Awesome candy shop; so fun to bring my little and show him some international delights and old time favorites. It was also super fun to look at the assortment of interesting sodas, etc. A little pricey but it is specialty and downtown prime location. Worth a stop!

Huge selection of weirdness! Definitely a must visit location. We bought a case of various sodas; including a pickle flavored pop! Just a fun little store. Well definitely be back.

Not gonna lie this store is very overwhelming. Lots of kids running around and touching everything. They have a great selection of candy and the staff is very friendly but it just was not a vibe for me. Prices a little high. If you’re into candy shops though, you’ll probably like it!

Great place if youre looking for unique drinks, snacks, decorations or trinkets. Wide selection of sodas, 30 different kinds of root beers, strange flavors and ice cold ginger ales. Candy, both new and old, fun things for kids. I go there very often and the employees there are always nice and helpful.

Super fun place to visit! They have throw back candies and soda flavors of all kinds! The workers are very friendly as well. I had a blast coming here.

Super cute place. They have all sorts of nostalgic goodies and new things to try. There is a great soda selection as well, they carry around 500 varieties. They also carry knick knack items and creative retro signs that would be great for a movie room, kitchen, or laundry room. Its a nice place to go for a quick date to enjoy treats while sitting on the street to chat and hang out. Its also a fun place to visit with kids after going to the public library.

It is a fun throwback shop with a variety of candies, sodas(Pop to the locals) and lots of novelty items. I was most impressed by their soda collection amd couldnt pass up some of the odd ones.

Rocket Fizz is one of the most fun little shops in Downtown Kalamazoo! It has a crazy large assortment of candies and sodas. I like to try different flavors of Japanese Kit Kats and salted crickets. But dont worry- they have scores of more traditional delicious treats!!!They also sell funky metal signs and neat little random toys and gifts, like mood rings.The employees there are helpful and kind.

A little quirky: a little nostalgic: a lot of fun! It is a great place for out of state visitors!! The different Soda selection is amazing!! I cannot wait to visit again!!

Awesome staff and such an awesome variety of snacks, candies, drinks and trinkets! Definitely worth a visit if you find yourself in the area!

I was revisited by my childhood!

I can say I personally know the owner, tom, and he is a kind and generous soul. I would recommend his store to anyone that is looking for a variety, flavor and exceptional service.

This place is so much fun! You immediately feel youthful upon entry. There are so many glass bottle pops to choose from and of course the walls lined with all taffy you can imagine. This is a good place to find a fun, unique gift and gag gifts as well.

You have to experience this place for yourself. The staggering amounts of flavors of just the soda pop alone, is crazy! And the candy.......

AWESOME drinks, I especially loved their Bob Ross Positive Energy Drink

Huge selection of candy and soda. They have candy I havent seen since the early 2000s. The staff are super nice and helpful.

Dang thats good rootbeer! ;)

Love the store worker that was there. He was friendly and helpful. We spent so much time in the store, so my 8 year old could look at every little item. We didnt feel rushed at all and we found lots of goodies!

Great place! Staff was fun, great variety, our kids loved it as youd expect but for my wife and I what an awesome trip down memory lane with the candy selection

Always a sweet treat @ Rocket Fizz...

Great place!!! What a fun selection of pop and candy. The staff was so helpful. Will be back!

Brought back memories seeing stuff I enjoyed as a kid...fun store...take a walk through... take your time...fun experience...

I collect pizza stuff. Now I have pizza🍕gummies to go in my pizza backpack 🎒

Just stopped in tonight to grab some root beer. This place is honestly so freaking sweet. The man working behind the counter was SO nice and SO knowledgeable about root beer and told us some really cool things about the process on how it’s made. I personally am more of a cream soda type of gal myself, but they literally have anything you could ever dream of here. Please, if you’re in the area, check this place out! You’ll want to brag about it to your friends :)

Awesome!! Very nostalgic small town vibe.

Super cool store!! Really nice staff and some great sodas. Bunch of candy to choose from too!

