I picked up some Super Soakers today

[Alucard]

The Shotblast and the Rattler. I was going to go swimming, and felt the need to give the new models a shot (pun intended), mostly on a lark. They were on clearance and I figured what the hell.

First impression, Shotblast:

Man, it sure looks cool (I got the blue model) but for it's size and cool factor, it's punch is a little disappointing. It's a true shotgun, suited mostly for close range. What miffs me the most is the lack of a trigger in general, whatever happened to pressurizing the gun then firing? This seems to be the case all over the board on most of the new ones.

First impression, Rattler:

Much smaller than the Shotblast, but it outranges it and packs more pressure behind the stream than the alleged bigger and badder gun of the same line. Still suffers from the "why don't I have a trigger, whatever happened to the pump design?" factor that all 2009-2010 Nerf Soakers have, but, what can ya do. This one is definitely the winner between the two, and I believe it costs less.

I'm still wondering what exactly happened to the design of the Super Soaker, it seems the only ones that you pump and build up air pressure on anymore are the Transformers and Iron Man themed guns. And I couldn't find either of those in the store today. The Rattler seems to pack the same sort of punch and range of a similarly sized Soaker of years gone by, and the ability to rapid fire it just the same as the Shotblast is cool, but maybe it's just my nostalgic mentality for the days of the old ones.

In my day, those things had enough pressure and oomph behind them to put an eye out. And that's the way we liked it!

In all, Shotblast...meh, Rattler... surprisingly cool.

This has been a random "stfu Void you're too old for this shit anyway" thread.

[Sir Woodrow]

My Brother and I had the original Super Soaker, it was fun to fill with Vinegar.

[Phosphor Glow]

I saw the topic title and instantly knew it was gonna be you.

In any case, that sucks that they don't have triggers anymore. If it's to make them less like real guns or whatever...that's stupid. Let the kids have their fun.

[Alucard]

I just found out they actually reissued the original model two years ago or so, I'm gonna have to get on that.

[Phosphor Glow]

I haven't had one since like the early 90's, when they were all neon yellow and orange and green n' stuff. But I had a whole lot of fun with that thing.

[Alucard]

And now further researching it, it seems that the "Water Warriors" line of water guns is as close as you can get to the gun styles of yesteryear, mostly because the original Super Soaker inventor is behind that toyline. Dang, now I'm gonna have to get one of those too.

[strykerdarksilence]

I got grounded age 8 for taking the water bottle off one and clunking my half Brother over the head with it when he was being a prat during a water fight.

Happy days.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Things that look like guns are AWESOME.

[Corporate H]

I've been trying to start up a Super Soaker battle league before the summer is up. I remember having a couple with laser pointers attached to them. The red light was more like a smaller flash light and it would only trigger when you yourself pulled the trigger, but it was still a cool effect especially when it got darker out.

[Alucard]

Jul 19, 2010 19:13:53 GMT -5 Corporate H said:

I've been trying to start up a Super Soaker battle league before the summer is up. I remember having a couple with laser pointers attached to them. The red light was more like a smaller flash light and it would only trigger when you yourself pulled the trigger, but it was still a cool effect especially when it got darker out.

Storm water guns? If so, I had one of them. It was yellow/purple and illuminated the stream of water/one area of the barrel in red. They also had some that lit up blue and green if I recall correctly. Pretty cool idea, made it look like laser battles and all.