Adventure Zone Tetrashot Review

 As soon as I saw the Tetrashot I was interested in it, I've always enjoyed belt-fed blasters, and I was intrigued by the 4 dart belt links. As soon as it was available online I grabbed one, and I'll almost certainly pick up another one in the future!

Contents

This blaster comes in a pretty typical open face Adventure Force box. Inside you get the blaster, 12 belt links and 98 Buzz Bee long distance darts. There are no instructions included in the box, but the back of the box has operating instructions printed on it. 

Overview

The Tetrashot is a rather unique blaster in that it is the only belt fed blaster I know of that holds multiple darts in each link of the belt. Being a Buzz Bee blaster sold under the Adventure Force line, you don't get any Nerf-compatible accessory attachment points. At the front of the blaster is the pump grip, which is a surprisingly large size and very comfortable. Behind that at the top of the blaster is a loading door that opens and closes with a little sliding latch on top of it, much like other belt fed blasters. Further back on top is a standard Buzz Bee tactical rail, but the blaster comes with no accessory to mount on it. The handle, much like the priming handle, is surprisingly good for a Buzz Bee blaster, I have no complaints about its size or ergonomics. I'm glad to see Buzz Bee finally making some decent grips. The back of the blaster has no stock or stock attachment point, but it does have a large flat surface that would make a great spot to attach a stock point. 

The belt is 12 links long, and each holds four darts for a total of a 48-dart capacity. Like other Buzz Bee belt blasters, each link is identical to the others and attaches by snapping pegs on one link into indents on the next, allowing you to easily separate and reattach the belt, but also allowing you to accidentally detach the belt a bit easily. 

The belt is just the right length that while connected in a circle it can still be easily slid over the front of the blaster and loaded in place. 

Operating the blaster is a very unique experience. Instead of advancing the belt each time your prime the blaster, as in every other belt fed blaster, this blaster first rotates through all four shots in each link of the belt, and then advances to the next one. You get four shots, then on the return stroke of the fifth it advances on to the next link in the belt, you fire those four, advance, etc. It really is quite a brilliant system for putting more darts into a belt without making the belt ridiculously long, and in my testing it worked very well for the most part. 

Overall, the main thing I noticed about the blaster is just how large it is. From the pictures its somewhat hard to get a sense of how big it is, but it really is quite a large blaster. 

Build Quality

As with all Buzz Bee products, the plastic quality is definitely worse than Hasbro, but Buzz Bee has been improving a lot in recent years. The blaster has a bit of flex to it, but no more than any X-Shot or Dart Zone blaster, and the plastic doesn't feel creaky or nearly as cheap as older Buzz Bee products. The belt feels decent, I have no concerns about it breaking, but like the blaster it isn't anywhere near as solid as offerings from Hasbro. The name "Tetrashot" is painted onto both sides of the blaster, and there are no stickers anywhere or any other paint, all the colors are different colored pieces of plastic. 

Build Quality Grade: B

Aesthetics

I'm overall really unsure of what I think of the aesthetics of this blaster. I love the overall shape, it definitely looks to me somewhat like a sci fi light machine gun or something, but I'm not sure about the other design choices. The blocks of bright colors spread around the blaster don't really add much to the overall look other than chaos and color for the sake of color, and the shapes molded into the plastic are mostly also just chaotic and overly busy. I think with a stock and a more unified color scheme the blaster could look awesome.

Aesthetics Grade: B+

Performance

Buzz Bee blasters tend to hit a bit harder than their Nerf competitors, but this one is an exception to that. In firing a good number of shots over my chronograph with the included darts, the highest I recorded was 68, with averages around the mid 60s. Now, I now MongooseJake in his review said that his was averaging 70, so maybe I just got a worse one, but I was definitely getting lower performance than the Elite average, with some shots from looser barrels getting very poor performance, around 40s-50s. Definitely not awful, but not as good as I was expecting or hoping for from Buzz Bee.

