Video: Exploding cupcakes!

Here's a wonderful slow motion video of cupcakes flying out of a 120psi cupcake cannon and into people's faces.

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thickslop

Why you idiots gotta dis, with all your negativity? You’re all like, “this sucks”, and “this video editing is terrible”. But you know what, your a bunch of nerds and won’t do anything! Yeah. I said it. You’ll never dedicate your life to selling t-shirts and plastic cupcakes to promote t-shirts. It’s clothes, bitches! No one is here to impress you, or dazzle you with good video editing. And you know what else, its so hilarious you never do nuthin. You’re never gonna make a boloney shooting gun! You just sit behind your computer like you always do and disrespect. So, like, you nerds gotta like, show mad props!
Shane

Wow, 1.5 horribly edited minutes of hipsters making faces. Wait, there’s supposed to be cupcakes too?

Nothing that shows anything of real interest, as others have eluded to.

nthr lcklstr Ls pstng….
PaulR

It’s been done: The RCAF’s Chicken Cannon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0lOf5VlzWU
Anonymous

Boner Cupcake! would be all over this.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boner-Cupcake/350199898142?ref=ts

http://www.bonercupcake.com
Anonymous

For reals? You folks are even cynical about cupcake videos?
bdjsb7

Here’s some of the actual footage of people being hit… as well as some info on the cannon itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk6DoqYgxvw

I was also disappointed with the editing in the clip featured in the post. You’ll like this more once you get through the promo stuff :)
Nevermore

Is that the exploding head of a diabetic Scanner?
NoahApples

It would be nice if instead of a minute and a half of terrible editing I got to see some people get hit with cupcakes.
flappy

it would be nice if it was preceded by three-and-a half minutes of Rube Goldberg-ian bakery madness synced to a better tune.
- sequential
  
  Are you kidding? That tune rocks!
zikman

not a single money shot in the whole thing…
slugabed

The handy thing about shooting food products at hipsters is that they usually carry kitschy eye wear at all times anyway.
xzzy

Not nearly enough attention was paid to the gun itself.
flappy

These comments really could have been better. Shoulda known.
Anonymous

Two Girls, One Cupcake-Cannon-Protection-Suit

Giggity!
Anonymous

OMG. I SO want one, one a rotating turret and a belt feed.(bakery belt feed? oh kool.)

Major props for the steam punk design ethic too, you goth cake slammer you.
Chocolatey Shatner

Yes, those of you who have complained are entirely right to do so: you paid good money to watch that video, and you deserve what you paid for! What’s that you say, it was free? Very well, then the bastards who held you down and forced your eyes open and made you watch it should pay for their crimes! Wait, what? You mean you watched it of your own volition? Oh.

As for me, I enjoyed it: several of the gentleman were pleasing to look at. That doesn’t mean I’m into sploshing, though…
Anonymous

at 36 seconds, two girls, one cup… cake
- jackie31337
  
  I would love to see that meme take off. Also, I want more cupcake cannon!
fnc

Yeah, I’m here for an exploding cupcake video?
Anonymous

I came here to say exactly what NoahApples said. That video gave me a serious case of cupcake blueballs.
Jaan

120 psi means absolutely nothing without context.
Anonymous

Inspiration? http://www.vimeo.com/2533749…

Johnny Cupcakes 1 year ago
“Amazing! I’m going to post this on my blog! johnnycupcakes.com”
Marcel

underwhelmed
Anonymous

Great looking footage, but I have to agree with the above comments. Terrible decisions were made in the editing.
jordan

The good: Dalek-lookin’ steampunky cupcake cannon, people having fun with flying desserts.

The bad: As noted above… not nearly enough impact footage.
Heartfruit

Still this would be a fitting end for a cupcake cake.
thickslop

A Steam punk cupcake gun is a really cool idea. And even after being let down by this crappy video, I took a minute to follow the you tube link in hopes of some more promising footage. I can’t believe how much time, effort and resources these people put into this crap. A dozen T shirts, screen printed vinyl curtains, a nation-wide tour…its just a cupcake gun, not really worth touring the country.

But check this out. Modify the cupcake gun to shoot baloney sandwiches instead, tour the country and make slow motion videos blasting baloney sandwiches into the gaping mouths of homeless people! And then you and your entourage can pass out high fives! Don’t worry, you can still have your own logo and line of t-shirts saying how awesome you are! Totally epic!!!
spense_diggity

To all you idiots who posted negative comments… Please. They didn’t make this video in hopes that it would dazzle you internet nerds. It’s funny how you all suggest something else too. But it wont be done. Why? Because you’ll just sit at the computer, like always, and maybe dis on someone who is actually doing something.
Anonymous

It’s not true there’s no money shot. There is a single one, right at the end, when buddy gets beaned by a blue one. But it did seem oddly edited to remove nearly all impacts. Perhaps they were worried about a lawsuit from the cupcake anti-defamation league? Or perhaps they know what we want and they’re holding out on us.
ann0yed

Boy thanks for that very disappointing video. Either the gun operator was a terrible aim or the vid director lost sight of the whole point. Who gives a crap about seeing people in slow motion with nothing happening to them when there is A GUN THAT SHOOTS CUP CAKES IN THE SAME ROOM YOU DUMB ASSES.
duncan

Taken straight from family guy…
Anonymous

Any idea what fps that video was shot at. That slow mo, looked truely slomo, 80 fps or higher?