New! Well... sorta

Looks like there's another heaping hand of "New" coming to shelves for Nerf.  The overload of products from Hasbro continues with the Magnus (which we all know about), a repainted Jolt (surprise!), an Ice-Cube Super Soaker (which has been done before), and the "RipShot" for the ZombieStrike Lineup.  Well... it's not much too new for us, but we'll take it.

Thanks to a tip from "Mr Raccoon", there's a link to Baidu showing off the latest Nerf products to hit shelves.  Which one are you most looking forward to?

Darts with a Book

So this is an interesting move, especially considering it includes a dart design I thought I had seen on a "Double Your Darts" promo at Toys R Us that proved unfruitful.  Nerf has a book out that includes some special Elite Darts.  I suppose these are the tricks we must resort to get kids reading books again?

Gotta wonder how thorough it is... though I'd imagine it's just N-Strike stuff.  A book with all the Nerf Blasters they've made would be quite epic, now that I think about it.

Magnus for Real

Man, I love the intel we get from our Australian friends!  Saw this link on SBNC that listed a LOT of goodies, but this one stuck out to me.  Psyk's "PWND" series has an unboxing of the new N-Strike Elite MEGA Magnus pistol.  As a hefty pistol-sized, direct plunger, in-built magazine, MEGA dart-slinging blaster... I've personally got high hopes that this will be better than that Centurion I picked up at summer's end.  Sometimes I wonder if we like the Magnus because we need it to be better than an overpriced bi-pod blaster.

HOWEVER... as you watch the review, skip ahead to the actual loading of the in-built magazine on the Magnus.  It's about 9 minutes into the video.  This loading system looks troublesome for the Magnus.  I don't anticipate this being good for the darts.  Now Psyk, in his review, notes that the Mega darts feel a little stiffer and more ridgid than the original ones... so I wonder if they really are going to be improving the Mega darts as the line continues.  You'll remember how Nerf kept tweaking the Streamline Dart when those first made their debut with the Longshot.

Psyk also loaded the Mega darts with Elite Darts, something which didn't work well on the Centurion.  While they work, his testing of this trick didn't look to have good results just yet.  More to come on this blaster later, as I am interested in personally testing this video out.

Barrel Extensions: Part 1

Over the years, I've read a lot about N-Strike Barrel Extensions and how they decrease range or increase accuracy.  There's a bunch of different "studies" that enthusiasts of Nerf have conducted with their findings, but there seems to still be a divide between opinions.  Well, I'd like to put those opinions to rest with some cold-hard facts.  Trouble is... there are so many "Facts" out there, that it can be difficult to pin down a concrete answer.

So, for Part 1 of our fact-finding mission, I'll be gathering information both from sources online and from your comments.  Be it opinions, personal experience, or the results of tests you've conducted, I wanna get a good collection of info on this so we can start drawing some clearer lines in this debate.  Part 2 will show the collected information as well as the conclusion this information will point to.  Get to work, detectives!  We've got a score to settle with Nerf's most misunderstood accessory!

Triangle Wins!

Well, I gotta say I was surprised that no-one got a perfect score on the scavenger hunt... but not surprised that this guy got it the most amount of "right".  Triangle is the winner for the Scavenger Hunt Prize: a ZombieStrike HammerShot.  Thanks to everyone who participated!

What did you guys think?  Was that a better way to do giveaway stuff, or is there another format I've done before (or that I haven't done) that you'd prefer.  Just curious!

October Wraps Up!

Whether you're blasting Zombies (but not in the face, according to Nerf), getting candy from neighbors, or out at a party, have a great Halloween, everyone!!

The Scavenger Hunt will conclude today, so if you haven't done that yet, give it a shot.  Also, I've got some mods coming up for November that should be fun.  Thanks to a mix-up with OMW, I ended up getting that Longshot Immortal kit I had once ordered long ago in a galaxy far far away.  I've also got a game back up at "The Base" for our laser tag group that's sure to please, as well as some mods on the way with the help of LazerBait's lenses and Eleri's Lens Adapters.

So there's a lot on the way!  Keep it here for another fun month of mods, games, and reviews!  Happy Halloween, everybody!

Scavenger Hunt! One Day Left!

On the one hand, I'm quite surprised with how many folks have been trying their hand at this contest.  On the other, I'm shocked no-one has had a perfect score for the 20 items to find!  That means the game is still on if you wanna win yourself a... oh... well, I shouldn't tell you since it's one of the answers to the scavenger hunt.  Go and check it out and win yourself something, ok?  If there's still no perfect score by Halloween time, I'll go with the person who has the CLOSEST results and who submitted it earliest, in which case I currently know who would win it.

Give it a go!!  SCAVENGER HUNT CONTEST