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[Peacemaker]

Anybody seen those new Super Soaker (brand?) water guns in the stores with the built in shields? I've seen a couple different styles at stores like Toys-R-Us. Basically, they're big water guns that have large flat shields built onto them. The shields (roughly 1' X 1.5-2' in size), when at rest, are folded back against the side of the gun, but when you pull a lever or push a button of some sort, they fold out to protect you from incoming water from other people's water guns, so that you can blast your buddies without getting water sprayed in your face at that same time. I know some people have rules in their Nerf wars that allow players to use guns like the Manta as shields to deflect incoming darts, and it would seem that guns like this would be fun to use under such rules. However, the wierd thing about these guns is the firing operation. From the box diagrams and the design features of the guns, it appears that instead of the usual Super Soaker operational mechanics (i.e. use a pump to build air pressue in a tank, then pull a trigger to release the water via the stored air pressure), these guns use a rotating crank that you have to constantly turn to blast out the water (kinda like the cranks on old-fashioned Gatlin guns). This would definitely be a cool feature for a Nerf gun to have (imagine it, an old fashioned manual Nerf Gatlin to shower your victims with foamish death), but I don't have a good feeling as to if these guns could be effectively modified to fire Nerf dart instead of water.

Anybody else seen these guns? If so, any thoughts?

[ompa]

They have the razorbeast for the crank-of-foamish-death thing. I've seen the shields too, but have not really looked into how you could mod it. I've just been too lazy. If it really does use a crank, I doubt it really could be effectively modded, as you can't put that much pressure out with a crank- at least if it's what I'm thinking of.

~ompa

[nerfspecialforces]

It would probably just be better to take the insides out and stick a nerf gun inside.
That would be awsome

[Jangadance]

... Anyways, forget what NSF said. He's just too 1338 apparently.

But, someone would have to buy one and see what the output is like without any water in it. It probably won't work very well, but if so you can just return it since you didn't invalidate your return policy by opening the case. Just say it didn't work like it said on the box, and bring your receipt and put it in the original packaging. That's the worst case scenario. Best case scenario, you could have an oldschool gatling Nerf gun like a beefed up Razorbeast that was air-pressured instead of spring compressed.

Then again, you'd run into the issue of working a chain/clip system, so unless you're ready for some serious work I wouldn't try this idea out. Good brainstorming though.