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The Controversial Rise & Fall of Entertech: The Banned Line of Water Guns
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2018
- On this episode we cover the quick rise and controversial fall of Entertech.
Creating realistic water guns in the mid-eighties they were a big hit with kids but government regulation pushed them away from what they were known for and quickly discontinued in a few short years.
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I remember when Toys r us literally had an entire aisle devoted to "weapons".
I remember when Toys R Us
Yeeahh I member!
OH! Member feeling that the sensation of life added new experiences to your existence that enriched your happiness of being alive! Instead of now only getting hollow glimmers of fulfillment that only add to a catalogue of memories which only remind you that the past is just a series of tenuously recorded episodes between mundane and depressing events that will ultimately conclude in the meaningless infinite oblivion of your eventual death!
Mine did till the day it closed
Those were the days.
Remember the Model section at Walmart next to the toy section. I always found myself hanging out there checking out the WW2 plane models.
- "Ain't no water in this gun"
- "Oh yeah, what's in it then?"
- "PISS!"
Best moment of that movie :D
@Flat Bastard Engineering Channel The Boy Who Could Fly
While not Entertech, it is watergun related, when I was a freshman High Shool, one Halloween I decided while I didn't want to do the usual egging and TPing people, I also didn't want to be a victim. So for that day I got myself a supersoaker, and filled the reservoir with brake fluid. Not something you want a facefull of, and if anyone of the older kids were driving around in their "eggmobiles" they were in store for a lovely two tone paint job if they messed with me. Hat tip to the Getting Even series of books by George Hayduke for inspiring that idea.
JARAAATE
Wow thanks for reminding me of one of my favorite movies scenes as a kid .
fred savage < you savage ...
I was poor so when you found that tree branch that was shaped like a gun the whole neighborhood was jealous.
Especially a large tree branch that shaped like a rifle Just right
I too was poor but I used my wits. Dove in trashbins for cardboard and made a living arming the neigborhood with cardboard guns
Good for you. I had a few of those.
We used to use coat hangers upside down as rifles. Good times :(
We threw rocks at each other.
5:25 30 years later and everyone wants neon vomit skins for their guns in every popular fps
Am gunsmith, fad is not just digital guns. Duracoat, Cerakote and Gunkote all make bright colors, and people have adapted the classic camo stencil techniques for drab colors to make all kinds of stuff, or employ actual artists with airbrushes. I know a guy who has his smith airbrush Aloha Shirt patterns on his guns.
What can i say? zoomers?
@@enjoyingthecrisis5931
BOOGALOO GUN
BOOGALOO GUN
funny how that works
@@enjoyingthecrisis5931 boogaloo boys sounds like lmao
makes me wanna hijack a radio station so my band can get some air play.
The Lone Rangers 🤘🏼😎🤘🏼
Nice reference
Just remember to wipe your ass with your record contract.
@@nestordiaz2933 but rangers is plural. How can they be "lone" if there are three of you?
You Airhead you! .... lol
"Kids didn't want guns that looked like neon vomit"
Have you seen how much today's CS:GO Weapon skins sell for?
Different generation of kids, bra.
Today’s kids can’t even decide how many genders there are, doesn’t surprise me they will pay for digital BS
@@BamaPewPew you just paid for digital BS; dumb ass.
@@CooKiesHouseCannabisCo how did he just pay for digital crap? If you mean service of access to internet or tv, thats a whole diff thing.
Rainbow/Hype kida
True story: When I held the Entertech as a kid, I basically was Rambo.
crushingalldeceivers I was John Matrix
Yeppers
Angel of Verdun you’re too you g for this conversation, lmao
@VA BEAR damn right you believe me, you would have been amazed to see me running through the forest with Entertech in hand and my immitation Rambo survival knife on my side. Haha
I had one, and it leaked like hell.
I had a realistic .45 Beretta squirt gun when I was in High school. I kept in my pocket when I was in school to squirt the other kids.
One time some of my friends and I were walking on the sidewalk by the cafeteria, I was riding my bike slowly along side the other kids when someone drove up beside us, I looked at them and the guy in the passenger seat lifted up some kind of gun, an Uzi I think. Not to be made a fool of, I pulled out my squirt gun thinking I was all bad.
They looked shocked, then drove away.
I always wondered if that was a real firearm in that car, or another squirt gun.
