Wotofo Elder Dragon RDA
It's fairly well documented that yours truly is quite susceptible to spinning the odd yarn within these rambling nonsensical reviews I plague your eyes with, and for the most part....at least some of you seem to enjoy it....and with both those people I am referring to...at least half will no doubt be left with one burning thought, paramount, front and centre...in the middle of their thick and slightly neanderthal skull.....
Who indeed...am I to argue. Unfortunately, none of my 'colourful' past exploits really included any fire breathing reptiles, not real ones anyway, maybe the odd girlfriend or even the ex-wife could possibly slip into that category, and I did once own an Iguana that used to whip me across the face with its tail everytime I picked it up, the evil little fuckweasel ....
But real actual Dragons.....surprisingly....seemed to slip me by in my youth....odd that.
Today however.....I will make good for my single perplexed reader and bestow upon him.....or her...or indeed any of the known 64 genders....a real....bonafide....Dragon....no of course not an actual 'real' one, don't be so fucking stupid...what's wrong with you...have you any idea how expensive real Dragons are these days!?!.....Instead...we have a Dragon that takes its name from a video game, is modelled on a Japanese Buddhist temple and is designed by a guy who's name I can't pronounce....
This should be fun...
.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
And welcome once more my fluffy fog billowing flavour freaks, back again with even less sense than normal with a device that was sent to me by the Kings of the collaboration...Wotofo. And yet again, we have another joint venture with another vape reviewer, and this time it is the turn of Japanese reviewer 阪上龍生, or Ryusei Sakaue to those who can't read squiggly lines...and maybe someone called Ryusei Osaka whose name also appears on this YT channel. Apparently someone called 'Beprog' was also involved somewhere along the lines....who the fuck knows, I mean even the name of this thing is either 'Ryujin' or 'The Elder Dragon' RDA....and seeing as 'Ryujin' actually means 'The Dragon God'...and not 'The Elder Dragon'.....I for one....am left up the shit creak of confusion, without a paddle...or indeed a clue...SO....with the high probability that I will only be digging myself a bigger hole the longer I sit here and attempt to explain wtf I am doing....let's just crack the fuck on.....with the Wotofo & 阪上龍生/Ryusei Sakaue- Elder Dragon/Ryujin RDA (pfft..nailed it)
Now, to start with, a little bit of transparency. I have never heard of the reviewer Ryusei Sakaue, which is hardly surprising as he is purely a Japanese speaking reviewer. He is however a 50k sub Youtube 'celeb', which tells me he has his followers...which also tells me....he more than likely knows a thing or two about how an RDA should work. Regardless of any language barrier, it is a super well known fact that RDA design....is the new 'love'...when it comes to universal language...(?) and I will indeed do my best to sink my teeth straight into the heart of this so called 'Dragon'
nom nom nom.
The Lowdown
The Wotofo & 阪上龍生/Ryusei Sakaue- Elder Dragon/Ryujin RDA.....wait a minute....if ever a nickname was needed for something, this is it. For the remainder of this review I shall simply refer to it as 'Ed' ....Hey!.....You don’t have to type this shit out!....SO....the 'Ed' is an 'ickle' 22mm single coil affair, which is something of a rarity these days in a market predominantly saturated with 24 to 25mm RDA's....and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Smaller, more compact chambers can offer enormous amounts of flavour if done correctly, and with it solely being made for a single engine, it would appear that flavour over vast amounts of fluffies...is what the Ed is geared towards.
First, there's the appearance. The design itself is apparently taken from that of a Pagoda - a Japanese Buddhist temple to you and me...
Now...as my tiny childlike, slightly sarcastic intelligence attempts to get to grips with this comparison...
All I actually see is a fat robot head with drag queen eyelashes....
Yeah....now you see it, it would appear that Ed may well have a side hobby starring in the odd glossy musical. Regardless, I actually kinda dig the look....and no...you can't judge me on that. Anything these days that looks different from the usual run of the mill RDA is a winner in my eyes....and whether those eyes may or may not have fake 6 inch eyelashes attached to them at weekends...is none of your goddamn business.
Now....up on the top....the crown on this Queen of Dragons is a bog standard 810 swirly resin drip tip. This for me was really the biggest thing which let the Ed down...
