Hi, I'm Luke. Today on Out of Darts, I got sent this really big box. It just appeared.
Let's take a look.
darts
This is the X-Shot Crusher. It is a semi-automatic, rapid-fire, mechanical blaster,
and this was sent to me by Zuru over at the X-Shot brand. And uh I'm a little late to the party,
I have to admit. There have been a lot of new things going on here at Out of Darts and we
are staying quite busy. So this blaster is a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be
even though when I first heard about it I actually thought it was going to be a flywheeler
mostly because of the drum they sent me or the magazine rather so we'll get to that in a moment
but first let's get this out of the package the crusher is a chain fed blaster it uses a
very simple modular chain here that you can snap together and if you've been anywhere on the nerf
internet lately you'll know that a number of us were sent a ridiculous sized chain
uh this is over a thousand rounds and I had my body bret by and we had a little battle so it
takes a whole extra person just to run this thing because of the capacity and the size and the bulk
and uh so brett and I each enlisted a fellow uh support team member and uh battled it out
to see who could fire the thousand rounds first spoiler alert I won thousand rounds aside was a
really fun blaster but I want to review this in its actual uh stock configuration I think these
uh chain fed magazines are really cool I love the stampede of course and when I was a kid I
believe there was a blaster I want to say it's called the ratchet blast I could have that wrong
but as a kid I believe it came with eight rounds now you have to remember this is like 25 year
old memory here I have not looked this up to talk about it um so someone correct me in the
comments if it's not the ratchet blast and if it didn't have eight rounds uh that was one of our
favorite blasters as a kid because at the time it actually had the highest ammo capacity of any of
the very early nerf blasters so there's definitely a fondness for chains I think the popularity of
things like captain xavier's minigun have made this very compelling to
cosmetic modders and practical modders alike while the thousand round drum turned out to be
very very impractical due to size a stripped down version of say a hundred 150 where it just hangs
near the ground but not touching the ground is actually fairly effective the operation is very
simple it's a top prime with an actual trigger I love the fact that there is a trigger and of
course it is slam fire so if you hold this trigger you can fire this as fast as you can now no matter
what you do you are never going to be the fastest person out there because it has turned out that
bobo lolo is absolutely unequivocally the fastest so much so that he actually won the X-Shot Crusher
challenge which was uh well deserved considering how much effort he put in I'll throw up some
of his video on screen here to load the chain there's a simple unlock here which allows the
chain guide to move freely and then you're going to load from the right side
and you're going to lock that back up and we are good to go and I just love the look of that kind
of dangling around while you play it's a very satisfying blaster to play with I love the look
and feel I think cosmetic modders are going to have some fun retooling this for other purposes
the chains seem very durable they're very easy to connect and disconnect and expand and cool
enough they are also available separately while the thousand rounds wasn't practical
I think my ideal setup is more around 100 150 at most because at that range it doesn't
quite touch the ground but I can still move around that said you could make a satchel
or a collection on either side to both feed in and feed out and that could be pretty fun on
its own the blaster is a really tremendous value it's 25 dollars it comes with 48 rounds and 35
chain so really for the blaster it is I think it's a really good price I think a lot of kids
are going to have a lot of fun with this I can't say it would be generally my first choice for an
at an actual battle given that it is a springer and has a little bit of a bulky form factor
but overall it's a really really fun blaster we had a lot of fun shooting this at each other I
have to say firing a thousand rounds through this top handle was absolutely exhausting you'll see in
the video here I actually had to keep switching sides and switching hands because my weak arms
couldn't handle priming this blaster that many times I don't anticipate this being a very heavy
modding platform from a performance perspective I think that there are the linkages in here might
not be great for upgrading it but I would love to hear from you in the comments if that's something
you've already done the performance on this blaster is pretty standard it matches most of the
competitors the darts however are very much worth mentioning because they are a different design
while they are soft and designed well and the glue stays together they are a different
shape at the tip so these aren't compatible with any magazine fed blasters so if you bring these on
the battlefield you do have to know that you can't interchange them with a lot of other blasters they
do function fine in front loaders like say a strong arm or a hammer shot but you'll find a
difficulty anything that's mag fed or anything that has a tight bore down the barrel this is
also true for blasters like the Caliburn or the Dart Zone Pro or the Nexus Pro or the Aeon Pro any
of these blasters are not going to fire this dart due to the wider head overall I think this blaster
like I said before is a tremendous value I think a lot of people are gonna get a lot of
joy out of this I love how it's styled it has a cool look and it's an actual uh foam blaster
mini gun which is pretty pretty sweet uh I did have this little dream the other week when I was
trying to figure out what to do for a video with this and that was to motorize the top slide I
think this could be done a number of ways the most obvious would probably be a geared motor attached
to this linkage here that said I have way too many projects going on right now to take on any more
I am committed to finishing the proton pack which is back there and that project is very very very
close we also have another very large surprise project coming from tarek a new design that he
and I have been working on for quite some time and that should be coming to the shop in the next few
weeks and I think you're all going to enjoy that quite a bit so I can't tease it any more than that
because I don't want to ruin the surprise but a lot of fun stuff coming this winter.
Out of Darts is also moving, and we will be in a new location, so bear with us while that happens.
We'll have a lot more updates later on. I wanted to say thank you to X-shot and Zuru toys for
sending me this blaster and this care package for review. Obviously, I was given this blaster at no
cost. I am going to give away one of the blasters and the majority of the darts because it's
taking up some major space around here, as you can see. Do hit that like and subscribe button;
a lot more to come. Thank you so much for watching. Until next time, I'm out of darts.