Loadout 4: Humans versus Cucumbers (HvZ) Husk

Loadout 4: Humans versus Cucumbers (HvZ) Loadouts: Cucumber special loadouts.  (Can be used for HvZ as well)

Loadout Name: Husk

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Primary:

Nerf Vortex Howler, or nerf blaster that shoots one dart: Scout IX-3, Nitefinder EX-3, Element EX-3, Clearshot, etc.

Secondary:

None

Other Weapons:

None

Other Equipment:

Cucumber wrist band to mark you are a cucumber

Purpose

                Husks serve as regular cucumbers, accept for the fact that they can use their rocket to tag somebody from a distance.  W/o the rocket, they are a regular cucumber.

                Effective against: Players with any equipment except for shields,because shields can block the missile/darts.

Nerf News: Everest Toys and Nerf Rival

Nerf News: Everest Toys and Nerf Rival

By now, the hype is on for the new vortex release, so that’s old news.  What else is older news by now? New rival blasters, leaked from the same place that the delta trooper, scout 2.0, and Thunder-hawk were leaked a few weeks back.

Everest toys has given us some interesting leaks in the past (without pictures) and another three leaks are coming in today: (No pictures yet)

The Star Wars RP Zeus Blaster

The Star Wars RP Athena Blaster (New!)

(Pix 1)

The Star Wars RP Hercules Blaster (New!)

(Pix 2)

These are the second and third blasters (The Hercules and Athena) to become promotional products before their main series release.  The first being the Deadpool Kronos XVIII-500 blasters.  The current Hercules is a Bigshock w/ an AR removed and a paint job, but now a real one comes!

What do I expect?  Obviously, a Zeus repaint (Hasbro LOVES their repaints).  The Hercules blaster should be big, and it needs to carry a decent amount of ammunition.  I cannot wait to see what will happen in the weeks ahead!

In Newer News, the community hype is on for the latest overwatch series blasters release.  Some theorize that there will be leaks at a major toy convention in November, but we don’t know that for certain.  The announcement came after this was released on twitter by Overwatch.  I have never played Overwatch, but to those who enjoy it and nerf, I can only expect much joy if the blasters are indeed not re-shells, but new technology!  (I mean, new blasters usually means new modification potential.)

1000 Mile Mark at the Nerf Single-Shot Workshop

1000 View Mile Mark at the Nerf Single-Shot Workshop

My apologies for not posting recently.  More Rival News to come.

I was excited on May 17, 2018 when I looked at the stats page to find that our viewership had gone from about 100+ when I re-started the blog, all the way to the 1000 view mark.  (1017 to be precise.)

I wanted to give a quick thank you to my viewers for helping to keep this blog going by viewing.  We have gone from a few views a month in September and October, to 2-3 views almost every day in May!  Sometimes, as many as 5 views a day, which I never expected to happen!

I look forward to the future of nerf with all of you!  And speaking of which, we have some nerf Rival news in the post following this one! – T.N.C.

Nerf Blast from the Past Review: Nerf Vortex Proton

Nerf Blast from the Past Review: Nerf Vortex Proton

GENERAL INFO:

                Included was a blaster and 3 discs.  (In both packages)

                There were also a special package or two released with the proton.  (2-packs and such).

                Besides the original were a white recolor and a sonic series proton.

Proton
Courtesy of Nerf Wikia

MY IDEAS OF THE BLASTER:

                The blaster is a mini power house, but we are going to get into that later.  Lets start with the basics:

                Released in the first vortex wave release, and 1 of 7 blasters, the proton has received 2 paint jobs:  The original, and a white recolor.  The white recolor looks sweet in my opinion.  Picture posted to the right.

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Nerf Blast from the Past Review: Nerf N-strike Elite Stryfe

Nerf Blast from the Past Review: Nerf N-strike Elite Stryfe (includes Elite XD & Modulus)

GENERAL INFO:

Included (Elite and Elite XD): Blaster, 6 dart clip, and 6 darts.

Stryfe CS-18 Mission Kit: Stryfe, 18 Clip, 18 darts, Stockade Stock, and Retaliator Barrel.

Modulus Stryfe: Blaster, 6 dart clip, 6 darts, barrel, and handle.

MY IDEAS OF THE BLASTER:

Courtesy of Nerf Wikia

The blaster is widely known as one of the best blasters for modifying along with the Longshot and Nite-finder.  The Stryfe is nice for beginners, because it has a simple internal operation platform.

The handle is very comfortable.  The trigger pull is also rather easy.  The blaster is nice and compact and can be used as a side-arm on heavier loadouts.  This blaster may very well have the most kits released for it, and there are MANY different parts, kits, and upgrades that can be purchased for this blaster.

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