NERF ELITE 2.0 was a mistake.
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NERF Elite 2.0 hasn't been very good. It's stuck in a weird place between the original NERF N-strike Elite and the seemingly defunct NERF Alpha Strike line which has lead to problems such as poor build quality, unimaginative designs, constant reshells, and prices that don't seem to reflect what the blasters are seemingly worth. Because of this, I've bought so many Elite 2.0 blasters over the years that I intended to do videos on, but could never think of something to talk about because... most of them are just incredibly boring. So this video includes all of them: from the Volt SD-1 to the newest Ranger PD-5. It's time I gave Elite 2.0 a piece of my mind.
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Walcom i would really like you to make a nerf combo series. Especcially with the fortnite spl (it has an n strike barrel lug so you can ads tacticool rails from there)
There is only one reason to use Elite darts: they make a good spread for absolvers.
Would love to see one of these videos for the ultra series
@@brickosaurus2276 no no no walcom's blood pressure would quadruple
@@kaimikkola9497 Actually I'm pretty sure welcom likes ultra better than elite 2.0
It's 3 am, and instead of sleeping, I'm learning about bad nerf guns when I'm completely disconnected from the hobby. What am I doing with my life
It's alright. You may read me doing the same thing 8 months after this video was uploaded. Even though I watched this exact video 2 days after it was uploaded. Oh well. ADHD, autism, and insomnia really mess with you sometimes.
I dunno. You want to be a mechanic/engineer? Gunsmith?
Game/media weapon designer?
The right thing
It's nerf or nothing
I was in the exact same situation tonight
The shotgun thing from the loadout pack could be used for really cheap cosplay props. With a bit of paint, some PVC, and a couple LEDs, I could turn it into Mr. Freeze's gun from Gotham. Or a few other things that have a similar design.
I saw it and I immediately thought that it could be made into an e-11d from Star wars
make the shotgun one look like a SPAS-12
I love your profile pic. Ban is so cool :)
@@KaiTheAussie weeb
If I ever do a Leon from Resident evil 2 that'll be one of my first choices for his shotgun, because without attachments In the game it looks pretty close
i love the concept of elite 2.0 being more 'tactical' in the sense of several attachment points, but i absolutely HATE how cheap they went with the line. it angers me as someone who likes to piece together blaster and attachment combinations in my head and would actually like to modify one of these blasters because they look so cool.
We had modulus for a reason 😭
I just wish they'd either kept the modulus line or given us actual attachments for E2.0 :/
im not a fan with the 2.0 color scheme they have but even despite its critisism, i would still buy it for a few reasons myself just so i can have my own opinion on it. there are blasters out there that these youtubers have not liked and or reccommended to buy that i have and i havant had much an issue with. maybe i got lucky or mine are mostly in great condition but it could be that the way i hold and use the blasters.
i say this because when people have seen me hold blasters b4 or an air rifle, ive always had the same response to how i hold it being that i 'hold the guns like someone in the millitary would do'. to me it comes naturally of how i feel like it should be held even if im unsure but i guess i just have some gun handling sense or something idk.
I love how Hasbro is going all "Eco friendly" now with their packaging while still releasing trash like this. They've created more landfill with Nerf the last several years than plastic packaging for the last 5 across 3-4 toy lines. Then there is the part where the new boxes are 100% shop lifter and swapper friendly. Hasbro is really trying to speed run its own demise. Some blasters on the list feel like they could have been a huge hit by just changing how it functions. The eagle point has a great looking compact and sleek shell. That cant be argued with, now imagine it as the Styrfe 2.0, or better yet the Regulator successor with select fire.
Sadly, even though this list is all about the mistakes... I still kind of want to find a flip 32 at a thrift store.
The Flip 32 is amazing. I managed to get my hands on one
Try searching your local Ross stores, bro. Saw some a month or so ago at mine
You're forgetting why Nerf is so popular in the first place. They're primarily kid's toys, simple, relatively cheap and safe to play in the home or out in the garden. Even expensive toys break, but with cheap ones, if it breaks, they can easily get another one. Kid's interests are transitory, they tend to grow out of toys quite quickly, and most don't become Nerf hobbyists. So, like most toys, whichever company makes it and whatever the quality, most blasters end up being given away, sold in charity shops and car boot sales, or on the rubbish tip. Any company has to sell enough units to make it financially viable, and the small, but overly vocal, quality obsessed "hobbyist" market can't do that.
