New Nerf Elite Rayven Stinger: Another Repaint?

This all-new yellow Elite Rayven was spotted on amazon.com:

Odd gun, another repaint? It has a 12-dart normal clip instead of the standard 18-glow-in-the-dark-firefly-clip and 25 yellow (?!) darts. Seems to be an Elite and thus probably has the same technique as the normal Elite Rayven. Why they'd make another repaint, earlier in green, blue and now bee-yellow is not clear to me. I can't imagine anyone asking for a yellow Rayven, or Hasbro just had too much paint left from the old N-Strike guns. Another possible solution might be a completely new sub-line of Elite, hence the new darts, also yellow.

So far it's only being sold on amazon.com by a third-party seller called AR-DISCOUNT at the price of 29.99$.

Review: Nerf Elite Alpha Trooper

As promised, the review for one of my new guns, the Elite Alpha Trooper. Fans have awaited this blaster due to the great predeccessor, and finally it was there. First, the outer appearance. The gun does look pretty great. There are some similarities between it and the normal AT, the orange parts and the grey handle. The EAT's stock adapter on the back is actually orange instead of the standard black. Other than that, the shape is exactly the same, no shell differences between them. The equipment is new, the EAT now has a nice 12-dart clip instead of the old 18-dart one. It's a downgrade by 6-darts, but I think this is still good since the 12 clip is one of the best mags, it doesn't jam up as much as some 18 mags and still has a decent capacity. To the performance, a big improvement which I instantly noticed is that the Elite version doesn't jam as much as the original one. It nearly never jams, actually. Ranges are basically... Elite. Nothing significant, it just shoots like any Elite blaster. But it's nice to see an Alpha Trooper shoot that far. The cool part about the Alpha Trooper is the insane rate of fire, that could possibly even beat some semi-auto guns. So all in all great primary gun, great looks and recommended for anyone looking for a new primary with fast ROF.

Updates - New guns, Recent mods & Current projects

Some rather "personal" nerf updates than some news. First off, I recently got some new guns added to my arsenal, which I'm going to review pretty soon, the Rapidstrike and the Elite Alpha Trooper. Regarding my projects & mods, I completely reworked my Longshot and did several cool mods to it. It's currently getting a nice paintjob, and I'll provide you with pics and a showcase soon. Next, I picked up my good ol' Stampede again to make some minor modifications. It is in the queue to receive a nice paintjob finish (pics soon!).

Chaotic Project floor 

Also, I finished my suitable Elite Stock, much better than the short one of the Retaliator. For this, I took the Stock from the Super Soaker Lightningstorm (of which the stock is the best and most comfortable one I've ever seen) and gave it a nice Elite paintjob:

The Stryfe looks like a SMG with it

Awesome, right? It looks great on all elite blasters. See you soon with reviews of the new guns and finished Projects!

Nerf Elite Stryfe Mission Kit - "tacticool"!

This new Mission kit has been spotted and also posted online. A pic first:

It includes an Elite Stryfe, the Reteliator's foregrip and barrel extension, 18 dart mag and the Stockade's stock. All these great accessories combined with one of the best Nerf guns make up a great kit. It looks like Nerf has heard their users and made a kit with the greatest gun and tactical stuff! So far, it seems to be a Kohl's exclusive (link to the listing here). I was a little shocked by the price, but I think for all accessories and the gun its an appropriate price.

Review: Nerf Elite Triad EX-3

Sorry due to my recent inactivity, I've been pretty busy and let this project down a little. But let's take a look at the Triad. The Elite Triad is basically a Nerf Jolt x3. It has the same mechanisms and is just a little bigger.The Triad's grip may be too small and uncomfortable for some people. The great thing about this blaster, it is a real Elite (not like the blue N-Strike Jolt), which means this little thing actually fires up to 75ft/20m and I've had impressive results in my range tests. For even more powerful shots, I've modified mine (There isn't much you can do, so I just added a spring) so that it now fires and impressive 80ft/24m. The only downside (at least for me) is that you can't mod too much of a heck out of this, but the power even as stock balances this. Overall the Triad is a great secondary and very powerful pistol that I'd recommend for beginners as well for advanced Nerf users.

The plunger with my added spring

Leak Updates: Centurion unboxed; New Zombieshot line

So after the Rapidstrike's detailed pictures have been released, the Mega Centurion now follows. Here are some nice images of the gun, box, features and ammo:

So the front is detachable and the bipod too. The clip and the darts are a lot bigger than normal Elite ones, and the last picture shows a box picture which shows the distance of Mega darts with 37% firing 90-105ft and 63% less than 90ft. In terms of size, it approximately compares to a Longshot. What I also noticed on the back of the box, there is a text about the "Nerf Mission App". This was also introduced on the Toy Fair with the Rebelle line. It's probably a system similar to LTAR Laser Tag guns that allows you to put a device on top and shoot virtual drones. Could this be coming to all future Nerf blasters? Will it be restricted to iOS or will it come to Android too? Next, a gun similar to the Rebelle Wildshot has been introduced, along with a completely new line. It's called the Zombiestrike line and the Hammershot is the new gun. It also features the long awaited hammer-system like a revolver. Here are some pictures first:

As you can see it's basically a repaint of the Rebelle Wildshot, with a slightly different shape. This blaster holds 5 darts and is a little smaller than the Strongarm. It would be fun-and will probably happen-if the new Zombie-line featured the "Nerf Mission App" too with shooting virtual zombies. We'll look forward to releases in other countries. The only unsolved mystery left now is the leaked Mega Javelin, but maybe that's soon to come...

Rapidstrike Internal Pictures leaked!

These pics were found on Baidu. They show an internal overview of the new Rapidstrike CS-18.

As you can see it's flywheel powered but has a full-auto pusher arm that pushes the darts into the flywheels. There are a lot of cables around the trigger area leading to the pusher and lock switches. What do you think? Do you see any more mechanisms?

Even more Rapidstrike pictures, Firing video

Thanks to the Blog Urban Taggers for all these pictures. Apparently another user on Baidu, 'Captain', has posted a lot of new detailed pictures of the Rapidstrike CS-18. Here we go:

Some very nice photos of everything included, compared to other blasters and with attachments. You can see from the pictures that it has a collapsible stock, a transparent jam door, lots of tactical rails, and it indeed is small, approximately compares to a compact Stampede without muzzle, according to the pictures. Now another interesting find on youku is this video, where the Rapidstrike is being fired.You can see it is flywheel powered, but fully-automatic. This system compares to that of the Nitron. Now that's a lot of information we got about the Rapidstrike. We'll look forward to the release of it in other countries!

Rapidstrike Pictures released!

Rabysong posted these Rapidstrike pictures on Baidu. The Rapidstrike first leaked on soundmedia.ch is real!

Pretty interesting pictures, huh? You can see it has a rail like the Stampede on top, but in my opinion a much better sight. There's also an acceleration trigger and a clip-release like the Stryfe and the barrel extension muzzle. What I think is interesting is that the battery tray goes into the front. All in all it looks a little more compact than the Stampede. Here the box:

The Rapidstrike box states a 75ft range and shows the clear 18-dart mag. However it says nothing about if it's semi or full-auto, only motorized rapidfire, but that might mean fully-automatic.