In the lead-up to this year’s Toy Fair, Hasbro has given Popular Mechanics an exclusive first look at four of its upcoming foam-flingers. Whether you’re looking for a powerful and practical Rival blaster or something more along the lines of a straight-up minigun, you’ve got some good options coming down the pike.Open GalleryOf the four, the N-Strike Elite Titan CS-50 is the most extreme. With a 50-dart drum (and 50 darts to fill it) this full-auto, flywheel-powered monster has a spinning barrel to make it all the more menacing. The price you pay, aside from the $100 price tag, is needing four hefty D batteries to power the thing, so you’ll likely need the included shoulder strap if you intend to carry this bad boy into battle. Related StoriesNerf’s New Rival Blaster Just Doesn’t Stop FiringNerf’s Bonkers New Blaster Is Almost Too Much FunOn the smaller side, the Perses MXIX-5000 is the newest member of the ball-blasting Rival series, with a firing rate of eight rounds per second, and a 50-round hopper to let you lay down fire for a good long while. A bit more manageable than the 100-round Nemesis and 200-round Prometheus, the Perses comes with a built-in rechargeable battery and retails for $100—the same price as the Nemesis—but with the bonus of a more portable, maneuverable frame. That’s handy if you don’t plan to need quite so much ammo as a giant 100-round hopper will give you. There are also new additions to the giant-dart-firing Mega line and the cartoonish Zombie Strike collection. The enormous and appropriately named Megalodon blaster is built around a giant exposed drum that holds 20 of Nerf’s red Mega darts, with slam-fire capabilities that let you hold down the trigger and crank the handle to fire all 20 in rapid succession. The Zombie Strike Revoltinator, meanwhile, is a flywheel-powered autoblaster with an 18-round clip and shocking electrical lights and sounds befitting its fictional design as an overcharged electrical weapon (no actual shocking power included). The Megalodon runs $40, and the Revoltinator is $50.All of these (and more, we’re sure) will be coming out this fall, so keep your eyes peeled.
