Friday, October 18, 2013

Pre-MEGA Darts

Someone pointed this out to me in a photo I like to use.  This oversized Vulcan is quite silly looking, but my friend said "Hey, are those MEGA Darts?" as he pointed to the pile of ammo sitting next to this behemoth.  Although I'm sure this photo and this blaster came out long before the MEGA series was even in it's planning stages, I couldn't help but think "everything has to start somewhere".  Only trouble is, I have no idea what this photo is from.  Is it part of some oversized gimmicky toy at a Convention?  Did Nerf actually build this thing?  It was quite embarrassing realizing how little I knew about this photo and where it came from.

So... anyone know where it's from?  If those darts it used were functional?  I really could care less if the darts are actually what led to the MEGA Darts, since I don't like how they perform anyways.  ...but now it's got me thinking.
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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 18, 2013 at 10:17 AM

    It was real but for some promotional event. You can look up a firing video on youtube.

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  2. UnknownOctober 18, 2013 at 8:46 PM

    I believe it was a proof of concept/prototype.

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  3. UnknownOctober 18, 2013 at 8:57 PM

    From what i'm found on nerf wiki, it was the prototype vulcan, they made it then made it smaller. And now they show it off at nerf partys.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 19, 2013 at 12:52 AM

    Here ya go Mike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Jx5gFQO2g


    ~Qi

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  5. KronosOctober 19, 2013 at 8:45 AM

    From the video it sounds like it has a compressed air tank and a compressor, so it obviously doesn't have a spring powered plunger like the actual vulcan.

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  6. YALE70October 19, 2013 at 10:13 AM

    They were real darts but they never went into production as they were built specifically for the BF-50. The actual precursors to today's Megas are the ones that they use in almost all the vintage blasters. They're basically like Micros, only twice the size.

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  7. UnknownOctober 24, 2013 at 6:46 PM

    I believe this was more of an esthetic prototype, the internals are certainly not something nerf would ever put into a retail blaster, the darts it fires are much larger than megas.

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