Gazillion Bubbles, Hurricane Bubble Making Machine - Portable Bubble Maker - Instant Bubble Creation - Outdoor Toy for Kids - 4 oz. Bubble Solution Included - Ages 3+

What a fun toy! This was purchased as a gift for my one year old that loves bubbles- who doesn’t love bubbles?! I researched way too much for a bubble maker. I wanted something that would create bubbles and would last longer than a couple of months. Here is my takeaway on this bubble maker compared to others.Pros: -Creates SO MANY BUBBLES.-I don’t have to be lightheaded-Told I’m not making them fast enough-Easy to refill-Easy to take apart to clean-Price pointCons: -Takes batteries-Noisy. This might not be an issue when used outside, but it’s winter so I’ve only used it inside so far.-Small bubble solution reservoir. It runs out pretty quickly, but it is easy to refill even while running-The unit vibrates itself while on, so it does move on a smooth surface. Watch when on an elevated surface that it doesn’t fall off.Note: I have had the unit over a month and still works. Only have had it inside. As instructions state, I do clean it after every use and I believe that does help the longevity of the product. I also have only used the Gazillion bubbles solution which seem to create a great quality and quantity bubbles. I cannot say if “cheaper” solutions or homemade solutions will work just as well.Overall the pros outweigh the cons for me. The cons were definitely small ones for me, but could be dealbreakers for others. I recommended this product.

This machine spits out tons of bubbles! Great product for the price!

If you are like me and were thinking you would save an extra couple bucks by purchasing this machine instead of a more expensive bubble machine? Here's some advice. Don't.For starters, it's zip tied into the packaging at 4 different points as was so popular with medium sized toys in the 90s. You'll need scissors to get it out and it's not particularly easy.Getting to the battery compartment requires taking out four screws as well, which might not be much of an issue if it ran longer than 2.5 hours on a set of brand name batteries.The machine itself is also incredibly noisy. Like....if someone is mowing the lawn right outside, you can still hear the machine. In a quiet house, if you are one room over with the door shut, you can still hear it. My wife is a heavy sleeper and I woke her up turning this thing on.The bubble wheel itself also makes a clicking/grinding noise and skips anywhere from one to five times a minute.As to total bubbles output? It averages 3 bubbles per wand, with 65 wands getting blown per minute. I'm a nerd and yes I actually broke a stopwatch and timed it. I can do better manually blowing a bubble wand from the dollar store myself. Other machines literally do 50x the amount of bubbles this thing does.It should have the option to be powered by USB but it doesn't.It should last longer than 2.5 hours on 6 AA batteries but it doesn't.It should not be competing with a lawn mower for noise levels but it does.The packaging should not make you frustrated after you have taken it out but it does.All in all, this is a horribly engineered product. If I had bought it from the dollar tree I would just throw it out, but I'm going to be returning this.

I have just ordered my second one of these from Amazon because the children love the bubbles it makes. We had our original one for two years and it had a lot of use as I run a day nursery from our home. It stopped working a month ago when it was knocked backwards on the picnic table and the bubble mixture got into the fan motor. As with so many of these machines it is very poorly designed, standing on three legs instead of four, with one front leg on each side and one much lower leg in the middle at the back. Not sure why they could not have put four legs on it to make it stable as it is a very bad design indeed! It knocks over incredibly easily because of this, so I am very surprised that it lasted us as long as it did, as it has had so much bubble mixture tipped into the fan over those two years!Another bad design is the battery compartment which is hard to get into and hard to screw back together again. There is a press-&-clip-on cover over the battery compartment so the inner compartment could have just been a slip-in & click-in type door, instead of the tiny annoying cheap screws that it has. Having said all this though, and despite the poor design and the fact that you will get through batteries at a reasonably quick rate, especially when it is being used several times a day as it is here, you and your children will get a lot of pleasure from owning it. So I have to recommend this bubble blower just because it is cheap, portable, and gives a lot of pleasure if you treat it right and wash the bubble compartment with its removable bubble wheel after each use. I have taken this machine to the park and delighted the children there too, but you have to guard it or the children will want to come and touch and move the machine which will end the fun abruptly!I am now going to buy a more expensive plug-in bubble machine on Amazon as well. One that produces even more bubbles, because we love bubbles and the children just can't ever get enough of them! :~) So a more durable machine that does not use batteries makes sense for our deck. I have one in my cart ready to order soon!

I got this so my cats could play with the bubbles and boy oh boy do they have fun and I don't have to sit and blow bubbles for them.