Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-28773666-20191114134809/@comment-27306930-20191117040934

Oh boy, I've been mulling this one over for a couple days now. I think I agree, and disagree. Here's why.

Let's take the Longstrike, arguably the best of the rereleased N-Strikes to date. Hasbro clearly leveraged the vast majority of the design and engineering from the original Longstrike moldings. I'm sure that saved a ton of time and money.

But they clearly spent a lot of time and energy redesigning the internals, which involved new molds with new attachment points, bulkheads, and stanchions. It's definitely not just a "slightly modified" N-Strike shell. It's a new mold, with all new internals borrowed from a variety of other N-Strike Elite blasters.

Fast forward to the Deploy. It may look the same on the outside, but it's going to need new internals, and a new shell with different attachment points, bulkheads, and stanchions. In other words, a brand new mold and new internal components. That can't be cheap.

I completely agree with you. Hasbro isn't going to redesign the magwell, or the folding mech, or any major part of the external shell. But everything else inside is going to require a 3/4th revamp. And that's going to be a lot of work for Hasbro.

If it ever comes to fruition 🤞