I wholeheartedly agree with your opinion on the original Elite 2.0 wave. I also think some of the newer blasters are pretty good (Trailblazer) and sometimes even exceptional (the Motoblitz). I wish they would’ve released those right out of the gate instead of giving us crap like the Warden.
The warden was a fuck fest
the motoblitz is insane considering the rayven is both a great blaster and is discontinued a long time ago. As a german, i bought my elite rayven for 60$ plus shipping. Yeah, i got into the hobby late, but it's still a great version of the stryfe, which is literally the best blaster hasbro has ever made.
It would have been so much easier if nerf decided to, instead, make a line of blasters to challenge Dartzone in quality, price, and power. It would reeled in so much more money.
@@Omniversal_Balancer the problem is still the European market. The power limit is pretty much what elite is delivering, everything above that requires an age restriction, which is why dart zone blasters aren't really accessible. I can't buy rival at all in Germany.
They could deliver on features and quality though, which they still don't. Elite 2.0 is a step back overall.
@@tyrosine87 Yeah I got into the hobby late 2018 so yeah MANY blasters were well before my time and already *discontinued*. If I want any rebelle blaster I need to get EXTREMELY lucky at the likes of Goodwill or pay stupid prices on the likes of Amazon. So yeah right there with you.
i like to think the Motoblitz is a "messenger" for good times ahead. I agree wholeheartedly with a lot of your points here. i don't necessarily mind Nerf blasters that i get as long as they are different, after sitting here and giving my ears for 40 minutes.with the Trailblazer and Motoblitz being released, i am starting to become optimistic for this series and praying that it releases better blasters. You did very well on this video Walcom,I commend you!(PS: I was here from the announcement, and watched the entire video)
And the warden is it’s deslecsis arch nemissis
trailblazer and motoblitz are amazing
The issue with many of these is they are highly priced for what they are meaning stuff outside the US just gets way more pricey than really fits need. Plus the way the global markets are going at the moment as well as inflation internationally speaking, it's a case of a few bad things making some bad products worse.
And now here we are with the Double Punch
(Oh fuck I forgot the Stormcharge)
@@scootergrant8683People dont realise what is involved in a manufacturing business. The process can take months of planning and preparation before you even start full production. Everything has to be worked out in advance, including all costs and predicted sales. Designing a product, checking that it would meet various legal standards in the relevant markets, producing prototypes, testing, agreeing contracts with suppliers, setting up the necessary industrial equipment, staffing, packaging, shipping to wholesalers/retailers, tech support documentation etc. But we all know prices and availability can change dramatically at the drop of a hat. Sometimes companies have no choice but to sell at certain prices.
For me, the Trailblazer was the first 2.0 blaster that I actually bought - The gaping hole on the left side is...fine, but that's where modding comes in. The Motoblitz feels like what the entire line should've been based around conceptually - A blaster familiar in function, but bringing something new/interesting to the table (if not borderline gimmicky).
those 2 circular holes to me instantly indicated the possibility of temporarily holding 2 nerf darts just for quick access i guess a very slight increase to fire rate due to how u reload it. i mean yeah i gets defeated by pre loading mags b4 shooting or reloading the blaster but say u ran out of nerf darts, you have 2 spare darts stored on the gun as like emergency rounds or last stand rounds.
The commander was the first one I bought from the elite 2.0 series
I actually love the rant lol
It’s honest, summative, and just fun to watch. ❤
I think Elite 2.0 is getting better. With the Motoblitz, trailblazer, ranger, and eaglepoint. I'm cautiously optimistic for the future!
i agree except for the eaglepoint, thats pretty bad
@@catalyst999 What's so bad about it?
No,I think nerf just make a master key or a grenade attachment and make EVERY blasters great
@@user-vc3es6zg7u That would make every nerf blaster great. Nerf should definitely do that more
@@catalyst999 Dude.
The eagle point isn’t bad,
It’s like one of the best nerf guns
It’s a sniper
Why?
In my personal opinion, Hasbro should bring back Nerf N-Strike Elite.
would genuinely love to see gen1 n-strike
Yeah, I don't know why they ended that line, the designs was much cooler. The 2.0 are just bad reskins of N-Strike Elite
I'd like to see more nerf modulus
Nerf Modulus and Accustrike as well, all good stuffs
@@randomuser-mv7bb Indeed. I really liked the orange and blue colors of N-Strike Elite.
I really love how you did this video going over each blaster one by one in chronological order.
