Do I would like a flamethrower? No. Do I would like one? Sure. That appears to be the final perspective behind the hundreds of individuals shopping for Elon Musk’s new fire-breathing toy.

Should you haven’t been following, Musk promised to start promoting a flamethrower for his Boring Firm – the one digging large tunnels underneath LA – a number of months in the past. Now that they’re up for pre-order, they’ve been promoting like hotcakes.

The Tesla CEO tweeted that there have been greater than 10,000 flamethrower pre-orders, that means gross sales of over $5 million to this point (pre-orders initially value $600, however now are $500).

Who wants enterprise funding when you may make cash promoting flamethrowers as a substitute?

10ok

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2018

Musk has helped revolutionize the electrical automobile business and the fashionable area race. Now, all proof suggests he’s serving to us put together for the zombie apocalypse too. He, nevertheless, denies these claims:

The rumor that I’m secretly making a zombie apocalypse to generate demand for flamethrowers is totally false

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 28, 2018

You’d want hundreds of thousands of zombies for a so-called “apocalypse” anyway. The place would I even get a manufacturing facility large enough to make so many!?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 28, 2018

No matter you say, Elon.

In all seriousness, 10,000 fire-breathing machines within the palms of people that don’t want one might be not a good suggestion. However if you wish to be ready for the struggle towards the undead – you understand, simply in case – you may pre-order your personal Boring flamethrower right here.