Hasbro Finally Makes Clip-fed Blasters!

Ok, you all know the drill. Hasbro refers to the box magazines for its rifle-style blasters as "clips" and the community often refers to them as either that, or "clipazines". This is because these "clips" are actually magazines, and many can't tell the difference, so they just blur the words together into the infamous term "clipazine".


However, there are now two modern blasters that actually use clips!
Prepare to drop!




Before I go any further, I'd like to define two terms.
Clip: A device for holding a group of darts to load into a blaster.
Magazine: A spring-loaded container for darts that may be an integral part of the blaster`s mechanism (Quick 16) or may be detachable (Longshot).

Now, with those in mind, what has Nerf called their magazines since 2006? Clips!

Now, they also called a blaster "Magstrike" even though it doesn't use magazines; it uses clips! You might consider the bay that holds them a magazine, but it uses clips!
The funny thing is, the Magstrike is based off of an older blaster called the "Powerclip", which also used a 10-dart clip.

BoomCo blasters like the Rapid Madness use clips, and Mattel gets the name right.
Now, Hasbro has two blasters that use clips, and both of them look fun!

First off is the N-Strike Modulus Battlescout ICS-10.

This blaster actually uses a clip! See the orange rectangle near the front that says "NERF"? That's the right side of the 10-dart clip. Unlike the BoomCo clips and the Nerf Magstrike and Powerclip clips, this is a single-stack clip. What does that mean? Not a lot, really, just that it won't have a dual-port/"smart" AR.
Second, this blaster's "Scope" is actually a detachable 720p camera! HD Video of you spamming your darts! Hopefully the quality will be better than the Cam ECS.
Third, this blaster has a standard stock-mounting block and barrel-mounting interrupted thread.
Now, some think this will be a springer, but I'm hoping that this is like the Magstrike, Powerclip, and Rapid Madness in the firing method: air-powered!

The slot for the pump looks a bit too short to compress any normal spring, and a spring short enough for that prime would be brutal to prime. In other words, you'd either be too weak to overcome static friction, or too strong for kids to safely prime.
On the other hand, an air pump doesn't require as much strength, and an air-bladder would restrict the amount of air per dart. Smart!

Now, look at this banner from the New York Toy Fair!

I have blown up two sections to show clip-fed blasters.

The left-front-angle is shown in this section of the banner.

From the two pictures available, you can see that there ought not to be anything preventing you from pulling a spent clip out. And, Hasbro could very well have utilized BoomCo's method of loading the clip into one side and removing it from the other. Maybe?
If so, Hascorp would make a killing by selling extra 10-dart clips!

Also, it appears that there is a flip-up front sight on this blaster, but no rear sight. Typical Hascorp logic.


Now, there's another clip-fed blaster shown in the pic, but one that we have not seen before. Maybe somebody goofed and leaked something that'll be shown soon?

This new blaster looks like a cross between the Mega Lightningbow and the Magstrike, but with a 14-dart clip! Sure, the Lightning Bow was little more than a string-drawn Bigshock, but think about it. If they used a MEGA-scale plungertube for this, this ought to have halfway decent ranges. Also, it's got a 14-dart clip. You're not going for accuracy with this, you're spamming darts in the general direction of your opponent.

To further the spammability of this, the clip should be removable so you could then drop a fresh one in! There should be a catch to prevent the clip from just dropping out the bottom, but the top should be open for quickly doing a full-reload.

This blaster looks like it was designed to appeal to guys. Not just the blue colors, but the beefy bow arms and the big, fat, 14-dart clip.
If you're going for accuracy, you won't need to reload for a dozen tags or so. If you're going for speed, you've got a few seconds' worth of firing.

What do you think?


Battlescout picture from u/Blaster Labs on About.Nerf

Poster from u/RADIOSILENCE187 on r/Nerf

I cut out and blew up the close-ups.

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