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[joeyaglr444]

Eboreg, that was not directed towards you sorry bud.

[Forsaken angel24]

Gizmodo hosted a link to Venoms magstrike mod video! Congrats!

Edited by Forsaken_angel24, 20 February 2008 - 10:29 PM.

[shoeshine5]

I agree with Ro-Sham-Bo on how it may use the old airsoft gear mechanism. The only other option I see is using some form of rod to push the darts into a flywheel.


I don't think this has been discussed yet, but how loud do you think this is going to be?

[CAPS]

Never mind.

Edited by CAPS, 20 February 2008 - 11:42 PM.

[Forsaken angel24]

This is probably a waste of time but.....

Nerf, If you are reading this...
Send me one of these. My modifications done to this will inspire others to purchase it.
You have seen what I can do.

[vanpaun]

I agree with forsaken, send him one, he will do something that will blow the Nerf internet communities mind. most of the active members will drool over the amazingness, which will boost sales by alot.

[EpeeEssence]

You could modify this, Instead of having the mechanisms run by battery, you could run it by crank, no? Much like a gatling gun instead of a mini-gun. Would make it lighter, and you could probably make it stronger without having to worry about overworking the motor that drives the mechanism. Plus it would be much more intimidating (I think so, at least)

[Cannonball]

You might as well get a razorbeast then and save yourself some time.

[smeagolsaur]

You could modify this, Instead of having the mechanisms run by battery, you could run it by crank, no? Would make it lighter...

I've read people's posts mentioning how the 6 batteries are going to make this gun too heavy. I'm sorry, but if you can't comfortably lift an item that holds 6 D batteries either you are 7 years old or you need to start lifting weights. I think the extra weight in this gun is preferable; it makes it feel like a massive machine gun!

You might as well get a razorbeast then and save yourself some time.

Precisely.

[EpeeEssence]

Well for those of us who are comfortable with a lightweight nerf gun, I think the crank could do. And batteries are bad fo' the environment foo'! (Unless you dispose of your batteries correctly, which I doubt happens with a lot of people)

[Cannonball]

from the looks of the vulcan, a crank would be awkward and would not greatly increase the power of the thing. I don't think a blaster of this caliber would be suited for people used to light weight weapons in either case.

[Thom]

Nerf, If you are reading this...

I concur. Hasbro. send me two and I'll make sure FA_24 gets one.

[Direct Threat]

I just want to paint this for them. Sadface. Also, I want to slap whoever decided that the new orange plastic was a good idea. Hardest shit to paint ever. We've dubbed it "bullshit orange" on Hasbro's color palette.

[VACC]

This is probably a waste of time but.....

Nerf, If you are reading this...
Send me one of these. My modifications done to this will inspire others to purchase it.
You have seen what I can do.

Dude, no one from Nerf is reading page 21 of this god forsaken (no pun intended) thread.

[TED]

This is probably a waste of time but.....

Nerf, If you are reading this...
Send me one of these. My modifications done to this will inspire others to purchase it.
You have seen what I can do.

Dude, no one from Nerf is reading page 21 of this god forsaken (no pun intended) thread.

How come no one ever intends to create a pun? Whenever I make a pun it is always intended. There's nothing wrong with puns.

[VACC]

This is probably a waste of time but.....

Nerf, If you are reading this...
Send me one of these. My modifications done to this will inspire others to purchase it.
You have seen what I can do.

Dude, no one from Nerf is reading page 21 of this god forsaken (no pun intended) thread.

How come no one ever intends to create a pun? Whenever I make a pun it is always intended. There's nothing wrong with puns.

Well it's embarrassing. I mean, OBVIOUSLY I totally intended that pun, but if I had admitted it people would have called me a cock-jockey. I am NOT a jockey; I'm a fucking stallion!

[Carbon]

Here's my one conjecture post, and then I'm waiting for the blaster's release.

I’ve got a hypothesis about the mechanics of this gun, based on what we know about the current line, the pictures we’ve seen, and Hasbro’s previous trends.

Observations:
1. The shells are the barrels. This gun shoots Sonics, so there can’t be a tighter barrel in front of it. As such, the shell is the entire barrel, similar to the Mav for the Firefly.
2. The barrel is not fixed to the air supply…similar to the Mav and Firefly.
3. Hasbro likes reusing internals. Maverick, Firefly, DTG.

Hypothesis:
It’s a battery powered Maverick.

EBF can be Electric Belt Fed. It's also Electric Beltfed Firefly.

[Thom]

To clarify, your hypothesis is that it has six "gatling" barrels in the internals? If so, I thing they'd have worked them into the external design to evoke a minigun.

[Carbon]

To clarify, your hypothesis is that it has six "gatling" barrels in the internals? If so, I thing they'd have worked them into the external design to evoke a minigun.

No, just that the "barrels" (shells) are moving past an air source in the same fashion (and with most likely the same air delivery) as a Firefly.

Edited by Carbon, 21 February 2008 - 10:45 AM.

[xNFx 37]

Also, the shells look like the barrels to a TTG

[smeagolsaur]

Observations:
1. The shells are the barrels. This gun shoots Sonics, so there can’t be a tighter barrel in front of it. As such, the shell is the entire barrel, similar to the Mav for the Firefly.
2. The barrel is not fixed to the air supply…similar to the Mav and Firefly.
3. Hasbro likes reusing internals. Maverick, Firefly, DTG.

Hypothesis:
It’s a battery powered Maverick.

EBF can be Electric Belt Fed. It's also Electric Beltfed Firefly.

I hope that it's not a battery-powered maverick. With such a big gun, why wouldn't they use a longshot plunger?

I'd like to add that since the gun is utilizing big sonic darts, we can modify the belt-fed shells to accept a smaller dart, which should theoretically help increase range.
Furthermore, if you use darts without a big tip, such as the streamline, you can replace the front barrel with a better fitting pipe to make it effective.

[sam]

I hope that it's not a battery-powered maverick. With such a big gun, why wouldn't they use a longshot plunger?

Because it would take a ton of power to be able to put it back, and it would be just easier to use a maverick plunger. Remember Nerf doesn't make blasters for us to modify. They make them for the masses that don't modify.

I'd like to add that since the gun is utilizing big sonic darts, we can modify the belt-fed shells to accept a smaller dart, which should theoretically help increase range.
Furthermore, if you use darts without a big tip, such as the streamline, you can replace the front barrel with a better fitting pipe to make it effective.

It uses micros not megas, so we could make it shoot nanos, but that doesn't really add much (it may add in distance, but it looses accuracy due to the weight of the nano). Your second part is right though. it looks like you could add 4" barrels into the belt because of how it holds the stock darts.

[smeagolsaur]

Because it would take a ton of power to be able to put it back, and it would be just easier to use a maverick plunger.

If 4 AA batteries can pull back the plunger in my mini airsoft aeg (which is slightly smaller than a maverick plunger), I'm willing to guess that 6 D batteries can power a longshot plunger.

It uses micros not megas

Thanks for clearing that up.

Edited by smeagolsaur, 21 February 2008 - 06:01 PM.

[Thom]

D batteries aren't any higher-voltage than AAs.

[sputnik]

Why would we use nanos?

Edited by sputnik, 21 February 2008 - 06:09 PM.