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Mega Pop Pop

Mega Pop Pop
Those miniature firecrackers sold under the accurate brand name "Pop Pop" can add much-needed excitement to an otherwise relaxing afternoon on the stoop or porch. One can often reach a meditative state by throwing them one after another onto any hard, dry surface and watching for the flash of their small explosion. But have you ever wished they were a little bit bigger and louder? There is a simple fix for their diminutive size: the Mega Pop Pop.
 
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Step 1Materials

Materials
You will need one (1) box of Pop Pops, often sold in delis, party stores and Chinese groceries. It is also helpful to have some thin, crinkly paper on hand. Cigarette paper is about the right size, shape and thickness. A tweezers is helpful for picking up small bits of gravel and/or gunpowder that might go astray during the assembly of your Pop Pop. The author also used a revolutionary how-to book to lend some gravitas to the proceedings, but this is optional.
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25 comments
Mar 26, 2012. 3:52 PMAron313 says:
Do you have a video?
Feb 27, 2012. 3:19 PMGASSYPOOTS says:
tried this earlier but it diddnt work
Oct 7, 2011. 5:34 PMrocketman221 says:
I once made one the size of a baseball, although I used aluminum foil instead of paper. It sounded like a stick of dynamite when it went off. Just be careful, you don't want it to go off while you are making it.
Jan 5, 2012. 2:14 PMhalogirl says:
i i had at least 4 boxes of them undone and the bowl full of the rocks exploded in my lap i was deaf for about an hour and i peed a little to
Jan 11, 2011. 10:29 PMThe Homemade Arsenal says:
If you guys want, I can teach you how to make a bomb out of a roll of toilet paper and a stick of dynamite... ;P
Dec 5, 2010. 6:40 PMThe nerdling says:
shoot them with this gun
http://www.instructables.com/id/Marshmallow-gun/step4/Test/
Nov 22, 2010. 8:26 AMseabananers says:
C4 pop pop >:)
Nov 21, 2010. 5:16 AMRocketManDave says:
You forgot to mention safety goggles :)
Nov 21, 2010. 5:14 AMRocketManDave says:
Haha, the book certainly lends gravitas !
Jun 5, 2010. 3:12 PMseabananers says:
lol once my friend was fighting over and he held it to tight and burned his hand real bad
Nov 21, 2010. 5:12 AMRocketManDave says:
I did that once, you forget what you have in your hand, bam! hot hot hot! ;)
Oct 1, 2010. 1:39 PMilpug says:
great way to lose an eye...
Jul 21, 2010. 6:20 PM15zhangfra says:
nice, but i can buy pop pops that are made even larger than that, and they use higher explosives too =D
Sep 14, 2010. 5:59 PMchurchman says:
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Sep 14, 2010. 6:15 PM15zhangfra says:
never claimed to be rich, and neither am saying that homemade, fun and cheap isn't bad. if it's insulting or coming out like i'm better than you then i'm sorry and i'll remove it.
Aug 17, 2010. 3:46 PMQtrowl says:
i did that once with around 400 of them taken apart in a bowl and i dropped one more in and the whole thing blew up in my face!
Sep 14, 2010. 5:56 PMchurchman says:
Did you get temporary blindness? I did that with 149 and the last one blew it up! I got hit in the Eye and got temporary blindness!
Sep 14, 2010. 1:16 PMN3v3rm0r3 says:
OUCH!!!
Jul 23, 2010. 6:51 PMducktape.mac says:
ha! i made one of these and i went into my little brothers room and was bragging on it and i must have pinched it in the wrong place and it went off!!! i had a whole pack in there and the rocks were all over the floor!!!we have concrete floors so know when you walk in there you get rocks in your feet!!
May 25, 2010. 11:01 AMDaRealNapstah says:
what can I use instead of cigarette paper??
Jul 6, 2010. 2:23 AMvignesh1230 says:
What i do is i get a normal sheet of paper and soak it in a huge tub of water without crinkling the paper. When it is soaked i take it out without ripping it and leave to dry! I get this thin see through-ish paper!
Jun 28, 2010. 3:21 PMcrazilarkin95 says:
mom i need some joint paper for a big pop-pop ;)
Jun 11, 2010. 4:19 AM92033 says:
Now...get FOUR STICKS OF DYNAMITE...tape them together and... JEST KIDDING!!!
Apr 27, 2010. 7:16 PMteslafan100 says:
cool :)
Apr 20, 2010. 2:32 PMlemonie says:
Well done on getting this together without setting it off.

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