Hi, it's Luke with Out of Darts. I love fall.
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New blasters!
…and some special surprises on this one. Let's get going!
Hasbro has been a mixed bag over the past couple of years. Between the
Ultra series -- which is a pretty sad lineup for the most part (there are a few exceptions, but
not a great ammo type), and Elite 2.0 -- which was very discouraging to modders
(featuring blasters that can't be opened). It's been a pretty rocky road, to say the least.
Mega XL is something we've heard about for a little while,
and I was really excited to get my hands on the Boom Dozer.
Spoiler alert: we got two. This is unopened,
so I'm going to unbox this one. Why do I never have a knife in my hand when I want my knife?
Oh, look at that(!)
- (Perry Off-Camera): I think it's on the outside. -it's like, where is it?
Always good having help around. so, we've got a second one of these, which we've already
thrown a cylinder into making it a shotgun a little more on that later as we get through
I have to say right off the bat, I really think the styling on this box is cool. The color palette
is awesome. We got a really nice hot blue, and I like that quite a bit with a lot of orange
and white and I think it's a good solid color scheme, so this is the Mega XL
inside the box you will find six giant rounds, and that's really one of the key parts of
this video and really this platform in general
because I think this is probably the most interesting ammo type they've released in ages.
This blaster really has the field of a grenade launcher. I mean these rounds in
themselves. I'll talk a little bit more about them specifically later, but they are
they're big. I mean, you compare them to a rocket they're just a little bit shorter and
a little bit. You know they're not quite as wide, but they are really cool. I love
rockets. I love different ammo types for the most part, but I think this might be the best one yet.
Out of the box, this is performing quite well. It's a six-shot revolving rocket launcher
grenade launcher -- I mean, it's Mega XL. It's its own, it's its own class.
But it's prime, fire, and it, of course, has slam-fire.
Though I can say my results with slam-fire have been mixed.
I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong there; I'd be really curious.
I've got a few extra rounds here, so let's go ahead and reload that up again.
In my demo firing, I didn't have too many issues there, but let's take a look.
I can't see I would slam fire a blaster that's got six shots unless there was some
special reason to be doing that, but let's try that again full six-shot load for slam-fire.
Yeah, we did the same thing. So, there's definitely something going on with slam-fire.
I'll be curious to try that again with the other
unit we've got but let's assume that slim fire is maybe a maybe, which is probably not ideal.
The blaster's got very unique styling. it's a very aggressive marketing campaign to market their new
blaster, and I have to say I like the breakthrough style in the rocks,
but I think the logo is just a little bit too much
I know they're trying to push you know a new their new lineup and everything
we've got the big boom dozer logo here we've got a little great see-through here
I think the styling itself is really cool with the oversized muzzle and everything,
but I don't really love seeing so much text.
that has been the styling that they've gone with for mega
mega blasters have always been, you know, big and a lot of text that say mega, so making XL
even bigger I guess it's a logical thing, and from a marketing perspective, it's definitely
probably a good call as far as marketing to most kids who this is the ultimately the target for
The blaster itself is quite comfortable the grip I'd say I'd give a four out of five. It actually
fits my adult hands quite well. It's not the most comfortable grip in the world, but it is
far from the worst, and I'd put it at the top third of the pack, ultimately.
The priming handle itself, the pump grip is very comfortable. It's large. It actually fits my hand,
and it kind of makes sense it's Mega XL. It better be a big blaster and a
better fit big hands; otherwise, it's not going to feel large in your hand.
I can kind of imagine a 10-year-old picking this up, and it just feeling
really bonkers large in their hands, and that's going to be a lot of fun.
Other than the slam fire issue, the performance is quite good for
being a much larger ammo type. This blaster's shooting about 60 feet-per-second on average
I'll put up the actual 20-shot average on the screen above in the back. We've got, of course, an
N-Strike attachment which is very welcome, meaning you can toss on any of your classic stocks.
That is a little awkward, I have to say. I'm not sure that I would
with the accuracy of a fatty dart like this. I'm not sure I would actually use a stock,
but it's nice to have it there. I would really like to see a sling point back here, so
I'm probably going to develop both a cap sling point and something that locks in up
here on the rail because I definitely think this blaster needs a sling with how much heft it has.
