At the end of the Futuristic Small Arms of Film and Television list, there is a short list of toy science fiction weapons that have no direct connection to any film, television show, or literary source. One of these, which I had labelled “Liquidator [by ?]“, was the original continuous stream water gun, predating the first Super Soaker by a decade. I owned one of these. I saw the television commercial (back when I was a lad capable of being influenced by advertising), and my mother, an ardent lover of science fiction, fantasy, and swashbuckling adventure of any kind, bought me one. I guess it was about 1978. It was, indeed, the emperor of all squirt guns, and I played with it rather too often and hard, for eventually some mechanism involving the pump or the loss of the hose forced me to use the gun as a toy gun rather than a functioning water weapon, so to speak.
I decided to do a Google search to see if I could find the name of the manufacturer, and lo and behold, I stumbled upon this site, wherein I learned that its full name (as I suspected it might be, but was unsure) was the Cosmic Liquidator, and that it was manufactured by Sun Products Corporation. The site has a full review and extensive photographs of what had been one of my favorite toys when I was growing up.
I think I may still have my old Cosmic Liquidator somewhere at my parents’ house or my grandmother’s house, but it’s probably in a very sorry state.
Suddenly I feel the urge to get into a squirt gun fight. Or should that be squirt gunfight?