best backpacks for kids 2011
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I am looking for a new backpack for the 2011-2012 school year. Where is a good place to get cute teem backpacks for girls?
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What is the best water gun currently on the market?
Resh
During my childhood, my father bought a super soaker 2500 for me as a gift. Time has gone by and the gun has met its end. I checked for something the same size, only to find that everything of similar size and firepower has been taken off the common market and discontinued. All water guns like that are now practically collectibles. My question is, what is the most similar water gun (size, water output, and water capacity) that hasn't been discontinued and I would be able to find at a local Wal-Mart or Target? Also, if you own the water gun you're suggesting, how satisfied at you with it?
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Unfortunately, the CPS technology that made the 2500 and other Super Soakers of the past so good has been abandoned by Hasbro/Nerf/Super Soaker; in fact, all of the current Super Soakers are either piston powered (you push a pump handle forward and back, and the amount of water displaced by that motion shoots out in a short stream) or electronic (a motor squeezes a rubber tube not unlike the way your esophagus squeezes your food and drink towards your stomach, generating a stream weaker than an old man's pee).
There are no more air-pressurized Super Soakers (the breakthrough technology that defined Super Soakers--you'd pump air into the water reservoir or into a separate pressure chamber, and pulling the trigger would release that pressure and water out of the blaster), and there are no more CPS Super Soakers (where water is pumped into a rubber bladder, and pressing the trigger would release that pressure, like a balloon deflating).
The last CPS-powered soaker was the Hydro Cannon from 2011, and the last air-pressurized Super Soaker was the Point Break, a humble pistol from the same time period. The Hydro Cannon fetches prices upwards of $40 on eBay, while the Point Break can still be found as old stock in some stores or online for roughly around its original retail price of $9.
Not only has Super Soaker abandoned CPS technology, but they have the patent on it and have successfully sued to prevent other companies from using similar technology in their water toys. So any non-Super Soakers you'll find in the stores are either piston-powered, electronic, or air pressurized.
Right now the only water gun currently on store shelves that bears any resemblance to the good old Soakers of yore would be the Water Warriors Drench N Blast (available at Target), an air pressurized water blaster made by Buzz Bee, Nerf/Super Soaker's most prominent competitor (and the company that was sued by Hasbro/Nerf/Super Soaker to stop them from making CPS-like guns). It claims ranges of 40 feet (most current Super Soakers only claim 25), and holds two liters of water in its reservoir (Super Soaker offers a 3-liter backpack as part of its "clip system" line of Soakers; other than that, their largest capacity "clip" is a 1.1-liter drum). It has two nozzles--a regular stream and a thicker "heavy drench" stream. Its one big drawback seems to be that it's a reservoir-pressurized blaster (rather than having a separate pressure tank), which means that with its roomy reservoir one has to pump a lot of times (100 pumps, albeit short, easy pumps) to give the blaster the pressure it needs to reach its full capabilities.
Aside from the Drench N Blast, the Water Warriors Python 2, also air pressurized, appears to be decent, a slightly more compact blaster for those who might not want to haul a fully filled 9-pound Drench N Blast.
That's not to say that the current Super Soakers are slouches when it comes to water fights--they may have short streams because they're piston powered, but the force at which they shoot out can be decently hard, depending on how hard one pulls on the pump. Their lower water output and clip-based system means that not only do they last longer in battle before running out of water, but refilling is also just a matter of yanking out the old clip and putting in a new clip that was filled earlier. So even if you're armed with a vintage CPS 2500, if you're facing down a handful of kids with modern Super Soakers, you'll still get drenched, especially once you're out of water (which will happen once you fire off half a dozen shots from that 2500). The new Super Soakers are less impressive when it comes to pressure, stream size and shot length, but they still get the job done. My personal favorite among the current line is the Arctic Shock, which, even without putting ice cubes in its tank, is a blaster that's well-balanced in its capabilities.
In short:
- Water Warriors Drench N Blast ($20 at Target) - most like the old Soakers, but requires a ridiculous amount of pumping
- Water Warriors Python 2 ($15 at Target) - a more compact, less powerful version
- Super Soaker Arctic Shock ($20 at Target--actually, currently on sale for $16) - a piston powered Soaker but with good stock capacity and a good balance of shooting characteristics--though it doesn't hold a candle to the Super Soakers we remember.
And of course, if you're willing to spend a little more, you can always pick up an old Soaker on eBay. A CPS 1000 or 1200 can probably be had for about $40-$50; if you want to relive your childhood with a CPS 2500 again, it might set you back $90-$150; and if you want the biggest baddest Super Soaker ever (the CPS 2000 Mark 1), you'll have to pony up $600. But it's the price you pay to scare the neighborhood and show the kids what a "real" Super Soaker can do. ;)
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