As you grow up, the things that seemed impossibly cool to you in your youth start looking more and more underwhelming. Your badass action figures are just sad lumps of plastic, authentic packer jerseys your favorite video games are just ugly polygons, Axl Rose is just . well, Axl Rose, etc. The only solution at this point is to put all that crap on eBay and adopt some more age appropriate hobbies, like mowing the lawn or complaining about kids today. Such is the way of the world.

Or at least, it was the way of the world, before some people out there started making insane adult versions of the things we loved as kids, compensating for your lack of imagination with sheer, awesome, often dangerous reality. For example .

One of the ways Nintendo convinced toy stores to stock their first gaming console in 1985 (after some little space turd nearly killed the video game industry) was by including a bunch of fun peripherals like the NES Zapper the plastic gun you'd use to play Duck Hunt, and then throw at your TV after that goddamned dog laughed at your shitty aim too many times.

Obviously, the Zapper may have looked like a gun, but you couldn't murder an intruder with it. Well, two gun companies from (gasp) Texas recently decided to change that:Perfect for mafia hit men who need to whack somebody discreetly at a Chuck E. Cheese's.

Yep, that's a functional gun, of the "puts holes in your body" type. In March of this year, Black Sheep Arms announced that they'd converted a .45 automatic Glock to look like a spot on recreation of the iconic game controller, right down to the color scheme, the Nintendo logo, and the fact that it will probably spark fights with your brother. Here's a video of "Greatest Shooter of All Time" Jerry Miculek demonstrating it . while dressed as Mario, naturally."Our Princess is in anoth " "THAT'S IT, I'VE HAD IT WITH THIS SHIT."with the misfortune that this one went viral, prompting a deluge of comments pointing out that perhaps making an instrument of death look enticing to children isn't the best idea. Both companies clarified that the guns were one time custom jobs for collectors hopefully not to duel with each other. To those of you thinking, "That would be awesome," shame on you. Or, if you have the patience, it can break 100 mph in under five seconds. Other impressive capabilities include letting you tweak its performance through an app, having a removable top that was computer designed for maximum aerodynamics, and making you $1,100 poorer. RC cars of this range won't make your enemies eat dust: They will literally send them to the hospital if you're not careful. Like this guy, who got flipped over by an OFNA DM ONE going at 100 mph, presented here in slo mo Zack Snyder vision:He can always ask his dad to glue him back together, like when this happened to our Leonardo figure.

Then again, buying one of these things may not be the wisest investment ever, given the number of YouTube videos of expensive RC cars crashing and exploding. Either they're flimsier than the official websites claim, or they turn you into a maniac who likes watching thousands of dollars go up in flames. At least when we threw our Matchbox cars against the wall, we didn't risk setting the whole neighborhood on fire.

Rober has a nine year stint as a NASA engineer and a TED talk on his resume before age 36, wholesale jerseys and we say he's putting his skills to good use. Which is to say that, nope, his giant Nerf gun isn't a prop.

The darts are made from pool noodles and plungers, so they can really stick to things, while the gun itself is made out of 3D printed materials and a whole lotta brass, pipes, and wood. Inside, Rober and his accomplices included a jerseys from China cheap 3,000 psi (pounds per square inch) air tank, allowing for six 800 psi shots so each dart is like getting punched by an elite level boxer. Somehow, this still wasn't potent enough for Rober, so his friends at the YouTube channel Eclectic Engineering replaced the air tank with a black powder cannon and the foam darts with wooden dowels. The result is frankly terrifying, especially if you're a watermelon:Or you have any spherical organs whatsoever.

You're looking at a pit filled with nearly a million translucent plastic balls, which sounds like something the government would put together to catch the Godzilla sized preschooler in a Honey, I Blew Up The Kid remake. This jumbo ball pit took up over 10,000 square feet of the National Building Museum of Washington, DC between July and September of last year as part of an art exhibit. Perhaps the most impressive part was that the balls had an anti microbial coating, preventing the pit from turning into a Chernobyl of disease like the one at your local McDonald's.

The exhibit hasn't been back, but don't fret: There's also an itinerant "adult ball pit" that might one day come to your town if you're lucky.