Performance Grade: B-

Usability

I personally feel like this blaster is fantastic for a lot of game types. Belts are a bit awkward compared to magazines, but they do combine the ability to reload on the fly of a revolver type blaster with the ability to quickly swap out the belt for a new one like a magazine fed blaster. 48 shots in one belt is a LOT, with the ability to reload on top of that I can see this being super good in games where you're going to be scavenging ammo off the ground to top up, and the ability to add links to the belt easily if you get a second blaster means you could extend the capacity for Humans vs. Zombies. I can't see this being great for competitive games, but other than that this is a great blaster. I should also note, the shells have very short dart posts, which allows you to ramrod half darts down the barrels stock and have them engage the air restrictors and fire properly. One slight issue I found with the blaster in my testing that makes it somewhat less reliable and usable is the occasional dart skip. Advancing the belt is a bit difficult, as it is much heavier than most belts, and if you don't move the priming handle forward with enough force on the strokes that advance the belt, it sometimes won't align the next link of the belt with the air restrictors, and as a result won't fire. With some practice, however, this shouldn't be a problem. I did also note that the blaster runs into problems if the belt is used as one long strand rather than connected into a circle, with the weight of the belt hanging loose instead of connected back to itself to maintain symmetry, it pulls the shells out of alignment in whatever direction there are more links hanging. Not a massive problem, but something to be aware of. I'm not sure how well it would do with longer belts, but some sort of ammo box to hold the weight of the belt should solve this problem.

Usability Grade: B+

Mod Potential

I'll be honest, I didn't actually open up this blaster. I do intend to mod it soon, and when I do, perhaps I'll update this with some internal photos, but in the mean time, I would highly recommend checking out MongooseJake's video about the mod potential, he has a great explanation of how the internal mechanisms work. It seems that there's quite a bit one could do to this blaster to make it better, or at least different. The most obvious mod, and one that he's already done, is to turn it into an actual shotgun by forcing it to advance every time you prime it, and fire all 4 shots every time you pull the trigger. As far as more simple mods go, there's plenty of room for a spring upgrade, and the flat back end of the blaster is practically begging for a stock point to be added. Each different colored piece of plastic on the blaster is a separate piece that can be removed, so painting would be quite simple as long as you want each section to be painted separately. With a very slight bit of shell cutting it would be possible to make each barrel of each shell hold two half length darts and fire them together in a shotgun burst, or with a lot of work you could potentially make each barrel an inline clip of two half darts to get 96 shot out of the single belt. I can't wait to see what people come up with for this blaster!

Mod Potential Grade: A

Value For Money

This category is always a win for Buzz Bee, and this blaster is no exception. I bought this blaster on Walmart's website, and it was only $25. For a pump action primary class blaster with a 48 dart capacity, AND slightly more than enough darts to fully load it twice, there's just simply nothing that Nerf can make to compete at this price point. Even Dart Zone and X-Shot are given a run for their money here, this price is ridiculous. Even if Buzz Bee doesn't sell the belts separately, I will almost certainly pick up a second one for a second belt and to do different mods to. 

Value For Money Grade: A

Final Grades:

Dart Zone Rampage Performance 2 Pack Review

 

A while ago I noticed this kinda interesting listing on Amazon while looking for a Dart Zone Havoc that was listed as the "Rampage performance dart blaster set" that came with both a Havoc and two harmonica magazines, and also another blaster simply referred to as "rifle dart blaster." The rifle blaster didn't seem to be available anywhere else, or without the Havoc, and while it didn't look like anything too special, I was interested to check it out. I finally got around to buying it months later, so here's my thoughts!

Contents

The blaster ships in a plain brown box printed with the name of the set and practically nothing else, but I don't have a photo of it because my shipping label was stuck directly over the front of it. Inside you get the Havoc, two 8 dart harmonica magazines for it, the rifle blaster, a sight for the rifle, and 18 waffle darts.

I'm going to split up the rest of the review into parts on each blaster, before coming back together to finish off with value and final thoughts. 