Please do more line reviews like this
I swear, that large blaster in the tactical pack just looks like it's made of hard rubber when you squeeze it like that. Here's hoping that things improve with newer stuff.
i feel like they should take a break from making blasters for like a year or so and make accessories and more attatchments to the already sold blasters this way giving people even more customisability but also for stuff like the elite 2.0 blasters, they finally get more attatchments that could be useful and therefore could boost the shoddy blaster versions.
think of it like when they do blaster reskins or they bring out the same blasters as before however like they did with the jolt, they made it better, reskined them and gave them small quirks like a modification possibility or a scope or just changed the way it feels and handles. if they do that with the jolt, why not do it on the blasters that are getting heavy negative feedback on and didnt sell well?
As always, I'm appreciating your hard work, fun editing, attention to detail, and animated on-camera-charisma!
The Technician and the Operator are LITERALLY the two worst names to give to blasters with only TWO SHOTS in them and nothing gimmicky about them. Sure, it's fast reload, but you spend more time reloading rather than firing. What the Fantaisie was Hasbro thinking?!
I can think of literally hundreds of worse names for those two, or any other models. Would you buy a Nerf gun called the "Used Tampon" or the "Semen encrusted blaster"? 😂
The trailblazer is interesting to mod. You cannot really remove the air restrictor, only disable it. However, it’s still a fun blaster to use.
I think that another thing that made Elite 2.0 a mistake was that it didn't really have that "game changing" factor (for lack of a better term) that the Elite line had. It was amazing when the Elite line was released, since it was such a huge step from the original N-Strike line (as you explained in your video). The Elite line used direct plunger systems, rather than reverse plunger, making springer blasters more efficient over their N-Strike counterparts. There were semi and full auto flywheel blasters, a step above the original motorized plunger blasters like the Stampede and the Vulcan, and a lot of the blasters were mag fed. When the Elite 2.0 blasters started to come out, there was no "game changing" factor that it had over the Elite line. Many of the blasters were just reshells of already made blasters, as you stated in your video. There was nothing innovative in the Elite 2.0 line over the Elite line, like there was in the Elite line over the N-Strike line. It went from making cool and interesting blasters in the Elite line, to making reshells to make a quick buck just to say that it's a "new" blaster in the Elite 2.0 line. I'm not saying that every single blaster that Nerf releases has to be completely different to the previously released blaster. However, if they're going to make a reshell of a blaster, they could at least have some sort of twist over the original blaster. Hell, it went from us complaining that Nerf didn't paint both sides of the blaster in the Elite line, to trying hard to find any redeeming quality of the blasters released in the Elite 2.0 line. The only blaster that I thought what somewhat interesting in the Elite 2.0 line was the new Motoblitz blaster, but the rest of the blasters just don't do it for me. At the end of the day, however, Nerf, and Hasbro respectively, is a business, and they're going to do make and release whatever blasters make them money, and probably won't care what we, a small albeit ever-growing, margin of the Nerf market has to say. I really do hope that Nerf changes, though. I used to really like their blasters, but in recent years, the once knockoff blasters that I probably wouldn't bat an eye at, have now become the blasters that I look at on the shelves first before Nerf blasters.
A lot of this was probably stated and explained, at least indirectly, in the video, I just thought that I would throw my two cents in the ring. I also know that I probably sound like a Nerfing boomer, shaking my fist at big Hasbro, but I just thought I'd explain why I think that the Elite 2.0 line was a flop, and that I hope that they can turn around the Elite 2.0 line.
thats what i noticed in his review. ive noticed the one main thing well 3 main things that people are so heavy to hope for on blasters and real guns is modifying them, re coloring, texturing and or reskining the guns and blasters and lastly the practicallity of the weapon. does it feel right to use, is it heavy or light. that sort of thing.
I do love the shells of Elite 2.0, I was so hyped to paint these into functioning prop blasters. Sadly I can't do that. Their nice at thrift price. $2 commanders are fun
Elite 2.0 was never Elite 2.0. It was Modulus Alphastrike.
The sad part is in contrys like brazil the good blasters dont come to here,and it is expensive to import things like it like a blaster is 30$ dollars you need to pay $50 just in taxes,thank god the xshot brings all good (and bad) blasters like the rage fire and the gel fire blasters
I wish Hasbro would put vortex discs back on shelves. The knockoff ones don’t work well to build a load out around.
