Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-8975323-20130506224820/@comment-1585211-20130721165248

In my opinion you'd have to dice this up to be truthful. You would have to do it in two categories; Pre-2003 and Newer. Otherwise excellent blaster such as the L/N/L are just labeled as mediocre due to Hasbro essentially butchering everything Nerf once stood for with this new lineup.

When it comes to newer blasters, I believe the worst pocket blaster is the Reflex (NSE Version). Not only is it ugly, but its performance was left unchanged as were others. This does not excuse it though for being too bulky to fit in an average pocket and the total capacity of 1 for a blaster of its size. Reverse plunger also means limited mod potential, but don't get me wrong, these things are awesome modded.

When it comes to everything else, Nerf actually introduced few disappointments, with some exceptions. The Recon, the Longstrike, the Deploy, the Spectre for its scarcity in just about everywhere minus the US, the overpriced Switchshot, the re-release of the Vulcan which disabled linking chains, the Scout, the Barrel Break's re-release, the Hornet's malfunctions and dead barrels, the Sharp Shot, the Snapfire's neverending delays, Hail-Fire and the Nitron. This is my top five.


 * 5: The Sharp Shot. This blaster has an interesting design, but unmodded, has horrible range. No tac rails doesn't help either.


 * 4: The Deploy. A rather large blaster with a very small included clip size. Range is mediocre, could have been something really great had Hasbro ironed out the flaws.


 * 3: The Recon. Pathetic range unmodded and a history of recalls. The included clip jams and the barrel at the front is the cause of frequent dart jams.


 * 2: The Longstrike. An overall disappointment, puny range, no modding potential, unnecessarily long, a horrid replacement for the Longshot and just in general a poor blaster.


 * 1: The Hail-Fire. It may not be a bad blaster in itself, however I have two complaints; the range and its abilities. The range is the worst among the entire N-Strike Elite lineup yet this costs the most out of all of them. The abilities though are what get to me. It can hold up to 300 darts should you be strong enough to carry them and have access to finding them. How many do we get? 24. No large clips, just six dart clips. There's eight slots, yet we didn't get eight clips with the blaster. If the Stampede can come with one small and three large clips and still be a decent blaster for its advertising, then why couldn't this? Its range is barely over the max performance of most N-Strike blasters, and Hasbro ripped the whole community off with it. For that, I think it's the worst Nerf blaster ever made, since the introduction of N-Strike.