Anyone here remember the Nerf Vortex football with the tail that made it fly super far and later versions with a built-in howler whistle? That thing was crazy awesome.
I had the purple whistle one. However I never got it to work since I was a nerd who couldn't manage to throw a damn thing. I stuck with the nerf guns after that.
Yeah when it launched here in the late 90’s I worked at a toy store over the Christmas holidays and our manager told us to go play catch with the Vortex in the mall. The things flew off the shelves.
Earliest Nerf thing I can remember were the nerf swords with little shield targets on the wrist guard. Interesting to consider that nerf and super soaker redefined what toy guns could look like. They really shaped the esthetic of 90s toys. The colors and the high tech industrial curves, preparing for futuristic war.
As a kid of the 80's there's actually some tragic events that opened the market up for toy firearms that were so brightly colored and also so obviously not a real gun in design. The channel did cover it in depth but the short of it is that there were some accidental shootings of kids who were brandishing the then state of the art battery powered water guns made by Intertek. All models VERY convincing looking from not to far away. Very detailed and colored to look like a pulverized black coating. I owned three of their variants in the realistic color scheme. Then... Poof. They were gone off shelves. The hottest thing in neighborhood play combat was just gone. Thus we enter the Super Soaker and Nerf Gun 90's.Those two products filling a niche that had a big opening in it for some time.
If I had a nickel every time I watched a video by a TH-cam channel starting with "Secret" that talked about the Minnesota Vikings connection with Nerf footballs in August 2023, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
What stinks is that we used to have those great super soakers that could hold quite a bit of water and shoot very far. Then Nerf bought up the rights and we haven't see. Any since then. I still have one of my original ones that I have used to get some hard to reach pigeons that keep crapping at one spot on out house. If I didn't have that super soaker idk what I would do to get rid of them nonleathaly.
We bought a few nerf brand super soakers when all of the summer stuff was hitting the shelves. The nerf brand super soakers are horrible. The original ones could be pumped up forever and hold pressure. The new ones don't hold pressure for nothing and they leak like crazy. I miss the original super soakers.
I'll rewatch the wonderful history of Nerf a few times to be sure, but it seems to have missed Murf the Nerf mascot. Although, I'm not sure Murph has been seen since the initial announcement of the dart covered mascot in 2022. Maybe he'll be an urban legend. Maybe he never existed at all.
I had the Nerf Boomerang back somewhere around 84. Loved it though I must have in the 6 months of owning it made a successful throw-and-catch maybe 3 times. 😁
Same here. The boomerang was super fun to make other people your target but I don’t remember doing a successful throw-and-catch. So I was wondering if it actually worked or just just a gimmick. 😂
I’m a huge Nerf fan! I have had several Nerf guns, bouncy balls, and Super Soakers over the years. Unfortunately I don’t still have all the ones I had as a child but I do still have a strong collection. Thanks so much for doing this video! Nerf is amazing and it’s part of so many young people’s lives. I knew for sure that you would do a video about them eventually and it certainly didn’t disappoint! I will always love Nerf! My mom was never into it. It’s one of many things I’m super happy to disagree with her on!
Some of my favorite childhood memories were playing Nerf wars with my brother and friends. It was always a planned spectacle, and we'd prepare our Nerf blasters and ammo darts the night before. Great times. Thanks for the wicked video, Dan!
I worked at Toys R Us in 1991 and the hottest thing was the Nerf Bow and Arrow. We couldn't keep them in stock and we actually had waiting lists. I managed to get one because I worked there.
I own more than 100 Nerf blasters and belong to 3 clubs between Indianapolis and Columbus. Nerf has gone competitive with the BTA and HvZ. Short darts and 150fps+ are the future.
One time I brought a nerge handgun onto a plan and got stopped by security. I fired it to show them they were idiots and it was a toy - dad was upset. But they let me bring it on anyway. That was a good gun.
SWEET! I'm part of a modding and nerf war community. It's been an actual life saving hobby for me and I own way too many blasters lol. From high powered 3d printed designs to goofy, gimmicky Nerf brand blasters.
.... dammit is this video called "The History of Nerf: from blah blah blah blah blah blah blah".... or "The Story of how Nerf went from blah blah blah to blah blah blah"? No backsliding!
