As far as being a rip-off of someone else’s design, I honestly don’t mind. Hanaya Sh was not profiting off of the design, and really wasn’t using it at all. That combined with the fact that they have been MIA for 3 years makes me care even less. Honestly at this point I’m just thrilled that you can buy a product that functions just like it. It’s an amazing design, and I can’t wait to see these out on the field. Another note. Most of you are probably unaware of this, but Hanaya Sh also came up with a design for double stack magazines, which are suspiciously close to worker dominator mags. It’s cool to see such innovative designs finally available on the market, as we likely would have never been able to use them if worker hadn’t “stolen” them. If worker hadn’t started producing them they would have stayed stuck in a RU-vid video. Something to look at and say “wow that’s really cool” “I wish I could buy that”.
Thank you so much Luke for being one of the first to review this. :) Just ordered my own along with three extra mags and some of the new flywheels from NFStrike and your reviews only excite me more. :)
Looking at Hanaya's likely original and unchanged design, the magazines should be able to take a hole on the top/rear corner. Being able to backload the cylinder on this would be like a mini, low-tech Infinus.
Jason Felper Assuming the magazine uses a torsion spring to turn the cylinder it would not work like an infinus, the spring would relax after six shots either way.
Absolutely love these things. Such a brilliant little package and I'm going to absolutely have to get one for myself. Certainly hope Hanaya was consulted about the design process. Seems totally heresay at this point whether he was or wasn't. Looked into it and can't find anything concrete.
Flywheel surface speed of 107 FPS for the inner part of the curved face of the flywheel and 111 FPS for the surface speed of the outer part of the flywheel. All based on 24000 RPM. Makes me wonder if you got a correct reading or not. We'll definitely be putting ours through it's paces when it arrives.
Well, the smaller diameter should make the darts easier to push for the flywheel motors, discounting the effect of the rotating mass of the flywheel at the perimeter of course.
If it was just this from Worker, it might be coincidental. However, it's very close to the Hanaya version. But then we also got the Dominator which also looks suspiciously similar to Hanaya's other blaster, even in clear plastic and how it also used a double stack magazine, it's harder to just call it a coincidence. I'm hoping Hanaya sold the designs for royalties to Worker, but who knows. Hanaya also has other blasters like a shotgun, so we'll see what's next from Worker.
Its amazing to see "The Barricade From the Future!" Definitely looks fun and functional, especially with those lightning fast cylinder changes. It's a truly unique blaster, I don't think even the Legendfire had such a fast cylinder change!
Excellent video Luke! The barrel attachment will allow you to put barrel attachments on it too. Interesting info on the motor speeds, wondering if those are correct readings. Will be interesting to shove some proper Krakens in there.
I’ve seen this all over the worker website, thinking it’s pretty bad. But thanks to Luke, I have a positive opinion on this now and I’m thinking about getting one right now.
That thing's really amazing! I could wish for better aesthetics, it looks like a bar of soap, but if the price is right I could see myself buying one. EDIT: Are you likely to sell them through your shop? I'd love to offer some support.
Regardless of where this design originated from, I think this is great. And probably a blaster that I must have for 2019. Although I may wait a bit to see what you and others in the community come up with for this little pea shooter. Excited to see what happens here.
Great review Luke. And, I think you’re absolutely right, the Hurricane does have a very “Star Trek” Phaser look/shape to it. (That’s actually the first thing that came to my mind when you zoomed in on it!). - 🤠 Jed
Spinsanity works the same way, but this is a smaller package. There are other rotating cylinder flywheel blasters too. Looking similar and functioning similar is not a big deal. Everything has been done
The Stockade and Barricade also. And there are other older things that also rotated. Sticking flywheels in front of a rotating cylinder doesn’t really change the idea
Hi again! Honestly it's like everything about this works for me except for that one thing which just doesn't want to line up, the look. I am more of a deagle kind of guy, if only there was a more deagle style version of this
It is very similar to the Hanaya blaster same as the double stack mag is near identical to his. I hope they either employed him or are pay royalties (like captain slug) and not just using his designs.
I am definitely stoked for this to be on the market!!! I don’t think it’s a problem that it’s so similar to the community blaster because it’s apparent that the video producer hasn’t done anything with the idea and for all we know Worker could be paying him some royalties like with their version of the caliburn and Captain Slug. Overall though, I’m just super excited to be able to have something so small and holstersble. Only problem is that I’m not sure if I can justify buying it. Before I thought for some reason that the hurricane was a rival revolver(probably due to the name) which is something I’ve been wanting for all my high speed indoor cowboy needs, and I especially thought it would be cool if to be able to get something similar to Jupiter but to act as that semi auto(basically) six shooter rather than a bullet hose, though I and saving up for a Jupiter for sure!(Im not trying to diss the Jupiter, i believe it’s a significant achievement and something I’m fully behind. For me I just see it serving a slightly different role, being full auto) The fact that this is effectively a smaller stryfe locked into six rounds means that for people not trying to holster the blaster I could just use the two stryfes I already have with significantly larger ammo calacities. I’m glad to see the hurricane on the market and I understand that it was never marketed as a rival blaster but as someone who still would love a Hera pistol equivalent out of the box and already has two stryfes I can’t see a good reason for this in my brothers and my play styles. I’m sure it will be a big hit for losts of nerfers though!