That squirt gun might have saved your life. Lmao
Same thing happened to me but with penises.
DDDSSDDDSSDDDSS hahaha
@@DDDSSDDDSSDDDSS I smell a copypasta penis story..
@TheOtherWhiteBread0 Seems legit except for the bit they already weren't sure about.
That Entertech commercial is trapped in my brain forever. "The Look. The Feel. The Sound; So Real. ENTERTECH!!" I've forgotten so much in my life, yet that still haunts me. (In fact, my brain seems to be comprised of mostly commercial jingles these days. Curse you, Saturday Morning Cartoons!)
Same here bro
I don't particularly care for cinnamon toast, but that damn "Feelin' Like Cinnamon Toast CRUNCH!" song is still stuck in my damn head lol.
Saturday morning cartoons are the glue that kept our generation together.
Shame no other generation is going to get that bond.
The last of the golden years... I hanker for a hunk of. A slab or slice or chunk of. I hanker for a hunk of cheese!
I was put under hypnosis once and when I woke up I was told I kept repeating those lines during the entire session
Dear lord, I remember walking into the toy aisle of K-Mart looking like Punisher walking into his armory.
I remember going to toys r us when I was like 5 years old and buying a realistic looking double barrel shotgun. It was made of wood, with full metal barrel, cocking hammers, trigger and breach. No orange tip; just brown and black. Looked real. Different times back then...
@Doug Landrum Haha thats very similar to what i went through. All the neighborhood kids were playing "army" with us, as we ran around the block. Eventually we had the police called on us; I have a vague memory of a police officer threatening me, then my mom coming out of the house and yelling at the officer for making a bunch of kids terrified. I totally forgot about this memory and I will talk to my mom the next time I see her to get some clarification lol
Karens and people without commen sense took over, it was incredibly fun and now kids wont get to enjoy doing that stuff anymore
Better times
I had one that was made out of real steel and wood. No lie. Shit was heavy. It was a hand me down so i had no idea where it originally came from 😂.
Pepperidge farm remembers
I wanted one of these guns and my mom looked at me as if I had lost my mind. I was a black male living in a rough neighborhood, she was not going to let me run around with a realistic looking water gun, or any toy gun. She was a very smart woman.
I was a white kid in the 'burbs. But, my dad was drafted to Vietnam. So, my parents wouldn't buy me any toy guns growing up. He didn't like it when I played "war". A couple of kids in the neighborhood had the guns in the video. I have the old "vintage" ones discussed in the opening of this video.
Bro you're asian stop pretending to be blacc online.
@TheOtherWhiteBread0 She is way smarter than you will ever be and I live in America.
Yeah my mom was and is the same way... she was really spooked when she caught me playing CSGO. Little does she know, I have a small collection of Nerf blasters, supersoakers, and a homemade crossbow (only shoots Nerf darts well afaik) in my closet.
@@Meta4ce people pretend to be black?
Brave topic. I had an Entertech- one of the black ones (I believe the Centerfire). Searched about every Toys R Us in Northern California before we found it. Even before the “ban” they were ridiculously hard to find.
Ironically as far back as 1980 my brother and I used to spray paint the cheap plastic water guns black and would play SWAT in the neighbourhood with other kids. They looked ridiculously real painted up. It’s a miracle we weren’t shot.
UncleDeluxe I think it depended on your market and the retailers. Tons of retailers where I grew up in Mississippi sold them. They just stayed out of stock.
Spooky Skeptic totally agree- I mean to say that’s exactly what I meant- they were sold out of them as fast as they were unpacked from boxes.
I remember spraying water pistols black and silver too, even in the 90's when I was older but making amateur movies!
I wanted that RPG model so bad I could taste it but my parents were like "Nope." Still a teensy weensy bit bitter about it.
I had a basic squirt gun that looked enough like an M1911 except for the crazy neon pink and orange splatter paint job, so I spray painted it black and used it as a hallowe’en prop. I’m honestly surprised I was never called out on it, but it was like 1993 and I’m white, so whatev I guess. I half-assed it pretty hard at that point anyway.
I also had a cap gun that looked pretty realistically like a revolver, made of metal and all. But it tarnished over time and it was clearly for smaller kids because it was too small for my not-even-all-that-big hands by the time I was double digits in age.
Man, I need that Tech-9 water gun to complete my Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China) costume!!