Sorry toward the end your anti-gun messaging became too much and I turned it off. America doesn't have a gun problem. It has a parenting problem that leads to immature adults that stay frozen in their development as adolescents and never fully grow up. They continue to act like moody teenagers. You definitely don't want a temperamental and immature person handling an actual firearm acting on impulses, rather than understanding the long-term implications of using said firearm against another individual. One great example of this frozen adolescence, is the show "Girls" and its creator Lena Dunham. She does not have the emotional intelligence of an adult, but wants to make adult decisions, yet wonders why her life is a trainwreck. Another is "Friends" that show is terrible when you take out the 1990s pop culture element. 6 friends act like teenagers while they are in their 30s and 40s. Much the same could be said about a lot of Sitcoms, including "Scrubs", "It's always Sunny..." , "30 Rock", "Community", and "Silcon Valley". Kids have had toy guns, for as long as real guns have existed. It didn't become a problem, until the parents became super disengaged in the 1970s.
I have a huge NERF arsenal, and on my birthday I used to rent out a bouncy castle emporium and invite all my friends for a giant all out NERF war. Good times. Now I'm old and decrepit. I should probably donate my arsenal to some kids...
It's weird that what nerf IS has changed, (bars, balls, guns, game patches) but its meaning has basically stayed the same, making something dangerous safer. Think about it, won't you?
I remember the bow and the pump blaster (8:50) "Favorite way to simulate combat?" I was super into laser tag for a bit there was a local place called 'laser force' that had red and yellow-and-back backpacks I was always partial to the red 'firebird' one if it was available. may have to see if something like that is here where I live now!
I remember we all had to have the Nerf basketball hoop with a bracket that slipped over the top of a standard interior door that came with a single orange nerf ball.
I would be scolded for being too rowdy playing nerf basketball in my room. I now have one in my room as an adult, though we hid the ball so the dog wouldn’t eat it, and immediately lost it. So now it’s just a decorative hoop.
I'm reminded of the nerf arms race i accidentally started with a former roommate. Once upon a time I found myself drunk, in a walmart at 3 am. And on a whim bought a nerf Maverick. After a week or so of pestering my roommate with it. He went and got one of the break apart rifle sets to fight back. On my next paycheck I went and got the Vulcan and proceeded to mow him down with belt fed foam fury.
I’m excited to watch this, but I have to say after browsing Tubi last night and finding: Higlander Animated Series. Something I never heard of. I feel like I need a short video on what happened there. I watched five minutes and it was obviously an English dub of a clearly unrelated Asian market IP and nothing in the original animation to do with Highlander. But as much as I could probably look up the answers…I want Dan Larson to tell me the history with flashy video editing and synth-pop. Please Please Please!!!!😊
By the time nerf guns (ahem blasters) came out I was playing with real guns. And thanks for reminding me of nerfles, just another thing to look for on ebay
The Nerf gun ads always fascinated me, because of the different ways to fire foam darts. I still remember the Nerf Arrow Storm commercial, where that one kid was going power crazy, to the point of tying another kid to a bullseye.
My older brother had the Nerf bow and arrow. We would set up elaborate shooting galleries of He-Man and G.I. Joe figures and keep score, with tougher shots earning more points. We banged those arrow tips so much we had to reinforce them with duct tape, and even then they were in danger of falling apart.
Oh man, I had so much Nerf growing up, from the plain ol’ foam ball & finger poppers to the rocket launcher tank & boomerang… 40 years later and i still have that commercial in my head 😅 🎶 _Boom, boom, boom, Nerf Boomerang!_ 🎶 9:39 Lonnie Johnson? Wasn’t that the “School of Sound Effects” guy from the _Hey Vern, It's Ernest!_ TV show? 😄 Edit: 5:33 Ahhhhh, much better 😊
I had a nerf gun growing up. It was one I remembered seeing commercials for on television, and to fire it you had to cock it like a shotgun, though it only fired one dart at a time. Also, am I the only one who finds it strange that's there's never been any kind of nerf cartoon or tv show? You would think they'd have made one during the 80's or 90's, but there was nothing. Even the early/mid 2000's would've been a sensible time for one. Heck, talk of a nerf feature film would probably make perfect sense at this point.
