Would you pay $180 for a USB-C water blaster that blasts a whole shot glass filled with liquid each time you pull the set off? That’s been Spyra’s pitch for the previous six years, however at present it’s revealing a brand new toy that prices (and weighs) lower than a 3rd of its earlier flagship merchandise.
The brand new SpyraGo will value simply $54 when it arrives on March twenty sixth, a worth lastly low sufficient to tempt me! It’s 5 inches shorter, between one and two inches slimmer, and importantly weighs simply three kilos totally loaded. (The SpyraThree weighs almost 9 kilos at full capability.)
The catch, sadly, is it’s additionally far much less highly effective: as an alternative of firing shot-glass-sized 30 milliliter water “bullets,” the brand new SpyraGo will blast simply 6 milliliters every time you pull the set off. You solely get about half the utmost vary, and there’s no ‘cost as much as hearth an even bigger blast’ characteristic. This one’s aimed toward youthful of us, so I assume that each one is smart.
On the plus aspect, now you can fill it with a water bottle (no extra needing a pool or bucket!) and get 75 pictures earlier than reloading, triple that of earlier blasters. It may possibly hearth its single pictures twice as quick. And whereas there’s no extra display screen, you do get a brand new window to test your water tank.
Spyra was gracious sufficient to offer us with a full record of comparability specs, which I’ve distilled to create this chart:
Like I mentioned once I examined the SpyraTwo and handbook SpyraLX a pair years in the past, water blasters have been caught in a rut for many years, as Hasbro has largely uncared for the once-dominant Tremendous Soaker model. And whereas many Chinese language firms have sprung up with clones, none of them (not even Xiaomi with its Spyra-like Pulse Water Gun) have managed to match Spyra.
I don’t know if Spyra will ever fairly carry again the highly effective water blaster bliss of the Tremendous Soaker CPS and XPS days, however right here’s hoping.