- Hi, I’m Luke.
Today on Out of Darts:
Have you ever thought, “gee, I really like flywheelers,
but I just don't like carrying those pesky magazines,” then this is the blaster for you!
This is the Tomahawk 60 from Dart Zone.
Let's get going!
Dart Zone has been responsible for quite possibly all of my favorite releases of the last two years.
Their pro line especially has been fantastic,
but really they've been building towards this for a long time.
Several years ago, Dart Zone released the Magnum.
Now the Magnum has this goofy stock on here which everybody promptly rips off,
but this was a pretty good bang for your buck.
It's a single –
Oh, that's right, there's a heavy spring in here.
You probably shouldn't dry fire that.
The Magnum was a great drum-fed blaster. It’s got a single line of darts all the way around
and a really fantastic HvZ blaster.
Very reliable, performs well,
and it's one that I’ve had a lot of fun playing with, especially in casual games.
After the Magnum Dart Zone put out the Villainator,
which essentially feels like this but the springer version.
This has a double-stack magazine with a standard circular opening.
The Villainator has a larger oval to accommodate the double stack,
and that blaster is, of course, a springer while this one is a flywheeler.
I think where this blaster really excels
is that scavenging play where you don't really carry too much on your body.
You've got this blaster, and then you top off your
darts as you're running around picking them off the ground.
I think this blaster would make an excellent choice for HvZ,
especially for somebody that just wants a no-frills loadout and wants to keep things simple.
It's got a standard rev trigger rev fire all you want.
I found it to be very reliable, and it actually delivers the hits.
Compared to most Hasbro products that are hitting around 70 FPS,
the Tomahawk 60 is actually hitting in excess of 80 FPS.
We'll put the actual 20 shot average as always up on the screen.
Ergonomically the blaster feels just fine in my larger adult hands.
However, this grip up front is a little slim, and I’m not really sure why.
I guess it's just to keep the shape pretty normal.
I would like to see this grip a little meatier just to fill out my hands.
That said, it doesn't really cause me any problems using it, and it's a pretty comfortable blaster.
Unlike the Villainator and some of the other drum-fed springers, I don't find
that the drum itself gets in the way of my arm. There’s enough clearance between my left arm
to hold this and fire.
Much like the Spectrum, the blaster runs on six double a's for nine volts nominal,
which is probably why it's getting a little bit higher performance than your average Stryfe.
I think this will be a very good platform to modify, and from what I understand,
the cage is very similar to the Spectrum.
I am hoping to dive into this cage and modify this a little bit later,
so if you'd like to see a mod guide, do let me know down in the comments
because I’m trying to prioritize mod guides that people actually want to use and see.
The blaster has a unique profile and look.
As a lot of the blasters have been recently, it's very sci-fi looking.
I'm not sure if this is intended to be a handle, but it seems like this
is the idea you can hold it down here, or you can bring it up and shoulder it.
While we're on the subject of shouldering the blaster,
it has one other very unusual trick up its sleeve, which is an n-strike stock lug.
This confuses me to no end because as far as I know,
I thought that was something they actually had patented as far as the actual shape,
so there must be something the Dart Zone knows that I don't, or they've just decided to say,
“to heck with Hasbro. let's just put a stock point on it that people want.”
The Spectrum, of course, had its own stock lug, which was only compatible with the Spectrum.
- and the villainator.
- And the Villainator; thank you, perry.
Perry has become quite knowledgeable here on the blasters and a pretty huge help.
(Perry's the video guy if you haven't watched this prior).
But this stock for the Spectrum: it's fine, but it was too small, didn't match,
and a lot of people chose to upgrade the lug to match either an n-strike or a buffer tube stock.
So, I would say, on the whole, this is very welcome because a lot of nerfers
are going to have plenty of these stocks sitting around.
I know I probably have a half dozen or more, easily.
Not too bad.
Kind of a good look, actually, as far as these two go together.
But it’s funny seeing the nerf Tomahawk 60 and Dart Zone.
A little confusing.
So, I don't know if Dart Zone intends to actually release
their own stocks that have this geometry or if they're simply making it compatible.
I personally like the buffer tube stocks because they're a little more flexible,
but the nice thing about an n-strike lug is that
you don't have that extra piece sticking out when the stock is removed.
So that makes it a little more compact.
This blaster, however, is not compact.
It's a pretty good chunky beefy blaster.
It's got a bit of heft to it.
It's not something I would…
I wouldn't carry much else with my loadout if I was running this blaster.
We got the chance to use this blaster at a game up at Captain Xavier’s, and it is very good for CQB.
It's small enough that you can get around corners.
You've got a good ammo capacity for a shorter game variety
where I didn't even feel like I needed to reload very often.
It's also worth mentioning the darts that come with this are something perry likes
to call “watermelon darts,” and I think that's pretty apt; a very good description.
They've got a little triangle pattern of two partial triangles and two full triangles.
Triangles…
Those are not triangles; those are diamonds(!)
Well, there's two triangles and two diamonds.
Anyway…
The darts, like the rest of Dart Zone’s offerings, seem very good.
I can't believe how many different dart types Dart Zone has come up with in just two years.
They seem to be just churning out all the different varieties,
but I do really like these ones specifically.
One gripe I do have with this blaster is loading.
While it is a load on the fly blaster ([you can] load
while even firing or in between shots), it's a little bit tricky to load.
You have to stick one end of the dart in first and then kind of bend force the dart in a little bit.
The thing I don't love about that is that: getting them out is really rough to do without
just bending the dart in half but getting them in even does require a small amount of
either very careful loading or you have to bend a tiny bit as you're going.
Here you can see one spot here where I’ve already got one loaded in,
and I’m going to double-stack, and…
There's just no way getting around it.
When you're loading that second dart, you have to compress it.
Somehow or another, you're going to bend that dart,
and I can't help but think that is ultimately going to impact accuracy.
Though, I think the nature of this blaster, you're probably looking
at more like an HvZ or casual play, so accuracy might not be that important.
Overall, I think this is a very solid offering, especially to a newer nerfer or someone that
just wants a simple loadout for HvZ or just kids that want to play around their house.
It performs better than almost all –
Well, it performs better than all stock
Hasbro blasters. It comes with more ammo, and it's thirty dollars.
So, for the price of a Stryfe with a six-round magazine that the Stryfe comes with and the six
darts, you get this whole thing and 60 rounds. The value proposition is there for sure,
and I think it's a pretty solid indication of the leader in the blaster industry going forward.
I'm going to give this 4 out of 5 stars.
It's got some little quirks with the loading and a bit bulky, but overall, it is really solid.
Thank you so much for watching.
I hope you enjoyed this look at this blaster.
Do let me know whether you'd like to see a mod guide on this blaster specifically.
We'll get it on our list and try to prioritize it depending on how many people comment.
Until next time, I’m out of darts.
- Plant! - Plant; it’s good!
- Did you get him?
- Game!
- I nearly got him
- You were… Daaang!
So close!
- buzzer-beater!
- nice!