THE NERF STRYFE IS DEAD... Adventure Force Spectrum Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มิ.ย. 2024
- NERF hasn't had the best year, but man does Prime Time Toys keep hitting it out of the park with a grand-slam play of amazing blaster options this summer. The Spectrum is a semi-auto mag fed flywheel blaster... but taken to it's logical conclusion. All the fat trimmed, the performance boosted to appropriate levels, and ergonomics on-point with tons of customization options for a $25 price tag just make this a no-brain must buy unless you hate good things.
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0:00 Opening
1:55 The Story So Far
2:52 Unboxing the Spectrum
3:14 Overview
6:39 FPS Readings (Velocity)
8:13 On The Range
10:16 Magazine Compatibility
10:38 Conclusions
11:34 Do I Recommend the Spectrum? - บันเทิง
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this is going to be awsome
I can’t wait till you mod it
I would love to see it with 3s battery
I here the pusher is long enough to use half length dart. Haven't got my own yet to try out.
This is one of the blasters that really solidifies Dart Zone as a true competitor rather than a third party
No kidding. I can't wait to see what they do next.
No, Hasbro are the competitor now. They have been for years, just waiting for some other company to step over their bloated capitalist gatekeeping. Now it's done!
ED-SKaR I agree. Maybe not for years imo, but they definitely are now and probably since last year
the modding community still stays at the far far top
Competitor? They're outdoing Nerf at every opportunity almost.
Nerf approaches nodding as “no, we’ll make it so you can’t.”
Dart zone approaches it like “you don’t have too cuz we did it for you”
And we thought that the elite 2.0 was destroying the modding community. Dart zone has made us weak.
Yea nodding 😂ain’t good
Yah! Like the right to do what you want with something YOU own is overrated. We should be like Microsoft and make everything have a subscription license to even own one.
i want to like the comment but sadly it is impossible NICE
They cant mod if theres no reason to mod them
Nerf: “hits 120 ft range!”
Actually barely reaches 70fps
Adventure Force: “hits 80ft range.”
Actually hits 100FPS like a boss
So true.
distance isnt equal to projectile speed
Handsome Jack “Yes but actually no”
@@A-G-F- yes, but it *is* a major factor to how far a Dart can and will go. the point I'm making is that Nerf advertises Ultra Blasters as these high performance, high distance blasters...but they barely crack Elite Distances, if that. Meanwhile Adventure Force undersells their distance, and yet can get Elite Distances (and a fair bit more if you angle it) for like...half the price Nerf would charge for the same blaster.
Soooooooo true
Dart Zone: It's over Hasbro! I have the high ground!
Nerf: You underestimate our marketing!
Dart Zone: Don't try it!
Replace marketing with corporate lies!
Lies! Deception!
-Saw Gerrera
M. O'Toole ah, i see you are a man or culture as well
@@xaviermarnell2255 Bor Gullet.
(Tentacles are covered in Ultra darts and are solvent-welded together).
Bor Gullet... can read your thoughts. No mod is safe. The unfortunate side effect is one tends to lose one's mind... trying to open our blasters to repair them.
Adventure force: long live the king
Adventure force: _drops nerf's sales_
Nerf: aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh
Nerf has shallow looks dart zone actually has a good personality
And I think Dart Zone actually has paint on both sides of the blaster.
I cant think of a correct analogy to say how dz/af has somewhat cheaper production as the trade off
The older blasters were always the best, like the Sledgefire, in terms of looks and performance
I mean, nerf does have good options. Their rival line is good, but other companies are starting to step up and surpass nerf
What it took to get some of the best stock blasters ever:
The inability to go out and use them.
Without following protocol
@@kabelguy70 exactly. The homies could prolly go out to a park and do some dart tag
At this point, Hasbro has no right to put the words: "Number 1 Blaster Brand" on the boxes of Alpha Strike blasters anymore. Dart Zone AND X-Shot are outclassing, outperforming, and over delivering Nerf by a long shot. (no pun intended)
I think Alpha Strike is dead. I don't think there's anymore releases.
@@WalcomS7 Hopefully a sign that Hasbro is learning because they are falling behind fast...ah who am I kidding? Hasbro learns? Nah.
