I welcome all the in depth pros and cons from someone with a child to give us all some good pointers that many miss out on. Also, amazing paint jobs, still echo my earlier point about a detailed painting guide as you've got an end result I'd personally love to achieve.
And.. good news.. i happen to have a review in the can today. Due to my overzealousness, I decided to do a paint mod on it before edited and snapped a thumbnail… so… before I can launch that review, i need to finish recording the paint video i did. Stay tuned later this week for a dual video release!
i´m totally on your side with the not so kidsfriendly plastic parts. Hope you do a paint job on this one and show it to us. Do you plan to make video of making a paint job on a blaster? Cool video
Unfortunately any "bolt action" toy is going to be prone to breakage, it's almost unavoidable where kids are involved. If the plastic primer were replaced with a sturdier one, all the stresses and damage would simply be transferred to internal components, which are of course also plastic. As for the design and the skin, how many kids are going to be giving it a proper paint job?
Respectfully going to have to disagree with your assessment on the bolt actions. The bolt action setups in the Centurion, the Longshot, the Longstrike, the Fortnite Heavy SR, the Thunderhawk, the Raptorstrike; all of those have metal rods that go through the bolt sled in such a fashion that they withstand abuse and won’t break unless you are actively trying to destroy them (G-Rex and i have tried). The only metal bolt action that has given problems is the Eagle point and and part of that issue is the piece it connects to “hooks” onto the sled and it is easy for the hook to not catch the sled 100% of the time. The issue with the plastic pegs is that they are so flimsy, they can snap from normal usage or if a kid tries to muscle it too hard to clear a jam, it could strip out completely and ruin the peg (both of which I’ve seen a 10 year old do.) Painting, that’s an interesting question but it is, as i said, me just being picky. I’d wager that there are quite a lot of kids into decorating and painting their blasters. I think msee them all the time at the parks where i go for nerf meetups and i’ve been asked if i could do a spray job for some of them. But like i said in the video, for those that like the design, its fine. I just wish they wouldn’t do a skin and stick with various colored plastic pieces like they did with the Zombie Strike series of old.
