The Needler finally got NERFed.
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NERF and Halo: Infinite has a new blaster in the NERF LMTD Limited Edition line, and that's the iconic Needler. One of the best weapons from the Halo Franchise because of it's completely unique gimmick of homing needles that stuck to your target, combined, and then exploded that hasn't changed all that much such Halo: Combat Evolved. This Blaster was taken right out of Halo: Infinite featuring the internals of the Dart Tag Speedswarm but with unique lighting effects and gimmicks. Weighing in at $100 USD Retail, is it really worth it to anyone outside of the Halo fandom?
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0:00 The Best Blaster Ever?
0:26 The Ridge Wallet
1:38 Unboxing the Needler
4:31 The LED Effects
6:30 Measuring Velocity
6:40 Measuring Distance
7:41 The Fanboys were Right?
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I’m a halo fan and no u are right about it.
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Fun fact: this is actually a 1 to 1 scale of a needler..for a spartan,as Spartans have bigger hands things tend to appear smaller. Another company made an incredibly beautiful needler for props,and it's more of a 1 to 1 for the human soliders like the Marines or the odsts,halos pretty crazy with how big everything is.
Actually based on images of standard marines/odst’s using the needler this version is actually slightly smaller than 1 to 1
Spartans are larger than normal humans and the Covenant aliens are also much larger that's why it's big.
Well yeah, a lot of weapons are gonna be pretty big considering the species that makes up the majority of the covenants military and political backbone is over 7 feet tall on average and is easily 300 pounds of muscle, so it makes sense their equivalent of an SMG is pretty big by human standards
If you were cosplaying a spartan you’re already not 1 to 1 anyway unless you’re 8 feet tall.
Its not 1 to 1 scale. Neca's needler replica is true scale. Find a comparison vid. You'll see just how beefy a life size one is.
When the grip that's not designed for human hands is still more comfortable than a buzzbee grip
This thing in Nerf hyper would be absolutely fantastic because the upper portion of it could be the storage Hopper and could hold like 40 rounds of neon pink Hyper balls.
That's what I thought.
@@WalcomS7 or for added effect, have it fire pink glow in the dark gellets (another user mentioned this) so they explode when they hit something
Fantastic idea! :0
Could the needles fit in the darts?
You have to keep in mind that a grunt in halo is actually 5 and a half feet tall, so the large size of the nerf one is actually pretty accurate.
You got short kings staring into space now realizing they'd be eye to eye with a Grunt.
Which is both good and bad, cause Marine cosplayers will look great, but Spartan cosplayers under 7 feet tall will look a bit silly
I know I'd love to cosplay as a Spartan but at 5.4 I'd look like Steve Rogers before he became captain America only I'm fatter 🤣🤣
This is clearly a collector piece with a blaster addition just like the other crossover blasters similar to this and I actually really like how it looks.
So as a Halo fan, I want this for a display piece. I 100% agree with you though that this should have fired like the one in the game. Using rival or hyper and work like a Perses.
Cool replica blaster for Halo fans. I'll say I think the inaccuracy of elite darts actually makes them kinda look like they're 'tracking' in mid air which is actually really cool.
That’s true!! Your right no one has thought of that🤔👍🏻
Oh I thought the reason why the nerf darts were moving to the side was because it was windy
At least you can dual wield It like the good Halo games
The PRETTY PINK POMPOMS OF DEATH.
@@WalcomS7 true
Sure
Slow fire rate RESOLVED
Well I agree halo 2 is the best halo game BUT halo 2 was the only one you could dual wield the needler in and that's because Bungie realized how OP dual needlers were in halo 2 because they changed the problem of the needler forcing trades and made it so it outguns virtually anything
it's still a step in the right direction better then the mando thingy
For 100 dollars, it should've had a bit more detail, like removable spikes for dart storage, Metallic plastic, and a rate of fire upgrade. but At least its not the mandalorian blaster. Always did love the needler, though. something about it just feels Awesome to use.
