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Nerf N-Strike Barricade RV-10
by broxi3781
My sons both love Nerf guns, so despite having enough to kit out an entire unit, when asked what he wanted for his birthday this year, once a gain a Nerf gun was top of the list. I tried to point out that he already has so many guns, and you can only use one gun at a time anyway, but he really did want this. His reason for the request ... was the round chamber in which the bullets go looks like a tommy gun in his opinion. At any rate - as much as I would have preferred to buy anything else, this is what he wanted, and I did have an Amazon voucher, so this is what we bought. Unfortunately, shortly after buying this, the review sites had tons of reviews for this item and not many were very good, but it was already bought so we'd have to wait and see how it worked.
My son quickly felt through his packages on his birthday, looking for one to large to be a video a game or books, found this and was absolutely delighted. It was quickly handed over to Dad to get batteries into it. This requires 3 AA batteries and I'm afraid you do need the high powered ones, such as Duracell. The batteries were in, the gun was loaded and we prepared to become living targets. Nothing happened though, my son tried and tried, but could not fire the gun. Dad was busy setting up another present, but when he eventually got to it he found a locking button which was jammed. Using brute force, which he has in much greater abundance than the rest of us, he was able to force this button to slide over allowing the gun to fire. Rechargeable batteries did not seem to be providing enough power for this ( although they do work for my camera and our DS remotes) so he ran out to buy Duracell.
Once again my son had a smile a mile wide as he held this gun in his hands and ran about firing off a few shots and then raced up the landing to see how far he could shoot this gun. He came back down a minute later, it was jammed again. This continued for awhile, my husband would force the button to an ion position, my son would get off a few shots, sometimes even firing the whole magazine of ten, but then it would jam again, and neither my son nor myself are strong enough to unjam this. My husband can get it to work, but he is afraid he will break it. My son can not use this toy unless my husband is present and willing to keep unjamming it over and over again.
After awhile my son asked if this could be returned to the store. Thankfully Amazon has agreed to take it back for our choice of a full refund or a new gun. Considering the other reviews I have read, my son has decided he would rather have a different gun, and I am more than happy to pay an extra £4 for the one he wants, which does not take batteries as I'm sure this will save a fortune in the long run. I am also afraid if we took another gun like this one, we might find one that works for awhile before jamming , as happened to other people, or of course another gun that just does not work at all.
My son was terribly disappointed with this toy, although he always takes everything in stride. His birthday seemed a disappointment all around in my opinion as a series of disasters meant only one of his friends was able to come. I felt horrible with this toy not working as well. So bad in fact that I added £15 to the £16 in birthday money he had and sent my husband racing off to Smyths for a Nerf Vortex Nitron - an even worse battery hog it turns out. In the long run though, we may be better off with this gun not working. As mentioned, it does require the dear batteries, and even with these the gun seemed to be slowing down by the end of the evening. There is a bit of a grinding sound, and perhaps this gun is just faulty, but I really do not want another toy I have to buy batteries for on a constant basis, and I do prefer toys that at least will take rechargeable batteries.
Thankfully, in spite of everything - my son declared it "the best birthday ever". He always thinks everything is the best ever, but it's lucky he is easy to please. He did get a new gun after all and will be getting another as well when the exchange is complete. I think I took it worse than he did, as a parent we want birthdays to be perfect. I am not the only one to have problems with this gun though, so I would not recommend it at all, but if you must get one for a special occasion, it might be wise to try it out before the special day.
I should mention this toy comes with 10 Nerf " whistler" darts. These are meant to make a whistling sound when you shoot them, but I have never noticed any sound, and this is not our first set of these darts. In my opinion, these are no better or worse than either other Nerf darts, although my son says he likes them because they have black tips and he likes to have different colours. He would like them even better all black. The darts do not hurt when are hit with them, and will usually not knock anything over, but of course it might be wise not to use these in a room full of lightweight breakable ornaments. When this is working it will fire off all ten darts one after the next in less than one minute if you hold the trigger down. It does seem very slow for an automatic type weapon. Or you can pull and release to fire single darts saving your ammo.
