N-Sports FireVision Flyer Disc Review

So I finally got my hands on the only kid of flying disc that Nerf currently sells, and when I tested it, I realized just how much I was paying to have the Nerf logo on it. It cost $14.99 at Target, and it just barely is good enough for my purposes.

Flight characteristics

It doesn't even fly straight. It leans toward the outside and falls to the ground about 75 feet away usually, and then it rolls an additional 50 feet or so. However, used as a tactic in a Nerf competition, throwing it at your target when they're more than 15 feet away is just a dumb idea.

However, the leaning can be fixed by warping the inner rim downward about an inch, but the hard part is getting it to stay there. You would need to heat it up to just below its melting temperature in order for it to maintain its modified shape.

"Microprism Technology"

In short, this technology is over 25 years old, and Nerf decided to use the cheapest stuff they could find. A microphotograph of the edge of one of the outer reflective areas reveals that it is indeed a prism-based system, but it happens that the prisms are made of just clear plastic. There is a lot of chromatic aberration in the retroreflection, causing rainbow-ish things to form all over the place when you shine a white light at it. 

Microphoto of microprism material

Me with the disc

 In short, I got what I wanted for about 10 times what it was worth.

Now, on to where i got the idea from...

This video basically summarizes the TV show Tron: Uprising. Its literally amazing. And, as a bonus, nerf-ifying ideas from this... could create a whole nw kind of Nerf war. Fighting with discs, poles, and all that... its just way better and than blasters and so deliciously complicated. Discs will take a while to explore, but adding poles, lightbikes, and all the other aspects of Tron... there is much to be explored.