Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20200116003211/@comment-27306930-20200119025401

Thanks Utter, you bring up some really good points.

Despite what's going around the NIC, I don't think the Dart Zone MK-1 was ever meant to compete head-to-head with the ULTRA. The timing of their release was likely coincidental. I ordered my MK-1 in May, a couple month after the initial press release. At the time I hadn't even heard of the ULTRA line. Nor did I have any inkling of a new dart type. Most of us only found out about ULTRA a few weeks before the September 2019 official release. So comparing the two blasters is unfair on multiple levels. These are two totally different products aimed at two different markets, almost a year apart.

I have nothing against cheesy over-the-top marketing campaigns. I love 'em. More cheese, please 😁  But the Ultra ONE Championship wasn't presented that way. Influencers that many of us trust(ed) participated enthusiastically in this charade after publicly trashing the blaster, and the new ammo, and the bogus claims made by the manufacturer. That's not right by anybody's standards.

I don't post on this wiki and rave about blasters I hate to get free merchandise, trips, exclusive access, and youtube views. That would be wrong. Right ???

Now where'd I put my pitchfork ? I though I put it back in the shed after I skewered that last guy 😜