What you identify as the "Nerf N-Strike" is actually the Unity Power System. It consisted of the Titan, Hornet, and Scout blasters combined. The N-Strike series had many more blasters. But overall, a great video!
Growing up, I envied people with Nerf blasters. The only ones I ever got a hold of were broken ones that were otherwise thrown out. The good news is that my imagination was firing on all cylinders and that junk helped inspire the direction of stories I wrote as a kid and teenager.
Nerf balls were so popular in school PE class! We used played with Nerf footballs, because they had better grip for kids! Also there was Nerf gun indoor arena for adults in my mall, before they closed it due to safety concerns.
I never had Nerf guns growing up, only ever playing with them at friend's houses. The closest I ever came to owning one was when Hasbro decided to have some fun with Megatron had him transform into a (non working) Nerf Maverick for their Classics line in 2006.
"... Hasbro. Till all are guns." How long until that replaces, "E pluribus unum"? *Chef's kiss Addendum Holy Buddha holding hands with Mohammed!! After scanning the comments....Is it bliss or ignorance?
Remember when GIJoe Classified came with Nerf . Everyone was huh ? , Did Hasbro want Joe fans to buy Nerf , is there Nerf GIJoe crossover, are GiJoe and Cobra just playing Nerf pew pew battles ? 🤷♀️ the Sniper was no longer produced and the Nerf rifle was very customizable . Nerf Gauntlets ShinGuards , Cobra Island Mystery .
I was 15 years old when the Nerf gun came out. My 7 year younger brother never had one I don't think. I had the basketball hoop, football, soccer ball, and ping pong, baseball. I do remember the Vortex football.
Okay, NERF won the copyright legal battle against imitators of Super Soakers and NERF Blasters, correct? So what exactly were the consequences of that legal decision? I ask because Buzz Bee Toys and others such as the producers of "X-Shot" foam-dart blasters continually produce foam-dart blasters that are compatible with standard NERF foam-darts. I've got a few blasters from the various companies that make foam-dart blasters and it seems that although the saying goes, "It's NERF or nothing," it seems to me the idea has more become "It's NERF or one of our competitors whose products are compatible with our foam-darts and since we're the only ones who produce refill packs of foam-darts, we're getting hooked up in that market anyway."
For a good while, Hasbro and Nerf fell out of favor with older collectors, leaving the newbloods like Adventure Force, Dart Zone, and a slew of others ruling the fields. Until Nerf came out of nowhere with a half-dart blaster modelled after the iconic Strife. There's a reason the hobby's still known popularly as "Nerf Wars". Kinda low-energy, Dan. Like you're not feeling the topic.
Or when you found out just how much of a weapon a NERF football was when it got wet??? You ever hit somebody above the shoulders with a wet NERF football from a good 20 yards away..... It would just about rip their head off lol. A wet NERF was NOOOO JOKE !!
Hasbro: Until all are guns!I actually currently have 4 nerf guns and about 200 bullet dart things. I say around, because even though I bought 200, I'm sure every time we play with the guns in our house, we lose at least 2 darts, might be down to 130, it's been a while since I bothered trying to count them. Definitely a great childhood memory, alongside Super Soakers. Might have to pick some of those up next. Wait. Can we still get Super Soakers these days?
The use of the Michael Rosen "noise" clip at 4:15 caught me off guard, I thought you people at Secret Galaxy only knew how to make fart jokes and Gen X humor, I'm impressed, hehe.
Secret Galaxy continues to be educational as well as entertaining. I always thought that the bow & arrow was the only Nerf product I ever had (well, that and the "Nerf Arena Blast" video game.) But as it turns out, we also had a couple of those "Nerful" toys in the house, (I particularly remember the rabbit-looking one on the skateboard,) though I never knew what they were called or where they'd come from - I never would've imagined they were linked with Nerf. Another childhood mystery solved. Thanks guys!
Yeah Nerf and dart blasters are starting to become Airsoft as well cause of all the high fps blasters that has been coming out from other companies like Dartzone, Worker, and Zuru. Now even Hasbro has adopted the short darts standard that got popular almost 7 years ago. People say Nerf are still for kids but you won't let a kid use a 200~300 fps dart blaster right? At close enough range those can break skin and definitely blind somebody. For comparison 200-300 fps is paint ball and some low end BB/Airsoft velocity. IF you've been hit with a paint ball you'd know it hurt. But at least the rubber tip will disperse majority of that but still can be dangerous up close.
