Also, we've got prices and product descriptions.
Quick shout-out to Awesomely Nerf, who made a post informing the community about Hascorp's official product descriptions and pictures being available online. The pix come straight from Hascorp. The following are the pix of the new stuff
More after the big drop
First off, R.I.P. Vortex. There's a new series in town, and there's no room for disks.
Secondly, the Ballistic Ball is dead; long live the Rival Ball.
The Rival series seems to be a combination of Dart Tag 1.0 and the old Ballistic Ball blasters, with the "Red vs. Blue" colour scheme of the former, and a similar ammo to the latter. However, the similarities die there.
The first blaster from this new series that we are introduced to is the Zeus MXV-1200. This blaster channels the spirit of the Crusher SADG-6 from the old Nerf N-Strike video game back in 2008. From the picture, it is obviously flywheel, box-fed, and its magazines are detachable. I think it is full-auto, but it could be semi-auto. Some sources say that it can shoot its balls at speeds near 70 mph, or 30 m/sec for engineering majors like me.
With that speed and the fact that the ammo is shaped like golf balls, I imagine that this should reach the century-mark. What say you, Drac?
Unfortunately, this is a very pricy blaster, at $50.00, plus extra mags and balls.
For those who have shallower pockets, Hascorp has the Apollo XV-700 at $25
This is a manual blaster that uses the same golf-ball ammo, but comes with just a 7-ball magazine. Luckily, it can use the 12-ball magazines from the Zeus. Unfortunately, Hascorp neglected to provide a pic of it.
What's up with the Greek mythic names, Hascorp? Are you going to make the Cerberus?
Maybe this new series might make up for the chain of re-shelled Stryfes we've seen (Stryfe, Demolisher, Cam, Rapid Red).
Next up, the Rebelle crossbows. These might actually be worth a buy!
The first (and cheaper) crossbow uses what seem like arrows from the Agent Bow, but with only two fins. The "COURAGE Crossbow" is the string-fed crossbow using giant arrows that we all knew was coming after we saw the Agent Bow and the Diamondista. However, I immediately figured out its purpose in a Nerf war: Grenade Launcher! Sure, it's $20, but it has a trigger (unlike the ThunderStrike) and uses relatively accurate ammo. I probably won't buy it, but it looks nice.
{Picture of the CODEBREAKER Crossbow}
The second crossbow is the CODEBREAKER Crossbow, which appears to be a stringer-version of the Guardian Crossbow, with 2 more shots. This could be a springer, but I'm not going to hold my breath about that. Either way, for $25, it looks like an economical, efficient, and fun blaster. Surprisingly, given the series that it is in, it looks like a dude's blaster. Jam-resistant design, pump-action, and with a scope-mount, I think that this is everything the Crossbolt should have been. Hopefully, it's slam-fire, but that would just be icing on the cupcake. If I got this, I'd paint the purple body in N-Strike yellow, and the cyan parts in orange.
And now, Hascorp has decided to make the Zombie-Strike series into a laughingstock; meet the BioSquad subseries. All of the blasters in this subseries use "Zombie Repellant" canisters. These Axe-trial-size spray-cans will sell for $7 apiece, and I know I won't buy these.
The ZR-800 Abolisher looks even worse. Where the Eraser was relatively simple, the Abolisher is overly complicated. This abomination contains a hose-fed water gun, a money-sprayer, and a pump-to-fire quad-barreled dart-launcher. Remember what I said about the Eraser? This is ten times worse!
And now, the important stuff: the Modulus pictures!
Sorry, only one new picture of the Modulus core, but there's also a pic of the "Strike 'n' Defend" module.
{Picture of Modulus}
As I had said above, I have thoroughly dissected this picture [HERE]. Wow, we've got a cross between the RapidStrike and the Stryfe; full-auto flywheel in a compact platform.
Now, we have a large pistol with a Jolt-esque priming rod sticking out the bottom, and a tactical rail up top. Woah, this is the first pistol to have both of those features: direct-plunger rod in the hand-grip and a tactical rail up top! The back of it is solid so it can be used as a stock, but it looks like a very uncomfortable stock. I think that the barrel is above the stock mounting point, which could cause some interesting action. The shield that comes with this kit looks like a pop-up version of the Stampede ECS-50's shield, but slightly transparent. Together, this kit is $15, which is a fair price for a single-shot pistol and and an accessory.
I would only buy this module for the pistol, but there may be somebody who would use that pistol as a stock.
This is a very good-sized leak, given the fact that it comes straight from Hascorp! Normally, they don't tell us zip!
Comments? Questions? Complaints? Please leave them in the comment section, and let's get this discussion started!
Maniacal Coyote
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