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[nerfhead]

Edit: my first post is a little bit of a mess, so I cut it down.

I just wanted to point out that Hasbro made some small changes to the streamline and sonic darts. The small changes to the streamline were slightly longer length of the dart and firmer foam. To tell the difference from the old ones is red orange heads/tips were the old ones have orange heads/tips. The old streamlines don't work as well with the new recon cs.

The sonic darts also has better firmer foam and not as flimsy like they once was.

Edited by nerfhead, 21 February 2008 - 03:17 AM.

[Direct Threat]

I usually just pass stuff like this by, but seriously, this is your first post? People have been LYNCHED for less spelling and grammar mistakes than that. I would love to comment on what you're actually trying to tell us, but I stopped understanding somewhere around line 3 or 4. This is not a retard circus, corral the apes.

Edited by Direct Threat, 21 February 2008 - 02:13 AM.

[nerfhead]

I usually just pass stuff like this by, but seriously, this is your first post? People have been LYNCHED for less spelling and grammar mistakes than that. I would love to comment on what you're actually trying to tell us, but I stopped understanding somewhere around line 3 or 4. This is not a retard circus, corral the apes.

sorry, what I was trying to point out is that Hasbro made some small changes to the streamline and sonic darts. The small changes to the streamline were slightly longer length of the dart and firmer foam. To tell the difference from the old ones is red orange heads/tips were the old ones have orange heads/tips. The old streamlines don't work as well with the new recon cs.

The sonic darts also has better firmer foam and not as flimsy like they once was.


I hope I cleared that up.

[General Cole]

OK, I meant to post this like a month or so ago, but here goes me BEING BANNED....

So, I bought my Recon back in the first week of January. When got home I took everything out the box, except for the streamline darts. (I keep most of my new guns in their box's. I used my old streamlines from my LS.)

I put the gun together and tried out the cool features and everything. I was loving the gun up to the up point when I fired it. The shot dropped as soon as they left the barrel, and they only went half the distance. This drove me crazy for a couple hours. I thought that this is too much of a nice gun for it to shoot so bad, maybe it is a lemon or something...

Anyway, a couple days later I took it out of the box to make it work. I looked at everything and then thought, why wouldn't I use the streamlines that came with the gun, so I tried that. Then when I shot it, it worked fine, like it supposed too. I was happy. I proclaim it to be the best $20 I spent.

To the point.... (Finally)

The thing I noticed when I first opened the box is that the streamlines had red orange heads as to orange head streamline darts that came with the LS. The difference is that the red orange head color, of course, a longer body, firmer foam, and the main reason is the extra length of the dart (by a cm or so).

So the problem was the orange heads were shorter then the red head streamlines. They were not being pushed into the Recon's chamber all the way. This resulted in poor shots with half the power. When pushed in by a finger the orange heads will perform as well as the red orange head streamlines.

I noticed these new version streamlines in November, when I was at Wal-Mart buying refill packs, because earlier that month I got some sonic darts changed by giving them firmer foam as to the earlier flimsy sonic darts. I was very happy with that.

After the new sonic dart changes, I figured that Hasbro improved the streamlines when I saw the darker color heads (red orange). I didn't bother to buy them at the time because I had enough of them already.

So, if you plan on buying some refill packs for your Recon etc, look out for these new ones, because there are plenty of orange head streamlines at the stores. You don't want the wrong ones...


P.S. Sorry for the long, crappy, dumb ass post..

Fixed to be readable.

Summary- There are new color streamlines.

Edited by General Cole, 21 February 2008 - 03:16 AM.

[PointBlank]

I have noticed that too. Its a good idea on their part.

Edited by PointBlank, 21 February 2008 - 10:44 PM.

[boblordofdarkness]

I noticed the color difference once I opened my recon, I havent seen much more orange tipped streamlines in stores lately though.

[Captain]

I picked up a pack of the new sonic ones. They are indeed sturdier, but for some reason they don't whistle like they should.