It just feels so cheap, and I hate the way they have 'trimmed' it from the middle to make the mouthpiece smaller, it doesn't feel right to me at all. I get that restricting it slightly is the way to go for single coil RDA's, but it only took one 'toot' on the thing for me to swap it right out for one of my own...
It may not fit perfectly but it sure feels a whole lot better, let me tell you. No....not a fan of the original drip tip one little bit; I guess that could be considered as purely subjective though.
Moving down we have the airflow control - 2 tiny holes on either side that are simply adjusted by turning the chamber, which incidentally locks on wide open and completely closed - something that is very handy when it comes to unscrewing your RDA should you be a bit overzealous on screwing it on. Big fan of that. And the reason these holes are so small....becomes oh so clear when you remove the very nicely domed chamber ...
And take a look at the build deck...
If you had any reservations about the outside of this RDA, those reservations will soon disperse when you see just how well machined and beautifully designed the build deck is......think '22mm Pulse RDA'....but curvier, and with a couple of extra post holes....which is basically what the Ed is.
It's a four-hole postless deck with the same dual airflow ports pointed directly at your coil, with the post screws in the same place too...
The main differences between this and the Pulse are the extra post holes to cater for whichever way around your coil is wrapped, the fact that you can remove the air ports for cleaning, and the cut-out on each side of the well wall for easy coil placement and wicking...
But the idea itself....is pretty much identical. However, that's not really a bad thing - the Pulse was an amazing RDA after all.
Building on the Ed is a piece of piss, as you would expect with a postless deck. This is only made easier with the included coil trimming tool....complete with a 'This One Dumbass' sticker....for those 'men' amongst you that (a) don't read the manual, and (b) think numbers are vastly overrated and should be replaced by large neon green arrows.
It's almost as if they knew me personally....
From there on in it's pretty much the same as my sexual mantra......trim it and pop it in..
stuff it....
and make it sopping wet....
And the whole thing can pretty much be completed in 30 seconds....
I'm not even sorry (except to maybe my other half, whom I apologise to most weekends...)
It's fairly well documented that yours truly is quite susceptible to spinning the odd yarn within these rambling nonsensical reviews I plague your eyes with, and for the most part....at least some of you seem to enjoy it....and with both those people I am referring to...at least half will no doubt be left with one burning thought, paramount, front and centre...in the middle of their thick and slightly neanderthal skull.....
Who indeed...am I to argue. Unfortunately, none of my 'colourful' past exploits really included any fire breathing reptiles, not real ones anyway, maybe the odd girlfriend or even the ex-wife could possibly slip into that category, and I did once own an Iguana that used to whip me across the face with its tail everytime I picked it up, the evil little fuckweasel ....
But real actual Dragons.....surprisingly....seemed to slip me by in my youth....odd that.
Today however.....I will make good for my single perplexed reader and bestow upon him.....or her...or indeed any of the known 64 genders....a real....bonafide....Dragon....no of course not an actual 'real' one, don't be so fucking stupid...what's wrong with you...have you any idea how expensive real Dragons are these days!?!.....Instead...we have a Dragon that takes its name from a video game, is modelled on a Japanese Buddhist temple and is designed by a guy who's name I can't pronounce....
This should be fun...
.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
And welcome once more my fluffy fog billowing flavour freaks, back again with even less sense than normal with a device that was sent to me by the Kings of the collaboration...Wotofo. And yet again, we have another joint venture with another vape reviewer, and this time it is the turn of Japanese reviewer 阪上龍生, or Ryusei Sakaue to those who can't read squiggly lines...and maybe someone called Ryusei Osaka whose name also appears on this YT channel. Apparently someone called 'Beprog' was also involved somewhere along the lines....who the fuck knows, I mean even the name of this thing is either 'Ryujin' or 'The Elder Dragon' RDA....and seeing as 'Ryujin' actually means 'The Dragon God'...and not 'The Elder Dragon'.....I for one....am left up the shit creak of confusion, without a paddle...or indeed a clue...SO....with the high probability that I will only be digging myself a bigger hole the longer I sit here and attempt to explain wtf I am doing....let's just crack the fuck on.....with the Wotofo & 阪上龍生/Ryusei Sakaue- Elder Dragon/Ryujin RDA (pfft..nailed it)
Now, to start with, a little bit of transparency. I have never heard of the reviewer Ryusei Sakaue, which is hardly surprising as he is purely a Japanese speaking reviewer. He is however a 50k sub Youtube 'celeb', which tells me he has his followers...which also tells me....he more than likely knows a thing or two about how an RDA should work. Regardless of any language barrier, it is a super well known fact that RDA design....is the new 'love'...when it comes to universal language...(?) and I will indeed do my best to sink my teeth straight into the heart of this so called 'Dragon'
nom nom nom.
