User talk:Bluedragon1971

RE: Super Soaker colors
Hi, I do believe there are some pages that refer to the color as black instead of dark blue. I believe I changed it to the proper dark blue when I revised the reviews. However, I can assume that I missed a few pages. If you want, you can change the articles yourself so that they say dark blue instead of black. I'd appreciate it, since I've been busy this weekend. Jet [ Talk • Contributions ] 05:42, July 15, 2012 (UTC)

RE: Tactical Laser Sight?
This is just a tactical light. Tactical lights have a green colored light, as opposed to the light beam unit having a red light. Jet [ Talk • Contributions ] 17:11, July 19, 2012 (UTC)

Dart tag discontinued?
Yes, I'm absolutely certain of that. Target (and most other retail stores) don't put items on clearance if they are going to be carrying them again in the future. They would just pull the items from stock and send them back to the manufacturer to be sent to other stores that do have room for them. All they have to do to make room for the Retaliator and Rampage is to pull the Raider and the Recon and put those on clearance, along with the corresponding non-Elite accessories (which they are also doing). Putting the Raider and Recon on clearance makes sense (since we know they are getting replaced by the Retaliator and Rampage), but putting the Quick 16, etc. on clearance can only mean one thing: they are getting discontinued by Nerf. As for making room for the Snapfire 8, it really wouldn't take much, have you seen how small that thing is? It is smaller than a Maverick, and not much larger than a Nightfinder. Pull one facing of a similar sized item off the shelf and presto, you have room for the Snapfire. Certainly no reason to pull something as large as the Quick 16 (unless you were making room for 5 or 6 facings of Snapfires!).

Bluedragon1971 (talk) 03:16, July 21, 2012 (UTC)

By the way, when I was at a second Target store today, I saw one last Quick 16 on the shelf (a clearance endcap actually), and was really tempted to get it since it was less than $8, but that really isn't one of my favorite guns, and I already have one. I figured someone else could get more use from it than me. The other Target near me sold out of the clearance guns last week some time, although they still have a bunch of flip-clip dart packs and the camo ammo bag packs left. Right now they are at 30-50% off. If they are still there when they hit 75% off, I'll be all over them.

Bluedragon1971 (talk) 04:49, July 21, 2012 (UTC)

Just found something else. Check out the listing for the Swarmfire on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Nerf-28509-Dart-Tag-Swarmfire/dp/B0043E8JKW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1342847909&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=nerf+dart+tag

Look at the bottom of the details: "Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes" And it is selling for less than half price now.

Bluedragon1971 (talk) 05:21, July 21, 2012 (UTC)

Hey, while I have no doubt in my mind that the Quick 16 is discontinued and I have personally seen sales on the Dart Tag lineup ($4.99 SS, $9.99 SP6, $14.99 Q16) I think the reasoning for this that the new Dart Tag lineup has now been released, which includes the Sharp Shot, Speedload 6 and Swarmfire as stronger than they were before. The older models are now being replaced on the shelves by those blasters, from what I'm getting. By the way NM8, just because Amazon says it's discontinued doesn't mean you need to add a discontinued template on the articles. Let's wait a bit to make sure, please. GG370 14:13, July 21, 2012 (UTC)

GG360, I guess that is a possibility, since the Sharp Shot that I got on clearance there was an orange trigger model. But if that was the case, wouldn't they be doing the same with the Swarmfire as well, since it was also re-released with a blue trigger? I've yet to see a Swarmfire on clearance anywhere other than Amazon.com. Does anyone know if the orange and blue trigger models of the Dart Tag guns have different barcodes on the boxes? If they do, then it would be a likely explanation, if not then it wouldn't since the register at the store would have no way of differentiating between the two.

Bluedragon1971 (talk) 12:50, July 25, 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm not blaming you for anything, it's just that that knock-off does not belong in the article. There are hundreds of knock-offs out there, that one isn't significant enough to be on the article. Unless there's only one knock-off of the blaster, it shouldn't be on the article. If we kept that, we'd have to add the SDL Foam Dart Blaster, the Cyclone Shoot Magnum, etc.


