Board Thread:Off-topic discussion/@comment-39814790-20200221172851/@comment-27306930-20200418223444

UtterTravesty wrote: "...Hasbro over reached last year with the overwhelming number of products and so some were bound to be canceled for various reasons such as not getting picked up by retailers..." Thanks so much UtterT, those diagrams are incredibly helpful. I'm poring over them now.

I vaguely remember seeing the orange version of the RIVAL drum. I always assumed it was a working pre-production prototype, but never got the chance to see a video of the drum in action. Do you know if it worked ? Reliably ? Does anyone on the Nerf Wiki know whether it worked properly ?

I love your reddit comments. The only thing I'm having a problem swallowing is that retailers wouldn't want to pick up a RIVAL drum. It was novel, sexy, and incredibly cool. Anyone claiming to be in the toy retailing industry would have been drooling over it.

Something else happened there. I suspect operational issues, or possibly patent problems. But I'll admit I don't know diddly, and I could be dead wrong.