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The reason why you couldn't look through the expandoblast sight is it's gone foggy do to age and a lack of internal cleaning. If you open and up and gave it a clean you could probably see through it. Also the extended barrel adds deadspace and makes the barrel floppy so it's less accurate. You can also improve the performance by putting a little bit of Teflon tape under the O-ring for the barrel and giving it and the plunger a relube. Or in another words it's a old Blaster that needs some TLC. Also the plunger tube is as big as the shell. Go watch Walcom s7's Tagback episode on it for more proof of its mod potential.
I've always loved the look of the expand-a-blast despite its low performance. If you don't extend the barrel and stock then it's another original nitefinder model, just oversized. But with plenty of potential!
So, clear plastic, especially 20+ years old, will start to haze. My guess is the expandable blaster's scope was at one point clear, but then hazed over time. I have an original longshot, and the scope for that has been hazed for a few years now. It happens.
Unless I’m hearing him incorrectly, he states (@1:02) that the first blaster is over 30 years old being from 98’…. I have little faith in people who cannot do simple math
The Nerf Crossbow is the most coveted one of all, and I've seen multiple videos explaining why But the Reactor will have a special place in my heart due to it being the first Nerf blaster I ever owned
From memory, the Expand-a-Blast worked best with only the shoulder stock out. Extending the barrel introduced dead space into the system and killed what little range there was. The front grip was too wobbly to be worth using. However, the shoulder stock kept you from smacking the plunger rod into your shoulder and bending it. The sights could be looked through when new, but the plastic quickly clouded with age and scratches. Due to dart drop, they were only useful out to a range of four feet, anyway.
The Expand-a-Blast was great for modifications back in the day. The plunger tube is almost the size of a soda can. Take out the gimmick barrel, replace with PVC, increase seal around plunger head and boom goes the dynamite. Also, the sticker alignment was because we had to put those stickers on ourselves! Many toys from that era didn’t come with the stickers attached. We got a sheet with all the stickers on it and a guide as to where they went
Got 80+ blasters and my oldest is the Midnight Maverick from the early 2000s. although I went and stayed for an Elite Pinpont Sight to go the rest of my Elite Blasters rather than buy into any obsolete or older blasters like the Blastfire DX-500 or the Lock n’ Load. I even passed up a Secret Shot 2. Saw a 1995 crossbow for around 350 bucks once as well.
Expand a blast looks really cool! When he shot and the barrel wiggled, it reminded me about how a 50 cal’s barrel goes back and honestly made me want one
I feel so bad. Imagine being a kid and seeing the range shot gun on a commercial and wanting one for a long time and begging your parents. Then they buy the gun and you are so excited, just to find out the gun sucks
As somone relatively new to the hobby (as nerf blasters only came to my country in later 2000's), it's cool to see these vintage blasters in action. Really fun and informative video as always, would love more videos like this, looking at weird and obscure products of the past.
Taking me back to my childhood! The only Nerf Blaster I owned then was the Bow-N-Arrow but my best friend had a Hyper Sight and we LOVED using it! So iconic for 90s blasters! Every kid wanted that under their tree at Christmas.
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Expand-a-Blast: 1st, fire it in pistol mode. 2nd, brass it, upgrade the spring,and reinforce the shaft, plunger connection, & trigger catch. 👍🏼 Saw someone onetime had created a breech on theirs, as well. I just ramrodded it. Fun!!!
In 2001 I bought a 24 round full auto Nerf SMG that was being discontinued. All darts were mounted on individual tubes on a rotary mount. You'd pump it a few times to fill the expansion chamber and then send them all flying twenty to thirty feet within five seconds or less. It was a mess to clean up; but certainly one of Nerf's better models.
When you said Secret Shot II you were showing the Secret Shot I. Now, for range you need a 1993 Nerf Arrowstorm. This thing is the absolute best of the 90's. It fires six arrows at semi automatic speeds and can also fire vintage mega darts/suckers. When you load one of those you will get close to N-Strike ranges. Another good one for range which will cap out at about 40ft is the 1991/1992 Nerf Bow n' Arrow. Same ammo but doesn't make use of vintage mega darts but overall is a decent vintage blaster as it is durable in design.
Did you know? The nerf fast blast,a pump action airjet nerf blaster secretly has a spiritual successor called "Mako RC-6".But unlike its secret predecessor, it's a direct-prime-action blaster and instead of a airjet pump, it's airjet pump is replaced by a shoulder stock and a 6 dart storage,also to fire the alpha strike mako,there is a prime handle in the back of the nerf gun which is located ontop of the shoulder stock.
