hello everyone my name is brett and sometimes i wear a beret do you want to talk about
murph i know you do that's why you're here today when i first saw that nerf announced
their first ever mascot murph well i had to talk about it in a pretty quick and lazy video i mean
murph is something to behold right and they got the reaction they were hoping for and a
couple quick addendums to that video the first being some people pointed out that oh bret
you made a video about murph that's exactly what they wanted you to do they want people like you to
spread the word about murph and then boom it went viral i was well aware that's what nerf was trying
to do i said that in the video yes i did make a video about murph counterpoint i make a video
about a lot of nerf stuff can you please tell me someone else who regularly talks about nerf house
yeah that's my point so i probably would have talked about murph regardless because
that's just something that i do it's very on brand for me they were trying to find someone
much higher up someone with millions of followers or major news outlets and that's what they got but
yes me making a video about murph was sort of hypocritical but also on brand number two there
was a lot more discourse about murph using they them pronouns i think this got blown a little bit
out of proportion and i would like to give hasbro the benefit of the doubt on this one the release
of their new mascot murph was released in june which is pride month and so for some people that
didn't sit too well they also didn't seem to mean any harm by it when you look at murph you think
what is that alien creature made of darts and hasbro's response was well murph is murph which
i think makes the most sense that murph is not boy girl murph is just they them anyone can wear the
murph costume therefore they them is just easier but some people took that information and went
ballistic oh my gosh pronouns in my toy company no no no which i think was a bit of an overreaction
and yes for some articles that's basically how they sold it look here's nerf's newest mascot
this is murph they use they them pronouns just to get more people to click on it it really
shouldn't be that big of a deal but i'm also not someone who came up with the idea
of murph in the first place so i'm going to assume there was no harm meant by it and for
those of you who are making some noise on that front calm yourself down but anyway
moving right along murph is no longer a 3d render or just a picture of a costume murph is
real murph moves murph is possibly in your house under your bed and you need to check right now
all right i'm clear murph is now on nurse tick tock i've now seen murph walking and talking
no that's not true murph doesn't really talk but murph seems to be getting along
with sophie lightning just fine murph is hanging around nerf headquarters mostly and showing off
some new blasters so i guess murph is uh very much putting themselves right in between us and
new stuff i've also seen a new ad featuring murph where murph is showing off a bunch of new blasters
and also throwing in murf's catchphrase we don't we don't have to do that guys holy jesus what
is that but in this ad you can also see the pros and cons of a live-action murph versus
an animated murph because the advertisement is all animated and where we've come with animation
it's not out of nerf's reach to get a very simple physics simulation of darts but it looks more like
fur moving so murph is a furry confirmed it's much easier for the animated murph to do all
their tricks and also i think the darts can change colors so you don't have to have just
like one suit in one color or a mixture of darts why would you want murph to just be
like one color when you can make murph all the colors the murph expanded universe is also real
and we need to grapple with that and did you also know that murph has their own twitter account
wow we're really making strides here good for you murph what are you up to on twitter
well this is the timeline we live in there's the pre-murph world
and there's the post murph world and that's where we currently live i think i just have to
accept it no longer can i be super negative about murph i have to just fully embrace
the murph i have to do what many have talked about i have to become murph
or i have to become a murph i am going to make a murf suit i am a nerfy confirmed
this is what i'm going with the mark one not to be confused with the dart zone pro
mark one this is the nerf mark one and that's all i'm going to show you i don't need to show
you guys anymore you don't need to see me put that on and show you what it looks like
you know i'm actually kind of shocked that i've never purchased myself
a full morph suit before this is great also i'm touring come see me live in your local town
i'll admit part of me wants to keep this morph suit as is and just play nerf in it one day
but i think we're a little past that point when it comes to this particular one
also the beret doesn't seem to be fitting on top very well so you know you can't make that work you
can't make anything work the morph suit is it the ideal choice for a murf suit i'm gonna go with no
but like i said this is the mark one and the mark one well that's all the mark one
