The Strongarm is by far one of my favorite blasters of all time and I was pretty stoked when I heard an upgraded model was being released. Obviously the 75 foot range claims on the original blaster were exaggerated and it hit around the 55 to 60 foot mark most of the time so I could assume the 90 foot claims were exaggerated too. I did notice the XD dry fired much loader than the the old version so I figure they tossed in a new spring or something it but that's far from the point. The point is this, when you buy a blaster that has 90 foot ranges on the box, you expect it to have more power than the old version right? Well in this case the difference in performance between both the XD and the old Strongarm were extremely marginal. I tested both with Elites and suctions and I barely noticed any difference in power. As far as I know other guys like pSyK who tested out the Firestrike XD have said similar stuff, they're hardly different. I'm probably just going to mod this thing and move on but don't be so opted to buy one unless you don't already own a Strongarm.
Black Friday is here! And in an effort to avoid all the storewide chaos I took my shopping online this year. After my somewhat tainted experience with the Xbox One I'll finally be able to see what it's competitor, the PlayStation 4 has in store. This beast should be coming in the mail along with a copy of Grand Theft Auto V and The Last of Us Remastered by next week and I'll have a review up after I get well acquainted with the system. As a long time PlayStation user I'm expecting some nice things out of this one.
This was one of those blaster's that I commonly overlooked as I heard they weren't very good to begin with. Nowadays considering I own nearly every good vintage there is to get I'm ending up getting the ones that aren't so good. And to start this trend off is the Defender T3. Ok this mashup of a arrow launcher and a pistol isn't exactly terrible but it has some faults that really quite hinder it from being any better. See why after the jump.
About time we got something new coming in the mail and it's my first Nerf Cyber Stryke blaster and I think one of the more popular ones, a Defender T3. Yep, its that giant ass pistol/bow hybrid that can split in two. I'll have a review up on this thing when it arrives in the mail and I might consider modding it because I don't think they are exactly great stock and I'd probably find more use for it modded. I'm thinking about throwing a Big Bad Bow plunger into the bottom half and converting both barrels to micros. Both plungers should hit over 100" feet with the right setup and as for paint? I'm thinking of something crazy, like a candy apple red metal flake with black and teal detailing. This should be interesting so stay tuned.
Upon a bit of digging around the internet, I came across a fairly large amount of higher detailed images of a few of the leaked blasters found earlier this year on Baidu along with a couple more jewels that we haven't seen yet. I will update this as more stuff gets found but heres what was dug up so far.
If anyone recalls from last year I was quite disappointed with Ghosts considering Black Ops II had much more going for it despite being the older game. In the end Ghosts ended up being quite enjoyable with the addition of new weapons and maps but much of which was pretty goofy and I think it was just to salvage how dull the base game felt. So this year we have Advanced Warfare and it's developer Sledgehamer Games up to bat, and things are pretty different.
This is basically going to document the whole mod process of this PAS whice I've dubbed the ERTL Modern Combat Shotgun or MCS. The mod essentially converts the uncomfortable, impractical blaster it was to a more comfortable and versatile weapon.
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