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[khaosworks]

Nerf has a sniper rifle now.

Let me say that again.

A FREAKING SNIPER RIFLE.

3 feet long, range 35 feet. 12 darts in two quick reload clips. And a detachable scope. Can also break down into two smaller submachine gun-types, one with a fold-down bipod.

And they have a Nerf pistol with a LASER FINDER.

All part of the N-Strike range. For more N-Strike insanity, see here.

God, I want. Why didn't they have toys this cool when I was a kid?

*sob*

Comments

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Don't even get me started on what *Barbie* teaches kids... Generations of little girls may well have developed body/self-image issues from this doll's unrealistic figure, and a consumerist "die with the most toys and clothes" ethos from all the various outfits and accessories Mattel peddles with her. Dolls with actual-woman proportions have been developed and marketed specifically as a counteractive social force to Barbie.

And I still don't like kids getting the idea that guns are something to play with. I was brought up in a hunting culture and taught to respect the dangers of firearms from a very young age. Just the other day at a flea market, I caught a boy practice-aiming a BB gun indiscriminately and had to tell him to watch where he pointed it.

[batyatoon]

Oh, don't get me wrong, I kinda despise Barbie. But she's a toy. She's the prop, not the story. So's a toy gun.

And if kids want to play out violent stories -- and they pretty much always do -- not having toy guns won't stop them. My local nephews don't own any toy guns, or toy weapons of any kind. So they build them out of tinkertoys.

And of course you have to teach kids to be careful with real guns, or anything that can shoot like a real gun. You also have to teach kids to be careful with real babies. That's no reason not to buy them baby dolls.

[plaid-dragon.livejournal.com]

I was never allowed toy guns, so my brother and I used to use bent sticks or resort to the good old crooked finger and "ptchoo ptchoo" noises to shoot each other. I'm not sure that I would want my (hypothetical) kids to have cap guns but I would probably not mind them having luridly coloured Nerf stuff, if only so I could swipe it!