Talk:Nerf

More info Safety Issues?

I seem to recall more than one nerf product being pulled off the shevels to due to injured kids.

-I can find records of only one nerf product being recalled. See here

Nerf modifications

The whole paragraph on nerf modifications could be scaled down to a small paragraph. I dont see the relevance of going into detail explaining how you should modify a water gun to make it more effective, where the potential for making the toy unsafe seems higher.

-While true that having the actual instructions for modification of guns is not needed on the page, information that modifications exist, perhaps some examples (Boltsnipers works come to mind) would be much appreciated by the large nerf modification community. Historically, the sports products and the guns have been the two most important to the NERF company, and the sports products are pretty one-dimensional. However, the NERF gun community is a ever-expanding and changing community, and due to it's larger membership, potential, and multi-faceted nature, it certianly deserves to have more information on it.

Also, according to the paintball Wiki page, "Insurance statistics show that paintball is one of the safest sports in existence, even more so than tennis". That is a game involving shooting proejctiles at hundreds of feet per second using compressed CO2. While no hard data has ever been collected, it's moderately safe to assume that NERF weapons, providing the participants wear basic eye protection, has a next to zero potential for lasting injury.

Model Ranges

This page needs a Model Ranges section like on the SUper SOaker page.

Nerf as a Hobby

Most of the people on this page seem to be speaking from the standpoint of non-Nerfers. The Nerf article was created by and FOR Nerfers. While it is bound to be read (and edited) by people who do not Nerf, and we Nerfers who created the page anticipated this, the person who said,

"i removed nerfing modification details, irrelevant to nerf and promotes dangerous modification of kids toys."

obviously does not modify or intend to modify Nerf guns and therefore can't fairly remove major sections of the article, even if they seem irrelevant to him or her. It is most certainly NOT irrelevant to Nerf to anyone who is genuinely interested in it as a hobby. It is a major part of Nerf for anyone who fits into this group and should therefore be included in the article. This section could also give information to people who aren't familiar with Nerf gun modifications, which is after all its intended purpose.

Most of you seem to be thinking of Nerf as a company that makes plastic toys rather than Nerf as a hobby; you have to understand that this article was originally authored by Nerfers (most of whom were/are members of the NerfHaven and/or NerfHQ forums) and, as a result, its main focus at the beginning was to give more information about the hobby of Nerfing. The only solution to this dispute (ie, "is Nerf a material, company or hobby?") I can come up with would be to have two separate articles, one about the Nerf company and one about the hobby. Some of you are ignorant of the many parts of Nerf that Nerfers consider when the word comes to mind (such as wars and modifications) and therefore can't fairly critique the article, but I, being a Nerf modifier and warrer myself, suppose I'm a little biased towards making the main focus of the article the hobby of Nerfing rather than the Nerf company; again my only idea for a solution is to have an article about Nerf as a hobby and one about Nerf as a company.

-NerfMonkey, NerfHQ administrator

NERF Acronym meaning?

It seems like the widely accepted definition of the term "NERF" is "non-expanding recreational foam" but the inventor's own website has busted that claim. The inventor's website information should be enough to warrant a change to the current article. link to proof: http://reynguyercreativegroup.com/?page_id=12&cat_id=5 Nerfmaster8 (talk) 09:16, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

I'm not sure that link "busts" the claim - it just says "Parker Brothers decided to name the balls NERF after the foam padding that off-the-road enthusiasts wrapped around their roll-bars" (which may itself have that exact acronym or backronym). Given that there's no source for this, though (and that the best I can find is a book saying that "NERF doesn't stand for anything"), I'll cut the acronym as unsourced and mention the Guyer source. --McGeddon (talk) 09:25, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Implied conclusion in legal section?

The legal issues section seems to imply that the quarterly loss was due to teh boycott, I think that's probably a bit of a stretch and without context (such as the previosu quarters sales and overall economy changes in that period) or a citation supporting it it probably should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.13.165.3 (talk) 06:02, 24 February 2013 (UTC)