I modified a Nerf Spectre REV-5 N-Strike revolver rifle to house a Vive controller and painted it brown so it looks like a Fallout 4 pipe rifle while I'm playing Fallout 4 VR! Does that count as "Nerf or Nothing" ?
I completely forgot about Nerfles! I had a couple of those - probably played with them daily for a few weeks until I lost them and then completely forgot they ever existed. There were SO MANY new toys coming out every week,it seemed that in the 80’s KB and TRU were THE place to go and see what’s new!
Second video i have watched this month to mention Fred Cox and the Nerf football. Check out Jon Bois's history of the Minnesota Vikings and his waxing eloquent about the importance of the Nerf football to American culture.
Bonus Nerf fact: Nerf made the protective "wheel" that housed the camera used in 'Friday the 13th part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan' used for the POV shot of the head rolling down and into the dumpster.
Have we ever solved the mystery as to who kept taking bites out of every Nerf football?
It was the dog. (Said in a muffled voice)
Little Sisters 😂
Now i'm hungry.
It was the same kid that ate paste or their buggers.
Don’t lie; it was you
Anyone here remember the Nerf Vortex football with the tail that made it fly super far and later versions with a built-in howler whistle? That thing was crazy awesome.
It’s used by airsoft players as a bunker buster
I had the purple whistle one. However I never got it to work since I was a nerd who couldn't manage to throw a damn thing. I stuck with the nerf guns after that.
I 'member
Yeah when it launched here in the late 90’s I worked at a toy store over the Christmas holidays and our manager told us to go play catch with the Vortex in the mall. The things flew off the shelves.
My kids play with that at the pool in the summer..
That Hasbro symbol with fangs, NEVER gets old. Lmao!!!
'Til the day when all are one.
@@BBHood217: "Till all are *guns*"
*Looks at Hasbro-owned Megatron*
@@BBHood217: Possible alternates now--
"Hasbro: You're/You'll be nerfed or nothin'"
or
"We'll Nerf you 'till your nothing"
one nerf to rule them all!
The sharpshooter was sick, and surprisingly accurate. I could turn the tv off with it!
Not sure if that's a good thing for a toy 🤔 😂
they reissued it, you can buy it brand new again (uses mega darts now)
Earliest Nerf thing I can remember were the nerf swords with little shield targets on the wrist guard. Interesting to consider that nerf and super soaker redefined what toy guns could look like. They really shaped the esthetic of 90s toys. The colors and the high tech industrial curves, preparing for futuristic war.
As a kid of the 80's there's actually some tragic events that opened the market up for toy firearms that were so brightly colored and also so obviously not a real gun in design. The channel did cover it in depth but the short of it is that there were some accidental shootings of kids who were brandishing the then state of the art battery powered water guns made by Intertek. All models VERY convincing looking from not to far away. Very detailed and colored to look like a pulverized black coating. I owned three of their variants in the realistic color scheme. Then... Poof. They were gone off shelves. The hottest thing in neighborhood play combat was just gone.
Thus we enter the Super Soaker and Nerf Gun 90's.Those two products filling a niche that had a big opening in it for some time.
Whoever wrote the intro deserves a firm pat on the back, there was some solid wordplay in there.
Whoever wrote that outro should be suing Dan shortly.
@@jerryharris6342 Parody is protected under copyright law.
@@WaitingtoHit Lawyers aren't funny.
@@jerryharris6342 I agree, but neither are jokes devoid of logic.
If I had a nickel every time I watched a video by a TH-cam channel starting with "Secret" that talked about the Minnesota Vikings connection with Nerf footballs in August 2023, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
What stinks is that we used to have those great super soakers that could hold quite a bit of water and shoot very far. Then Nerf bought up the rights and we haven't see. Any since then. I still have one of my original ones that I have used to get some hard to reach pigeons that keep crapping at one spot on out house. If I didn't have that super soaker idk what I would do to get rid of them nonleathaly.
