History UsefulNotes / NerfBrand

** Custom Lights: A common trend for blasters with integrated lights and for the actual Tactical Rail light units is to replace the low-powered red and green LED lamps with something that has more power. '''Warning''': Practise good light discipline and safety if using lights above 90 lumen in brightness to avoid eye injuries from glare.

** Laser Sights: As with the custom lights, some modders replace the LED lamps with straight-up aligned lasers. '''Warning''': remember to observe safety precautions and discipline as per the laser devices laws (do not [[EyeScream point laser at eyes!]]), and only use low-powered lasers of 3-5 miliwatts or less for sights.

** Plunger Padding: An essential mod for blasters with beefed-up springs and removed air restrictors, to cushion the plunger against damage and muffle the plunger slightly.
** Body Stuffing/Suppression: To minimize the noise from the internals, you can fill in the deadspace inside a blaster's body and cushion the internals with padding where they touch/rest against the shell.

** Air Restrictor Removal: Pretty much all Nerf Blasters have air restrictors/regulators to prevent damage from dry-firing and the regulate air pressure, but they also put a cap on the maximum output of blasters. Many modders take the restrictors out to boost the pressure output. Warning: This mod can reduce the lifespan of the plunger assembly, especially if aftermartet springs are involved.

** Bigger pressure chambers, custom regulators: The most obvious way to beef up an Air System blaster is to give it new guts. Remember to check for airtight seals for maximum efficiency.

** Battery packs: Self-explanatory. This involves rewiring the blaster to take Lithium cells instead of the typical alkalines.

*** Custom Engines: For better heat efficiency or power, aftermarket engines can be fitted.

** Blazing Bow: A somewhat remodeled Big Bad Bow, the Blazing Bow has a fiery paintjob and also uses the same foam arrow ammunition.

** Longstrike CS-6: The second Sniper Rifle, the Longstrike has some design elements taken from several famous rifles including the Accuracy International Artic Warfare. It has a stock that is usually not removeable once attached, and a detachable barrel extension.

** Power Stock: A special mod to allow for more spring power to be packed into a blaster, Power Stocking involves permanently fusing a "detachable" stock, preferably a Raider stock, to the blaster, and reworking the shell and internals so the spring can use the space inside the stock for more compression and thus more power. This mod usually requires the use of aftermarket spring.

** Nitefinder: Using Micro Darts, with a ''powerful'' single-shot muzzle feed, this is one of the most celebrated classic blasters that has endured for years, being reintroduced with the N-strike series and then modernized for the Elite lineup.

** Maverick: ''the'' Revolver Handcannon of the Nerf family, and the other most-reproduced classic blaster that also featured in the N-Strike lineup. Most infamous for quality control issues with the cylinder advancing mechanism.
** Firefly: a revolver with glow-in-the-dark darts and integrated LED that simulated muzzle flashes, the Firefly's PowerGlow was replicated in future blasters and the blaster itself enjoyed a time being re-released as a N-Strike blaster.

** Reflex IX-1: Also known as the Eliminator, this little Nerf Derringer uses a reverse plunger mechanism and was the smallest blaster until the Secret Strike and the Jolt. Also the smallest blaster to use a reverse plunger mechanism.
** Scout IX-3: A blaster that was originally designed to be used as an attachment to the Titan AS-V1 as part of the Unity Power System, it is a sleek pistol that is somewhat related to the Nitefinder in design and is modeled very much like a real handgun.

** Jolt IX-1: AKA the [[Film/MenInBlack Noisy Cricket Gun]], the Jolt is the smallest N-Strike blaster, and packs a deceptive amount of power in its direct plunger mechanism.

Dart Tag Blasters are the main non-N-Strike blaster family of Nerf dart blasters. A number of them lack Tactical Rails, and they are all designed to use the velcro-headed Tagger Darts.

** Snapfire 8: The full-manual double-action 8-shooter revolver cousin of the Swarmfire and Speedswarm, the Snapfire features an adjustable spring for variable power. Its powerful spring mechanism gives it considerable trigger pull distance versus most other dart blasters.

Vortex Blasters, introduced in 2012, are Nerf's latest attempt at resurrecting the old Disc Blaster designs with improved engineering. Utilizing torsion-spring launching mechanisms instead of the breech-and-plunger designs of a bulk of the N-Strike series, Vortex Blasters ditch the semi-realistic look and instead aim for a sleek futuristic blaster design.