has so far this was my quick test area on my arm just to see what that all looks like now
you're all probably asking some very appropriate questions also i'm gonna take the mask off because
it's gonna be a bit easier all right this is the full blue birdie beret that they warned you about
oh yeah never have i felt so self-conscious about my body morph suit so the darts yes
how are they working well with the power of friendship and super glue i just put super glue
on the back of all these darts and put them on my arm now i have super glued darts to myself before
probably shouldn't say that out loud but it is true however that was with the head going
on to me versus the back and that's created an interesting problem because the way that murph's
skin darts what do we call it the way that the darts interact is that they're actually coming
head off of the body so the super glue has to stick to the foam well and it also has to stick to
the suit well now i've left this in my closet for a couple of days at this point and a quick shake
test i mean they're staying on i don't know what the extent of that staying on will be uh if i take
it outside of my apartment but in the meantime this small test case tells me it's beautiful
and it works well enough other fun thing i found when testing i'm just directly super gluing the
back of the dart to the morph suit turns out i was also the super glue goes through the morph
suit onto my skin i wouldn't recommend doing that for that reason i don't recommend doing any of
this because you don't want to hurt yourself all right i'm covered now i just made this about 50
darts so i probably need about a hundred to do a ring around my arm which means it'd probably
be like 500 for one arm 500 for another my legs are only slightly longer than that so six to 700
probably the same for front and then back 500 from my head 10 000 should be approximately what i need
or maybe a little bit less than that but we're looking in the thousands of darts to make a full
murf suit possible because there's a lot going on here that's currently not covered by
darts and i do have my reservations about fully covering myself in this method because as well
if you look at a picture of murph the darts are not protruding like this at a normal vector from
my my skin they're like lying flat again more like um hair like a furry animal might murph
is a furry confirmed this method is just going to add a lot of dart bulk to my body which means that
come to my my armpit it might be a little tricky so i may have to leave that clear and just other
parts where i turn my head or my thighs i don't know exactly what they did for the real murph suit
nor have i asked but it definitely looks like it's um not this a costume that is a little bit wider
than your actual body so that maybe more than one person can actually wear it and also so that
you're not constantly rubbing into those darts maybe i actually should ask and get some pointers
but i don't know if nerf actually wants me to make my own murf suit what do you guys think i'm gonna
do rob a bank as a murph and then you guys will get blamed no i'll wait for you guys to do it
and i'll follow suit i don't mean this to be disrespectful nerf i just wanna do what you're
doing and have some fun with it i promise to be a respectable murph at least once i actually get all
of this done so i'm going to need a lot more darts and i i don't think i have enough i have a bag of
like 200 also i think i want to start from like the top down so i can just be like murph on top
and then should we wear like a pair of jeans and you know casual murph when i realized the
potential scope of this silly project i also thought maybe i should ask you guys if you'd
be interested in contributing i don't really want to post an address where people can just send nerf
darts but maybe like if we crowdfunded a little bit you know get a couple hundred bucks that would
help cover some of the dart costs i don't think i wanna do that i think it's just gonna take a
little bit of time for me to accumulate and then we'll just bam they'll stick them all to my body
maybe i'll get some friends to help me out and for a brief moment in time i can become a murph
because i don't know how well this is going to store with all the darts on it and if we do get
the correct number of darts to make this suit almost happen the worst case is that it doesn't
work on this one and we can take the darts off and try them on something else because like i said
this is the mark one the mark two you aren't even ready for but with all that being said i
just wanted to let you guys know about something i might be working on in the background i'll
post updates as appropriate but this is where i currently am not too far and uh my brain is uh
is working overtime to think about how to make the best murf suit when it could probably be
doing a lot more stuff that's actually productive now this is the most productive thing i can think
about thank you everyone so much for watching subscribe for more murph updates as i turn myself
into the murph i was always meant to be i will see you next time in the blue men group we're
on tour look forward to seeing you there tickets available link in the description box down below
yo it's sweaty in here now holy smokes get this off oh my goodness