Juvenile Nerf Obsession!
Has anyone else noticed how Nerf guns are looking more and more.. real? I mean, this sucker breaks down into components and comes with two working clips. If, as some of the crazier Nerf enthusiasts out there are doing, you were to paint the thing black or silver, you'd stand a pretty good chance of getting shot by the police. At the very least, you'd trigger some very concerned calls from the neighbors if you went running around outside with it.
More to the point, it's something like three feet long. I can scarcely believe they can call it a kid's toy with a straight face. Note how the black-shirted and hair-gelled 'lil tyke(tm) on the box for the toy scowls menacingly, presumably at the gun itself as he struggles to grip its sleek injection-molded plastic bulk with his stubby, prepubescent arms.
Didn't kids that age break toys really often? I mean, it's it a bad idea to make a toy for them with this many delicate moving parts? The "Longshot" isn't like the regular nerf fare, in which the only exposed innards are the cocking mechanism and the trigger. Now, before kids can even think about playing with it, they have to fill a couple of clips (if they haven't lost them already), and snap all these fiddly plastic bits together.
Anyway, to all those parents out there thinking about spending $30 on a huge and probably delicate multi-part gun for their 'lil tykes, they should consider the far more sensible magstrike blue.
Which, as you can see, also comes with two clips but looks far less fragile and, more importantly, is fully automatic. It's an "uzi" to the Longshot's "sniper rifle", and in a close range fight we all know which of those wins. Plus, with the "protective" vest and goggles (with brightly colored targets on them), your child will be perfectly safe should anyone violate the token "do not point at people or animals" warning.