Lightning

I ran the trustfire IMR 14500s at one point, and they were on par or marginally better than normal trustfires, but EFest V2s are significantly better, even in 14500. With trustfires, running them in parallel made a huge difference in flywheel windup, while with the EFests there was no noticeable change.

Its weight is actually well balanced, no heavier than a full cs-6 clip Hail-Fire. It dwarves any blaster to date in range and size.

It is interesting, they refuse to drop the 2 foot prime (with Ptube to match). Short arm people will not be using this.

Have you handled the blaster before, or is this info from Hasbro's testing?
Do you happen to know the weight of the darts and the mag that holds them?
Also, I can envision that shipping 1.5m+ long boxes would be a problem; should it require assembly, can it be disassembled later, or is it permanent like an unmodded longstrike stock?
Somehow I get the feeling that a great number of CoD playing 12 year olds ßnipers are going to be shorter than the blaster; are there any smaller prototypes in the works?

Witht he swappalble tubular mags - you're wanting the Vortex range to essentially open up? What is the general feeling towards Vortex?

I think he's referring to streamline tube-mags; not sure in what way though (shotgun-loader style or hopper/rscb).

Meaker is right in that I refer to streamline based mags. In a perfect world, hasbro could mass produce swappable, spring loaded shotgun-style mags that can be cannibalized and used in hoppers/rscbs. This would allow users to top off mags or swap the mag out entirely, on the blaster of their choice, be it homemade or factory made. Admittedly, this is a rather idealistic goal when cost and reliability are factored in, but hasbro has a better chance than the NIC does at making this a reality, even partially.

As for vortex, a dart vs disc argument opened up within the HvZ club at my university, and proponents of vortex loved the longer effective range compared to stock darts, and the fact that magazines can be swapped with the bolt closed, allowing them to keep a disc chambered and ready to fire during reload. Seeing these improvements in dart blasters would be quite welcome. There's also been talk of minimized proton integrations onto dart blasters, but nothing has come of it.

@MyLastDart, you hinted at something larger than micros in your other thread; Any chance that the blaster that uses it has a motor driven plunger?

Back to the topic, I'd like to see more electric and air powered semi/full autos, preferrably clip fed, and if at all possible, RC pack powered. Swappable tubular mags, and something clip fed with a large PT would also be nice. Better streamlines can't hurt either.

IMO there's enough flywheels for now, but the next one should have motors and the rack & pinion dart pusher from the hailfire; pity these features are found within an ergonomic nightmare.