SpikeOtacon
May 29, 2004, 07:35 PM
(note: Since I don't post too much here as of late, I thought I'd post one of my recent articles that I got to do. Yay.)
(Double Note: This is now the offical uncenored 'PSOW' edition, seeing as the guy just called and said for me to drop this project. -__-;)
Product: WATERBALL SL175
Review:
I knew this thing was trouble the second I saw it's box. The box claimed that it had the space-age technology to make water balls and fling them with high velocity. Yeah? So can I. It's called flinging the tap water that comes from the house out front. That works too. It's looks weren't promising either. It looked like an amoba that someone enlarged and stepped on. I got it, came home, and tried to remove it from the box. The box was a fiesty little bastard, and it wouldn't let the scissors of life cut the plastic restraints. I tried in vien only to come to no success. At last, I reached for my pocket knife and started cutting. It wasn't working, until I realized that if I put the blade underneith and pushed like a roadside jack, I could cut through. The first one came out, but the second one came back for revenge, making the knife twist backwards. I suffered a wound, seen here:
http://img14.photobucket.com/albums/v43/KamakaziSpike/Wound1.jpg
After cleaning it and putting a band-aid on it, I got back to work. (not after tearing the box to shreads, of course.) The filling mechenism is simple. Just pull the rubber cap off and squirt water down the slope into the tank. The tank has a meter to tell you how many balls (out of 175 total) of water you have left. How cute. I might add that it is fairly unaccurate, as I got through about 70 or so before I ran dry. Then you pump it up with the pump on the top. I might add here that this piece of shit is not ergonomicaly designed, and fairly uncomfortable with a hole in my hand. The ball of water is then fired by you pulling ALL THE WAY BACK on the lever. It then shoots a water ball about 3 feet out.
3 feet.
3 fucking feet.
I have water guns from BURGER KING that shoot farther than that.
I will also add that the ball of water is about the thickness of one dime. This isn't even enough to soak a damn fly. I messed around with it for a while, running and shooting, shooting up, shooting down, ect... After testing it's versatility I saw that no matter how much I pumped, it wasn't going to shoot any further. Tactics with this thing include "try to bum-rush opponent with P.O.S in hand","Get soaked trying to fire the damn thing.", and "Throw the gun in frustration, get hose." I immidiatly went inside and drained it of all it's water. It is now being used as a doorstop.
Score: 2 out of 10.
Why?: Horrible design, terrible use, and a box that knew I was going to hate the product it carried.
http://img14.photobucket.com/albums/v43/KamakaziSpike/Waterball-SL175.jpg
(Above: The WATERBALL SL175, after being used and is now currently a doorstop.)
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(Double Note: This is now the offical uncenored 'PSOW' edition, seeing as the guy just called and said for me to drop this project. -__-;)
Product: WATERBALL SL175
Review:
I knew this thing was trouble the second I saw it's box. The box claimed that it had the space-age technology to make water balls and fling them with high velocity. Yeah? So can I. It's called flinging the tap water that comes from the house out front. That works too. It's looks weren't promising either. It looked like an amoba that someone enlarged and stepped on. I got it, came home, and tried to remove it from the box. The box was a fiesty little bastard, and it wouldn't let the scissors of life cut the plastic restraints. I tried in vien only to come to no success. At last, I reached for my pocket knife and started cutting. It wasn't working, until I realized that if I put the blade underneith and pushed like a roadside jack, I could cut through. The first one came out, but the second one came back for revenge, making the knife twist backwards. I suffered a wound, seen here:
http://img14.photobucket.com/albums/v43/KamakaziSpike/Wound1.jpg
After cleaning it and putting a band-aid on it, I got back to work. (not after tearing the box to shreads, of course.) The filling mechenism is simple. Just pull the rubber cap off and squirt water down the slope into the tank. The tank has a meter to tell you how many balls (out of 175 total) of water you have left. How cute. I might add that it is fairly unaccurate, as I got through about 70 or so before I ran dry. Then you pump it up with the pump on the top. I might add here that this piece of shit is not ergonomicaly designed, and fairly uncomfortable with a hole in my hand. The ball of water is then fired by you pulling ALL THE WAY BACK on the lever. It then shoots a water ball about 3 feet out.
3 feet.
3 fucking feet.
I have water guns from BURGER KING that shoot farther than that.
I will also add that the ball of water is about the thickness of one dime. This isn't even enough to soak a damn fly. I messed around with it for a while, running and shooting, shooting up, shooting down, ect... After testing it's versatility I saw that no matter how much I pumped, it wasn't going to shoot any further. Tactics with this thing include "try to bum-rush opponent with P.O.S in hand","Get soaked trying to fire the damn thing.", and "Throw the gun in frustration, get hose." I immidiatly went inside and drained it of all it's water. It is now being used as a doorstop.
Score: 2 out of 10.
Why?: Horrible design, terrible use, and a box that knew I was going to hate the product it carried.
http://img14.photobucket.com/albums/v43/KamakaziSpike/Waterball-SL175.jpg
(Above: The WATERBALL SL175, after being used and is now currently a doorstop.)
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