Highlights of my old Super Soaker collection.
u/zaxzone invited me over from the r/nostalgia sub to check this sub out. Here's an image I would have posted there if they allowed images in comments.
Through about 2014, I became an avid collector of Super Soaker (and water warfare toys in general), an offshoot of my also pretty large Nerf collection. In recent years, though, I've had to downsize my storage, which led to me selling off nearly all of my Nerf and Super Soaker collections. I decided to keep one: The Super Soaker CPS2000 Mark 1, the middle one in that pic. I remember buying it on ebay for a little over $100; the pictures the seller took were angled such that it was hard to tell whether it was a Mark 1 or a Mark 2 (the most visible difference is the power gauge), and when I asked him, he said he had already packed it up and would be unable to tell, so I decided to take a gamble--I was either spending $100+ on a Mark 2 that was already worth about that much, or a Mark 1 that was worth more (and packed more power). Fortunately, I lucked out with a Mark 1 that held its pressure and worked.
So this was a pic I took at about that time (the strap was replaced), alongside a vintage SS50 and a (then) more current Switch Shot to show the "evolution" of Super Soakers over time.