Not only did they got Nerfed. But they also got Nerfed into the ground! (It a was a gamer pun, I'm sorry.)
In terms of the argument of using different ammo, I think in conventions or showing friends, having the correct shape shots flying through the air adds to the "wow" factor. This goes even more if the rate of fire was increased and the shooting sounds were added.
Maybe including pink accustrike darts would be a happy medium? Pointy sticks flying through the air but you can actually hit what you're aiming at lul
Most conventions, as far as I know, do not allow firing blasters.
The cons I used to go to had stricter rules in the halls, but people would be more chill in outside areas, especially if people were doing it for a photoshoot. I've only really been to smaller ones though
Someone made a pretty good point about keeping elite darts since the fishtailing could somewhat simulate the needles tracking people. Most of the Halo games, I believe with the exception of Infinite, had needles that sort of danced around as they flew to you.
@@anthon0360 I get what you mean, but I don't think hasbro had deep lore in mind when choosing elite darts lol. I think they're just cheaper and make the pricier accustrike look superior
Just me personally kind of wished for the nerf needler. Did what boomco did which is the needles could be removable so you can insert your darts if you wanted to so it acted as dart storage
that would look terrible as a prop though and there targeting collectors
@@surgefire4845 I agree, while I thought the BoomCo one was cool, the needles on this current model are too fantastic to even want to swap out. Might as well have a concealable slot at the bottom that you can pop open to reveal more darts if anything. Hell, it could even make sense of the ammo, like in Halo CE where there was like little crystal pods you would pick up for "ammo" just stuff a wad of them somewhere haha
Honestly, not having a rechargeable battery is the most compelling argument for the value issue, and its not something that even came across my mind until you mentioned it. 40 dollar desk games and modern Tamogachi/Digimon have cheap rechargeable batteries in them these days. It hardly makes sense that any full auto blaster still takes a fleet of AA (outside of maybe environmental concerns of alkali versus lithium).
For what its worth, I agree with the rate (and method) of fire being more important than the shape of the projectile. The needles don't sit in a spindle in the front of the blaster, they don't fire from the top of the chamber, and they fire fast as hell. If I'm buying a FUNCTIONAL replica then function matters.
At the crux of every one of these Nerf limited videos, the staunch supporters are on the end that its a high end prop (even though most don't look as good as this one). But if you want a prop, you buy a prop. There IS a novelty to having the prop functionally shoot, but at the core of it, the reason you'd buy a NERF prop specifically is to USE it as a blaster. I don't think its off base for you to be disappointed at these blasters being either functionally deficient or functionally identical to much much cheaper blasters, especially when other companies and independants prove that Hasbro could be easily make incredible blasters at the high end price point. Or you know, if the Overwatch line hadn't already proved that making a roughly game accurate shell for functionally identical blasters doesn't require a 3X price hike.
Yeah I'm actually upset that I constantly forget the Overwatch line exists, and it's easy to overlook them because there was only a couple and they weren't on regular store shelves. But these lines prove you can make high quality replicas that fire darts at a reasonable price. I'm not saying NERF LMTD doesn't have more detail and paint that make them generally look better, but the prices aren't reflecting that in the slightest. Or, in the case of the Mandalorian or Pulse Rifle, they're not quite to scalr or have other nagging issues. I have a video on this coming.
Honestly I strongly agree with the accurracy of the rate of fire and ammo capacity with this gun. I'm a bit of a halo fan and I wouldn't mind the projectiles being balls. The gun had so much potential to not only be a collector's piece but an absolute unit of a nerf gun when playing competitively. It's sad to see it miss the mark and cost double what it's worth as an actual nerf gun.
That transition from the video to the editing bay was so fucking seamless I had to go back and watch it a few times lmao
Definitely should’ve been a Hopper fed Rival Blaster with Pink Balls so it could fire more rounds and at a higher rate.
I ordered the needles last year, been checking your channel waiting for you to review it, and eventually really got into your stuff!
