Bungie's absurd $185 Nerf Gjallarhorn reloads like the in-game weapon

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The Destiny rocket launcher Gjallarhorn is one of the most-beloved guns in a game that, let's face it, is all about collecting guns (OK, OK, and shooting things with them). Ludicrously sized and ludicrously over-powered (to varying extents, depending on which period of the game we're talking), if there is such a thing as an iconic Destiny weapon then this is it.

Last year Bungie announced a collaboration with Nerf, makers of countless foam-blasting toy weapons, and Gjallarhorn was the obvious choice. Now the finished product is being shown off in advance of pre-orders opening up next week, and there's a lengthy blogpost on Bungie's site(opens in new tab) about the design process.

Nerf Gjallarhorn goes big: designed to use three of the company's biggest darts at once. Justin Saccone is a senior product engineer at Nerf, and says: «With that shell, we're shooting three of those MEGA darts at once, which gives that visual sense of the Wolfpack Rounds swirling and flying through the air towards your target.»

Now, here comes the best part. «From there, we looked at all the reloading animations, and how these function in the game,» says Saccone. «We wanted to integrate how it reloads in the game so the entire top housing of the Blaster itself shifts forward, it opens the loading bay just like it does in the game, you pop the shell in just like the animation, and then you pull it back and you're ready to blast off a burst of three MEGA darts, which is super awesome.»

I felt a great disturbance in the force: as if thousands of nerd wallets cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I certainly know a few members of the PCG team who'll be licking their chops at this. I mean: just look at the detailing, nevermind the (40