Hey, it's Luke with Out of Darts. today we are checking out a brand-new series from
Hasbro -- that's Nerf, and this is the dungeons and dragons-themed DragonPower Nerf DragonPower
I almost don't know what to say.
so, I often forget that there are more brands in Hasbro than Nerf because nerf
is about 20 of Hasbro’s sales, at least as of I believe 2019,
when they had 1.1 billion dollars in Nerf sales alone
Hasbro owns Wizards of the Coast, which, of course, owns Dungeons & Dragons.
now I grew up playing a ton of Dungeons & Dragons shout out to my friends
back home we had a blast as a kid and all the way through
high school and even into college days playing many hours of Dungeons & Dragons
There are three blasters in this series. First, there is the Fireshot. It's a single-shot pistol.
Next, there's the Emberstrike which is a heavily stylized eight-shot rotating
cylinder front loader. lastly, we've got the Skyblaze Bow, which is, of course,
a “bow.” we'll get into that in a little bit.
I usually don't cover unboxings or box art, but the art on this packaging is so solid. And I
can only assume that these are existing artists from the wizards of the coast side and that it's
not pulling from the normal talent pool of the Hasbro lineup because the normal Hasbro stuff and
the Nerf lineup anyway never has stuff that looks this cool. I mean, we've pretty much gone to just
renders or photos of the actual product, and the box art here is super cool. Especially, I think
the Skyblaze has one of the most interesting parts. So I thought I’d at least mention that.
I’m really not big into packaging if you have shopped at our store, you know that I’m sort
of anti-packaging and I will be that way for forever there's no for me there's never any reason
to waste the extra packaging for something that you're not going to use, but these are products
that sit on shelves in retail stores it's cool that they have feature really nice artwork.
let's get down to the blasters
We're gonna start from the smallest work our way up. this is the Fireshot
Fireshot… That sounds very familiar. kind of like Firestrike… Emberstrike.
this is getting weird these names are all over the place
This is a single-shot pistol front-loader. It works as you'd expect has really cool thin
details up here; I think the color and the paint on both sides is really welcome. It's obviously
a little small for my hand, but I expect this blaster should be fairly moddable since a fire
strike is a pretty moddable blaster and will get pretty high fps with an upgraded spring.
If you're buying this, you're probably buying this for cosplay purposes or just because you love the
dungeons and dragons tie-in; I don't really see this one being a competitive field offering you
can't holster it. it's got kind of awkward dart storage, but it does look very cool, and I think
it's going to be relatively popular with cosplayers and things of that nature
I’d give this blaster, you know, a four out of five. It's very aesthetically cool. It doesn't
really offer anything new, but it is not a complete failure. I’m looking at the failure
wall over there from Hasbro. I don't think Hasbro’s going to send me stuff ever again.
it's worth noting I did not get this for free… -ish my employee bought these
and allowed me to review them, but I did not pay for these probably would not have
bought them personally just due to the nerf budget getting a little out of hand this year
next up, we've got the Emberstrike, and this is where things start to get
interesting for me you've got these cool translucent fins up top,
and you've got a translucent grip, and this little translucent tail notch down here
we've got dart storage in the rear which holds another eight darts
we've got a variety of surface finishes on the actual mold the grip here, and this little black
element and the foregrip are all they look like sp1 maybe I don't know my finishes that well,
but it's kind of a matte finish which is very welcomed and then the rest of the blaster has sort
of glossy finish we've got paint on both sides with the nice dragon scales going over the top and
really cool dragon scale detail back here and on the stock itself
this attention to detail is really welcomed, and I wish we'd see more of these varieties of textures
and surface finishes on the main blasters hyper did have some pretty nice like faux
carbon fiber which has at least a nice texture which is along the lines of this,
but this is also a more matte surface finish which from my understanding means that this part
and the mold might not last as long the mold itself won't last as long the blaster's fine
Pretty simple operation: prime, fire, prime, fire. We've got slam fire as you'd expect. it
doesn't hit very hard out of the box none of these blasters do as you would expect;
I’m certain they can be modded, and I think we will look into springs for at least this one
and the fire shot because these are the only two springers, we'll get to the other one the bow next
Overall, this is a really beautiful blaster. I think if I was 12 again,
I would have wanted this so badly for an adult. This is a very compact blaster you'll feel
like you want the stock to be out here, but it's obviously for kids.