I hope there will be 2 tag backs sometime to make up for todays not being here, but honestly something different isn't always bad. Thanks for keeping up the great content.
Wonder how this scales to the BoomCo take on the Needler
Congrats on 200k Walcom!!
Would love to see much space internally as I think this would be a great candidate for a Jupiter/proton pack reshell job.
As a prop this blaster is amazing! As a Nerf blaster... I personally like the speedswarm so I like this blaster!
But I can see why someone would not like it
7:00, impressed you didn’t lose any of the limited edition darts!
Now that you’ve mentioned it, I may actually mod a Perses to look like a needle lol
I definitely prioritize functionality over the "needle appearance" ammo i think rival tounds would have been way better
I'm working on designing an inline clip half dart cylinder for this so I can reload it once by shaking the blaster forward like in the games.
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I'm a big halo fan, but I agree, it should have been a hyper flywheeler with the hopper in the upper half of the blaster with the batteries and electronics in the lower half, they could have even gone the extra mile and included pink hyper rounds. The needler has a pretty decent capacity and a rather quick fire rate, in the time it takes this thing to fire 3 darts the in game version can finish a mag dump and already be halfway done with it's super fast reload animation, speaking of which, a hopper system is faster to load which is also more accurate to the in game weapon
To this blaster's credit, it looks *so much better* and *so much more well built* than that stupid Amban phase pulse blaster though...
Yes, a 32 short dart round cylinder and a battery mod would do this thing wonders 👀
thank you for bringing up the 76 blaster
The little rubbery fin things are all janky inside the battery tray. I had to boil some water and bend them to line them back up with the slots.
Just when I was thinking about this channel!!
Bold move to use the special pink darts in the rain 😂
Reminder that Boomco did it first and for half the cost
With all that rain you must have been playing as an ODST for the range footage.
Heh, subtitles called it the Halo Nibbler.
Would have been cool.to see as a return to those weird automatic pneumatic pull-ups from forever ago. Those hit pretty well, sounded kinda like it and DUMPED darts
Imagine if they used hyper for this. they could have made the needles on top tubes that lead into a hopper
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I literally thought about the soldier 76 blaster, then saw it in your display less that 5 seconds before you cut to mention it, with the same thought process of nerf making a prop blaster like the rival perseus.
yeah boomco actually made a replica version too but it's a pullback and has crappier LEDs
As a casual Halo fan, it pisses me off INFINITELY that Hasbro chose to screw these Halo licenses up so badly. Like, I don't need them to be the most lore accurate things ever (though, the Needler should've came with suction darts for that sticking on surfaces effect), but I FULLY BELIEVE that the Assault Rifle and Needler should have been FUNCTIONALLY SWITCHED. As I understand it, the Assault Rifle is a flywheel while the Needler is an AEB. THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN SWITCHED. The rifle COULD HAVE BEEN a modernized bullpup version of the classic Stampede while the Needler could've just been a reshell of any of their existing flywheel blasters. Where would the magazine go for the Needler you ask? The thing is HUGE, they could have had the bottom part be on a hinge that you could unlatched to reveal a hidden magwell. And since their actual blaster is just a 10-shot anyway, they could just include a small mag for people who want to keep up appearances and then just have a big hole at the bottom of the blaster (maybe covered with a 2 piece rubber flaps) for people who want high ammo count instead.
Screw it, some day I'll reshell a Worker Phoenix or a community designed flywheel into a 3D printed Needler and reshell a Magick Mop (if that gets released) into a 3D printed Assault Rifle.
You're shooting those darts in the mud!?
I was gonna make a joke about the halo 2 needler. But I couldn't think of one
I'm curious since Drac 10 years ago put those 3.7 volt AA batteries in the Speedswarm to speed up the fire rate of that would also work in this.
Imagine if it was a wildfire or a rapid fire 20 reshell the spray would be so much fun
That would actually be more fitting since both are high rate of fire.
Technically the LMTD Aliens blaster is a reshell of the Rapidstrike. So how is this different?
