The Super Soaring Glider is a product released under the Nerf brand in the Aero series in 1997.
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Discontinued |
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$10.99 |
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Details[]
The Super Soaring Glider is one of two throwable gliders made by Hasbro/Kenner. Its length is 18 inches, rather than the 13.5 inches in the Ultra Stunt Glider. the front has a rubber vinyl tip, which serves as a weight to tip the center of mass forward.
Only one version was released, which has the Nerf logo and just the N from the Nerf logo printed several times on the wings.
The wings, tailfins, and fin handle are all black, while the body is yellow. on the bottom of the glider below the wings is a smaller fin positioned as something for the user to grab onto and hold to best throw the glider.
It is designed more towards long-distance gliding than stunts, as the name implies. For this reason, the glider has larger and longer wings than the other product, the Ultra Stunt Glider.
History[]
The Super Soaring Glider next to its sister product the Ultra Stunt Glider are the last products released under the Aero series, and the final form of a line of three different versions of the Glider Launcher's ammo, which evolved to these two gliders.
An alternate version of this glider was proposed and meant to be released alongside it which resembles a fighter jet, but this variant was cancelled for unknown reasons, possibly due to packaging logistics or performance issues.
Rarity and problems[]
The Super Soaring Glider's performance is hard to determine, as it is sloppily manufactured just like the other throwable glider. However, it can glide a decent distance if in the right shape.
This glider has become one of the single rarest Nerf products, and that is most likely its fragility and price. The glider retailed for $10.99 back in 1996, which was quite expensive at the time, equating to over $22 today. On top of this, it is fundamentally more fragile and susceptible to performance issues because of this, as its foam construction is still easy to bend, especially the top tail fin, which is over 5 inches tall by itself. Atop that, it and its sister product are two of the most sloppily put together products in the history of the brand, as many alignment issues are pre-built into the gliders from the start.
Trivia[]
•While some sources state that the Gliders are modified Arrows, this is inaccurate. The Gliders share almost nothing anatomically to Arrows and are considerably wider at the body than Arrows are.
• While the Super Soaring Glider sits in an odd place between Nerf Ammo and a product like a Football, if it is considered ammo then it is the widest and the second-longest type ever produced.
•The Super Soaring Glider is one of the largest foam products ever produced under the Nerf brand, dwarfing most ammo and the previous Nerf Glider toy made in the 1980's. With the body at 18 inches in length, it is the second-longest body and the longest foam body that can fly through the air in history.
•The fins on both the Soaring and Stunt glider models are some of the thickest fins in history, rivaling Titan rocket fins and beating out Elite Missile fins.
• If the top tail fin is grouped with that of ammo fins, it is the largest fin in history, being over 5 inches tall by itself.
• Oddly, both gliders are copyrighted a year before the Glider Launcher, despite being a successor product.