(snowballs thud)
(expectant music plays)
- We recently took a family vacation to the snow
and right away I noticed two things.
Number one: making and throwing snowballs
with your hands is really inefficient.
(Sara McLachlan's "In the Arms of the Angel" plays)
- And number two: as an uncle,
you're always getting unfairly ganged up on.
("In the Arms of the Angel" continues)
(snowball thuds)
- So in an attempt to address both of these issues
I decided to create a snowball machine gun.
(snowballs thump)
(laughs maniacally)
For starters, I needed to find a power source.
(upbeat music plays)
Next, I need to find an awesome brother
to help with the planning and fabrication.
And you may remember Brian
from the video where he
Bob Vila-ed these LED edge lit tables
into existence.
(apprehensive music plays)
(music becomes more upbeat)
(duct tape squeaks)
- Okay, so here is our first test shot
to see if this concept is even gonna work.
So the concept seemed to work.
But since I'm always outnumbered,
if I really wanted to level the playing field,
we needed to somehow take this to
Buddy the Elf level.
(snowballs land) (kid yelps)
(music continues)
(snowballs thump rapidly)
- So as you can see, the concept's pretty simple.
You just load up to 15 snowballs
in this sort of magazine and then clip it on.
And then use the trigger to control the airflow
which determines if you want to shoot them hard or soft.
And then this plunger controls the rate of fire.
So you can do a single shot
or semi-automatic
or just unload them all.
And when you're out of ammo
you can just reload a new magazine
in less than three seconds.
(music continues)
(snowballs crash and smack)
- It works really well,
and with the pack on your back it's portable
so you can use it wherever.
Plus, it makes you look like a freaking Ghost Buster.
(Ghost Buster theme music plays)
- Yeah!
(snowball machine whirring)
(laughs)
- Yeah!
(Ghost Buster music resumes)
(snowball machine shoots)
(snowballs thud)
(snowballs smacking rapidly)
- Wait, wait, wait, wait wait.
Why would you wanna shoot me?
- Because. - Just think about it.
- It's payback, my friend.
- But I'm such a nice uncle.
I don't deserve it.
(yelps) (screams)
(children laugh)
(children whoop and yell)
(unintelligible) - Get back here!
Get over there!
- You shouldn't have crossed the streams.
- What do you mean?
- So if you want to make your own snowball machine gun
my brother has put together detailed instructions
in a PDF that you can download
for free in the video description.