REVIEW: Arctic easy fill water balloons..........

     So, it was a beautiful and sunny day here in Alabama so my kids decided it was a good day for a water balloon fight.  Who ever would have thought of doing a water balloon fight in October when I lived up north.  Not this girl for sure.  But yesterday it totally happened.   I had gotten a discount on some water balloons that are on the auto release plastic strings.  I just got them like a week or so ago, but the page seems to have disappeared off of amazon.  Not sure why. 

     They are actually pretty cool.  We had this set and a colorful set that we had purchased.  The Arctic Water Wars balloons came with refills. The colorful set I had to buy refills.  So to me that is a better deal.  I didn't have to buy refills. It is pretty simple at least. You just screw the top onto your hose and turn on the water.  You place the balloons in a bucket or something with water in it so the balloons have a soft place to be when they release. seems simple enough.

    So we went ahead and started filling.  Now, I am not sure if these are a design flaw or manufacturing defect.  We got maybe 50% of the balloons to be usable.  Some had holes in them, some didn't seal with the elastic piece when they released so they had streams of water coming out.  So where we had bought a 300 pack.  About 150 were already loaded and we probably got 70 to 75. 

    This one was one of the better releases.  We got about 28 out of 35 on the strings.  But you can see some of them are very small and are probably the ones that are losing water.  I would say we got about 17 we could use out of this one set that was released.  But they did work as far as the balloons filled very quickly.  If you are someone who doesn't have a ton of time to sit and fill water balloons manually this is a great option if you don't mind having a portion of them not work.  I would say hand filling balloons loses way less balloons than we did on this system.  But, convenience has its costs I guess. 

     Overall the balloons themselves were good.  They broke when they hit someone. And the kids had a blast.  So either way I guess it is still a win just these are a lot more expensive than the self fills from a dollar store or big chain store.  It is fun to try at least once.  I don't know if I would buy them again.  But it was fun for at least one try!