I used to have the nerf blaster in the intro I didn’t know it was rare and threw it in the trash by accident not knowing the nerf gun was in the box I realized and now I’m sad
Oh. My. God. The Hyper Sight. Damn that was my favoriteeeeeee toy back in the day. When I was a kid, I remember I would reenact that scene from Jurassic Park scene where Muldoon thinks he’s hunting a raptor and he readies his Spas-12..man I wonder if I still have it at my parents house
The expand-a-blast did have a "usable" scope (although, c'mon, it's a nerf gun so what is that scope gonna do?), but I think the one you were testing has just not aged well and gotten cloudy/scratched over the years. I also seem to remember the range on it was decent for nerf guns of that era. It's possible that the plunger on that one has also weathered poorly and just doesn't deliver the powerful blast of air it once did. You could feel how strong that spring was, for a scrawny kid when those were new that spring was HARD to pull back and lock in place!
Growing up in the late 90s and early 2000s all the people I knew with nerd guns had the weird ones like these, I always thought they were dumb and never got into them. I always had a thing (and still kinda do) about fake details that bothers me. Like fake dials or scopes for instance. You can imagine why I didn't like some lol.
I had one of those expand a blasts, one of my favorite nerf toys of all time. Not a great nerf gun perhaps, but a great toy sniper rifle for imagination. My scope was see through, though it didn't really help you aim much given its just a need dart. I think the one you have might just have been damaged over time.
I was yelling at you for hating on the Hyper Sight with the "it's an old blaster therefore its' gonna be bad" card, but then I facepalmed when you mentioned the old review. God some things never change! 🤦♀
I recall a nerf gun that had a long tube that held foam balls, but not the soft ass ones of today, it was pump action kind of, using air pressure from “pumping it” to fire, and it was beastly, it could leave welts if you got hit right. 90’s Nerf guns were very strange in some cases, but that was the 90’s they had a bunch of weird designs for things just because they looked cool.
I know that the nerf brand blasters are better but I have a tiny little X shot blaster and I use it more than my big nerf guns because it makes me feel gangster
I'm 40, I recently got the Nerf Strike Elite Jolt to shot at a metal dart board. It's not even the same as It was in the 1990's. Kids today or even in the 2010's had it better with Nerf.
Love how he's testing the range shot and yet he angles the gun down to make the barrel straight, understandable though as it's probably unconsciously happening but still it's funny
The expand o blast is my childhood. I was born in around it's production time. It was always a Toy gun that we had but never used as a nerf gun. My brother's and I would play guns and this was always a weapon of choice for our scifi military Imaginations. I actually never knew it was a nerf gun until now due to the label of it being ripped off at some point. It was a fun gun to play with. Pointless, but for a 5 year old it was a sweet gun.
Man it would be cool if nerf re-released some of these older blasters under a new series, like how they re-released some older blasters under the icon name.
I have loved Nerf from a young age and that hasn't stopped for me even in my 20's. I remember 2 nerf guns that I would die to shoot again. The first was my Maverick Rev 6, it was a 6 shot revolver style blaster. That for me was accurate up to around 20-25' and never jammed. My other favorite was the Vulcan EBF 25, now I hated motorized blasters but this one was belt feed via motor bit also had the manual primer bar. That thing was thee best, it had plenty of power to shoot straight for a long ways and I even used it a few times as a confetti gun, much to my moms dismay.
used me be obsessed with nerf guns when I was young, i remember getting one of this big rocket launcher ones with the huge foam darts at a garage sale. The thing was probably older than I was when we bought it, those big Grenade launcher things were dope tho
I totally had that extendo one!!! And 10 year old me loved it!!! Also I'm pretty sure the scope did work and had a triangular reticle, and the one he has just has fogged acrylic so he can't see through it.
It probably wouldn't be very significant, but from watching the expand-o-blast fire, I'm fairly certain it would get better range with the barrel retracted. You can see the barrel recoil, which must lose quite a lot of energy, and the air also has to expand a lot further, and thus lose a lot of pressure before it can reach the dart
Also I've been trying to find these nerf guns I used to have in the 90s.. I think one was a deep sea angler fish .. they had glow in the dark darts and you had to put batteries in them and they had a camera flash effect when you shot the dart, charging the glow in the dark dart. Anybody remember this series??
