AquaPod The Original Rocket Bottle Launcher Kit - Launches Soda Bottles 100 Ft Up in The Air - Fun Educational STEM Gift - Great Science Toy & Outdoor Activity for Family - Holiday Xmas Gift for Kids

So much fun for boys age 4 to 12. Highly recommended super easy to use. All you do is fill a bottle with water place it on the unit, attach a bicycle pump and then pull the string. Water bottle goes super high. Place a glow stick inside the water bottle for nighttime fun.

Big fun for youngster BUT safety 1st! Can launch those 2 litres very high if you pickup some add-on fins.

Fun toy. Works well. But you do need an air pump like a bike tire air pump to pressurize the chamber. I would say it’s a toy that needs adult supervision at all times but fun for the entire family.

I got this for my granddaughter and I to play with in my front yard. A large open area is recommended, as the two-liter soda bottle rockets can travel high and far, but such an area is not readily available in our situation, so it's the front yard for us. This launcher is a bit expensive compared to some others, but it's the best one I could find for our purpose. With this launcher, you don't need fins on the rocket to launch it, and the rocket climbs impressively high without fins. After a few launches the rocket invariably lands in an unreachable and hidden position in a large bush. Replacing only the lost soda bottle is much cheaper than replacing a lost soda bottle and a lost set of fins. Also with this launcher you have complete control over when the rocket launches, with a gentle pull on the cord.

This was for my granddaughter's birthday, and she and her dad LOVE it. They have a large backyard for shooting it up into the air. You need to have a hand bicycle pump, which they did. They actually had two and found one pump worked far better than the other, as one kept slipping off as it was being pumped up (the fault of the pump, not the toy). I had an empty, clean 2-Liter bottle packaged with the gift, along with a brand new set of tennis balls. It is great fun putting items on top of the bottle and launching the two items together. The balls soar into the sky and are more fun to chase and retrieve than the bottle itself. But, we found that smaller balls, like their racket ball, worked better. They also had a small glow-in-the-dark ball that was lots of fun at dusk. She even launched some small, cute, rubbery toy animals atop the bottle and they really flew! But, I will say that balls are best, as when they land on a roof, they roll off, while the toys just sit up there! We did follow the suggestion of putting olive oil around the bottle opening to make it slip on quickly and tightly. We also discovered it was far faster having TWO 2-Liter bottles so granddaughter would be filling one while dad retrieved the other (or vice versa). We also marked on the bottles the water level needed so that the granddaugher (age 9) could fill the 1/3 level more quickly on her own. We used this on the ground with the anchor hooks provided and had no problem.

The whole family loves to launch this thing. Just be sure to do it far away from trees! took a while to get the parachute off the tree limb!

After borrowing a bottle rocket launcher from a friend, the style with tripod or bipod legs you stick in the ground, I determined not to purchase one of those because it's a royal pain to use. When I found the Aquapod at Amazon I ordered it with high hopes. We used it today and launched a bottle rocket about 25 times and had no problem with this launcher. It is excellent. Stable, easy to use and reliable. I used a bicycle floor pump with a pressure gauge, which I believe is quite accurate. It easily handled the recommended 60 psi, and the emergency pressure release unit kicked in a couple of times when I tried to put a little extra in. So it is safe as well. at 40 - 60 psi it sent the rockets upwards of 100 feet or more. I really like this unit and would not buy any other type of launcher. At $25 to $35 it is priced appropriately, and I believe worth the cost. If you want a bottle rocket launcher, buy this one.

Bought this for the boys for Christmas and left it in the box waiting till warmer weather to use it. We were excited to test it out, but after multiple attempts to pressure it up, found that although the pressure relief valve was made out of brass in the handle, it was screwed into super cheap plastic that was cracked, rendering the product completely unusable. I used some epoxy/resin and tried to plug and repair it, but after two launches it was broken again and due to the no returns after 30 days of purchase policy, $40 went down the drain. Super disappointed and wouldn’t recommend ordering, especially if you intend on waiting to use it longer than 30 days.