Oozinator

The company recommends the Super Soaker Oozinator for use by ages 6 & Up, suggests at retail for US$24.99, and is item # 52695. Product specifications include an "air-powered blaster," 27-ounce water capacity and 20-shot "bio-ooze" capacity. The toy uses an "air-powered blaster" that can propel water up to 35 feet, and "bio-ooze" up to 20 feet. The toy comes with a 10-ounce supply of "bio-ooze."

In Spray Mode 1, the toy is actuated and propels water from a nozzle located superiorly on the anterior aspect by squeezing a trigger, located toward the rear. A pressure reservoir which is charged by a lateral pumping action of a forward-pointing, superiorly located rod enables actuation.

In Spray Mode 2, the toy spurts "ooze" with each pumping action of a separate, lateral manual handle, located at the inferior aspect of the anterior surface, immediately below the water charging handle. In "ooze" mode, the toy does not store pressure.

Hasbro copyrighted the term Oozinator in 2005 and the toy was put on sale in 2006.[http://www.isoaker.com/Armoury/Analysis/2006/super_soaker_oozinator.html iSoaker.com]

In Hasbro's description of the device, they advertised that Oozinator operators could surprise their opponents with "globs of gooey bio-ooze" during a water fight:

Sneak up on your opponents with a surprise bio-ooze attack! Just when they think you’re coming at ‘em with water, blast ‘em with a shot of icky bio-ooze! Shoot out globs of gooey bio-ooze and then drench ‘em with water! It’s a double blast attack that’ll keep your opponents on their toes and running during every water fight.{{cite web |title=Super Soaker Oozinator |url=http://www.hasbro.com/default.cfm?page=browse&product_id=17359 |website=Hasbro |access-date=18 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060515044625/http://www.hasbro.com/default.cfm?page=browse&product_id=17359 |archive-date=15 May 2006 |url-status=dead}}

The product was discontinued not long after release.{{cite web |author1=Rob Lammle |title=The Wet and Wild History of the Super Soaker |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/28991/wet-and-wild-history-super-soaker#_d1kl61kds |website=Mental Floss |access-date=18 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206041711/https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/28991/wet-and-wild-history-super-soaker |archive-date=6 December 2022 |date=13 October 2011 |url-status=live}}

• The AV Club (a Los Angeles-based production company) made a spoof video of a board meeting discussing the Oozinator, where one person sees how the toy could be suggestive, but is ostracized by the others for it.[http://www.theavclub.tv/episode/splooginator AV Club video]
• The commercial for the Oozinator was featured on the December 18, 2006 episode of The Daily Show. In the segment "This Week in God," the Oozinator was named as "the Number One "Devil's Plaything" for Christmas," and correspondent Samantha Bee noted it offered "Junior's first moneyshot."{{cite episode |url=http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=118984&title=This-Week-in-God---Christmas-Christacular |title=This Week in God - Christmas Christacular | series = The Daily Show | airdate = 2006-12-18}}
• Consumer affairs website Consumerist discussed the water gun in several posts, describing it as having the "shape and hue of a grotesque alien phallus."{{cite web |title=The Oozinator Delights Children |url=http://consumerist.com/consumer/oozinator/the-oozinator-delights-children-170588.php |website=Consumerist |access-date=18 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611024958/http://consumerist.com/consumer/oozinator/the-oozinator-delights-children-170588.php |archive-date=11 June 2008 |date=1 May 2006 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |title=Oozinator's Origins, Revealed! |url=http://consumerist.com/consumer/oozinator/oozinators-origins-revealed-172380.php |website=Consumerist |access-date=18 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611032259/http://consumerist.com/consumer/oozinator/oozinators-origins-revealed-172380.php |archive-date=11 June 2008 |date=8 May 2006 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |title=The Oozinator Squirts Its Way Into Our Hearts |url=https://consumerist.com/2006/05/02/the-oozinator-squirts-its-way-into-our-hearts/ |website=Consumerist |access-date=18 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223031430/https://consumerist.com/2006/05/02/the-oozinator-squirts-its-way-into-our-hearts/ |archive-date=23 December 2017 |date=2 May 2006}}
• In a blog post highlighting several comics that had been made about the product, Wired (magazine) described the Oozinator as "a super-soaker with shall we say bukkakean properties."{{cite web |title=Oozinator Comics |url=https://www.wired.com/2006/05/oozinator-comic/ |website=Wired |access-date=18 January 2023 |date=30 May 2006 }}
• Engadget described it as a "bizarrely suggestive goo-shooting weapon, which is available at Toys R Us until some exec somewhere gets a clue"{{cite web |author1=Ken Weeks |title=Halo-ish Hasbro Oozinator comes up big |url=https://www.engadget.com/2006-05-04-halo-ish-hasbro-oozinator-comes-up-big.html |website=Engadget |access-date=18 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118173400/https://www.engadget.com/2006-05-04-halo-ish-hasbro-oozinator-comes-up-big.html |archive-date=18 January 2023 |date=4 May 2006 |url-status=live}}

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAIt4MgnHc Original Oozinator TV commercial]
• [http://wordsandpicturesonline.com/05-08-06.html Cartoon at Words & Pictures]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6PX6ILVmVY Oozinator Video Review]
• [http://www.theavclub.tv/episode/splooginator "Splooginator" Parody of hypothetical Hasbro marketing meeting]
• [http://consumerist.com/consumer/oozinator Oozinator Profile at The Consumerist]

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