Kicker - Cinder block destroyer

NICK EICHER, HOST: The beauty of Nerf guns is that the darts can’t really damage or break anything. It’s a Nerf gun, what can happen?

Engineer Michael Pick had an idea.

So he built his own Nerf gun—a 12-foot Nerf gun. It uses high pressure compressed air to propel footlong darts with PVC cores at speeds up to 50 mph.

On his YouTube channel, Pick loaded a solid-tipped dart and fired away just to see what it could do. The target, a full-size cinder block.

AUDIO: One, two, three [BANG]

Yup, that was the sound of a concrete block shattering to pieces.

The engineer used computer modeling, plywood, and a 3D printer to construct this bad boy.

Now, no parent in his or her right mind would put one of these under the tree this year, nor could you. First of all, there’s just one—and second of all, it isn’t for sale.

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