Customer Reviews

Gazillion-Air Powered Bubble Rocket, (64 Fl.oz Bubble Solution Included)

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My 5 year old son got one of these for Christmas. He thinks it is the coolest thing in the world. He has tons of extra energy and this allows him "permission" to jump on the orange thing to make it go way up. We haven't even put the bubbles in it yet and he keeps going back to it over and over again. I can imagine this will be even more fun once the bubbles are added. Thanks for another great Gazillion toy!

Assembly is very simple - the pad connects to the tubes, the tubes connect to the base. Stomp on the pad and up goes the rocket. Sounds easy, but this works very poorly and is very cheap and flimsy. Sometimes the tubes become detached, it takes a lot of weight to make the rocket go up in the air, and overall, this just makes a big bubble solution mess. My 3 year old and 5 year old need their 10 year old brother to stomp on it for them. This is way overpriced and isn't even good enough to give as a birthday gift.

This toy sounds cool but is a big disappointment to us. First of all, even with grown-ups jumping on the stomp rocket, it never went higher than about 5.5 feet into the air. Not too exciting. And every time you jump on the stomp part, it disconnects from the tube which connects it to the launch pad. So every time, someone has to lean down and reattach it, which isn't easy because it doesn't fit too tightly. (That's why it pops off each time.) I suppose it could be taped together, but why should we have to do that? Why doesn't the toy just function as described? Further, we've yet to see a "bubble trail of sky high fun" come out of the thing as it makes its measly trip in the air. My son and his friends quickly figured out it was more fun to play with the wand included with the bubble solution, and ended up chasing each other around the yard with that while the rockets lay forgotten. My son said "I'm glad you wasted your money on this instead of me!" but I'm sure sorry I did!