Has Dart Zone/Adventure Force overtaken Nerf as the definitive dart blaster brand? Like shit, nothing that Nerf makes nowadays is all that interesting, but Dart Zone keeps making really fucking cool guns. Picrel, flintlocks, belt-fed LMGs, actual pistol-like pistols with mags in the grip, etc etc etc. I'm a grown ass man and I can't help but look at these things with envy.
>>11938916Kids don't buy toys.
>>11939066Nobody asked you, DINGUS.>>11938916WHEN THE FUCK DID THIS START HAPPENING WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE
>>11939069Dart Zone used to be a shitty knockoff Walmart brand of blasters, but they've really innovated over the years and now, imo, they're one of the best brands right now. Nerf just hasn't really made anything good recently, probably because they're afraid to make anything that resembles a real gun, but that is where the market seems to be heading so they're falling behind badly.
>>11938916>Like shit, nothing that Nerf makes nowadays is all that interestinghasbro really are the biggest fucking retards in the industry, aren't they? You have a household brand name for decades and decades, and you let the knock off brands eat all your market share because you refuse to innovate.
>>11939334Literally. Like look at this shit, this chinese no name brand made a fucking Predator shoulder cannon blaster.
I was really disappointed when I went into the dart gun aisle at Target trying to find a Nerf gun for my daughter. She's been wanting to play with mine but most of them are old and not really working or are too difficult for her to handle right now. The offerings they had there were like just crap or the same gun in 4 different paintjobs. I was looking at the Dart Zone stuff which seemed better but I just didn't want to get them since I have about 2000 Elite Darts and didn't want to fuck with something that was different.
>>11939568Dart Zone is compatible with Elite darts as long as it's one of the full size ones, which there are a lot of. I don't recommend the half length ones because they hit really fucking hard, could probably bruise her if you're not careful.
>>11939334If anything, it was Hasrbo's attempt to "innovate" that killed the Nerf Brand. They were king of the hill for a long time until they tried to make a new, proprietary dart type. Moving into the Ultra dart style and then the subsequent N1 darts killed their cross compatibility and made getting new ammo for their blasters needlessly more expensive. Combined with boring and ugly blasters with deteriorating performances, and the brand pretty much just gave up on trying. They did "attempt" to step into the more hardcore market with their lone Half Dart Stryfe....but it was just an expensive stryfe with a tighter mag-well and people just didn't care at that point. The entire Nerf brand may as well be dead as of now because they just aren't putting in any effort to make anything interesting.
>>11939946Oh that's good to know then, thank you. Maybe I'll go back and pick something up next time we're there.
