Elite Dart

An Elite Dart is a type of Nerf dart that was released in 2012 under the N-Strike Elite series.

Details

Like Streamline Darts, Elite Darts are compatible with standard N-Strike clips and drums.

Despite their ability to be used in Streamline Dart clips and drums, Elite Darts have differences from their predecessor dart type. The color scheme is different, as well as having a shorter tip plug than Streamline Darts for better compatibility with more blasters. The weight of Elite Darts are also slightly different when compared to Streamline Darts (approximately 1 gram for Elite Darts and 1.3 grams for Streamline Darts).

Official description

Performance

It has been demonstrated that Elite Darts shoot farther than Streamline Darts, most likely due to the aforementioned changes. Commercials claim that these darts go seventy-five feet when fired from an N-Strike Elite blaster, but like Streamline Darts, they vary in range and accuracy. These darts are more accurate than regular Streamline Darts.

A UK Nerfer has used Streamline Darts against Elite Darts in blasters in a head-to-head competition. Blasters used were granted anywhere from a 10% to a 20% increase in overall range boost with the Elite Darts. Blasters with higher stock ranges were also found to yield the highest advantage from the use of Elite Darts. Another discovered edge was that Elite Darts are much more aerodynamically stable than Streamline Darts. At higher dart speed, Elite Darts were less prone to unintended trajectory disruption by "fishtailing"; Elite Darts essentially outperform Streamline Darts in all favorable ways.

Elite Darts still suffer from horrible aerodynamics, like Streamline Darts, despite their improvements. This is all due to the tiny hole in the head of each dart. When an Elite Dart is fired from a blaster, there is considerable force (from air resistance) pushing against the head of the dart. Because of the hole in the rubber tip, the oncoming drag forces the air inside of the tip out through the hole. The dart head compresses, deforming the dart's shape and unbalancing it. And since darts lack sufficient weight to stabilize midair, they cannot recover or fix their trajectory. No longer able to fly properly in this condition, the dart will fishtail, spiral, swerve, etc. The spread and inaccuracy of Elites are easily attributed to this inherent design flaw. Hasbro likely continues to manufacture Elite Darts with the hole in order to meet safety regulations; however, the new (and hole-less) design of the Suction Dart improves upon standard Elite Darts greatly as does the spiral-headed AccuStrike Dart.

Backwards compatibility

Blasters that are able to fire Streamline Darts or Micro Darts are able to fire Elite Darts as well. This includes all clip system blasters. They have also been shown to work very well in the clip-fed Dart Tag blasters.

The original Longshot CS-6 has a reputation for unreliability when fed with Elite Darts.^{[citation needed]}

The Quick 16 has a slight unreliability to feed Elite darts due to its curved internal clip.

Variants

The Elite Dart has one variant within the series:

• Suction Dart (blue body with orange suction cup dart head)

Outside of N-Strike Elite, the Elite Dart has been re-released with alternate color schemes to match their patron series. These include:

• Alien Menace Darts (Alien Menace)
• Allegiant Darts (Allegiant)
• BattleCamo Darts (BattleCamo Series)
• Charmed Darts (Charmed)
• Collectible Darts (Rebelle)
• Doomlands Darts (Doomlands 2169)
• GlowStrike Darts (GlowStrike)
• Impact Zone Darts (Impact Zone)
• Message Darts (Secrets & Spies)
• Star Wars Darts (Star Wars)
• Zombie Strike Darts (Zombie Strike)

Color schemes

The Elite Dart has been released in the following color schemes:

