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The reason why you couldn't look through the expandoblast sight is it's gone foggy do to age and a lack of internal cleaning. If you open and up and gave it a clean you could probably see through it. Also the extended barrel adds deadspace and makes the barrel floppy so it's less accurate. You can also improve the performance by putting a little bit of Teflon tape under the O-ring for the barrel and giving it and the plunger a relube. Or in another words it's a old Blaster that needs some TLC. Also the plunger tube is as big as the shell. Go watch Walcom s7's Tagback episode on it for more proof of its mod potential.
I've always loved the look of the expand-a-blast despite its low performance. If you don't extend the barrel and stock then it's another original nitefinder model, just oversized. But with plenty of potential!
So, clear plastic, especially 20+ years old, will start to haze. My guess is the expandable blaster's scope was at one point clear, but then hazed over time. I have an original longshot, and the scope for that has been hazed for a few years now. It happens.
Unless I’m hearing him incorrectly, he states (@1:02) that the first blaster is over 30 years old being from 98’…. I have little faith in people who cannot do simple math
From memory, the Expand-a-Blast worked best with only the shoulder stock out. Extending the barrel introduced dead space into the system and killed what little range there was. The front grip was too wobbly to be worth using. However, the shoulder stock kept you from smacking the plunger rod into your shoulder and bending it. The sights could be looked through when new, but the plastic quickly clouded with age and scratches. Due to dart drop, they were only useful out to a range of four feet, anyway.
The Nerf Crossbow is the most coveted one of all, and I've seen multiple videos explaining why But the Reactor will have a special place in my heart due to it being the first Nerf blaster I ever owned
The Expand-a-Blast was great for modifications back in the day. The plunger tube is almost the size of a soda can. Take out the gimmick barrel, replace with PVC, increase seal around plunger head and boom goes the dynamite. Also, the sticker alignment was because we had to put those stickers on ourselves! Many toys from that era didn’t come with the stickers attached. We got a sheet with all the stickers on it and a guide as to where they went
Got 80+ blasters and my oldest is the Midnight Maverick from the early 2000s. although I went and stayed for an Elite Pinpont Sight to go the rest of my Elite Blasters rather than buy into any obsolete or older blasters like the Blastfire DX-500 or the Lock n’ Load. I even passed up a Secret Shot 2. Saw a 1995 crossbow for around 350 bucks once as well.
I feel so bad. Imagine being a kid and seeing the range shot gun on a commercial and wanting one for a long time and begging your parents. Then they buy the gun and you are so excited, just to find out the gun sucks
Expand a blast looks really cool! When he shot and the barrel wiggled, it reminded me about how a 50 cal’s barrel goes back and honestly made me want one
Also I've been trying to find these nerf guns I used to have in the 90s.. I think one was a deep sea angler fish .. they had glow in the dark darts and you had to put batteries in them and they had a camera flash effect when you shot the dart, charging the glow in the dark dart. Anybody remember this series??
Taking me back to my childhood! The only Nerf Blaster I owned then was the Bow-N-Arrow but my best friend had a Hyper Sight and we LOVED using it! So iconic for 90s blasters! Every kid wanted that under their tree at Christmas.
As somone relatively new to the hobby (as nerf blasters only came to my country in later 2000's), it's cool to see these vintage blasters in action. Really fun and informative video as always, would love more videos like this, looking at weird and obscure products of the past.
Oh man, Legit, thank you for that quick ad/sponsorship, I was just thinking the other day "I remember one of the YTers I'm subscribed to had this ad a good while ago and I could make money by filling out surveys on that website..", but Ic ouldnt remember for the life of me the name of the website!
I recall a nerf gun that had a long tube that held foam balls, but not the soft ass ones of today, it was pump action kind of, using air pressure from “pumping it” to fire, and it was beastly, it could leave welts if you got hit right. 90’s Nerf guns were very strange in some cases, but that was the 90’s they had a bunch of weird designs for things just because they looked cool.
