what's up everyone my name is Brett and sometimes I wear a beret and this is the
Nerf Roblox SharkBite web launcher this is one of my favorite new rocket launchers that Nerf has put
out I actually reviewed it at the end of 2022 but it's quite simple put a rocket in the front
pull forward and back to fire a rocket it's really satisfying and just overall fun to use but there's
two problems with it number one the retail price it's a little high it could be lower definitely
and number two the biggest problem there's no trigger so actually take back everything I said
it's Blaster is trash it doesn't belong anywhere ever it deserves to be in the dumpster and set
on fire but things like this spark the question why do companies keep making blasters without
triggers and the answer is money so this one I can understand why people might not like just
based off the price alone you're cheapening out on the overall internals the mechanics probably
should be a bit more affordable as a result but I would say there are still some okay blasters
that don't have triggers oh how controversial now for me personally I'd say 90 percent or 95 of the
time I would like to have a trigger on my blaster even this one for example then I could actually
aim and pull the trigger when I'm ready to fire instead of potentially missing my Target because
I do have to drastically pull back but again one of the things you might be able to do if you don't
have a trigger system in your blaster is reduce the price hopefully fingers crossed that's what
we're going to look at today two contenders super cheap blaster with no triggers do they
deliver it's a grudge match between Nerf and BuzzBee we've got the BuzzBee crossbow pistol
and the Nerf Alpha strike uppercut a blaster I have been wanting to look at for a long long while
maybe one is better than the other maybe they're both trash let's find out here are the crossbow
pistol and uppercut still in package start with the crossbow pistol it's a pretty tall one but
you've got claims of 80 feet what's this pullback and fire crossbow pistol now BuzzBee has made a
lot of crossbow variants in the past so calling this the crossbow pistol I guess was the only way
to differentiate between those with all the flames on the back includes five darts which you know it
does have room to store the four extras operating instructions on the back as well and I'm actually
going to leave this one in package because before I knew that BuzzBee was going to send one of these
for review I actually bought one myself and I bought it for three dollars from my local what
was it Five Below or was it a like Dollar Store I honestly don't know where you're supposed to find
these right now and I don't see any other price claims online so I'm just going to assume it's
about three dollars and I'm actually gonna say it's about the same price as the uppercut which
you can see this one and if you watch my Vlog you know as well where I got this one from all the way
in New Jersey this one claims that it was 325 and online I see it retails for 319 but you can't like
find this anywhere online at the moment it's maybe some resellers so I also don't know exactly where
I'm supposed to tell you to look for an uppercut this um nice and quiet packaging you've got there
ages eight and up for this one versus the six and up for the crossbow pistol and on the back you've
got the very simple instructions well bam fire it by slapping the butt and it includes one Dart all
right let's finally open this thing yeah I'm a bit sad because part of me wanted to leave this
wow that really just comes apart leave this in packaging for like I don't know Nostalgia purposes
just to see that I had one but I've also really wanted to finally play with this thing and now
I can oh my gosh uh this is literally the first time I'm ever touching an uppercut
I am kind of shocked uh I am also disappointed that my single yellow Elite Dart is already like
scrunched up because of how it was just Loosely in the packaging nice you are supposed to push
it in and it Springs back automatically and let's put our single Dart in there and if I slowly push
it up it will fall out cool cool if I do it a little bit harder there's not much going on in
this orange piece of plastic comparatively the crossbow pistol actually has a handle this is
a reasonable sized handle for a BuzzBee Blaster and you can obviously turn this to the side so
for storage purposes you can put it like that and it should sit flat put the elastic band
back in its little slot and then you just do the same thing pull back put Dart in and Fire
here's a free Elite Dart put it in the front no yeah I hit myself in the face I'm already
gonna say that this one seems to have more power okay before I leave here I just want to read you
the description of the uppercut that they have online slam into Dart firing fun with the Nerf
Alpha strike uppercut Blaster load the dart then slam your hand against the handle of fire slam it
in there I cannot get over that literally slam your hand against the handle have a great time
slam your hand break your hand just destroy your hand and fire one Dart I'm gonna try my best to
chronograph these two blasters but apologies in advance because it's probably not going to go