@@WalcomS7 What do you mean? Alpha Strike lives through their other budget line....Elite 2.0
Walcom S7 untrue, but for some reason they changed the name from alpha strike to elite 2.0 and upped the prices, idk why.
@@VideoCentral-bh9tf I just said that but okay LOL
Nerf Elite 2.0 Phoenix: "It's nerf or nothin'!"
Adventure Force Spectrum: *"ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?"*
I know this has nothing to do with your comment but I really think the elite 2.0 blasters color's are ugly as hell
@@arturolara259 Lol yes, I agree
It’s nerf and nothing!
@@abrahammontgomery2516 it’s nerf is nothing!
Nerf is nothing
I dont know about anyone else, but I can see someone making 3d printed kits for this blaster, just like they do with the stryfe
Maybe. That's the thing the Stryfe has going for it: all the 3d printed parts and materials. It's still a better blaster to mod for sure... but the Spectrum hits harder than many lightly-modded Stryfes.
Just give the market a little time and I'm sure we'll have oodles of aftermarket parts available. :D
@@WalcomS7 honestly the stryfe had the kits, if you just want a super stock flywheeler the swordfish is a better option for a lot of modders
@@WalcomS7 Vanilla war? Spectrum, hand down. Mods allowed? Stryfe because of the investment.
The internals of the spectrum are terrifyingly simple!
The modding community isn't dead, dart zone has made us irrevelent.
I found this in a different comment section "With Nerf you can't mod, with Dart Zone you don't need to mod."
@@weakestbutterscotchenjoyer I think you miswrote that
@@weakestbutterscotchenjoyer Nerf: You are not allowed to mod
Dart Zone: You don’t need to mod
Hasbro: we are the number one blaster brand
Dart zone: hippity hoppity that title is now my property
Edit: changed hoppity
😂😂😂 Nice rhyme dude 👍
You mean hippity hoppity
@@oompaloompa603 lol ikr
DAMN RIGHT IT IS!
Hope they do more blasters like a lever action one and a heavy machine gun like the vulcan.
You look like you feel heaven in the thumbnail tho
The v twin is like the vulcan
@EeveeNerfGuns i said is like not better
5 years later
Nerf: what have we done wrong... 😓
Adventure force: hi 🙂
Imagube the comments in 5 years explaining what has happened lol
Can we get 69 likes?
Ok I’m jj
@@kiefervandenberg one more
@@Midnight890 👍
If the other blasters are home runs, this one is a grand slam!
Also, nice Yu Yu Hakusho shirt!
FIR-**gets destroyed by Adventure Force awesomeness**
now that is true power
11:04
don't want it? completely removable! load through the jam door!
Nerf should make a repair series where they take bad blasters and upgrade them
that's what we thought the 2.0 line was going to be...
Issue is that they would have to admit they failed.
@@WalcomS7 I thought the warden was gonna be a double barrel shotgun with an 8 shell capacity, you'd load four into each barrel.
@@REALPEDROGAMEPLAYS that sounds like an old-school doom mod. I like it.
@@WalcomS7 at least icon is some what good
"Shotrise! Shooting Wolf! The elevation increases as the bullet is fired."
and honestly, that blaster WOULD look sweet repainted in metallic pearl blue
Kamen rider vulcan i see~~
Imagine if Drac gave the Spectrum a Sanguine style look...
And it's gotta have a slot for a Progrisekey and a clear window for the icon
The 1 thing they need to improve on is distribution... Australia is waiting
Least you may get them. Here in the UK we don't even get them.
@@williamaldred335 yep
Rival is not sold and ultra gets reduced performance versions in Aus. What would be the point? Aus toy laws would force them to underperform.
in canada we still are waiting on the adventure force nexus pro
It's interesting to me that both Nerf and Dart Zone are remaking old Nerf blasters with the idea of making them better.
It's even more interesting to me that Dart Zone is the only one actually improving on the old bases, while Nerf is improving almost nothing but how much criticism they can draw at one time.
You know, I'm starting to get this feeling that hasbro needs to hire Cave Johnson as a manager over all those bean-counters that apparently are making all the design decisions...
Spectrum: *Exists*
Me living in Mexico, knowing that this blaster wont be released here at least for the next year IF it gets released here: Well, at least I still have my stryfe
Cries in UK
I contact dart zone and they Say maybe un Walmart MX on September.