The Needler can be modified just like the Speedswarm
M41A had the underslung launcher and the ammo counter, and sound effects for everything. Not much, but it was something. That was also far from ideal with the mag situation.
@@WalcomS7 The Mega launcher also performed terribly (worse then the bigshock) and the ammo counter is practically useless with the whole mag situation.
A single shot Mega masterkey isn't necessarily useful when the Motoblitz has a 6 dart shotgun that can easily be modified
Should have been rival rounds. bright pink rival rounds. even if it was basically a small perses at that point, it would have been much better.
maybe make the top half larger to count as an led and nerf rivel dart storage
Also Coop Petting His Needler Meme
As both a Mega Man fan and Nerf fan, one of my dream Nerf LMTD blasters would be a Mega Buster replica (especially since the legendary Thinkgeek replica is out of production). The idea of a Nerf arm cannon type blaster has been in my sights for years; hell, we have it pretty close with the D-Dart Tempest; all it needs is a shell. It could work *so well.*
However, I can't say the end result of all Hasbro's work on the Needler, or any other LMTD blaster for that matter, makes me any more or less excited for something like that to ever release, much less be conceived at all. It's like you said, decent lights and sounds (which are two things that Thinkgeek's Mega Buster replica did near perfectly) aren't Hasbro's forte, and even if they did get those right, there's always the issue of Nerf never delivering on performance. The only result I could see from a situation like this is a half-assed prop that only does the same garbage we've come to expect from Hasbro, missing key components that prevent it from living up to the legacy of the replica that came before it, and of course, with an MSRP that could buy 3 full tanks of gas for the car I drive.
In some way shape or form, these blasters will always underperform in some category, whether it's aesthetics or functionality or some other third thing, and they will almost never be worth buying at full price. And that's pretty much the all encompassing statement when it comes to anything Nerf LMTD will put out.
Basically, as much as I'd like to see it, it's probably not going to be executed well and it's probably not going to be worth buying, because Nerf's business model revolves around Murphy's Law.
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Greenscreenman great seeing you here
@@OutOfIdeas9977 thanks lol
This thing should've used the tag darts with the Velcro tips
love the final score thing
I got mine still in the box waiting to open on my birthday in a week. I'm sure modders out there will find a way to double the rate of fire on it. I think a missed opportunity was making them suction pink darts. They already released them for that limited classic blaster so why not this? But still a nice collection piece along with my Halo MA5 assault blaster.
now its 115, and i brought it
Now that I think about it, where did the Gjallarhorn go? Will it only get released later?
NOOoOoO NOT ThE PINK DARTS IN THE WATeR
I love my boomco version needler that I luckily found new in box on eBay 😳 but this is more detailed and accurate to the game so I’ll have to add this to my collection 👍🏻
As both a Halo and nerf fan I honestly agree with Walcom. As a display piece it falls a bit short in appearance and presentability while as a blaster it isn't doing anything impressive given the price range. To me it feels like the boomco needler but it has rubbery needles on top instead of dart storage.
it looks great but you are right with the rate of fire and what it shoots
Standard darts would have probably been better if they opted for the old school Velcro darts (so they can actually stick to people), or suction cup darts. They'd lack the functionality but it'd be more for the fun factor at least. But, yeah rival would have just been cooler function wise and at least have some value for money. Overall it looks cool and would probably get it at the more appropriate 40$ price point - who knows Gamestop might have them on clearance in a few months.
I saw this and immediately thought it would be cool to mod it to make it actually somewhat fast even if not that powerful, just to make it at least somewhat like the game because even if not accurate rate of fire, just something somewhat quick would be nice
Honestly, If I was buying one of these, I'd be making or ordering a whole like elite armor set to go with it to meme at a local war or something
I agree rate of fire wold be better and capacity maybe better with rival rounds
(Firing rival round’s)
Needler but it's a Nerf hyper with pink nerf hyper rounds that would be amazing
I like it but i think u are right about the ammo type
Ngl, I am a pure halo fan. But I enjoy your views on it. I am going to get it as I like it as a prop. Love the review, dude!
