Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-24548292-20140830212109/@comment-126472-20150817163720

Ze Stampede wrote: Does anyone know if Nerf actually reads these forum posts? i think they should take some inspiration from us, or make a line based off community suggestions, and put people's names on the packaging for cred.

It's more likely that they have a testing focus group consisting of kids between 7 and 16, with a few adult Nerfers thrown in for good measure. They more likely present prototype products than ask for ideas. I'm sure they still occasionally take their testers' ideas into consideration, but I'd say at least 80% of it is from their own engineers. Anything lining up with the discussions on the forums is most likely coincidental.