceAndTime@reddit (OP)

Damn. Sounds about right for almost all the water guns I've found so far.

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