rockfordnerfer

When he says new recon, I believe he means it as in the recon is a new gun, not that there is a second version of the recon.

Very well done. I had started working on this exact integration before I moved and haven't found the time to pull all the pieces out of the boxes yet. Now I'll definately need to finish it.

**I thought toy guns HAD to have an orange tip to be sold on e-bay.**

This gun (or at least something similar) has been brought up several times and discussed, but if ForsakenAngel_24 is working on it, then we can just wait.

What the fuck? I have mad respect for FA24, but seriously, do we all need to wait for him before we can take a dump? Why the hell do you need to wait? If it looks like it has potential, then try some shit out. You don't need to take ALL your cues from the guy. If he's got something in the works, awesome. If a bunch of people each have different things in the works then that's all the better.

analogkid has a good basic idea, you definately will want the forward movement of the plunger/indicator plate to trigger your air tank. You could probably cut away some room under the barrel to fit your air tank and the pump. All in all you will probably find that you're wasting a lot of what makes each of these guns good. The titan is good for it's power, the longshot is good for it's rate of fire. If you need to pump it up between each shot then you're giving away the advantage you had by using a longshot in the first place. If it does come together I hope you find a way to allow it to function with just the spring to allow for the rate of fire you need in certain situations. If you can somehow accomplish all of that while maintaining a decent accurracy and range, then I think you'll see a lot of imitators, myself included.

Good luck.

You seem to be getting it. We do not contribute to any individual guns' popularity to any degree worth mentioning from a business perspective. Even with some members of the community owning over 100 blasters, the percent of the market we encompass is essentially null.

Look how many active members there are at any time in the community. Never more than 300 who post on a regular basis. Let's vastly exaggerate and say maybe a few thousand occasionally visit the sites and maybe have debated modding a gun. Many of them don't have intentions of buying guns at the moment, but they have in the past. For Hasbro 2007 Q4 revenue was $1.3 billion. Of that, Nerf, Transformers, and Furreal Friends were the strongest sellers. Now, if Nerf was one of the top sellers of a total $1.3 billion, do you really think the few thousand dollars this community brought in affected their entire business model to the degree of designing guns to meet our desires? I'm going to say no.

I think you underestimate the impact of what we do here, or at the least what we could do. regardless of how many active posters we have here, there are many who aren't registered, or who use other sites. This community has the ability to affect other aspect of the foam blaster market. How many times have you ordered a gun online, or looked at product specs on toysrus.com? What if you took a couple extra minutes to fill out a product review on that website? Then "Mom" (who by TRU's own internal statements totals over 70% of their customers) when she is trying to figure out what to get her kid, sees that more people like a gun that we feel is effective than say, the maverick or the recon. Market research indicates that more parents are reading product reviews online for their children before they go into the store than ever before. If every active member took the time to write a quick review for even 3 blasters on popular business sites like toysrus.com or wal-mart.com, we could have a greater influence than what we currently do.

I was mostly talking about the fact that the average member of our community equals probably 15 regular consumers in terms of sales, and that does have an impact. The most important impact we have is that when new guns come out, our members are usually buying them up once they hit shelves, which results in the stores ordering more of them which means that the guns we purchase in higher amounts are more likely to be on the shelf when parents come to buy their kids a new blaster.