A Retrospective Look at New & Older Foam Blasters And The Fun They Offer for All Ages. Some Mod Guides as well as critique on how they can be made better!
I like the new style for the intro. :) This blaster will be perfect for cosplay or low power larp but for nothing more. If i own one i would make an aesthetic mod to let it look like a big bad iron. Cool to see the new target. May it protect the wall and the darts. :)
Dart zone rep says they have to stay under 200 fps for international sales purposes. If a shipment container goes overseas and they test one out of the container that shoots over 200 fps, the whole container is rejected.
Lol. I need to stress, this is through using a mod that can be purchased from Etsy (which i will contact the winner with a link for them to be able to purchase). I have the same mod on an identical blaster and it tests at that speed.
Then maybe your expectations were, and probably still are, too high. Did you think you were going to get a cheap kid's toy to perform like an air pistol or gas powered paintball gun? Getting shot at 20 feet by either of those hurts, they can take out an eye, leave welts and bruising. Pellets can break the skin. I can't imagine why Nerf chose slow, soft darts to use in a kid's toy. 🙄
@@another3997No, it was their loss of innovation and creativity. You just made an entire narrative that is COMPLETELY wrong, but if you work for Hasbro, I'm sorry for you, hopefully you get rolled over to another division. Nerf Sales team got in the way of creating new toys. They bullied their way into the American culture through a monopoly of stifling other toy companies, making stores sign exclusivity contracts, stealing designs, or outright buying smaller companies only to liquidate them. And now I see they've been grossly overcharging for their culture God status items. All while slightly modifying and reskinning their entire line, "We're not making new things, take what we give you and like it, and pay us way too much money for a toy that costs $5 to make." I do have to say, their Rival series did not disappoint me, though. So it's not about shooting faster and farther for me, it's about losing their creative side and overcharging for the same reskinned crap, and now other toy companies are creating new toys that are better, creating them faster, and cheaper, and of MUCH higher quality. So yes, Hasbro has disappointed me, EXCEPT for the rival series which were probably stolen from a German toy company to begin with because NO ONE at Hasbro has the faintest idea of what great innovation is, because they don't listen to their customers while the other toy companies do. Take that to your Hasbro overlords, salesman....
@@another3997No, it was their loss of innovation and creativity. You just made an entire narrative that is COMPLETELY wrong, but if you work for Hasbro, I'm sorry for you, hopefully you get rolled over to another division. Nerf Sales team got in the way of creating new toys. They bullied their way into the American culture through a monopoly of stifling other toy companies, making stores sign exclusivity contracts, stealing designs, or outright buying smaller companies only to liquidate them. And now I see they've been grossly overcharging for their culture God status items. All while slightly modifying and reskinning their entire line, "We're not making new things, take what we give you and like it, and pay us way too much money for a toy that costs $5 to make." I do have to say, their Rival series did not disappoint me, though. So it's not about shooting faster and farther for me, it's about losing their creative side and overcharging for the same reskinned crap, and now other toy companies are creating new toys that are better, creating them faster, and cheaper, and of MUCH higher quality. So yes, Hasbro has disappointed me, EXCEPT for the rival series which were probably stolen from a German toy company to begin with because NO ONE at Hasbro has the faintest idea of what great innovation is, because they don't listen to their customers while the other toy companies do. Take that to your Hasbro overlords, salesman....
@@another3997No, it was their loss of innovation and creativity. You just made an entire narrative that is COMPLETELY wrong, but if you work for Hasbro, I'm sorry for you, hopefully you get rolled over to another division. Nerf Sales team got in the way of creating new toys. They bullied their way into the American culture through a monopoly of stifling other toy companies, making stores sign exclusivity contracts, stealing designs, or outright buying smaller companies only to liquidate them. And now I see they've been grossly overcharging for their culture God status items. All while slightly modifying and reskinning their entire line, "We're not making new things, take what we give you and like it, and pay us way too much money for a toy that costs $5 to make." I do have to say, their Rival series did not disappoint me, though. So it's not about shooting faster and farther for me, it's about losing their creative side and overcharging for the same reskinned crap, and now other toy companies are creating new toys that are better, creating them faster, and cheaper, and of MUCH higher quality. So yes, Hasbro has disappointed me, EXCEPT for the rival series which were probably stolen from a German toy company to begin with because NO ONE at Hasbro has the faintest idea of what great innovation is, because they don't listen to their customers while the other toy companies do. Take that to your Hasbro overlords, salesman....
@@another3997 You're making quite a leap in comparisons there. I don't think MrAsjusong ever mentioned anything about expecting the performance out of an air pistol or paintball gun. Also, without knowing how old they are now, who is to say that they weren't the target audience for Hasbro 20 years ago?
i feel like this blaster would suit people who want to cosplay moreso than people who want to use it as an actual blaster. its too bad, seems like a neat concept, but even when you're holding it, it doesn't seem like you're supposed to 'use' it
The majority of Nerf users are kids, so both aesthetics and gimmicks are primary factors used in making their choices. There's no point in looking at it from an adult's perspective, because they don't have the same expectations. Kids want cool looking blasters that shoot similar distances to their friend's blasters. Kids with a huge, 'unfair' advantage or a huge disadvantage, won't be playing with their friends who have standard Nerf blasters.
