NEW NERF GUNS IN 2026

The new Nerf guns of 2026 are built around battle roles, which is a real change rather than a new paint job. Rebel Ops leads it, and a One Piece collab nobody predicted sits alongside it. Here are the 5 worth buying, what each one costs you, and the release archive that explains why the current lines look the way they do.

The 5 new Nerf guns worth buying

Three Rebel Ops blasters and 2 licensed sets. These are the new Nerf guns we would actually spend money on. Each entry ends with the one job it does best.

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1. Nerf Rebel Ops Doom Cannon

Hasbro’s big swing for 2026. Every Rebel Ops blaster is built around a battle role, and the Doom Cannon is the power role.

It is pump-action with slam fire, throwing 3 darts per blast. It feeds from 5 reloadable supershells at 12 darts each, so 60 darts ship in the box, and spent shells store on the blaster so reloads stay in reach.

At $44.99 list it is the priciest of the new Nerf guns this year, and it is the heavy-weapons role by design. That means it is a lot to carry, and refilling supershells mid-battle takes patience.

• 3-dart blasts plus slam fire clear a hallway fast
• 60 darts in the box, the most ammunition of anything in the 2026 wave
• The catch: heaviest and most expensive blaster in the line

Best for the player who holds a position rather than flanks it. Check the current price of the Rebel Ops Doom Cannon on Amazon

2. Nerf Rebel Ops DeadEye

The marksman of the line, and the pick of the new Nerf guns if you only buy one. Pump-action, an 8-dart rotating cylinder, 10 more darts in the stock and 30 Elite darts in the box for $19.99.

The trick is the 3 selectable battle modes, Distance, Damage and Defense, switched on the blaster itself.

The modular attachments earn their keep too. A shield-stock steadies your shot and genuinely deflects incoming darts, and the scope-barrel pulls double duty. If you want to go further with rail hardware, our Nerf gun attachments guide covers what fits what.

• 3 firing modes on one blaster
• 30 Elite darts included, which is generous at $19.99
• The catch: more moving parts than a plain springer, and a cylinder reloads slower than a clip

Best for the player who wants one blaster to cover three jobs. Check the current price of the Rebel Ops DeadEye on Amazon

3. Nerf Rebel Ops AmmoHawk

The $9.99 door into the line, and the cheapest of the new Nerf guns worth owning. Pull-back priming, 4 darts loaded up front, and 2 dartshields holding 10 darts each that mount in different positions depending on whether you are pushing forward or holding a doorway.

Under the armour it is a simple springer, which in my shop counts as a feature. Fewer parts, nothing fragile inside, nothing to burn out.

The trade is pace. 4 darts up front means you reload a lot, and single-fire is not the crowd-clearer.

• Cheapest way into the 2026 line
• Dartshields double as on-board storage, 20 darts ready
• The catch: 4-dart capacity and a single-fire rhythm

Best for a first blaster, or a cheap second for a friend who turned up empty-handed. Check the current price of the Rebel Ops AmmoHawk on Amazon

4. Nerf One Piece Going Merry Blaster

The collab nobody had on their card. Nerf teamed up with Netflix and Tomorrow Studios for a One Piece line timed to the live-action Season 2.

The confirmed lineup is the Going Merry Blaster, built around the Straw Hats’ ship, plus a Zoro katana assortment covering Sandai Kitetsu, Wado Ichimonji and Yubashiri in foam.

Full performance specs were still thin when we wrote this, so judge the listing before you buy. We are not going to invent numbers for a blaster Hasbro has not published them for. As a display-plus-battle piece it is the most interesting licensed Nerf of the year, and the rest of that category is in our licensed blasters guide.

• First One Piece collab, and the ship design is genuinely different
• The 3-katana assortment makes a real cosplay set
• The catch: no published specs yet, and licensed lines carry a collector premium

Best for a One Piece fan first, a foam fighter second. Check the current price of the One Piece Going Merry Blaster on Amazon

5. Nerf Fortnite Fortnitemares Blaster Pack

The fun one. 4 micro blasters modelled on in-game weapons in a single box: the Micro Fortnitemares Llama, Micro Peely Bone, Micro RL and Micro HC-R.