I know that the nerf brand blasters are better but I have a tiny little X shot blaster and I use it more than my big nerf guns because it makes me feel gangster
In 2001 I bought a 24 round full auto Nerf SMG that was being discontinued. All darts were mounted on individual tubes on a rotary mount. You'd pump it a few times to fill the expansion chamber and then send them all flying twenty to thirty feet within five seconds or less. It was a mess to clean up; but certainly one of Nerf's better models.
Expand-a-Blast: 1st, fire it in pistol mode. 2nd, brass it, upgrade the spring,and reinforce the shaft, plunger connection, & trigger catch. 👍🏼 Saw someone onetime had created a breech on theirs, as well. I just ramrodded it. Fun!!!
When you said Secret Shot II you were showing the Secret Shot I. Now, for range you need a 1993 Nerf Arrowstorm. This thing is the absolute best of the 90's. It fires six arrows at semi automatic speeds and can also fire vintage mega darts/suckers. When you load one of those you will get close to N-Strike ranges. Another good one for range which will cap out at about 40ft is the 1991/1992 Nerf Bow n' Arrow. Same ammo but doesn't make use of vintage mega darts but overall is a decent vintage blaster as it is durable in design.
Did you know? The nerf fast blast,a pump action airjet nerf blaster secretly has a spiritual successor called "Mako RC-6".But unlike its secret predecessor, it's a direct-prime-action blaster and instead of a airjet pump, it's airjet pump is replaced by a shoulder stock and a 6 dart storage,also to fire the alpha strike mako,there is a prime handle in the back of the nerf gun which is located ontop of the shoulder stock.
Growing up in the late 90s and early 2000s all the people I knew with nerd guns had the weird ones like these, I always thought they were dumb and never got into them. I always had a thing (and still kinda do) about fake details that bothers me. Like fake dials or scopes for instance. You can imagine why I didn't like some lol.
Oh. My. God. The Hyper Sight. Damn that was my favoriteeeeeee toy back in the day. When I was a kid, I remember I would reenact that scene from Jurassic Park scene where Muldoon thinks he’s hunting a raptor and he readies his Spas-12..man I wonder if I still have it at my parents house
The expand-a-blast did have a "usable" scope (although, c'mon, it's a nerf gun so what is that scope gonna do?), but I think the one you were testing has just not aged well and gotten cloudy/scratched over the years. I also seem to remember the range on it was decent for nerf guns of that era. It's possible that the plunger on that one has also weathered poorly and just doesn't deliver the powerful blast of air it once did. You could feel how strong that spring was, for a scrawny kid when those were new that spring was HARD to pull back and lock in place!
Man it would be cool if nerf re-released some of these older blasters under a new series, like how they re-released some older blasters under the icon name.
I have loved Nerf from a young age and that hasn't stopped for me even in my 20's. I remember 2 nerf guns that I would die to shoot again. The first was my Maverick Rev 6, it was a 6 shot revolver style blaster. That for me was accurate up to around 20-25' and never jammed. My other favorite was the Vulcan EBF 25, now I hated motorized blasters but this one was belt feed via motor bit also had the manual primer bar. That thing was thee best, it had plenty of power to shoot straight for a long ways and I even used it a few times as a confetti gun, much to my moms dismay.
I actually used to have the Monoblast as a kid, but my friend destroyed it one day without my knowledge because he thought it was broken. It wasn't and I was extremely sad when I found out a couple days later after looking for it then finding pieces of it under his trampoline.
