Board Thread:Questions and answers/@comment-30049823-20200106021207/@comment-27306930-20200107014339

OMG, some great memories ! Ideal® was huge when I was a kid. I had an Ideal brand Evel Knieval action figure and Jump Cycle. Rev it up and jump over sofas and chairs. (and dogs, siblings, and flaming piles of newspaper)   What a blast !

I don't know the exact year, but your Hover Blaster is definitely from Ideal, or possibly the very last days of Tyco. The first dart blaster was introduced in 1992, and Ideal ceased in 1997, so it must have been sometime within those five years, most likely toward the end. The Dart didn't come out till 1993, and it took a couple years for the Rockets to gain any real traction. So a knockoff blaster like the Hover Blaster was probably from 1995 or 1996. Just a guess based on very old memories. But I hope it helps 😊