"Shooting things is cool, shooting things safely is cooler." Here here! I've been getting into Nerf collecting for over a year now. Sometimes just for something to look forward to on a weekly basis, even if its a crappy blaster, while the epic limited run pre order blasters are a year away. Been buying some older blasters while I still can online because they're awesome like the Modulus line that I love because 2.0 just doesn't excite. I've been even buying the Roblox blasters recently while their prices drop because they're...at least something different in style. I do like the Commander from the 2.0 line because its affordable and just a modern take on one of the best classics and can be upgraded to a rifle. The Phoenix is just so clunky and a disrespect to the Stryfe...get a Stryfe while you still can.
Your video of the Warden is what really destroyed my Black and White thinking when it came to Nerf, that was when I really believed that there are problems with Nerf. I didn't want to leave Nerf but after seeing the Warden, that was when I started to seriously look for Adventure Force blasters at my local walmart, and well, I got some
Zuru and others have all had quality and reliability issues too. Competition drives price wars, which means trying to cut costs to lower prices. Eventually quality and reliability suffer, but they learn from their mistakes and move on. They have to balance quality and cost against what the market expects and is willing to pay for. Most people won't spend money on a Rolex watch when they can have a Timex that is objectively worse, but far cheaper and does the job well enough. And the main market for Nerf is kids and teenagers, who often play with things for a month or two and then find something else to do... so quality and upgradability aren't such big deals.
Wait until you see elite 3.0
My theory is that hasbro only tries when they're failing. As soon as they succeed they start pushing out garbage again. You can see this in almost all of their franchises.
Well elite 2.0 is getting better because of the double punch, motoblitz, trailblazer, and I'm cautious to say the eaglepoint
For the Ace, there’s way worse : the Slash. It’s a FREAKING STINGER REPAINTED IN BLUE AND QUALIFY THAT REPAINT AS AN ELITE 2.0 WHAT THE HELL HASBRO
This video feels like Walcom slowly descending into madness lol
If it wasn't for the last minute addition of the MotoBlitz, I'm sure the video would've ended like this:
"What do you get when you cross a loyal fanbase with a greedy toy brand that treats it like trash? You get what you f***ing deserve!"
*Shoots a Jolt*
My 9 year old son really wanted the elite 2.0 tactical pack for his birthday, I wasn’t throwing that much money down the drain, so I brought him a DZ Max Tomcat instead. He cried about it. I asked him why he was sad and he said because the tomcat wasn’t blue and green, (his favourite colours), so I painted the shell of it for him whilst he was at school and when I gave it to him he looked like he’d just won a million bucks. I still can’t get over the fact that he cried about getting a Tomcat instead of a piece of shit😂😂😂😂
I think it would be beneficial to teach your child about the benefits of other brands and how nerf kinda sucks.
And if he likes green I would get some of the adventure force products
Personally I think you're too intent on pushing your wishes onto your child, based on your adult views, rather than your 9yo son's view. It was a cheap toy for you to buy, and like any 9yo, his choice wasn't based on quality and value for money. But you didn't like it, couldn't see the 'objective' value of it, so he couldn't have it. The fact he cried shows how disappointed he was, and you can't undo that moment. Perhaps you should have asked him why he wanted it BEFORE buying him anything. 🙄
@@another3997 yeah I’ve got to agree. The kid is 9yo he probably barely knows his right from left. Also the other brands have much more fps so he or other kids might cry from being shot from them.
You could’ve done better decisions than what you did, tbh.
whats a DZ Max Tomcat
I haven't touched Nerf for over a decade, this is a really fascinating exploration of Nerf history. Thank you for all the work you put into this video!
Buy a very old nerf gun before it get nerf.
Hasbro: Terrible Jolt reskin for $500
Hasbro's Competitors: A f**king 200 round minigun that fires 10 rounds a second for like $5
I like how some people try to redeem this line by saying it has "a couple" good blasters. Elite N-Strike had like 90% of its blasters be good whereas the elite 2.0 line has like 3 or 5 at most, with some of them not even being original concepts and a bunch of the bad ones being from the Alpha strike line.
Ty for making this video; i was thinking of buying, but i might still buy the phoenix for the rad scope for an ice centurion
There's a reason that the only Hasbro Nerf line that I actually care about at this point is Rival. The blasters are consistently high quality, consistently actually solid performance, consistently solid ammo, and consistently unique designs. I use my completely stock Charger regularly and love it, I used a Helix literally today and found it quite interesting to use, and there's just more and more I can say. Whether they're "older" blasters for the line like the Hades, Artemis, Kronos, Knockout, etc, etc, or newer ones like the Helix or the Pathfinder, they're legitimately solid and useable, worth their prices, and come with good ammunition. (though, I wish the Pathfinder accepted the old magazines....)
I agree, I have the pathfinder and have to say it is the single best nerf gun I own.
