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Not every float is for lounging. The splash deck is our name for the pieces built around a game — a float with a pumped water cannon on the bow, and a giant inflatable board that turns a pool into a tic tac toe match between two sides of the shallow end.
The tank float is a ride-on with a seat, two handles and a cannon that draws from the pool and throws a stream about twenty feet. It is loud, it starts arguments, and it is the single most reliable way we know to get kids out of the house on a hot afternoon. The hull is the same heavy gauge vinyl as our river tubes because a toy that gets rammed into pool walls needs to be built like one that does not.
The shark game is the quieter half. It floats flat, carries nine ring positions and a set of toss rings in two colours, and plays from the steps or from the water. It works as a party table too — deflated weight is under three pounds, so it travels to a lake day without taking the trunk.
Both are sized for a standard backyard pool rather than a club pool. If your water is small, these are the two pieces that create the most play per square foot, and they both pack down to a bag at the end of the season.
Both pieces earn their place at a birthday party, which is the honest reason most of them leave our warehouse. If you are weighing a game against a second lounger, the float guide lays out the trade: a game gives a group of children an hour of structured noise, a lounger gives one adult a quiet afternoon. In our experience a pool that has both is a pool that gets used by everybody rather than by whoever claimed it first.