Today we are going to review some NERF Blasters namely the STAMPEDE and RAIDER. These NERF Blasters have been ON SALE for a couple of months now on almost all Toys R’ Us and Toy Kingdom branches. I never really wanted to buy one, but I have been told that this is the best time to purchase one since the dart-bullet system blasters are already in the process of being phased-out and the fact that they are sold at half the price (50% discount) makes it more interesting. So my office mates and I went to the nearest TK and TRU branches. The MAVERICK was the first NERF I was able to try, so being a lazy boy who want to just press the trigger, I went looking for the VULCAN model but it was sold-out. So I ended up with the STAMPEDE, while my GF bought the RAIDER and my officemate bought the RECON.

 

Comparing the 3 boxes

 

 

 

We only own the Stampede and Raider NERF Blasters so we are only going to cover the two. But we do have some shots of the Recon.

 

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STAMPEDE

Priced at 2000 pesos (50% off)
Full Auto (requires 6 D-type batteries)
Comes with blast shield, bipod, 3 extra long clips and 60 darts
Has good firepower and accuracy
Rating – 5/5

 

The box was quite big and heavy

 

 

Made by HASBRO by the way 🙂

 

Made in China as usual (LOL)

 

 

 

3 extended clips which could carry 18 darts each

plus 1 normal clip which carries 6 darts

for a total of 60 darts

 

 

Comes with the following as mentioned above

 

 

6 batteries are required or else you can not play because you could not fire it manually

 

That is the catch of these full auto system blasters. Though I heard the Vulcan has an option to manually load the bullets. But, if you ask me, nothing beats the fact that you do not have to do anything in order to load your weapon. Just aim and shoot till your darts are exhausted! hahah!

 

 

Closer look at the back

 

 

 

Unboxing of STAMPEDE

 

 

 

Close up of contents

 

 

 

 

Manual

 

1 sheet only with 4 pages

 

 

 

Dart Bullets (all 60 of them)

 

 

Clips

 

Bipod

 

 

Blast Shield

 

 

Blaster

 

 

Then the batteries which I bought for 39 pesos a pair

 

 

Batteries goes in here

 

 

 

You can only put 18 max per extended clip

 

 

More pictures

 

 

Bipod is useless when extended clip is attached

 

Normal clip attached, bipod is able to reach the table top.

 

 

Spring can be seen from outside

 

 

 

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RAIDER

Priced at 1500 pesos (50% off)
Rapid Fire (shotgun reload type)
Comes with barrel/drum type magazine, 35 darts and 15 gear-up darts and 1 vortex disc (free or sample)
Has good firepower (close to Stampede) and accuracy
Rating – 5/5

 

 

Box

 

 

I think this gear-up version is just to let people know about the coming of the vortex type blasters

 

 

RAIDER box as compared to the STAMPEDE box

 

 

Drum magazine can be attached to Recon and Long-Strike blasters as well. We tried it with the Stampede and it works fine too.

 

 

 

 

 

Unboxing

 

 

Darts

 

 

Just a little warning about attaching the drum connector before using the blaster

 

 

 

Stock

 

 

Drum magazine

 

 

Drum connector

 

 

manual

 

 

all accessories attached

 

 

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RECON

Priced at 1200 pesos (50% off)
Has good firepower (below Raider) and fair accuracy
parts can be disassembled (barrel extension, laser pointer, aim/sight and stock)

 

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Box

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Playing with the accessories

 

 

Recon drum magazine attached to STAMPEDE

 

 

Stampede extended clip attached to RAIDER

 

 

Recon with drum magazine attached

Note: Recon’s stock can be used on the Raider as well

 

 

Stampede with drum magazine of Raider, laser pointer and aim/sight of Recon

 

Without the blast shield

 

 

 

My favorite combination!

 

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Imagine what we did in the office, LOL, we were trying to role play RAMBO haha….

 

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