I actually agree. It would of been so cool if it was a rival blaster.
That fact it isn't that oily, chrome-ish high gloss shine is such a letdown. Like, that crappy super shiny plastic has been around since the 90's and would've been perfect on this.
And yeah, it's just not a performer in any capacity. It's just meant to look cool and be 'functional', though it would've been nice if it actually was kinda a beast, especially for the price point. The display stand isn't even much to talk about, it's just clear plastic that snaps together. xD
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Awesome video again. Thanks for the super cool look at this limited blaster.
Oh walcom, I DO plan on taking this to an actual nerf event, whenever the nerf action experience opens in Tennessee I will make kids fear the pink mist!
Halo players when they will see the name of the video, without knowing what nerf blasters is: NOOO!!!
@9:57 100% agree j give us purple or pink rival rounds
Admitting you are not a Halo fan, still giving it a fair score, I can respect and appreciate that. Saying this would have been great as a rival series? I'm saddened and disappointed 😆
I had never played Halo but that blaster looks so cool!
lol creative title. had me fuming for a second.
This would have been cool as a gel blaster
Ok I want the overwatch blaster now for a prop and do up have one to make a video on to compare to this
It’s funny how when you pull it out of the box it faces the entirely wrong direction. It seems not to be just your box either Walcom.
I'm not a Halo guy, but I would expect this to have a rate of fire similar to that of the game as well. No Walcom, you are not taking crazy pills I think your assessment of this is a good one.
For a needler,the rate of fire is a big insult. For a prop,cool, but it’s SO expensive,it should be 50$
A "Mist" opportunity for a needler blaster...That's been my dad/uncle joke for the year, see you in 2023! Haha!
ok thats a good one lmao
It should definitely cycle faster being a needler… well nothing a couple IMRs can’t fix! 🤪
I feel like it compares to the Alien Blaster.
best halo game GO!
My fav is reach.
6.5 rating....I'd nearly translate that to what I'd pay for this thing. 60-65 bucks, and that's being a bit generous I feel.
As a Halo fan and a Nerf fan. If I’m paying for a needler prop, I’m buying Volpin props kit for example. Not this. Ok sure it’s cool but it a huge compromise to have it shoot darts. Should have been 50 cal foam balls. Gimme my shrimp shooter.
as a halo fan I still agree with you it should be faster it should hold more amo and it should be usb rechargeable.
I couldn't agree more, for that price you would expect it to have a rechargeable battery pack, however, as someone who owns a Speedswarm and Powerbelle, I can confirm the 6 AA batteries in both give them the life span of a TV remote, however with the LED lights for Display Mode, they might die faster.
Since this is a speed swarm skin, can it be modified for a faster fire rate?
Well it is 9 volts 40 Watts just like the Speedswarm, So in theory you wouldn't even need to rewire the blaster as long as you dont use anything stronger than a 2s LiPo. (7.2 Volts) However I dont know if the LED lights would burn out from the higher amperage. Plus I have yet to see anyone wanna mod this expensive display piece.
Walcoms7 I agree with you I think it could’ve had more things to. it to make it better for the hundred dollar price tag I agree with you
200K!!!
The glowing on the back wasn't for the ammo counter in game, it was for smartscoping in the 343 games.
From what I checked from Halo Infinite, which this is supposed to be the model of, it is indeed an Ammo counter. I had to check game footage to be sure.
No its an ammo counter in-game.
@@WalcomS7 Huh, TIL. In Halo 5 it was for he smartscope feature. Guess they repurposed it.
6:41 i guess this is how winter looks like in usa?
Check the first video of Tagbaxmas, it was a winter wonderland until this storm moved in and rained on everything.
not the pretty pink darts int the rain!!!!
As a halo fan I feel the firing speed is underwhelming. It looks fantastic but it also feels a little weird without the 'needles'
We taking out the flood this this one.