Name: Top 10 Facts About NERF
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That's what I've been trying to tell you, Mike.

This is shenanigans, Foolishness, Nerf Ball.

And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 fax about Nerf nerves and nerve.

It's nerve or nothing still getting used to it.

For this list, we'll be looking at various trivia regarding this hugely popular toy brand.

When Nerf films a commercial for one of their products, they don't hold back and we do it because we can.

They're advertising department knows what kids want.

Nerf ads from the nineties, however, remain arguably their most memorable.

Not only did they have their finger on the pulse of pop culture trends, but the casting director also had a re ally for talent.

Nerve commercials that aired in the nineties featured a number of actors that would go on to become big stars.

One such ad follows actor Seth Green having fun with a Nerf slingshot at the mall Babe Alert, Target located.

Another sees nineties icon Devon Sawa leading an all out Nerf war.

Of course, Nerve has been making memorable commercials dating back to the seventies when they brought the monkeys on board to promote the Nerf ball nerves.

The Blasters boast some impressive stats with motorized rapid fire blasting.

These dark guns might be toys, but they've still got some serious firepower.

Performance varies quite a bit across the range of models, but their relative constant is speed.

You're hard pressed to find a Nerf Blaster that clocks in at lower than 30 MPH.

That's a pretty impressive baseline, but then you start looking at some of the more powerful models.

The stats are downright staggering when more ways to blast keeps you battling.

Some models can fire darts at speeds of over 50 MPH.

Toys or not, their blasters are true feats of engineering.

The end strike elite Siri's fire up to 75 ft, while the and strike mega blasters boast a range of 100 ft.

All new advanced disc plastic for intense action.

As if that's not impressive enough, the hail fire can shoot 144 darts in 30 seconds.

This means that a fully loaded hail fire will give you an unprecedented endurance advantage on the battlefield.

The origins of the Nerf name aren't as wacky as you might think.

That's what I've been trying to tell you.

This is Shenanigans, foolishness, Nerf ball.

Turns out that Nerf wasn't always synonymous with bruise free fun with guns.

The general consensus on the Internet seems to be that Nerf stands for non expanding recreational phone.

While that makes sense, other credible sources, including the creator of the first nerve product, point to more obscure origins, namely the wacky world of racing.

Oh, you 0, 19 fifties hot rodders slang to Nerf.

Someone was to nudge them off their course with your bumper.

From this Nerf bars became slang for custom bumpers in general and can now be applied to various types of protective bars.

including the foam padding on off road vehicles.

Basically, Nerf is synonymous with avoiding damage in this case, through the use of foam sounds about right still getting used to it.

The same dude who invented Twister is also responsible for Nerf J.

But apparently creating a game where people rub against one another while trying to match various body parts to colored circles wasn't enough for inventor Ren Gayer.

Two years later, in 1969 the Hasbro Hall of Famer created a four inch ball that could be thrown at anything and not cause damage.

You could pitch it right at your friend's faces, and it wouldn't even leave a mark.

You can't damage lamps or break windows like Twister, Nerf broke a longstanding rule, no throwing balls in the house.

The main selling point of this ball was that it wouldn't hurt no matter how hard you flung it.

And this apparently thrilled American Children everywhere.

Originally, Geir was using the foam in a game with actual rules, but that inevitably devolved into vigorous ball chucking over time.

This evolved into the projectile focused brand we know today.

In 1991 Hasbro bought Parker Brothers and took Geier's hit to another level, starting with a bow and arrow.

A few years later, they kicked it up another notch, creating high performance blasters.

Number six Nerf guns aren't JUST for kids, though.

Kids might be the target demographic, Nerf guns appeal to consumers of all ages.

Given the popularity of paintball and shooter video games, it's not surprising that some people continue to recognize the appeal of these projectile based toys well into adulthood.

It turns out that it's a large enough demographic that the company actually has a line of blasters specifically tailored towards teens and grown ups.

The Nerf rival Blasters boasts top of the line precision and more power and are intended to be used in the context of competitive play.

It fires around 100 ft per second, which is almost 70 miles an hour.

Considering how pricey Nerf guns can get, a paycheck certainly helps.

Some of the more powerful nerve products released over the years have retailed around the $100 mark discontinued models.

Nerf guns have been in production for decades, but the novelty clearly hasn't worn off.

During the 2017 18 holiday season, The Nerf and Strike elite Strongarm Blaster was Amazon's best selling toy.

Since the introduction of Nerf blasters, over four billion darts have been sold and counting.

And because we live in a world where the Internet seemingly has every answer, we now know that that's enough darts to circle the globe several times over and he solves the equation.

No, those figures are staggering, but those are just the darts.

As of 2019 the brand is valued at $411 million which is nearly double its valuation back in 2015.

But as you can see here, okay, our third quarter profits were up by 9.5% in 2010.

Super Soaker was merged with Nerf by Hasbro, essentially giving them a monopoly on the toy gun market.

When it comes to soaking, there's only Super soaker.

Bring on summer number four Nerf wars are a thing, though their existence might not be common knowledge.

Local Nerf wars are regularly held all around the world.

Thes events allow otherwise civilized human beings to come together and fire nonlethal projectiles at each other, all while wearing big, goofy grins, a game in which teams use the toy gun to knock each other out until one team has left toe win a cash prize.

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