I made tactical Crocs

I love Nerf guns, and I also love Crocs. So when I found out that they made official Nerf Crocs, I had to get myself a pair. It turns out that they have a fatal flaw, but I fixed it with a bit of creativity and 3D printing. I bought this pair from StockX, and they came in this regular cardboard shipping box. Inside that was a plastic bag containing the Nerf Crocs, some hang tags, and nothing else. I can't say the unboxing experience was very luxurious. For the most part, these things are normal Crocs, so I'm just going to touch on the 4 features which make them especially Nerfy. The first feature is this color scheme, which is based on the Elite line of Nerf blasters. The main body of the shoe is blue, and various accent pieces are done in orange and white. The second feature is this extra paneling. An orange grill-like panel is glued on the top of the shoe, and another orange panel with printed detailing wraps around the midsole. These panels have a smooth finish compared to the textured finish of the blue parts of the shoe. The third feature is the insole, which has the classic "It's Nerf or Nothin'" slogan printed on the heel. The fourth feature is, of course, the special Nerf gibbets. In no particular order, we have the Nerf logo, a fake Elite dart, this one which says "On Target," which is funny because Elite darts are super inaccurate, this one which has an Elite dart flying around a circle, and lastly, 2 dart holders which come mounted on the Sport Mode straps. The dart holders are the only thing which might give you an edge in a Nerf battle, and that brings me to my biggest complaint about the shoe. I want a Jibbitz that holds a Nerf gun. Picture this: you're walking around town in your Nerf Crocs when suddenly you get ambushed by a foam-flinging assassin. You reach down to grab your spare ammo, but you've got nothing to shoot it with. So the assassin takes you down and then steals your shoes. What did your Nerf Crocs do for you, huh? Nothing. So we gotta fix that.

The blaster that I'll be attaching to these Crocs is this: the Dart Zone Max Solo. The Solo is a spring-powered, break-action, single-shot blaster, and it's perfect for this application because it folds up into a really small size, and it has this tactical rail on the top that will be a great mounting point to attach to the Crocs. My first idea was to 3D print a part that kind of looks like this, where on one side you have the nub that fits into the Croc, and on the other side you have a clamp that fits onto the tactical rail. But the more I thought about this, the more annoying I realized it would be. First of all, because the Jibbitz nub is actually really thin, and 3D printing one, I don't think it'll be strong enough to stay in the shoe. And secondly, a clamp shape like this is going to take a bunch of iterations to get right, because I need it to be tight enough so that the blaster doesn't fall off while I'm walking, but also loose enough for me to easily remove the blaster when I want to draw it. So instead of that, I think what I'm going to do is reuse the dart holders. If I put them together in a line like this, I think I can 3D print a rod that goes in the middle. And if I make that rod crimp onto this sight by Dart Zone that already fits on the blaster, I should be able to mount it kind of like this, and that way I don't need to, uh, 3D print any fragile or high tolerance parts.

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