Surprisingly the foregrip is nice and large, though. it feels very good, so I think
that's to accommodate the large eight-round cylinder: there's quite a bit of room there
I think there's an option we could probably figure
out a way to make a -- I’m gonna guess just nine-round cylinders.
so Hasbro has started to listen, I think, or notice, and they started to place the darts closer
together in these barrels, getting more shots in the same space, and that's kind of welcomed I just
by guessing, I think we'd only really get that one dart if we were to make a new a new turret for
this so I can't say that's worth it one dart for a huge piece of that's probably not worth the effort
Upfront, we've got sort of this see-through turret here so that the darts can go all the way around,
and while we're talking about the darts, the darts for all three of these blasters are
actually completely new. They are, of course, elite dart foam standard, but they do have
a very squishy some sort of TPU, some sort of thermal plastic, but it's a very rubbery, um
squishiest tip I’ve ever seen, so I don't know if this is a new
thing for Hasbro or if they're going to start putting these on all of the darts
I will have to fire these a bit more to get a feel for whether they are effective out there.
And if we get a chance, I’m filming this video before I’ve taken these out in the field,
but if we get a chance, we'll take these to the next game, and we'll show some gameplay
footage using these blasters. I mean, I can just see like that down the camera looks super cool.
I do think with all these translucent bits, a really sweet mod would be due to a lighting kit
to get all three of these accent parts to light up. I don't know how much work that would be,
but I expect there's probably quite a bit of space in here because the mechanism can't take
up all of that space. So, that's something I hope someone in the community will do. It's
not something I’m probably going to focus my time on, but I think there'll be somebody out
there that does it because Dungeons & Dragons is tremendously popular still especially compared
to when I played as a kid when people were thought we were all cultists or something.
At the end of the day, for what this blaster is, it's a five-star.
It's not something I’m going to be running out to purchase myself for gameplay, but I think it's a
really great brand tie-in. It comes in at a better price point than a lot of the other brand tie-ins.
Presumably, that's because Hasbro owns the brand tie-in, so they're not paying licensing to
marvel or Roblox or Fortnite, and boy, have there been a lot of brand tie-ins? It's just
never-ending. I guess that's what you do when you don't want to make new innovative blasters.
Lastly, one of the most interesting offers is the Skyblaze the Skyblaze is a cylinder-powered
bow. It's not quite a HAMP. It's got a plunger tube inside here, but there is no catch,
so no matter how far I pulled this back, it will not stop. There is no trigger,
so as I let go, literally, that action is letting go of the plunger,
then upfront we have a five dart smart-AR. I’m never really a big fan of smart-ARs,
but it does make sense for this purpose so that you can get more capacity out of the
smaller form factor. I certainly wouldn't want to see this be a one-shot bow.
I think this is a really fun cosplay piece. Again this blaster has a variety of surface
finishes paint on both sides. We've got some nice translucent parts in the middle,
again, sort of this like rose-colored red in the middle. And then we've got
these awesome scales which the design and detail here with the dragon wings up top.
More translucent parts on the tip here. These are even a different piece
type of plastic on the ends that might actually even lend to some durability when you if you
were to drop this blaster on the tip. I'm not going to drop that because this is not mine.
But overall, it's really a neat cosplay piece my biggest gripe with it is I don't know if I’m
doing something wrong now ergonomically. It's a nightmare because my fingers don't
fit in here. It actually pinches my four fingers together so I could hold it like you know fancy,
and that would be fine, but then the other problem is no matter how I hold it, that cord
hits my wrist over and over, and even if I kind of come around like that it still hits the back of my
Do I just have big hands, guys? Do these look massive?
For some reason, I keep hitting, making my hand red, certainly in the position I want
to hold it on where my thumb is bracing because when you're firing a real bow, you're holding
everything between your thumb and forefinger it'll look like that, and then you let your fingers
fall into line which is a little hard to do that's not bad finger up there that's probably the best,
but I don't think I would actually play with this personally because it keeps hitting me here.
Perry, my video producer, had the same problem. He's also got fairly adult-sized hands. I think if
you were really a lot younger kid, you might not have this problem with it slapping your wrist, but
I couldn't play with this for more than a round before getting really annoyed that it's
eating up my arm.
Maybe you're supposed to have a bracer? It's not a bow. I mean, it's not a bow --
just keep in mind it's not a bow. It's a faux-bow, but it is a very cool faux-bow.
I would give this one 4 out of 5 stars again. It's a very cool cosplay piece. You'd have a
lot of fun if everybody was running these in a game, like if you had a dozen people and this was
this lineup was what you had. It was all stock. It would be a blast;
I don't see this being competitive. Of course, in any sort of normal game,
you just can't get the fps out of this type of system, ultimately.
Thank you so much for watching. I think this is really a fun lineup, but I would love
to hear from you in the comments. Lots more to come. Until next time, I’m out of darts.