Nerf unveils Hyper, its next-generation high-capacity blasters with the fastest recharge ever

The Nerf maker Hasbro has heard you loud and clear, Adam Savages of the world: you want to be able to shoot foam projectiles for days without carrying a belt full of magazines or constantly bending down to reload.

The company has announced Nerf Hyper, a new range of shooters that not only shoot harder (up to 110 feet per second) than any stock shooter, but also the company’s fastest recharge, thanks to a smaller foam projectile that takes up so little. space, you can fit 40 of them within a pistol-sized blaster. This is unheard of in Nerf. You can pinch (carry) 50 or 100 round containers to fill quickly, like a paint ball.

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Hasbro does not yet have a fixed release date for Hyper no more than ‘2021’, but we get three blasters to start:

• The $ 30 Nerf Hyper Rush-40 is the 40-round pistol I mentioned; it’s a single-shot, spring action where you pull back the entire slide (including its integrated funnel) and then shoot once.
• The $ 40 Hyper Siege-50 holds 50 rounds in a pump-gun rifle design that also includes a firing range; keep the trigger pressed and it burns as fast as you pump. See it at the top of our gallery below.
• But the flagship is clearly the $ 70 Hyper Mach-100, a fully automatic SMG design that removes D batteries and spits foam balls out of its 100-round funnel. See it at the top of this post.

Note that none of the new shooters break records for how many shots you get before reloading – the $ 100 Nerf Rival Nemesis, $ 100 Perses and $ 200 Prometheus already contain subjects who have 100 or more of Hasbro’s larger Rival balle kan pas. Competitor could already have 100 feet per second, so 110 fps is not a big jump either.

No, this is the impressive ratio between these blasters and the capacity-to-size ratio. “In the bundle where you could previously accommodate 25 competitive rounds, you can now fit 100 Hyper rounds,” says Hasbro SVP and Nerf’s brand manager, Tom Warner. The edge.

Where the fan-favorite Persians just Rare fit 100 in a big, beery SMG, unless you’ve invested in an aftermarket loader, it might be easier now. The next time Nerf makes a large sub-cannon like the Prometheus, you could theoretically fire 800 rounds without reloading once. And it wasn’t too long ago that a six-shot revolver was considered the latest in the Nerf sidearms.

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And while you may be spending on new ammunition, you can pay a lot less per shot if you buy bulk. While the 50 and 100 round refill bins sell for $ 12 and $ 20 respectively, you can pick up a 200 round pack for less than $ 30. That equates to 15 cents per projectile – much less than the 27 cents that Nerf charges per Elite arrow, not to mention the 36 cents per competitor, 40 cents per Ultra or 50 cents for each Mega arrow.

Hasbro tells us that although they had to find a new material for Hyper-balls, they now actually had to fly further while still being able to bounce. No word on whether they will bend.

It’s been more than five years since the Nerf community showed that Rival was perfect for high-capacity fast firearms, and the Nemesis and Persians were an excellent start, but Hasbro has also been trumped recently when it comes to long-range blowers trying to to sell us on its own Ultra-arrow. But Hyper seems to be able to do many of the things Nerfers wants at the same time.

I’m very eager to see where Hyper will fit into the new meta of foam blowers once the pandemic subsides, and whether the community will accept it or not.