Each pack includes a promo code that unlocks a digital item in Fortnite, which for a certain kind of player is the whole purchase.

Micro blasters mean micro performance. These are desk-war toys, not field weapons, and the code is one-time, so a used pack has lost part of its value before you open it.

• 4 blasters in one box, an instant desk-war armoury
• The in-game unlock is a real bonus, not marketing fluff
• The catch: no range to speak of, and the code does not survive a resale

Best for a Fortnite player who wants the crossover more than the range. Check the current price of the Fortnitemares Blaster Pack on Amazon

The new Nerf guns of 2026, line by line

The new Nerf guns of 2026 are not one release, they are four shelves pulling in different directions. Here is the shortest honest map of the new Nerf guns and who each shelf suits.

The one change about the new Nerf guns that catches people out

N1 darts fit only N Series blasters, according to Amazon’s own listings. That is the single most important fact about the new Nerf guns of 2026, because it quietly splits the catalogue in two.

If you already own a drawer of Elite darts, buying into Loadout or N Series starts a second ammunition pile rather than joining the first. That is not a reason to avoid them. It is a reason to buy the refills at the same time instead of discovering it mid-game.

Which new Nerf guns to actually buy

• Most versatile: the Loadout Galactic Commander , motorized with 3 firing modes and 3 swappable attachments, listed at ages 8 and up.
• Cheapest way in: the Loadout FlareFusion , a revolving 6-dart cylinder with bolt action priming.
• Carries its own reloads: the Loadout Shadowspeed Recon , pump action, with a 14-dart storage attachment.
• The core-shelf pick: the N Series Shadow Storm , an 8-dart internal clip with 24 N1 darts in the box.
• Do not forget the ammunition, whichever new Nerf guns you pick: N1 dart refills , because nothing else you own will fit.

Also new this year

Four more new Nerf guns landed this year, worth a look if the 5 above miss your style.

• Marvel Wolverine blaster, with a motorised claw that deploys while you prime.
• Star Wars Mandalorian bolt-action, 6 shots with barrel, scope and stock attachments. We reviewed the earlier one in our Mandalorian blaster write-up.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles pistols, around $10 each.
• The competition. Dart Zone’s Delta Pro side-prime revolver landed in March at $14, and the Nexus Pro X2 pushes 200 fps for $35.

That last line matters before you pay Nerf prices for Nerf performance. Our Dart Zone versus Nerf comparison is the honest version of that argument.

How we picked

One rule ran through these new Nerf guns: nothing gets a number we cannot source.

Capacities, prices and dart counts below are the figures Hasbro published. Where a blaster has no published specs, this page says so instead of guessing, which is why the One Piece entry is shorter than the others.

Choosing a firing style

Whichever of the new Nerf guns you are looking at, automatic versus rapid fire versus single fire is the first real decision, and it is about how you play rather than which is better.

• Automatic. The blaster does the work, so your arms last. But it runs on batteries that die at the worst moment, and a motor can be heard across a garden, which ends any thought of sneaking.
• Rapid fire. Built for players who storm the position. The risk is a jam at the exact moment you are exposed, which is why it is a poor fit for a sniper role.
• Single fire. Forces you to plan the shot, and it makes you a better player for it. The cost is priming every time, and tired arms by the end of a long game.

Match it to the role you actually enjoy. A calculating player with an automatic blaster is carrying weight they never use.

Ammo capacity, the honest trade

The other decision that shapes a purchase, and one the new Nerf guns split on sharply. Both directions have a real cost.

Large capacity keeps you firing, gives you more chances to hit, and stops the game pausing. It also means a two-handed blaster and a long dart hunt when the war ends.

