Nerf’s Gjallarhorn rocket launcher from Destiny is truly gigantic — preorders begin July 7th

When you had been fearful that the real-life foam firing model of the notorious Gjallarhorn rocket launcher from Future can be disappointingly kid-sized, you may put these fears to relaxation: Bungie has simply revealed what an precise blaster seems like — and when followers can get it.

Preorders for the over 4-foot-long, 1:1 scale blaster will start July seventh at 10AM PT / 1PM ET, and present Gjallarhorn house owners get dibs. When you’re trying to buy the prop-grade Nerf LMTD blaster, you might want to unlock it in-game within the Future 2 Bungie thirtieth Anniversary Pack earlier than July seventh at 9AM PT earlier than you may be part of the “digital ready room” in your buy. So, you’ve bought simply over per week. If there are any left, Bungie will put them up on the market starting July twenty first.

Now for some unhealthy information: the value has gone up $25 with out clarification. It’ll now be $185 as a substitute of the $160 that Bungie introduced final December. And there’s no phrase but on even a tough estimate of when it would ship. A earlier Nerf LMTD product took over a 12 months to reach. Others are nonetheless inbound.

You additionally shouldn’t count on this Gjallarhorn to fireplace rockets that cut up into a number of darts like we’d hoped. In a bigger reveal on Bungie’s web site, the designers have clarified that you simply’ll load a shell that homes three of Nerf’s giant Mega darts, and also you’ll see these three Mega darts concurrently depart the barrel. Admittedly, that makes much more sense for Nerf physics and security constraints than firing off a rocket.

“With that shell, we’re taking pictures three of these MEGA darts directly, which provides that visible sense of the Wolfpack Rounds swirling and flying via the air in the direction of your goal,” says Nerf senior undertaking engineer Justin Saccone. You get three of these Mega shells and 9 darts in whole.

The reloading mechanism sounds actually cool:

We wished to combine the way it reloads within the recreation so your entire prime housing of the Blaster itself shifts ahead, it opens the loading bay identical to it does within the recreation, you pop the shell in identical to the animation, and then you definately pull it again and also you’re able to blast off a burst of three MEGA darts, which is tremendous superior. It’s the primary time at NERF that we’ve ever completed an simply reloadable MEGA dart shell that fires a number of MEGA darts directly.

Sadly, Bungie and Hasbro haven’t supplied any images or video of that mechanism in motion, so that you’ll have to make use of your creativeness for now. In addition they don’t say how the priming mechanism works — and there’s been no trace at its vary or energy.