Nerf unveils Hyper, its next-gen high-capacity blasters with the fastest reloads ever

Nerf creator Hasbro has heard you loud and clear, Adam Savages of the world: You want to be able to fire foam projectiles for days on end, without lugging a belt full of magazines or constantly bending over to reload.

Today the company is announcing Nerf Hyper, a new line of blasters that not only shoot harder (up to 110 feet per second) than any standard blaster, but also offer the fastest reloads yet, thanks to a smaller foam projectile that takes up so little . space, you can place 40 within a blaster the size of a gun. That’s unheard of in Nerf. You can clip on (or take) 50 or 100 round cans to refill them quickly, just like a paintball gun.

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Hasbro doesn’t have a set release date for Hyper after “2021” yet, but we’re getting three blasters to launch:

• The $ 30 Nerf Hyper Rush-40 is the 40-round gun I mentioned; it’s a single shot, spring action where you retract the entire slide (including the integrated funnel) and then shoot once.
• The $ 40 Hyper Siege-50 holds 50 bullets in a shotgun design with pump action and percussion fire; Hold the trigger and it fires just as fast as you pump. See it at the top of our gallery below.
• But the flagship is clearly the $ 70 Hyper Mach-100, a fully automatic SMG design that takes D batteries and spits out foam balls from the 100-round funnel. See it at the top of this post.

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Note that none of the new blasters actually break records for the number of shots you get before reloading – the $ 100 Nerf Rival Nemesis, $ 100 Perses and $ 200 Prometheus already had hoppers capable of taking 100 or more of Hasbro’s larger Rival balls. Rival was already capable of up to 100 feet per second, so 110fps isn’t a huge jump either.

No, the capacity to size ratio of these blasters is really impressive. “In the book where you used to house 25 Rival rounds, you can now place 100 Hyper rounds,” said Hasbro SVP and Nerf brand manager Tom Warner. The edge

Where the fan favorite is simply Perses barely 100 will fit into a big, sturdy SMG unless you’ve invested in an aftermarket hopper, it might be easier now. The next time Nerf makes a large underlying cannon like the Prometheus, you could theoretically fire 800 bullets without reloading once. And it wasn’t long ago that a six-shot revolver was considered the next generation of Nerf sidearms.

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And while you may spend new ammo, you could pay a lot less per shot if you buy in bulk. While the 50 and 100 round refills cost $ 12 and $ 20 respectively, you can pick up a 200 round pack for less than $ 30. That works out to 15 cents per projectile – much less than the 27 cents Nerf per Elite- dart charges, not to mention 36 cents per rival, 40 cents per Ultra, or 50 cents for each mega arrow.

Hasbro tells us that while it was necessary to find new material for Hyper balls, they should now actually fly farther, while still being able to bounce. Not a word on whether they will bow.

It’s been over five years since the Nerf community showed that Rival was perfect for high-capacity rapid-fire blasters, and the Nemesis and Perses were an excellent start, but Hasbro was also recently beaten when it comes to long-range blasters while she’s still trying to sell us on his own Ultra dart. But Hyper looks like it can do many of the things Nerfers want all at once.

I’m really curious to see where Hyper will fit into the new foam blaster meta once the pandemic wears off, and whether the community will embrace it or not.