Unlike many on here, you have done what Hasbro have been trying to get people to do for a while... separate the extremely large, "cheap kid's toy" users from the generally older, more serious "hobbyist" users. Realistically, Rival and Hyper rounds are far better platforms on which to base a higher performance series than typical foam darts. Many people traditionally moved on to alternatives like airsoft or paintball, both based on balls not darts, rather than unreasonably expecting dart blasters to transform into something they were never meant to be. Rival and Hyper are Hasbo's alternatives.
As someone just coming back into dart blasters (dropped out shortly after the elite line was dropped) I have to say, maybe it's just cause its the first Nerf blaster I've held in around 10 years, but the trailblazer is everything I was hoping for in a Nerf pistol. Was honestly shocked at how well it performed out of the box (then again, my points of comparison are the original recon and nightfinder) aside from that and the motoblitz though, everything in 2.0 seemed pointless to me.
Also about them "just being toys for kids" another good response would be something about how kids deserve a quality toy to enjoy for years, instead of something that will fall apart in a week.
Yes
I think people are now realizing how good the roughcut actually is cause when I went to Walmart today I saw that the roughcut was in stock next to the Fortnite flare and rival focus and the roughcut was completely gone. It was $10.99
Honestly nerf blaster lines are very comparable to new COD games. Some of them hit the nail on the head so hard they can’t get any better. Then there’s others with stupid DLC that is locked behind supply drops or something. It sucks but hasbro will eventually learn what we want and what properly sells.
Elite 2.0 is easily summarised in one sentence: ‘If in doubt, make another quad-shot blaster.’
Recently, when I went to my friends house, we did a Nerf war, he was a lot more experienced than I am, and he felt genuine fear when I pointed my turbine at him for the first time. To bad I can’t aim to save my life
Welcom really went "Do you use your blaster with or without the shell?" 3:01
The Motoblitz quickly became one of my favorites after picking it up a few weeks ago
With Moto, im hoping that elite 2.0 gets better to the quality of n-strike but with the upgrades on the ultras
And now we have the Double Punch
And guess what, it has Elite plastic quality
(Atleast I think so)
I bet Elite 3.0 will have blasters that are taped together and made of the CHEAPEST possible plastic
No, it is “environmentally friendly” by using the old water bottles found in the dumpsters.
@@brianchan8 Worse
Up for making an exhaustive wishlist video of ALL the blasters you'd like hasbro to create/bring back?
I'll definitely consider it.
"Why are you complaining about kids toys"
Because today's children deserve quality toys too :v
Lets be honest tho
No competitor come EVEN CLOSE to the nerf rival line
honestly the motoblitz is an amazing apology blaster from nerf, its fun, its cheap but not made cheap, if new elite 2.0 blasters come out, they should be at least decent or great
I don't usually watch or like negative videos, but Elite 2.0 absolutely deserves every bit of the criticism. The original Elite is my absolute favorite product line in all of Nerf history, but Elite 2.0 doesn't belong anywhere other than in a landfill. Aside from the occasional Rival purchase I've spent the last couple years giving all my foam flinging money to Dart Zone instead of Nerf, since these days Rival is Nerf's only product line that you can take out of the box and bring to a Nerf game with no modifications necessary to have competitive range and accuracy.
Other than dart zone, which others are worth looking at?
nerf elite was my center point of interest and the 1st main set of blasters i was given by someone who werent going to use them anymore. they are the best line i think nerf has ever come out with to date and i dont think that even in 10 years time, that product line will be beaten by another sub brand. only way i can see them doing it is if they make blasters that grab the attention of us gamers by getting a specific line of blasters made by the sponsors of games or having some connection to the most popular games to grab tons of attention and helping boost that games productivity.
@@auroragoh8323 It appears Dart Zone don't seem to sell much outside of the USA. Whilst I appreciate that many Americans either don't know the rest of the world exists, or just assume it's nothing more than a bunch of uneducated savages that aren't worth bothering about... the rest of the world knows otherwise. 😉 So, whilst Dartzone isn't a readily available option, Nerf and Zuru's X-Shot are commonplace. A Nerf in the hand is better than two Dartzones in an American bush. 😂
I wish they would send in UA-camrs like Walcom to design a blaster of fitting
Of fitting I meant that would suit the needs of every nerfer
@@TGG141 such a blaster would be complicated and expensive to manufacture, expensive to buy, have too many "essential features" and be unsuitable for the majority of typical Nerfers. 😂 Because parents don't want their kids firing 200fps+ darts in the house without eye protection, hurting family pets or knocking things off shelves. Nor out in a typical small garden either, where darts may fly over the fence and land on the busy road or on next door's garage roof. Kids, roads and roofs don't always mix well.
