Product:

Yolo Mod Kit (for Dart Zone Max Solo)

Manufacturer:

Out of Darts

Avg. Price:

$14

Range:

103fps average

Rate of Fire:

One dart per two seconds

Summary:

A fun kit for making a fun blaster do more!

Out of Darts Yolo Mod Kit Review

Here’s something I don’t get to do as often: review a mod kit! At the end of last year, after seeing Luchathor’s prototype at Ragnarocktoberfest, Out of Darts jumped on licensing and selling this kit for the Dart Zone Max Solo. After all, making a “Pro Jolt” magazine-fed with just a few parts is a huge quality of life improvement, even if your playstyle is casual.

To that end, I added both the mod kit and a Purple Dart Zone Max Solo to my last Out of Darts order. And while I haven’t brought it to a game yet, the results are quite promising for this little blaster.

Ridin’ Solo

The purple Dart Zone Max Solo is quite pretty in its own right, as it turns out. The important part of this review, however, came in its own bag. There are three printed pieces, an assortment of screws, an o-ring, and two small magnets to glue in place once you’ve assembled things.

In order to install the kit, you have to take the Solo apart – first, to release the barrel housing, and then to take that housing apart to harvest the metal barrel itself. After that, you’re combining pieces in the right order as per the instructions.

Speaking of instructions…

Of course, having the blaster still be capable of folding up on itself at the end is just icing on the cake. For those of us that play HvZ, it’s literally a backup you can throw in a pocket if, God forbid, your main blaster breaks and you have all those magazines left on you.

Performance and Thoughts

I love using the blaster. It loads in sort of an old-school way, with the barrel coming forward, then getting pushed backwards over/around the dart to load it. (Yes, I remember all those old Nerfhaven mods and the Big Bad Bows we did things like this to). In this case, however, it’s a neat little system with tight tolerances that holds the Talon magazine firmly in place and loads darts consistently. And it’s way faster than trying to load the Solo by hand in stock form. I can fire roughly one dart every two seconds. That’s 50% faster than before, just by cutting down some of the motions needed to load the blaster.

As for performance, it’s going to vary a bit depending on the darts and the breech seal/how well you’ve lubricated it. My seal is a tad loose, but even then I’m averaging 103fps with Worker half darts. And that’s nothing to sneeze at.

The Yolo is a fun, quick build to do, and worth it if you’re into actually modding and making things. Naturally, $14 for a kit and $15 for a blaster could be spent on something like an Aeon Pro X or a Fury-X instead, and I can’t argue that such a choice would be more effective for gameplay. But there is a value to building things yourself – that’s the entire point of Legos or Ikea, right? The same applies here, and I’d argue it’s worth it.

Perhaps tagging more than a few people next game would make the point better…

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