I think the time I spent trying to figure something constructive to say on this greatly dwarfed the actual thought that went into making this blaster really.
I feel you. This review literally took me a week to do. From opening segment to final thoughts. I was trying really hard to focus on the fun.. but it was just not possible to overlook the bad design choices and execution. Shame because the actual look of the blaster is really cool; but that is the only thing it has going for it.
@@SecondHandBlasters Yes. I mean....this shell had potential, it could go several different ways easily- actual break-action prime, trilogy shell use, it's just too much potential to waste and yet they did. This is saddening like the Super Soaker CPS.
Maybe that's because you're completely over-thinking it. This is a kid's toy, generally for kids aged from around 5 up to early teens. Kids like cool looking blasters and gimmicks. But parents like blasters that don't hurt their kids or leave welts and bruises, and they don't want blasters that will knock pictures off walls, ornaments off cabinets etc. Or ones that launch darts over the fence and across the busy street outside, or into the next door but one neighbour's pond. Strangely, Hasbro know this, so they make a variety of blasters in all different shapes, sizes and configurations to please the kids. They make them shoot at low speed to please parents and prevent lawsuits.
Hi Normatico, I guess this is a sad day all round with the demise of Elite. Hasbro probably put out this subpar blaster to stop us die hard fans clamouring for more Elite blasters - you know a final nail in the coffin offering. I have to say I enjoyed the Fortnite SP-1 pistol - it had a nice smooth trigger and mine was fairly accurate at 25 feet. BUT...good news, I have finally taken the plunge and purchased an X-Shot Longshot, and it's much better than I was led to believe. I'm only allowed by Mrs Tyeth to fire it down my hallway at the front door but it's fun 😃!
So oddly enough there is one more Elite blaster coming out but its not a mass release. The Ace of Spades LMTD and the level of f*kery they are adding to he able to order it is enough to turn me off to it already. In order to Pre-Order it; you need to own Destiny 2, the expansion and have legendary achievements done by the time pre-order starts. Ain’t nobody got time for that. Anyway, glad you’re enjoying the XSLS. I remember many a discussion about that one, defending it despite the plunger tube defect.
@@SecondHandBlasters Oh right, well I am not a big gamer so the Ace of Spades won't be a large loss to me and it was Mrs Tyeth that bought me the SP-1. Just to go back to the XSLS, I know the original batches had an "Orion" logo on the shell (possibly referencing the Orion Blasters Lynx) but mine know says "TECH" in that logo's place. I wonder if X-Shot has changed/thickened the plastic too as mine feels substantially more solid than the one I tested when it released.
It's likely their licence for Fortnite products required them to release a certain number of models. Plus they want to make use of the work already done on Elite style blasters and use up existing inventory parts. Changing production lines isn't an easy, quick or cheap process. It's not a sub-par blaster, it's what Hasbro wanted it to be. They could have made it shoot at 150fps, but they want to sell to the masses, largely young kids and early teens... not a relatively small bunch of hobbyists who have frankly unrealistic expectations. X-Shot Longshot is great, but notice, the vast majority of X-Shot blasters are cheap and low powered. Because that's what makes them money.
@@another3997 according to Epic Games: The average Fortnite player is aged 18-35 (85%); The average nerf player is 13-14 (which is the younger range for the hobbyist community as well). Hasbro does have the license deal with Fortnite (which is admittedly a cash cow) but from a profit standpoint, a wiser decision would have been to go with something that worked closer to the Blue Shock / Legendary TAC / SCAR / E-SMG models. Still safe for the young ones but enough to keep the young teens interested. The HTH (even when compared to others in the series) is subpar and, to quote my 11 year old, clown shoes (I'm assuming that is some gen alpha saying?) Also, I am curious where you are located at that you say what you say about X-shot. I have seen nothing but consistency when it comes to X-shot blasters (outside of their Longshot) and they all perform right at or just above the way standard Nerf blasters do. I know that different countries get different mechanisms due to local laws.
Just want to make sure you sent it to the right person. I received an email overnight from someone with the initials A.S. (don't want to give out the full name in a comment section) If this is you, then I got it. If not, then I don't have one; but I'll mark you down. Just email blastersrevisited@gmail.com
That's a good question; I had to take it back out to try it because that was something I didn't think about. So the answer in short is that I wouldn't recommend holding the recoil feature with your hand. The dart will fire, it launched across my studio and made it the 30 feet from one side of the Nerf cave to the next, but the velocity seems to be cut down significantly. I would do a rough estimate of about 20 FPS lower if you hold the recoil part all the way back and prevent it from pushing forward. If it nicks your thumb, not so much. I will note, you have to have a death grip with your thumb to stop that bar from sliding. The ergonomics on this blaster (in spite of the grip being smaller) are top notch for a Nerf product. Looking back, the N-Series seems to adopt some of the ergo-cues from the old rebelle line.
