These are great. They work with my kids’ Nerf dart guns. In the photo they are green and yellow. We received all yellow darts.

These foam air guns are pretty fun. They work like this:
You fit one of the rockets/bullets to the end of the gun and squeeze the air filled handle. When you squeeze, it forces the air out of the barrel and launches the foam rocket off and into “space”.
It tends to fly about 6 to 10 feet and is so light that it won’t hurt anything or anyone. I suggest buying two because they are much more fun to play with someone.

I say nerf bullets in the generic sense. These bullets are for the Buzz Bee/Ruff Stuff guns. Generally I find that Nerf guns won’t fire Buzz Bee bullets and vice versa so I’m glad that the two manufacturers make their bullets in different colors otherwise we’d have no end of trouble finding which bullets go where. One exception I find is that the old Nerf AirTech 2000 gun (discontinued) won’t fire the new Nerf bullets, but they’ll fire these Buzz Bee ones.

Anyway, to get back to the subject, if you participate in Nerf wars, you will need replacement bullets. People are always complaining about losing them, and even going as far as putting their names on each dart…. please! And after a shootout, people are always checking under couches, behind tv’s and once even behind the fridge for them, what a waste of time! With a pack of 100 you can shoot and forget. Over time, you’re gonna buy more than a few packs of 30 anyway, so why not go whole hog and just get the 100 packs. Otherwise, you can always check the inside of the vaccuum cleaner bag (ugh!) or hope to move into a house where the previous owner lost a lot of darts!

We bought this for our 4 year old and it took him about a week to learn how to transform it himself. If you are a 4 year old you have to pull it really hard to make it transform from the truck to the gun. Otherwise he has had hours of fun playing with it. I would also recommend to buy extra nerf darts because they do get lost easily. I think that it only comes with 3 or 4 darts.Hasbro Transformers Optimus Prime Battle Rig Blaster

This was right at the top of my son’s Christmas List this year. His grandparents got it for him and he was thrilled. He has enjoyed it. I wish I could find some replacement darts for it though as his little sister has made of with 2 of them. lol Overall he loves it so that makes me happy. I am not a big fan of things that shoot being in the house for toys, but this has worked out okay.

My son saw a friend play with the blaster and had to have it. We got the Optimus Prime and Starscream blasters for his birthday. My boys absolutely love these. They are very easy to transform from vehicle to blaster and back again.

Stick with the orange darts if at all possible for your type of gun, they hold up and work better much better!!

The Nerf Airtech’s are pretty much discontinued in major stores so if you still want this gun you better get it from this dealer.

So here are my criteria for grading Nerf guns:

1) Power: Manual air pump guns are still the best. In my extensive testing, my old Airtech 2000 beat out all spring powered and wheel powered nerf guns.
Grade: Excellent!

2) Speed: Slow, because this is all manual, there is no auto-rotation of the barrel. And you have to pump it at least 4 times to get power vs. pulling the spring back once for spring loaded guns. Grade: Slow.

3) Durability: I’ve had mine for years and despite the abuse that 3 people have put it through, it’s still as good as new. Grade: Very respectable.

Pros and cons: The pros are obviously power and durability. The cons are that you have to manually rotate the barrel and it’s only a 4 shot gun. But I still like it for power and nostalgia. I use this as a secondary gun.

This is an excellent product that is a lot of fun for many ages. Thanks to this unit we have an active club going strong. Forgive the long review, but this unit deserves it in my mind.

Pros
Fun – It is a blast, especially in groups. This really is for adults as well as kids, and if you get a group of people together to do this, you will have a blast. There are many videos of people playing with this and previous generations on Youtube. Search ‘Phoenix LTX’, ‘Tagfest’, ‘Lazer Tag Team Ops’, and you’ll probably find a lot.

Range – These taggers (guns) have a range of about 350-400 feet, maybe further (maybe a bit less in bright sun).

Features – These taggers have several features to enhance the playability. a) 10 or 25 tags – you can set a switch to set your ‘life’ at 10 or 25 tags. This can help balance some scenarios where differences in numbers or age/experience might make things unfair. b) Indoor/outdoor mode – this helps reduce the sensitivity of the receivers – reduces splash damage you get while playing inside. The IR signal can reflect off walls and make it pretty easy to take hits, even around corners and off your clothing. c) Accessory connectors for more options (see below) d) Realistic reload – you drop a fake ‘clip’ out of the bottom of the grip, much like an ammo clip. e) realistic recoil – there is a hammer that lights up and pops out a little with each shot, and also a vibration with each shot/hit that add to the experience.

Accessories – There is already a shotgun attachment developed, as well as a green dot site. These slide on to connectors on the tagger to give additional capabilities. There are also rumors of more weapon attachments in the pipeline. There was also a video game accessory to let you play 1 player vs. the computer on a TV, but it was pretty useless, and you probably won’t see that any more. If you play with the older LTTO style taggers, you can actually join games hosted by the older taggers.

Exercise – Depending on your gameplay style, you can get as much exercise out of it as you want. The range on these guns is hundreds of feet (a bit less in full sunlight), so you can easily get winded running around inside the playable area.

Eductional – I know – it’s a shooter game… but it teaches basic strategy, tactics, and teamwork, and even the younger kids are starting to pick up some of these concepts.

Durability/Battery life (cost of ownership) – The taggers (guns) are very rugged – if you compare the cost of the system with a commercial lazer tag rental facility- you will make your money back in a couple of sessions of playing, and these taggers last a long time. We are still using all of the taggers we bought over the year, though some of them are developing glitches. Battery life is also very good – even with rechargeables (which seem to be a little less effective, but much cheaper in the long run), the batteries will last several sessions of playing.

Online Communities – Very active online community (there’s several newsgroups including an active one on Yahoo, search for ‘Lazer Tag Team Ops’). The user community and the available technical information on the web opens the door for tech-minded to tear them down and ‘mod’ them to give them additional features. You may have to solder some stuff, clip some wires, or similar, but some of this is pretty cool. Even me, the solder-novice – has gotten into this a little bit with a few minor mods.

Interaction with others – You can play team-based games of 2 teams. The largest game we had was 36 players at once and it was a bit chaotic, but fun.

Cons –

Can’t change the brightness of the LEDs – these are EXTREMELY bright while playing at night, and not only can this effect your aiming, but it gives away your position. We find 2 layers of scotch tape colored with black sharpie work well to dim it down a bit.

Joining hosted games is painful – Mostly a complaint about interacting with older taggers – joining LTTO hosted games is clunky at best.

Lack of Attachments – This is not a failing in the unit, but this particular packaging. This set is a re-offering of the original LTX, which came out last year, but this set has been rebranded under the Nerf brand. Unlike last year’s model, this set is sold without the green dot sight and ’shot blast’ attachment (at a lower price, granted). I believe it’s their intention to sell the attachments separately, but they are not on shelves yet. In this economy, that may not happen if the interest in the line doesn’t improve. That would be a complete shame, since this is one of the coolest ‘toys’ I’ve ever played with.

My 12 yr old son loved playing Lazer Tag at our local Lazer tag center for his birthday. His friends have this system (last year’s model)and because it comes with two taggers, someone would get left out. So, I got this and now they have 2 on 2 battles outside and even in the house. This system is awesome! Very accurate.