holy smokes all the tiny handles that buzzbee has ever produced the missing handle bits well they
went on to this blaster because this handle is now oversized whose hand was this made for buzzbee
hello everyone my name is brett and sometimes i wear a beret and it is summer 2022 which means
a lot of new blasters are circulating and one company that is not to be forgotten is buzzbee
they do have some new stuff this year they had some new stuff last year as well that
was an interesting experience i made a few videos about their releases in 2021 the good the bad the
fixes and i'm happy to say that i think we're past that when it comes to things like the thunder shot
yes there was a faulty product that was released initially i think it's more or less been fixed
at this point honestly the thundershot as it is is not the worst thing ever i like the capacity
i like the performance the ergo is weird still and funny enough it was the tetra shot that kind
of did it for me the worst like that blaster even when it's supposed to work as advertised
performance isn't there the feeding isn't always there the chains are well when they stay together
are still kind of that's in the past here we are now we got a clean slate new year new buzzbee what
have they gotten this year well i'll tell you two things that they've got this year
full disclosure of course these two blasters are coming to me from buzzbee themselves actually they
put an order for me in to walmart so i got stuff from walmart.com that buzzbee sent to me so yes
these are free products for review purposes but these are the same products that you would get
if you went to walmart.com or walmart in stores and gotten buzzbee's hot new offerings that being
the blitz six yes a beautiful new pistol and the alpha auto 72 this is the one i'm most interested
in but let's talk about the pistol first the blitz 6 is advertised to shoot up to a hundred feet
auto advancing heck yes comes with 12 long distance darts friendly reminder this is a
buzzbee blaster under the walmart adventure force line so yes there are dart zone offerings there
are x shot offerings and buzzbee offerings under adventure force but this is a buzzbee blaster
you put your darts in the blaster you pull back and you fire the blitz 6 is fairly simple and
one of the coolest things about this blaster is the price this thing costs a little over
seven dollars you can round up to eight dollars for the full dollar amount and that's obviously
a very positive selling point now the blitz 6 also comes with a somewhat reasonably sized
handle but one thing i'm not sure if i love is the fact that this little yellow piece right here
well it creates somewhat of a trigger well and it makes it really small so like if i put my finger
on the outside yes it has something to rest on and then if i put my finger on the trigger
anyways how does the blaster perform well like i said pull back on this little ring on the back
now you've indexed and you can fire pull again rotates on the prime fire rotate fire a lot of
the other buzzbee pistol offerings have not been auto rotating so this one does do something that
well not original not even for buzzbee it's nice because you know then it's that top barrel
that is going to be the one that fires the shell is very simple you know you've got your blue you
got your yellow you got your green and you got your orange bits as well nothing too fancy there
relatively simple some detailing on the side pretty solid i mean it's light but at least
it's like not creaking like the thunder shot was but you can tell you know it's very shiny
the pull ring is a little bit flexy flexi flexy but it gets the job done if you're just pulling
backwards it's probably not going to be that big of an issue one thing that is worth mentioning
is that when you prime it back you can actually rotate the cylinder without priming the blaster
right you could hear the auto indexing there but i haven't actually primed it yet oops so you do have
to make sure you pull back all the way so that it rotates and see i've already rotated a few more
so this dart is no longer in the firing position there are some pegs in here as well say cheese
but i think if you remove those pegs you could possibly get it to fire half darts and while i
don't love this yellow piece up here spoiler alert if you do have yourself a small little screwdriver
you can take out those three screws and you can unclip this and you have a little bit more space
i'll show you that later now when it comes to performance this thing is no slouch it's not
doing anything super impressive or original when it comes to game changing performance out of a
pistol like this but i think it performs just fine it's going to depend on the darts of course these
are buzzbee long distance starts but my testing with nerf elite darts or adventure force waffle
darts for a little bit more accuracy yielded some i think totally acceptable performance
for a blaster like this and i think blasters in general especially for a blaster that's advertised
for ages eight and up i don't have anything crazy to say about this blaster but i don't
have too many negative things to say otherwise but that said i want to talk about the alpha auto 72
because it's a lot cooler starting with the box just for reference the motorized
full auto dart blasting alpha auto 72 comes with 76 pieces that being the one dart blaster the one
removable sight the one removable stock the one dart drum and the 72 long distance darts so it's
just enough to actually fill the cylinder all the way also claims it can shoot up to 100 feet
not sure about that one anyways that's a box you don't care about the box you care about
