What can you do with a SHÜ blaster? The possibilities are limitless, but we play love playing the urban spy game called Jericho. Check it out!

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SHÜ is the worlds first foam dart blaster that has been specifically designed to be used by adults who play public tag games. It was developed for an urban spy game called Jericho, which traces its roots back 25 years ago!

In the beginning...

Jericho -The Urban Spy Game started in 1991 in a small town in Colorado. It was revived in San Francisco 8 years ago by its designer, Shannon Bruzelius, as a Meetup group. Today, the group has grown to 1300 members who play games every month.

All you need to play is a Nerf gun and a bandanna.

San Francisco Jericho Meetup group - 8th anniversary game

In 2010, Shannon started Foxhound Urban Adventures, Inc., that designs and curates Jericho games for corporate outings and private events. Jericho requires players to be able to harmlessly tag each other in order to win. Thousands of players have been equipped with Nerf guns for games on the streets of San Francisco.

Jericho players used everything from big yellow Nerf guns in shoulder holsters to small blue ones that fit in a jacket pocket. Even though players are clearly playing with toys, lingering questions always surface about safety.That's always on our mind as well.

Typical Jericho game blaster. Not very stealthy!

When Shannon combined the safety question with the eternal question of "what is the best blaster?"; he started to wonder if there was a better way to play.

Enter the Toy Engineer

In a previous life, before Shannon became an amateur spy, he spent 11 years as a toy engineer.

Shannon @ work as a toy engineer. Nice shirt!

He managed and manufactured dozens of toy projects over his career, and oversaw almost every aspect of the process it takes to get from design on paper to product in hand. He also managed the customer service dept and had a large hand in improvements that were made after toys started production. All this experience has culminated in his ability to customize something especially for covert action.

A Covert Blaster is Born

1st SHÜ sketch

For the past two years, Shannon has been working with former toy industry colleagues who tested concepts and collaborated in the development of a stunning working prototype, which has been field tested in many Jericho games.

2nd SHÜ prototype

Additionally, we received input from our San Francisco Jericho community, which we believe has helped us to come up with something that will appeal to not only Jericho players, but the larger Nerf community as well.

SHÜ works with all standard nerf darts and requires no batteries.

Help Us Cross the Finish Line

Shop floor of our manufacturing facilities in San Leandro, Ca.

We are set up at the starting of line for production: we have a very experienced factory, packaging experts, engineers, and fulfillment experts, but we need one thing...

We need you.

We are looking to raise $150k to make tools and packaging, to buy sourced parts and raw materials, and to begin production.

SHÜ Production Schedule

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