Bubble Wand,3 Style Giant Bubble Wand Outdoor Toy for Kids, Recyclable Stainless Steel,Telescopic Design Bubble Party Favors, Works Best Bubbleventi Bubble Mix

The media could not be loaded. The wand is great, the rope is great as well. I had a home made wand, cotton rope, washers for weights, etc. This one is better, the rope is better. There’s no weight at the bottom but I don’t think the weight is necessary, in fact it seems better without. With the home made wand there’s a “lump” at he bottom made of a knot and washers. The bubbles made with the home made wand have extra bubble solution that pools at the bottom of the bubble and that tends to weight the bubble so they sink then pop on contact with the ground. This purchased wand doesn’t have the weight and the bubbles don’t have that extra solution at the bottom so they don’t sink nearly as quickly. The supplied rope is heavy enough when dipped in the bubble solution so the loop hangs open without a weight. The stainless extension wands are nice because they allow one to hold the open loop higher, again not so close to the ground. So I’m happy with this purchase and would recommend it. I’m going to add the mix I now prepare. It contains aguar gum. You only use a tiny bit (1/4 tsp) per liter of bubble mix but it makes a huge difference. Bubbles will “heal”, so an enormously long bubble will self “pinch” and form numerous large bubbles. Without the guar gum, the bubbles start to pinch then they pop. So get the guar gum. I have not used glycerine, I saw one report that it turns grass brown. I’ve seen other reports that glycerine makes no difference to bubbles. Others swear by glycerine. So I use the guar gum, no glycerine. The guar gum is a very fine powder, it’ll clump if you try to add it to water. To prevent that, use some rubbing alcohol, that will make a slurry of the fine powder without dissolving it so you don’t get clumps, then when you add the slurry to the water, it’s already finely divided so it hydrates rapidly and doesn’t clump. The alcohol makes no difference to the bubbles. Then there’s baking powder. It’s the powder, not baking soda. Baking powder is slightly on the acid side of neutral, that surprised me. Baking powder has a little corn starch in it so you will get some white insoluble powder in the bottom of the final bubble mix, that makes no difference. Add the baking powder as the last step. You can add it to the dry guar gum but it takes a whole lot more alcohol to make a liquid slurry and there’s no advantage, so add it at the end. Next, I use Dawn dishwashing detergent. I don’t think you can get Dawn overseas, people use Joy which works well and is available. So where were we... Oh, the slurry. So far it’s guar gum and alcohol. Next slowly add some detergent while stirring briskly. You are using the viscosity of the Dawn to keep the guar particles suspended. Next you’ll add the Dawn/guar/alcohol slurry to water or you can add water to the slurry. You must make sure you’re stirring the water briskly. You want the guar to stay suspended so all those very tiny particles hydrate as tiny particles and not bigger lumps. So now the recipe. It makes a little over a liter, about a quart. Guar gum 1/4 tsp, rubbing alcohol a couple of teaspoons (10g) amount not critical, Dawn 30gm, (recipes range 20-40g), water 1 liter (1 quart), baking powder 1/2 teaspoon. That’s it. Huge bubbles, enormous sausages of bubbles that self pinch into great big bubbles. A note about the water, I used drinking water. We have a reverse osmosis system to provide pure good tasting pure water. I used that. We have softened water, that’s OK to drink but nothing like the filtered water. And we have well water, that’s got so much iron it stains things yellow. So the purest water is what I use and it works very well. Again the recipe:1. Guar gum, 1/4 tsp2. Rubbing alcohol, 2 teaspoons or so3. Dawn, 30 grams. I weigh it but you can measure. You’ll get more than 30g in a 1 ounce measuring cup because Dawn is heavier than water. It isn’t critical).4. Baking powder 1 teaspoon5. Water 1 literPeople recommend letting the mix rest for a day. I’ve used it right away and get good large bubbles, but if it rests overnight the bubbles are fantastic. So mix more of it, some for right away, some for tomorrow. It goes quickly so mix a lot.

This is very easy to use and to amuse your child/grandchild with. The wands work very well; of course the trick is to have good bubble solution (and from what I read in other reviews, humidity helps). In Attempt #1, I used a bucket that had had Oxyclean in it before I briefly rinsed it out to use. I also used a Dawn imitation, and some giant bubble product. This attempt didn't produce bubbles; they burst right in the wand. In Attempt #2, I used a large bowl (so I know there was no laundry stain removal product) and the real deal Dawn dish detergent, at the ratios of water to Dawn recommended online by everyone else. I left out the giant bubble product. This solution worked quite well. Be prepared for lots of squeals and laughter.

This is a good product, well made, and definitely one that a pro could use. After using it for two shows, I only have a couple of small critiques. First, the clips are so well made, the tension makes it kind of hard to switch out ropes mid-show with soapy hands. The other thing is that it's very important to keep the telescoping metal poles dry. I discovered the hard way that they rust very easily. But forewarned means forearmed. It's a better product than most on the market.

Perfect !

I liked the ease of the product. I did not think making the bubbles was as easy as appeared. The wind helped, but still my bubbles would not connect into bubbles. I had to try a few different mixtures of bubbles until the bubbles got easier to make. Fun for a short bit, but wish it was easier to use right away.

Awesome fun for kids of all ages.

Been doing big bubbles now for a few years, and just got this new wand in. Before heading out to the park, I was a bit skeptical about the thin yarn like cords/string, but was surprised how well it did in making large bubbles. This one has a larger span on the cords, than my old wand, and was able to make large bubbles with it. The telescoping poles was the one feature I really was interested in and they worked great ( and were light weight comparable to old wand with wood sticks). Overall, great wand for making big bubbles in still / light wind conditions. And especially when I travel, I can easily bring these along. The great option on this set is having 3 different cords you can choose from and switch them off as needed.... which is a great option to have, so you can adjust to the wind conditions you're dealing with. Of course, also need to have the right bubble solution.. which I'm using the one I found online with J-Lube that has been the best so far.

Basically, it didn't work too well. I made the bubble solution to specifications, but the outcome was disapointing!