Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20190109040030

I was wandering through Walmart this evening and stumbled across a Phantom Corps Helios on the clearance shelf for $9 buck. So I left it there for some lucky Nerfer and shopped for a coat and some new socks.

Are you kidding !?!?  I sprinted to the self check-out as fast as I could and snagged that baby for myself. Mine, all mine. Bwah-ha-ha-ha.

I have no idea whether the Helios is any good or not, but for the price of a #5 meal at McDonalds, I'm willing to give it a go.

Edit: I unboxed the Helios and played with tested it in the shop last night. Like most of my other RIVAL blasters, it performs great ! It's a little better than my Kronos, just a smidge, but not as good as my Nemesis. Its 7 round mag is preferable to the 5 round Kronos, but pales in comparison to the rest of the RIVAL line.

And that's where the love ends. I'm not wild about the ergonomics. It's too short for me to shoulder fire, and akwardly long to be fired like a pistol. Plus the balance and the priming is all wrong for a pistol.

Most depressingly, it's not compatible with 12 round RIVAL mags. WTF ?!?! I thought the whole business with RIVAL was compatibility and interchangeability. (Admins, I would like a triple word score for "interchangeability", plus a double letter score on the G, thank you)

But seriously, I am disappointed that the Helios is limited to 7 rounds. Which of course will result in a full disassembly and a federal probe into why the 12 round mag is being discriminated against. We will not rest until Nerf justice is served.

''But seriously, don't take me seriously. Seriously.''

So again, anybody else got a Helios and an opinion ? 