The Nerf Expand-A-Blast is probably one of the most ill-conceived Nerf guns that have ever been made.
The Expand-A-Blast…well…expands, as you would expect. Only when you expand it, all your ammo drops out of the barrel. And on top of that, it only shoots 20 feet. YAY!
If by some chance you’re stuck with one of these pieces of crap and haven’t trashed it yet, making some pretty basic barrel and spring modifications can turn your Expand-A-Crap into an Expand-A-Awesome.
The Nerf Electric Eel is a cool looking blaster, what with the teeth and all. The Electric Eel also lights up a little bit when you shoot it, and the darts are coated in some material that makes them glow in the dark.
The problem is the gun itself isn’t very good, but the Nerf Electric Eel is still a fun toy to play with.
I’ll be the first to admit that I hate all the Nerf guns that look like animals. I just don’t know what they were thinking. So it is with a little bit of prejudice that I say the Nerf Coral Viper is a steaming pile of crap.
First of all, it looks like a snake. There’s supposed to be an element of surprise when the snake’s head pops up and shoots you in the face. Ok, that works what, once? At the most? I mean, it says NERF on it for God’s sakes. Last time I checked, Nerf doesn’t make plastic animals unless those plastic animals are about to show you what’s what with a dart to the forehead.
So not only is the Nerf Coral Viper a silly gimmick, it’s also a horrible gun. It’s difficult to load, it shoots about 4 inches, and yet somehow you’ll be lucky to hit within a foot of your target.
The Coral Viper defies physics.
The Nerf CommLink II is yet another example of a good idea that didn’t really pan out.
The CommLink II is a regular blaster, except that it comes with a built in walkie-talkie. Now, I don’t know about you, but if I were to press a button and talk into the handle of my Nerf gun, that would make it rather difficult to shoot someone.
It would also make it rather difficult to sneak up on someone when your partner in crime is telling fart jokes on the other end.
Not to mention the static…
The Nerf Autogrip is a pretty mediocre dart blaster.
In the likely event that your brain isn’t putting together how the above picture is a blaster (it looks more like an attachment), I’ll explain it to you.
Look right above the orange ring. Yup, that’s the Autogrip’s trigger. So what you have to do is hold the weapon with your right hand, and pull the ring away from your body to cock the gun, making this an amazingly awkward two-handed Nerf blaster.
Hmm…no thanks.
The Nerf Defender T3 is interesting in that it is the only Nerf gun ever made that can be broken apart into two separate weapons. Granted, one of the weapons was essentially useless due to design flaws (the dart blaster), but the one-handed arrow blaster is cool, and made the Nerf Defender T3 worth owning.
Even though the execution of the Nerf Defender T3 was somewhat lacking, it was a cool idea to have a weapon break apart like that.
The Nerf Chainblazer was one of the first chain weapons that Nerf made. The small size & weight make the gun appealing, but the small chain (eight rounds) can be a bit of a hindrance.
The Nerf Eagle Eye was the first Nerf weapon ever to incorporate laser sighting. And by laser, I mean a concentrated red beam of light that was woefully inaccurate. But hey, it was fun anyway, and the “laser” represents a landmark for Nerf, even if the Eagle Eye itself was pretty mediocre.
