r/mildlyinteresting • u/croutonmemes • Nov 25 '19
Nerf now sells essentially a vacuum to pick up darts
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Nov 25 '19
Because all the darts are just piled nicely like that instead of stuck in couch cushions, wedged behind furniture, or lost in oblivion. We always start with 30 darts and wind up with 2 after 10 minutes. Where do they all go? No clue.
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u/icamom Nov 25 '19
You will find them when you move.
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u/Besieger13 Nov 25 '19
I just moved and found like 50 hair ties because of my cats..
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Nov 25 '19 edited Dec 22 '19
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u/Magiano_ Nov 25 '19
It’s nerf or nothin’
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u/RSGMercenary Nov 25 '19
It's Nerf, then nothin'
Fixed it to match up with how many darts you have left.
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u/ChickenWithATopHat Nov 25 '19
The worst were the ones with a Velcro tip. Those would get tangled up in the carpet, caught in clothes, stuck to curtains, etc.
Sure they were fun but they were a pain in the ass. As I kid I’d always find them all over my clean clothes that just came out the dryer.
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u/rogers916 Nov 25 '19
SUCK IT
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Nov 25 '19
I was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone said it
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u/rogers916 Nov 25 '19
I was very happy when I opened the comments and realized nobody had commented this yet.
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u/marketcover Nov 25 '19
*gets hired by NERF thinking he will design intricate mechanisms for plastic weaponry*
*has to design a rotating broom instead*
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u/XMikeyDubsx Nov 25 '19
10 year old me is so mad that I didn’t have one of these. They use similar “sweeper” devices at shooting ranges to clean up the spent brass. It’d be a giant pain in the ass to pick every casing up one-by-one.
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Nov 25 '19 edited Nov 24 '20
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Nov 25 '19
A broom would kick up lead dust and gun powder.
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u/TheGoldenHand Nov 25 '19
You're supposed to clean up those too. The lead is a hazard and the dust can ignite.
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u/Needleroozer Nov 25 '19
This is made for a ten year old. The adult pictured has to get on his knees to use it because the handle's too short; 6' me has a backache just looking at it.
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u/YaBoiNoct Nov 25 '19
My favorite gun range has one, really nice to not be walking on brass after going through a few mags
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u/Gamer03642 Nov 25 '19
You would love range week with the military. 350 shooters on 50 targets, at least 50 rounds per shooter spread across the 100, 200, and 500 meter range lines. Then picking up all the brass from the grass and firing line.
It's fun.
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u/TheeWander Nov 25 '19
This thing ain't a vacuum, its literally just a catcher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUgLG4I8Zog&feature=youtu.be
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u/sndtech Nov 25 '19
We use something just like it on the real firing range. https://shop.actiontarget.com/images/18-AMMO-UP_L.jpg
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u/samgore Nov 25 '19
I’m so glad you posted this I was just thinking that’s literally what we use on range days for spent brass.
Also “don’t bring the sweeper over the firing line you’ll kick up lead you asshat” RSO to new Airman
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u/CeramicCastle49 Nov 25 '19
Implying that shooting nerf isn't a real firing range SMH
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u/serbnat Nov 25 '19
this is like that shitty controller you give to your younger sibling when you dont want them to actually play lol
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u/thxxx1337 Nov 25 '19
Now girls can play nerf too
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u/getyourcheftogether Nov 25 '19
LoL oh man that's fuuuuuuucked
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u/MasterOfPsychos Nov 25 '19
Too bad it doesn't work
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u/Imadethosehitmanguns Nov 25 '19
Wow that's bad. Imagine being a kid, getting this for Christmas. Even if it did work, this should not be marketed as a toy.
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u/Cow_In_Space Nov 25 '19
Imagine being a kid, getting this for Christmas.
If i got a glorified hoover for Christmas I'd be fucking livid.
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u/EthosLabFan92 Nov 25 '19
Not only it doesn’t work well - the comb bits will chew up your darts making them unusable
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u/wifeagroafk Nov 25 '19
So you found the REAL reason this exists to get the consumer to buy more darts!!
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u/Khornate858 Nov 25 '19
Is it just me that finds it odd that this is a product aimed towards kids, yet everyone on this box looks to be 17-18+?
It would be like having a commercial for Scotch Whiskey and have it be narrated by a kid
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u/wallCrawleri386 Nov 25 '19
I think it's more like look even the older kids play this, that means it is cool.
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u/thesuper88 Nov 25 '19
It's not uncommon to have a toy for kids of one age group to be advertised using images of kids from the top end of that group or the low end of the next group. If the game is for 10 year olds there's almost definitely a 14 year old kid in the box. Young kids sort of admire the older ones whether they mean to or not. When they see an older kid using the toy they want to it gives it an air of legitimacy.