the blaster as i scoot back to get this thing into frame the alpha auto 72 is a pretty good size and
it's also advertised for ages 8 and up but you can see that cylinder is pretty chunky because
it needs to be to hold 72 darts now there are some things on this blaster that are surprising namely
look at that handle if you've seen any other reviews on this so far or just seen a picture you
were probably like wait a minute is that really look oh my gosh look at that handle holy smokes
all the tiny handles that buzzbee has ever produced the missing handle bits well they
went onto this blaster because this handle is now oversized whose hand was this made for buzzbee
whose hand was this made for i'm sorry this is so funny the blitz 6 is a decent size
but this one is just nuts so i don't think anyone's going to have a huge problem with
this unless their hand is too small now you do have a little bit of a grip in the front
that one is smaller it's not the most comfortable but you can see my hand fits on that one just fine
i do find myself using this only half the time because sometimes i just like put my hand up here
or i put my hand right here because this thing is like super super far out i understand that
maybe the point was to have it away from the drum so that your hand in case it was put like
right here wouldn't like rub up against this spinning cylinder the stock is um pretty short
but you can see your hand most likely will not have any problems fitting in between the
handle and the stock itself and yes the stock is in fact removable just a big chunky piece
and that should be a very familiar n-strike style attachment point which means that while it won't
fit in the cosmetic sense it will fit in the literal sense if you have a nerf style stock
or some of the new dart zone offerings too are compatible with this honestly though i think
this stock fits it just fine and if you just want to leave it off with no stock well then i guess
you've reduced a little bit of the size there now this little purple site on the top is not
removable but the one on the back hello is it also can flip up a little bit if that matters to you or
you can just take it off and eat it into the ether when it comes to colors i like the aesthetic that
buzzbee has gone with these some people have said wow that's the ugliest thing you could have done
buzzbee but i will fire back in saying you know what when i look at these blasters and i see the
green the blue the purple the yellow and then the orange i know that this thing is a toy and
i do appreciate buzzbee going that route even if some of their older paint schemes were objectively
cooler i will admit that i prefer the aesthetics and overall design of something like the sentinel
when it first came out i like the use of white and the blue and the orange on that blaster but
i'm gonna say hater's gonna hate i think this thing does have a place and this is definitely a
toy because if you do the colors wrong on this guy it could possibly look a little bit more
serious and it's not serious it's a buzzbee blaster other important feature on this side
you've got the jam door here in orange i've heard some people had their pretty sticky mine is not
but of course you will need to have this jam door fully closed so that you can rev up the blaster
you open the jam door you ain't gonna get that i have used this before to get my finger in to
push a dart out of the flywheel so i will say it's useful and as mentioned on the box you've
got your blaster and you've got this pin which will secure the drum into place now there is only
one way to put it into place you'll want the back like this towards you and the front which is clear
towards the enemy it should line up just perfectly if they were to sell these separately that would
be pretty freaking cool so you can quickly swap these cylinders because it's really easy to do
you just put that into place lock and then when you want to remove the drum if for
any reason you do you just hit this latch pull it out and the drum comes right out
to operate the blaster it is just one trigger there you pull down halfway to start revving
take six double a's so it's not quiet and then pull all the way back to fire
are you impressed by the rate of fire i know some people are not it's
slow auto if you want to call it that i think that term's been thrown around a
little bit but if i'm just trying to fire one really quickly so i'm revving and fire
i didn't fire that might be a bit of a con if you're looking to have something
that's very responsive with a single full pull of the trigger you're not going to get that it's
literally going to take you a couple seconds but what does this blaster do really well
just freaking dumping ah okay see so i did i was literally looking at it
that dart is just poking into the flywheels right because i tried to do a single shot
push it right back in close the door
and it's fine on the side of the blaster too you've got those little stickers
and they say like don't angle the blaster one certain way so it fires i think it's because
the darts have to fall into place because as you can see this cylinder is a double stacked
in each slot when you're reloading this blaster you put the darts into the single slot and if it's
the first start there it'll fall into place and then you have room for a second dart which will
look like that when it's fully closed but as the cylinder goes around a single dart will
fall to the bottom here and then it will fall into place and fire from the bottom
like so i think that means if you angle the blaster too sharply down a single dart may
have the back go up like this and the pusher will slide underneath it and you won't fire a dart so