@Alberto Giavani I know it's not fair
Cries in Italian*
@@mitchellbailey6258 Cries in argentina
Dart Zone blasters have become so competitive now that there's almost no reason to buy Nerf anymore. It feels like Prime Time Toys is saying, "Your move, Hasbro."
Only reason to buy Nerf now is because it's a lot more recognizable. As much as I hate it, Nerf is more readily available in the market that Dart Zone outside the West, and online shipping is shit.
@@boid9761 im dutch and i can barely even get my hands on a villainator without paying €60
Nerf was dead when adventure force made the Savage spin.
Nice it definitely is a style killer as coop said
Really the Stryfe can't compete unfortunately, unless you spend a lot more money and mod one.
@@WalcomS7 Unless Hasbro decides to make actual Stryfes again it is completely doomed even in the mod scene just due to availability.
I really hope we get plenty of cosmetic mod options for the Spectrum going forward I'd love to have an MP5 styled spectrum.
Yea he have a stryfe I just got some imrs and I hope I get a few more FPS.. I also have the worker vector kit and my own paint job
I love how this is the first mag fed flywheeler that prime time toys has released, yet it’s already better than every single flywheeler that Hasbro has released.
It's kinda crazy how that works.
"Is there enough room in the market for both blasters to exist?"
Im hoping blasters like this at the Nexus pro will be a wakeup call to Nerf that they cant keep sacrificing quality to save pennies per blaster and not also give us good performance from the box. They need to start giving us Rival performance in their dart blasters, and not just glued shut re-shells and a "premium" line with a little gold paint and cheap proprietary ammo noone likes.
The only reason nerf is alive is because of its marketing after you take that away it’s game over
I just noticed the "Smiley-face" on the trigger.
What if hasbro decided to glue their battery trays in the future flywheel blasters
in 2030 Nerf blasters will just be a pile of hot glue with a jolt inside.
DoitForTheLolz1 yea
Nope, mold it into the plastic shell, then plastic weld the parts together so there's no taking it out.
Paintchipsrocks the stryfe battery tray is apart of the shell,same with the barricade and Rayven.
Does anyone here know what a joke is -_- it seems like no one is getting it _-_
"It's the same price as _you!_ It's gonna be _right_ next to you!"
When you just did your first stryfe mod, re-wired with honey-badgers and get 95ish and this comes along stock at 110 geez ahahaha
Yo homie, the thumbnail cracked me up. Good stuff bud.
Thanks mang
@@WalcomS7 man of culture
110 FPS for a flywheel vanilla blaster
5:52
"I'm going to be giving her the best possible food"
That's cute
Nerf: We’re the NUMBER 1 SELLING BRAND!
Adventure Force: Yea Number 1 at worst Performance
This product is gonna be a HUGE problem for hasbro, I literally waited all day for my blaster to show up and I spent majority of the night having a total blast with the blaster. HUGE recommend 12/10
It's Adventure Force, or nothing!
Imagine using the Nexus Pro as your primary, and this as your secondary.....
@AmarIsVeryAwesome aye
Thats exactly what i wanna do, just minimize it
Back in the future I tried this, and it worked great for 80 dollars
I got a 200 FPS nexus pro and a cut down spectrum and it blended perfectly, honestly only a modded stryfe could compete
I finally figured it out. It's your passion for this hobby that makes your videos compelling. Your laugh is infectious. Keep up the good work, my friend.
Yeah, that’s what I kinda expected tbh. I have basically 3 stryfe reskins, but like, I need this and I hope it shows up soon. Congratulations dart zone, you are officially the #1 blaster brand in my heart.
When walcom laughs like a Frenchman you know something good is happening (1:20)
Dear Prime Time Toys,
Thank you. Thank you for not treating the online community like an insignificant percent of the consumer market. Thank you for listening. We genuinely want to help you improve every product as an enthusiastic low cost focus group community. And as you’ve seen, many of us actually have the expertise to do this from professional perspectives. Again, thank you!
Sincerely,
John Reed
I think that’s amazing the only improvements I could think of would be a flared Magwell, 2 mags included with every mag fed product or double darts. Aside from that Dart Zone is killing it with these fantastic blasters. Keep up the good work!
