In this, the 13th episode of the Adult Fans of Nerf Show, we discuss Hasbro’s (as well as touching on Kenner as well) non-Nerf dart blasters. (Such as the recent Optimus Prime Cyber Blaster)

Direct from the NerfNation Youtube channel, we present to you the N-Strike Elite Hailfire blaster reveal video!

In this episode we discuss the various dart tag blasters and accessories since it’s inception.

We’ll be taking a short hiatus while Mr. S gets married and goes to Botcon for his honeymoon. We’ll be back in about 3 weeks with another brand new episode!

Awww, yeah! The wonderful people at Nerf have put this video up on Youtube showing off the Retaliator a little more closely. We can’t wait to get our hands on all of the Elite Blasters!

In this episode, we discuss the history of ballistic ball blasters.

And the winners of our Spring Cleaning Giveaway are….

Let’s talk about the paint on the Lumitron first, because this is the only real thing that sets the Lumitron apart from the Praxis.  I’m going to call this new almost neon green color shared by the Lumitron and Rayven “Light it Up Green”, I like the hue more than the darker alien green of the Vortex series and think it looks really sharp on the Lumitron.

There isn’t really much of anything besides paint that is different between the Lumitron and the Praxis.  The Lumitron is packaged without the Praxis’s shoulder stock and to be honest that’s just fine with me.  I’m not much of a fan of the thin piped shoulder stocks like those with the Recon, they feel like they’d break with too much pressure.  It seems that the Lumitron fixes some of the jamming issues that the first run of the Praxis suffered from which is awesome considering how solid the Praxis is as a blaster.

The real shining point of the Lumitron is the new Firefly tech 10 round clip.  I was a little sad to see that this blaster only comes with 10 discs, but since refill ammo is available I guess it’s not that much of a problem.  The clip uses 4 “AA” batteries and uses similar lights to the Rayven’s clip.  These lights seem to charge the second disc in line better than the first disc in the clip, this seems to be a limitation of available real estate on the vortex clip for light placement.  The Lumitron’s clip functions no differently than the regular Vortex clips(other than the lights), and is just a little bit shorter than the 20 round clip which comes with the Nitron.

I’m quite impressed so far with the Light it Up series.  When you think about it, Nerf could have just launched this series as the clips themselves since that’s the core of the new Firefly tech gimmick.  Instead, they wrapped them up in a pair of awesome blasters that do nothing but compliment this new generation of glow in the dark projectile fun.  The Lumitron may not be as unique or original as the Rayven, but it is a fun functional blaster.  It’s worth picking up if for no other reason to get the Firefly tech clip.

The entries were awesome, and we look forward to taking a closer look at each of them to decide the winners!

The winner’s announcement video will be posted on:

Wednesday, March 21st, at Noon central standard time!

In this episode of The AFoN Show, we give you a little behind-the-scenes look at our full arsenals!