It’s Nerf darts or nothing for these slick new blasters
by Sean Hollister from The Verge - All Posts on (#6NB2X)
The first four Nerf N-Series blasters shipped to reviewers. When I was a kid, It's Nerf or nothing" meant you couldn't find a better dart blaster. Starting today, it means you'll have to buy Hasbro's own overpriced darts if you buy Hasbro blasters for your kids.
The company is revealing its new Nerf N-Series lineup today, and a new N1" dart it's calling the future" of the Nerf brand - a future where Hasbro blasters for 8- to 14-year-olds only fire Hasbro darts that cost three to five times the competition. Lose a dart? That'll be 25 cents, because only official darts have the patented nub that pushes a safety mechanism out of the way.
Nerf says it literally built 1,000 different darts to get the range, accuracy, and safety it wanted. The integral nub...