We bought a few nerf brand super soakers when all of the summer stuff was hitting the shelves. The nerf brand super soakers are horrible. The original ones could be pumped up forever and hold pressure. The new ones don't hold pressure for nothing and they leak like crazy. I miss the original super soakers.
Hasbro, til all are one.
Even better the second time around!
My Nerf boomerang always wound up on neighbors roofs.
The Nerf sports line should really just be rebranded ROOFS. It's all gonna end up there from a wayward toss or a sudden gust of wind.
I'll rewatch the wonderful history of Nerf a few times to be sure, but it seems to have missed Murf the Nerf mascot. Although, I'm not sure Murph has been seen since the initial announcement of the dart covered mascot in 2022. Maybe he'll be an urban legend. Maybe he never existed at all.
Kids were playing with stick guns and playing cowboys and Indians well before any advertisements on TV.
When are you guys gonna do a deep dive on JASON OF STAR COMMAND?!
I had the Nerf Boomerang back somewhere around 84. Loved it though I must have in the 6 months of owning it made a successful throw-and-catch maybe 3 times. 😁
Same here. The boomerang was super fun to make other people your target but I don’t remember doing a successful throw-and-catch. So I was wondering if it actually worked or just just a gimmick. 😂
Its always Nerf or nothing.
I feel like I have too much nerf blasters but at the same time, not enough.
I’m a huge Nerf fan! I have had several Nerf guns, bouncy balls, and Super Soakers over the years. Unfortunately I don’t still have all the ones I had as a child but I do still have a strong collection. Thanks so much for doing this video! Nerf is amazing and it’s part of so many young people’s lives. I knew for sure that you would do a video about them eventually and it certainly didn’t disappoint! I will always love Nerf! My mom was never into it. It’s one of many things I’m super happy to disagree with her on!
Damn that Nerf Boomerang. Never could get that to work right. Thus was born my cynicism and hostility towards advertising.
Some of my favorite childhood memories were playing Nerf wars with my brother and friends. It was always a planned spectacle, and we'd prepare our Nerf blasters and ammo darts the night before. Great times. Thanks for the wicked video, Dan!
I worked at Toys R Us in 1991 and the hottest thing was the Nerf Bow and Arrow. We couldn't keep them in stock and we actually had waiting lists. I managed to get one because I worked there.
I own more than 100 Nerf blasters and belong to 3 clubs between Indianapolis and Columbus. Nerf has gone competitive with the BTA and HvZ. Short darts and 150fps+ are the future.
One time I brought a nerge handgun onto a plan and got stopped by security. I fired it to show them they were idiots and it was a toy - dad was upset. But they let me bring it on anyway. That was a good gun.
dang! I had a bunch of Nerfles when I was a kid, but until this video I had no idea what they were!
I do not have dyslexia, but every time I read that word is is FREN.
Wow Dan, that was a riot! 😂 you guys are excellent!
“Hasbro: ‘til all are guns.”
I see you, Dan.
One of the best Toy Galaxy vids ever - and that’s a high bar😊
SWEET! I'm part of a modding and nerf war community. It's been an actual life saving hobby for me and I own way too many blasters lol. From high powered 3d printed designs to goofy, gimmicky Nerf brand blasters.
Also I'm 42. You're never too old to get absolutely stoked shooting a high powered and or high rate of fire blaster.
I'm 48 and have a Worker Seagull carbine on the way. 😂
@@TenRingGaming turned 43 since. Still love the hobby lol
.... dammit is this video called "The History of Nerf: from blah blah blah blah blah blah blah".... or "The Story of how Nerf went from blah blah blah to blah blah blah"?
No backsliding!
Sorry toward the end your anti-gun messaging became too much and I turned it off.
America doesn't have a gun problem. It has a parenting problem that leads to immature adults that stay frozen in their development as adolescents and never fully grow up. They continue to act like moody teenagers. You definitely don't want a temperamental and immature person handling an actual firearm acting on impulses, rather than understanding the long-term implications of using said firearm against another individual.
One great example of this frozen adolescence, is the show "Girls" and its creator Lena Dunham. She does not have the emotional intelligence of an adult, but wants to make adult decisions, yet wonders why her life is a trainwreck. Another is "Friends" that show is terrible when you take out the 1990s pop culture element. 6 friends act like teenagers while they are in their 30s and 40s. Much the same could be said about a lot of Sitcoms, including "Scrubs", "It's always Sunny..." , "30 Rock", "Community", and "Silcon Valley".
