this is the nerf ultra select it's a full auto flywheel powered ultra blaster it comes with two
10 round ultra magazines including 10 of the standard ultra darts and 10 of the new ultra
pinpoint darts it doesn't however include six of the c batteries required to operate it and it
costs 60 united states dollars i think it's okay i think it's a perfectly acceptable ultra blaster
and i would use it in a game but i don't think it's going to convince people to jump into ultra
if they haven't already the darts are at least somewhat more interesting
and might be my favorite thing of the whole package but let's talk about it
hello everyone my name is brett and sometimes i wear a beret and today we are once again talking
about nerf ultra i know it's not the first time i've talked about it and it's probably not going
to be the last and it has been almost two years since the ultra one debuted and a lot has changed
and i completely understand if you are actually interested in ultra these days because there are
some compelling blasters out there and i also completely understand there are some people who
will never be on board with ultra and that's okay too we are going to look at the ultra select today
and talk a little bit more about where ultra is at this point if i think it's worth your money
worth your time or not at all but if you're watching this video you probably have some
sort of notion on that already hey let's look at the box i've said this before and i will stand by
my statements i think ultra has some pretty good looking packaging and it's not completely lying to
me anymore oh wait i'm looking at the back and it does say up to 120 feet that's not true but what
this box does tell us right off the bat is that we're getting some different darts with this box
and i have been waiting to see what precise pro that's a different brand what the ultra pinpoint
darts are actually going to be and here they are and it does advertise this magazine switching
capability cool and along with getting a blaster in the box you do of course get your ultra select
instructions which are very important to read kind of well i mean if you get a jam maybe this
will help you out too but more importantly for me these instructions will make a fine addition
to my collection we now return to the ultra select itself and i think this blaster looks pretty good
i'll echo what most people have said it's a pretty good looking ultra rapid strike because that's
kind of what it is it's a good length for my body as well the stock's a good length it's got the
ultra bright and gold on one side the select right here it's all white on the other side as if we
you know didn't expect that now let's jump to the main feature of this blaster which is of course
the dual magazines and i think it's better executed than the busby mutator you'll find
that the magazines are slightly different where one of them is clear on one side this being the
left and the other is clear on the right can you even see that take my word for it i have found
interestingly enough like that magazine slides in really easily and then
that one's slightly tighter and it didn't matter which slot that was in
maybe it's because of the different plastic for the different sides weird but it was
noticeable maybe you'll see the same thing this magazine system it works it definitely
does what it's advertised to do using the pump grip in the front that is how you are intended to
swap magazines so in this backwards position the right magazine is engaged by pump it forward then
the left one is engaged of course that is not the only way you can change magazines you can shake it
you can push it you can pull it you can pop it when your hand is on the pump grip it's not
going to change magazines obviously but then you have to remember not to just pull it back
accidentally just keep that in mind try not to move your hand around too much but it is a rather
sturdy changing mechanism so it probably won't happen if anything it's just if you have one hand
in use and you're shaking the blaster around you may accidentally change magazines you can reload
on the fly as well as seen right here the first darts really easy the second one you'll probably
have to start squishing your ultra darts which i don't necessarily want to do because of how
weird they are and if you want to hear what six c batteries sound like headphone warning
it's decently loud but i don't think it's too surprisingly loud if you've used any
other flywheel powered ultra blasters or if you use lipos quick rate of fire
demo here's five ultra darts loaded in each of the magazines you can see
it's pretty straightforward to load both at the same time and here's what it looks like
i don't even know if you can see that but it works it's not the fastest rate of fire unsurprisingly
the fact that we're using 10 round magazines i don't necessarily think i want super fast rate
of fire because i'm going to deplete these super super quickly i haven't had any jams with it yet
with any of the ammo i've tested through it let's move back to the handle because that's
where you're going to be very involved with this blaster the handle is not huge as per
usual i think it's relatively comfortable similar to the amp i'd need to directly compare that but
it doesn't feel as uncomfortable as say the ultra 1 or the ultra 2. so that's good not great is this
knuckle duster it's not as bad as the ultra 5 but that really is my least favorite overall
when it comes to obstruction of your hand so this one's not the worst but it still seems unnecessary
you could remove it i think without too much invasion assuming you open the blaster just fine
but you're still going to have some gaping holes and then the rev trigger and the trigger
itself they're too small unfortunately that's been a common issue with the ultra blaster so no change
this one is really sharp the handle also brings to light one other chief complaint i have with
this blaster now ultra is good in that the plastic is nerf quality high quality we would expect from
nerf and why we're usually pretty uh comfortable with their releases like oh at least it's going
to be nerf quality plastic for the most part it is the white plastic is good and stable the stock
for a weird shape it is and my first thoughts is pretty good this front orange shroud for the
barrel it's a little flimsier but i guess that's fine because i don't want to get hit by something
that's super hard so understandable gets a pass this top sight similar kind of flimsy similar
to the knuckle duster down here but again it's an extremity pass the pump grip or the mag changing
grip is nice and hard that's good that's good but the handle is cheap plastic this is squishy
and you can notice that if you actually put your hand there and squish and i don't think that's
a good thing for a blaster that has electronics in the handle hasbro what were you thinking this
is not a good idea so regardless of the shape regardless of the size i think the squishiness