• N-Strike Elite (blue body and orange head)
• "Deco" version (blue body with engraved "ELITE" logo with three triangles and orange head)
• Special Edition (blue body with white and black camo and orange head)
• Special Edition variant 1 (gray body with black camo and silver head)
• Special Edition variant 2 (blue body with engraved "ELITE" logo with "tech" design and gray head)
• Special Edition variant 3 (gray body with engraved "ELITE" logo with multiple arrows and orange head)
• "Personalize your darts" variant 1 (white body and blue head)
• "Personalize your darts" variant 2 (white body with engraved Nerf logo with multiple half-hexagons and blue head)
• N-Strike Modulus (white body and orange head)
• Glow-in-the-dark (white body and white head)
• Rayven Stinger (yellow body and black head)
• Sonic FIRE (red body and orange head)
• DartFire (light blue body and orange head)
• Flip & Fire Gauntlet/Rocket Power Blaster (black body and orange head)
• Hawkeye Longshot Bow (purple body and orange head)
• Rapid Reload Blaster/Spider Racer Web Dart (red body with black web deco and light blue head)
• Slide Blast Armor/Stark Strike/War Machine Battle Gauntlet (red body and black head)
• Stealthfire Shield (dark blue body and dark red head)
• The Ultimate Nerf Blaster Book (blue body with gold camo and silver head)
• TerraScout Recon (black body and orange head)
• Precision Target Set variant (orange body and blue head)
• 50th Anniversary (gold body and black head)^[1]
• Strongarm re-release variant 1 (magenta body and white head)
• Strongarm re-release variant 2 (white body and black head)
• Strongarm re-release variant 3 (teal body and white head)

Refill sizes

Elite Dart refill packs come in the following sizes:

	Size	Price
	5 (Special Edition)	?
	10 (Special Edition)	5.99 USD
	10 (Special Edition)	5.99 USD
	12	5.99 USD
	12	4.97 USD
	12 (Special Edition)	6.99 USD
	12 (Special Edition)	6.99 USD
	25 (includes 25 AccuStrike Darts)	9.99 USD
	30	9.99 USD
	30 ("Deco" version)	9.99 USD
	30 (includes 45 BattleCamo Darts)	11.99 USD
	50	12.99 USD
	75	17.99 USD
	75 ("Deco" version)	17.99 USD
	75 ("Personalize Your Darts" version)	?
	80	17.99 USD
	84	?
	100	24.99 USD
	250	49.99 USD
	300	?

Trivia

• It was originally rumored that Elite Darts would have been able to whistle and stick to walls. A concept mock-up claimed that it would have been like a combination of a Whistler Dart, a Micro Dart, and a Streamline Dart. This concept was later partially realized with the Elite Suction Darts and Mega Darts.
• Originally, some packaging for Elite Darts warned that the darts are not compatible with the Maverick and Nite Finder EX-3. However, the dart is compatible with both blasters.^[2]
• There are, so far, eight dart letter types: "A", "K", "W", "J", "T", "Y", "E" and "K.P.". Each letter type has a different size hole in the head, being that the ones with a smaller hole are more accurate.
• The blue Special Edition Elite Darts originally came with gray and black camo instead of white and black camo.
• In some Double Your Darts value packs, Hasbro included the "Deco" Elite Darts. However, instead of "ELITE" written on them, there was simply the N-Strike Elite logo, and they had silver deco instead of white deco.
• The third variant of the Special Edition darts version also had a re-release (silver body with engraved "ELITE" logo with multiple arrows and orange head), but these versions haven't been confirmed by Hasbro and never appeared on their website.^{[citation needed]}
• The Sonic FIRE variant of the Elite Dart is packaged with most Sonic FIRE blasters and shares the same color scheme as the Mega Dart.

Gallery

Some "Deco" variants of Elite Darts among some standard darts.

The blue Special Edition variant of Elite Darts.

The gray Special Edition variant of the Elite Darts.

The "tech" Special Edition variant of the Elite Dart.

The blue arrow Special Edition variant of the Elite Darts.

The Glow-In-The-Dark Elite Darts.

The Sonic FIRE variant of the Elite Dart.

The N-Strike Modulus variant of Elite Darts.

The black and orange darts that come packaged with the TerraScout.

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References

1. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Nerf/comments/aykkws/2500_nerf_50th_anniversary_golden_darts_until_now/
2. ↑ http://cplnerf.blogspot.com/2012/10/nerf-elite-dart-reviewtest-results.html?m=0