Kids have had toy guns, for as long as real guns have existed.
It didn't become a problem, until the parents became super disengaged in the 1970s.
I have a huge NERF arsenal, and on my birthday I used to rent out a bouncy castle emporium and invite all my friends for a giant all out NERF war. Good times. Now I'm old and decrepit. I should probably donate my arsenal to some kids...
Im 40 and i have a wall covered with nerf guns.
It's weird that what nerf IS has changed, (bars, balls, guns, game patches) but its meaning has basically stayed the same, making something dangerous safer. Think about it, won't you?
Not Everyone Returns Fire
No Eyes= Regrettable Fun
Now Ethan's REALLY Fucked
I remember the bow and the pump blaster (8:50) "Favorite way to simulate combat?" I was super into laser tag for a bit there was a local place called 'laser force' that had red and yellow-and-back backpacks I was always partial to the red 'firebird' one if it was available. may have to see if something like that is here where I live now!
Was Peter Tork sick that day, since he missed out on the commercial?
He was out of the band at that time.
I remember we all had to have the Nerf basketball hoop with a bracket that slipped over the top of a standard interior door that came with a single orange nerf ball.
Yes my favorite pastime
I would be scolded for being too rowdy playing nerf basketball in my room. I now have one in my room as an adult, though we hid the ball so the dog wouldn’t eat it, and immediately lost it. So now it’s just a decorative hoop.
@@stephen3164 sometimes you just can't win, man :D
Had quite a few Nerf products growing up. Now that I'm an adult I go with Xshot. 😎😝
No love for Dart Zone or BuzzBee?
"She always says, don't play ball in the house."
I'm reminded of the nerf arms race i accidentally started with a former roommate.
Once upon a time I found myself drunk, in a walmart at 3 am. And on a whim bought a nerf Maverick.
After a week or so of pestering my roommate with it. He went and got one of the break apart rifle sets to fight back.
On my next paycheck I went and got the Vulcan and proceeded to mow him down with belt fed foam fury.
I’m excited to watch this, but I have to say after browsing Tubi last night and finding: Higlander Animated Series. Something I never heard of. I feel like I need a short video on what happened there. I watched five minutes and it was obviously an English dub of a clearly unrelated Asian market IP and nothing in the original animation to do with Highlander. But as much as I could probably look up the answers…I want Dan Larson to tell me the history with flashy video editing and synth-pop. Please Please Please!!!!😊
By the time nerf guns (ahem blasters) came out I was playing with real guns.
And thanks for reminding me of nerfles, just another thing to look for on ebay
Dan was an intense kid.
You mean *awesome* kid!
@@spoonimefan awesomely *intense* as John J Rambo Jr.
I totally forgot about Nerfuls.... I had a few of those. Could never remember what they were called, thanks for the reminder!
I'm watching Secret Base's massive video series on the Vikings so I was ready for the connection. Wild crossover.
Few things made me happier as a kid than a fresh nerf gun
I saw several nerf commercials in the 90s to 2000s lol
I was waiting for a Nerf-Based "I WARNED YOU...!"
Dartmouth, eh? Why am I not surprised the man behind Nerf went to a party college.
Oh man, I forgot about Nerfals. I never had any, but I remember them by their unique expressions/ design.
I remember having one you pumped like an air rifle, we reglued the tips on. That thing left welts.
When it comes to guns as toys, it's Nerf or . . .well, guns, actually.
Normalizing guns as toys is something we need very much again
I still buy nerf blasters and im anxiously waiting for the pro stryfe to come out
Audio issue fixed. Enjoy this “engagement”.
Crazy how when I was little Nerf was known more for the balls and had a couple dart guns but now they’re almost synonymous with toy guns.
The Nerf gun ads always fascinated me, because of the different ways to fire foam darts.
I still remember the Nerf Arrow Storm commercial, where that one kid was going power crazy, to the point of tying another kid to a bullseye.
My cousin and I would play battle field in the house with his nerf guns.
The Monkees endorsed Nerf? They should've been called Monkee Balls.