I had a bright neon yellow Tech-9 water gun at one point. I got on a vacation to Cape Cod one year. It featured magazines with pull out plastic caps so you could fill the magazines with water. It shot great too. Sadly, the gear used cycle the trigger rusted out after contact with ocean water.
@@JB0071051982 that sounds friggin sweet!
That's the one I had!
That my friend is the noblest of goals.
Had one still do probably it at my dads house had the 9mm too
I still have my original Entertech water gun with both water “magazines”.
Do they work? Hope the batteries didn't corrode everything. I just found my original game boy last week and it still works because thankfully didn't leave the batteries in!
I'll give you two David Robinson rookie of the year cards( mint condition) for them.
williamtate79 now THAT'S funny! Another blast from the past.
I have mine as well
In the mid 80s, I purchased the entire entertech line, and still have them today! All still work, and are in working order. I have collected toy guns since the 70s, and continue to do so today. With the regulations regarding realistic toy guns, spray paint is cheap, and when they were manufactured in neon colors, reffer to my previois statement. Criminals will find a way. I've also collected Crosman and Diasy air guns, along with other manufacturers. To say I have an obsession with toy guns is an understatement, and it doesn't stop there. Great video!
Fun fact: The Entertech Centerfire was used in Child's Play (1988) as one of the many toys in the Good Guys toyline. The prop guys painted it grey, put it in a Good Guys theme box and slapped a Good Guys sticker on it.
Fun fact!
"Mine's vintage" is one of your best lines. Well done.
my left handed finger pistol is no longer in mint condition, the tip of the "barrel" is permanently bent lol
Jommy Salami “That’s what she said...”
I almost spit out my cereal when he said that, lol.
Thank you.
Channels like yours are the reason why youtube is still great. Your videos are so amazing and entertain us in maximum. I feel like a child everytime you upload a new video cause you remind me so many childhood memories but also i learn so many details about toy collection, and toy history. You are a master in toys education! I love your easy way to explain extensively the diferences in toys As i always comment that your voice calms me so much that some times before i go to sleep i wach your videos in compilation !!! One of the best channels in you tube man. Keep rocking baby! Love from Greece.
RUclips stopped being great years ago. You should've said it had the slightest bit of sanity but that is way too fucking nice.
And in the later 80's and early 90's, I remember so many people just painted over or removed the orange tips...
Yeah. I did that when I was a kid back in that time.
So we have state legislation to blame for those terrible LJN NES games...
PS, loved that angry interjection from Megatron at not being the pinnacle of ‘80s toy gun technology!
@@JohnSmith-eq2tf Purple for putrid gameplay+blue for bad musical abominations+green for graphical farts and garlic+yellow for piss-poor lack of loyalty to source material+orange for orange you a fucking idiot+red for high stress, anger-inducing masochism=the LJN Shit Rainbow.
Laughing Joking Numbnuts
Oh Megatron...always trying to steal the spotlight lol.
Charles Hunter II NOOOOOOOOoooooo
Found one of these while digging through someone's garbage can as a kid in the mid 90s. It was like finding gold.
I remember having the Tech-9 model when I was a kid. The summer they came out it was like everyone in my neighborhood had one. The 80's was a fun a time.
Hell yeah I would love to have these weapon toys I can paint them for cosplay purposes
For some idea of just how realistic the water and toy guns were getting, there was a 20/20 episode in the 80s where an FBI agent un-threaded a real sound suppressor from a real Uzi, then threaded it onto a replica toy without any issue (not an Entertech, though). The molds used in the plastic gun production were so accurate and so detailed that they were good enough to duplicate exterior barrel threads. The footage is a bit hard to search for without running into a lot of non-toy related content.
i know the brand of toy gun you speak of ,I can't remember the name,they made multiple replicas,with removable magazines,and the caps ejected out of the top,on the side where real shells would eject was a small port where the fire from the caps came out. my brother and I had several of them.
I believe I know what you are talking about. There were three manufacturers of these kinds of toys. I had one or two of them myself. Edison-Giacatolli produced the guns with the removable magazines and rubber bullets, while Coibel made the very realistic looking cap guns. You load them at the butt and they would be expelled under the barrel once fired. The third and this is the most desirable toy in this catagory from what I've read, the Larami MAC-10. There's a folding stock, removable supressor, and magazines and was powered by 2 or 3 AA batteries, load the caps on the other side and you have an electronic cap gun.
