I'm seeing a lot of articles interchangeably switch between the terms "cylinder", "barrel", and even "turret" for where the darts are loaded in revolver-style guns. Are these regional differences, or are people using the wrong terminology? (MarauderDZ (talk) 02:48, August 25, 2017 (UTC))
- They're all kind of in a weird blurred line scenario, where barrel is (most likely, I could be wrong) what Hasbro uses for revolvers, cylinder is the proper term for real revolver firearms, and turret is a big catch-all term for front-loaded blasters with revolving drums/barrels/cylinders. So, it's kind of a mix of everything. I've never seen reason to go out of the way to fix it, since people just use all three apparently. If anything needs to be edited out though, turret is most likely the one that needs to be changed. Jet [Talk • Contributions] 02:52, August 25, 2017 (UTC)
- I thought "revolver" was the catch-all term for this type of blaster. A turret, to me, would be the Centurion or Rhino, on their swivel mounts. MarauderDZ (talk) 02:57, August 25, 2017 (UTC)
- That's also true enough, especially since barrel's already a standing term in Nerfing. No need to make things more confusing, Hasbro does a good job of mixing its terms up as it is. :P I'm currently working on moving to the new Performance article format, but afterwards I could get to these articles and fix them up to match proper terminology, unless someone else wants to take a crack at it.
- @Marader: Revolver is the term, yes. "Turret" is just a part of many different blasters, the set of barrels that rotate upon/after firing. Jet [Talk • Contributions] 02:59, August 25, 2017 (UTC)
- Yeah, it was "barrel" that first confused me. I was all, "Why would you want to mod a blaster to have a drop barrel?" MarauderDZ (talk) 03:06, August 25, 2017 (UTC)