SUMMER FUN WITH ZURU TOYS

Wow! Where has summer gone?! Seems like the kids just got out of school and they are heading back in a couple of weeks. So we are making the most of the time left with some help from Zuru. They sent this dad blogger a great package of toys to help ensure my kids have a blast during the remainder of their summer break.

In our summer goodies pack from Zuru, we received Dinosaur Smashers, Water Balloons & Squirt Guns, as well as X-Shot laser tag and foam dart launcher sets. Stay tuned to ageekdaddy.com for updates about our experiences playing with these toys as we start playing around with them. In the meantime, here are some details on Zuru's summer toy lineup:

BUNCH-O-BALLOONS

Fill and tie 100 water balloons in under 60 seconds! Just attach a pack of these self-tying balloons to a water nozzle and you are good to go. These are great on a hot day as they are so easy to fill up. Toss them in a friendly game of catch or chuck them at your friends. It is all good with Bunch-O-Balloons! Find them at Costco, Kroger, Target, and Walmart.

X-SHOT QUICK FILL WATER BLASTER

With its FAST FILL feature this water blaster can be reloaded in 1 second so you can quickly get back to squirting people. Just dunk in water to fill and it will automatically close with rapid sealing technology as you pull it out. The X-Shot Quick Fill Water Blaster has a range of up to 30ft for summer water fights. You can find it at Family Dollar, Sam's Club, Target and Walmart.

X-SHOT NINJA DART BLASTER

Fortnite video game player extraordinaire, NINJA, has teamed up with Zuru X-Shot to create the ultimate toy foam dart launcher. With 12 attachable parts this blaster can be customized your own blaster into over a thousand different configurations providing the best foam dart launcher on playground battlefields. Pick one up now because these officially licensed LIMITED EDITION toys will only be available in 2019! Go to zuru.com for more info.

X-SHOT LASER 360

Play laser tag at home with the X-Shot Double Laser Blaster Pack. Multiple sensors integrated in the included goggles create a 360° infrared signal around a player and so they can be tagged from any direction by a laser blaster. Laser blasts can tag goggles from a whopping 180 feet away. Each pack comes with two sets of blasters and googles. Buy them at Amazon, Dollar General, Target and Walmart.

DINO SMASHERS

Collect miniature dinosaur figures in blind bags that are shaped like dino eggs and opened by smashing them. Or if you don't want to smash your eggs open they can be fed to a T-Rex who will chomp them open and poop out your collectible figure. There are over 100 characters to collect, sold separately from SMASH-REX.

SMASHERS EPIC DINO EGG

Dig your way through dirt, rock, ice, lava and slime to uncover to discover and collect all the bones necessary to build a dinosaur skeleton. Each egg contains one of three exclusive Smash-O-Saurs.  There are more than 25 surprises awaiting inside for anyone who cracks open this EPIC DINO EGG as they dig through its contents. Find these at Walmart.

Hunt Creepy Crawlers with X-SHOT Bug Attack

** A Geek Daddy received the featured product for free to review**

 There are some creepy crawlers on the loose and its up to you to hunt them down with the X-SHOT Bug Attack Value Pack from Zuru Toys.  It comes with a Eliminator Double Barrel Dart Blaster, 2 Predator TK-3 Dart Blasters, 24 foam darts, and 5 bugs.  Do you have the aim to knock off all the bugs as they crawl down a window or wall?

These aren't just menacing looking insects though!  These bugs have special sticky feet that will allow them to slowly flip over and over again down a surface.  Toss the bugs at a wall and watch them crawl!  Can you score a bulls eye to stop one of these creepy crawlers in its tracks?  The bugs are moving targets when you play with these foam dart blasters.

The two TK-3 Blasters are each front loaded with a three dart ammo capacity.  Swivel the barrel with your hand to prepare a foam dart to be shot, pull back the safety to arm the blaster, and touch the pressure sensitive trigger to fire a round at a creepy crawling bug.  The Eliminator provides double barrel action.  Load in two darts and fire them off one at a time. With either blaster type, darts can be rapidly launched by quickly swiveling, pulling, and pressing to get them to fire.

While these blasters don't have cartridges to load up multiple darts at once, these toys also don't jam up and the darts last longer because they aren't getting bent and mangled as they are being shot out.  While it may take a bit longer to load these blasters than some of their competitors there also isn't the frustration of the toys locking up and darts breaking that often occurs with cartridge based ones.  Two or three shot before having to reload really isn't that bad.  The extra step of having to pull an action handle before pulling the triggers is also a nice safe guard to avoid an accidental shot that could damage something or hit someone in the face.

The X-SHOT dart blasters have some nice oompfh to them allowing users to hit targets from a decent distance with plenty of power to knock one of the clinging bugs off a wall.  They're also very capable of holding their own in a backyard battle against other foam dart toy brands.  Bug Attack is a unique take on foam dart toys that lets X-SHOT stand out and provides a lot of fun.  I also like that it provides some truly amusing targets to shoot at as an alternative to kids firing at each other all the time when playing with these type of toys.  Of course kids will be kids and these toys also have the capabilities to allow a child to be a formidable opponent in neighborhood dart battles.

For more information about the X-SHOT Bug Attack Value Pack, please visit zuru.com