It probably wouldn't be very significant, but from watching the expand-o-blast fire, I'm fairly certain it would get better range with the barrel retracted. You can see the barrel recoil, which must lose quite a lot of energy, and the air also has to expand a lot further, and thus lose a lot of pressure before it can reach the dart
used me be obsessed with nerf guns when I was young, i remember getting one of this big rocket launcher ones with the huge foam darts at a garage sale. The thing was probably older than I was when we bought it, those big Grenade launcher things were dope tho
Love how he's testing the range shot and yet he angles the gun down to make the barrel straight, understandable though as it's probably unconsciously happening but still it's funny
I used to have the nerf blaster in the intro I didn’t know it was rare and threw it in the trash by accident not knowing the nerf gun was in the box I realized and now I’m sad
I had one of those expand a blasts, one of my favorite nerf toys of all time. Not a great nerf gun perhaps, but a great toy sniper rifle for imagination. My scope was see through, though it didn't really help you aim much given its just a need dart. I think the one you have might just have been damaged over time.
Glad I didn’t grow up 90s blasters. The first Nerf blaster I remember owning was the Air Tech 2000, kinda was a disappointment due to the fact I only had four darts and bending them rect their performance
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This is a lot of money in dart flinging blasters lol
Boi what the hell boi
The reason why you couldn't look through the expandoblast sight is it's gone foggy do to age and a lack of internal cleaning. If you open and up and gave it a clean you could probably see through it. Also the extended barrel adds deadspace and makes the barrel floppy so it's less accurate.
You can also improve the performance by putting a little bit of Teflon tape under the O-ring for the barrel and giving it and the plunger a relube.
Or in another words it's a old Blaster that needs some TLC.
Also the plunger tube is as big as the shell. Go watch Walcom s7's Tagback episode on it for more proof of its mod potential.
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I've always loved the look of the expand-a-blast despite its low performance. If you don't extend the barrel and stock then it's another original nitefinder model, just oversized. But with plenty of potential!
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Ah yes, i too love the deploy
I actually still own this blaster it's currently in my closet but sadly the sight has not aged well to the point you cannot see out of it
So, clear plastic, especially 20+ years old, will start to haze. My guess is the expandable blaster's scope was at one point clear, but then hazed over time. I have an original longshot, and the scope for that has been hazed for a few years now. It happens.
I could tell pretty early on this guy isn't too bright so it didn't surprise me when he said the scope was "some kind of fake mirror".
I had one back in the day, and I remember the “scope” was pretty hard to see through even when new,
I had one of those bad boys back in the day. You could see clearly through it, but it never really served any practical purpose.
Unless I’m hearing him incorrectly, he states (@1:02) that the first blaster is over 30 years old being from 98’…. I have little faith in people who cannot do simple math
@@joujimiichi1 when did he say it was from 1998?
From memory, the Expand-a-Blast worked best with only the shoulder stock out. Extending the barrel introduced dead space into the system and killed what little range there was. The front grip was too wobbly to be worth using. However, the shoulder stock kept you from smacking the plunger rod into your shoulder and bending it.
The sights could be looked through when new, but the plastic quickly clouded with age and scratches. Due to dart drop, they were only useful out to a range of four feet, anyway.
The Nerf Crossbow is the most coveted one of all, and I've seen multiple videos explaining why
But the Reactor will have a special place in my heart due to it being the first Nerf blaster I ever owned
Okie
I've got a nerf crossbow sitting on the shelf. I've never had the guts to shoot it.
I thought everyone had a reactor sitting around somewhere
I regret getting rid of my stuff:( never get rid of your toys.
When my parents bought their house in around 2007 the previous owners have left a nerf crossbow. I played with it alot. Wonder what happened to it
The Expand-a-Blast was great for modifications back in the day. The plunger tube is almost the size of a soda can. Take out the gimmick barrel, replace with PVC, increase seal around plunger head and boom goes the dynamite.
Also, the sticker alignment was because we had to put those stickers on ourselves! Many toys from that era didn’t come with the stickers attached. We got a sheet with all the stickers on it and a guide as to where they went
Expand-a-blast always reminded me of a rebel blaster from Return of the Jedi, loved the design
You called it the "Legit box of surprise" when you could have called it the "Bread Box" and I'm hurt by that.