@@darrenhood4033 I remember the Supermatic weapons, had several of them during the 1980s. My favorite was the one that looked like a Tommy gun without a magazine, which loaded like you described above, the plastic strip caps went into a hole at the top of the butt where it met the frame and came out spent from the bottom exit hole forward of the trigger guard at the near end of the barrel. I also loved the Luger (I think it was called a Lionmatic) that you loaded strip caps into a removable magazine and would actually cut the spent cap off and expel it as you fired it.
I remember seeing a display of the Larami Mac-10 battery powered near the entry of a Spencer Gifts (of all places) at the mall one Christmas, wanted it so bad I could taste it, but never got one.
Thats not really that big of a deal. Thread pitch on a plastic toy.
@@sinisterthoughts2896 True, but there was a big panic about toy guns at the time, and rationality took a back seat to getting people to watch 20/20.
True story - When I was 14 on the first day of Summer vacation I had an Entertech 9mm and someone called the cops on me. The Cop frisked me, found it and flipped out. They were just gonna take the toy away but the other cop suggested they take me to my parents (who didn't know i secretly purchased the toy). Lets just say the Summer was short.
Man that sucks, mine said said here go play outside with that Mac-10 water gun, and later with my brother we had pump action BB guns that looked like military M-16 riffles.
I was told by my parents not to be a pussy and shoot back at the cops with my Entertech Centerfire.
Thats lame. Once they knew it was a toy, they had no say. Abuse of authority.
@@sinisterthoughts2896 I don't get why anyone's first instinct would be to kill a child holding a gun. Its not like we're living in sudan. Just go take them to their parents for christsakes
@Franz schmied .. what
I had the Entertech pump-action shotgun as a kid. At the time the "heroes" I was imitating were from VHS videos like Arnie, Stallone, Chuck Norris and Steven Seagal.
I had the centerfire and the water balloon detonator pump thing. My friends and I would normally imitate Red Dawn or Aliens as both had a big enough cast for a group of kids to play as different characters. The 80's rocked!
When the kid appeared on screen with the bazooka I laughed for a solid minute.
The best thing about the supersoakers was that, if one was clever enough, one could turn them into bongs.
Supersmokers, if you will.
...And canons if you pumped them up enough! My brother damn near broke his jaw when he pumped it up too much and the extra air-tank in the back popped off.
Lmao
I will.
Or a flamethrower... at least to some extent. You just used a little amount a fluid and purposely damage the nozzle so it comes out in a fine mist. Looks pretty good for being home made by a kid.
@@nicholasjohnson10011 but how would a flamethrower get you high?
*_You’re never too young to have a Vietnam flashback_*
Oh man, I remember those guns, I think one of my neighbourhood buddies had one, we used to run around our houses in the 80s with toy guns that looked quite real. We even made bazookas out of carpet roll tubes and used hockey sticks to make a handle.
Remember the movie "Gotcha"? Where a college student who gets caught up in a spy mission but showed off a special game of tag they used with the paint ball guns, which was where he gained his skills that helped him survive. Wanted to do that so bad.
the "neon vomit" toy guns maybe can be appreciated today for the nostalgia aesthetic, and feel it like a "contra"'s guns
We used to spray paint them
Black.
Nobody liked them back then. You don't get nostalgic about things you didn't like. Kids who weren't born until after 2000 might get a kick out of them thinking that's what the 80's was like, and bring them to 80's themed events, but nobody I knew back then wanted anything to do with them.
I had the Entertech M16, and recently spotted the henchmen in Return of Swamp Thing (1989) wielding it in many of the action scenes.
I think I did aswell
Also, they still make realistic toy guns, they just call them "Airsoft" now.
I bought one for a halloween costume a few years back. It came with a list of warnings that made sense but were also a bit funny. Do not aim at police, could result in death.
I'd argue cheap airsoft could be called a toy but go look at a polar star fire at 12 bbs a second at 400 fps.
Definitely not a weapon but I wouldn't give it to my 4 year old ... without supervision
Airsoft started more as a training aid in a lot of places. I wouldn't really say toy but fun as hell.
Not really toys. They are weapon replicas for military sim
@@johns3655 lol yeah and redbull is performance enhancing drugs.
they are still toys dude
These were awesome. My friend and I had a couple Entertechs. Some lady called the cops on us. Luckily we were dressed in camouflage and easily vanished into the surrounding foliage.
