Hi, I'm Luke. Today on Out of Darts,
we're checking out the new Phoenix blaster from Worker. Oh, let's do!
Anybody that's been in this hobby for a while knows that Worker is one of the biggest
contributors to third-party blasters, shells, mod springs, magazines, other parts, and accessories.
They've been a big partner in our own shop here because they have such a wide range of
different products. This is something completely different from Worker. Now
they have previously offered quite a few different shells but most of those were based on either very
similar internals to the retaliator the Longshot or to the Stryfe in the case of the swordfish and
the dominator this blaster is unique all together it features completely unique pusher system
a rather oddball flywheel three-stage system with mini flywheels we'll get to that in a little bit
and a surprisingly strange form factor now I think it's really exciting to see Worker venturing into
a complete blaster because the more blasters we get out there the better especially when they're
injection molded it gets them down to a price point where more people can afford them than your
average 3D printed blaster that said there are some definite quirks with this unit and I think
it's going to be a very mixed bag to shortcut the conversation here but I think some people are
going to really love it and some are not but let's get right down to it this is a fully automatic
three stage blaster it uses three sets of 132 motors from Worker these are their mid power
motors and three sets of flywheels it is a mag through grip blaster with a very nice mag release
the ergonomics are about what you would expect with a blaster that has the mag through the grip
the angled mags have improved this substantially there are both 18 rounds available these are
sold separately they always come in a variety of colors we'll link it down in the description to an
overview video about all the different mags we're also now offering these little slanted edge or
angled edge adapters from taun which give you two more capacity and a nice marking to your magazines
this blaster is compatible with both of them it's got a pulse width modulator or pwm right up front
that allows you to control the rate of fire so I can fire at full speed or dial that down lower.
Overall I think that's a pretty nice functionality, and it's a decent spot to actually
have the knob in assuming you had a four grip here be pretty easy to reach up here and grab the knob
and adjust your rate of fire. That said, I'm a little surprised about the rate of fire itself.
I'd peg that at about six or seven darts per second and in today's competitive blaster market
that's pretty darn slow especially when you've got three stages of flywheels to help in theory
keep up with a high rate of sustained fire I'd really like to see this shoot a little bit faster
one of the first things I'm going to be doing is checking out what motors can go in here to up that
rate of fire it's a standard 130 motor maybe a 132 but regardless we know we have options it should
be pretty easy to toss a fang or a kraken in there and ramp that speed up there certainly should even
be possible to replace that with one of the blue gear motors that we sell to actually solidify
and max out your rate of fire and since you do have the pwm should also give us a lot of options
for really tuning that in and dialing it up or down this blaster is not select fire I've had
a couple people ask that already but it certainly could be with the right board and additional work
the blaster is powered by a 3S LiPo the battery of course is not included and I was very pleasantly
surprised to see that it features a very large battery compartment this is one of our largest
packs I think it is our actual largest pack at the time of publishing this video it's a 2200 mAh 60c
battery and that fits in here no problem there's also still enough room for the cords and cables
and even a LiPo alarm so one of my biggest fears with this was that it was going to require you
know a battery stock or some other way to connect the battery turns out uh Worker was quite wise
here in allowing enough room inside for a battery that can properly power six motors at stall when
they first turn on and power up that's a pretty heavy load on the battery uh in some more detailed
videos in the future I'll definitely uh check that current and see see how heavy that actually is
pulling but I suspect a lot of users are going to maybe consider rewiring this to a different setup
when I first picked up this blaster one of the things I noticed was that it was substantially
larger than I had thought in photos now on one hand I'm really glad to see that because we do
get the nice large battery compartment but on the other hand it really looks like a brick
I feel like someone took an angled mag will drew a square chopped off a couple corners threw on a
stock mount point and some picatinny rails and yeah that's pretty much a blaster right
it's a little chunky it might some people might really enjoy the sort of uh cosmetic additions on
the sides I think it's a little funky personally and it's definitely to me not going to be a
sidearm when you feel this with a large battery in here it is very top-heavy and it's got some pretty