Perfect place for stocking stuffers. Got my father in law a bunch of quirky things to send over seas. I am sure hes going to have a hoot when he receives his package.So much pop, taffy and chocolate 🍫 I could spend all day in there!!! 😁🍭🍬🦷

This place was so cool looking they had so much candy everywhere. I was like a kid in a candy shop even though Im an older woman. Some of the candy I havent seen since I was a kid

Selection of soda is unparalleled

My grandkids love that place. It was fun to take them there . They have a lot of awesome candy. The sales girl was awesome, she treated my grandkids very well.

Thought there would be more retro candies then what was there

Wonderful place full of hard to find soda and candy flavors. So many unique items that expand from their candy and soda selection. Great place for everyone to visit at least once

Cute little stire with some unique items of new and old fashioned candy, toys and sodas.

I am a 49.5 year old woman with a sixteen year old son named Thor, I have stars tattooed on both of my cheekbones, any time I see a swing set I HAVE to give it a whirl, and I will hop happily through any sidewalk hopscotch grid I see scribbled on the ground to this day. Age has nothing to do with having fun and seeing wonder wherever and whenever one can, in my eyes. So, wandering into this fantastic emporium that is the perfect tribute to childhood joys really made an ordinary Tuesday brighter. Everywhere you look there is candy-the literal kind, as well as colorful eye candy in the form of nostalgic toys, gag gifts, so much more. My husband and I knew we would impulsively spend our months grocery budget on Pop Rocks and anything BUT practical things, so we happily spent five on a few fun little bits and bobs and left. What we left with in the brown paper bag made us happier than the high-tech TV we spent a hundred times more on...and to me, that is the magic and the entire point of this store. We can forget it is the little things that can bring the color back to our rainbows. Anyone have two cups on a string I can borrow? I need to make a phone call...

Great store. The staff was super-helpful finding allergy-friendly options for me. I will definitely be back!

Went there for the first time about 2 weeks ago. My niece introduced me to the magic of Rocket Fizz and I will be returning many more times! Great selection of candies from the past and a huge assortment of candy from all over the world. My daughter who is fascinated with Anime found some a small assortment of candy from Japan and China. Not to mention the huge selection of different types of soda pop available, anything from dirt to pickle juice flavors. Along with foreign drinks. I would compare it to walking in to Willy Wonkas imagination.

So many fun things to try here. Went in recently to put together a soda pack for a birthday gift and the staff was super friendly and helpful. And as someone who hesitates to shop during this crazy time, I so appreciate that they are enforcing the mask wearing and have sanitizer at the register. Definitely felt like they care about the safety of their customers and staff. ❤

Super cool and they are very helpful

Amazing candy and soda. Lots of fun prank or gag gifts too.

Love this place, easy to spend a bit but you find candy, pop and trinkets you otherwise wouldnt find elsewhere. Always a fun treat for the kids and us adults. ❤️

Kids loved it staff super patient with little ones

Love this place! Great selection of soda and candy!

Such a wonderful, friendly atmosphere! So much variety and cute little items from my childhood.Staff was friendly, courteous and helpful.I so appreciated the reminders for masks! We are all in this together!

Great, fun vintage selections. Lots of fun candy, soda, and chocolate that take you right back several generations! Its not just a candy store, its an experience!

I love rocket fizz. Awesome place for cool and rare candy and pop.

If you enjoy a host of super weird and exotic sodas and candies, then this is the place for you! There are literally 100s, possibly 1000s of different soda flavors ranging from the normal to insanely strange. There are also a wealth of candies to choose from that follow that same pattern. Its a really cool place to find that weird thing youve always been curious to try.