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Got 80+ blasters and my oldest is the Midnight Maverick from the early 2000s. although I went and stayed for an Elite Pinpont Sight to go the rest of my Elite Blasters rather than buy into any obsolete or older blasters like the Blastfire DX-500 or the Lock n’ Load. I even passed up a Secret Shot 2. Saw a 1995 crossbow for around 350 bucks once as well.
A rifle with adjustable barrel and a classic jolt system?
GIMME , I NEED IT FOR MY CUSTOM MUSKET
Expand-A-Blast:Finally, i have returned from Extienction.
Bulldog and Deploy:Grandpa? Is that you?
I had no idea Nerf blasters were so old. I thought the ones I played with at around 2009 were the first line!
I feel so bad. Imagine being a kid and seeing the range shot gun on a commercial and wanting one for a long time and begging your parents. Then they buy the gun and you are so excited, just to find out the gun sucks
Expand a blast looks really cool! When he shot and the barrel wiggled, it reminded me about how a 50 cal’s barrel goes back and honestly made me want one
This is why Nstrike was such a revelation it was worlds better than most other blasters on the market
im legit waiting for a nerf blaster that was supposed to come
Also I've been trying to find these nerf guns I used to have in the 90s.. I think one was a deep sea angler fish .. they had glow in the dark darts and you had to put batteries in them and they had a camera flash effect when you shot the dart, charging the glow in the dark dart. Anybody remember this series??
Taking me back to my childhood! The only Nerf Blaster I owned then was the Bow-N-Arrow but my best friend had a Hyper Sight and we LOVED using it! So iconic for 90s blasters! Every kid wanted that under their tree at Christmas.
As somone relatively new to the hobby (as nerf blasters only came to my country in later 2000's), it's cool to see these vintage blasters in action. Really fun and informative video as always, would love more videos like this, looking at weird and obscure products of the past.
Thanks for the kind comment!
My brother and I still have our old Eagle Eyes.
Oh man, Legit, thank you for that quick ad/sponsorship, I was just thinking the other day "I remember one of the YTers I'm subscribed to had this ad a good while ago and I could make money by filling out surveys on that website..", but Ic ouldnt remember for the life of me the name of the website!
Lol glad it worked out haha
Why does the old blaster look cooler than today
It doesn't, look at how much more nerf mods we have today.
Love when you upload
Same
The nerf deploy is unironicly my favorite blaster because it’s so cool. Fight me. It’s like a suitcase AND a gun
The range shot back in the day was a must during our nerf wars because we couldn't leave our forts so the drop on the dart was no joke
Fun fact the rare crossbow that’s been modded to death, can fire those alpha darts with no mods and it will hit about elite ranges or somewhat
I recall a nerf gun that had a long tube that held foam balls, but not the soft ass ones of today, it was pump action kind of, using air pressure from “pumping it” to fire, and it was beastly, it could leave welts if you got hit right. 90’s Nerf guns were very strange in some cases, but that was the 90’s they had a bunch of weird designs for things just because they looked cool.
I know that the nerf brand blasters are better but I have a tiny little X shot blaster and I use it more than my big nerf guns because it makes me feel gangster
So over the years, foam blaster technology has overall increased while super soaker technology has waned
I had the purple crossbow back then. That thing was one of my favorite toy weapons to annoy my family.
That big dart will get you grounded easy 😂
Dude. This is nostalgic as hell.
I played with several of these as a kid.
In 2001 I bought a 24 round full auto Nerf SMG that was being discontinued. All darts were mounted on individual tubes on a rotary mount. You'd pump it a few times to fill the expansion chamber and then send them all flying twenty to thirty feet within five seconds or less. It was a mess to clean up; but certainly one of Nerf's better models.
The Expand a Blast: the Deploy before the Deploy
And including the awful preformance of the deploy
The Expand-a-Blast was easily my favorite nerf gun when i was a kid just for the fact that it expanded
I had a Hyper Sight as a kid. I think I had more fun deploying it than I did actually shooting it at anything.