The Lowdown
The Wotofo & 阪上龍生/Ryusei Sakaue- Elder Dragon/Ryujin RDA.....wait a minute....if ever a nickname was needed for something, this is it. For the remainder of this review I shall simply refer to it as 'Ed' ....Hey!.....You don’t have to type this shit out!....SO....the 'Ed' is an 'ickle' 22mm single coil affair, which is something of a rarity these days in a market predominantly saturated with 24 to 25mm RDA's....and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Smaller, more compact chambers can offer enormous amounts of flavour if done correctly, and with it solely being made for a single engine, it would appear that flavour over vast amounts of fluffies...is what the Ed is geared towards.
First, there's the appearance. The design itself is apparently taken from that of a Pagoda - a Japanese Buddhist temple to you and me...
Now...as my tiny childlike, slightly sarcastic intelligence attempts to get to grips with this comparison...
All I actually see is a fat robot head with drag queen eyelashes....
Yeah....now you see it, it would appear that Ed may well have a side hobby starring in the odd glossy musical. Regardless, I actually kinda dig the look....and no...you can't judge me on that. Anything these days that looks different from the usual run of the mill RDA is a winner in my eyes....and whether those eyes may or may not have fake 6 inch eyelashes attached to them at weekends...is none of your goddamn business.
Now....up on the top....the crown on this Queen of Dragons is a bog standard 810 swirly resin drip tip. This for me was really the biggest thing which let the Ed down...
It just feels so cheap, and I hate the way they have 'trimmed' it from the middle to make the mouthpiece smaller, it doesn't feel right to me at all. I get that restricting it slightly is the way to go for single coil RDA's, but it only took one 'toot' on the thing for me to swap it right out for one of my own...
It may not fit perfectly but it sure feels a whole lot better, let me tell you. No....not a fan of the original drip tip one little bit; I guess that could be considered as purely subjective though.
Moving down we have the airflow control - 2 tiny holes on either side that are simply adjusted by turning the chamber, which incidentally locks on wide open and completely closed - something that is very handy when it comes to unscrewing your RDA should you be a bit overzealous on screwing it on. Big fan of that. And the reason these holes are so small....becomes oh so clear when you remove the very nicely domed chamber ...
And take a look at the build deck...
If you had any reservations about the outside of this RDA, those reservations will soon disperse when you see just how well machined and beautifully designed the build deck is......think '22mm Pulse RDA'....but curvier, and with a couple of extra post holes....which is basically what the Ed is.
It's a four-hole postless deck with the same dual airflow ports pointed directly at your coil, with the post screws in the same place too...
The main differences between this and the Pulse are the extra post holes to cater for whichever way around your coil is wrapped, the fact that you can remove the air ports for cleaning, and the cut-out on each side of the well wall for easy coil placement and wicking...
But the idea itself....is pretty much identical. However, that's not really a bad thing - the Pulse was an amazing RDA after all.
Building on the Ed is a piece of piss, as you would expect with a postless deck. This is only made easier with the included coil trimming tool....complete with a 'This One Dumbass' sticker....for those 'men' amongst you that (a) don't read the manual, and (b) think numbers are vastly overrated and should be replaced by large neon green arrows.
It's almost as if they knew me personally....
From there on in it's pretty much the same as my sexual mantra......trim it and pop it in..
stuff it....
and make it sopping wet....
And the whole thing can pretty much be completed in 30 seconds....
I'm not even sorry (except to maybe my other half, whom I apologise to most weekends...)