Man me & my brother & cousins used to have a blast with these. Damn I miss this America
I remember having the M-16, those were fun. Gotcha, wasn't that also a movie starring "Goose" as well?
Red Hood Yeah, i remember that, friends started shooting each other with bb guns after that movie.
#DeepCut I had that movie on VHS. BTW LINDA FOURINTINO WAS HOT AF. 📼
That m16 grip was HUGE!
Yes! I had an Entertech Uzi. I still do. It probably won't work anymore. Especially because we figured out it would work as a flame thower if loaded with paint thinner.
“Why can’t I get one of those neat water paint guns I saw somewhere?” Me, 1990. Well now I know the answer to that question from childhood.
Zap it guns.
What's to stop someone putting a neon-orange tip on a real gun?
Don't give 'em any ideas.
This actually happened. A gun company ( or aftermarket sellers more accurately) in order to spite then NY mayor Michael Bloomberg, was painting real guns , toy colors.
@@EricLinstone They open fire on you for grabbing your waistband. They open fire on you for holding a cell phone. However, it doesn't take away from the fact that more kids were being gunned down in the street because they were holding Entertech guns or Megatron in his pistol mode that police confused for actual weapons. Its why the law was enacted, however it didn't stop people for painting them black. Take the top bubble piece off the bubble gun and paint it black, then you have a weapon that looks like a 9 MM
I've seen a prison visit program for troubled youth (Yeah, a Scared Straight program) during a conference between the CO's and the parents of said youths. This tactic is a real concern.
They had teens thinking by doing so the police WOULD NOT shoot at them.
Nothing
Friend of mine had a powered Mac-10 squirt gun. Got it on a trip to California. These guns were banned shortly after.
Yep that's the one I had right before they got banned, along with a Rambo I had gotten earlier from an older cousin who was handing down toys he no longer wanted.
As a kid, I had a neon green/black camo Water Hawk that I loved. The battery compartment was built into the grip and eventually the battery cover latch wore out and had to be taped/rubberbanded closed Fond fond memories.
I had several cap guns in the '80s that looked like real revolvers. One was more of an old west gunslinger type. I remember it had the cap tape rolls that you fed into it. The other had a swing out cylinder that you put a cap ring on.
I loved my zap it!!! I forgot about it until this video. I remember the disappearing ink not working right for some reason
Neon Vomit is one of my fav band btw
wish they'd do a reunion tour
I had the grey Beretta, loved that toy even after it broke! (water and electronics were not the most compatible features) Thank you for doing an EnterTech episode.
I had the enterteck uzi, I can still hear the mechanical pump sound it made. I thought it was awesome. Thanks for the reminder Dan.
I swear i had one of these as a kid! Do a video on photon!
It's on the list. We'll get to it.
Laramie battery powered squirt guns that look like a Mac 10 were the coolest ever.
Had one. I Still Want one again 😂
When I was a kid in the 80s my friend had this water gun that had a selector switch on the side and each flip of the switch would change the firing pattern and the sound the gun made. There was this one setting that sounded like a bomb dropping and it would be accompanied by a long single stream of water. There was a machine gun mode with staccato shots of water, it was the coolest thing ever. I don't think it was the same gun as those in this video. I've been looking to buy one but I can't find it anywhere.
Had two of these growing up, plus one of the Neon Vomits that i immediately spray painted Black, but nothing beat the realism of Edison Giocattoli cap guns we used to jave 8n the early to mid eighties. Those things were a work of art.
I still have my Tec-9 water gun. Cann’t bring myself to part with such an obsurdly american part of my youth. The motor and pump have died long ago but man as a kid I was GIJoe with that thing.
Federally banned for using my likeness!
The band paid for those pants! If you leave, the pants stay!
These were great. They made us kids graduate to pellet guns. 'The look, the feel, the sound, so real.......Entertech.'
Wow! Great video brought back some good memories with my Entertech. Fought way more battles with my Entertech in the backyard then my 12 years in the Army. lol
I had the bazooka. So many batteries.
ahh Photon!
I remember my Entertech water gun.
Man, this channel is great. I love the coverage on every piece of 1980s toy nostalgia and I really appreciate how clear, concise and professional Dan's read is.
Without facial hair he kind of looks like Dracula, though.
Yeah, that's actually kind of also a compliment.