 * So, that's why I removed it. This has given me more reason to have a gallery pages implemented, because we can show people the different knock-offs there. That would be an appropriate page, not on the trivia section. Ga  ge  15:30, July 25, 2012 (UTC)

Shot Blast/Tornado Strike shoulder stocks
You kind of merged the page in an interesting way, but I went and fixed it to fit what I was going to do. It's really not a problem at all. As a heads up, it's good to know that having "/" in a page name will make it split off from an existing page. That's what we use for the current Nerfer pages as an example, and it's what we'll be doing when we split blaster reviews off from their own articles. Jet [ Talk • Contributions ] 16:00, July 26, 2012 (UTC)

Dart Tag and Elite Darts
Well, I went to my local Target today and as I expected, they had reset the Nerf aisle and had some of the Elite products out. The ONLY Dart Tag product that was still on the shelf was the Swarmfire. The new signing over the Nerf products shows the Pyragon and the Hailfire. I picked up an 18 pack of Elite darts, and will do some testing with them tonight on my blasters. I have at least one of nearly every N-Strike blaster, as well as a Quick 16, Sharp Shot, Speedload 6 and a few other older Nerf blasters (AT3K, AT2K, and a couple of others). I'm really interested to see how well they work in the Barricade and the Vulcan.

RE: Raider & Recon
Yes, it is pretty much known that N-Strike Elite products will replace N-Strike products. I kind of want to hold off on saying that the Raider and Recon are discontinued, just to see if maybe Nerf's PR people will release a statement about it. Wait another week; I might send them an email to get an official statement for NM&R.

As for the Vulcan, people keep saying it's discontinued but I haven't seen anything online to back up this claim. Do you think that's discontinued too? Jet [ Talk • Contributions ] 19:12, August 9, 2012 (UTC)

N-Strike Discontinued products
After reading a few of the things you brought up, I decided to look up the fate of some N-Strike blasters. This is some of the things I've recently noticed.


 * The Switch Shot EX-3 is getting increasingly rare, and from what I know is only available currently in the NS/NSE video game Double Blast.
 * I haven't seen the Secret Strike AS-1 for a long time now, pretty much ever since the Jolt was dropped. It could just be my area though.
 * The Magstrike AS-10 and Rapid Fire AS-20 are discontinued, according to this post: http://forums.humansvszombies.org/index.php/topic,4072.0.html . I don't see either very often, with the Magstrike only being really seen at Canadian Tire stores here, and the RF20 at Zellers stores. Oddly enough, the only RF20 we get in my neighborhood are 2002 packaged ones.
 * I have never seen a Big Bad Bow in Ontario. I don't know why, but they are rather rare here.
 * It also seems that the Vulcan EBF-25 and Firefly REV-8 are becoming hard to find as well. I wouldn't be surprised if these ones were axed soon.

Hope you can share your thoughts on these blasters. Ga ge  20:50, August 9, 2012 (UTC)

RE: Firefly
They usually have sales on things every now and then, like when the Dart Tag blasters were on sale for $4.99, $9.99, $14.99 and $19.99. They're probably back to their usual prices now too. Ga ge  14:14, August 13, 2012 (UTC)


 * I still don't have a Firefly, and I really wish I did. I'm just not willing to fork over the $29.99 it costs at Toys R Us usually. Oh, and that's Chloe Moretz. She's in a bunch of movies (Kick Ass, Let Me In, Dark Shadows, Hugo) and she's one of my faovurite actresses :) Ga  ge  14:54, August 13, 2012 (UTC)

color series & community vote consensus

 * Wow, thank you! That was a really nice thing to say :) Although I'd like to have a Firefly, you don't have to do that. But thank you for offering! and also, the vote was in favor of neither side; it was to have the whole page on the forums, unlike having only some of the information or none of the information, so in a way everyone kind of won. Ga  ge  02:19, August 14, 2012 (UTC)

Color series update

 * Wasn't so much instinct as observation, but yeah, I was pretty sure about it. Thanks for the confirmation though.


