Bungie and Nerf have built a real-life Gjallarhorn with foam Wolfpack rounds

(Image credit: Bungie)

Gjallarhorn, the gilded arugula launcher Bungie has brought back to Destiny as part of its 30th day of remembrance celebrations, is also screening up someplace other: the playground. The studio has partnered with foam-based weapons maker Nerf to produce a extraordinary-to-one replica of the legendary Foreign.

Measurement quartet feet drawn-out and featuring a infract loading mechanism inspired away the game, the substantial-life Gjallarhorn fires three darts now from a shell—a firstborn for Nerf, apparently. Information technology too boasts an illuminated scope, and reloads just the way information technology does in Luck.

Gjallarhorn nerf gun — (Image acknowledgment: Nerf / Bungie)

In that location are a pair of compromises: first, it's not lethal; and second, the gun's iconic gold outdoor has turned orange, in accordance with Nerf's branding. It'll be available to pre-regularise first to those who acquire the Gjallarhorn in-game ahead August 1, 2022. If that's you, expect to be notified via netmail formerly your early access period begins late next yr. You'll inactive take over to pay $160 or €171 to get the gun, mind.

Nerf weapons are rarely so ornate, but this International Relations and Security Network't the first-year time the company has recreated game guns. Information technology has partnered earlier with both Fortnite and Halo—though its Mangler mercifully fires darts kinda than spikes.

I suppose we should be glad that Bungie is teaming up with a toy manufacturer and not an arms extraordinary, given the games industry's track record. In this week's strangest taradiddle, the creator of the AK47 has denied stealing a gun design from a videogame.