Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-28773666-20190721022527/@comment-27306930-20190721224328

You've got Hasbro competing against itself with the Zombie Strike, Impact Zone, and Survival System, plus serious competition from the Buzz Bee Walking Dead series which has the advantage of a direct weekly tie-in to zombies on prime time TV. Can't get much better advertising than that. Little wonder Impact Zone didn't do so well.

That being said, I disagree with the premise that Impact Zone is discontinued. Hasbro still lists it in the current product line. Plus, retailers like Amazon still have Desolators listed as "in stock". And I saw one on the shelf at Target last week.

We've had debates before about what "discontinued" really means. But when Hasbro says they're available, and Amazon says they're in stock, and I see them on shelves, there's no reason to automatically assume they're discontinued in the wiki article.

As I've stated before, Hasbro doesn't officially discontinue blasters. They simply disappear from the current product line, and eventually the supply chain dries up. When you can't order a blaster NIB from a mainstream retailer, it's pretty much "discontinued".

Everything else is just conjecture and speculation.