hello everyone my name is brett and sometimes i wear a beret and this is the nerf elite
2.0 trailblazer rd8 wild edition there's no non-wild editions that's just the full name
this blaster is something that i've been looking forward to for a bit of time i had a small
speculation video about it a little while back and of all the new blasters that nerf has been
releasing because they've been releasing a lot this one kind of peaked my curiosity i'm happy to
say long story short i am happy with it so let me tell you why the nerf trail blazer is the newest
a newest blaster into the elite 2.0 line elite 2.0 has been a well-established well-respected
line from nerf at this point oh wait no no no it hasn't but aside from that it looked like
a pretty promising item it was the newest in the hammer primed cylinder fed blasters
and it offered something that the hammer shot did not a higher capacity eight rounds to be exact the
hammer shot advertises it has five this has eight that's a significant upgrade now there have been
other blasters of course that have come out with cylinders hammer primed from nerf and others with
higher capacities but this one is still actually pretty sleek pretty small for whatever it's worth
i appreciate the double your darts but we only ever saw this side in the promotional artwork
here's what the other side looks like and upon initial inspection i thought
eek what the frick that's a gaping hole on the other side garros well at least
that looks pretty good right why would they ruin that this is why i like to play with my blasters
before i would actually review them because i did play with this blaster recently roll the footage
i didn't record any footage of me using this but i swear and i have people as witnesses i
did use this plastic recently and it was fun the side loading open side this is great it probably
makes sense to have this other side completely gone and open the more access you have to the
open cylinder the easier the reload is and when you have a blaster like this reloading is part
of the game so i do appreciate from a right-handed user's perspective having this side open if you're
a lefty yeah sorry it also serves as a nice way to clear jams here's a adventure force waffle dart
then i go to prime it now i have a dart loaded ready to go and i de-prime it a little bit
accidentally while the dart's going to pop into the barrel but it didn't actually clear
the barrel now if i go to prime it it's going to be unhappy because that dart has now been caught
in this other side but it's very easy to reach in with that hole pull the dart out and i've cleared
my jam but i haven't had any jams malfunctions with this blaster when using the appropriate darts
that's another thing i will say having used this in a game my user experience was pretty positive
using elite darts if you want to using adventure force waffles most first party darts full length
darts of course worked just fine but i did encounter some problems when using
thicker foam darts there are a lot of other darts on the market that are
a full-length variety more cost-effective or offer something that maybe nerf isn't putting out so
much right now and what i mean by that are things like this this is a knock off accustrike dart
so it's a accu-fake i don't even know if you can find these in too many other places but typically
with these the foam is a bit thicker meaning for blasters like this where the fit in the barrel of
the cylinder is a bit more important it's a lot more effort to push it into the barrel so when
it actually does come time to fire it i can't guarantee that this will fire out of the barrel
okay in this case it did but i could tell the range was severely diminished and in the case if
it's too tight of a fit it's not going to fire with this gaping hole on the side it is pretty
easy to load at least four darts at a time one two three and four right there so then if i give it
two rotations now i have the other four slots open one two three and i forgot a fourth dart
and four so that's pretty useful very quick reload easy to do and here we go
that's always using my secondary hand to actually prime it but i can move my thumb to prime the top
by a little bit of movement uh someone with a larger hand will probably be able to do it just
fine for me i do have to move my thumb a little bit to reach that but if you have to compare this
to something like the busby thunder shot which is very unfair this is much more comfortable to
use for the actual blaster aesthetics i've i like this um it's not my favorite design
i like the slightly longer barrel here in the front even though i know some people aren't a fan
of that there's this open slot right here which i don't totally understand with this like risen part
it kind of shows the elite 2.0 cheapness if you start squishing those spots there's no tactical
rail on the top but there is a tactical rail on the bottom why i really don't know the answer
to that i was racking my brain trying to think how many attachments has nerf made that would
be more appropriate on the bottom than the top and i guess they know the answer to that better
than me solid dark blue and the teal some people will like that color scheme some people won't
that seems to be the theme of the wild edition maybe we'll see other ones the handle is small
let's just say that it is not the biggest handle that nerf has ever put out but they've also put
up smaller soap take that for what it is when it comes to my hand my hand is small so when it
comes to this grip my hand fits on it okay but i can still feel why it's a little bit smaller than
some people might like it's not an uncomfortable grip it just feels small for my hand so for some
people they might want to bulk this out a little bit more i would argue that that is a lot better
than having to remove material if it's too bulky but it still feels relatively solid i don't
know what this orange piece on the bottom is for it's not extra dart storage you can't open it up
so i guess it's like just a little bit extra material but it's it's still super super thin
at the bottom so unique design choice right there nerf so aside from the odd decisions made
for the handle of this blaster i really like the overall aesthetics and ergonomics of this thing
i can use it pretty easily quick to fire quick to reload the barrel is not super super long though i
should say that isn't really a con because i have a hammer shot that looks like this and obviously
the trailblazer is in a way very very similar to this blaster which is probably why i was
interested in it in the first place this one of course has been uh decently modified
this is a 3d printed kit right here this is a resin cast replacement part same with the
trigger the barrel itself is also an increase from five to seven this is a hammer shot that had a bit
more money put in it to look like this one of the best things about the trailblazer is the price
this thing costs 17 usd right now i'm wrong i was just looking at the price and i still forgot it
1597 is what i see on walmart right now i bought this from walmart.com because all of my walmarts
in the area don't actually have it in stock prices for blasters has gone up inflation's a hell of a
thing and this one i am happy to say falls within a similar category to what the hammer shot used to
cost actually i think the hammer shot used to cost between like 13 and 15 usd hammer shots are still
on amazon and you can find them for like 19 bucks just just under 20 and even the like repaints
are going for like 20 bucks they were a little bit lower recently but then they jumped up this is the
most affordable like hammer primed cylinder fed blaster and it's a lot higher capacity
i know it's a little cheaper feeling because of that elite 2.0 stuff like yeah i can still feel
a bit of creakiness something like this a squishy squishy but for what it does i'm not complaining
honestly i think this is a win but i can still see why people wouldn't like it i should mention
that i have seen some people finding blasters the trailblazer in stores with
the rotation mech already broken i have not been able to find any myself like i said not in stores
at all but i haven't seen this example in too many other places nor do i have anyone else
close to me that has had that experience but mine that i have right here that i purchased
is not broken has not broken i used it all day yesterday and the fps readings were good kind
of what i would expect for this thing the hammer shot i thought was always a little under like that
70 fps golden mark for a standard nerf blaster at least what we have nowadays this one is shooting
around that 70 fps par sometimes a little bit lower sometimes a little bit higher granted
the darts will depend on that but i thought the hammer shot was like 10 fps shy of that so you'll
also notice a bit of a drop when you put adventure force waffle darts through this but i still think
it's acceptable especially if you plan on using this for something like hvz or casual play where
you're not looking for a blaster like this to be the highest fps blaster out there it in my honest
opinion hammer prime blasters weren't meant for like the super high fps levels i know they can be
modified a little bit more but if i'm like really hurting my thumb just to prime the darn thing i
think you're doing it wrong i like this thing and honestly it might be one of my favorite releases
by nerf in the past couple of years but of course those are just my opinions and i'd love to hear
from you in the comment section down below have you picked up a trailblazer already do you have
a similar opinion or do you think this is hot garbage thank you everyone so much for watching
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