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

We used these for our middle school science class. We got a total of 95 launches out of each launcher with no issues. They still seem fine and we plan in using them next year. The ground stake got deformed after many launches so you might want to grab a few extras. We found that adding vasoline to the o-ring every 4-5 launches helped keep them intact. Overall very happy.

It gets really hot in Arizona and I love holding onto this bottle, rocket launcher with my own hands and being sprayed with the water as it shoots very high. My family loves running around the yard trying to catch the bottle as it comes tumbling down from the sky. Always a hit at a party! We’ve been using them for years and it’s amazing how rugged they are! Highly recommended.

This thing is so much fun. Especially when you combine it with a portable tire inflator so that you can dial in the perfect PSI every time.But this is the second one I’ve purchased because the first one broke. The lever that holds the bottle onto while the bottle is pressurized crack in half and was no longer able to hold the rocket in place while it got up to pressure.So the launch mechanism could use a bit more reinforcement.It would also be nice if the legs were adjustable so that you could adjust the angle of the bottle to account for wind. I’ve launched a lot of bottles into neighbors yards because it’s hard to adjust the angle and even if you do dial in the angle perfectly it can be changed when you pull the top to launch the rocket.I would love a more advanced version with a beefed up and heavier base, better release mechanism, and a way to make adjustments to the angle of the rocket.

Muy divertido, cumplió con lo esperado.

Best part was making kids figure out the best ratio of water to air in the bottle and how much to pump the air up. They figured it out quickly. Adults took a turn too.

This would have been season 6 for our Aquapod. I purchased it in 2015 and we've launched it hundreds of times each year. We've definitely surpassed 1000 launches and I wouldn't be surprised if we have over 2000 launches on this bad boy.But alas, all good things come to an end and sadly, this year its plastic frame succumbed to fatigue as can be seen in the accompanying photo. It's understandably the weak spot. I see other reviews where people are timidly pumping it up to 40 psi, etc. As Brian Wilson famously said once, "Not my boys!" We pump it until the pressure relief valve kicks in. Max pressure! Is a design revision in order? Maybe. Maybe the mold could be augmented along the edge where ours eventually cracked.But we extracted full value and then some from the Aquapod. As a father, I've been to every one of my 6 kids' elementary school classes demonstrating Newton's Laws with the Aquapod. For the older classes, I made up an experimental project where we varied the volume of water in the bottle and the pressure and estimate height with a few kids spotting the angle when the bottles reached apogee. You could spend a solid week teaching with the Aquapod.Without fail, when we break out the Aquapod a crowd gathers. It doesn't matter the age, the Aquapod sucks people in like flies to excrement. My kids got such a kick out of our 85 yo retired engineer neighbor acting like he was 12 playing with this thing.Needless to say, I'm writing this review because I came back to buy it again. Can't wait for the new one to arrive in the mail!

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.

My kids love this product! But unfortunately it did not come with the extra o rings in the box. It lasts maybe 20 launches before the o rings starts to deteriate. I would give more stars but now I have something that I cannot use now due to having no more o rings.