Xshot Blastercorn Big Rizz Review

One of the silliest but most fun things to be released last year was the Xshot Blastercorn pistol. It took a theme and embraced it while still delivering on performance. Now, Zuru has apparently decided to make it a sub-line, because we now have the Blastercorn Big Rizz.

If you were aching for a blaster that resembles a full size unicorn (complete with flapping wings and a glowing horn), the wait is over! If you weren’t…it’s still a silly fun blaster that any age person can enjoy. Seriously, any age.

Lots of Informal Testing

To be fair, the performance and mechanics aren’t new, so there’s not a lot of testing required to see how well this would do in battle. Instead, I brought it with me to a Labor Day cabin with the wife and friends, left it and the darts accessible, and watched people pick it up and play with it.

Yes, if the 30-something year old people are running around with the unicorn blaster, then I’m pretty sure all ages will be fine with it.

Going Full Size

The Big Rizz is designed to look like an entire unicorn. The priming grip and handle are the legs, the neck/head/horn are the barrel, and the tail is the stock. In between everything is paint, decals, wings that flap on the trigger pull, and a cylinder holding eight darts. The package comes with 24 pink darts total, and the stock has storage for eight of them.

Within the grip is a slot for button cell batteries. These power the LED within the horn, with the connection being completed on the trigger pull.

Even with the shell being covered in decals and features, there’s still a Picatinny rail on top (between the wings) with an included sight attachment. How useful it can be is debatable, but it’s cool to see even on an “unserious” blaster.

The pump action is decent – there’s a ratcheting mechanism you can feel, but the priming handle has a roller inside for smoothing out the motion.

Like most Xshot cylinder-fed blasters, you can freely turn the cylinder to load by default, but priming the blaster moves the rotation mech and locks the cylinder in place until you fire.

Performance

With the included Pocket darts, I’m averaging 84fps. Heavier darts (Adventure Force, etc.) are closer to 80fps. Rate of fire is a comfortable two darts per second – there isn’t any slamfire here, and it’s possible to lock up the blaster if you try. So don’t.

One minor quibble for the inexperienced: the blaster doesn’t catch until a little after the cylinder rotates. It’s a very small window where this can happen, but it’s possible to just spit out a dart instead of catching the plunger and firing on the trigger pull.

Inside

The internals are fairly robust, since they need to span so far within the blaster. But really, there’s nothing new in here that we haven’t seen from Xshot before in various other blasters.

Fun fact: I assume it makes the automated manufacturing easier, but the battery tray amounts to a pair of bent metal contacts sitting in the left half of the blaster, by themselves. Spring contacts on the other half of the shell make the connection to the rest of the circuit.

Final Thoughts

It’s an enjoyable blaster that’s all about silly fun. Even so, I’m seeing the price creep finally happen. This would have been a perfect $20 blaster, but I got mine for $25. If you want to have fun while getting your money’s worth, try to grab it at that price.

Otherwise, flap your wings and make fun of your enemies!