 * Bluedragon1971 (talk) 01:11, August 15, 2012 (UTC)

RE: Super Soaker
I know, and I'm going to change all existing links to the new title. It shouldn't be too long, but from now on, I think we're creating redirects. Ga ge  13:20, August 20, 2012 (UTC)

Super soaker links

 * To clarify, we do not plan to hold off until next summer to finish work to the site; we've never stated this anywhere. It's an ongoing process that can get halted due to life and other priorities. Jet  [ Talk • Contributions ] 21:54, September 20, 2012 (UTC)

Collection
I saw the pics you just uploaded, and I'm very impressed! You have an amazing arsenal! You've got a ton of great blasters, I'm quite jealous :) Ga  ge  20:04, September 27, 2012 (UTC)

RE: Stryfe
If we consider blasters being sold as being confirmed, they would have been confirmed long ago from them being sold in Singapore and whatnot.

Generally we look to Nerf and Hasbro for official confirmations. If it is being sold in stores early, then that's great. However, we do go off of their announcements for when blasters are officially out; soft release dates are sometimes included in the article as well. Jet [ Talk • Contributions ] 17:50, November 29, 2012 (UTC)

RE:Stryfe on Amazon
Yes, I've seen this online on blogs and whatnot. However, we don't note where blasters can be obtained early with soft releases and whatnot. The only time we note specific stores in articles is with store exclusives or things like that. Jet [ Talk • Contributions ] 04:07, December 3, 2012 (UTC)

re: NS dart discontinued

 * My apologies for butting in on an outdated discussion, but since when were the darts starting to disappear? They are still being sold in stores, just because a successor dart is released doesn't mean they've stopped producing them. Ga  ge  03:59, December 17, 2012 (UTC)

Distinguish template change
Nah, that was me. I was trying to get it to be so that you could put custom text if you want, but leaving it blank would be just fine too... seems that's not the case and they have to have custom text, which is really lame. Normally I would have gone back and fixed the template back to its original state, but I would prefer there to be the option for custom text for when pages have parenthesis in their names. Jet [ Talk • Contributions ] 20:23, December 28, 2012 (UTC)

RE: Jolt and Reflex listed as Elite on Nerf's web site!
Yeah, I saw that recently as well... I thought Nerf would be consistent with the new N-Strike Elite series, but I guess not... I'm still going with that the Jolt and Reflex are not Elite blasters, since their packaging says that they are N-Strike blasters. Not to mention, the Reflex doesn't fire well enough to get Elite ranges. The Jolt I can see people saying it's an Elite blaster but... not the Reflex. Jet [ Talk • Contributions ] 20:34, December 28, 2012 (UTC)

RE: Vandalism and nuisance edits by unregistered users
If this persists anymore, I will look into locking those pages for a very short period of time. Sorry for the inconveniences. Jet [ Talk • Contributions ] 21:26, January 8, 2013 (UTC)

Promotion to rollback moderator
Hi, I've given you rollback moderator powers. You've contributed a lot here and your edits are very much appreciated. At this rate, I may appoint you to adminship as well! Thank you for all your hard work. Jet [ Talk • Contributions ] 02:42, January 20, 2013 (UTC)


 * I know I just recently promoted you to rollback, but I'd like to let you know that perhaps you should tone down the rudeness. As a rollback (or any part of staff), you should do your best to be helpful and kind to everyone. While I know that you and Nerfmaster8 do not get along very well, please try to not get so upset about things. Jet  [ Talk • Contributions ] 03:00, January 22, 2013 (UTC)

Nitron discontinued?
Where did you hear the Nitron is discontinued?86.179.160.112 11:29, February 17, 2013 (UTC)

Darts in Strongarm
Hmm, in my Strongarm some whistlers have a terrible range and some streamlines actrually WORK fine. I guess there is something wrong with mine then.

Ninja of Nerf (talk) 07:04, April 17, 2013 (UTC)

Strikefire and Elite darts?
I was directed to you about a question concerning the Strikefire/Crossfire blaster. Do you have one, and if so, can you let us know how well it works with Elite darts? I think it might be relevant to the Strikefire article. Thanks! --King Starscream (talk) 19:25, April 24, 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks! --King Starscream (talk) 16:50, April 25, 2013 (UTC)

Range tests
Sir,That is astounding.99.8.49.192 11:29, May 20, 2013 (UTC)

I'm glad to see I'm not the only adult Nerfer here.

Cap7a1n Falc0n (talk) 01:47, June 18, 2013 (UTC)Cap7a1n Falc0n