David Pisor, right, and his son Henry, left, invented the Shelby Destroyer, an electronic foam dart rifle that could bring some stiff competition to the toy dart and disc gun marker.

His creation works a lot like those battery-powered foam disc shooters we had growing up, but, you know, beefed up. Instead of batteries, ...

Each 1.5-inch disc consists of a domed core made from flexible plastic surrounded by classic Nerf foam. The designers set the bulk of each disc’s 2.6 ... 10 discs. When a shooter slides ...

If you’re hoping for more range, Nerf makes more powerful blasters that can fire foam discs at distances up to 50 feet, ... but every gun on Naboo in Phantom Menace makes my brain buzz.