| Description |
Availability |
Picture |
Rate of Fire |
Range |
Notes |
Commercially available kit
(Not necessarily still commercially available but check out eBay) |
| Star Sensor |
Commercial circa 1987 |
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The basic piece of equipment used to recieve hits (180 degrees to the front)from the Lasertag guns - players quickly found ways of modifying them to recieve hits from 360 degrees |
| Star Lyte |
Commercial circa 1987 |
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1/sec |
50m |
The basic lasertag gun, modified into many and various configurations including rapid fire and with the addition of some fairly simple electronics full auto |
| Star Lyte pro/Star Rifle |
Commercial circa 1988 |
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75m |
The Larger second generation Lasertag weapon - only really available in the US, all known examples have been individually imported. Many have had extra lens assemblies grafted on to enhance range but little can be done to improve the electronics. |
| Star Cap |
Commercial circa 1987 |
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One of the only pieces of Worlds of Wonderr Lasertag kit actually made for children and people with small heads or a high pain threshold. Unmodified caps have been banned under standard Warlords rules due to the fact that the domes tend to sink in to the cap's foam rubber interior rendering them unhitable - various modifications exist to circumvent this design problem and there is nothing wrong with the electronics, just the physical construction. |
| Star Helmet |
Commercial circa 1988 |
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A commonly used sensor system in the early days - these helmets were patently not made for children. They suffered a lack of sensitivity but can be adjusted up to spec manually. Players often removed the padding and repainted them. |
| Star Base |
Commercial circa 1988 |
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| G.I.Joe |
COmmercial circa 1989 |
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1/sec |
25m |
Produced by Worlds of Wonder and marketed as part of the G.I.Joe (Action Man in the UK) range of 12" figures - if you saw off the muzzle as in the picture these make remarkably good side arms having all the properties of a sawn off shotgun. Good as a backup weapon or for room clearing. |
Sureshot |
Commercial circa 1990 |
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1/sec (pulse duration about half a sec) |
35m |
As far as I know the SureShot was not a Worlds of Wonder product but just happened to be compatible - it came with a clip on stock, muzzle beam limiter and missing from the picture a red-fot sight. The long pulse duration meant you can wave the pistol from side to side painting the target. |
| Quickshot |
Commercial circa 1990 |
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1/sec (pulse duration about half a sec) |
35m |
A remodelled Sureshot without the clipon stock and sight, a different colour but apart from that identical |
| Terminator |
Commercial Circa 1990 |
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Auto |
15m |
Imported to the UK by the late Jon Blau, the Terminator was another compatible product. Mounted in a body obviously designed to be a water pistol the circuit board was remarkably small and so was used in many conversions. The poor range is often suplemented by the addition of lens units to focus the beam more tightly. |
Scratch and Hobby Built Kit
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| Phaser II |
Built from a commercial toy by Tim Atkinson |
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Auto |
10m |
The Phaser II is the result of jamming a Terminator board in a Phaser II toy |
| 9mm |
Built by Ben Roberts |
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1/sec |
15m |
A G.I.Joe board mounted inside a 9mm pistol water pistol body. |
| Billbringer |
Scratch Built by John Treadaway |
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Auto |
250m |
"Billbringer" called so after a mixture of the fantasy sword "Stormbringer" and the extreme cost of this weapon. Billbringer is an extremely powerful automatic based on the Dave Bodger Smartgun board. |
| Dalek |
Scratch Built by Ivan Congreve and Kevin Dallimore |
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1/sec |
4m |
Possibly the largest and most ineffectual Tag weapons ever built - The Dalek weapon-arm was equipped with an unlensed starlyte board. To compromise the Dalek's sensor was forward facing only and mounted behind the grill inside the dome requiring that the dalek was shot head on. |
| Simon Russell Sensors |
Designed and built from scratch by Simon Russell |
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These sensors are made by Simon Russell of Fiat Lux and are still available if you talk to him nicely - they are robust and contain all the functionality we've come to enjoy over the years. The sensor domes are most often mounted on a headband while the electronics package goes neatly into a breast pocket. |