Small capacity hides in a pocket, reloads fast and carries all day. It also runs dry fast, and if you lose your last dart you are out until you reach a resupply.

Neither is right. Carrying both is, which is why the Doom Cannon and the AmmoHawk are on the same list. Our dart refill guide covers how much ammunition each approach actually eats.

The release archive: every wave of new Nerf guns

Everything above is which of the new Nerf guns are worth buying now. This archive is the other half: what each earlier wave brought, and why the current lines look the way they do.

Nothing in this section is a current release, and none of it is presented as one. Read it as reference. Affiliate links in this section point at the secondhand market.

The new Nerf guns of 2009

Only 2 blasters were ever confirmed that year, both landing in early September. The N-Strike Raider CS-6 looks like a tactical shotgun and fires 6 darts in a semi-powerful release.

The Dart Tag FuryFire is pump-action with a rotating 8-dart chamber, and it is the blaster Nerf used at its first competitive Dart Tag event, the Dart Tag World Championship. That story sits in our history of Nerf.

The rest of that year was rumour, and the names still surface in searches, so they are recorded here as rumour: the Spartan NCS-12, the Stampede REV-12, the Redshift CS-12 and the Bullsharc GL-8. All 4 came out of the Wii game Nerf N-Strike rather than out of Hasbro, and no official announcement ever confirmed any of them.

The Clear Series wave

The limited edition Clear Maverick sold well enough that Hasbro cleared 4 more N-Strike blasters: the Raider Rapid Fire CS-35, the Recon CS-6, the Deploy CS-6 and the Nite Finder EX-3. The Clear Maverick REV-6 rejoined them for the run.

Hasbro said the point out loud. Jonathan Berkowitz, then director of global marketing, called them “the perfect way to honor some of our most popular N-STRIKE products and to clear the way for the newest blaster landing on 9.9.10”.

The practical reason collectors still chase these: a transparent shell is what makes the light-up mod worth doing, and that mod needs little more than a handful of LEDs. Our Clear Maverick review has the detail, and the modding guide covers the wiring.

The 2010 wave

2010 was the Stampede year: the full-auto Stampede ECS headlined the N-Strike push and set up the motorized era that followed.

The 2011 wave

2011 belonged to the Vortex launch, the disc blasters covered line by line in our Vortex guide.

The 2013 wave

Three lines of new Nerf guns opened at once. N-Strike Elite Mega arrived built around Mega darts, which are bigger, heavier and whistle in flight. Its first blaster was the Centurion, quoted as accurate to around 100 feet.

Rebelle launched on pink, white and purple with a crossbow and the HeartBreaker Bow, plus collector darts sized like Elite darts, so cross-compatibility was never a problem.

Zombie Strike arrived with the least advance noise of the 3. Its first pistol, the Hammershot, is the Rebelle Wildshot in a slightly different mould and a radically different paint job. The whole line is in our Zombie Strike coverage.

Worth saying plainly, because our own write-up said it at the time: selling a line by painting it pink drew fair criticism. The blasters were good enough that Hasbro remade them for Zombie Strike, which rather makes the point.

The 2014 TekStrike

Not every one of the new Nerf guns that year was a blaster. TekStrike was not one. It was a licensed accessory from EyeSpy Toys, and it is the closest Nerf ever came to a wireless scoring system for a backyard.

The Storm Shield clipped to any tactical rail and cast a sensory grid over the field. Smart Darts carried programmable RFID chips: pick an ammunition type, swipe the dart against the shield to program it, then fire at your opponents’ shields. A hit registered on the target’s built-in LCD and sent points back to the shooter.

A free app turned a phone into a base for team stats, objectives and unlockable weapons. EyeSpy set an August release at $24.99 for the shield plus 10 Smart Darts.

One honest caveat, true then and the reason detail is still thin: there was no working prototype at the Fair. Everything known about it came from EyeSpy Toys.

The 2015 wave

Three new Nerf guns carried that year, and all 3 traded volume for a trick.

