Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-2234967-20180720225210/@comment-26433295-20180722024551

Regarding the merging and de-merging of articles, I think all the "Elite XD" blasters that were introduced in 2014 should be merged to the primary N-Strike Elite series. A.ka Elite XD blasters should not have a separate article themselves.

(Warning my elaboration below is getting a little bittttt technical so bear yourselves!)

The issue with Elite XD blasters is that this was not an official sub-series. To Hasbro, they never officially pronounced these released blasters as Elite XD blasters on their website. Apart from that, in almost all of the stores I've come across selling Elite XD blasters, they never put "Elite XD" on their product tag. Not to mention that most of the Elite XD blasters have their "Elite XD" tag removed in further re-packaged releases.

Furthermore, there are numerous evidence and experiments that have proved "Elite XD" blasters does not have any performance upgrades internally. This means that Elite XD blasters are not "successors" of the original blasters but just a re-release and repaint.

With that being said, I think we should treat the Elite XD blasters as how we treat the N-Strike blasters' repaints (e.g Midnight blue Longshot and Yellow Longshot) - where we consider them as a "re-painted re-release" instead of considering them as a new sub-series.

We can still define Elite XD series as an unofficial series... (just like Elite Repaint) But in the end, I think we should remove the Elite XD blaster articles and merge them with the primary series.