I got a NERF gun so big it came with a shoulder strap.
And nowadays they just make overpriced garbage:( its more like dart zone or nothin now
My older brother had the Nerf bow and arrow. We would set up elaborate shooting galleries of He-Man and G.I. Joe figures and keep score, with tougher shots earning more points. We banged those arrow tips so much we had to reinforce them with duct tape, and even then they were in danger of falling apart.
Oh man, I had so much Nerf growing up, from the plain ol’ foam ball & finger poppers to the rocket launcher tank & boomerang… 40 years later and i still have that commercial in my head 😅
🎶 _Boom, boom, boom, Nerf Boomerang!_ 🎶
9:39 Lonnie Johnson? Wasn’t that the “School of Sound Effects” guy from the _Hey Vern, It's Ernest!_ TV show? 😄
Edit: 5:33 Ahhhhh, much better 😊
You're thinking of Lonnie Don, whose range of high quality audio effects in unmatched in the business.
@@NevTheDeranged Lol, yes! “You take the meaty part of your hand…” 🤣
Kenner-Parker Toys was purchasedby Hasbro? This means Hasbro had their revenge for turning down the oppoirtunity to make Star Wars action figures. ...
ya know, i honestly never once considered how risque twister would've been when it first came out haha
I need a movie about young Dan’s Nerf adventures
The Nerf Bow and Arrow song is forever engraved in my head.
A rare re-upload for a copyright infringement? I'll give it another view for your troubles 😅
I think it was a sound problem at the commercial transition.
@@tomkerruish2982I noticed, but it didn't really bother me 🤷♂️
@@jinpei05I'm guessing it irked the creator. He clearly cares a lot about the quality of his content.
It was to fix the sound
That ending went somewhere.
Indeed it did.
I had a nerf gun growing up. It was one I remembered seeing commercials for on television, and to fire it you had to cock it like a shotgun, though it only fired one dart at a time. Also, am I the only one who finds it strange that's there's never been any kind of nerf cartoon or tv show? You would think they'd have made one during the 80's or 90's, but there was nothing. Even the early/mid 2000's would've been a sensible time for one. Heck, talk of a nerf feature film would probably make perfect sense at this point.
I remember playing Nerf when I was a kid and it's still lots of fun today. 😀👍
What you identify as the "Nerf N-Strike" is actually the Unity Power System. It consisted of the Titan, Hornet, and Scout blasters combined. The N-Strike series had many more blasters.
But overall, a great video!
"you can't hurt babies or old people"
I need a Hasbro Until All Are One T-shirt.
Ah the commercial blowing my ears out
inflammable means flammable? what a country
Hasbro is the Microsoft of toy companies.
Growing up, I envied people with Nerf blasters. The only ones I ever got a hold of were broken ones that were otherwise thrown out. The good news is that my imagination was firing on all cylinders and that junk helped inspire the direction of stories I wrote as a kid and teenager.
Nerf balls were so popular in school PE class! We used played with Nerf footballs, because they had better grip for kids! Also there was Nerf gun indoor arena for adults in my mall, before they closed it due to safety concerns.
Man, I had the original ball shooting tube. Good times
Nerf has my heart and I want it back.
Hasbro - Till all are one
I never had Nerf guns growing up, only ever playing with them at friend's houses. The closest I ever came to owning one was when Hasbro decided to have some fun with Megatron had him transform into a (non working) Nerf Maverick for their Classics line in 2006.
You needed the Nerfs to protect your turf back then.
Inflammable means flammable?? -Dr. Nick
More evidence of The Monkees being the best band ever.
"... Hasbro. Till all are guns."
How long until that replaces, "E pluribus unum"?
*Chef's kiss
Addendum
Holy Buddha holding hands with Mohammed!! After scanning the comments....Is it bliss or ignorance?
Remember when GIJoe Classified came with Nerf . Everyone was huh ? , Did Hasbro want Joe fans to buy Nerf , is there Nerf GIJoe crossover, are GiJoe and Cobra just playing Nerf pew pew battles ? 🤷♀️ the Sniper was no longer produced and the Nerf rifle was very customizable . Nerf Gauntlets ShinGuards , Cobra Island Mystery .
