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Not to be confused with cylinder.

Standard Nerf Drums

Eighteen, twenty-five, and thirty-five dart drums stacked on top of each other, respectively.

A drum is a dart clip, disc magazine, or High-Impact Round magazine designed for use with certain blasters.

Details[]

Drums are similar to clips or magazines, but have a cylindrical shape to increase their capacity without compromising much vertical space (although through this, more horizontal space is used). There are three variations of drums with different ammunition types: dart drums, disc drums, and High-Impact Round drums. Dart drums are compatible with clip system blasters. Disc drums are compatible with magazine-fed Vortex blasters. High-Impact Round drums are compatible with magazine-fed RIVAL blasters.

All clip system Nerf dart drums feature a winding knob on the back to release jammed darts manually by turning the knob to reduce tension on the follower.

Drums are normally purchased with blasters. However, they can also be found separately second-hand, such as on internet trading/auction sites like eBay, Craigslist, Kijiji and so on.

The only drum sold new separately was the eighteen dart drum, a Target exclusive like its patron blaster, the Alpha Trooper CS-18.

Some drums are mechanically identical to large cylinders or turrets, storing darts in individual chambers and using a rotation mechanism to index the drum for firing.

History[]

The drum was first introduced with the thirty-five dart drum; at the time of its introduction, it held more ammunition than any other ammunition holding accessory.

In 2010, a patent was filed by Hasbro for a fifty dart drum, meant to be packaged with the Stampede ECS. This drum would have become the first "double drum", fed from two sets of cylinders that house the darts, and much more mechanically complex than other drums. However, the drum was cancelled and never released. Eventually in 2019, a new fifty dart drum was made available with the Titan CS-50, with a nearly identical design.

The first disc-firing drum came with the release of the Pyragon in 2012.

The first High-Impact Round drum was meant to come with the release of the Edge Series Helios XVIII-700 in 2020. A patent for the design of the drum was published on July 4, 2019.[1] It was cancelled alongside its patron blaster and never released.

The first non-Nerf clip system-compatible drum was the thirty dart drum, released with the 2019 Tracker.

In 2021, the Dart Zone Tomahawk 60 released with its own drum. This drum is unique in that it acts much like a cylinder (relying on the blaster's rotation mechanism to index it), however, it also has two layers of darts wound around the circumference, making its capacity very high without compromising much space. Other blasters such as the Adventure Force Alpha Auto 72 and Dart Zone Max Tomcat followed suit with their own drums of a similar design.

Drum variations[]

Nerf[]

Clip system dart drums[]

Name Year released
35dartdrumnew Thirty-five dart drum 2009
18 dart drum Eighteen dart drum 2010
25dartdrum Twenty-five dart drum 2012
InfinusDrum Thirty dart drum 2018
50dartdrumplaceholder-0 Fifty dart drum (N-Strike Elite) 2019
50drum Fifty dart drum (N-Strike) Cancelled

Disc drums[]

Name Year released
Pyragon Drum magazine Forty disc drum 2012

High-Impact Round drums[]

Name Year released
30-round drum helios Thirty round drum Cancelled

Buzz Bee/Adventure Force[]

Clip system dart drums[]

Name Year released
Air warriors 30 drum Thirty dart drum 2019

Other drums[]

These drums are only compatible with the blaster they were originally packaged in with.

Name Year Patron blaster
SidewinderDrum Thirty dart drum 2013 Side Winder / Sidewinder (Ultra-Tek) / Firestreak
AlphaAutoDrum Alpha Auto drum 2022 Alpha Auto 72

Dart Zone/Adventure Force[]

Name Year Patron blaster
Superdrum drum Magnum drum 2016 Magnum
Magx2drum Magnum X2 drum 2020 Magnum X2
Villainatordrum Villainator drum 2020 Villainator
Tomahawkdrum Tomahawk drum 2021 Tomahawk 60
Tomcatdrum Tomcat drum 2022 Tomcat

X-Shot/Adventure Force[]

Name Year Patron blaster
TurboAdvancedrum blue Turbo Advance drum 2017 Turbo Advance / Fortress / Super Drum

Trivia[]

  • Full-auto and slam firing is often considered to be better served by a drum-fed blaster, due to the larger amount of ammunition that can be held in them.
    • However, drums tend to jam more often than normal clips, especially when the blaster is fired quickly.

See also[]

References[]

  1. Hasbro, Inc.; Miller, C.; Victor, R. J.; Bryant, W. J.; Nugent, D. M. (2019-07-04). High Capacity Magazine For Spherical Projectiles (PDF). United States Patent and Trademark Office. Retrieved on 2019-11-22.
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