Awesome Darts

The Hamster toy blaster from Shanye X Phantom Tech isn’t much thicker than a phone, so it fits easily in your pocket. It can fire a single foam dart or .50 caliber rubber balls. It accepts short or long darts and primes easily with the pull down on its powerful spring-loaded mechanism. Luke from Out of Darts shows how it works and has them for sale in his shop.

We thought the only way to land a dart on a dartboard was to throw it through the air. This skilled “dartist” shows how it’s possible to place a dart right in the bullseye by tossing it into a vertical loop, where it spins around and hits the bullseye. If you have any doubt this was real, here’s the original How Ridiculous video.

The NERF HyperFire can launch about 300 darts per minute. Michael Pick built a custom NERF weapon that can (theoretically) fire 2560 darts in the same amount of time. It’s powered by a dozen motors and has four 15-round magazines. We’d love to see how many darts it could fire with a larger magazine setup.

Tod’s Workshop makes replicas of medieval weaponry and has had props featured on shows like The Witcher. Tod also built a working trebuchet, which he’s used to launch all sorts of things. For fun, he tied together 100 crossbow bolts with a fuse, lit that on fire so they would separate upon launch, and fired the whole bundle into an empty field.

NERF darts typically require a blaster if you want to shoot them across the room. Joel Creates and his brother engineered a NERF dart that can fire itself right from your hand. After playing with compressed air, explosives, and springs, the final design relies on an electric ignition and a magician’s gimmick.

Buttered Side Down got on a new dartboard and decided to try his hand at the game. As expected, things go off the rails when he realizes it’s not only impossible to land a bullseye but to hit the board at all. Perhaps he should call Mark Rober for an assist.

“It’s like my head is the Razor Crest.” Maker and Mythbuster Adam Savage shows off one of his more amusing builds – a head-mounted device that can fire dozens of foam darts in seconds. He started out with a pair of circular D-Dart Pro Blasters, modded them to be more powerful, and to be fired via a remote control.

Todd Robins is an expert stunt performer as well as a high-speed camera operator for Kuma Films. In this video he shows off his rope dart throwing skills using a weapon inspired by Mortal Kombat’s Scorpion to demolish soda cans and watermelons.

This unusual battery-powered blaster uses a flywheel to load up and fire up to 28 foam darts in sequence. Since they’re designed to be held and fired by a single hand, you can dual-wield them too. Out of Darts recently reviewed it, and showed how much faster it can fire when modded.

Enjoy fun twists on the game of darts with Jay Stoltz’s dartboards. Each one is handmade and adds new rules related to the sport that inspired them. There’s a baseball board, a basketball board and a golf board.

It looks a bit like a high-tech hot glue gun, but this premium foam dart blaster is designed for grown ups who want their toys to not look like or fall apart like kids’ toys. Built from durable materials, it’s designed to fire quickly and reliably at speeds up to 130 feet per second.

A fun alternative to ordinary darts, these six-pointed, 3D printed soft-tip darts from design studio smallgran are perfect for electronic dartboards, giving players the thrill of tossing throwing stars without the danger.

An awesome pack of foam dart toys which includes a pair of pump-action, break-action, double-barrel shotguns, along with a duo of pocket-sized single dart blasters that can fire projectiles up to 80 feet.

Rocket scientist Mark Rober and his pal spent about 3 years perfecting their invention. This motorized dartboard is designed to track a dart being thrown at it, and ensures a bulls-eye assuming you’re somewhere within its board. It also can make you miss every time.

Like peanut butter and chocolate, soccer and darts come together to form something new and wonderful. This simple, but fun game from Foot Sports UK involves kicking Velcro-covered balls at a giant dartboard. It looks like a blast, and could be great for improving your aim.

Magnetic Games shows off a cool, but dangerous setup that uses small nail-like projectiles that have been charged with the same magnetic polarity as their launcher, resulting in “darts” that launch solely under the power of magnetism. Don’t try this at home.

Kooba is a unique spin on darts, in which 2 to 4 players use a pair of sticks to fling their pieces onto its game board. The game includes a strategic element which challenges you to attack other players’ game pieces. Game rules here.