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Splatter Up

t-ball water toy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ7578432 ↗
Source-derived summary

Splatter Up is a T-ball toy released in 1988, designed by WET Design, under the Worlds of Wonder brand. The toy was later manufactured (marketed) by Buddy-L and Wham-O. The toy has been described as a "wet version of baseball" using a garden hose attached to a foot pedal to control the water pressure that funnels the water into a stream to push a wiffle ball up into the air so it can be hit with a plastic bat.

In 1989, the Consumer Affairs Committee of Americans for Democratic Action recommended Splatter Up as a "safe and fun toy".

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Splatter Up” as t-ball water toy. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Splatter, t-ball and water can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as t-ball water toy. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7578432. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1988 and 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Splatter Up” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.