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  • edited November 2010
    I'm probably going to get one.
    Wait. There is a semi-Automatic revolver coming soon.
    I heard it's loud as hell since the motor never turns off (between shots) and it eats batteries like crazy. I'm probably going to roll with this bad mofo as a sidearm. $20 at Target.
    Post edited by WindUpBird on
  • My little brother is now in possession of the Stampede and a Drum Magazine. I need to step up my armory. The house just turned into a warzone.
  • Every dorm room needs 1 NERF gun. Aside from that I don't see the appeal.

    I did get my classic Nerf bow & arrow taken away when I was little because I had pushed sewing needles down into the tips of the arrows and had set up a balloon target range. Although it was purely innocent on my part, I can see how my parents thought this would end badly, at least for the neighborhood cat.

    It probably didn't help that when given the American Gladiators toy pugil sticks from the joust set, my brother and I ripped off the soft ends and used the foam sticks to beat the shit out of each other with. They were very dense foam with some sort of rubbery sheath over them, but flexed just enough for that whip effect and left one hell of a mark. This was no pool noodle.
  • Aside from that I don't see the appeal.
    Three games:

    1) HvZ
    2) Street Wars
    3) Killer

    Other than that, play airsoft.
  • This fully-automatic, riot shield-equipped, magazine-fed assault riflewill gladly annihilate you.
    Wow, and I have Amazon Prime. I could completely destroy my friends with that.
  • This fully-automatic, riot shield-equipped, magazine-fed assault riflewill gladly annihilate you.
    Wow, and I have Amazon Prime. I could completely destroy my friends with that.
    There was a picture of a kid holding that in the Toys R Us big toy book. It was comically large compared to his 10 year old frame.
  • I'm definitely getting one. HvZ Illinois just got going, and I need to annihilate all competition.
  • edited December 2010
    I didn't know that NERF makes melee weapons.

    And I never expected them to look this cool.

    I mean, seriously. It's like a fucking power sword.

    This stuff is so much cooler than the shit I had as a kid.
    Post edited by TheWhaleShark on
  • Yeah, after our generation Nerf seemed to get a bad rep with parents concerned with safety. They really pussified and gutted the entire lineup. In the pas few years someone new has been in charge who knows what's up. Safety be damned, make shit people want. If hey can sell McDonald's burgers then Nerf can sell chainguns.
  • Yeah, after our generation Nerf seemed to get a bad rep with parents concerned with safety. They really pussified and gutted the entire lineup. In the pas few years someone new has been in charge who knows what's up. Safety be damned, make shit people want. If hey can sell McDonald's burgers then Nerf can sell chainguns.
    And in any event, there's enough info out there about modding your NERF guns that the safety issue is basically moot. They might as well make stuff that's awesome.
  • And in any event, there's enough info out there about modding your NERF guns that the safety issue is basically moot. They might as well make stuff that's awesome.
    I think what makes NERF guns moot is the fact that you can just buy REAL guns, or knives, or hammers, or power tools. Someone who buys NERF doesn't want to actually cause any real harm, so set the default harm level at what sells the best.
  • Just give kids safety glasses. Problem solved.
  • Just give kids safety glasses. Problem solved.
    This. Maybe they should sell safety glasses with some of those NERF sets. They already sell sunglasses with the Dart Tag sets; it wouldn't be that much more to package them with safety glasses.
    I think what makes NERF guns moot is the fact that you can just buy REAL guns, or knives, or hammers, or power tools. Someone who buys NERF doesn't want to actually cause any real harm, so set the default harm level at what sells the best.
    Well, that's not really a valid comparison. Guns, knives, hammers, and power tools are not toys. NERF products are very specifically marketed as toys: things which are not supposed to cause harm when used correctly, and whose damage from an accident is generally minimal. I'm not in favor of making toys sterile to point of being unfun, but no toy should have anywhere near the damage capacity of a firearm or power tool.
  • I'm in favor of mildly dangerous toys too, because kids do stupid shit if left entirely to their own devices.

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  • edited December 2010
    I'm in favor of mildly dangerous toys too, because kids do stupid shit if left entirely to their own devices.
    I believe I quote the great philosopher, sage, and typewriter mechanic Boney M when I say "Ah, Those Russians."
    Bonus points if you have any fucking clue what I'm talking about.
    And I never expected them to look this cool.
    I saw that thing, and the very first thing that popped into my head was "I...HAVE....THE POWER!!!!!"
    Post edited by Churba on
  • How many of you have built your own Nerf guns?
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  • And how many of those can AFFIX BAYONETS!?

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  • That looks like the sort of profoundly dangerous thing I'd build. Although, I'm sketching plans for a breech-loading carbine, fired by electric solenoid, with a remote tank.
  • But will it be able to AFFIX BAYONETS?!
  • edited January 2011
    But will it be able to AFFIX BAYONETS?!
    Underslung shotgun. Fires cartridges of packing peanuts.
    Post edited by WindUpBird on
  • That looks like something straight out of the Victorian era.
  • That looks like something that would explode in you face.
  • You have to use a Schedule 80 tank with a pressure gauge and wait ten seconds between each charge and discharge. It's fine, same as a pneumatic potato cannon.
  • Iv'e tested it up to 90 psi, though optimal firing pressure is around 30 psi. I also add weight to the darts to lessen the effects of crosswind on the ballistics. It has a range of almost 80 feet and is fairly accurate out to that distance. Unfortunately, it's essentially a musket, and requires me to manually pump it up with a bike pump between shots. I can get off three shots per minute, but by then I'm toast. Hence the bayonet.
  • This is my safe pneumatic ballistics solution of choice: CO2 carts.
  • Iv'e got plenty of those, I'm just too lazy to assemble a mechanism to use them.
  • Iv'e tested it up to 90 psi, though optimal firing pressure is around 30 psi. I also add weight to the darts to lessen the effects of crosswind on the ballistics. It has a range of almost 80 feet and is fairly accurate out to that distance. Unfortunately, it's essentially a musket, and requires me to manually pump it up with a bike pump between shots. I can get off three shots per minute, but by then I'm toast. Hence the bayonet.
    You do realise you can get tiny little battery powered air compressors?
  • I wanted it to be simple and tough, as it has to hold up to being used as a spear. Also, I'm no electronics genius.
  • I wanted it to be simple and tough, as it has to hold up to being used as a spear. Also, I'm no electronics genius.
    Nah, you can get battery powered compressors, you could tape it to the thing, plug in the airline, and you're good to go. No electronics know-how nessassary. There's even ones you can buy which are in the rough shape of a power drill, which you could use as a handle on the thing.
  • Just had a rather surreal experience involving Nerf in my office. So I'm standing in the Service Desk are talking with the guys who are reporting some bugs and they were somewhat pissed with each other (though not really, just annoyed) and one guy opens a drawer, pulls out a Nerf shotgun and blast the other guy, who doesn't react at all. Then another guy with his desk behind him on the right does the same to the guy that was blast the first time, and then the guy who got shot twice takes out his Nerf gun to retaliate.

    It didn't escalate from there, but seeing office workers blast each other with nerf projecties at lunch time on a Friday wasn't quite expected from this day.
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