As the name suggests, NERF s new lineup of Rival Curve Shot blasters allow you to fire rounds on a curve (left, right, straight, or down) to surprise opponents even when they re lurking around corners. Basically, they re an ideal secondary weapon to have in close quarters battles. If you want to [.]
The least enjoyable part of a friendly Nerf battle isn’t getting hit, it’s constantly having to stop to reload your blaster. The inconvenience improved with Nerf’s Rival line, which debuted in 2015, but for 2021 the company is introducing a new Hyper line of blasters that fire smaller foam balls so you’ll be spending even less time reloading.
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The Rival line wasn’t the first time Nerf turned to foam balls as an ammo alternative to darts, but the real appeal was that it could hurl those tiny spheres (which looked like soft miniaturized golf balls) at speeds of up to 70 MPH, or around 100 feet per second. Not fast enough to leave a bruise, as paintballs can, but enough speed that you’d want to actively avoid getting hit during a shootout. For its new Hyper line, Nerf redesigned those foam balls with a new bouncy material that flies farther and faster, although the bump in speed to around 110 feet per second now isn’t the real appeal here.
Hasbro is clearly kicking their Nerf brand into high gear for 2021. It all started with the debut of Nerf Rival Curve Shot blasters in January, and now they ve announced the Hyper high performance line which focuses on fast, high capacity reloads and round velocity that goes up to 110 feet per [.]
Nerf reveals Hyper, its next-gen high capacity blasters with the fastest reloads ever
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Nerf maker Hasbro has heard you loud and clear, Adam Savages of the world: you want to be able to shoot foam projectiles for days, without carrying around a belt full of magazines or constantly stooping down to reload.
Today, the company’s announcing Nerf Hyper, a new line of blasters that not only shoots harder (up to 110 feet per second) than any stock blaster but also features the company’s fastest reloads yet, thanks to a smaller foam projectile that takes up so little space, you can fit 40 of them