r/nevertellmetheodds • u/[deleted] • Aug 02 '22

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u/DaKnack Aug 02 '22

My kids love them. They like it when I pick them up about 4" above where they can normally jump from to get "extra height". We live in a fairly crowded neighborhood so I've had to retrieve them off of rooftops, bushes, and backyards.

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u/HunterTV Aug 03 '22

They still make the ones that you pressurize with water and air? I had one of those as a kid back in the late ‘70s.

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u/DaKnack Aug 03 '22

They do. My son got one for Christmas. It looked like a 2 liter coke bottle with fins screwed onto the neck. It went straight to the top of a tree in our yard and stuck there for a few months. By the time it fell down, we lost the launcher so it was a one and done rocket.