History Toys / NerfBrand

* {{BFS}}: The N-Force Marauder

** The Elite SplitStrike splits to become two individual pistols, with a hook on the end of each blaster's grip that fits into the priming ring of the other. This also allows faster reloading, since they can be recombined to free up one hand while inserting darts.

*** The Elite Dual-Strike has a selector allowing you to fire the Elite darts or MEGA darts that can be loaded into the blaster.

* FiringOneHanded: Most of the smaller handgun-like blasters can be fired one handed easily due to their lack of weight and recoil compared to their real counterparts, even the [[HandCannon CycloneShock]], but priming them still requires both hands, in most cases it's best to have your offhand on the priming slide instead of using a Weaver-hold. Blasters like the [=HammerShot=] and Lawbringer can be fired one-handed with their single-action hammer prime or even the Zombie Strike Slingfire, [[MeaningfulName befitting it's name]], can use a slinging action to prime and fire the blaster one-handed. Flywheel blasters such as the Stryfe and Hyperfire can be fired without priming with both hands.

** The Rhino-Fire uses two "recoilless" barrels to pump out two 25 dart-drums.

* ScavengerWorld: The aesthetic of [=DoomLands=] 2169.

** The Battlescout ICS-10, on the other hand, features a ''literal'' clip rather than a magazine.

** Strong people have also done this with a pair of Vulcans, Stampedes, or RapidStrikes, the Nerf version of dual-wielding chainguns or assault rifles.

** The Barricade is a semi-automatic revolver. You just know that people are going to buy two and use this to the max.
** Strong people have also done this with a pair of Vulcans or Stampedes, the Nerf version of dual-wielding chainguns or assault rifles.

** The Barricade has been retooled for the Elite series as the Stockade. It shoots further and holds an extra cylinder's worth of darts in the stock. All this does is make it more practical to duel wield.

** The N-Strike Elite Mega Mastodon, a ''revolving automatic'' blaster released in August 2016, surpasses the Vulcan with its ''[[UpToEleven 24 MEGA dart drum]]'', it's also the first automatic MEGA blaster ever released. Calling it a BFG would be an understatement. It even resembles the ''[[VideoGame/{{Doom}} BFG-9000]]''.

** The N-Strike Elite Mega Mastodon, a ''revolving automatic'' blaster released in August 2016, surpasses the Vulcan with its ''[[UpToEleven 24 MEGA dart drum]]'', it's also the first automatic MEGA blaster ever released. Calling it a BFG would be an ''{{Understatement}}''.

* SightedGunsAreLowTech: Some blasters lack a proper male and female sight, some making up for it by having tactical rails to attach your own. The Alien Menace line in particular has no sights nor attachment points for them.

* SugarApocalypse: People have made deadly serious war videos using happy, bright-colored toy guns. Most of the time these start as a prank or joke with DisproportionateRetribution being the end result. (Someone stole the last cookie? Break out the [[{{BFG}} Mastodon]]!)

*** The Barrel Break IX-2 or Rough Cut 2x4 can fire two darts at the same time or one at a time by pulling the trigger halfway.

* SugarApocalypse: People have made deadly serious war videos using happy, bright-colored toy guns. Most of the time these start as a prank or joke with DisproportionateRetribution.

** The Rhino-Fire uses two "recoilless" barrels to pump out two 25 dart drums.
** The RIVAL line boasts about its high muzzle velocity and accuracy, and has a 40 ball magazine availible.

** The proportions of the Maverick make this ridiculously easy. [[SoCoolItsAwesome Did we mention that this is their biggest seller?]]

* FiringOneHanded: Most of the smaller handgun-like blasters can be fired one handed easily due to their lack of weight and recoil compared to their real counterparts, even the [[HandCannon CycloneShock]], but priming them still requires both hands, in most cases it's best to have your offhand on the priming slide instead of using a Weaver-hold. Blasters like the [=HammerShot=] and Lawbringer can be fired one-handed with their single-action hammer prime or even the Zombie Strike Slingfire, [[MeaningfulName befitting it's name]], can use a slinging action to prime and fire the blaster one-handed.

* FanConvention: The dealers' room of the role-playing convention [=GenCon=] was once the scene of a massive Nerf battle between employees of [=TSR=] and several competing game companies.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The Raider's "slam-fire" pump lets you put a lot of darts out there really fast. Your accuracy drops to nil, but who needs that when you can [[MoreDakka fill an area with darts?]] The N-Strike Elite ''Rampage'' takes after the Raider despite having ten less darts and lacking the stock of it's predecessor but features the higher ranges with it's direct plunger.
** The Barrel Break IX-2 fires, as the numerical designation suggests, two shots at once and resembles a SawedOffShotgun. It also comes with a dart-holding accessory, like real shotguns.

** The Rough Cut 2x4 takes a leaf from the Barrel Break's book, firing two rounds at once and looking like a SawedOffShotgun.
** The Zombie Strike line's Sledgefire uses special shells that hold three darts each and fires them in a spread. While it only comes with three of them, the shells can be reloaded from the shoulder stock pretty easily.

** If you load two MEGA Darts and a Rival Ball into Rival Zeus MXV-2000, it blasts three rounds like a '''literal''' shotgun.
*** Officially, the Rival Atlas not only primes like a shotgun but fires two balls out of the same barrel in a shotgun manner.

** It's curious to note that, while marketed at children, the guns themselves are clearly designed with adult hand sizes in mind. Even more so, some of the blasters are just ''way'' too big for a child to hold, many of the MEGA blasters such as the Centurion, Thunderbow and ''Mastodon'' stand out. The Rival line seems marketed more toward teenagers and young adults with a competitive theme more akin to Airsoft and paintball.

* HandCannon: Nerf pistols tend to be huge compared to their real counterparts, due to the size of the darts. In terms of relative scale, the Nerf Elite MEGA series Magnus pistol is a major example, being an exceptionally sizeable pistol chambered ''for ammunition that an anti-materiel rifle'' like the Centurion was made to use. Yikes. The later [=CycloneShock=] is ''even bigger''. The two MEGA "pistols" compensate for younger users by allowing you to grip onto the blaster under the barrel with your offhand.

** The Elite MEGA Magnus uses the larger MEGA darts, and can match the Centurion rifle in ranges from 70 to 100 feet.

** The Elite SplitStrike splits to become two individual pistols, with a hook on the end of each blaster's grip that fits into the priming ring of the other. This also allows faster reloading, since they can be recombined to free up one hand while inserting darts .

* SniperPistol: Inverted; the sniper rifle-esque Longshot and Longstrike shoot no farther than any other gun. Played straight with the Nite Finder, a single-shot pistol with among the best ranges for any N-Strike blaster.

* ScavengerWorld: The aesthetic of [=DoomLands=] 2169