When I watch your videos for some reason wether or not I’m having a bad day you make me happy
I half expected a Walcom rendition there of the Transformers animated movie soundtrack... You got the looks! You got the power!
Mines just arrived today and its just as good as I expected it to be
Another great blaster adventure force :)
Thumbs up when you laughed maniacally for the fps reading of the darts during intro. Definitely getting a few of these!!
Strife: I’m the best blaster!
Spectrum: Hold my scope.
I wonder if there's a compartment behind that battery tray to hold lipos, that would be amazing
Possibly. I'm not certain. We'll have to crack it open.
Hey Walcom, who's your favorite Kamen Rider?
Build.
BEST MATCH!
Recently bought the nexus pro to begin into the hobby and start modding, and I’ll be getting one of these in the next day or so as well. Can’t beat the value they’re putting out. Great review as well!
This gun’s mag release reminds me a lot of a Kalashnikov style rifle or a Heckler & Koch mag release, kind of a nice touch on most dart zone blasters that are mag fed, to kind of tie it to the world of firearms
Nerf is running from adventure force and hiding!
Ahh your pfp scares me
U don’t want uncle mike with a swapped face from sully
Spectrum now has a Blaster!?!?
Get the joke👌
...I don- Is this a reference?
Spectrum WiFi look em up good videos
And just imagine a full auto assault rife blaster
Oh the possibilities
The spectrum should've been a blaster were you could hook it up to the wifi but it was only compatible with spectrum wifi but since spectrum wifi is bad it jad a lot of issues
Stryfe: Ya-da-da-da-da-da It is good day to be not dead
AF Spectrum: Pow- You are dead!
Stryfe: I am dead!
Coop: Oh, the Stryfe is dead!
Stryfe: Yes. I am dead!
Coop: Why is the Stryfe dead!
AF Spectrum: I dunno.
bro it’s been a minute; you really stepped up with everything. Keep holding the hobby down with these videos the kids need it
The stryfe will always have a special place in my heart
All those great mods...
So true
bruh cathrine ost
truely walcom's male hormones tells him to cheat on the sfryfe
Love what you're doing Prime Time. Suggestion: Flywheel revolver next please.
The fact that this thing and the Phoenix came out at the same time is like two trains colliding. It's a massive coincidence, but feels like something there was deliberate because it's too perfect of timing.
Woah thats really cheap too. Bomb!
These blasters are so good, I’m wondering how they’re going to top them next year.
full-auto. more Rival stuff. Possibly Mega as well
200FPS.
Probably a Rapidstrike killer.
It’s a must have for sure. Upping the voltage a bit definitely helps considering it holds two more aa’s than a stryfe. Shame is right now this thing is sold out and going for over 3 times the retail price online. Best bet is just keep checking your local Walmart
Prime Time Toys, you guys are indeed killing it! We’ve already bought 3 Nexus Pro’s after already owning a DZP and DZP 1.1 and will most certainly be buying several of these once my son and I can get our hands on them. You are doing everything right when your competitors are aggravated that our community even exist so THANK YOU!
I’m still gunna buy loads of stryfes
Ya I dont know why but I always see nerf as a better brand even though there are better blasters out there Ive always liked nerf more than any other blaster I just cant bring my selfe to bye a dart zone blaster or a adventure force blaster
You’re gonna love the Villainator when you open it up, it’s such a great blaster. Also I think you can just remove the big orange barrel when you open the Spectrum up.
It really is!
This is one of the only reviews I've seen that gets perfect marks. A+ range is only a small percent of blasters but well done Adventure Force. And a big thanks to Walcom for making such quality content for so many years! We all enjoy these videos Walcom! Keep it up :D
I have been waiting for this
DECADE OF THE DART ZONE BABY LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Hopefully they don't get complacent.
I love it, this is the best stock magazine fed flywheeler ever made. But is the one thing that I'd like to see in future is the mag fed blasters coming with more than one magazine, but an overall great blaster.
Adventure force's 30 round magazines works in this blaster too!!! Really steps up the "gotta have it" factor! .
The main thing I'd like to see is a package for Magazines, 15 to 18 round capacity. Especially with the Nexus Pro I'd like to see a bunch of reload packs for that with either full mags or short so we can easily build a stock up of them.
