REVIEW – I was a kid right when the infamous super-soaker came on the scene in the early 90s (if my memory serves me right). I wanted one so bad, and my mind was all but blown when I was lucky enough to get one for a 4th of July party one year. If only 10-year-old me would have known what we would get in 2025 with the SpyraGravity water bomb launcher.
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Price: $109
Where to buy: Spyra
What is it?
The SpyraGravity is a water blaster that shoots magnetic, reusable water balloons using an electronic trigger.
What’s included?
- SpyraGravity
- 4 spyrablasts (magnetic, reusable water balloons)
- Carry bag for the spyrablasts
- Charging cable
- Tiny screwdriver to access the charging port
- User manual
Tech specs
- Range – 16m (52ft) far, 9m (30ft) high
- Weight full/empty – 2.7 kg (6.0 lbs) / 2.2 kg (4.9 lbs)
- Speed – 13m (43ft) per second
- Charging time – 100/120 minutes
- Battery – 2000 shots (roughly 10 hours)
- Blue (also comes in red)
Design and features
This thing is quite a sight to behold. It looks like something Arnold would have used in Commando (dating myself?). Only in a slightly less intimidating color scheme of light blue, gray, and bright orange.
On top you have the “screen” which lets you know the status of the unit, showing you shots left, and if they are ready to be fired or not.
Just behind that you have the charging port which is housed under a little door that is held in place with a small screw. This is a bit of a pain to get to since you have to unscrew it, and completely remove the door. But I assume that’s to ensure its water tight when you are out in the field and more than likely getting wet.
The website says it takes about 100 minutes to change it up completely while the user manual says it’s closer to 120 minutes. I plugged it in and walked away while it was charging but came back right around the 2 hour mark and it was ready to go. The battery indicator on the screen will show red while charging, and green when it’s all topped off.
To turn it on you just have to tap the trigger, slide open the magazine cap, or move the front handle, and it’s ready for battle. On the flip-side, to save charge after about 5 minutes with no activity it will shut itself off.
To “load” the magazine you slide back the magazine cap on the back of the unit and load in the spyrablasts one at a time. You do have to close it every time to move the blast into the chamber.
If there is any issue with the mechanism you can take off the maintenance cap on the bottom rear of the unit to see if anything is stuck. This does need to be done with a coin or a flathead screwdriver.
Performance
And you are ready to go! To engage a round you pull back on the front handle and push it all the way back forward. Then you can pull the trigger. And man does this thing deliver! You get every bit of the 50 feet range they say if you aim high enough that it arcs up and then back down. Then you reload with the front handle again and keep going through all 4 shots that the unit holds.
That is where this thing starts to fall short. It’s only 4 shots and then you have to go find the spyrablasts to refill them and reload the SpyraGravity. It is fun but very short-lived fun. You will spend more time refilling and reloading then you do actually shooting it. Sure, you could buy more spyrablasts, and they do sell more of them separately on their site at $10 for a set of 4. But you still have to reload after only 4 shots. If I’m just reviewing what they sent then it’s kind of a letdown.
Don’t get me wrong, this thing is more than fun; it’s a blast (pun intended)! It’s just that the fun is so intermittent that it really takes you out of the battle. I don’t think they could allow for more blasts in the chamber because it would be too big. On the other hand, they could have made the spyrablasts smaller to fit more in the chamber, but then at what point does it go from a water gun that shoots refillable water balloons, to a toy gun that shoots large balls that happen to have a tiny bit of water in them.
It jammed quite often. Which was mostly fixed by taking off the maintenance cap off the bottom and pulling out the round that was jammed. However, one time it jammed so badly that I could not do anything to fix it. I removed the round that was in the maintenance cap area and it didnt do anything to alleviate the issue. I had to just set it down, and when I came back about an hour later, I powered it back on and it was fine.
Final thoughts
Like I said before, this is a lot of fun. There is just too much lead up time to that fun that it falls off quick. Your fun also gets interrupted too often by jams that take who knows how long to fix. It’s comfortable to hold, and not as heavy as it looks like it would be. I hate to say it, but I would not recommend purchasing this unless all the downsides I mentioned sound like things you can overlook. I would look at one of their other blasters that shoot “water bullets”. This SpyraGravity just seems like a product they came up with to keep the releases coming so they could ride the success of the others.
What I like about SpyraGravity
- Fun! (for a short period of time)
- Easy to get the hang of
What needs to be improved?
- More robust mechanism to prevent jamming
- Maybe slightly smaller spyrablasts to fit more in the chamber
Price: $109
Where to buy: Spyra
Source: The sample of this product was provided for free by Spyra. Spyra did not have a final say on the review and did not preview the review before it was published.
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The screw-closed charging port is not user-friendly either.
Yeah I am not a fan of that as well. Though I did give them a bit of a pass since I’m assuming its for the waterproofing, and the fact that you don’t have to charge it all that often.