Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-43428212-20191225132141/@comment-3362895-20191229121806

For Boxing Week, I got a Fortnite SP-L (yellow), a Fornite TS (red) and a Savage Spin. The first two were on sale from TRU at $18 and $36 CAD, respectively, and worked well as according to design - if you don't take into account the included darts. 🙄😎 SP-L is basically a Magnus Lite, in that it is also a top-loading, top-priming blaster with a three-shot internal magazine, only using standard Elite darts. Arguably it is also a Han Solo Lite or Jakku Lite. TS is a HUGE, handsome chunk of shotgun-shaped plastic with a four-shot internal magazine. It looks better than the venerable classic Cycloneshock, but of course the Cycloneshock is smaller, lighter and has the advantage of firing six Mega darts.

The Savage Spin was from Walmart, and I got that due both to reasonable price ($40-45 CAD) and to the universally positive reviews I have been reading. Unfortunately, its individual firing was sadly inconsistent and also the overall cylinder advance was basically kaput, such that I had to rotate drums manually. Also, the plastic shell material felt obviously more flimsy. I keep hearing about the supposed benefits of reloading on the fly and how it's better than standard magazine feeding, but I actually prefer the latter…

I suppose I have repeatedly caught myself wondering about the Prometheus units that the local TRU is clearing out for $150 CAD. 🤔🙄🤷🏻‍♂️🤑