I was 15 years old when the Nerf gun came out. My 7 year younger brother never had one I don't think. I had the basketball hoop, football, soccer ball, and ping pong, baseball. I do remember the Vortex football.
Okay, NERF won the copyright legal battle against imitators of Super Soakers and NERF Blasters, correct? So what exactly were the consequences of that legal decision? I ask because Buzz Bee Toys and others such as the producers of "X-Shot" foam-dart blasters continually produce foam-dart blasters that are compatible with standard NERF foam-darts. I've got a few blasters from the various companies that make foam-dart blasters and it seems that although the saying goes, "It's NERF or nothing," it seems to me the idea has more become "It's NERF or one of our competitors whose products are compatible with our foam-darts and since we're the only ones who produce refill packs of foam-darts, we're getting hooked up in that market anyway."
For a good while, Hasbro and Nerf fell out of favor with older collectors, leaving the newbloods like Adventure Force, Dart Zone, and a slew of others ruling the fields.
Until Nerf came out of nowhere with a half-dart blaster modelled after the iconic Strife. There's a reason the hobby's still known popularly as "Nerf Wars".
Kinda low-energy, Dan. Like you're not feeling the topic.
Or when you found out just how much of a weapon a NERF football was when it got wet??? You ever hit somebody above the shoulders with a wet NERF football from a good 20 yards away..... It would just about rip their head off lol. A wet NERF was NOOOO JOKE !!
Hasbro: Until all are guns!I actually currently have 4 nerf guns and about 200 bullet dart things. I say around, because even though I bought 200, I'm sure every time we play with the guns in our house, we lose at least 2 darts, might be down to 130, it's been a while since I bothered trying to count them. Definitely a great childhood memory, alongside Super Soakers. Might have to pick some of those up next. Wait. Can we still get Super Soakers these days?
The use of the Michael Rosen "noise" clip at 4:15 caught me off guard, I thought you people at Secret Galaxy only knew how to make fart jokes and Gen X humor, I'm impressed, hehe.
Secret Galaxy continues to be educational as well as entertaining. I always thought that the bow & arrow was the only Nerf product I ever had (well, that and the "Nerf Arena Blast" video game.) But as it turns out, we also had a couple of those "Nerful" toys in the house, (I particularly remember the rabbit-looking one on the skateboard,) though I never knew what they were called or where they'd come from - I never would've imagined they were linked with Nerf.
Another childhood mystery solved. Thanks guys!
Nerf has made some really cool replica licensed stuff.
Yea! Like when they made a football!
The American Gladiators stuff was bullshit though.
Yeah Nerf and dart blasters are starting to become Airsoft as well cause of all the high fps blasters that has been coming out from other companies like Dartzone, Worker, and Zuru. Now even Hasbro has adopted the short darts standard that got popular almost 7 years ago. People say Nerf are still for kids but you won't let a kid use a 200~300 fps dart blaster right? At close enough range those can break skin and definitely blind somebody. For comparison 200-300 fps is paint ball and some low end BB/Airsoft velocity. IF you've been hit with a paint ball you'd know it hurt. But at least the rubber tip will disperse majority of that but still can be dangerous up close.
I modified a Nerf Spectre REV-5 N-Strike revolver rifle to house a Vive controller and painted it brown so it looks like a Fallout 4 pipe rifle while I'm playing Fallout 4 VR! Does that count as "Nerf or Nothing" ?
I completely forgot about Nerfles! I had a couple of those - probably played with them daily for a few weeks until I lost them and then completely forgot they ever existed. There were SO MANY new toys coming out every week,it seemed that in the 80’s KB and TRU were THE place to go and see what’s new!
Second video i have watched this month to mention Fred Cox and the Nerf football. Check out Jon Bois's history of the Minnesota Vikings and his waxing eloquent about the importance of the Nerf football to American culture.
Bonus Nerf fact: Nerf made the protective "wheel" that housed the camera used in 'Friday the 13th part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan' used for the POV shot of the head rolling down and into the dumpster.
Back in my day (1991-1993) my freinds and I in High School would just use "Super Soaker" Water Guns!
❤LMFAO! 50yrs old and still buying nerf blasters on a regular basis. My parents prohibited "war toys" growing up, so here we are.