Totally had the mac 10. My cousins had more. We used some dye from some other line of squirt guns to make them squirt red, making you "bloody".
Ah yes, the good old days... They even used them in the movie "Airheads" (well, close to it, they were the motorized Uzi's)
Those are the 1s i had
Gotcha was a game and a movie way back into the early 70s Entertech stole that.
I loved my arsenal of toy guns. Without doubt my favourites were the tommy gun (in plastic )and my FAL SLR in metal, made in Merthyr Tydfil, the later particularly was a cap gun and was brilliant. I carried on the interest by joining HM forces, where I spent a huge chunk of my adult life. Great video, a lovely walk down memory lane.
I had a bunch of cap firing metal toy guns as a kid.
Later black plastic replicas but much smaller for kids hands
On my fifth Christmas, my parents gifted to me an entire soldiers outfits including fatigues, equipment belt, canteen, other ancillary and quickly lost accessories, a holster with a flap, a plastic replica M1911 pistol with fully working trigger and awesome clicking bang sound, and a sub machine gun with fully working trigger and even aswesomer multi-clicking sound to simulate full auto fire. The only instructions from my parents was "don't play in the street". My recollection of details like color is hazy, but I think everything was olive drab green, so perhaps not the most exact of replicas, but these were models of real guns meant to be played with as if they were the tools of a real soldier. A few years later, a new next door neighbor with a more progressive view chastised my mother for allowing our clan to play with toy guns and for promoting violence and said her kids couldn't play with us if we had toy guns. My mother smiled at this younger woman and agreed, took all the toy guns, and told everyone to go play. A few hours later, as my mother and this young woman sat on the porch, my brother and her boys ran by, all happily pointing fingers at each other and screaming "Bang" at the top of their lungs. My mother asked the neighbor mother if it was time to take the children's fingers away?
The Look! The Feel! The Sound, So Real! ENTERTECH!
Oh yeah! someone who remembers!
I had the Entertech M16 and the Super Soaker 100. I remember the M16 had a hinged type magazine that you couldn’t remove completely from the gun until I cut the pivots off!
I had the uzi looking one. Only water gun fighting I ever liked and by age of the super soaker I was done with this kind of play. Great video! 👍🤘
To find out what happened next to LJN, go watch any Angry Video Game Nerd video. Seriously, just pick any one. There's like a 70% chance he'll be discussing an LJN game.
nobody ever talks about LJN the toy company when it's the video games they look to.
Fun april fools prank: take a real gun and paint it's muzzle blaze orange, then use it in a liquor store robbery
**someone gets shot**
its just a prank, bro!
Oh man, I had the Tec-9 model. Thanks for the trip back down memory lane.
Your description of you playing alone at your grandmas and then the finger gun effect that followed got me.
Here’s your subscription, never change
That’s just under 3 minutes into the video holy hell you’re good
I had realistic looking guns as a kid. Yet I have a strong dislike for real guns even though I fired them in the military. (Not at people thankfully.)
I say "Guns for All" "Open Carry"
Just don't commit crimes!
I say public civility should be managed by mandatory explosive vests and deadman's switches. Gives a whole new meaning to "triggered"
You're right! The Wild West was such a peaceful and happy time, where nothing bad ever happened!
Romantic Undead, Hollywood gives the impression that every citizen had a gun at the ready at all times in the "wild west." Not true historically.
I completely forgot about these! I loved my Entertech M-16 and Beretta, so much fun in neighborhood water/army fights.
I remember loving these things. I didn't get into them till they were just getting the goofy colors. I had The tec-9, whatever that thing was on the title graphic, and two Berettas. Long before Max Payne was a thing I was doing two gun bullet dives into the pool, too.
Had the very one on the thumbnail. Even after it broke and wouldn't shoot water anymore it was still the sweetest toy guy on the block. Great toys in the 80's!
I used to have a Uzi from Kmart that was full scale, man that thing was the coolest. They don't make em like that anymore!!!
No freaking way! Talk about nostalgia! I had the Uzi as well as the 45 caliber Rambo edition. I remember seeing a picture of myself that my mom took of me holding the 45 with the red bandanna wrapped around my head. Had no idea that’s why it had an orange tip.
Hey fella, good stuff, I had a really cool realistic looking pirate cap gun from Pirates of Caribbean when I visited Disney in 1990, but I do remember that was a pretty uncommon thing even at that time, would love to see a Super Soaker episode.
