Haven’t seen a proper Nerf General on /toy/ in a long time, so let’s bring it back.This is a thread for discussing modern Nerf and foam blasters: new releases, modding, performance, internals, darts, comparisons, and why Hasbro accidentally cooked again (or didn’t). A lot has changed since the last time these threads existed, and there have been way too many genuinely good blasters in the past few years to ignore.Post your loadouts, favorites, teardown pics, hot takes, thrift finds, and mod questions. Stock or modded, Hasbro or third-party, foam is foam.No airsoftNo gel blastersFoam onlyBe civil, stay on topic, and remember: it’s still toy guns
XShot Pro MPP (AEB). Probably the best blaster you can buy off the shelf right now. Grabbed it for $50 on sale at Walmart and it absolutely slaps.it has kick and its super accurate with the included BCAR attached
Worker Seagull, interchangeable springs and barrels. Very consistent and accurate with a BCAR. Only comes with a scar tho.
Venom Pro . Full-auto flywheel pistol doing ~150 FPS and ~7 dps 50 bucks off the shelf. Basically a poor man's Worker Nightingale you can buy at Target.
My current foam blaster armory. I lost interest for a little bit after the Nexus pros came out as did everyone else around here apparently but every company is shitting on nerf right now amd there are so many good blasters out on shelves right now.
XShot Longshot abs Fury X. 150 FPS, slamfire, bullpups. The shells are super sturdy and I got them on sale. Longshot was 18 dollars abd the Fury was 11 dollars on sale. These are so consistent and accurate even at retail they shit on all of hasbros catalog.
Lol I guess foam blasters fell off around here. Its a shame with how much they have improved since they were regularly discussed here
>>11673153That's pretty much when I stopped following the hobby as well. I got me a Nexus Pro Stryker, Tomcat with some extra drums and then an Mk II sidearm and pretty much said I was done. Between Nerf not making anything good, other brands getting expensive, my kit feeling fairly complete and generally just not having anyone around to actually shoot, I kind of lost interest in foam flinging. Most of the youtube reviewers are annoying to me so I don't even know where to find info on what's actually good or fun anymore. Also, space is an issue and my toy budget has been directed to other lines as of late. The last time I even really played with any of my blasters was after my nephew's wedding about two years ago and the last time I took an armory pic was almost a decade ago before rival even took off. Also, a lot of stuff just looks ugly to me. Like >>11673159, the basic frame of the blasters look nice, but all that gaudy detail and greebling is too much. I miss the simple blue and orange of N-Strike. Even that neon green and grey Dart Zone pistol looks better and I hate things in neon green. >>11673153That's a nice selection of blasters you collected, I feel those are quality enough where they need an actual way to be properly displayed.
>>11675141The best blaster on shelf right now is the XShot AEB. Its a motorized piston pump. I'd check a video on it. Its literally amazing and I think still currently on sale at Walmart. If there is one blaster to own its that one
>>11673781That and no airsoft discussion, maybe its the 14 day issue, maybe its a miniature fandom implosion
>>11675438Oh wow.....it's hideous. It's like they just stopped making the blaster halfway through and said a copper pipe is good enough. I mean, I'm sure it's performance is stellar, but style wise....that's pretty yikes. >>11675449Airsoft was never welcomed on /toy/, it's a topic that's been kicked off this board for as long as I can remember. It got pretty bad for a while with how often Airsoft stuff got bounced around. There was even memes of people trying to find which board to start Airsoft threads on but the mods would just move em to a different board.
>>11673781It's not in a particularly great state to be honest. Hasbro has all but driven the Nerf brand to the ground, constantly introducing new proprietary ammo dart types in an effort to prevent cross compatibility because somehow in their heads that means more sales. Not to mention the constant reskins, almost 70% of the N-Series blasters are Ward reskins. And then you have the other brands, they're great for being aimed towards hobbyist and likes to standardize ammo dart type as well as accessory mounting points and having excellent performance. But not much about them are appealing for kids who are the ones that primarily play with dart blasters. The ceiling is too high for most kids unless they know what they're doing and who are only in the minority compared to the rest. Dart blasters just don't have the same appeal they use to anymore.
>>11675449I think a big factor is 3d printed guns and even off-the-shelf ones that reach their levels of performance overtook the discussion so hard that it really started to feel like the threads were just airsoft-lite more than anything else. combine that with the flagbearer Hasbro doing Hasbro shit and killing their brand and youtubers dropping off like flies, there really isn't much to discuss. "member hammershot?" can only carry a thread so far.
>>11675533>>11675739Yea, the super "high performance" Pro model stuff or constant comparison to home made 3d printed blasters more or less nuked any possible discussion of foam blasters. They're really not as fun anymore and none of these new ones have any cool but useless gimmicks or themes. When you aim for performance you'll eventually start to hit plateaus and everything will just start to become homogenized and boring. There's a reason why so many Nerf Blasters are just "Stryfe but with extra junk", because it was such a solid platform to build around but none of those additions actually made the blasters better. It's also what killed the Rival line, once you get into the realm of 200 round full auto blasters that are easy to load and work off re-chargeable batteries, where can you even go from there? Everything just starts to retread old ground and come up short in comparison where performance is concerned. I was hoping Nerf finally bending and accepting the Half Dart in their little Franken-stryfe release would help spur them into a second renaissance or sorts where they'd go crazy making weird, wacky, sometimes impressive half dart blasters. Lean into the new ammo type to make Blasters they couldn't make before. Instead they just stopped trying entirely.
>>11676148I'd be a lot more down to clown with nerf's hard-on for periphery ammo if they were still doing interesting stuff with it like mega/early rival but ever since Ultra it's just been one dud after another.
