Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-37595644-20190101003823/@comment-26431461-20190101015956

I do agree with your N-Strike Elite comparison, but I don't think VTX is worthy of being a series. Above all, VTX didn't bring any new blasters to the table. In the future, if they release original, non-repainted blasters (which might not be everyone's cup of tea, considering how not a lot of people liked Vortex. I sure did though) I might shift a little towards your side.

Well to be fair, when N-Strike Elite first launched, 3 of the 4 blasters it had were just "reskins" of previous blasters (Rampage, Stockade, Retaliator, all direct successors to other blasters. The Hail-Fire was the only original one) but the important thing was that they weren't just reskins, the internals were improved to the point where a Retaliator, although it looks similar, is basically completely different from a Recon. Additionally, they also had newer attachments like magazines, drums, stocks and barrel attachments. The only example of a VTX blaster having different attachments from their Vortex counterpart was the Praxis, and that was because it had its stock removed.

This whole subseries thing isn't very clear-cut. It's really up to this wiki to figure out what is a subseries and what is a standalone series. We have the power, but we need to agree on something.