Havoc Overview

The Havoc has been around for ages, but this is my first time actually getting one myself. It's a springer that fires from an 8 dart harmonica magazine that moves upwards through the blaster as you fire. The priming mechanism is interesting, it functions like a bolt action in that you rotate the handle up and pull back to prime, but there's really no reason to rotate it back down, and it feels more like a cross between pump action and straight pull bolt action with the ability to fold the priming handle down when you're not using it.

 The blaster has simple iron sights, no tactical rails of any kind and no attachment points for accessories. Kinda strangely, at the top of the blaster where the magazine comes out there's a little spring loaded door that opens as the magazine pushes up against it, but it seems to serve no purpose at all that I can tell. 

There is no paint on the blaster, but there are two Dart Zone Covert Ops stickers for decoration. 

Havoc Build Quality

The build quality is up to the usual Dart Zone standard, the blaster feels well built enough, but not quite as good as Nerf quality. The priming handle feels very solid, and no part of the blaster feels overly cheap. On mine, the stickers weren't applied quite perfectly, but nothing noticeable unless you're looking for it. 

Havoc Build Quality Grade: A-

Havoc Aesthetics

I honestly love the aesthetics of the Havoc. I don't know why it took me so many years to finally pick one up. I think the overall shape of the blaster is great, the proportions are good, and it just looks nice. That being said, the shell has a TON of different patterns on it, horizontal lines, diagonal lines, small inset circles, larger inset circles, etc. If you wanted to paint up the shell and go over the details with a different color, the overall effect would be a bit busy and chaotic, but without any paint I think it works well enough. I appreciate that the harmonica magazines aren't perfectly straight but instead slightly slanted, which hasn't been done in many harmonica blasters. The priming mechanism sticks out quite a bit on one side, but honestly it doesn't bother me nearly as much as some asymmetric parts of other blasters (looking at you, Stryfe). Overall its a good design that could be slightly better with less chaotic design choices, but I like it. 

Havoc Aesthetics Grade: B+

Havoc Performance

The performance from the Havoc is exactly what you'd expect from Dart Zone stock blasters, which is far better than Nerf. Putting 20 shots over my chronograph, I got an average of 78, with many shots hitting over 80. I never got any jams or misfires, the whole system works great and feels good to use. Also of note, there is no air restrictor at all in this blaster, or any locks, allowing the blaster to be de-primed easily once primed.  The harmonica magazine doesn't have any dart posts, so half length darts can easily be loaded into it. However, like most other Dart Zone blasters, there's a mechanism that blocks the barrel unless a full length is sticking out of the magazine, blocking half darts from firing without modification. This is a simple spring loaded piece of plastic that the front of the darts push out of the way before they fire, and it would be very easy to cut it off or remove it to allow the firing of half darts, even without opening the blaster. Even with modern Dart Zone blasters hitting even harder, the Havoc still outperforms stock nerf blasters and delivers very usable performance out of the box.

Havoc Performance Grade: A-

Havoc Usability

For a harmonica magazine blaster, the Havoc is quite usable. The magazines only hold 8 darts, so you won't get a massive number of shots out of it, but the fact that the set comes with two magazines and more are available on Dart Zone's website is a huge plus. Unlike many BOOMco and X-Shot harmonica blasters, there is a definitive stopping point when you insert the magazine, making it impossible to over insert it. This means its faster to reload and easier to do without having to devote attention to making sure you put the magazine in just right. While you can't share magazines with other people around you and you are limited to 8 shots, the Havoc makes it work well with the extra mag and very intuitive loading system. I know for a fact that I'll end up running this blaster a good amount. 

