Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-5948411-20170323014317/@comment-27306930-20170323033022

OMG Dash, don't pay any attention to mods folks who criticize you about "old" threads. If something's relevant, it's relevant. Who gives a crap how old it is.

That being said, and mind you I've had a lot to drink tonight, you are definitely on to something DJ. From all appearances, it looks like Hasbro is positioning AccuStrikes to supplant Elites. If I had to hazzard a guess, Nerf dart sales have probably plummeted over the last 15 months.

The availability of cheap, high quality darts must be putting the squeeze on the marketing department back at corporate. In the old days (all of 12 months ago) there were just cheap Elite clones to contend with. Now you've got a whole category of superior darts at a fraction of the price. Not to name names of course (cough) RadEagles, Double-X's, K'nex, ACC's (cough)

So if you're a marketing guy faced with those facts, you start thinking about moving away from Elites and into AccuStrikes. After all, the worst you can say about them is "Hey, they don't suck nearly as much as the other guy's darts". Annnd they're on sale ! Yay !

Duh. Of course they are Hasbro. We're not stupid.

And don't believe that "Distance" relabeling crap. Sure they shoot farther. Across the room, down the hall, off the ceiling, under the couch, against the wall, off the railing, into the planter. Sure, farther, yeah, sure.