N-Strike Elite is the evolution/successor to the N-Strike lineup. Most of the blasters in this lineup are either updates to existing blasters with improved power, or recoloured blasters rebranded and reproduced for modern play.

** [[http://sgnerf.blogspot.sg/2013/03/nerf-n-strike-elite-mega-series_27.html Elite Mega Centurion]]: An all-new ''[[{{BFG}} Anti-Materiel Rifle]]'' blaster design, the Centurion is slated to be one of the longest new blaster designs with its massive 150cm body length from stock to barrel. Features a ''long'' plunger draw, a bipod, and is slated to use a larger Mega Dart as opposed to other standard Elite blasters that use streamlined Elite Micro Darts.

** [[http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nerf-rebelle-heartbreaker-bow.jpg Rebelle Heartbreaker Bow]]: A Bow Blaster which appears to take its form from the classic Nerf Big Bad Bow.
** [[http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nerf-rebelle-crossbow.jpg Rebelle Crossbow]]: A bow blaster that features a rotating 6-shot revolver turret inside the barrel assembly and a shoulder stock.
** [[http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/gallery/hasbro-nerf-rebelle/nerf-rebelle-9.jpg Rebelle Pink Crush Mini Crossbow]]: A compact pistol-bowgun blaster with ammo storage built into its arms.

** Singling: Modifying older blasters that fire larger arrows or rockets to fire Micro Darts instead. Watch the air pressure on these things, this mod is highly discouraged by the modding community where some more powerful blasters are concerned.

** "Absolving": Instead of "Singling" certain kinds of powerful blasters, due to the power available, they can be modified with a custom multi-muzzle turret that turns the blaster into a kind of scattergun that pumps out a huge burst of darts at once, spreading their massive pressure output out to reduce it to less dangerous levels.
** Integration: Some kinds of blasters are just ''made'' to be built into other blasters as extra firepower. Integration involves cutting down a blaster to turn it into a Master Key-like attachment that can be fitted under a barrel.

*** The more permanent integrations are done to "weld" more powerful blasters like the Swarmfire. Speedswarm, or suchlike as a secondary component of the more massive blasters like the Longshot, Stampede, or Hailfire.

!!Direct Plunger
The most common classic firing mechanism, and also the most basic design. Very popular with modders due to the efficient and powerful design modern Nerf Blasters use.
!!Indirect Plunger
A plunger type popularized by a majority of N-Strike blasters, the indirect Plunger is somewhat less efficient due to deadspace inside the plunger chamber, but takes considerably less space.
!!Air Pressure Chamber
A classic blaster mechanism adapted from water blasters like the Super Soaker family, the few Nerf blasters that use air pressure chambers are pump-action.
!!Electrical Flywheels
With the N-Strike Barricade, Nerf reintroduced flywheel blasters. Early designs were unreliable due to the potential for unequal torque from horizontal flywheels causing loss of accuracy, something the Barricade eliminated with its ''vertical'' flywheels.
!!Electrical Plunger
The Stampede, Vulcan, and Swarmfire possess powerful electrically-driven plungers that can fire in full-auto.

** Aftermarket darts: A common sight for various reasons like cost/mass difference. Many "brands" of aftermarket darts exist.

** Vigilon: A disc pistol with an integrated magazine.

** Diatron: A unique disc pistol that can shoot 2 discs at once, it possesses an integrated drop-down magazine and can load 8 discs. Often compared to the Rough Cut Elite Blaster.

** Over Volting: For most Electrical Blasters, more power means a faster firing rate and/or more shot power. '''Warning''': Stampedes improperly modded in this fashion can misfire uncontrollably like Kalashnikov gas-piston carbines!

** Custom Breeches: Clip System magazine blasters are sometimes taken to the next level with custom-fabricated breech assemblies , often cast in polycarbon, aluminium, or brass. Legal Warning: some countries, like Singapore and Australia, forbid the importing of brass breeches because they are too distressingly similar to ''real'' firearm breech assemblies. Some groups, like Orange Mod Works, make and sell custom total breech/spring/trigger catch total internal modkits.