Expand-a-Blast: 1st, fire it in pistol mode. 2nd, brass it, upgrade the spring,and reinforce the shaft, plunger connection, & trigger catch. 👍🏼 Saw someone onetime had created a breech on theirs, as well. I just ramrodded it. Fun!!!
The expand-a-blast works more like the nerf mega bulldog than the deploy in use.
Except for the crappy-ness
When you said Secret Shot II you were showing the Secret Shot I.
Now, for range you need a 1993 Nerf Arrowstorm. This thing is the absolute best of the 90's. It fires six arrows at semi automatic speeds and can also fire vintage mega darts/suckers. When you load one of those you will get close to N-Strike ranges. Another good one for range which will cap out at about 40ft is the 1991/1992 Nerf Bow n' Arrow. Same ammo but doesn't make use of vintage mega darts but overall is a decent vintage blaster as it is durable in design.
that giant jet blaster that you stick your hand in is awesome! I had one growing up
Almost at 100k good luck!
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Kid from 90s: the expand-a-blast is so high tech
In 2020: we are here to honor Kid from 90s as he just died yesterday from playing with the regulator
The "glass" on the hypersight scope was just fogged over. Had one as a kid, could definitely see through it. Fucker was awesome
Did you know? The nerf fast blast,a pump action airjet nerf blaster secretly has a spiritual successor called "Mako RC-6".But unlike its secret predecessor, it's a direct-prime-action blaster and instead of a airjet pump, it's airjet pump is replaced by a shoulder stock and a 6 dart storage,also to fire the alpha strike mako,there is a prime handle in the back of the nerf gun which is located ontop of the shoulder stock.
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Legit: oooo fires it
Everyone be like: yeh no duh it’s a nerf gun
Congrats on 100k 🥳🎉
As someone who was actually a kid in the 90,s it seams that super soakers were more of a thing than nerf blasters.
The first one is cool! Nice video!
Legit
Great video. We love these old blasters. Not for the performance just for the cool factor. Keep up the great work.
Yeees. Pls more 90s blasters. I love history.
100k! Congrats, you deserve it.
Growing up in the late 90s and early 2000s all the people I knew with nerd guns had the weird ones like these, I always thought they were dumb and never got into them. I always had a thing (and still kinda do) about fake details that bothers me. Like fake dials or scopes for instance. You can imagine why I didn't like some lol.
Oh. My. God. The Hyper Sight. Damn that was my favoriteeeeeee toy back in the day. When I was a kid, I remember I would reenact that scene from Jurassic Park scene where Muldoon thinks he’s hunting a raptor and he readies his Spas-12..man I wonder if I still have it at my parents house
I hope you got another 2K subscribers this month :D
we're so close to 100K!
The expand-a-blast did have a "usable" scope (although, c'mon, it's a nerf gun so what is that scope gonna do?), but I think the one you were testing has just not aged well and gotten cloudy/scratched over the years.
I also seem to remember the range on it was decent for nerf guns of that era. It's possible that the plunger on that one has also weathered poorly and just doesn't deliver the powerful blast of air it once did. You could feel how strong that spring was, for a scrawny kid when those were new that spring was HARD to pull back and lock in place!
That reverse plunger tube is pretty similar to how the lynx turn around works. Interesting.
Can we just respect the bread stickers in the door he shoots at for range tests
finally, someone has acknowledged the bread targets!!
Man it would be cool if nerf re-released some of these older blasters under a new series, like how they re-released some older blasters under the icon name.
5:46 "aim it up a little bit higher"
*points barrel to the ground*
Honestly i want a nerf classics line.
"Before nstrike there was just NERF"
could be the tagline
6:00 You are compensating for the angle by titling the blaster barrel back down defeating the purpose of tilting the barrel at all
Why is this exactly what I wanted to watch for some reason
i love the video legitbread amazing video keep uploading keep up the good work
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A version of the expand-a-blast that doesn't expand and has more reliable power would be cool. These things should be in the Nerf Icon line.
