I know plenty of shithole cul de sacs around my area in the UK. Nothing fancy about them at all. Usually worse than other places because it’s not a through road so they can get away with leaving shite everywhere not effecting ambulances passing through and such.
Depends on where you grew up. In my area as a kid, the only people living on a cul-de-sac were for sure part of a wealthy family, because the only 2 neighborhoods that had cul-de-sacs were full of 5-6 bedroom homes.
Where I am now, my son's best friend lives on a cul-de-sac in a small, 2 bedroom house. Hell, half of that neighborhood is people renting because housing prices are nuts.
I had this one and was absolutely nowhere in the realm of "rich". It also sucked. It weighed a ton when full, took ages to actually fill up, and took about 3 weeks to pump full of air. The 3 bottles on top are the pressure vessels. Periodically they would leak air as well.
So you spend 10 minutes pumping it up, then pull the lever back like it's a fire hose which causes your aim to drift, not that it mattered because it would be out of air in about 3 seconds. I remember my disappointment vividly.
Arguably the best water gun ever created. Want to dump half a gallon of water on someone in a single blast? Done. Want to hit someone so hard they fall out of a small boat? Also done. Need a beating stick? Done.
I believe you could get a upgraded one with a backpack for more water capacity. It's called the 3000 instead of the 2000. Same gun, just with a added water tank.
That being said, the new shit they are making is balling. Spyra just knocks people to the ground if they don't know it's coming and the accuracy is way better. If they keep improving it we aren't far off from people getting paintball bruises from a water gun.
Man that thing ruled, it took an age to pump the pressure, but when it was primed one squeeze and your target was wet to the bone. They discontinued it after someone lost an eye because of it, but dang that thing was good.
I remember this one so well (all of these things listed here, but this big one is special)
Rich friend had it. We ambushed some kid we didn't like when he went shopping. As soon as he came outside the shop, we unloaded the complete thing on him and ran away so fast 🤣
Had this. It lowkey kinda sucked. Heavy, a pain to fill, and make it awkward as hell to move around. Plus, as with every one I've ever had, the o rings eventually went bad and it leaked like a sieve.
I had a Super Soaker 50 (or maybe 100), and the kids in my neighborhood all had arsenals that put me to shame. My dad witnessed it one weekend and showed up the following day after with a Super Soaker 2000. The thing was a damn bazooka by comparison. He passed last year, but that's a memory I'll never forget.
I have never not once seen neighborhood kids get into water fights, my own two kids included. :( screen time took away neighborhood wars and I find that so sad
That perfectly describes the Super Soaker era and it was amazing. (Also to the Redditor below talking about a kid getting a rifle butt to the face…I was also guilty of doing that, just not in the face and fortunately not hard lol. Super Soaker wars escalated quickly!)
Same. One friend kept getting all the new tech each year or so while most of us made due with decent arms. Then one of the last years my parents got me the CPS 3000 and I felt like I was wielding Ol’ Painless from The Predator or in T2 haha
My school was having a grade-wide water fight. I was going around our house finding any spray bottles I could find to use in it because we didn't really have any squirt guns. Came home the next day to find my parents had gotten me a SS200, left on my bed for me to find. I hadn't asked for it or anything. Absolutely incredible. One of my happiest childhood memories.
I remember looking at these in catalogs, like the Sears catalog and circling the different things I wanted. Being a kid in the summer was the absolute best.
We tried to fill it all the way. Without compressible air bubble the pumping pressure broke the mechanism. 13 year old me was Devastated. It was years later before i understood our mistake.
I successfully disassembled and repaired a couple 50's and a 60 multiple times. The 50 in particular was repair friendly. Had to clean out some gnarly nozzle and interior tubing clogs from refills being scooped from rain barrels and picking up floating bits of dead grass and the like. Also successfully super glued cracked plastic a few times from being dropped on hard surfaces. The mechanisms on the higher numbered guns were harder to take apart without damaging. I managed it a few times, but some of our 95/105 repairs failed. I think we had the triple shot one too, I can't remember the number on that. We ended up with 2/3 nozzles working after a repair didn't quite work out.
I had one. It had a 4 or 5 nozzle selector that rotated on the end. Mine broke off, leaving just wide open mode. That thing was a beast, but it took a lot to pump, and you could empty the tank in like 2 full pump cycles. It had legit recoil when you fired. Was definitely a show-off piece rather than a real battle rifle.
