Hasbro Nerf N-Strike Disk Shot
From Hasbro
Customer Reviews
Short life span
My 9 year old loved it for a couple of days. The remote control must have gotten lost quickly, because I never saw it. A whole bunch of batteries were needed.
Fun for the Whole Family, Apparently
I bought this for my nephew's 11th birthday. I don't see my brother's kids often, so I had no idea whether this would be something an outdoors-loving, sports-playing young electronics addict would enjoy. Two days after it arrived my brother called to tell me that it works perfectly, the discs fly pretty far (for indoors) and that the whole family was having a blast with it.
I purchased this Nerf game for my 12 year old son. It is really pretty cool and he and I have spent about 15 minutes on several occasions playing with it.
The first issue that we had was our 8 foot tall ceilings are not high enough for the product. Perhaps 10 or 12 feet are needed. We solved this by placing the product down in a stairwell with lots of clearance. We stood at the top of the stairwell and fired from there. In this arrangement, the disks were often at eye level or slightly below when we were firing. Also, we had to learn to track the path of the disk with the gun and fire near the top of the height of the disk.
The disk launcher can fire straight up or at a variable angle. Straight up worked fine for us. The variable angle would tend to hit the wall. One cool thing is that the height of the disk is intentionally varied to make this more challenging.
To start the disk, there is an IR (infrared) remote control mounted on the top of the gun. Press this button and the disk launcher starts a countdown process with a progression of beeps. When the disk is launched, try to follow its path from the launcher using the gun and then fire at the top of the arc. If I am careful, I can hit the disks about half the time. The darts are designed to stick to the disks, but that does not happen very often. This is not really a problem, but it would be cool if they stuck to the disks.
This product is very safe, however, you want to make sure that your child knows not to shoot someone in the face. You could do some eye damage at close range. Otherwise, you can safely take a hit a point blank range as my son and I often do.
This is a challenging and fun game and I highly recommend it.
Thanks
John C. Briggs
Product Description
Build your targeting skills and train for the ultimate blaster mission with this amazing disk launcher. Load the foam disks into the disk launcher and load your blaster with Micro Darts ammo. A wireless remote that you attach to your blaster lets you control when to send foam disks sailing! Launch disks at multiple angles with two height settings and three challenging ways to play. Use your blaster to try and knock the disks out of the air with speed, distance and accuracy the ultimate moving-target practice.
