Hi, I'm Luke. Today on Out of Darts, we are checking out
the Talon Mag Extenders from Thanh. Let's get going(!)
Recently, we added Thanh as a contributor to the website and one of our licensed designers.
Thanh came up with these fantastic Talon Mag Extenders that allow you to increase the capacity
of your Talon Mag by five or even six rounds. Talon Mags are the de facto short dart mag in the
hobby, and thanks to Dart Zone for keeping their blasters compatible. A lot of us have tons of
these magazines and we get to continue using them. Worker currently offers a 15-round and an 18-round
magazine. The 15-round magazines are pictured here and these are the standard straight mags.
The 18-round magazines are a curved mag so they're a different design, but these Talon
Mag [Extenders] are intended to work with the straight mags. Personally, I like the straight
mags for most cases, and the reasoning for that is that they do fit really well on a holster.
Now that said, the additional capacity can really suit some users very well, and I would
love to someday see a really large-capacity magazine. Maybe someday in the future, we'll
offer something like that, but for now, we have these great extenders. Now Thanh is also the one
responsible for both of the scar barrels because Thanh has a ton of experience doing scar designs.
And it made a lot of sense to work with him rather than try to do all of the R&D involved
in creating a product like that, especially when Thanh basically had it all ready to go. I think
these mag extenders are super cool. We offer them in a huge range of colors; I believe we're up to
23 or 24 colors on the site right now. They're of course 3D printed, and they're a relatively simple
install. You've got four retention tabs in the back here. You can take a small screwdriver and
just apply a small amount of pressure, and the back will pop right out. After you pop it out you
want to choose a color that you like. Obviously, you would need to do that before purchasing
the magazine. Not entirely sure why I'm taking that out of there. We don't need to remove it,
but in case you're ever wondering how to service your mag, that's basically it. Now you don't
need to modify the spring in any way, you're essentially just adding capacity. So you're
going to line this up in the same way. When you do get your mag you want to make sure that the inside
looks nice and clear. We do prep these for you. Every part that we ever sell leaves the warehouse,
in theory, ready to install, with rare exceptions. If you ever have any issues with that, we want to
hear from you, but you do want to double-check that these two channels on either side,
four channels total, are coming through nice and clear then you're going to line up the shape here
with the recessed portion on the same side, you're going to put your
spring back through the bottom, and then you're going to force these together. Now I can't do this
in the frame, but normally I would push this down on a table and put my weight into it, so instead
I'm just going to push here manually. And since this one is clear you can actually see the install
happen; there's a gap that hasn't finished and as I said, I would normally do this on a table,
so I'm going to go ahead and do that. Because they are a very snug fit, they are meant to be snug
because you do not want that popping out when you are are [using them]. I think these are
really cool. They kind of let you personalize these mags in a different way. You can add an
accent color or you can try to match a color, and I think it's just a nice addition. I love Talon
Mags. They're my default magazine now. I used to have a katana set up; I'm not using that anymore
because more blasters seem to use these. The talon mags are really durable, they're well made,
and they perform very well on top of that. While we're out of stock on a few colors, we do have two
exclusive colors to the shop: We've got this red and my favorite the purple. So the purple ones are
my mags. These two new colors have been really popular, and you can't get them anywhere else, so
we thought it was fun to kind of come up with a custom color for the shop. I'd love to hear what
you think of these mag adapters. They're really a simple design they're super easy to install.
They're non-permanent, so if you just want to swap back to the original mag you can always do that.
I kind of like going with an accent color so I can identify my mags really easily
because it's unlikely that someone else is going to have this exact combo out in the field.
Thanh is a really fantastic designer and a good friend, and I'm really excited to have him
on the shop. You will definitely be seeing more items from him in the future because licensing is
a great way to both support the community [and] support other designers rather than simply just
copying the idea myself or something like that. Because I'm certainly capable of making this,
there's nothing protecting this design, but I think it's really important to support others
in the hobby. I'd love to hear what you think of both the adapters and these new colors. And
on that note, what color Talon Mag would you like to see next? I'm just starting this custom
color thing, and these have proven to be very popular, and I would love to add another color.
Colors that I cannot do (because other companies have claimed them as a custom color)
are fluorescent green or day-glow... And actually, that's it for now. So any other color I could
pretty much do. As far as pricing, the Talon Extra Edge Mag Extenders range between five and six
dollars, and that's really just depending on the filament and the version you choose -- they are
about a three and a half hour print currently. And the talon mags themselves are nine dollars, and
all of that's, of course, available on the site. Thank you so much for watching(!) We've
got a lot coming up, On a personal note, I'm expecting another baby here any day,
so you may experience a little bit of a delay on my emails as far as getting back to you.
Of course, my team will also take care of you and they'll always be responding, so
thank you for supporting the shop. I hope everybody has a wonderful end of the year (in case
no more video content comes after this, but we've got a number of videos queued so you're
still going to see things coming on the channel). Lots to come in January. A lot more about the
shop move here. Really excited to share a lot of that with you. Until next time I'm out of darts.