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[Kid Flash]

i was going to print off some stickers to put on my guns. i was hoping to get the older nerf logo like on the max force series. i tried taking pictures of the box from a manta ray but i couldnt get it to be good enough to edit. then i wanted to see if it would go into my scanner but i had no luck with that. does anyone have a nice image?

thanks
-Kid Flash

[Liam]

I guess you couldn't just google image search it could ya?

Edited by Liam, 26 January 2008 - 12:32 PM.

[Axelion burnout]

Well, hopefully you have a little understanding of photoshop. But you can go to the instructions page at Hasbro, and find a logo on the instructions of a Nerf blaster.



Except its in black and white...

[CaptainSlug]

Actually, this gives me an idea. I'll start working on collecting all of the logo versions and making newer high resolution images with the intent to use them for the NerfWiki.
There are 6 that I know of
1969 - Original Parker Brothers Logo first seen with the Nerf Ball
1990 - Revised Parker Brothers Logo
1992 - Classic Kenner Logo
1998 - Kenner 2 (First seen in AirJet Power line)
2003 - Hasbro 1 (ugly caveman letters)
2004 - Hasbro 2 (N-Strike Era)

Edited by CaptainSlug, 26 January 2008 - 11:55 PM.

[Axelion burnout]

These were 6 different ones that I found after searching through the instructions, but they didn't have anything from the 60s. The first logo was from something in the late 80s, so according to your time line it checks out.

Edited by Axelion_burnout, 26 January 2008 - 05:03 PM.

[Kid Flash]

thanks everyone. captain slug. good luck with whatever you said... i didnt fully understand that. however to answer the photoshop question yeah i use it a lot. we got cs3 a couple weeks ago. and i didnt see those on google images. or at least the one i wanted.

[Axelion burnout]

As I said in a previous post, I went HERE and searched through almost every Nerf instruction page copying logo's as I went through them.

Hopefully you can use one of those. Tell me if you want me to upload a larger image to my Photobucket.

Edited by Axelion_burnout, 26 January 2008 - 05:15 PM.

[CaptainSlug]

The first Nerf product was released in 1969.

The logo wasn't revised until 1990 and you can see the change inbetween the introduction of the blast-a-ball (1989) and the blast-a-matic (1990).
The orange lettering changed to yellow and has stayed that way since then, despite many font and logo changes. Each design has had several different minor background and color mix variations.

I'm going to redraw all of the logos and color them over the next day or two. So if you don't want to bother just wait a few hours and I'll get the classic logo remade first.

Edited by CaptainSlug, 26 January 2008 - 07:17 PM.

[baghead]

The first Nerf product was released in 1969.

The logo wasn't revised until 1990 and you can see the change inbetween the introduction of the blast-a-ball (1989) and the blast-a-matic (1990).
The orange lettering changed to yellow and has stayed that way since then, despite many font and logo changes. Each design has had deveral different minor background and color mix variations.

I'm going to redraw all of the logos and color them over the next day or two.

I did a vector Spoof of the logo that's on the Crosbow box that says NARF, I could easily re-do the A to an E again, and give at at least a high res version of that one for you.

-Bags

[CaptainSlug]

I just finished anyways.

http://www.captainsl...f/logo_1992.png (1600 x 1200 221kb)

http://www.captainsl...logo_1992_r.png (1600 x 1200 75kb)

http://www.captainsl...logo_1992_n.png (1600 x 1200 65kb)

I probably won't bother with the version that has the mottled background instead of the raster. The mottled version only appeared on the packaging for a few guns and it just looks kind of diseased to me.

Edited by CaptainSlug, 26 January 2008 - 11:54 PM.

[Axelion burnout]

Wow, those look great! I can't wait to see what the rest of them look like.

Out of curiosity, where were you planning to put these on the NerfWiki?

[CaptainSlug]

I was hoping to update the existing Nerf brand page as well as add a little history section.
http://nerfhq.com/wi....php?title=Nerf
Probably no more than a paragraph or two, but now I'll have a nice clean set of logos to go with it.

If anyone wants the uncompressed versions with all of the layers intact just PM me and I can temporarily share them with a free service like megashare or something.


Edit:
Kenner 1998 logo is done

http://www.captainsl...f/logo_1998.png (1600 x 1200 194kb)
Parker Brothers 1969 logo

http://www.captainsl...f/logo_1969.png (1600 x 1200 66kb)
Hasbro 2003

http://www.captainsl...f/logo_2003.png (1600 x 1200 147kb)

Edited by CaptainSlug, 26 January 2008 - 11:56 PM.

[Kid Flash]

thanks everyone... do you guys want me to upload my finished colored logos? i finished all but one. luckily slug did it for me. hehe.

thanks again
-Kid Flash

[CaptainSlug]

Wiki page updated.
http://nerfhq.com/wi....php?title=Nerf
I've redrawn all the ones I feel like redrawing.

[General Cole]

The caveman letters one has more orange than yellow.

[CaptainSlug]

I was trying to minimize its ugliness, but that's kind of hard to manage.

[General Cole]

It would have looked better in blue...