Havoc Usability Grade: B-

Havoc Mod Potential

This category is a difficult one for the Havoc, I literally couldn't get mine open. Something in the middle around the trigger just wouldn't separate, no matter how much I pried at it, and since I really do like and want to use this blaster, I didn't want to break it. Not sure if that was a fluke, if there was some glue or a screw that I somehow missed or what, but I went to the end of the effort I was willing to put in to open it and couldn't get it open. On Blasterhub there's an old review from when it first came out that has internals pictures, so opening it is doable, I just couldn't for whatever reason. Assuming you can manage to get it open, it could definitely take a spring upgrade, and if you remove the little dart blocking part it can fire half length darts with minimal modification. I'm not sure how much air is lost in the interface between the plunger and the magazine, but the seal is nearly perfect against my finger. I don't know how much else you can do, but I don't think much more modification is needed. As a harmonica magazine blaster, it will never be hitting as hard as something with a proper sealed breech and actual barrel length, but it seems that if you could open it easily, it could be made to hit 100fps or over very easily. 

Havoc Mod Potential Grade: B-

Rifle Overview

The rifle sure is an odd blaster. It is quite small, very narrow and minimalistic. It has a pump at the front to prime it, a small button on top that opens the barrel to load a dart in, and a small tactical rail on top to accommodate the scope that it comes with. The stock is not really a stock at all in that it is comically small, but it does serve a function as storage for four extra darts. There's no other attachment points for anything, or other features to speak of. The scope itself is very simple, just a hollow tube with no crosshairs or anything inside. It does seem to be compatible with other Dart Zone blasters, I put it on my Villainator with no problem, but it wont work on any of the Dart Zone pro blasters with picatinny. 

Rifle Build Quality

Much like the Havoc, the rifle feels about like what you'd expect for a Dart Zone blaster, if maybe slightly worse. The plastic is the usual Dart Zone fare of slightly worse than Nerf but overall pretty good, but there are a few things that make this one feel a bit worse. The main complaint I have about the build quality is the pump handle. For some reason, it just rattles like crazy. If you move the blaster at all, the pump rattles against the shell. Its not unusably bad, but it certainly feels cheap. The other minor complaint I have is the tolerance on the mechanism to lock and drop the barrel, it works great if you swing the barrel up into position, but it really needs to be closed solidly to latch. If you close it too gently, it will likely fall open again.

Rifle Build Quality Grade: B+

Rifle Aesthetics

The rifle has a sort of weird look to it, being a rifle shaped blaster that is really quite small. I think the decor on this one is a bit better than on the Havoc, since there's less space to fill with different chaotic designs, but I think overall the aesthetics are a bit plain. I wish there was a trigger guard, I think that would improve the look, and I wish the stock was a bit longer. Overall though, the design works and looks decent, its just not an amazingly cool looking blaster. 

Rifle Aesthetics Grade: B-

Rifle Performance

I wasn't really sure what to expect from this blaster, it was clearly not a blaster that was significant enough to be released in stores or even released by itself, but Dart Zone almost always has pretty good performance numbers, so I was optimistic and I wasn't disappointed. In 20 shots of my chronograph, I got an average of about 79, just slightly better than the Havoc. This blaster was also a good bit more consistent than the Havoc, with almost all the shots being right around that average. Like the Havoc, there is no air restrictor and no dart posts, meaning that half length darts can be loaded in stock. However, a mechanism in the barrel section blocks half darts from firing without modification. That being said, the modification to allow it to fire half darts takes about 30 seconds and just a screwdriver. 

Rifle Performance Grade: A-

Rifle Usability

Despite the performance being quite good for a stock off the shelf blaster, this one really isn't at all practical to use in a game. The fact that loading takes so many steps, press the button to open the barrel, load one dart, close the barrel, pump the priming handle, fire, gives it a very slow rate of fire. The dart storage on the stock is nice, but four extra darts isn't really enough for anything in a game, and the dart holders are awkwardly positioned, meaning that getting the darts out of them is a bit bizarre. To its credit, pressing the button to drop the barrel is really smooth, and the action of swinging the barrel closed works great as long as you give it a good swing, so I could see someone using this blaster with a dump pouch of darts for fun, but no break barrel single shot blaster will ever be truly practical. 

