User blog:Zorrodelcinicismo/Departing wishes

N-Strike is finally leaving. Christ, that was a long run. I mean, this was a massive franchise. I honestly can't say I gave one single *expletive* for any of the previous series of Nerf (Mainly because I was too young to (not) appreciate them) but this thing was huge. Just an absolute load of blasters, their entire existence removed from Hasbro's website. Heck, even the most recent ones, like the Stampede, the Rayven, so on and so forth. Nope. Not any more.

Some of these things were AMAZING feats of engineering. I mean, slam fire from the Raider. That was pretty innovative. The Recon was effectively the most compact form of any possible clip system. The Barricade introduced flywheels (it was the first, right?) and now semi - automatic blasters make up far more of the most common arsenals for nerf wars and casual shooting. This was the series that made firing more than one shot without rechambering EXPECTED, rather than just special. And now it's over. Why?

So Hasbro can make a cheap buck with a new brand to play around with and advertise.

It's still there, behind the ELITE stamped in front of it, but we will miss gaudy yellow blasters in stores, silly names (Alpha Trooper, any one?), number tags, really inaccurate darts, sup-par rang--

Ok, maybe we won't miss N-Strike that much.

So, farewell, N-Strike. May your mission to the afterlife bring much prosperity.

...ENLIST. ENFORCE. ENGAGE.

That was dumb.