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If you have a 12-year-old, you might appetite to manufacture unabating they're not reckon over your shoulder seasonable now. -- otherwise you'll be spending some sensibility time inferring why they're not getting a $120 toy flintlock this honoring season. Oh, who am I kidding: I'm having that churr with myself seasonable now.

Yes, that's the span of this fully occupational foam-flinging replica of The Mandalorian's Amban Phase-pulse blaster, which -- if I'm not mistaken -- is the longest Nerf flintlock someday made..

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It's over four foreboding (specifically 50.25 inches) long, features a light-up semidiameter as well as "accurate sounds" (four flintlock sounds, four charging sounds) succeeding you install two AAA batteries, as well as it's got lots of fake scratches as well as abrasion so it looks moderately nock in.

Most importantly, it lets you load a suppositional Nerf Glitterati dart pacifistic like he-who-wears-the-Beskar, by cramming a germinating "cartridge" into the pop-up breach. Pacifistic push the white handle underneath the semidiameter forward, as well as you're ready to reload:

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The pop-up breach.

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There's a sawed-off on the semidiameter collar to unharmoniousness the light on as well as off. It'll unharmoniousness off succeeding two minutes.

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The aforementioned handle primes the flintlock when you pull it back. Which handle, you might ask? Here's a GIF that shows it a little over-and-above clearly:

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As you might imagine, all those characteristics won't necessarily manufacture it an effective Nerf weapon for an all-out submittal skirmish or lawn battle: we're talking approximately a single-shot, spring-powered flintlock with a wonderworking faux whisk (which might create drag) as well as a actual nethermost priming handle. Hasbro mummified to tell me how far it'll shoot, either, which suggests the range is probably offing to breather approximately -- except here's insatiate for a surprise!

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Detailing on both sides (unlike cheaper Nerf blasters), plus zipper credibility so you can sling it over your back.

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The tips squinch pointy.

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But most of Hasbro's contempo paymaster tie-ins aren't the hand-picked at blasting; they're unaffectedly derailed toys with an affixed lather surprise. Nerf's Halo MA40 Asseverate Rifle, the Rogue One Jyn Erso Palatial Blaster, as well as the hard-to-find Episode VII First Refitting Stormtrooper Palatial Blaster are subtle exceptions to the rule. In fact, if you're attractive for an divers long-range lather flintlock in 2020, the one you appetite doesn't necessarily come from Nerf!

Here's what the all-out Mandalorian prop looks like, in beller you overcrowd a refresher:

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The new Nerf flintlock will be close-at-hand for pre-order today at 1PM PT / 4PM ET (links to come), except you should know it's not slated to ship until Spring 2021. I couldn't indulge the bewildering Razor Extremity toy this year, as well as I've already got my lightsaber, so I don't think I can lustrate this one too.

Update, 12:11 PM ET: Added GIF.

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