Super Soaker Central

i just took a trip to my local toys'R'us all they had was a sizzlin cool water pistol for 99 cents my local canadian tire had none my local london drugs had a vindicator for 15 bucks wich i'm buying later if it's still there i was just in california got back yesterday and it was 111 degrees and it's warm all year round there i checked for targets two toys'R'us and some other toy stores all they had were those little squirt pistols you buy at the dollar store are water guns becoming less popular every year?

While there might have been less water blasters on shelves overall this year, typically there aren't too many water blasters left on the shelves at this time of the year since most that were have now been sold. Yeah, there should still be some great soaking days before fall/winter arrives, but retailer purchasing patterns don't always quite match what consumers are hoping for.

Yep, the season for water gun sales is closer to the summer solstice than to anything else. However, I've noticed that Amazon and a few other places have some clearance sales on select water guns in the fall.

yeah but even in califonia there was no water guns and it's warm all year there

It still tends to be a seasonal thing. Manufacturers may build batches of water guns from spring to summer and turn to something else later on. When the stock is depleted, they're no longer resupplied. They won't produce water guns just for one state, and there may not be enough warehouse space to hold enough water guns throughout the year.

That's all speculation, of course. Send them an email if you want the official word.

yeah i know it just makes me mad i mean me and all my friends have water gun fights in the snow we build forts and every thing

In England it's impossible to get a water blaster in autumn, and difficult even in late summer. It is annoying. But I'm very surprised it's the same somewhere like California. Retailers do need hitting with a clue-by-four I reckon.

the only guns i found in california where knock-offs.

Here in the Netherlands it is not common anymore to see decent water guns for sale in toy shops. The only Super Soaker available here is the Bottle shot, and it is sold out almost everywhere. I haven't seen any other A-brands like Water Warriors.

Some shops have no water blasters at all, and others only have cheap chinese fakes, mostly CPS lookalikes without CPS technology. It's really sad...

I get my guns from Marktplaats.nl, a Dutch ebay-ish site.