Love this place, best obscure candies and novelties in Kalamazoo

If youve ever wanted to try ranch, dill pickle, or buttered popcorn soda -this is the place for you. They have an insane variety of crazy pops and retro candies with a soft backdrop of 80s metal/hairband music. My husband was in love. However, prices are steep. Each soda is $2.29 (combo packs knock a little off) and the candy is unmarked which led to a bit of a surprise at the register -we spent $25 on 8 sodas, gum balls, a blowpop, a Charleston chew, and Zotz. If you have a keen eye, you can get many of the beverages and candies for half the price elsewhere. Hefty prices aside, it really is a cool little store.Note: because the sodas are specialty, you can only return your empty deposits back to the store

Fun place! Great candy!

Rocket Fizz is one the funnest stores around! It is not only a “candy shop”, it is an experience and a destination!! The moment you walk in the door you are greeted by staff (who are masked to protect you) but I know they are smiling from ear to ear. I appreciate their commitment to our community with mask and sanitizer procedures in place. 😁It is a step back in time with treats from your childhood, novelties from around the world and sodas that make me giggle. I always think I’m going to try the butter soda but just can’t get up the courage. Haha if you are in downtown Kalamazoo Rocket Fizz is a must see!!

Fun place full of candy and cool metal signs

This little shop has amazed me. If your looking for sweets, or nifty trinkets theyve got it all. Huge selection, and the best part is the guys in there know what they are talking about when it comes to any item in their shop. Well done

Cool place, but a little pricey

We love this place and try to come every weekend possible

This store is THE MOST FUN! Seriously. Its bright and colorful and fun. All of the candy Ive had is DELICIOUS. Most importantly, the staff is so, so, so nice. They gave me, an adult, a gold star sticker for filling up my bag of candy to overflowing. A small thing, really, but it made the experience even more fun and positive. I super dig this store. Great location, great prices, great staff, great products. PLEASE go check it out!!!!

Love the owners. Great people. Fun products, a little pricey, but they will order for you if they dont have something in stock!

I needed my taffy fix

Brings back memories of all the candy we use to get as a child

What a cool place! They specialize in having all kinds of glass bottle sodas, as well as vintage looking candy, and other knick knacks. The owner was so friendly to me. Will be back again! And to the person who gave a 1 star, how could you not give credit to literally the nicest staff members ever. Genuine kindness from them and I dont think I saw them not smiling once.

This place is pretty cool, my child likes it a lot. Always something different to find, see, taste, touch; bacon, kale and dill flavored candy canes for the weird ones on your list.

A fun place for kids, families, or anyone with a sweet tooth. hundreds of varieties of sodas ranging from normal to exotic flavors. A good selection of international and unique candies. you can come in with just a few dollars and come out with a cool gift or surprise.

This place is wonderful, its just plain old fun. Id guess well over a hundred flavors of soda and around 50 flavors of taffy. A bottle cap collectors dream right here.

We absolutely love the wide assortment of candies, sodas, unique items and gifts, also just all around goodies!! The employees are very friendly and helpful... We will definitely be going back again.

Awesome vintage candy/soda store. My only negative comes from the fact that for me the sodas are for the most part a little too sweet for me. You will genuinely get lost in here though. There is so much fun and interesting treats.

Expected more open bin candy that I could pick and choose. Still a wonderful place!!!

Incredible selection of delicious novelty soda and a few that just might make great gag gifts. Nostalgic selection of candy. If you cant find a gift for someone with a sweet tooth that you think has everything, you need to stop by Rocket Fizz. I do think they might benefit from having later hours on Friday and Saturday sharing an entryway with The Union!

So much stuff, it was kool to see some of the stuff that was around when I was a kid. They even have candy and pop from Japan. Kinda expensive so bring your wallet

Cool place. I love all the different sodas they have. Staff always friendly

This store is great! It is just what downtown Kalamazoo needs. The retro candy brings back so many memories. The soda choices are amazing. It was fun reading all the labels. The tin signs are a great touch. The hours of the store are perfect for people who work downtown. Its great that they are open later. This is a store that youll need to revisit often to check out whats new.

I had heard so many great things about this store, and I anticipated visiting for weeks. However, I must say that I was quite disappointed. The store is 80% sodas in classic bottles with incredibly strange flavors and 20% candy that you could get at Five Below for way, way cheaper. Not worth the trip.