Right off the bat, we've seen a couple different mods we want to do,
and I'm going to go over really quickly.
we'll probably have another video on modding this blaster,
but we're definitely going to be offering a spring upgrade,
a couple different cylinders to swap out the ammo type, and then a muzzle replacement
I'm not a huge fan of this giant muzzle. It has a cool look, but practically,
when you're going around bunkers and things, it serves zero purpose,
and there's plenty of orange on this blaster, so I think taking that off would be great.
before we get into the brief mod overview, it's worth noting that
back here is sadly either a solvent weld or glue not entirely sure which,
but regardless it was a little bit of work to get open, I think if I did my second one,
it would be easier you pretty much just rip it right open it'll come off and it's just this seam
right here not too bad we'll show some video clips here, but it is something to keep in mind
the muzzle also, unfortunately, seems to be glued or welded in place, so
it's going to be a little bit more work to get that out
One great tip for that is: Rather than trying to boil water and put this in the water,
you take a kettle of boiled water or a pot, and you dump the water over
the plastic to help loosen up that adhesive. I'll do a video on that if we offer the muzzle because
I think we're going to do a replacement muzzle, a spring, and a couple different cylinder options.
so, speaking of cylinder options…
This is a shotgun five-shot-by-six -- so 30-round capacity here -- sent to me by Chicken. We'll
put his link down in this description. he currently has about 60 followers on YouTube,
so please go change that if you want to keep seeing him make more mods
I'm not exactly sure where he lives, but we are going to be offering these on the shop.
I'm working on an option to license these from him definitely going to do some more tweaks
and tuning to get them to my standard for design aesthetic, and right now, there's a few sharp
edges, so there's a few things I want to tweak, but right out of the box taking this thing apart
and once we got it put back together properly we've got a five-shot shotgun.
And I have to say I really liked the concept of the Judge. Hopefully,
we can throw that a Judge image up on the screen here, but the Judge was just such a
massive, ridiculous blaster. In contrast, this blaster is actually usable, and I think you
could bring it to a game and play with it, whereas the Judge is… it's literally larger than my head,
so it was a little absurd. but this cylinder works really well
you're not going to get crazy ranges, but you're at least going to get an effective range of
30-35 feet, and I think that's pretty awesome for an actual five-shot scatter-shot blaster
There's also going to be a full-length option,
and I believe, a triple Mega, so there's a lot of mod potential in this blaster.
Speaking of mod potential, the blaster does have a very large plunger tube. At first, I thought it
was going to be larger than it is, but it looks to be around the size of a Longshot, maybe a little
bit smaller. If anybody's got any perspective on that and has both in hand, let me know in
the comments. I didn't actually measure the volume or anything, yet we'll get more into that later.
As we do add these options to the shop, we'll have these down below
in the description. I think this is going to be a really popular platform.
And before I close it out, I really did want to talk about this ammo. I think this is super cool.
We've had a very large scarcity of these rockets, which I think are used as specialty ammo types
in most games across the country. they're a lot more expensive to make, and they're
a lot more expensive to buy currently; they're five dollars apiece on Amazon,
and the fins do break and wear out, so they're not as readily available
I think it's a really great idea to make these the new replacement for these
rockets in games, so I'm hoping to see this get adapted
as you know you're not only your shield buster but your special killer and that kind of thing.
Anytime a new ammo type does come out, though, I'm always a little wary because
hyper is a mixed bag so far. We'll see where that goes.
Ultra never did anybody any good as far as I'm concerned, and that can go away.
I think this is a step in the right direction, though. It's unique,
it's really fun, the whistler is really satisfying to fire across the field,
and I hope we'll see this at a lot of game types in the future.
I'd be a little bit disappointed if you value these two ammo types as the same
because if you do value them as the same, it makes this whole line
kind of pointless for firing the original ammo type. However, if you make *these* equal,
then you've just opened up a whole new realm of blasters and a whole new line that
can be that shield buster and can be that special destroyer or whatever else it is.
it will be interesting to see how game admins actually take this ammo type and run with it
I would love to hear from you in the comments. What are your thoughts on
the boom dozer? At $49.99, I'm going to give this a 4 out of 5 stars. It's not perfect.
It does have a little issue with slam-fire, it seems, but it's got a lot of modding potential.
We picked this up at Fred Meyer; they're running a sale right now. Probably not going to be happening
by the time the video gets up but do check out and take a look around for sales and whatnot.
Obviously, prices will come down over time, but
given that it's 50 bucks, only comes with six rounds,
and a few minor issues here and there; I think four out of five is about where I'd land this.
But I would love to hear from you on the ammo type. What do you think this
should represent in a game? Should it replace a rocket? should it actually be
a shield destroyer that does area damage or splash damage, or is it just a shield piercing round,
or the same effect as Mega – which, at some games, basically don't do anything
Thank you so much for watching. We have a lot more coming. As far as I'm aware, the Mark-3
is showing up today when we're filming this, so by the time you're watching this, I will already have
dove in on that blaster, and we'll be working on reviews and mod content and a lot of new designs.
Until next time, I'm out of darts.