He lets his kids play with a blower and indignant Twitter: “Did we build the best toy ever?”

Animator and operator of special effects Daniel Hashimoto he wanted to inspire his own children Giacomo Y Sofia to be more “creative”, he had no better idea than letting them play with a homemade flamethrower.

In one of the videos uploaded to Twitter by the 39-year-old man, 11 and 7-year-olds are seen playing with a blower that makes fabrics flutter.

But in another, also published by the animator, it seems that the boys are managing the live fire. In this regard, an important clarification: lamas that look “seriously” are actually computer created.

For the apparently harmless invention (that of fabrics, that is the only one), “Hashi” used a 40V battery blower with a silk elastic at the end. He tied up some orange and red fabrics, then turned on the fan and when the air came out it caused a fire effect.

“Did we just build the best toy ever?” Hashimoto wonders in the original video. The animator then edited his clip to make a joke, adding a false focus to it, and even tweeted it, creating some confusion.

Speaking to South West News, Hashimoto said the idea for the “flamethrower” came from him and his children who saw how the lightweight fabric would work with the blower.

“The result was even more spectacular than we imagined: large undulating waves remarkably resembled flames, so the device was immediately nicknamed ‘the flamethrower’,” said Hashimoto.

“For the children it was not a deadly weapon, but rather a dynamic obstacle that caused laughter,” continued the native of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

According to the inventor, his children, always supervised by him or his wife Mandy, play jump rope on “embers” or recreate scenes from the TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender.

“I think most children can transform this kind of imagination to improvise and face challenges. We absolutely want to encourage imaginative play, creative problem solving, and invent new and fun games from what’s out there. “

The reactions on Twitter

The video of the children playing with the fake fire was seen by 6 million people on Twitter, while the original (the one with the fabrics) by 7.2. Obviously there were many who didn’t understand the joke.

“Children grow up and become adults, they will want a real one. The United States already has a problem with weapons, can you imagine if they also had a problem with the flamethrowers? “, One person expressed, completely indignant.

“Pretty awful when you think about what a real flamethrower can do to a human …” agreed another user.

A third observed: “I look at a nerf gun thinking about the horrors of World War I. I’m crying before I fall to my knees. “

“Twitter users are so weird. They see a video of children having fun with a toy their father made for them and want to turn it into a “glorified / trivialized weapon of war,” said one Internet user in contrast to previous ones.