Rifle Usability Grade: D

Rifle Mod Potential

Unlike the Havoc, I had no problem at all getting this blaster open. Inside is about what you'd expect, its a very simple system with a fairly decent plunger tube. The inner diameter of the plunger tube is .98 inches, and a simple spring upgrade could get this thing hitting even harder. To allow it to fire half darts, all you have to do is open the barrel and take out the simple mechanism contained within to block the barrel without a full length loaded. Honestly, what I think would be the coolest mod for this blaster is minimizing it, cutting off the stock and barrel and turning it into a pull back pistol. 

Rifle Mod Potential Grade: B-

Value For Money

On Amazon, the only way to get this set, it sells for $24.99. For two blasters, two magazines for the Havoc and 18 of the great Dart Zone darts, this definitely isn't a bad deal. However, when the Havoc first came out in 2016, it sold with two magazines and 16 darts for $10. That leaves the rifle and 2 darts making up the other $15, which is definitely not a good deal. The very similar X-Shot Hawkeye blaster comes with 12 darts and 5 target cans, all for only $10. However, with the Havoc no longer being readily available for $10, I think $25 is a reasonable amount to pay for this set, but certainly not great. 

Value For Money Grade: B-

I feel like I can't end this review without a brief comparison to the X-Shot versions of each blaster. The X-Shot Hawkeye and X-Shot Quickslide are both very very similar to the two Dart Zone blasters in this set. When it comes to the Hawkeye vs the rifle from this set, I much prefer the Hawkeye. The Hawkeye is also break barrel and pump action, and also comes with a scope and a stock that holds four darts, but the Hawkeye looks cooler in my opinion, performs just as well, and has a trigger guard. Plus, it has the fun "recoil" action that is far more satisfying than you'd expect. When it comes to the Quickslide vs the Havoc, its a closer match. I LOVE the Quickslide, its truly one of my favorite blasters ever (see my review of the Bug Attack Swarm Seeker, its the same blaster). However, at the moment, its impossible to buy more of the X-Shot harmonica magazines separately, while the Dart Zone ones are available on the Dart Zone site, and the Havoc comes with 2 instead of the Quickslide's one. Performance is about the same, but the X-Shot offering comes with ten dart magazines instead of 8, making them a bit more usable. I truly think I'll use both of them all the time at games, but the Quickslide is still my favorite, especially aesthetically. 

Final Grades

Eagle Agent review: knockoff Rival Edge?

So this is a weird thing. This blaster popped up on Nerf Modder's Welcome, r/nerf, and a few other places, and it immediately caught my eye. It was clearly styled after the Rival Edge line, but it was also a weird Chinese knock-off that doesn't seem to be based off any particular product. I loved the aesthetics, and after jumping through some weird hoops and paying far too much money for it, I managed to get my hands on what could be the first one in all of North America. But was it worth all the trouble?

Contents

The box the blaster comes in is tiny. Like, when I saw it wrapped up at my door I was worried they had sent the wrong product tiny. Here's a rocket for scale. 

Inside the box, you get the blaster body, stock, barrel, detached priming handle, sight, bipod, magazine, and 12 rounds of ammo. There's no instructions or any packing material of any kind besides the bag the ammo is in. 

Overview

Because this is a blaster that probably no one else has their hands on, I'm going to be really thorough in this section and run through every part one by one. 

Main Blaster

The main body of the blaster seems to be based off the Rival Edge Mercury. At the top of the blaster there's a tactical rail for the included sight. In front of the rail is a weird little jam door that slides forwards to reveal a relatively tiny hole that I can't imagine being that useful, but its a nice inclusion. 

The muzzle has no hop-up, and the attachment point for the barrel is nearly N-Strike compatible, but unfortunately not quite. Underneath the blaster is a magwell, which is about the length of a standard full length magwell, but it obviously only takes the included magazine. 

Behind the magwell is the mag release, and then behind that is the safety and trigger. The safety is really loose, its easy to switch between safe and fire by accident if you're not careful. At the very back of the blaster is another rail, which is used to attach the stock. 

