Why Not?

What with two different boosted Stryfes coming out at once, I had a sick and twisted idea: why not combine them?  Boost the Cam ECS-12 to be worth the exorbant $75 charge!

Here's the mash-up!

Right, this thing would come with a 15-dart banana mag, under-slung grenade launcher, and integrated tactical scope.

Let me know what you think!

Maniacal Coyote
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What just happened?

I was doing my rounds, like any good blogger should do, and something caught my eye.  There are not one, but two upgraded Stryfes coming out this Fall (2014).
This new one is called the "Cam ECS-12", and its only major feature is a built-in camera.

It seems like a cross between the Stryfe and the Stampede, with the flywheel aspects of the former and the general outline of the latter.  The camera can also be used as an optic sight, but the resolution isn't the greatest appearantly.

Still, this is only semi-auto, so unless you are el twitcho, you're not going to get great ROF out of this, and being a Nerf blaster, the range won't be very good.  Still, this looks pretty good, but uber expensive at $75.  This is definitely not something you can trash without feeling bad, because of the price tag.

I'm hoping that Hasbro will drop this to something reasonable, like $30, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

Maniacal Coyote
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If Only: Spartan NCS-12

Do any of you remember the old N-Strike series of video games for the Nintendo Wii? If you do, raise your hand. If you remember this battle rifle, keep your hands raised. For those of you who don't have your hand still raised, or have forgotten about this beast, the Spartan NCS-12 was a 3-round burst blaster in the N-Strike games.

Anyway, I have taken the liberty of indicating where much of the stuff would go if this was real. (If this was the “Secret Mystery Blaster” whose slot was empty that UK Nerf was speculating about.

This really should have 4 rails, or 5 if the top one has two accessory teeth attached. The “Fire mode selector would be more of an “on/off” switch, like on the Stampede. This is pretty much a cross between the Vulcan (bolt action/full-auto) and the Stampede (Box-fed epicness).

3-round burst is just too hard, especially with the video games' ROF of 9.1 darts/second. Full auto with 6 darts/second seems more reasonable, and fun. Hey, they could make the selector “Off/Semi/Full”, with “Off” indicating manual, not “safe” like most rifles have.

The OJ-Strike paint-job would look fine on this, the NSE-Blue would look good, the Stinger Yellow would look good, the Mega Red would look good, any color scheme.

Maniacal Coyote

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Demolisher 2-in-1

So, we've had a ton of speculation surrounding the upcoming Demolisher 2-in-1, depicted below.
(Image courtesy of S.B.N.C.)

What we have here looks from the right to be a crossover of Rayven CS-18, Longshot CS-6, and Stryfe CS-6.
Rayven, because we can see a top rail and a side rail.
Longshot, because it comes with an under-barrel cannon.  (Hopefully with better range than the dud that came with the LS)
Stryfe, because it has a detachable stock, flywheels, and the flywheel blaster mag-release button.

We were hoping that the rail on the right would be mirrored by one on the left, but no such luck, as seen below.

And the under-slung grenade launcher, to quote Adult Fans of Nerf, (Above image kudos to them) "does not come off, just like it appears in the pictures we’ve seen. It also sounds like it gets pretty decent ranges despite having a very simple method of operation. When you push the slide forward it primes the launcher and it launches on the pull back."

This monster looks to be about as front-heavy as a rapidstrike, but much more compact.  Still, it's only semi-auto, which ruins the M4-aspect a little.  Good news: There's ~8 months until this drops, and this has already "changed 3 times in the last 6 months", to quote UK Nerf.
(Enough time for them to make this full-auto, and make the banana magazine hold 20-rounds!)

Utility-wise, the stock is a good idea, but looks like the 'nade will get in the way, and easily fall out.  Either a Raider-class stock or a Spectre stock would be quite efficient, or if you wanted extra ammo, a Recon stock.

Also, the tac-rail on top seems too far forward for comfort, but we'll have to delay judgement until this drops.

I love the barrel-extension port, and the under-slung 'nade launcher, and am waiting for when this is released.

Maniacal Coyote