Amazing selection, a little bit of everything, I didnt get to see Gene Simmons though :)

Coolest pop shoppe ever! The folks there are knowledgeable and nice. Dont miss out on this fun place! Im a Gen X-er, and it was awesome to find products from my youth that I never realized were still available! A must see if youre in downtown Kalamazoo. A+++++++

Store had tons of awesome candies, sodas, and little toys. Loved the vibe inside.

If you like candy its worth a stop just fill up a bag with what ever you like and pay for the soze of your bag! All kinds of cool different sodas also. All the taffy has been really good also. Its a great stop for anyone in a good mood.

Fun staff with wonderfully personable attitudes. I love going here and they are always so genuinely helpful, makes being an adult suck just a little bit less- even if I have no semblance of self-control when I see the coconut jelly cube snacks. 10/10.

Really nice store. Found a lot of our favorite candies and a lot more to try out. Huge selection of sodas. Very friendly staff, they helped us see if they had celery soda (they did not). All in all a great shop. They also had gag gifts, wall signs, playing cards, metal lunch boxes and other novelty items.

Incredibly cool place filled with nostalgia. Toys, and candies that I hadnt seen in years! The drinks are amazing and fun. Its like being a kid again. I would live there if I could.

The owner is very friendly and great with kids.I came back (not necessarily because I NEEDED candy) only because of the interaction I had with the owner.Good job!

Cool place a lot of different items staff is friendly

Great place! Fantastic choices!

Its the place to find delicious and obscure soda. Great selection of brands and flavors, Staff is kind, welcoming, and helpful

Really cool nostalgia and hard to find/long gone candies and modern treats. Always helpful

Excellent old-fashioned treats including pop and candy. The root beer selection is amazing!

If you like candy and really good soda this is your place, obscure candy and old classics and stuff that just tastes really good

Terrific selection. The kids were amazed! I highly recommend the taffy.

Love the place. Can find candy that other places dont have. Plus I like there weird pop

Great place! Especially the German Candy. Oh and the owners of course. Cool people with a great sense of humor. I’ll be back!

Lots of fun! Kids paradise with the selection of candy and toys. Highly recommend

Great place to go after downtown dinner with the wife and kiddos. Great candy and soda selection.....more than half of which I’ve never heard of. Will be going back soon.

Very helpful& friendly great candy old fashioned pop flavors.

Fun place to hut candy and any kind of fizzy soda you want!

Looking for that hard to find nostalgic candy from when you were a kid? Looking for a specialty beverage, grapefruit soda or a ranch flavored soda? How about some fun signs to hang on your wall or a taffy bin to dig through? This is the place. It exudes childish fun and has some real hidden candy treasures. Ask the staff for suggestions if you are overwhelmed. They really know their stuff!

So many choices! Very friendly staff!

A little slice of silly in the middle of Downtown. A great place to shop for gag gifts or just to look around. In addition to their many novelty drinks and candies that I havent been brave enough to try myself (bacon soda, chocolate covered potato chips, grass soda, vomit jelly beans), they also have a fine array of genuinely delicious drinks and sweets. There are also lots of joke items and toys-- so many so that you may want to be careful about whether or not you bring your kids with you. There are lots of pranks that make sound and can be tried out in the store. If you do bring the young ones, be sure to bring your cloak of patience as well.

Pretty unique for what seems to be just another candy store. They have lots of taffy, some oddball candy, and odd sodas, most of which you’d never buy twice. They had a childhood favorite of mine from Chicago, green river. I wouldn’t drink that past age 10, but it was fun to see.You get one of two sized bags and jam it full of bulk candy and taffy.

There candys heavenly

Amazing little place

Great addition to downtown Kzoo. Usually stop in to get a spicy ginger ale. Lots out unique finds and vintage candy too.

Absolutely amazing place. The variety is intense and so out there. The staff is phenomenal and friendly. I feel like I belong there as soon as I walk in. It is a must see for everyone.

Awesome.