Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-3362895-20171003102950

I was shopping at my local Costco yesterday and came across this beast. At roughly $24 CAD for the blaster and 144 darts, this was a deal I couldn't pass up. And the last time I passed up a deal at the same Costco, it was a BOOMCo MA5 rifle for merely $20 CAD, never to return (AFAIK), so screw it, I was walking out with this sucker in spite of my already expensive grocery load.

This thing is seriously fun, even at stock, kid-friendly power levels. It feeds waffle-heads and Nerf Elite Suction darts easily. The underhand prime is satisfying, much more so than the overhand prime of the similar Dart Zone Magnum. The drum capacity is neat, accompanied by a clever, rotating plunger tube which flips between the outer and inner rows of the drum. Drum egress/ingress is fairly quick and not too cumbersome; a little practice will make it smooth. Reloading darts into the drum is, well, also something that benefits from practice. I have no idea if the drum is available separately via mail-order.

Make.Test.Battle of Australia have done a YouTube review of the same unit, although theirs was packaged with 100 darts. They came to a very similar conclusion. Fun times ahead! Hopefully someone will come up with a decent mod guide soon... although this means I might be compelled to get a second Turbo Advance to keep one stock, especially at that price.

I could stand to add a beefy shoulder stock for both visual and ergonomic balance.

(The name sounds so much like it's for a 16-bit videogame console... You know, TurboGrafx/TurboDuo and Gameboy Advance?) 