And finally, on both sides of the blaster is a hole to attach the priming handle depending on which side you want it on. Without the attachments on it, the whole thing is very similar in size to a Kronos. 

Stock

The stock slides onto the rail at the back of the blaster, and the bottom piece pivots around the round part to clip into the bottom of the grip. The orange parts on both sides of the stock pull back a locking mechanism so that the stock can lock on but also be easily removed. Interestingly, the parts that go into the handle of the blaster have clips on them, so it seems to be both designed to be removable but also not removable at the same time. I simply cut down the clips to keep it fully removable. 

Barrel

The barrel is a simple piece, it has a single tactical rail on the bottom for the bipod to attach to, and no moving parts. The attachment system is so close to being N-Strike compatible, but its set at a different angle. I was actually able to slide it on to an N-Strike barrel attachment, but when you twist it to lock it in it ends up at an angle and not aligned to the rest of the blaster, which is a shame. If you wanted to make it work on an N-Strike blaster though, I think it would be doable with some modding. 

Magazine

The magazine holds six rounds, but if you noticed in the photo of the magwell, only half of it can actually be fed into the blaster at once. The mag is fully symmetrical front to back, so effectively you have two three round magazines attached together. Unfortunately there's no way to reload the part that isn't actively feeding while its loaded or anything, so its just sort of a strange system. 

Bipod

The bipod has a somewhat interesting mechanism on it, the legs are locked in the vertical position and held closed by the part that attaches to the rail, and to open it or fold it forward you have to pull the legs down to disengage them from the little locking tab. 

It works alright in practice but I don't know why you'd ever want your bipod locked vertically but with the legs together? There's no other moving parts, the legs don't extend or retract and it only opens as much as shown in the above photo. Note that there's also no mechanism to keep the attachment locked on the rail, but it slides on tight enough that I don't think it'll ever be a problem.

Sight

The sight is about as simple as you can get, much like all the other Nerf sights. Like the bipod there's nothing to actually keep it on the rail, but it fits tight enough. It has a clear piece of plastic for the sight picture, with a few lines on it to make a crosshairs. 

Priming Handle

Not much to mention about this, other than the fact that it screws in, so it's removable and can be installed on either side or swapped between them as you please. 

Rounds

The rounds themselves seem to be nearly the same as authentic rounds, a similar level of squish, and similar sized and shaped dimples. They have an M on them instead of an N, but I have no idea what that stands for. 

Build Quality

I was honestly a bit surprised by the build quality of this blaster. Many of the knock-offs that I have are very thin, creaky plastic, but that luckily isn't the case with this one. The bipod feels a bit cheap and flimsy, but the rest of the blaster for the most part actually feels very very nice. Easily better than Buzz Bee plastic, I'd say maybe even better than X-Shot and Dart Zone plastic and only a bit worse than Nerf. There's a good weight to it, nothing feels like it might break, and the overall feel is very close to the premium Rival feel. The magazine has very little wobble in the magwell but still gravity drops easily, the barrel attachment doesn't have the little locking nub but still locks in snugly somehow, it all just feels great. Even the prime stroke is fairly smooth. The only build quality complaints I have are that the jam door doesn't always stay closed, and the safety switch is very loose. 

Build Quality Grade: A-

Aesthetics

Oh man, this is the main reason why I wanted this blaster so much. I just absolutely adore the look of it. The Rival Edge line was cool looking in general, but in my opinion this looks better than all of them.

The only thing I don't like the look of as much is the bipod, and I would prefer if the top rail extended further forward and the little jam door wasn't there at all, but overall I just think it looks great. Plus its painted on both sides, which puts it ahead of anything Hasbro is making.

