NerfN-Strike Elite Retaliator Blaster, Stock, Grip, Barrel, 12-Clip, 12 Darts, Outdoor Toys for Kids 8+ (Amazon Exclusive)

Our grandson was delighted with this. It is much better quality than many toys being made. The plastic is heavy and the ball sails through the air. It was a perfect birthday.

great choice for kids who love to play Nerf battles. It's easy to use, accurate, and fires darts up to 90 feet. The Retaliator comes with a variety of attachments that can be used to customize the blaster, making it perfect for any type of Nerf battle.Here are some of the things I like about the Nerf N-Strike Elite Retaliator Dart Blaster:It's easy to use. Even young kids can figure out how to operate the Retaliator.It's accurate. I was able to hit targets at a distance of 90 feet with ease.It fires darts quickly. I was able to fire off a dozen darts in just a few seconds.It comes with a variety of attachments. The Retaliator comes with a stock, a barrel extension, and a sight, all of which can be used to customize the blaster.Overall, I highly recommend the Nerf N-Strike Elite Retaliator Dart Blaster. It's a great choice for kids who love to play Nerf battles.

This nerf gun was exactly what my son asked for and he’s happy that “Santa” delivered… Yay Santa!

The Blue Retaliator was my first experience with Nerf guns in 2014, and wow was I impressed. No batteries needed, and yet it launched darts pretty far and with good accuracy for a dart gun. I saw that it gave much better distances on it's shots than it's yellow predecessor (the N-strike Recon). But then this blaster started jamming and I found that the darts start to warp over time and get stuck in the chamber a lot. Also, if you play on dirt, it could get on the darts and rub off in the blaster, possibly causing issues you don't want to occur. I also soon found the barrel extension robbed the blaster of dart range and that it was better off without it, just not better off in the looks department. Today it has a white (and shoddily-painted with a crude blue stripe and lettering) successor which is supposed to be an upgraded version with improved advertised distances, but do the white ones performed better than the blue ones that they replaced? I have a lot more knowledge on Nerf blasters now, and I have since purchased a ProChrono chronograph and have clocked the Retaliators' average dart velocities at 65 FPS (feet per second) with consistent readings from several different Retaliators, including this white one (this is the second of two; the defective one I returned to Amazon because the blaster primed once and got completely stuck halfway into the second prime). I was discouraged to read that the new white and blue "Elite" Retaliator to have worse ratings than the first blue one despite having a longer advertised shooting distance (I thought "shame on you Hasbro, making Nerf a liar"). However, my white Retaliator had an average FPS of 71, making it slightly stronger in this case (blue 65, white 71) and putting up numbers to help back the claim. As an update, Orange Mod Works (OMW), Worker, and Blasterparts have upgrade kits which pushes the limits of this blaster to 100 FPS on my Retaliator(s), and with the stock air restrictor (AR) intact! Others sources state that Retaliators and Rampages seem to perform better on the stock AR. As a warning, this blaster can be irritatingly difficult to modify if you are not good at taking things apart and putting them back together. Also, the internal components are being punished by the upgraded pressure from the 5kg/7kg springs, and aftermarket efforts to reinforce key areas and replacement parts most likely to break are included in their sets. But seriously, with the spring alone this blaster is a beast, it's just that it loses it's control after a while and misfires if primed too hard. Perhaps it is best to leave these blasters stock? Nah.

While the guns work sometimes they tend to jam several times within each12 rd clip usage. It caused a lot of angry outbursts during our family wars. You had to either clear the jammed round from the top when pulling the slide back or remove the clip and do it from the bottom. The clip is quite difficult to remove as well. My 9 year could not remove the clip on either of the two guns I ordered and I had to remove it for her so she could load....and then it would jam. Pretty soon we removed the barrel and clip and would use it as a single shot pistol by cocking the gun and then putting a bullet in from the front one at a time and then firing. To be fair the gun jammed 3 times as much with knock off nerf bullets, but still jammed at least once per clip with the included official nerf rounds. My kids like the Nerf Rival guns better with the round bullets as they never seemed to jam.

Looks cool but doesn’t shoot as far. Underwhelmed considering the cost

My grandson likes it