The transitions getting progressively more dements has me rolling lmfao
I think the turbine is definitely worth picking up just because of the decent fire rate at a low price and ofc purse the aesthetics and ergonomics
With you 100% on how Elite 2.0 turned out. I think the Motoblitz is the first blaster in the line up that actually feels like it deserves the name of Elite 2.0, as an evolution of the Elite Rayven. Keeping our fingers crossed it won't be the only good one in the line up going forward. 👍👍
i may have to buy the motoblitz then for comparison. he said in the video the rayven these days are quite rare to get your hands on and if so thats good because i have one but its literally one of my most favourite blasters i own. i really dont think there is going to be much in the way of blasters that could overthrow that blaster just because it fits everything you need for the blaster imo.
Thank you for summarizing my thoughts on the entire line in general. I recommend making numerous shorts out of this video so people with the attention span of a five year old can see and understand the point.
Eaglepoint scope + nerf Phoenix + Zesty Fortnite SMG attachments + 18 round stick mag = Pure awesomeness
Walcom: “2021… It got really bad”
Now you’re speaking the literal truth!
This is why we need more mega xl
They could have done something like the Turbine having a Warden masterkey underneath the barrel (while having internals that don't break and having only screws). Wouldn't that have been awesome?
fun fact: the four dart front loading smart ar blasters are actually a bad version of the zombie strike quadrot
Glued together? Pinned together? Stapled together? If they were made in China, then that makes sense
This is arguably one of your best videos! Gives a good brief history of how nerf has evolved to what it is now. Informative
This video was great.
Really shows how far things have gone. I remember seeing Nerf sledge fires on the shelf’s and getting excited. Ooh how times have changed.
Thanks for this one Walcom.
Keep up the amazing content as always
Cheers.
i remember seeing adverts on nerf like every day or month to do with nerf when i was about 8 to 12 years old on citv and cbbc even in the morning sometimes. and to see how far nerf has come from then and everything they managed to do since then astounds me. i still heavily want to buy all the fortnite blasters and even the roblox ones just because im a huge game freak and i played fortnite in its early days and i still play roblox to this day since 2008. i would absolutely love for nerf to do another roblox sponsor or game sponsorship deal. i mean theres a game on roblox that i play now and again that literally is sponsored by hasbro and its a nerf battle game with some of the nerf guns. still quite early in the process of getting where it needs to but ik for sure that if hasbro does a side project specifically tied to games, they could easily get far more people interested in buying the blasters even if its just a collectors item.
i cant stop laughing when u say "rlly bad" at 21:21 and u are my go to channel when i wanna know if i should get a gun
I dropped out of nerf with the N-Strike series because I changed workplaces and Nerf fights weren't a thing anymore, and years later met my partner who's kids had the Elite 2.0 stuff and I was surprised at how average it was. Like, it was better than N-Strike, but not by much and it had all the issues you pointed out. Good to see it's not just me!
Many thanks, Walcom. With my son reaching nerf age, I’ve pulled out my old blasters and gotten back into the hobby, only this time on the modding side of things too. But I’ve got a lot of catching up to do on where the hobby is now, and what blasters are worth picking up. Videos like this really help me out! Already bought an Eagle Point and Trailblazer unfortunately, but now I can safely avoid the rest of Elite 2.0 and Alpha. It was a shame to get the Eagle Point home and realize I couldn’t just pop the frame off to paint and mod like other blasters
if you want to take your son down the nerf route as he grows up or even the collecting route so its like a life long commitment of a hobby he could have, i would suggest going like every direction possible with it. from blasters that arnt that great to the best blasters out there to even the things people tend to forget. the terrascout, the pedal cart blaster, the water barricades for outdoor battles literally anything u can get your hands on.
If he still is. Show him a jolt and teach him the values of a jolt reskin
The commander is not the new disruptor or strongarm, its the new spectre (bc of barrel attachment and stock attachment)
Manga: n-strike
Anime: elite
Netflix adaptation: elite 2.0
Oh I want a double-barrel Sledgefire now. It’d be an excellent DOOM crossover opportunity!
I wholeheartedly agree with pretty much every analysis in this video. Thank you for your extra time in this video, we need it. On another note, with all these ammo types, you would think we might see a blending of innovation. Whether they know it or not, Hasbro has created a very diverse hobby. Even if by trial and error, they could make some very hot factory integrations, with just some thoughtful consideration. And the money would result naturally from that.