Aesthetics Grade: A+

Performance

And here's where we get to the downside. Out of the box, I was only averaging about 61 FPS. That went slightly down with the barrel on, and slightly up with it off. The box claims "27 M/S Speed" which is equivalent to about 88.5 FPS, but unfortunately I had no shots get even close to that. The lack of power combined with the lack of hop-up means that this thing shoots like, really poorly. Ranges stock are about Jolt level. Not exactly the performance you want out of sniper-styled blaster with a 3 round magazine. 

Performance Grade: C-

Usability

I sadly don't think this blaster is usable for much in games. It has a tiny capacity with bad performance, and its a very large shell, so it won't be a great secondary either. Here's a size comparison with my old HvZ Rampage:

If you really want to use it in a game, the best way to run it would be with no stock and no barrel, but then you might as well  just get a Mercury that looks very similar, holds more rounds, hits harder, and can be reloaded more easily. Only coming with one proprietary magazine makes it a pain to reload quickly, as you can't even just swap to another mag. Now, if you're like me and you like to run dumb things in games, then I highly recommend this. I guarantee I'll be using it in games as soon as we can have games again, but if you're looking for a performance blaster, this isn't it. 

Usability Grade: D

Mod Potential

The internals of this blaster are quite interesting. The internal layout is fairly similar to a Mercury, Kronos, or any similar Rival pistol, including a rather massive plunger tube. I expected worse, considering the performance, but the plunger definitely has potential. Like in a Kronos, the spring goes into the guide at the back, and the catch is at the back. The air seal is alright, but could likely be improved, and the spring is really weird. Its incredibly long. Like, almost as long as the blaster long. Here's a size comparison. 

Its a decent strength spring, and its under a LOT of pre-compression. This is where the plunger sits without compressing the spring at all. 

Its a very weird design, but I'm certain it has a lot of mod potential. I don't have any loose springs lying around that will just fit in, but I'm definitely going to be trying to find a Kronos upgrade spring or something similar to see if I can get it up to par. The internals feel sturdy and well made, so I'm not really worried about breaking anything, and the priming handle screws directly into the plunger tube itself, so there should be enough strength to prime a heavier spring without anything breaking. Hopefully with a bit of work I can get this thing performing as good as it looks. I'd also love to see a short dart conversion, but thats definitely more work than I intend to put in personally.

Mod Potential Grade: A?

Value For Money

This... is a hard category to write about. As of right now, this blaster is only available on Alibaba, and nowhere else that I could find. Because Alibaba is a wholesale site, and not a direct retailer, you technically can't buy just one unit, you have to buy in bulk. Now, it is possible to request and pay for a sample unit from the seller, which is what I did, but you have to pay the price per unit, plus a rather... silly shipping fee. I paid $8.49 for the blaster, which is obviously a crazy low price, but the shipping fee was $110, obviously a crazy high price. I can't recommend that any sane person spend $118.49 for this blaster like I did, as that is clearly a stupidly high price. According to some people who have had more conversation with the seller, they intend to bring these to US retailers at some point in the future, so if they become available that way, or at least on Aliexpress, I think the price might be something that is more doable. I think I would realistically pay at least $40 for this blaster considering all the things that are included and the build quality, but for right now with going through Alibaba, I would not recommend spending the money. 

Value For Money Grade: F... for now

Extra Notes

I couldn't find a good spot to mention all of these things in the main review, but here's a few other interesting things. 

Color

The color is like, spot on Rival Edge. The piece below in the photo is from my Jupiter, and the color matches pretty much perfectly. I truly don't have any whole Edge blasters to photograph it with at the moment, but it would fit in perfectly with the color and overall aesthetic. 

Tactical Rails

They're not picatinny, but also not quite identical to the standard Rival rails. 

The rail on the right there is an authentic Rival rail from my Jupiter, and the width seems to be about the same, just a tiny tiny bit wider on this blaster. However, the spacing is different between the raised parts. The sight from this blaster fits very tightly onto the Jupiter rail, but I don't have any Rival rail attachments to test the other way around. 

Final Grades

Its certainly a unique blaster, and I think there might be a lot more in the future for this blaster and maybe for the company that made it depending on what else they have in store.