good heft to it it weighs more than a Stryfe with this battery in it because generally you wouldn't
be able to fit a battery this large like inside of a stripe or a swordfish that said I think this
really isn't about being a secondary blaster like a sidearm because unless you are just a
absolute unit yourself this is just not uh it would be easier to carry a Stryfe just due to the
weight alone but if you're comfortable carrying a Stryfe you'd probably be okay with this and maybe
there's a holster we can work out that'll fit these guys well that remains to be seen but that
said I really do think where this thing is going to excel is turning it into a primary with a stock
on here you've got a nice compact form factor this is actually what I kind of love to run personally
and I think a standard or angled foregrip here would make this a really great run and gun sort
of run around really move really quickly and react fast because it's a lightweight little package
for a primary touching on the through grip again with all blasters through grips have never been my
favorites now I know some users really really love them and so that's that's what you've got here it
does make for a very clean profile as far as how the blaster looks especially with the included
10 round shorty mag but overall I think for me it's a little bit large and chunky and you're
never going to get away from that there's no way to design something more comfortable without
making so little material in the grip that you just don't have a solid purchase that said to
compare this to other through mag grips it is one of the most comfortable I've held
the trigger well is slightly cramped but not too bad it feels pretty good for my hands
especially once my hands in there and there's no obvious pinch points or pain points and you know
none of them are on the wall but you know compared to elite 2.0 stuff this is wildly comfortable so
way to go Hasbro Worker makes one blaster and it's more comfortable than your entire lineup moving on
to performance this is where things get a little sticky this blaster has six flywheels six motors
three stages it hits 150 maybe 160 FPS definitely not over a 160 FPS average some of you are
probably just rolling your eyes right now because I honestly had to say and think the same thing
there are so many problems with that uh the first being there's room for more than
uh this size flywheel in here they're literally I think we could design a cage
I could be mistaken but I'm pretty confident we could fit a regular sized cage in here
a kuriaka cage also known as the daybreak that geometry can hit 160 or 170 in a single stage
with two motors one stage and this is only matching it with three sets of flywheels
I do think there's room to improve this to drive that 150 well above 200 if we want to foam blast
with their multi-stage cages for the hurricane have proved that you can hit nearly 200 with a
two-stage but three stage at the end of the day is marketing it is not um as much as I
love Worker and their products this is not a good decision from an engineering standpoint it can be
outperformed with just two stages which will be more reliable and less expensive or you could
go to a single stage with full-size flywheels get the same performance and even again more redundant
more reliability not redundancy anytime you've got a three-stage blaster or two-stage blaster you're
doubling your probability that a motor failure will knock out your flywheels or knock out your
whole blaster because in a three-stage system like this if just one single motor were to jam or fail
or burn out the entire system's not going to fire and you're going to need to fix it and because
you've got six motors instead of two like a normal setup it's far more likely for that to happen
now that said I don't think these are very high crush spacing I haven't actually opened this up to
measure yet I am looking forward to diving in but I wanted to do sort of the retail review of this
blaster first ultimately on the performance side there's definitely some room for improvement
considering it is an out of the box blaster that shoots 160 150 FPS and it's a flywheeler and more
importantly comes pre-wired pre-soldered ready to fire this is a game changer question mark uh as
far as I'm aware there's no flywheel blaster you can buy off the shelf that hits like this in fact
I don't think there's anything on the shelf that you can buy other than from a third-party vendor
who's modding them for you or a 3D printed vendor who's printing a blaster like say our jupiter but
I don't think there's a blaster out there that you can get that performs this well as a flywheeler
and is ready to fire that makes the Worker Phoenix somethin g of a novelty at least for now um
this was literally open the box plug-in LiPo fire blaster ready to go that puts
this blaster at actually being fairly competitive in the grand scheme of things
I don't have these blasters in stock yet we are absolutely going to carry them because I always
like seeing new blasters I I'm excited to see what people will do painting these and what other
kind of mods we're going to be able to come up with to improve the performance because I do think
