Nerf Rhino-Fire Review (8/10)

A whole new generation of overkill.

Remember that time when you and your friends were just having a neighborhood nerf war as usual, you all had simple pistols and nothing very elaborate but it was still a good time? Then that one day came when some snob rich kid down the block decides to show up to the party. He's brandishing some giant belt fed monster that he got for Christmas. This is when the fun ends, and he proceeds to mow down every last one of you laughing maniacally whilst he does so. This sort of overkill weapon had gradually evolved into this, the Rhino-Fire, probably the most outrageous Nerf blaster ever built.

Size compared to a Vulcan, it's rather wide.

The Rhino-Fire is basically the blaster of this generation that every spoiled only child will nag their parents to death over but never get. Why? Because the thing has a $100 dollar flipping price tag on it, yeah, I was lucky enough to find it on sale for something slightly more manageable but $100 bucks? That's like Crossbow money on a blaster that came out this year! Ok, yeah the price is brutal but you have to admit, the gun looks badass. Holding it in your hands is like holding the power of god in your hands and to be honest, it's fairly manageable. It's lighter than the Vulcan and considering it uses clips and not a belt, it's easier to reload too but also taking into account it still lacks a stock, not by much. I can gripe about the double handles with the trigger plate in the back though. It's not a terrible system but I would rather have a conventional trigger.

The tripod fits on the Vulcan and vice versa.

The tripod is very similar to the Vulcan, enough to the point where it actually works with the Vulcan itself. This new tripod is actually fairly usable as it doesn't fall out of place as easily as the Vulcan tripod when folded and it feels quite stable when deployed.

Jam door detail.

So you got this massive anti-aircraft looking blaster with double barrels and double drums, the real question is, does it work? I managed to get most shots to fall round the 65 to 70 foot mark which is quite good. However accuracy is a little bit of a hit and miss but not its too bad.

Honestly I felt a bit intimidated by the sheer size of this blaster on the difficulty of opening it. But in all honesty it's really quite easy, especially compared to the Vulcan with it's 40 million screws and enough moving parts to loose in a heartbeat. To start you want to remove the left handle held in by only two screws.

At the front when you flip the blaster over there should be a plate held in by five screws that just comes right off. There's then two screws on the front of the tactical rail that need to be removed so the top half of the shell can be removed. From there you can remove the barrels and actually uncrew the rest of the blaster.

These internals work similarly to a Rapidstrike but there are two on each side and they operate in intervals. When one barrel fires the other retracts back and vice versa. I'd imagine most voltage mods would work fairly normally in this thing and there's plenty of room for batteries of your own choosing when the tray is removed. Be warned though, for some odd reason my blaster's pusher mechanism began struggling to feed darts after I had opened this thing and I couldn't diagnose the problem. Hopefully this is just a fault with mine but I'll be exchanging it for a new one so it shouldn't be much of a problem.

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So the Rhino-Fire is something else, it's intimidation factor alone is enough to scare the pants off some people. The $100 price tag is justifiable as I didn't really see much that made it completely stand out from smaller automatic blasters like the Rapidstrike. I mean honestly, why would you want to carry around a hulking anti aircraft gun when you can just use a smaller assault rifle with just as much effectiveness? The Rhino-Fire deserves a solid 8 out of 10 because it's a great blaster, it's just not very practical. But still, the principal of this blaster is that it's a heavy weapon. It wasn't built with precision and stealth in mind, oh no far from it. It was built to run into a room Rambo style, firing from the hip and screaming bloody murder; overkill. So with that, you can throw all reason out the door and get a Rhino-Fire by your side, it's badass, it's a monster, it's... too much.

The Verdict

Class- Heavy Machine Gun

Range- Excellent, about 65 to 70 feet.

Size- Slightly shorter in length as a Vulcan but much wider.

Reliability- Jams are an obvious possibility. Hopefully my issue is an odd case.

Ammo- 50 Elite Darts

Modding- Voltage mods are about as much you can do.
Value- At $100, it stupid expensive although it's very powerful. Wait for a sale, and still get your wallet ready.

Is It Better Than?

Vulcan- Yes, the Vulcan may be big but it's performance is underwhelming. It holds half as much ammo as the Rhino-Fire and it doesn't fire anywhere near as far. Price is probably the only swaying factor between these two.

Rapidstrike- Depends, the Rapidstrike is a far more compact weapon than the Rhino-Fire but it bolster's the same amount of effectiveness, possibly more in some situations. Its of a matter of preference, practicality or overkill.

Stampede- Yes, the Stampede is basically the product of taking a Vulcan, shrinking it down into a more rifle like package and making it clip fed. While it is more manageable than the Rhino-Fire it lacks the firepower. It has a fair amount of mod potential through.