YMMV / Nerf Brand

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• Americans Hate Tingle:
  • Some cases of No Export for You could be because many other countries take much more negative stances on the use of guns and on the depiction of violence.
  • Australians, due to firearms laws which even requires bb/airsoft/paintball guns to be registered and used only by licenced persons (which is extremely hard to get, and if you are doing it you may as well take up competitive target shooting or hunting), are on the height of homemade dart design.
• Fan Nickname: Certain Rebelle models that draw obvious inspiration from N-Strike designs, such as the "Rebellicade" (Fearless Fire, which mimics the Barricade) or "Rebellecon" (Rapid Glow, which mimics the Recon).
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • The Vortex blasters are green
  • Storing extra magazines inside the stock, or somewhere else in the blaster, seems to be just a simple gimmick. Until you realize it's a children's toy that has a convenient feature that real firearms, airsoft/BB guns, and paintball guns don't even have. (ignoring that airsoft is justified in that they store batteries instead of ammo in the space.)
  • Amusingly, some of the carbine-esque automatic blasters ^note The Stampede, Rapidstrike, Revoltinator, etc. feature similar problems to ACTUAL gas-piston carbines, wherein a specific type of mechanical failure makes them shoot uncontrollably until they deplete their magazine. There's Shown Their Work, and then there's replicating an actual mechanical fault in real weaponry...
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Jolt reskin.^note The tendency for the one-shot Jolt to being recolored, combined with other Nerf blasters being little more than reshells of the Jolt's basic direct plunger system, has led to nearly all Nerf blasters (flywheel semiautos get a pass... at times) being dismissed ironically as Jolt reskins. By the time when the Microshot series is introduced, literal Jolt reskins are now a thing.
  • Recon Reshell/Stryfe Reshell.^note Before the Jolt became known for being one of the most recycled blaster cores, the N-Strike Recon was the foundation for all the early-era Clip System magazine blasters. In more recent days the same joke extends to the N-strike Stryfe, the electrically-powered counterpart to the Recon.
  • "There's only one gender. It's NERF or nothing." ^Explanation A meme using the NERF slogan to simultaneously offend non-binary people and their detractors. Usually associated with a Roblox avatar of Diego Brando's dinosaur form.
• Most Wonderful Sound: For all its faults, the MEGA Centurion's "K-THUNK!" when firing is satisfying. Most MEGA blasters have a beefy noise for their major plungers to launch the larger darts.
  • The repeated thunks of the RapidStrike CS-18 feeding darts into the flywheels. Doubly so with the HyperFire.
  • Slam-firing a blaster, particularly ones of large capacity unless the sound is too obnoxious like the Revonix 360.
  • Flywheels being ready to fire in general if you're the one with them, especially with battery mods and faster motors that make an even more scary noise (to your opponents). Another subset of this is the harmonic thrumming you get due to both motors being slightly out of pitch with each other. "vvvvVWWWWMWWWMWMMMMWWMMMWWWMMMMMWWWMMMMMMMWWWMMMMMM!!!"
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • A certain breed of Nerf owners bemoan the transition from direct-plunger action dart blasters to the reversed-plunger blasters, and others weren't pleased with the introduction of electric-only powered Nerf blasters. With the launch of the Vortex disc blasters, yet more complainers are laying the hate on the different system.
  • Then Nerf launched their "Elite" series, all using direct-plunger systems, and advertising stock ranges of 75 feet.
  • The Rebelle Line has drawn criticism from some female Nerfers who think that Hasbro is trying too hard to market the dart blasters to girls.
  • Quite a few male Nerfers are complaining about them as well. The main complaint seems to be that they're too girly for a Rated M for Manly sport like Nerf. However, some of the other common complaints include a reduction in firepower, accuracy, or just plain usability compared to other Nerf blasters for the sake of form over function. Some of those complaints are more due to unfamiliarity, since many (though not all) Rebelle blasters share internals with existing blasters.
  • The Nerf Ultra series drew a lot of criticism for switching to an easily-deformed polystyrene dart instead of using the traditional expanding foam, and the comparatively high prices made it even more unpopular due to RIVAL blasters being in the same price bracket and performing better.
  • Elite 2.0. The idea of an updated version of all the Elite blasters with a new aesthetic and paintjob sounds like a great idea on paper, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired by fans of the original models. However, probably the biggest sticking point of the line is that many of the blasters are designed in such a way that opening them up is extremely difficult even for experienced blaster modders, blasters that were previously held together by Philips head screws are now a mixture of screws, plastic tabs, and the occasional solvent weld that threatens to damage the blaster if you pull it apart the wrong way (and you most likely will). It almost feels like Hasbro executives now officially have it out for the Nerf mod community. The most notorious of these has to the the Phoenix, which was made to and has completely replaced the Stryfe, often seen as the holy grail of moddable Nerf blasters, on store shelves.

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