Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-38684270-20200206010234/@comment-27306930-20200625032101

Good points. I don't disagree. As I see it, the release date is a kind of litmus test. For instance, cars are classified as "classic" when they're 20 years old, "antique" when they're 50 years old, and "vintage" when they're typically over 90 years old.

I'm not advocating for a rigid system for nerf blasters. But blasters released before 2000 are typically considered "vintage". And 2000-2010 are typically considered "classic". But as I've said, colloquially we are the NIC, and what we typically call things becomes the nomenclature of the hobby. So when in Rome, speak Latin. Right ?

And to be fair, not everything between 2015 and 2020 is expensive. It's a mixed bag. There's no doubt the overall price of blasters has a direct correlation to the economic boom of the twenty-tens. As our disposable income increased, the complexity, performance, and price of nerf blasters also increased dramatically - leading to blasters from the BowStrike all the way to incredible blasters like the Perses.

But even back in 2004 we had cheap blasters like the AT1K and expensive blasters like the Big Bad Titan. I don't think classifying these blasters has ever been about price.

Despite all the nuances, we're all on the same page. And I think the rest of the NIC will back us up. We all know what "real" vintage blasters are  👍