Not fun

Neither we or our little testers really rated this product. Another one of those that seems fun and is a big hit on social media, but in reality doesn't really go down well. I can imagine some drunk adults having fun with this, or maybe older kids, but at the lower end of the age scale (5+) the kids didn't enjoy getting splatted in the face. With adults it has an unfortunate tendency to go right up the nose too.

Assembly is far easier if you just eyeball it, because the instructions are, frankly, total garbage. The diagrams are impossible to tell what's what and the instructions aren't really clear either. I was able to assemble it eyeballing the box and what looked like it would fit, but I really get irritated when instructions aren't clear and well-laid out.

It's also pretty shabbily designed. For example, the 'face plate' tends to flop forward and then the hand gets stuck, meaning the person can easily defend from the 'splat'. This issue could have easily been fixed with some plastic clips on the chin rest, to hold the plastic face part steady. The buttons also make the hand go the 'opposite' way from the way your facing. For example, right button makes the hand swing left. That can get pretty confusing as well.

This is in the vein of 'musical' toys, in that you should only give it to parent's you hate. The cream is a small amount, but the way it's forced through the cannon means that it splatters everywhere. If you live in a plastic-wrapped house, you'll be fine. If not, be prepared to find cream several feet away. Clean-up isn't easy either as the cannon doesn't open, so you're always worried about missing any cream or the wetness drying out properly, though I do appreciate that they made the whole thing washable.

In short, none of us really enjoyed being hit in the face, so it wasn't really fun for us at all and the cream gets everywhere. We weren't particularly having fun to begin with, but even then, it got old pretty fast. I'll stick to board games!

Note: You must provide your own whipped cream, we used store bought spray cream.