Loved hearing a bit of of revolutionary etude in the background during the final remarks. Solid classical tune adaptation, honestly would like to know the name of that version... great review as well ofc
Loving the Catherine ost lol. Great review. I’m really hoping for a bullpup from Adventure Force.
dangnm... there better be a barrel attachment for the spectrum or a worker mp5 kit for this. the spectrum totally fits that primary role.
I noticed something interesting when looking inside the mag well.
I may be wrong on this I'll need to get my hands on the parts to try this but the pusher seems to have two separate stages as though they intended it to be able to fire half darts with 0 modification. if you put the right mag adapter with the darts all the way forward might be worth trying in another video
I just got the Nexus Pro, and since it comes with that short mag adapter, could you put it into the spectrum and potentially fire short darts out of it?
I just opened my spectrum, and Dart Zone put a Hybrid pusher in the spectrum.... if you load 1/2 darts in a standard mag in the foreward part of it, it should work (theoretically)
I bought the spectrum yesterday at Walmart here in Canada and it was the last one they had on the shelf and they also had the sportsman, rebel mech and the turbine which is a little more expensive then the states and all had me tempted to buy but I decided on the spectrum.
Dartzone is doing great with their latest offerings. I wish that stock was a buffer tube, but I'm sure that since they are going to a universal mag mount, there will be a 3D printed adapter coming out soon to allow that, or to use nerf stocks on it, or just whole new fan made stocks.
This is fantastic. The review, the blaster... The music choice! 11/10. Can't wait to watch the Phoenix review, and the Ultra/Elite dart conspiracy you mentioned in a previous vid.
Dude we have a THEME SONG made for nerf conspiracies... We just need some art done.
something to note, there arent many dart or mag locks if any at all. You can rev the flywheels without a magazine
Great video, buddy. Will be happy to get one and give it my Glowing Rust treatment.
I love your content and I like your channel more than Coop's channel, cause you aren't that picky and upload WAY more frequently
Just got mine today. Holy crap, this thing performs!
I don't understand why only 10% of people like when walcoms7 is one of the best in depth nerf reviewer.
Hasbro 2021: What if we give the community what they want? Nah lets just make Dino-blasters.
Adventure Force 2021: Ok, here's the best blaster ever, its brother, it's baby, and cousins villainator and spectrum.
I use this with no attachments as my sidearm. Modded Nexus pro main of course =D
If the mag well can be tweaked so loading the magazine is a smoother transition then this would be the PERFECT stock fly-wheeler!
This thing is a monster when it comes to competitive nerf. I love modding but in some games they don’t allow modding. It’s perfect for people who love magazines and semi auto systems. I prefer the dart zone tomahawk because I’m a scavenger and I don’t run any tacticool gear. But for the specific game type, it’s perfect.
This was the video that i found walcom through i bough the spectrum at walmart (this was in 5th grade on the weekend) and I looked up reviews on the gun im so glad i found this channel I get happy whenever he uploads im gonna be a seventh grade next school year cuz its currently summer it has been a magical 2 years walcom I hope you read this one day.
Question.
Would it be possible for you to leave a red dot on the range for where the darts land after they hit?
It's completely understandable if it's too much work, I don't know how your existing software works
Everybody gangsta till the darts shoot harder than rival balls
I live in the UK, so there are like no new guns for us apart from the crusher. Enjoy your adventure force and dart zone.
If you had two stocks, from this blaster and another one, would you be able to stack two of the tube sections to make a longer stock? It kind of looks like it is possible.
7:03 the walrus has gone crazy with power.
Crazy was always in the formula, but the power part...
What a time to be alive in the foam-flinging hobby. Excelsior!
In the last decade, I've amassed and sold 3 massive Nerf arsenals because I'd collect them and then they'd go mostly unused and significant others would pressure me to get rid of them for space. I picked this blaster up on a wihm yesterday and I haven't put it down since. I'm officially back in.
I'm also new to your channel and your enthusiasm and passion for the hobby is infectious. You've earned a new fan, good sir.
I hope to keep you entertained for a long time then
12:18 - Wow. Did not expect to hear Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude as BGM in a foam-blaster review. That’s culture for you!