Hi. I'm Luke. Today on Out of Darts, we are going to take a look at Elite 2.0...oh...
Let's get going.
all right so everybody's been online kind of ranting and complaining about these blasters
um this is the most disappointing thing i've seen from hasbro since being in this hobby
and since liking nerf blasters these blasters i should be clear are great for anybody who
never wants to mod but let's talk about them really quick before i get into ranting too much
uh i bought the four primary class blasters because they were the ones that were the most
compelling i skipped the blaster that looks like a uh basically a triad and i skipped the
other one that is essentially a hammer hammer shot or a i guess it's a little bit more like
a strong arm but i was mostly interested in the primary class blasters because this is a very new
direction for nerf they're making re-shells essentially of all their existing blasters
across the entire elite 2.0 lineup i find them to be very ergonomically unsatisfying i find the the
color scheme to be great i love the color get up but beyond that i am incredibly disappointed
the four major offerings uh include this which is the echo this is essentially a retaliator reskin
the blaster is fine it's not very comfortable the mag is a little clunky and the tolerances
are pretty bad on the on these parts as far as as the fit and finish we get a short little goofy
stock that is pretty much unusable for an adult but of course these are intended for children
i'm going to get back to the biggest fault because the biggest fault is across all all
of the blasters next up we have a shock wave which is a drum fed blaster relatively straightforward
again similar handle that i'm not a huge fan of next we have what was supposed to be our saving
grace and that was the next version of the strife the phoenix is the next version of the strife
slightly less comfortable more chunky up front i don't mind the look and aesthetic
of it other than the comfort itself but it does kind of have that like bolter look and really
really chunky blaster and lastly we've got the successor to the rapid strike the turbine
the turbine has got probably the most promise out of all of these because it does
have a full auto pusher very similar to a rapid strike rather than a belt
fed system like the hyperfire so this is the clear winner out of the whole lineup
but now we get to the major problem hasbro has decided to solvent weld or sonically weld rather
all of these blasters many of them also feature clips making them even more difficult to get open
they're all impossible to get back together easily there are some great guides that people have been
doing like qualcomm and xavier on how to get past them but it's really a huge hassle for something
that you bought with your own money and i think this is really indicative
of where hasbro is going and where the third party companies are going on the same year that
hasbro releases this elite 2.0 lineup which to me just looks like another cash grab the third-party
companies such as dartzone and xshot have given us phenomenal releases that don't include all of
these restrictions on opening them up i think it's very clear which companies we should be supporting
and at some point we definitely need to talk about what we call this hobby because it's not
nerf modding anymore if this is what nerf is going to continue to give us i am hopeful that
at least the rival lineup will continue to have standard toy screws that aren't where
the shells are not glued together because those are a little bit more of a premium offering so
they don't cheap out on the assembly i assume that most of this is done based on cost it's cheaper
to remove screws both from an assembly process in the factory it takes less time it also costs
less money but for us it's really a bad bad deal and every one of these blasters is less
comfortable than its predecessor less functional and harder to get at just to look at a few things
this grip i can barely get my finger through these this uh mag release and trigger here the
trigger itself is very uh the mag release is very hard to actuate with the back of your
finger the grip itself is very uncomfortable all in all it is hands down a worse blaster than just
getting a strife which hopefully we can keep buying new or at least find thrifting
all over the country the turbine is a very similar story we've again got
a very cramped finger well here for and a very uncomfortable mag release that i find difficult to
to remove it is a little sharp on the front it actually does it really doesn't feel good on the
back of your finger i would have much prefer just a paddle release since this isn't as polished as
some of the other community designs that have a similar mag release this all boils down to
different companies taking vastly different approaches with their consumers hasbro has made
it abundantly clear that we are not their market and i think we need to vote with our dollars and
not buy these blasters i think you should buy some of the great offerings from the zuru x shot line
or from dart zone or from the adventure force line at walmart because those offerings are far
better blasters than these are i didn't want to do individual reviews of all these because i don't
think these blasters were worth your individual reviews i got them all assuming i'd be able to
you know create upgrade parts cages springs but i'm going to call it now and say that it's not
really worth the effort if you have a good chance of breaking something while you take
it apart i don't think people are going to mod it i personally don't want a blaster that i have to
break clips or de-weld solvent welds to get open and then anytime i have to service it
i have to deal with that again not to mention the fact that it will never go back the same way
to me it's just really really disappointing to see hasbro's totally abandon you know our hobby
and the core here and when it really comes down to it this is a small hobby there are a lot of
us but it is really tiny compared to the number of kids out there buying blasters that said i
think we have a huge impact in sharing the knowledge of these doing the review videos
and letting them know that this isn't what we want and i'm hoping that maybe someday
hasbro will pivot and we'll get to see something we do want
i am expecting hyper to be rather interesting it obviously got pushed we were expecting it
to come out this year and we've heard very very little i'm always waiting on foam blast and their
nerf news segment to find out what's coming next because it's a great place to catch
all of the news for this hobby in one place that said we haven't seen much so i am hopeful
that maybe hyper will be a little bit of a departure from the releases of this year because
there really haven't been any nerf blasters that i'm interested in i think the mandalorian
blaster that just got teased is probably the best cosmetic looking blaster that hasbro has put out
but at 120 it is not a modding platform mass market thing it's definitely a niche
collector's item that said i kind of really want one but uh 120 is a little bit rich to just sit on
my shelf so we'll see about that whether i get a pre-order but i suspect i probably will gonna have
to talk to the wife about that one some of these nerf purchases are getting a little out of hand
anyway i'd love to hear your comments on elite 2.0 have you had luck modding any of these
i hate to be so negative on this stuff because i'm just not a negative person when it comes
to products and cool things but these are just disappointing and i would love to see
hasbro hear this feedback from us and change course because there's no reason for them
to lock it up for for anything other than discouraging modding and making it cheaper
and i think ultimately if you can't fix something that you own that's broken that's a shame in case
you are going to buy these the echo comes in at 30 the turbine comes in at 40. the shock wave
comes in at 25, and the Phoenix comes in at 25 as well. I'm not going to put the links for these
in the description because I truly don't hope you don't actually buy them. I think there are
better offerings both from nerf, but especially from the third party companies like dart zone
with their adventure force and adventure force prolines and zuru toys with the x shot lines.
Thank you so much for watching. I hope to have a much more positive review of something
else in the future, but this is definitely not it. Until next time, I'm out of darts.