** CO2 tank modding: With a proper regulator, fitting a CO2 tank to the blaster's assembly gives you to equivalent of a battery pack for air system blasters.

** Weighted-head darts: A common modification for darts. Not accepted in most HumansVSZombie games due to safety concerns, although a properly assembled weighted-head dart with a good glue seal and a properly padded tip can be quite useable otherwise.

** Air Restrictor Removal: Pretty much all Nerf Blasters have air restrictors/regulators to prevent damage from dry-firing and the regulate air pressure, but they also put a cap on the maximum output of blasters. Many modders take the restrictors out to boost the pressure output. Warning: This mod can reduce the lifespan of the plunger assembly, especially if aftermartet springs are involved.

** Reflex IX-1: Also known as the Eliminator, this little Nerf Derringer uses a reverse plunger mechanism and was the smallest blaster until the Secret Strike and the Jolt.
** Scout IX-3: A blaster that was originally designed to be used as an attachment to the Titan AS-V1 as part of the Unity Power System, it is a sleek pistol that is somewhat related to the Nitefinder in design and is modeled very much like a real handgun

** Secret Strike: A genuinely compact micro-blaster, the Secret Strike utilizes a gas pressure chamber instead of a spring-driven plunger, making it more discreet and stealthy than any other N-strike blaster.

** Vulcan EBF-25: THE belt-fed man-portable Nerf Machine Gun, the Vulcan boasts a electrically-powered fire rate just above 3 darts perf second, as well as the ability to fire single shots manually.

** Barrel Break: modeled after a double-barreled shotgun, the Barrel Break evokes the ''Lupara'' sawn-off shotgun. One of the few rare breech-loading blasters that do not use magazines.
** Alpha Trooper: A slimmer cousin to the Raider, the Alpha Trooper features the same Slam Fire mechanism and packs an 18-dart drum magazine.
** Stampede: Sitting squarely between the Vulcan and the Recon in terms of size/firepower, the Stampede is the first true carbine/assault rifle of the Nerf Blasters. Featuring an always-electrically-powered firing mechanism, the Stampede ships with a forward grip that can expand into a bipod, three 18-dart extended magazines, and a clip-on Ballistic Shield. Amusingly, it can even malfunction in a manner evocative of gas-piston carbines like the Kalashnikov family!
** Jolt: AKA the [[Film/MenInBlack Noisy Cricket Gun]], the Jolt is the smallest N-Strike blaster, and packs a deceptive amount of power in its direct plunger mechanism.
** Barricade REV-10: A fully electrical ''flywheel'' revolver that can take N-Strike detachable stocks. One of the first blasters to really herald the age of GunsAkimbo blaster play in Nerf.
** Rayven CS-18: A fully electrical flywheel bullpup blaster design that takes cues from the famous real-world p90 SMG, the Rayven comes with a 18-dart magazine that can light up and charge "Firefly tech" luminous darts.

** Snapfire 8: The full-manual double-action 8-shooter cousin of the Swarmfire and Speedswarm, the Snapfire features an adjustable spring for variable power. Its powerful spring mechanism gives it considerable trigger pull distance versus most other dart blasters.

** Pyragon: An electrically-powered disc blaster that comes with a 40-disc drum magazine and can use detachable stocks.

** Hail-fire: An all-new Electrically-Powered Flywheel semi-automatic blaster, the Hailfire sports 8 Magazine slots arranged in a rotary carousel, allowing you to lock on a ''lot'' of ammunition for extended battles. An Advance Handle atop the blaster helps you with easier handling of the blaster's sizeable mass and lets you advance the carousel as you deplete your magazines.

** Strongarm: An updated Maverick revolver with several improvements in its design, it also sports Slam Fire.
** Firestrike: An updated Nitefinder with a sleeker design and a separate trigger for the integrated red light sight.
** Stryfe: The OFFICIAL answer to all the Nerf Modders who cut apart their Barricades to modify them for using Clip System magazines, Stryfes are electrically-powered Flywheel semi-auto SMG blasters. Extremely popular with players of HumansVSZombies.

** [[http://sgnerf.blogspot.sg/2013/04/nerf-n-strike-elite-rapidstrike-cs-18.html Elite Rapidstrike CS-18]]: An upcoming blaster design, this [[http://urbantaggers.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/rumours-baidu-elite-rapidstrike-firing.html electrically-powered, flywheel-driven, full-auto carbine/assault rifle blaster]] evokes the [[{{Film/Aliens}} Pulse Rifle]] in its design. The Battery Sled slots in under the barrel, providing a mass counterbalance to the rear-mounted motor that drives this blaster.