You need to do a video every once in a while about what new stuff you have or will be getting at the shop. I bought 4 of the worker hurricanes 2 from lightake and 2 from nfstrike. I paid about the same. The lightake order took over a month, and the nfstrike is stuck in customs for the last two weeks. Also about 50 of my 300 darts were smashed. I just saw them on your website, If I knew you were going to get them, I would have waited to buy them from you because I’ve never had a package take more than two or three days.
The Hanaya youtube channel has been mentioned before with the double stack magazine worker made. I think someone mentioned that the Hanaya is working for worker right now, this could be wrong however.
Considering the time lapse between when that other blaster showed up and the release of this one I'd almost wonder if the guy went to work for them looking at the design similarities. but at the end of the day there's only so many ways you can make dart guns like these and keep them compact and seems like it's a really cool design.
I think it is supposed to look similar to the "Liberator" pistol...maybe. It was a 3d printed 1-shot pistol that was white with a blue handle. This is not to be confused with WWII Liberator pistol which is what will mostly pop up in Google images with the exception of a few pictures of the one I'm referring to.
Sew a bunch of holsters into the inside of a coat and just carry like 10 of those, with spare mags lining the bottom of the inside of the coat and just take all that by itself into a nerf war
Oh my gosh, if someone in our community makes one thing and then a company wants to make it available to the masses for a cheap price everyone freaks out. He wasn’t even selling these blasters and didn’t have any patents. Just because you make it first doesn’t mean no one can ever make one again. Just because you come up with an idea, doesn’t mean you’re entitled to any compensation. ESPECIALLY if it isn’t patented and even more so if you’re not planning on selling it. Worker is doing good things, and take it from any kindergartener “copying is the highest form of flattery”
Considering the blaster, one extra magazine, plus all the upgrades they sell for it comes out to US$72.25 I agree, The Jupiter seems so much more solid i may consider this as a fun little toy to keep around my shop.
I'd love to see you do this. Love your work man. I'm debating on getting one of these only cause it's cheaper than the other 2 projects I'm considering starting/finishing
I think what you are doing is amazing. Taking an awesome hobby and engineering to have fun while producing awesome machines. I believe you are in Washington state. I was wondering if you had any tips on how to find games for more adult players? In any case, keep rocking!
Also, check the specs on your optical tachometer. Many of them expect two stripes on the target part; so that reading may have been half of actual speed. It sounded to me more like 50-ish k.
T R still, it was because they both needed space for something. in the Maxim 9’s case it was to house the suppression system of the gun, in the hurricane’s case it’s to house the flywheels.
On the fence. Worker tends to steal so many names/ideas/designs etc. But they make some quality products that aren't available from other manufacturers, which makes it tough to avoid buying from them.
What would happen if you used multiple cut or short darts, or foam/rubber projectiles of the proper diameter loaded into each revolving cylinder on the magazine in this? Seems like you could make a shotgun effect with that, which would be fun, but I’m not sure if that’d work out the way I’m thinking it would. Looks like a hell of a lot of fun, though. Good stuff here.
I feel the same way I do about them almost directly taking blaster models and concepts from Hasbro. I don’t know why ripping off the stryfe or retaliator would be ok but not the never-commercialized concept from a 4 year old RU-vid video.
I wanna double wield these with a large drop pouch full of preloaded reload whatever you wanna call those. Someone needs to make a simple extender grip to just pop on the bottom of the handle for peeps with bigger hands.
In terms of flywheel rpm, the fact that it’s meant to run on IMRs most likely means that the current draw of those motors is going to be incredibly low compared to community spec ones. In terms of the design (and potential controversy surrounding it) I honestly don’t think it matters at all. I know worker has been under a lot of fire for copying designs recently, but in those case they seem to have copied just the concept of the design, which is completely fine imo. If it weren’t for people copying the concepts of other’s designs, we wouldn’t have aftermarket flywheels, flywheel cages, darts, motors, mags, and the likes. Sure, it may be preferable to cite the original inspiration, but what they’ve done here (and with stuff like the talons, Metal caliburn parts, and others excluding the scar barrel) is completely fair.