• N-Strike Elite Crossbolt. Single shot with real crossbow action, a 12-dart clip in the box, stated range up to 90 feet.
• Zombie Strike FlipFury. Two 6-dart drums that flip without reloading, so 12 darts go out back to back. Ships with a holster.
• N-Strike Elite SlingStrike. The first Nerf dart-firing slingshot. Air powered, 2 darts on front fasteners, and it trades firing volume for accuracy without pretending otherwise.

The 2017 wave

The new Nerf guns of 2017 were mostly about a dart. This is the year AccuStrike landed, and it answered a complaint the modding community had been making for years.

AccuStrike darts are built for accuracy and are Elite-sized, so they load into older blasters. The honest trade is that they give up some range to get it.

Two blasters opened the line. The Alphahawk is a rifle with a drum, integrated stock and sight, and side-cocking action, and it is the most accurate blaster of that whole wave. The Falconfire was the first pistol, a single-shot sidearm with slots for 2 spare darts.

AccuStrike then spread everywhere: the Focusfire and Trupoint in Rebelle, the Negotiator in Doomlands, the Outbreaker in Zombie Strike, the DoubleBreach and Twinshock in Mega, the Disruptor replacing the Strongarm in Elite, and the Artemis XVII-3000 in Rival. Modulus got 2 attachments instead, the Stockshot and the Barrelstrike.

One structural fact from that era explains a lot of forum arguments. Nerf released around 8 blasters in 2007 and was pushing upwards of 40 a year by 2017, and releases go out in waves, region by region. Two people can argue about a blaster’s release year and both be right about their own shelf.

The 2026 wave

The year of the role-based blaster, and the new Nerf guns above all come from it. Rebel Ops landed in July 2026 with the Doom Cannon, DeadEye and AmmoHawk, each built around a battle role with a signature ability. It is the closest Nerf has come to a hero shooter on foam.

The licensed side went wide at the same time: One Piece joined the family, Fortnite refreshed with an in-game unlock, and Wolverine, Mandalorian and TMNT blasters filled in around them.

Oddities and prototypes

The Combat Creatures Attacknid showed up at Toy Fair 2014: a remote controlled 6-legged robot with a barrel-fed dart blaster on its back. Six legs get it over obstacles that stop a wheeled toy, and the barrel sweeps a full 360 degrees, so line of sight is all the aiming you need.

It fires 25 darts in rapid succession before it wants a reload, and only Nerf darts work with it. The prototype moved slowly, which made it a sneak-up weapon rather than a charge-in one. Announced at $79.99.

The N-Strike Elite Cam ECS-12 was the most talked-about item at the same show at around $80, and the first Nerf blaster with playback on the blaster itself. A sub-2-inch colour screen sits where the sight usually goes, a 4 GB card slots into the front shaft, and Hasbro put that at 3 hours of video or 2,000 photos.

The blaster half is ordinary in the best way: a 12-dart clip and up to 90 feet. It is essentially a RapidStrike CS-18 with a camera, so the camera is the entire reason to want one. Our Cam ECS-12 review has the used-buying warnings.

Discontinued blasters worth hunting

These are not new Nerf guns and this page does not pretend otherwise. Most of the archive is out of production, and that is only a problem if you do not know where to look. For a lot of players the hunt is the fun part, because a discontinued blaster often has no current equivalent at all.

Secondhand pricing moves constantly and condition varies wildly. The original retail prices below are historical facts about what a blaster cost new, not a promise about what you will pay today.

Where to actually look

• eBay. Reliably the best of the five and the one to try first. Old blasters frequently sit with no bids at all.
• Garage sales. Best odds at a family sale clearing out toys grown children left behind.
• Secondhand stores. Pawn shops, thrift stores and charity shops are all good hunting for older toys.
• Craigslist. Start broad with “old nerf” or “vintage nerf” and narrow only if you get a flood.
• Forums. Nerf Haven is the largest and worth a look, though plenty of threads drift off topic.

