The new water blasters are for hobbyists and warriors, not for the faint of heart. They are made of high-grade polymer plastics and metal parts and there will be a huge line of them. Prices are higher than usual, about $50-$60 for their primaries. (Separate-chamber air pressure and CPS blasters.) So far, they've shown a few CPS's with 1 liter PC's and 15-20x nozzles. Lots of pumping is required, but they are looking at methods involving high pressure air to alleviate the issue. We could be looking at Constant Air Pressure (CAP) tech being the norm quite soon!Today, we recognize some of the big changes the world is going through, and how these changes have had a positive impact on recreation in all walks of life. As I look to areas outside of water sports, I see one example that stands out: paintball. Paintball began humbly by farmers who tagged each other using markers that were typically used to mark trees and territories, and now is huge; multi-million dollar even. However, I have likewise observed how water warfare has also grown over time, but unfortunately has not had the same turn of fate as paintball has had. After some intensive research on water blaster history as well as reading into some information online, I've read about water warfare's humble beginnings grown from being water balloon wars, squirt gun games, and just plain summer fun, to a full fledged war game developed and cultivated by the hard work of many people from the first inventor of the air pressure water blaster to modern water gun technology builders online, but despite this, it is still not even considered a sport by most people. It is with great honor that I may do my part to add to this growing sport; to join and promote water warfare as we cultivate our mission to the consumer, as well as lending a helping hand to the water warfare community to bring the sport to the U.S. and to the rest of the world.
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I've had some trouble earlier getting this particular link to work. The source keeps redirecting to some random Youtube video, though at one point I've managed to stop the page from redirecting. (You have to hit the stop button soon enough.) Let me know if you can get to it.
Interesting, I wonder how this will affect things for Hasbro and BBT, if it does at all. Not sure how they plan to get through to the market and become profitable though seeing how water blasters aren't the kind of thing that sells so big. Then again, this could spark another high-end blaster era similar to what Larami did in the old days. We'll have to see.
Edit: Happy April Fools'. I completely forgot about this topic and to get back to it, haha, but I'll move it to the humor forum.
Apparently this is very similar to my previous April 1st joke, something about a new way of marketing/producing blasters.