When we decided to have a Monster Hunt party for Eva’s seventh birthday this year I asked my Nerf contact if we could check out some additional Nerf toys. We were supplied with the Nerf Zombie Strike Slingfire and also the Nerf Rebelle Rapid Red Blaster. These are my opinions of the latter.

A few days before Eva’s party she and I went out to the back yard to try out the Rapid Red Blaster. This is a motorized blaster that rapid fires Nerf darts. The darts travel quickly and for a significant distance. The Rebelle site says that they can travel up to 75 feet. I’d say that they can travel pretty far. I showed Eva how to hold and fire the blaster. We aimed at the monster targets and she immediately angled upwards and fired four darts over the fence and across the street before I could stop her. I walked across the street and looked on the neighbor’s lawn and didn’t see a single dart. She had lost four of them almost immediately. The good news is that they flew pretty far. So far, indeed, that they disappeared.

Luckily the set came with twelve darts so we were able to keep playing. The darts were special ones because six were collectible and 6 were message darts. The messages can be read with the decoder clip. Nerf Rebelle is all about the social aspect of Blaster play. Girls can pretend to be spies sending secret messages back and forth with their friends.