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Aquatica has been an online organization for the ways of Soaker Information since Autumn 1999. Originally founded by Aquatechnology (now known as iSoaker.com) and The Aqua-Nexus, the new system brought forth a brand new Webring, Newsletter, and Chat Forum, all unified under one roof - so any soaker could find everything soaker online. That club, which eventually outpowered the famous MiB Alliance club by means of Popularity in Summer 2000, was the Aquatica Yahoo Club... The net prospered, Soakers online grew.
During that time the evils of advertisement and gluttony have been brewing. Dot.Com business facing hard times turned to taking desperate measures... Finally, as with many companies in the US after the events of Sept. 11th, Yahoo was one of them. Last Fall it was announced that Yahoo Clubs would be Merging with the strange and often despised Yahoo Group system, clubs would cease to exist. At that point, the Aquatica Club had soared solidly to over 260 Members from all over the world, by far the largest gathering of Soaker Fanatics online.
Then... the darkness came. At the start of March, Aquatica Yahoo Club had been converted to the Aquatica2 Yahoo Group. With an awful layout and a slow server, and with advertizements for stupid things like micro-sized "X10" security cameras "Spy on your Friends! It's fun!"... The Glory days of Yahoo as a good place for a soaker forum came to an end, and, even though the Aquatica2 Yahoo Group still exists, without means of upgrading to remove the Advertisements or to a faster server, we've been - by popular demand - forced to move on.
Enter EZ Board.
Used by other online communities,
this service - discovered by the Soaker Crowd by ShadowStrikePrime of AquaFire
- offers easy to use posting and fast servers for messages.. So under the
direction of iSoaker.com
(and of course My approval as well as that of TechSoaker's
TAKrogoth, the other Aquatica Co-Founder), Aquatica's chat forum has been
moved to EZ Boards, at least until Aquatica can find a Private server all
our own.
So, you can now find the
Aquatica Club at...
http://pub5.ezboard.com/baquatica51546
Yay!
Have a nice visit to the Aqua-Nexus!
-MaX
In the meantime, we're open for the season, so stay tuned for more Aqua-Nexus updates!
-MaXStaR (formerly SSW)
---Added 1:43pm GMT-400---
This was brought to attention
on the new Aquatica
EZBoard, kudos to iSoaker. :)
Hilarious!
http://breakpointcity.keenspace.com/d/20020413.html
4.03.2002
Something wrong here...
twice in one week? Just making a few tweaks to the 'Home' page and
the Links section. That's pretty much it. :)
Later!
Well, a small update has anyway, links page redone, News section reworked. Hopefully soon an overhaul of the Blaster Archives can be put forward and the new 2002 Soakers can be seen here...
The 2002 SuperSoaker.com
site was posted nearly a month ago now, with a very stylish look and a
retro colour scheme dating back to the Classic SuperSoaker.com v1.0 look,
which served the Net until 1999. But more importantly, the new 2002 Super
Soakers have been released!
New Soaker Newscast:
While I don't yet have many
pictures I can at least give a few details for this years Soaker-stock...
While the lineup this year is generally smaller than the previous years
I have to say that these new blasters have to be some of the sturdiest
guns ever built, more solid than even the 1994-95 XPs. Looks like Monster
Toughness has been passed down the line. :)
Max-D. The name says
power, really, it is. These guns are on the level of the XP, but the transition
to them is much like that of Classic to XP. These things have massive nozzles,
the pistols have power for goodness sake.
The initial lineup of Max-D's
range from 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000 and 6000.
6000 is a super-solid build
of the XP310, basically the same thing with thick plastic and in Black-Yellow.
5000 looks a little iffy
as it is only a single-tank compression system based gun (the ball is only
decoration), but who really knows it's power until testing one one out,
who knows, it may just offer more shot time than the disasterously short
spurts of the XP70 and XP270, which would be an improvement on Larami's
hottest selling gun catagory.
4000, 3000, and 2000 on
the other hand, power pistols. I have acquired a 3000 so far (for review
later this month or May), and the thing is simply amazing. The power is
impressive, although if the noisy "CLICK" of the trigger when firing doesn't
give away your position, nothing will. Where did the 3000 come from anyway?
It's always been 20 or 40 in recent years... Now it seems like we have
more small guns to choose from.
All things considered, I
really like what they've done with the Max-D Line.
XP. What? I just got finished explaining the XP's successor in all it's glory and now I'm talking about more XP's? No... no new XPs.... just the return of some pistol favorites, now available this year in special 2-Packs.
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CPS. Ahh, yes, what everybody's looking forward to. Well, me anyway. Nothing toooo too special this year.
The 2001 Monster makes a comeback this year with the new CPSs as CPS4100... Basically the same gun with new colours and no SuperCharge. (Darn)
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Monster. Well, same thing as the last 2 years pretty much, Monster X and Monster XL. Although I don't have a picture of it, apparently Monster X has a new look, Green with an Orange barrel. More on that when I can get some info.
Well... that seems to be about it... Hopefully you'll be seeing more from the Nexus before the Months over, it's long overdue. ;)