is what makes me the most confused because that doesn't seem like a good idea any day of the
week and again i haven't had any jams malfunctions electronic malfunctions because of that it's just
a weird weird feeling and i hope that doesn't become a negative in the future so the ultra
select looks good it's okay on comfort and the mag changing is okay as well how does it perform the
rate of fire is okay but how does the performance on this blaster measure up to other ultra blasters
about the same for what you'd expect actually now this is where we start discussing more about the
ultra darts versus ultra pinpoint darts because as you've probably heard from anyone else it's night
and day ultra darts were originally advertised to be accurate they're the precise darts and this is
one reason that people were not too ken to take to ultra immediately and claiming a dart flies
a certain distance on its own is silly they do fly decently far out of blasters provided
true do they hit 120 feet no does this blaster hit 120 feet uh no needs a good tailwind can it
do 80 plus certainly now with ultra darts the standard ultra darts the accuracy just isn't
there and that's also to be expected because we know every previous ultra blaster using ultra
darts was almost never accurate sometimes they were most of the times they weren't
enter ultra pinpoint darts is there any reason now to use a standard ultra dart over a pinpoint dart
absolutely not the only reason that you would do that is because they're more plentiful and this
is the biggest concern i have for pinpoint going forward i haven't seen the new refill
packs yet and when i originally speculated on them i said well they better be less expensive
maybe they'll be made of a different material obviously they weren't and maybe they will
actually be more accurate well they are more accurate it's not perfect accuracy but it works
and just testing out of this blaster i found that the chronograph readings for the pinpoint darts
were just as good if not sometimes better than standard ultra darts so again why use standard
ones though they didn't fly as far and here's your bouquet of ultra pinpoint darts out of this
blaster already you can tell that some of the glue has gotten a little bit frayed on the ends
i found that for all of them as well so i wonder if flywheelers are really abusing these already
i had seen from other users that some of the heads were a bit deformed fortunately all of mine didn't
seem to have that problem so let's just give a quick definitive list of my favorite ultra darts
starting at the bottom you've got standard ultra darts trash right above that you've got the gold
ultra darts which are included with the dorado and the pharaoh because they're gold they're prettier
they're easier to find the standard ones aren't easy to find right above that you've got the sonic
screamers because they make a noise and it's really terrifying when you're shooting a sonic
screamer out of a high-powered ultra blaster or other blaster that can shoot older darts
harder to find still but they sound cool and sometimes they're more accurate i don't know
if i have enough data to make that claim and of course right at the top you've got pinpoint darts
these are also much easier to find because they're silver bodies and red heads one thing i have found
though two of these darts there's the other ones i don't know what this is that i have found on my
ultra dart something got into this batch i'm not totally sure do you see those little black pieces
in my quote unquote ultra foam and now that i've waited so long to uncover the truth it is
time to take it out yeah it's a little plastic vein i don't know if it was going to cause
any harm because it was embedded in the ultra dart but i don't want that i don't want that in
my fancy ultra dart that costs money especially my pinpoint dirt hey nerf you might want to
check on your quality control with ultra this is premium stuff just kind of weird didn't seem to
affect the performance but i hadn't seen that anywhere else and now you know to watch out
for poisoned ultra darts so with those thoughts on the ultra select and the pinpoint darts let's
bring it back to ultra overall because i've been thinking about now where ultra stands
if i were to give my recommendations on what to go out and get well i know there are some people who
don't want to invest in ultra at all like i said before completely understandable but if i was to
look at all the blasters that exist and give my recommendations there's a clear-cut price
list here it is i will add later the select is the most expensive that kind of sucks and
is it worth 60 i don't really know if it is for some people it might be at a discount oh i think
it's a totally uh useful blaster it might be fun to use we'll see what more people do with it
if you have a lot of ultra magazines that you invest in this could be the blaster for you
so let's talk more about what do i do think is the best well in terms of performance
uh here's what i think in terms of ultra there might be some wiggle room in that depending
on your user experience as well i've seen a lot of different data so sorry don't sue me
but i think there is a clear cut between springers at the top and fly wheelers at the bottom this
blaster performs all right but i don't think it's the highest performing ultra blaster now that said
some of the best shots out of an ultra flywheeler are probably above the worst shots out of an ultra
springer but still springers are performing better than flywheelers in stock configuration
i can't even finish i made a note on the side with what i thought were my personal recommendations
i'm going to stick to this list here it is this is what i think of ultra right now again this is my
completely biased opinion with then trying to take some of the bias out because i know that i'm a
weirdo and sometimes i use things that don't make sense i think that the four and the pharaoh are
your best bets and they're both springers the four because it's the least expensive it's a single
shot pistol which means you just carry around like a bag of ultra ammo you shoot it's fun wii it's
got some decent mod potential it's a nice chunky comfortable pistol so that's great on the other
end of the spectrum you've got the pharaoh it's a good-looking sniper rifle takes magazines it's
bolt action it looks the part but it also performs it's a cool looking blaster and i think they did
a decent job with it it's expensive and then i would put the amp ahead of the select for me but
i'd put the amp also i don't know if i'd get an amp see that's why it's so weird but the select is
definitely middle of the pack for me do whatever you want i don't know it's nerve ultra i'd love to
hear what you guys think in the comment section down below i can't wait to see what i cut from
all my rambling as well thank you everyone so much for watching uh subscribe for more ultra content
from me the ultra enthusiast beret uh not winner of the nerf ultra championship
we're gonna do another one of those and i will see you in the next one