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Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster - Yellow | 
 enlarge | Brand: Hasbro
Category: Toy
List Price: $42.99
Buy New: $39.99
You Save: $3.00 (7%)
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 134
Batteries: 6
Batteries Included: No
Age: 8 - 12 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 24
Dimensions (in): 24 x 18 x 4
Model: 64979
UPC: 653569344148
EAN: 0653569344148
ASIN: B0013U95U2
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Be ready for any battle with the N-STRIKE VULCAN EBF-25 blaster - an awesome, fully automatic dart cannon! | | • | Watch as the belt feeds automatically through the blaster, letting the barrage of firepower continue as you battle your opponent. The piston-powered internal launching system makes it an unstoppable force! | | • | The removable tripod folds for easy transport or a quick escape from enemy fire! | | • | Even your toughest opponent won t know what hit him when you unleash the power of the N-STRIKE VULCAN EBF-25 blaster! | | • | Blaster comes with ammo box, folding tripod, 25-dart belt and 25 SONIC MICRO DARTS ammo and instructions. |
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| Customer Reviews:
 The Nerf Vulcan: Serious Firepower For Peanuts! August 10, 2008
Joshua Tailswish (Farmersville, OH United States)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
The Nerf Vulcan, the latest release in Nerf's "N-Strike" line of toys, is a fully automatic belt-fed Nerf gun. It retails for $40.00 and don't let anyone tell you differently. It requires six D-cell batteries to run the gun on full-auto, but single-fire mode requires no batteries.
When firing, the Vulcan is no louder than an electric shaver, and probably quieter than many of those. On fresh batteries, it does fire ~2-3 darts per second, taking around 8 seconds to empty an entire 25-round belt of darts.
Its ranges vary pretty wildly, but 20-30 feet is about average. If you've used the Nerf Maverick, its ranges are comparable to the Vulcan's. These ranges make the Vulcan well-suited to indoor fun, but rather ineffective outdoors when targets tend to be further away.
I find the gun bulky and unwieldy, and I'm speaking as a 5' 9" adult. For children, (ages 6 and up according to the box) they will have to rely on the handy detachable, folding tripod to use the Vulcan effectively. Running around with the gun is very difficult, made more so by the detachable ammunition box's tendency to fall off when jostled.
The valuepack edition of the Vulcan (identifiable by the green stripe on the right end of the box) includes an extra ammunition belt, 25 extra darts to fill the belt with, and a shoulder strap in addition to the Vulcan and its normal accessories. The valuepack is the same price as the regular Vulcan, so buying anything but the valuepack is silly. The shoulder strap is a good quality item, and widely adjustable to fit any person.
A word on the tripod: It's quite stiff, necessarily so because of the Vulcan's weight. When you move it by hand, it sounds as if you're breaking it; this isn't the case, relax.
The Vulcan uses sonic micro darts which are supposed to whistle as they fly through the air. My darts have thus far never whistled. They lack suction cups, so there won't be any neat forest-of-darts sticking to walls, televisions, etc.
The Vulcan features three N-strike accessory mounting rails. These will allow you to attach the Longshot's scope, the Recon's flip-up sight and red-dot sight, the green tactical light, or the N-Strike Unity system's scout blaster. NONE of these are included with the Vulcan, just to be clear. I also recommend *not* attaching the Longshot's scope to the top of the gun, because it's very difficult to remove due to how it wedges into place.
Refill packages including Vulcan ammo belts and darts will be available soon, if they aren't in stores already.
Here are the pros and cons for an at-a-glance evaluation.
Pros:
Rate-of-fire
Ammunition-capacity
Reload Time (Loading a fresh belt, not filling a belt with darts)
Handy tripod
Cons:
Weight
Unwieldy size
Reload time (filling a belt with darts)
Battery cost (Roughly $8.00 worth of batteries)
Ammo-box connection fails when jostled
 mwahahahahahahaha July 31, 2008
Ryan Crout (Irvine CA, USofA)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
okay, lemmi just say how awesome this thing is
it is rediculously awesome
okay, now then, to the meat of the matter
pluses
this gun is rediculously awesome
it comes with two belts (and is in fact out now, my dad and i bought two from hasbro toys and they arrived july 29
i've yet to use them in our uber nerf war campaign, but my recent Vulcan on Vulcan battle with my dad has yeilded the following
rate of fire is staggering, this baby can lay down five more rounds than the rapid twenty, allowing for considerably longer bursts, given that it fires at roughly 3 darts per second
reload is on par with the longshot for ease and speed of reload, you just pull up the chamber hatch and put in the new belt, you don't even need to remove the old one, it just falls out after firing the last round
despite this the rounds are very secure, one can easily pick the gun up and run around with little fear of jamming
the gun also comes with two belts, allowing fifty rounds of ammo, more than any other gun by far
this, added with it's sturdy yet manueverable tripod as well as the option to go manual (fire each round as if it were in a longshot) make this a formidable weapon, whether you've got batteries or not
now, the downsides
this thing is HUGE
i have a bit of trouble hefting it, and i'm 16 years old
you cannot tactically reload
this means you can't add new rounds to a magazine or belt after firing it, meaning if you accidentally fire, or your other belt is full, you're stuck till you empty this one (pretty much, there is a bit of reloadability)
the gun is prone to jam(well, skip is more like it, since it cycles rounds with a system of pronged wheels) if you run around with the belt loose and don't have the box attatched
and lastly, the D batteries (6 of them!) are really what make this gun, and without them, your stuck with a big long shot
however, all these problems can easily be overcome (well, except for the weight issue, so don't expect your little six year old to be running around like rambo)
and as such, this gun is beyond awesome, but definately not worth $80, go to hasbro and buy it for 40, or if you can wait just wait till amazon "comes out" with it
to sum up
"this here is 66 tons of straight up, Hellfire spewin, dee-vine intervention"
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