perfectly I'm going to try it with some Elite darts I'm gonna try it with some waffles from
Dart Zone I'm also going to try some X shot darts just to see if any of those make a huge
difference I'm also going to start with a regular jolt this is the Nerf Ace so it's actually spring
powered which means I can aim with it just to get a Baseline there's something in the 50s 40s
and 40s so not super powerful it is a jolt we'll
start with the crossbow pistol these are all Elite darts oh great [Music]
I want you guys to know that I tried okay I am not perfect I'm just a man trying to make
my way in this universe and this is not going well this is not a 30 FPS it's a 5fps blaster
oh no I think I change my hands gonna make it more accurate ah nope just go straight no
I I give up with this one it's really not as bad as some of those numbers came out
to be obviously but I don't know how to make that any better though I absolutely
know how to make it worse let's just do a quick uh push whoa holy smokes
just kidding the greatest Blaster of all time I hate this oh okay how do I do this yeah yeah
ah nope all right yeah what if I just edit this whole segment out and say that I forgot 18. nope
I'm getting increasingly frustrated here why won't these even fire now there we go
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I'm glad I used these in a game because I was almost going to be unnecessarily harsh on the
uppercut and now I can be reasonably harsh for the BuzzBee crossbow pistol there's a lot to love
and how simple this thing is while also having a reasonably sized handle I don't know why they just
show up randomly good handles or OK handles for BuzzBee but ironically this super cheap Blaster
is one of them you could make something like this yourself wikiHow could tell you how to
make one of these yourself or not up to you but what they give you here I think is totally fine
you could obviously get creative with this little band as well maybe even replace it or double it
up there's mod potential in that way but even so they have some little Dart holders on the bow arms
that are actually you know useful because you can store darts and then quickly reload and it's just
overall fun to use this thing am I saying it's going to be useful at your next competitive event
actually I'm not gonna say whether or not that's the case I want to give anyone ideas but you can
still just run around with this and have a good time it's relatively quiet it's straightforward
to use I think it has okay performance for a stock Blaster obviously hard to kind of chronograph this
but when you give it a good Arc you can send them flying of course the worst thing is that
it's going to be hard to aim with this one that is to be expected just make sure you're kind of
holding it straight and then really you know aim up a little bit I don't know your darts of course
will make the biggest difference but for what this thing is and for the price I don't hate
this now the uppercut look I'm glad I used this one outside too because when you do actually give
this thing an arc you can send darts pretty far sure is a stock Blaster and you know the harder
you hit it the further they'll go that should be fairly obvious so if you're trying to aim it like
straight on your hand is going to be awkwardly angling forward so your natural inclination is to
angle it back a little bit and then Arc your Dart which means you're probably not aiming as straight
as you thought you were so you over compensate and aim down and now you're aiming way too far down
and you don't know how much power this thing's going to have because pop pop and sometimes the
darts don't even stay inside because the air restrictor is so annoying don't get me wrong
it is satisfying to be able to just hit this on anything and fire a dart there is some silliness
to that right but I still found this thing so frustrating to use if you're trying to use this
Blaster with extra darts in your hand well to fire it you have to like scrunch them in your hand so
you can't actually fire this one super super quickly without just ruining your whole system
ruining my system so the uppercut really fails the question why not just use a jolt or any
style of jolt instead using the crossbow pistol you can actually reload pretty quickly pull back
load pull back what like there's a fun system here a slight gimmick that is not
actually that slow if you get in the Rhythm so for the purposes of this video winner and
loser big shock but really what I should say is that even if you've got all three of these
they're losers compared to the X shot Menace this is the real winner I don't care what color scheme
you get this is just the overall better Blaster the comparison just isn't fair x-shot wins but
for the sake of this video the BuzzBee crossbow pistol is fine and the Nerf uppercut should be
avoided at all costs so good job BuzzBee hope you can keep up that track record into the new year
oh yeah we're going to talk about that next time spoiler alert they did not keep up their track
record into the new year thank you everyone so much for watching subscribe for more BuzzBee
you're getting it whether you like it or not and I will see you next time with a broken hand or two