hi I'm Luke today I know darts we're gonna check out the nerf rival charger
Hasbro surprises just before Christmas releasing both the takedown rival shotgun and the bullpup
style nerf rival charger this one kind of came out of nowhere we saw leaks on it a few months ago and
did not have to wait long it is very clearly styled along the lines of a bullpup firearms
like a p90 I very much like the styling of this and I'll say right it's from the beginning of
the video that I think this is one of the better buys of the year after the disappointment of the
nerf Ultra one I was really happy to see the next few products in the rival series at least
be considerably more value and better designed overall so this blaster for me feels like a direct
replacement of the very first flywheel blaster in the series and that's the Zeus it's got 12 round
internal magazine capacity and you load through the top you can get to in here very easily the
blaster comes with 24 rounds which is a nice treat compared to the rest of the series which
has always included exactly the amount of ammo to load the blaster it has a very sleek form factor
and I'm going to get back into that in a little bit too because it's actually one of the narrowest
rival blasters to date and there are a couple downsides to that but overall I think that's a
really good move on Hasbro's part I like the look and feel this blaster the ergonomics are fairly
decent I think the little bit of texture that's on the stock here makes that grippy enough I might
actually throw a piece of grip tape on here to further solidify that onto my shoulder it's got
a nice sleek profile very cool look very compact the rebbe trigger is a little bit recessed which
for me actually has a pretty good feel the grip overall is very nice I would give it sort of a
four out of five stars as far as the grip feeling it's not quite as comfortable as the Percy's or
the chaos and nemesis but it does do the job quite nicely the triggers are not as offensive
as some of the others like the Percy's though I do find that my adult hands tend to rub the
base of my trigger finger right in this little gap right here there's a piece of flashing there where
the two parts of the grip meet together and the shape of the trigger slopes my finger down here
so I may end up redesigning a little bit of peace there but that is a really minor complaint overall
I think the blaster feels very good the charger comes in at a thirty-five dollar price point keep
in mind that does not include the six C batteries you will need to power this the nice thing about
the 6 C tray is you will have tons of room with no modification or battery tray needed to add a lipo
3s battery inside the 2200 milliamp packs that are all over my site will all fit in here there's
basically no battery I currently sell that does not fit in here right away I will be doing a mod
guide on this because it is a really cool little blaster and I think finally seeing something under
the hundred dollar price point is really really nice now I'm gonna sidestep here and talk about
the packaging because we did see a few things here and thanks to my buddy Drac for pointing a
few of these out because I certainly would have missed at least this little sticker hilariously
enough there for those who haven't seen Drax video already there is a sticker here that says 95 feet
per second and I believe yep like Drax said if you peel it back it's a little hard to see because I
ruined it but it underneath actually said 100 FPS now this does not use and is not compatible with
any of the rechargeable battery packs that has real cells I do think that's a bit unfortunate
but I completely understand why they didn't do it it just wouldn't fit in this blaster we would
have had make this stock both considerably wider and considerably longer and I think it would have
made the blaster both more expensive and just more uncomfortable because even for my adult size hands
this feels correct for a bullpup it feels really really solid hands I'm a little disappointed
there's as usual no paint on the other side I do think it's rather hilarious that when you look at
the back of the packaging on the left side of the blaster this dude is holding their showing
rival letters that are not there so in genuine Hasbro fashion we're seeing that they kind of Miss
advertised things here and there I get why they do it they want everybody to see that there's rival
that its rival it looks good I'm a little confused why these guys on this box one guy has the regular
mask the other guy has the flip color mask where you can actually change the color of team you're
on I guess he just remembers that he's blue and his is optional I think it's kind of weird to not
put the paint on the side and show it in photos and to show it on online literature but that's a
pretty minor complaint overall the blaster does perform as it says around 95 feet per second I
think it will hit standard rival performance when modified to 3s probably be able to bump it up to
about 125 130 definitely gonna do a full guide on this in January I think I'm gonna fast-track
it as my next project because it is a really really cool looking blaster and lucky for me
target had only the best color in stock blue so I'm happy to see that as well on to a few other
unique observations about this blaster it's got the Artemis style loading but it has been greatly
improved a little bit like the Hades where you can get at least two rounds in here at a time I
find it very fast and efficient to load I think this is going to be a really really fun blaster
to play with up front we have a nice chunky four grip it actually feels quite good in the hand I
honestly don't think I'm going to make any changes there though I did consider replacing this little
panel with maybe like a thumb hole or something maybe a thumbhole stock even I don't know I think
it aesthetically looks super cool and it might actually be the next blaster that I paint because
a friend has offered to paint my Percy's for me so that might make this the next one one of the
more unique things that I haven't seen anybody touch on is is the fact that this blaster is one
of the very few that is actually symmetrical in all but one way if you looked at that first shot
and are paying attention you could probably see it so the Hasbro engineers here chose to do an
off-center barrel and this is something I've been fighting with in my own designs trying to figure
out how to make a blaster symmetrical while still having this extra bulk of the 360 motors that have
to fit in this blaster so this off-center barrel basically allows the flywheel cage to fit inside
of this symmetrical shell whereas a blaster like the Zeus for instance had a big square hump on
the side which is far from elegant when you look at the two compared to each other a little bit
hard to see because I do have a hurricane mod on those but I think it's a really great choice
I think in in reality having the balls flying just a few millimeters I'd say that's about 10
millimeters off-center really not that big of a deal and I think the aesthetic gain that you
get out of that with a symmetrical blaster and not some awkward hump on one side is well worth
the sacrifice one other note that I was really surprised to see that we have never seen it in a
rival fly wheel blaster correct me in the comments if I'm wrong but that is a safety feature my adult
hands given have longer fingers than most people but I can touch the floor I'm not going to do it
but I can get my finger this is just my pointer finger and you can see I can get my finger into
the flywheels all of the rival blasters up until now have had too much of a recess here to be able
to get a finger in there and I assumed this was always a safety precaution for kids now I expect
sure kids have shorter fingers like my pinky for instance which can't reach the flywheels but I
just thought it was an interesting observation I like it because it makes the blaster shorter I'm
glad there isn't some extra beefy muzzle up front here because I'm very much a form over function
kind of nerf er I also wanted to mention that I think the trigger pull itself is among the best
of any of the flywheel blasters that aren't fully electronic the Zeus has a very tough trigger pull
it requires a lot of force this is at least half the force and I think it's a dramatic improvement
so my hats off today Hasbro engineers for really tweaking this and improving their systems overtime
overall I am just thrilled with this blaster I think it's going to be a very popular one
just because of how it looks it could be a fun secondary it's a little bit of a tough primary
with only 12 shots but you know some people might come up with some cool ammo mods or something for
it it certainly is a candidate for the proton pack it would not be difficult to make a nice
little adapter that comes into here or perhaps out the side but that will be for early next year if
you're interested in the proton pack it is still coming I promise it is my very first priority for
q1 2020 I will get it out next year there are both injection molds and custom motors that had
to be made in order to release the pack and we should have that coming very soon I'd love to
know your thoughts on the charger again I'm not a review channel but I think this is a really
really cool blaster and I love seeing something unique different and new from Hasbro rather than
a Rachelle reskin or just a plain cash crab thanks for watching until next time I'm out of darts you
you