The Toy PKD Blaster arrived within 48 hours. Looking at the package, I can tell that for a Toy, it is huge. Nevertheless, I am quite happy with it. So, here’s a quick look at the Toy before I start planning on what to do with it. I mean, proper sampled sound from the Movie would be one and maybe, some additional 3D printed parts (but that would take ages since this is a part of a weapon which not many Companies would agree to take on the Job).
Since the Chinese New Year is just next Tuesday, I am OK with the rushed packaging. I mean, despite its journey, the item did not suffer from any damage apart from some paint scuffing.Laying on the side, you can tell the Toy is quite a handful. Decades ago, the only toy blaster in the market was more or less half of its size. I do not have an actual item (Malaysian Kastams will confiscate it while the Police invite me free Curry Rice and free lodging).The Toy Blaster measures about 9 and a half inches. After fiddling it about, there is only one motor inside; as I spin the ‘bullets’, the slider moves to and fro. I more or less knows how the internal part look like if I remove the slide and so, I plan to keep that and glue it permanently if I could.For the Rest of the World, it is about 24 cm. The trigger guard looked so bulky and is part of the grip. If I replace it with a metal guard, both the upper plastic piece and grip would be too weak to secure it, even worse when it is accidentally bent sideways.The Toy fits into my hand quite nicely but I think my hands are a little small. The first gripe for me is that there is no transparent housing to cover the eight rotating ‘bullets’. So I would have to find a suitable part for this. Knowing that this Toy could be used as is, scratch-building would be too fragile unless I have the means to re-cast it in resin. The second grip is that when I pull the trigger, I felt a slight popping resistance before the trigger stops. The feeling is like pressing on a mouse button which uses those 5mm x 5mm tactile switches. Or that of the auto-gate remote and they’re both the same. This cheaper concept evolved from the much simpler technique of touching two bent metal bars together. I want the trigger to have some kind of resistance before it ‘let go’ and hits on the switch.The business end of the toy where you can see the water atomizer in the middle of the nozzle. There are two 3mm LEDs located at the top and bottom of the nozzle as well. It would be very interesting to see how the setup works. When the trigger is pressed, the water atomizer would start to work (violently?) and the two LEDs would come on to illuminate the water vapour, giving the impression of a nozzle flare.The Toy uses three AA batteries which is 4.5v in total. Since I am going to gut out all the internal components, a simple 3.7v LiPo would solve any potential issues.
