Nerf Vortex Revonix Set 360 Piece

Nerf Vortex Revonix 360 Blaster (Toy) First, it does work -- you can up to 30 discs, reliably fire them, they travel straight out the barrel towards where you aim (unlike some of the Vortex series that tend skew off to one side or the other), and they travel a nice long distance. So, this does everything that anyone would basically want in a Nerf blaster.

Second, it feels solid -- no creaking sounds that suggest some part of it is about to fall off, and the materials chosen to build it are of good quality.

However, compared to other Nerf blasters (and those of their competitors), it's just not pleasant to use. The priming lever on the bottom doesn't really move in a way that feels that good, and the act of priming it to fire the next shot makes an awful lot of noise.

It is also very heavy for what it does, which is shoot 30 pieces of soft foam/plastic ammo with non-semi-automatic action (i.e., needing to be manually primed for every shot). Nerf makes other blasters that could accomplish essentially the same thing, but are smaller, lighter and feel better to operate. For example, the Elite version of the Alpha Trooper with the 35-shot drum magazine.

The final nail in coffin (at least for me) is that there is no removable magazine. Yes, 30 shots is a lot, but I can't help but wonder if some flavor of 30-shot clip for Vortex discs (not the complicated magazine of the Pyragon -- I'm talking about a straightforward clip) wouldn't have been better (at least, it would have been lighter and replaceable with another clip to reload more quickly).

In short, it's well built, it has a very interesting design, but I think Nerf has other more practical choices to perform essentially the same function.


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