Garage sales and Craigslist can pay off, but both need patience over weeks. If you want something now, search vintage Nerf on Amazon.

The 5 worth hunting

N-Strike Longstrike CS-6. The most sought-after discontinued blaster we track, and the one where you should expect to pay more than the $29.99 it retailed for. A detachable barrel extension, 4 tactical rails, a stock with storage for 2 clips and a flip-up sight. Our Longstrike review has the detail. Check current Longstrike listings on Amazon

N-Strike Longshot CS-6. Constantly confused with the Longstrike and a very different blaster. First released in 2006, comes with a scope, genuinely good for sniper play, and it weighs 6 pounds, which is a real problem over a long game. Originally $35 and usually one of the cheaper finds. Our Longshot review covers the used-market risks. Check current Longshot listings on Amazon

N-Strike Raider Rapid Fire CS-35. A 35-dart drum feeding Streamline darts, which is the entire pitch. Original retail $32.99, and it regularly goes for less secondhand. The drum also sells on its own, which is the cheap route to modding a drum onto another clip-fed blaster. Check current Raider listings on Amazon

N-Strike Maverick REV-6. A 6-shooter with a tactical rail that dual wields, which is exactly what you want from a secondary. Around $9 new and one of the easier discontinued blasters to pick up cheap. Check current Maverick listings on Amazon

Dart Tag Magstrike. Unless you are in Australia, this one left the shelves entirely. 10-dart stock capacity and a tactical rail, though the clip position makes a scope awkward, so treat the rail as a bonus. More of the line is on the Dart Tag hub. Check current Magstrike listings on Amazon

Where the discontinued ones turn up once they stop being new Nerf guns. Amazon rarely stocks a retired blaster, so these searches go where they change hands: Nemesis on eBay | Rhino-Fire | SlingFire | job lots.

Where to buy

Every new Nerf gun named above, in one place. These are search links rather than product links, because 2026 stock moves between listings and a fixed product page goes stale faster than a search does.

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• Nerf Rebel Ops Doom Cannon
• Nerf Rebel Ops DeadEye
• Nerf Rebel Ops AmmoHawk
• Nerf One Piece Going Merry Blaster
• Nerf Fortnite Fortnitemares Blaster Pack
• Browse all the new Nerf guns on Amazon

Frequently asked questions

The questions that come up most about the new Nerf guns, answered from what is on this page.

What are the new Nerf guns for 2026?

Rebel Ops is the main line: the Doom Cannon, DeadEye and AmmoHawk, each built around a battle role. Alongside it sit a One Piece collab, a refreshed Fortnite line, a Wolverine blaster, a Mandalorian bolt-action and TMNT pistols.

Which of the new Nerf guns should I buy first?

The DeadEye at $19.99. Three selectable firing modes and 30 Elite darts in the box make it the one blaster that covers the most jobs for the least money.

Are the new Nerf guns better than the old ones?

Not automatically. The new Nerf guns of 2026 are more inventive, but plenty of discontinued blasters have no current equivalent, and the Longstrike and Raider still do things nothing on shelves does.

Is Dart Zone worth considering instead?

Yes, and it is worth knowing before you buy any of the new Nerf guns. The Nexus Pro X2 pushes 200 fps for $35, which is a different performance class from most shelf Nerf.

Why does this page keep the year in the title?

Because the new Nerf guns change every year and this page changes with them. The year rolls only alongside a real content pass, never as a bare swap, so the date in the title means the content behind it moved too.

Where do I buy discontinued Nerf blasters?

eBay first, and expect to hunt rather than shop the way you would for new Nerf guns. A search costs nothing and old blasters often sit with no bids. Garage sales and Craigslist can beat it on price but take weeks of watching.

Related reading: the best Nerf guns right now, every Nerf gun ever made, the history of Nerf, the N-Strike Elite and Mega lineup, and the attachments that fit them.

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