Overall, I still like Nerf as a brand. They are wonderful toys to run about the house and have indoor battles when the weather is bad. Children do seem to absolutely love them, and the majority of their toys are well made, although terribly expensive. I do wish they would leave off all the battery powered toys. This just seems to be one more thing to go wrong, as well as being expensive for the parents to keep up with. I will still recommend Nerf in general, but not this particular gun. This gun currently sells for £10 - £15. I paid £11.49 at Amazon, using a dooyoo voucher.
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Nerf N-Strike Barricade RV-10
by doriee
The reason I had one of these was because at Christmas 2011 me and my family do a surprise gift were we all buy an untagged present and swap it with each other and this years themes was weapons, I received the Nerf N-strike after we had all finished out dinner and what not we all decided to start playing, it sound silly because I'm the ... youngest out of the lot of us 19 going on 20 soon so of course we acted very childish but that's what Christmas is all about.
Design
The Nerf N- strike is a motorized semi-auto toy gun made of a sturdy plastic which is suitable for a rough battle. The main colour of the Gun is a bright yellow, it has a black handle with a red trigger and orange parts dotted around as well. The darts that come with this are a thick plastic peach colour but I have seen you can have varied colours which is great if you have the same gun then you can have a different colour for each team This Nerf gun takes 3x AAA batteries which are not included with the gun, you cannot use this with out the batteries because this allows the middle barrel to automatically spin around releasing the darts every time you pull the trigger this allows you to fire your weapons much faster than your opponent giving you a better chance of winning an epic battle. The gun is very lightweight which did leave me questioning the durability of this Nerf N-strike.
How well does it work
To aim, you basically have to just point and shoot as there isn't anything to aim with however it is easy to hit people because they are so big and the darts are pretty small, the darts measure a couple of inches long. This fires out quite fast so you do have to think about if your firing it in someone face and be careful not to get them in the eyes because I can tell you from experience it does hurt a lot. The automatic barrel spins round quite fast taking only a few seconds to get all your darts out, the gun only comes with 6 so you find yourself scrambling on the floor to find your ammo because you get hit and your out. To load up the darts, in the front of the barrel that you can see on the sides are holes, you simply slid you dart in there and turn it around.
Durability and extras
This feels like it's made of a sturdy plastic although is hollow and light weight, I dropped this a few times and it was fine but after at least the tenth time of dropping it during my battle is did give up on me and the orange bit at the front, the hole the darts come out of, that part snapped off, although the gun still worked it did look silly so I decided to sit out the game and sulk because my gun had broken. Although children probably won't treat this gun as rough so it should last longer than an hour or so.
Batteries are not included in this but most of us have batteries lying around the house anyone and this doesn't take up a lot of power so you can be reassured the batteries will last a long time. The batteries make the barrel turn around and also allows the gun to make firing noises which does become very annoying. You don't have to assemble this gun you just take it out the packet and put the batteries in and it's ready This comes with 10 darts already but you can buy packs of 36 darts and if this is for a child you'll find you have to buy a couple of these packets because 10 darts is not enough especially if they get lost often.
Price and availability
You can buy this from anywhere that will stock Nerf guns such as argos, toys r us, rammsdens, tesco and from Amazon. This gun is fairly cheap and on Amazon it was 19.99 but has now been reduced to 11.50 so now is the time to get one before they all run out. I would imagine that it is a little cheaper in places like Tesco.
Overall
Overall, the colours make the gun extremely attractive to both children and adults although the downside is when there's tension in the room and you raise your gun, they notice it more because it's so bright so I always got hit first and was out, but to a child they probably wouldn't care about things like that. This is very light weight meaning anyone could play with it with ease however the durability is really bad and broke within the hour of me playing with it although it was rough playing so it would last much longer for someone younger. For 20 you do expect to get the batteries with it but unfortunately you don't, the darts are very easy to put in and the automatic barrel allows a really fast release. I loved playing with this is brought about much fun for my broken family and we really needed a good laugh especially at Christmas, I won many games with this and wish I still had it so I may buy another one now there's a sale on!
Age group - 5-8 years
Compact design
10 dart revolving barrel
Motorized
Tactical rail and stock attachment.
Quick and reliable
Weight - 0.84kg
Depth - 8.7cm
Height - 23cm
Width- 35.4cm
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