Adventure Force Quadstrike Review
December 26, 2025Buzz Bee still has a few blasters available in Walmart’s Adventure Force line; this year sees the addition of the Quadstrike, a two-pack of blasters firing four darts each. The pistols follow the general shell design of the Mayhem line, but in bright colors and without all the extra holes. The blasters themselves aren’t anything extra special, but they don’t need to be. They just have one job – fire darts far for ages 8+ – and they do it well!
Adventure Force Archery Blaster Set Review
December 24, 2025Dart Zone produced a few roleplay-oriented sets for Walmart this year. There’s the Pirate Playset, including one of their Buccaneer pistols, and there’s also this Archery set. The kit includes an eight-shot blaster, styled like a bow (naturally), as well as suction cup darts, an target, and a wrist-mounted dart holder. Given the lack of pull and release blasters in the current market, it’s a nice change of pace. And it turns out there’s a ton of air just waiting to be used by those of us who are mechanically inclined.
Gel Ball Legal Wars: Dart Zone Emerges (Kinda) Victorious?
December 22, 2025It’s been a while since I last wrote about the legal fight over gel blasters. Since then, the case has been largely slow-moving. Finally, though, there’s a final determination…and Prime Time Toys won! It may be somewhat of a Phyrric victory, though. Let’s take a peek.
Acorn Armaments Signet Build/Assembly Guide
December 18, 2025It’s a bit early for the review – I’ve only just finished printing the files after ordering the hardware kit from Out of Darts a while back – but I felt there needed to be a post. There doesn’t seem to be a build guide online yet! And while someone like me can figure out the assembly after staring at the pieces long enough, even I came across a few small difficulties during the process. To that end, let’s make a post with pictures!
I’ll hopefully have time to use this blaster over the weekend. But since I’ve seen the creator (and others) use this blaster at Humans v Zombies games throughout the year, I’m sure it’ll hold up just fine!
Dart Zone Max Solo Pro DIY Kit Review
December 16, 2025This is admittedly a short post. I’ve already posted a review for the Dart Zone Max Solo Pro, but for the holidays, Prime Time Toys FINALLY made a DIY kit oriented towards those who are new or inexperienced in the hobby. For someone like me, largely irrelevant. For new people, much more relevant, and it comes with exclusive shell colors.
Plus, how often do I get to film my wife assembling things? It makes life lots more fun. And she can shoot me afterwards! XD
Buzz Bee Mayhem Outrage Review
December 15, 2025The largest blaster in the Mayhem line (in the United States, at least) is the Outrage. At $20, it fills the traditional place of past Buzz Bee entries like the Sidewinder and Barbarian, with a manual plunger and a removable dart drum. And with regional holiday sales, 30 dart capacity blasters can be quite appealing. However, given some of the firing issues with this blaster, it’s probably not the best choice to go under the tree.
Femling Design Stagecoach Review
December 5, 2025Author’s note: thanks to Out of Darts for sending one of these blasters my way to use and review!
Silly Shells. They make firing all kinds of ammo from the same blaster easy and fun. And while we’ve had some practical, shell-fed blasters made recently in the community (the Breacher and the BattleAxe come to mind), there’s always fun to be had using a break-action shotgun. To that end, we have the Femling Design Stagecoach, a 3D printed, double barrel shotgun. With double the internals of other blasters, it’s not quite as fast to use as other blasters. But it’s more flexible in other ways, and it makes for unique experience if you have either the money to invest, or the time to print all the parts to go with a hardware kit.