I had the red & blue Entertech that you pictured. I also had a Laramie CAR-15 that was bright yellow and pink along with a Laramie HK G3 that was more like an enlarged MP5K.
Excellent video. I had one. It lasted 10 minutes till I dropped it on the cement, the frame cracked all the water leaked into the motor shorting out the whole thing.
I remember these as a kid as well. Think we bought them for summer water fights in the neighborhood. As the super soaker goes they found a new market in Thailand and other parts of Asiaduring Songkran the Buddhist new year. In Buddhist culture pouring water was considered good luck for the next year. It turned into a wild party where kids and grown ups run around with high powered water guns and get eachother wet. The festival would go on for days and in many Thai cities you couldn't leave your house without getting soaked wlth water guns or buckets. It happens in April and definitely worth checking out. Every store sells all types of wild neon colored guns and animated characters as well for collectors.
All the kids in my neighborhood strived to own an Entertech water gun as we rode our bikes all over the place playing “guns”! Interesting to hear it was only around for a couple years. I was in the sweet spot for 80’s toys and cartoons!
I had the red and blue version of the entertech AK Centerfire, I was still using it even when most others had moved on to supersoakers, right up until I lost the magazine for it.
Oh man! I forgot about these. I still have the Tech 9 and Ingram somewhere in my toy collection. They looked cool and worked surprisingly well. Thanks for the video!
I am impressed by your covering this topic, as I am46 born 1974, and I remember "Entertech" as well as its disappearance. I knew the super soaker was better. Great video. New sub. Peace!
I can remember all the guns we had as kids in the 80s. Sometimes they just appeared too. I don't remember where it came from but my brother and I had an orange Beretta 9mm that we used all the time. We got some knock off Entertech water guns way back, then had the actual Photon sets. Some kids moved in next door who had Photon so we'd combine the two yards and go crazy. The best was when I started making my own guns out of scrap wood in my grandfather's wood shop. I learned things about tools I use in my career as a props master.
I owned the entertech uzi. Loved that thing. Great video!!! Totally forgot about "gotcha"
My young friends had a couple of those. In our water gun battles they were easy to defeat. You just had to get them to shoot the thing for 20 or 30 continuous seconds, that's about all it took for the batteries to run down and reduce their range to about six inches. Then we could lay into them with our cheap little squirters until they called a time out and spent the next 4 hours combing their house for new batteries.
"Honey! The TV remote doesn't work again!"
"The boys were having a squirt gun fight this afternoon!"
I had a Zap It! Loved the red disappearing ink, but it was expensive to get more, so I quickly just moved to water for it.
Grew up in the 2000's and I had a lot of semi-realistic toy guns, they had the blaze orange tip, but the rest of the gun was typically black or camo and some made some good sounds.
i had the sub machine gun in the clip used for your video, it was the best water gun i ever owned, hands down. the gun took so much abuse over the years and never stopped working. i can still remember the sound it made. it was like hearing an electric can opener struggling with a worn out motor. the only problem i had with it was the hole to put the water into the clip was Way to small. thank you for the nostalgia trip.
I actually had both of the neon colored ones you pictured, although the colors were inverted on the blue one! Thanks for this, I forgot they existed! lol
Ohey, I had one of those blue and red checkered "Neon Vomit" ones (at 5:22) as a kid... Was wondering who the heck made it, but I remember the trigger broke off, and the thing got thrown in the trash, I think. Ironically had fun playing with it empty, and pretending the trigger was still there.
I still remember visiting my aunt in Phoenix (we are from Chicago) for summer vacation. She bought me an AK centerfire while we were there. And I vividly remember strapping it into my CARRYON bag and taking it on the plane home with me. Imagine that situation today.
I still have the M-16 in the loft somewhere. As a student in 1987, we all had either the centrefire or the waterhawk except me who had the M-16 and later the pump action shotgun, happy days. We'd go on the roof of the accommodation which was 3 storey and play "Die Hard" when we'd had a few brewskies, now filed under "seemed like a good idea at the time".
I bought a broken one from Goodwill just to have it again. When my original centerfire broke, i still played with it. I loved that thing!!!
Yes, I had a 1st generation Intertech. I even took it to school once when we were playing “The Assassination Game.”
We had two of the uzis. Great memories of sneaking up on my dad with my realistic uzi Entertech water gun we bought at Service Merchandise.