** [[http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/gallery/hasbro-nerf-rebelle/nerf-rebelle-5.jpg Rebelle Wildshot]]: A 5-shooter revolver, this unique blaster has a ''hammer-action'' priming lever you can pull with your thumb.

** [[http://netdna.coolthings.com/wp-content/gallery/hasbro-nerf-rebelle/nerf-rebelle-5.jpg Rebelle Alpha Girl]]: A 5-shooter revolver, this unique blaster has a priming lever you can pull with your thumb.

A [[http://sgnerf.blogspot.sg/2013/02/nerf-rebelle.html recently-announced series of Nerf blasters aimed at female Nerf fans]], the [[http://www.coolthings.com/nerf-rebelle/ Rebelle]] series of blasters is primarily in white, pink, and purple, and most of the blasters announced for launch are comparatively sleeker, more curved, and other less "tacticool" than the typical N-Strike or Vortex blaster.

The NERFBrand of foam toys is quite an extensive family.

** Titan: A ''rocket launcher'' blaster, the Titan shoots massive foam rockets. Especially noted for being one of the first blasters to feature Tactical Rails, a RIS-style rail system.

In the 2000's, the N-Strike series emerged. while several older blasters made a comeback with the N-Strike branding and colours, the new blasters that were introduced mostly had a more realistic design that resembled ''real'' firearms and had actual magazines and GunAccessories.

Vortex Blasters, introduced in 2012, are Nerf's latest attempt at resurrecting the old Disc Blaster designs with improved engineering. Utilizing torsion-spring launching mechanisms instead of the breech-and-plunger designs of a bulk of the N-Strike series, Vortex Blasters ditch the semi-realistic look and instead aim for a sleek futuristic blaster design.

** Vigilon: A disc pistol with an integrated magazine.

** [[http://sgnerf.blogspot.sg/2013/03/nerf-n-strike-elite-mega-series_27.html Elite Mega Centurion]]: An all-new ''[[{{BFG}} Anti-Materiel Rifle]]'' blaster design, the Centurion is slated to be one of the longest new blaster designs with its massive 150cm body length from stock to barrel. Features a ''long'' plunger draw, a bipod, and is slated to use a larger Mega Dart as opposed to other standard Elite blasters that use streamlined Elite Micro Darts.

** [[http://sgnerf.blogspot.sg/2013/04/nerf-n-strike-elite-rapidstrike-cs-18.html Elite Rapidstrike CS-18]]: An upcoming blaster design, this electrically-powered carbine/assault rifle blaster evokes the [[{{Film/Aliens}} Pulse Rifle]] in its design. The Battery Sled slots in under the barrel, providing a mass counterbalance to the rear-mounted motor that drives this blaster.

Vortex Blasters, introduced in 2012, are Nerf's latest attempt at resurrecting the old Disc Blaster designs with improved engineering. Utilizing torsion-spring lanching mechanisms instead of the breech-and-plunger designs of a bulk of the N-Strike series, Vortex Blasters ditch the semi-realistic look and instead aim for a sleek futuristic blaster design.

** Barrel Break: modeled after a double-barreled shotgun, the Barrel Break evokes the ''Lupara'' sawn-off shotgun. One of the fre rare breech-loading blasters that do not use magazines.

** Nitron: An elecrically-powered disc blaster that uses magazines and has an integrated shoulder stock. Comes with [[http://nerf.wikia.com/wiki/Centerfire_Tech_electronic_scope an electrically-powered scope]] and a 20-disc magazine.

** Strikefire: a blaster notable for having ''inverted'' Tactical Rails, if can be mounted on other blasters.

** Relex IX-1: Also known as the Eliminator, this little Nerf Derringer uses a reverse plunger mechanism and was the smallest blaster until the Secret Strike and the Jolt.

In the late 2000's, the N-Strike series emerged. while several older blasters made a comeback with the N-Strike branding and colours, the new blasters that were introduced mostly had a more realistic design that resembled ''real'' firearms and had actual magazines and GunAccessories.