that's why they're trying to say fire it level or file it fired at an angle because then the back
of the dart is still going to be at the pusher sometimes it does skip over now i'm going to say
something it's a bit controversial then sometimes it doesn't matter because this thing just has so
much capacity you just keep going and if you do notice that you've skipped a dart just spin
it to the right spot and fire that dart again the spinning cylinder is a curse and a blessing though
when this cylinder is empty it makes a really loud noise even when it's full it's still really
really easy to spin here i am just standing still if i'm moving around oh not that big of a deal
but as soon as i turn the cylinder is just completely rotating so if you actually did
have a spot on your cylinder that was full of darts and a spot that was empty
you are rolling the dice on whether or not you're gonna have a spot to fire next but like i said
it's a curse and a blessing if you do find that you're in an empty spot of your cylinder just
rotate it because you can really really easily rotate it i wish there was something that kept
it a little bit more in place when you were firing because if you just hold it i guess you
can give it a little bit more friction but if you completely hold it then you're not going to fire
and that can get a little annoying but it is really easy to load darts into this thing
not as easy to get them out and it only does rotate one way alpha auto 72 fully loaded
all 72 darts we are going to see how long it takes to actually empty this entire cylinder timing on
the side starting once the first dart fires ending when the last dart fires three two one
all right that was 39 seconds it may have been a little bit off from that too so
just under 40 seconds there were definitely a couple of hiccups there as well but the result
and now with 72 darts on the ground the real question can be asked how long does it take to
reload the blaster i'm going to do single loading i know there might be some people who think
double loading like two at a time is a little bit faster but i'm just gonna try as fast as possible
to load one dart at a time into here because i found it worked best for my strategy
i'll move a few of these just closer all right knee reveal three two one
no we're off to a terrible start
and time oh man that was terrible take the alpha auto 72 challenge try to reload your alpha auto
72 and under 72 seconds 9 out of 10 doctors your dentist say you can't oh that was really bad i
feel like i could probably shave at least those 13 seconds off and call it two minutes and maybe
you can do the alpha auto 72 challenge and do it under 72 seconds or 72 seconds on the dot
yo wise look at this
those last ones went right back to the buzzfeed long distance guards but you could see they were
still about the same which was not bad i did the thing i was talking about so these pieces come off
there's no gaping hole underneath and now there's actually room for my uh
finger so it's nice also this thing does spin look you just spin it on the ring on the back
am i gonna hit myself in the face maybe but if i do i'll cut it out of the video so you won't know
so my overall opinions on the blitz 6 and the alpha auto 72 are pretty positive the blitz 6
is fairly simple fairly inexpensive you might compare it to some other similar offerings and
price points of x shot and the alpha auto 72 i'm happy to say is something i really do like and i
would recommend to someone especially for a game that is using stock blasters or even the 150 cap
screw it i think you could definitely use this effectively in a game especially especially if
you found yourself an extra cylinder or two right now you may have to just buy another
blaster completely to do that so that might be cost prohibitive for some but overall the thing
is 30 bucks that's not too expensive and i think you do get a pretty good value here
for what the blaster does i didn't experience any major jams or malfunctions a skip of a dart is not
what i would consider a super big malfunction when you have so much ammo capacity in this
and who knows what can be done when you give this thing a little bit more voltage it does only have
six double a's in it right now through this door and i should also mention i've heard some people
having connectivity issues with their batteries in this tray i personally haven't but it is worth
mentioning so if you do get one of these blasters and you see for some reason it's not firing
check the jam door make sure that's fully closed make sure your batteries are fresh but also that
they are contacting correctly and if it doesn't work for some reason i guess reach out to buzzbee
or adventure force and you should be able to get a new one i like it even if the shell quality is not
like the highest i can see some ridges where it's a bit sharp do really want to use this at a game
next chance i get is it going to outperform a nexus pro on the field probably not
but it's a completely different offering and i think some folks are really going to like this one
those are my thoughts and opinions and i'd love to hear if you have different ones have you seen
these blasters on the store shelves are you going to pick one up have you already picked one up have
you already modded it shh don't tell buzzbee but you can tell me in the comment section down below
thank you everyone so much for watching thank you again busbee for sending me these blasters
thank you for listening to some of our feedback last year and it was kind of rough but you did
good this year and i will see you next time as i buy five of these and reload them for 10 minutes
because that's the content that people want it's the content that i want don't judge me