Hi, I’m Luke with Out of Darts today; we are checking out the Siege-50.
This is the second offering in the brand-new lineup from Hasbro Nerf Hyper couldn't be
more excited about a new lineup like this, so let's get going.
Before we get going on this video, I do want to say that my thoughts are my own; however,
all of these blasters did come from Hasbro’s pr team.
I did not pay for them, so I do want that to be transparent those of you that have been
watching long enough know that I really don't care who sends me what you're going to get
my opinion whether they like it or not.
Hopefully, this won't be the last time they send me stuff.
Nerf rival has been out for nearly six years now, and it really is what kicked off my modding
career and this entire business I designed the proton pack and the hurricane blaster,
and I’ve always liked the ball feeding because A: they were newer and B: they were, you know,
spheres, so there are easier creative ways to feed them store them and get them into
the blaster.
This is the Siege-50.
The Siege-50 is the medium-sized medium-priced blaster in the new lineup.
We got three blasters right off the gate, and it's a pump-action 50-round capacity blaster,
very simple springer pump, and fire.
And uh, we're already onto problem number one, and I swear I'm not exaggerating.
This is the same problem I had at home when first playing with it.
I pretty much every time using it, have had problems firing it.
Um, there we go, so if you're not getting those balls to roll in there just right, they
do seem to have a tendency to jam.
I’m hopeful that as the rounds get a little dirtier and less tacky and sticky that they
might get a little better, I think as you're running around playing, you probably will
move these into position a little bit better, but we'll talk about that a little bit later
in the video here
the blaster is very cool styling it's very 90s style colors I love the bright colors
I think it's a really great option and it feels very good in the hand ergonomically
it's very comfortable the grip is very well sized for even my large hands I think if you
had extra-large hands probably not so much but generally I find it to be very comfortable
I probably will change the style of this grip in the modding in the future but for now it
is very nice out of the box one of the better offerings I have seen the injection mold on
this blaster is very nice a little bit more premium than some of the other offerings we've
got some nice carbon fiber like textures on both the grip the rear the handle and on the
side panels and it makes for a very nice look aesthetically I think I hope it actually still
shows up when you paint it because I think it might not um ultimately when you do choices
like this on an injection mold it's going to actually cost more to do the mold because
that has that texture has to be put into the actual mold itself the blaster feels very
solid it's got slam fire so you can
you can, in theory, slam-fire if you get it actually if you get it to feed properly
Nerf also released a couple accessories for this blaster, including reload pods 100 rounds.
These come in at 20 a piece that's 20 cents per round, so keep in mind this is a pretty
expensive premium offering even compared to rival these can clip on either of the rails,
which in this blaster is actually a pretty good configuration I could definitely see
just pulling that off opening up the top dumping this in the right way obviously I could use
some practice, but it's certainly doable, uh and it's a nice way to store them on some
of the other blasters I don't think the storage of these rounds is as convenient I would certainly
put them on pods in my pocket or in a holster of some sort they also released a full face
shield which I could see for nice kids being nice it protects you from getting a ball you
know in your mouth and potentially swallowing it or something like that because these are
quite small.
The ammo itself, I will do another whole video on covering my thoughts on this and where
I think this is going to go but suffice it to say it is extremely squishy it is much
more rubbery than it is um like a foam it's kind of like some sort of TPU, but a very
interesting material I do think these are going to be incredibly durable and I think
they're going to wear better than the rival balls do the rival balls tend to shred, and
a lot of dust comes off of them, and I think these are going to do a little bit better
in the long term they are heavier and denser so they could, in theory, fly farther certainly
the stock blasters do perform better than any of the rival counterparts in their stock
configuration now what I’m really excited to see is what happens when we upgrade the
spring and uh tune some other things on the blaster, so that's going to be fun.
The Siege-50, of course, comes with 40 rounds, but it can hold 50.
I can only assume this was a cost-saving measure.
This blaster comes in at 40.
not including this pod, of course, so it's a bit of a mid-range option.
I was trying to compare it to the most obvious uh rival blaster, and there it's kind of a
mix-up here.
We've got the Artemis with some upgrade parts, obviously, but this is probably fairly close
as far as size performance.