I'm late, but I watched and agreed along with you. I missed the beginning of nstrike and elite, my hobby started with rival, but had the whiptail scorpion as a kid. I haven't bought anything recently new from nerf since the mega motoblitz. And I don't feel like I'm missing out.
I loved this video man, I’m a sucker for big breakdown stuff as well as the quick shorts. Hope you can get round to doing more!
Hey, Alpha Strike Guy here. Alpha Strike's worst blaster by far, is the Tiger DB-2 (that SPAS looking thing from 5:08, it jams, it's redundant, and annoying to load) and the horrible, big and useless big blasters from both the pack at 21:00 and at 30:25 work exactly the same (minus the plunger). Makes me think they reshelled the unsold Tigers
Thanks for your time and information man! It was a trip through hell, but maybe one day Elite 2.0 can see the light.
Each iteration of a retail product line has a limited lifespan, at which point they're changed to refresh their image. In the "toy" market, the most people buying the products will, individually, only be doing so over a short period of time. Usually within the lifespan of just one just iteration, such as Elite. By the time Elite was replaced, most had no interest in purchasing any more Nerf blasters. People who do want a Nerf, usually want and get the latest version regardless, because stocks of old products will have dwindled, as will the relevant advertising. Very few will actually do a direct comparison between generations. Except for hobbyists and adults who take things too seriously. 😂
My turbine broke in 50 minutes I bought a new one and broke in 3 days😂
I got an Echo for Christmas and it broke as soon as I left my grandmas house and could not stop crying (this was the same year nerf 2.0 released)
i am happy you had confidence to make this video
Thanks for the effort to make such a long video, but full of great reviews and even a time line of lauches. Apprecieted man
WS7
This video was amazing. Thanks for putting this out for all of us. Most of this stuff we knew but as a plee to Hasbro to make cooler stuff it was fantastic. Thanks again for all the enthusiasm and real opinions. Keep up the great work you sir ROCK.
The loadout pack shotgun is basically the zuru hawkeye with 1 more capacity or the vigilante without the cool rifle look
A 250lbs man explaining me I need to eat healthier cereals. Oh the irony.
"I would have shown you the cereal bars but... I ate them all..." Frankly that was a better endorsement than anything lol
... but it's better to Ultra.
"The Flip-8 is essentially an 8 shot Jolt"
And thus, Walcom summons the "everything is a Jolt" train of thought
Remember, the Motoblitz is a magazine fed, semi auto flywheeler with an air tank that fires a bunch of Jolts... So is an automated Jolt that reloads automatically, with 6 Jolts under it... So it's just a Jolt :D
Also the editing is pretty weird in this video, at times it makes the transitions make it look that the coming segment is gonna be worse than the previous one and it ends up being more positive, like with the Motoblitz or Ranger. Just pointing that out
Ok so in my opinion-
-modify the echo with a 12 dart case and the retaliator stock for an extra case
-technician hits hard and adding a stock is useful?
-the elite jolt reskin is good
-add the tri-strike rocket launcher and stock to the commander.
-The ranger…I dunno a stock and a scop helps slightly
And that’s all.
Theres an exteme amount of nuance to the leak, reveal, and release of the first wave of Elite 2.0 blasters but if theres just one thing I can clarify it's the timing between Elite 2.0 and the Nexus pro. The first Elite 2.0 listings were leaked in early March 2020, (just right before lockdown). The listings were nothing more names and prices, perfect for rampant speculation. Over the next two months we gradually got descriptions and eventually pictures of each of the blasters. Basically by the start of July we knew what each looked and functioned like, as well as some worrisome whispers of the drastic manufacturing changes. Blasters began showing up on store shelves, at least in the US, in early to mid July, when we got our first reveiws from major channels.
The nexus pro was first leaked with a image of the blaster in early July. Listings for the half darts came in mid July, with the nexus actually be found on shelves in late July. Meaning there was very little overlap between what we were speculating Elite 2.0 to be and what we were eagerly hoping was true of the Nexus Pro. Very few people expected it to be a "pro" line at all (that was speculation better reserved for Hyper at the time) and regardless, the nexus didn't play a roll in that speculations since it had not been revealed in any capacity yet
What I think this situation is being confused with was the DZP/ULTRA confusion of the pervious year. We saw listings leaking the name of the ULTRA line with distinct refill packs and a new blaster in early to mid 2019 (I think may but I'm not 100% on that). We didn't have any clue what the line was other than a new ammo type so therefore speculation could run wild. Dart Zone revealed the Mk1 in July 2019 and so following that people began to optimistically assume ULTRA was possibly half darts or incorrectly assume ULTRA was some "response" to the DZP. The images of the ULTRA ONE and the new darts were finally leaked in mid September 2019, with an offical reveal a few days later and a product launch that October.