@@SecondHandBlastersthank you so the thorough reply. I am thinking about picking up the SB for local college HvZ games and my main worry was, knowing how I hold blasters and like gloves, my thumb coming into contact with the recoil/sliding feature. Good to hear the ergo is great! Thanks for the heads up and I’ll be heading to target later today!
@@GearsLGLF not a problem. I'm glad to spread the knowledge. Interesting choice for an HvZ game, to be honest (and I say that with absolute sincerity). Most people want something that is easy to load (think hammershot). But the ability to hold 18 is definitely a benefit. If you are deciding to do an N-Series build for HvZ, please pick up a Ward as a backup blaster. The two shot smart AR works well and it's compact size makes it an ideal pocket blaster as a great weapon of last resort. I'm curious to hear how the HvZ run goes with N-1 darts since a lot of people haven't adopted them yet.
It loads from the right side of the blaster. Feed a single case into the rotating claw mechanism, and then prime it gently (not all the way) to make the mechanism rotate. Once that first shell feeds, the rest should follow without a problem.
I also have the shotty. When i am fully recovered, that will be on the review list. Hopefully i can get back to doing full reviews soon. The interconnected blaster concept is definitely an interesting one for sure. I might have to do the longshot/horrorfire combo for a game just for grins and giggles.
I saw this the other day at Dollar General. Did you ever take it apart? I wonder if you could mode this to shoot half darts at a little higher FPS. The baster has some decent ergo. With dart storage added up top and a paint job this could be a really cool blaster.
I did; it’s really an okay blaster for the price. The internals are not quite strong enough for my usual performance mods but it is modable and you can remove the pegs for half darts.
Performance is on par with the other versions. The coolness factor is definitely there though with the aesthetic. I can’t wait to get my paints out and turn this into something truly special.
Hi there, I do like the look of the Dread Hammer (my cable TV package has a channel dedicated to horror and it shows a lot of Hammer House films). I too hope X-Shot don't reduce themselves to one-trick ponies and instead start to use the reputation/trust they have built to branch out a bit - maybe be a bit more adventurous with features and possibly make the plastic a bit more durable. Their plastic seems ok now but still creaks now and then - I'd gladly pay a little more for thicker plastic. Anyhoo, you sounded good in the final thoughts segment but here's to a proper full recovery! Thanks.
Thank you. Yeah, X-shot’s plastic seems less virgin than hasbro’s but it is pretty solid. I do hear that they plan on venturing out towards using a flywheel soon, but we will see how far in the future that will be. Until them, if they do stuff like the Blastercorn (review coming); I will be a happy nerfer.
Thanks! Most Of the video was recorded before i went in for surgery. The final thoughts however.. different story. Hence the scruff and the fact that my voice seems a little quieter. Talking for long periods of time still winds me. Abdominal surgery is no joke! 😂
Thanks for the shout out! Nerf really needs to step it up with their Nerf pro line. I mean when they released the Stryfe X we all thought they were going to release a Rapidstrike X or something like that but no we get this 🗑. Even though I was surprised with the performance and how it shot I still feel like they could’ve done better, Because they can 😒. SamIAm.
I don't Know what your sample size is for the average fps is but my results with just the 12v aa setup 157.2 with nerf pro gen 2 darts. The fps went up to 168.5 using Dart Zone 2.0 Bamboos. I ran it on a 3s setup and only had minimal gains. If trying to use this blaster in a pro 200fps game you will not have good results even running it at 22,2 volts. The MK3 on a 4s beats it all day for $40. Great in depth review. Just not worth the hassle in my opinion when you're buying a pro level blaster and having to do work to it out of the box.
Sample size was admittedly small, 15 darts total (on screen), we ran about 100 darts through it and got similar numbers throughout using the Nerf Pro darts. The main problem with it is that it sounds like a Formula 1 engine.
Not a problem friend. The line itself isn’t the best; but it isn’t horrible (which is what I’m trying to point out). I’ve seen other reviewers go into histrionics about how horrible they are when the truth is that it isn’t as horrible as they think it is.
good numbers on it, but the fit and finish, yikes. its strange theres so many hiccups with the blaster, as if they only modelled it and didn't try making any prototypes, just right to the factory
The fit of it is for those who want to run and gun with a hyper-futuristic Perses. Those of us who prefer a more traditional two handed rifle-style blaster are not going to like this design. Recently i tried dual wielding this and a Rayven and i was surprised at how easy it was to switch out. I think they may be going for that? Not sure. The QC team at Hasbro is going to have a hard time explaining to me and everyone else, just how the hell they allowed such a horrible trigger to be mass produced. A misaligned flywheel can be forgiven due to a machining error, but the trigger design was intentional. Like I said, give me one week on their CQ team.
Thank you; this was one where i had a lot of fun with filming my disappointment while trying to find something positive to say at first during the intro.
Request: can you do the mega magnus is a great alternative in the cycloneshock incase if you don't have it and I feel like you will really like the mega magnus
Thanks for the shoutout! Nerf's Instagram put a post out saying they'd answer any and all questions. I inquired about both N1 and Pro and have not gotten a response back.