The way the extend-a-blast barrel goes backwards after firing makes it look like a recoil operated gun lol
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And yes I did enjoy the video
@@legitbread I enjoyed the video and I hope you make more 😃
“It’s like a mirror but you can’t see through it”
You should get more of these, I suggest trying out the secret shot 2 and 1
Nerf fans when the blaster only fires up to 100 feet:😭😭😡🤬
I didn't have these, but I did have some other Nerf guns from the 90s and they're still amazing.
btw the Expand-A-Blast's barrel had a recoil when legitbread shots it for the first time.
legit man: "nerf blasters from the 90s are bad cause i said so. I expect my nerf blaster to shoot like firearms cause i said so"
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I have loved Nerf from a young age and that hasn't stopped for me even in my 20's. I remember 2 nerf guns that I would die to shoot again. The first was my Maverick Rev 6, it was a 6 shot revolver style blaster. That for me was accurate up to around 20-25' and never jammed. My other favorite was the Vulcan EBF 25, now I hated motorized blasters but this one was belt feed via motor bit also had the manual primer bar. That thing was thee best, it had plenty of power to shoot straight for a long ways and I even used it a few times as a confetti gun, much to my moms dismay.
Wow blasters have come a long way
Cant wait for part 2
And u da man jordan!
Holy FUCK dude, that Hyper Sight rifle was a huge part of my childhood, and I forgot the name after all this time. Thank you for this vid man.
I actually used to have the Monoblast as a kid, but my friend destroyed it one day without my knowledge because he thought it was broken. It wasn't and I was extremely sad when I found out a couple days later after looking for it then finding pieces of it under his trampoline.
It probably wouldn't be very significant, but from watching the expand-o-blast fire, I'm fairly certain it would get better range with the barrel retracted. You can see the barrel recoil, which must lose quite a lot of energy, and the air also has to expand a lot further, and thus lose a lot of pressure before it can reach the dart
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Open your eyes more to see through the fake scope
I love how he gave us his input and was like BS, BS rewind instead of actually going with the lie 👍
Your the best legitbread
That blue hat is super cool! Where did you get it?
used me be obsessed with nerf guns when I was young, i remember getting one of this big rocket launcher ones with the huge foam darts at a garage sale. The thing was probably older than I was when we bought it, those big Grenade launcher things were dope tho
Love how he's testing the range shot and yet he angles the gun down to make the barrel straight, understandable though as it's probably unconsciously happening but still it's funny
I used to have the nerf blaster in the intro I didn’t know it was rare and threw it in the trash by accident not knowing the nerf gun was in the box I realized and now I’m sad
Legitbread is waiting for 100k I TELL YOU 100K
I had one of those expand a blasts, one of my favorite nerf toys of all time. Not a great nerf gun perhaps, but a great toy sniper rifle for imagination. My scope was see through, though it didn't really help you aim much given its just a need dart. I think the one you have might just have been damaged over time.
Wow I want that
Of course the 90's blasters were weird, we didn't know what a Nerf blaster was, we just knew it was "Nerf or nothing!"
Bet with a new spring and a few mods that Hyper Sight could be a killer.
So many memories in one video lol
I like to think the mono shot was an ancestor to the jolt
Glad I didn’t grow up 90s blasters. The first Nerf blaster I remember owning was the Air Tech 2000, kinda was a disappointment due to the fact I only had four darts and bending them rect their performance
What are the micro darts called in? Where can I buy them for the hyper site expand up blaster or also called vintage hyper sight Nerf gun 90s.
Cool vid. My favorite old school nerf gun was the arrow storm, the six barreled rocket launcher.
Now a days I love how the nerf guns have magazines
*Him talking about the 90s like it's a long time ago * * me realizing it was indeed 30 years ago *
Love the Dr. Steve Brule reference