What you get this is one of the more popular rival blasters of all time, especially towards
the first half of the first three years of a rival, so I think this is a good one to
compare it to.
However, this is a 30-round blaster and was not a hopper, so there are some dissimilarities
there.
on the other side, I think it kind of resembles the Atlas quite a bit, and this is like a
long-forgotten uh rival blaster at this point because this is just jam city the this is
probably one of the most disastrous blasters that Hasbro has released as far as uh mechanics
go and reliability this thing jammed in its stock configuration it jammed in its upgraded
configuration um it's just got the gears really do cause problems and those jamming and feed
issues might be rearing their head again here now I am optimistic that as I get to play
with this more that I’ll kind of get a better feel for how much you need to shake the blaster
to feed those balls in but there's definitely a feed problem going on here
I also noticed that Aaron Esser did a video on this blaster, which I was keen to watch,
and he clearly had problems firing his as well, so I don't think it's an isolated incident.
the performance of this blaster is nothing short of stellar and that's at least when
we're talking about a stock ball firing blaster now you talk about something like the nexus
pro or the aeon pro and uh or even the dart zone pro mark ii and let's just say those
guys are still in another level I mean if you're shooting 150 feet per second out of
the box it's going to beat this but we are seeing 117 feet per second average for this
blaster over our controlled chronograph and that's very impressive it's very noticeable
the time to target is much quicker than with the rival blasters at 95-ish fps and the ammo
type is definitely helping that as well I do think that once these are modified they're
going to fire quite a ways accuracy however does not seem to be an improvement upon rival
the balls definitely tend to veer one direction or another this blaster the Siege-50 does
fire farther a little bit farther than the Rush-40 and I do think that's because of the
hop up here they both have the same fps out of the barrel but this one has a small hop-up
tab at the top to create backspin and you can see this when you fire the two side by
side I’ll try to show a shot here in the video outside if it's not raining but uh the
Rush-40 balls tend to kind of drop pretty quickly and the Siege-50 go up just a hair
the nice thing about what I’m seeing on the hop up here so far is that unlike rival
the hop-up isn't overly pronounced it seems to keep more like a just a little bit of extra
gain I will be curious to see how that turns out when you mod the blasters certainly a
lot of the rival blasters when modded have a huge arc up and then back down you almost
need to trim the hop up to make them perform correctly
Now let's talk quickly about the price because at first, I was like 40, which seems like
too much, then I went into my time machine and went back to the beginning of rival.
When rival came out, we got a Zeus that could shoot 10 12 shots a 12 round magazine, and
if I’m not mistaken, it was 49.99.
Now, this is an electronic blaster, so that was the flagship, and we'll compare that a
little bit more with the Mach-100.
The second blaster in that initial rival lineup was the apollo at 25.
This was a pretty janky blaster uh you had to top prime it, which made it terribly inaccurate
it was extremely loud.
It kind of ringed in your ear as you would fire it, and the grip wasn't great.
You know you had mag-fed through the grip, uh, but at 25, 40 is sounding like a much
better deal for 30 rounds of ammo and instead of 12 and a much more competent blaster.
That said, the blaster does have some quirks, which really are the main reason I just could
not give this a solid rating.
I think it's a real return to form, as I mentioned in my other video for Hasbro; this is a much
more competitive and more compelling offering than elite 2.0, and uh ultra, it just hurts
me to look at those two walls we have them off-camera here, and I really don't like them
so uh take that this is not a perfect blaster there's definitely some stuff going on with
the potential jamming and misfires which you've seen in the video already, but it is still
a pretty compelling offering, and from right out of the box a lot of kids are going to
have a lot of fun with this I wouldn't recommend this for households with small children, and
I would be really careful when you're outdoors playing in public spaces to make sure that
you're not leaving these behind as actual garbage.
Thank you so much for watching.
I hope you enjoyed this review.
We're going to have a lot of content coming up around Hyper.
I’ve got reviews for all three of the blasters, we've got a video just on the ammo, we've
got a video on the nut gatherer because we got the new one, and surprise, surprise it
works uh and then lastly we'll be getting into modding to these as soon as possible
and offering a whole range of parts for them until next time I’m out of darts.
Let's get right to it…