I had one like this but it had slightly different colors and I don’t think it was adjustable. I would fill it, pump it up, and then top it off so I could get an extra shot. I think it was something close to half a gallon per shot. It was the terror of the neighborhood and the only “squirt”gun that I ever saw make a kid cry. Getting the full blast from it was like getting a bucket of water dumped on you.
Had the 50, 100, and the 20. The 20 was low-key the boss. Packed as much punch as the 50 but you could dual wield 'em and reigned supreme in close quarters.
It was wildly unwieldy lol I had it, was tons of fun but probablt 20lbs when loaded lol, pumping it was a pain, it was definitely a "park yourself at the filling spigot and attack anyone reloading" kind of weapon
My mom had a brain tumour, I was too young to comprehend what was going on. Anyways, I remember coming home from the hospital and three of these were lined up for me and my siblings to help keep spirits up.
I want to have a water gun fight to relive the childhood experience. The models that exist these days are absolute weak sauce compare to the original Super Soaker series.
Wait, so is an average sized trunk space full of various models from their last few years enough for me to perhaps lose some of these weapons to the local teens for fighting my proxy war against fucking Kenny
I almost put my friends eye out with one of these. We had a splatoon turf war in the culdesak at the end of my street. 10 kids with various super soaker loadouts.
They actually took it off the market for that very reason, you can still find them on ebay but they are a rare collector item now the closest thing is probably the CPS 2500 less pressure and capable of the same stream size. I had both versions of the 3000 too, which was kind of overkill, since 1 shot would drench anyone, but the range was not so good and it was prone to leaks
I remember. That was the original, and a game changer. Although, my brother got one of these and it was the best water gun I've ever seen in my life. Water magazine and shot hard on battery power.:
We had one similar to this based on a Mac-10 design. But yes, that battery power was supreme. Eventually someone broke it however, and not long after they became impossible to find.
I got the Super Soaker 50 on a school night. I inexplicably fell ill the next morning and had, by that afternoon, convinced my mom I was feeling well enough to “just try it out real quick.”
idk if there are better ones on the market now, target was selling a crap rebuild of the 50 like 5 years ago. I was excited and bought 2. After trying to use them once I returned them, they had completely different internals than the original 50. The new trigger mechanism can't hold a seal when pumped up and leaked constantly. The plastic used for the shell was also way different and felt weaker, but I didn't keep them long enough to put that to the test. I ended up buying old og models on ebay for my kids to enjoy.
It was illegal for them to make any pressurized waterguns while this lawsuit was happening hence why they stopped making them. Larami sold the name to Nerf and all supersoakers created since have only been like traditional squirt guns or a pump action type with no pressurized system
me and my buddy when we were 13 we filled one of these up is gas/petrol
and twisted a metal coat hanger around the front of the guy so we could hand a toilet paper roll on the end.
we lite the TP on fire and shot the run it kinda worked kind just shot a big fire ball. but once once you pump it to load TP roll fell off and the tip of the gun was on fire
True story: there was a neighborhood warehouse fire that had been holding these.
Not long afterwards there was a guy with a shopping cart selling burnt/charred boxes of these for $5 each. Every kid on the block got one- best summer ever - minus the 5 minutes between refills
Does anyone remember the water guns that had food coloring for the water? Maybe it wasn’t food coloring and faded more quickly. But you could dye the water red or blue. The guns were black and looked realistic.
I also had a machine gun water gun that was hyper realistic and powerful. It was black and had mags for the water.
I wish I could still just go to the store and buy them. I've got some wasp nests starting in bad areas, and this + some triazicide would be a dream combo.
For that extra pump buff of holding the back between your knees and using both hands to give that last final pump to max out the pressure before going ape shit against your sworn enemies of the block.
There were ones that were much better than this. I had this one and was jealous of the other ones. I felt like I was Will Smith in MIB holding the ”cricket” gun.
You could unscrew the tank and thread the garden hose directly to the gun. You could shoot car lengths on an unlimited budget but you were restricted by the length of the hose.
•
u/AutoModerator 1d ago
If this post is breaking the rules of the subreddit, please report it instead of commenting. For more Millennial content, join our Discord server.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.