If you wanna get even more boring and technical I could talk about how Elite 2.0 had the added focus of leaking right during the start of the pandemic and therefore had way more eyes on it with everyone in the hobby only being online, but that's better saved for a long winded video essay on the subject that would have to include a deep dive into the Alpha Strike line as well as ULTRA and Dart Zones various Pro offerings and that's too grand of a project for the comments section
personally the reason i liked nerf was the constant innovation and retooling
elite 2.0 seemed to go entirely against that
hopefully the motoblitz is a return to form with that innovation.
I really hope they make continue to make better quality products like the Motoblitz and Trailblazer, or even make an Elite 3.0 with short dart compatibility and a focus on performance.
Did bringing back n-force would be such an easy cash grab. Gel foam molding is stupid cheap and all they have to do is paint it, and we would totally eat up some new melee weapons
Actually, my favorite Nerf Elite 2.0 is the Turbine, Echo, Phoenix, and Stormcharge
I feel as if the motoblitz is a course correction for nerf. I’m hopefully optimistic about the future of nerf with that release and I do hope that the team at hasbro can ride the coat tails of this and make some new interesting blasters worth the pickup.
I'd really be interested in unique designs, but magazine-fed. That still is their strength. Hyperfire, Rapidstrike and Infinus are my favourite flywheelers (visually), and I like them more than the MK III. Of course the MK III outclasses them by far in stock performance.
I know this comment was made before the storm charge came out, but it looks like that is going to be the course-corrected phoenix. At this point the phoenix is all but discontinued.(I picked some up at a an overstock chain store for $8).
I understand all the downside😂
But elite2.0 is actually not bad for casual players (except warden, a piece of garbage)
And in my country dart zone products are way more expensive than nerf, like twice of the nerf price
Moreover, n-strike, elite, zombie and all the other nerf series are hyped by scalpers in our country, only elite 2.0's price is at MSRP
Therefore i choose x-shot🤣🤣
happy 2022 happy blasting
“Script what script I don’t need a script because this video is sponcered by raid shadow legends. ”I screamed that out loud in school last week😂
I think elite 2.0 was a good concept but Hasbro ruined everything
i only have the bolt actions eagleshit thing or something and i HATE IT!!
Only 8 shots😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Eagleshit 🤣😂🤣😂
Give it to me then
@@fivespy207 💀8 shots💀
Eagle shit
Hasbro needs a decent product manager. They just seem to be oblivious to what their market wants or needs.
Holy mother of God the editing, dude. I feel like I just watched a Nerf-themed Ted Talk.
The three i think that are salvajable are the turbine, motorstrike and the commander
why does he look like caseoh. yes I liked my own comment
the one thing 2.0 did right were the built in sights u could actually see through it
You can’t forget the Nerf magazine shrinkflation. 12 dart straight mags used to be standard (think retaliator) and now it’s 10 dart magazines. They don’t even have the courtesy to make the 10 dart mags banana mags to warrant losing 2 darts
The title is correct, apart from one thing. Elite 2.0 is a mistake except for motoblitz and flipshots
i get it flipshots arent battle effective but i just love the gimmick
edit: i want to mention i got my motoblitz for like $27 i think. And also, if you have a motoblitz and some old screamer darts i highly recommend using them in the shotgun part as it actually works and makes it a lot cooler.
imo, the Motoblitz is just a direct upgrade to the Mediator.
But are you really representative of the typical Nerf user? They are primarily kids and early teens who play casually and not as a hobby. If they buy a Motoblitz, an Echo or a Commander, they still get similar performance... and younger people often choose things based on aesthetics as much as anything else. So they don't have to worry about getting a subjectively "cool" looking blaster that is objectively worse than their friend's choice.
@@another3997 Elite 2.0 in and of itself is fine, especially with the newer ones. I may not be your typical nerf user, but I do fit into the demographic you mentioned (I’m 15). As for aesthetics, imo the Motoblitz is one of the best looking blasters Elite 2.0 has, but that’s just my opinion. Also not sure how the motoblitz is objectively worse than the echo or commander, but whatever. I haven’t kept up with nerf news much for a while now.