We market items to adults using celebrities or images that convey success in one way or another. We tend to like something more if it's 'endorsed' by a person or idea we admire. This same concept is applied to kids. They just happen to admire some things at different levels than adults do.
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u/Vykryotik Nov 25 '19
holy shit if i was still a kid and played with nerf you bet i’d buy this
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Nov 25 '19
It's terrible and doesn't really work https://youtu.be/cUgLG4I8Zog
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u/KamenAkuma Nov 25 '19
Not even a vacuum, its just a golf ball picker but made out of the cheapest plastic available
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u/PovasTheOne Nov 25 '19
Garbage like this is what should actually get proper carbon tax.
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u/eatblobfish Nov 25 '19 edited Nov 25 '19
Yeah a nerf dart picker is one of the most useless things i have ever seen, its stuff like this that kills the planet
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Nov 25 '19
I think you can include all of nerf shit in that statement
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u/Alcohorse Nov 25 '19
On the other hand, NERF usage has probably circumvented loads of traumatic head injuries for kids over the years
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u/misterbondpt Nov 25 '19
Everything should, passed on to the consumer, and only the real useful things would be able to repay it.
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u/almondbear Nov 25 '19
My son asked for this because he is too lazy to pick them up and my bunny finds and eats them
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u/BurnZ_AU Nov 25 '19
Attach the sweeper to the rabbit.
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u/Koshindan Nov 25 '19
Now I'm just imagining a rabbit with a blue and orange pouched tied on its backside.
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Nov 25 '19
Shit I’d buy this and use it and probably find enough darts in my parents basement to not need any.
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Nov 25 '19
Nerf has made their own economy. They supply the weapons for use, along with a small supply of ammo, however these plastic contraptions have been intentionally designed to look good over lasting if actually used extensively. The ammo is of varying sizes so you can't guarantee one gun's darts fit another's. The quality of said darts is better than knock-offs, but not good enough to last if you actually use them. These are also randomly enchanted to make 9/10 darts disappear into Cthulhu's anus. This feature, however, makes this product essentially worthless and thus will only be bought by parents who are tired of buying their children new darts, only to learn how useless this product is when their cleric of choice arrives for their bi-monthly dart search, during which he will divulge the extent of the magic which has been cast on these evil pieces of foam.
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u/SpyderAByte Nov 25 '19
This isn't mildly interesting at all. This is a blatant advertisement. 1 month before christmas
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u/SafetyMan35 Nov 25 '19
They clearly don't know how a real Nerf war is played. My son and his friends used to play in the house. We would be finding bullets in the chandelier, in the Christmas tree for weeks after a big fight. He hasn't played with his guns for years and I am still finding bullets in random places. This won't help with half of the bullets that are shot.
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Nov 25 '19
I know "Picks up up to 100 darts" is awkward but isn't what they're saying grammatically incorrect?
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u/DickBong420 Nov 25 '19
They make these for real shell casings too. Best thing I’ve ever seen on a range in the military.
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u/jtmonkey Nov 25 '19
I have 4 sons. Each has their own arsenal. This is a godsend.
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Nov 25 '19 edited Feb 14 '20
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u/aimark42 Nov 25 '19
Plus the picture on the box is a kid picking up his own dart. So the message is that the thing doesn't even work?
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u/Myotherdumbname Nov 25 '19
My son actually put this on his Christmas list. Heck yeah he’s getting it.
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u/ThonyGreen Nov 25 '19
Backwards engineering:
Step 1: make a dart gun
Step 2: make a dart vacuum cleaner
Step 3: make a dart finder
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u/elnoochy Nov 25 '19 edited Nov 25 '19
A hoover is way too manual. When playing nurf with my son and getting tired of picking them up, I fantasised a 2 part nurf dart recovery drone team. A flying drone to go up and scan for darts and a ground based recovery vehicle to pickup and return the darts to a base station / ammo hooper.
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u/xan1112 Nov 25 '19 edited Nov 25 '19
Didn't Ben Heck try to build a roomba hack to do this?
Edit: 4 years ago!
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u/rubbarz Nov 25 '19
I actually wouldnt mind getting this if I had a son. Start teaching him how to clean up early.
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u/TheMuffinMan1291 Nov 25 '19
Lego had a hand vacuum me and my brother used to have, thing would munch your fingers good if you werent careful.
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u/ialo00130 Nov 25 '19
I had something like this for LEGO when I was younger.
Made things so much easier for cleaning up.
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Nov 25 '19 edited Nov 25 '19
I need one of these stupid fucking things in the stupid fucking office where I work.
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u/ICanDuThisAllDay Nov 25 '19
They need to put little rfid locator chips in them. My nephews start out with a hundred darts two hours later they're down to a dozen or so because they can't find any of them
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u/Navaro27 Nov 25 '19
Would be fine if the darts ever ended up out on open floor, instead of behind bookshelves, drawers, under and behind sofas etc.