there's some major room for that but the price point is looking to be in the 125 to 150ish range
probably more like 150 honestly by the time it hits the u.s shops there will always be importers
that ship directly to customers that are going to be cheaper we can't match their price because they
don't pay tariffs because they're going directly to customer and we do pay tariffs on everything
at least 10 percent on toys more when there are motors involved but uh I think we're looking at
probably close to 150 price point for this so it's not an inexpensive blaster but it does come
fully assembled what I would like to hear from you however is would you want just the shells because
I'm thinking Worker hasn't thought that we want shells and
personally I know my audience I think many of you would love to just have the shell
and be able to 3D print a cage and wire up your own setup instead of paying extra for the six
motors and the cage and all the soldering to be done in advance but I'd be really curious
to hear down in the comments we'll probably throw up a youtube poll on this as well just to
gauge interest to see whether that's something you would all want mechanically this blaster
is very simple the mag release is awesome it's a full drop it's a single little button here
it is probably the best in-grip mag release that I have felt it's very easy to actuate
and it is very comfortable no sharp edges and it just drops right into your hand which is extremely
satisfying on the inside we've got a standard two switch setup no mosfet or anything like that so
these were very easy to wire you've got a large I assume probably a 21 amp micro switch up front but
a full size micro switch as we would call it and then a sub miniature smaller switch in the back
which is just for the firing circuit since there's not as much current going through that switch
I also wanted to mention that the pusher is a slightly different variation than we've seen
before but it looks to be fairly solid like it should be a pretty rock solid design honestly and
it does have a trigger it's setup so it has a push or return where each time you fire it you will end
up in the rear position because of that switch and that could also be part of the reason that they
don't have the rate of fire higher because if you go too high on the rpm here you will eventually
get a runaway where that return switch no longer works properly so I think eventually we'll be
looking at putting a board in this to make it select fire I think that would be a lot of fun
there is just a ton of room back here where we could sneak a select fire switch and board
it's not lacking for space inside the last thing I want to cover and this is really one of
the big ones is accuracy short darts through mini flywheels are already generally less accurate than
the full-size counterpart and I believe the theory here is that there's less contact with
the dart so there's more chance for the dart to wobble as it goes through the flywheel system
now going through three systems and then through a approximately I'd say 25 millimeter 30 millimeter
barrel here uh aluminum barrel there really is a lot of opportunity for the dart to just go wonky
and in my test firing it really has not been the most accurate blaster so
if you're buying this thing don't expect to be shooting as accurately as your average springer
they're going to put you down it's really going to be about moving fast rate of fire
magazine capacity and probably best for close quarters battles as I mentioned before
that said I think this thing is going to be a ton of fun I am always excited to see something new
and since Hasbro has given us nothing I am thrilled that Worker is doing cool stuff doing
something new I think this one's gonna be pretty polarizing so I would love to hear from you in the
comments as well what do you think of this thing um you've only seen obviously a couple videos out
so far but I would love to hear your opinions and what what you think it looks like and what you
would like to see on the shop from us with this blaster in the end I'm going to give this one
a 3 out of 5. I think there's some definite room for improvement, and with some modding potential
and potentially swapping out the cage and doing something different, it could be a better blaster,
but there are just some serious engineering issues here that really stopped me from wanting
to give it four stars that said I'm still going to mod this have a lot of fun with it,
and it's going to be a great blaster to field I just don't think it's a home run
like some of the other blasters from dart zone have been this year ultimately it is
a flywheel blaster that shoots 150-160 FPS right out of the box with no modding necessary
it's the first of its kind so it's very very close to me to saying that I give this a four-star,
but you can take my review as you will and make your own decision.
Thank you so much for watching! I am really enjoying making more content with my editor
Perry here. We have got the blaster wall going, we are still working on building out the studio up
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and trying to improve every single week. Until next time I'm out of darts.