![]() ![]() While you must make certain that you never ever lose the chunk of plastic, the mechanism itself is child’s play to assemble: Insert it into the chamber that favours your dominant hand, draw it back with that chef’s kiss pull that click clacks a foam ball into place and fire a single shot. It also has one other trick up its firing chamber: A bolt mechanism that can be customised for either right or left-handed action. Aesthetically similar to the NERF Rival Apollo XV-700 in terms of design, the Helios packs the action of a foam ball blaster into a tighter and smaller frame while remaining satisfyingly hefty to hold. The NERF Rival Helios XVII-700 manages to just about tick all those boxes. NERF has had a simple but effective evolution as the brand rolled out licensed and updated foam dart and ball weapons: Make something that looks cooler, shoots faster and is still technically safe for everyday shenanigans. ![]() Foam warfare has changed, and so has the company that provides weapons of mass distraction. Whew ! If you can avoid it, don't disassemble your Helios.Over the last couple of years, NERF has done a brilliant job in reinventing itself. It took multiple attempts to figure out a method for holding all the parts in place while I got the shell back together. Plus, the reassembly was a challenge, especially the mag release. It took a few minutes to figure out where all the parts belonged. When I opened the outer shell, it went sproing ! Two springs flew out, the mag release button and clip fell out, the plunger catch assembly fell out, and the tail end of the trigger mech popped out. Not only is there an outer shell, but the grip and most of the plunger mech is a separate subassembly that needed to be taken apart. On a side note, butterflying the Helios isn't for the faint of heart. I took an Xacto knife and shaved the clear part of the mag tube so that it's beveled smoothly with the end cap. ( see red arrows) The clear part of the tube was only 1/32nd inch larger than the orange end cap, but just enough to stop the mag dead in its tracks when inserting. It was bumping against a bulkhead at the bottom of the magwell. There was a ridge where the clear part of the tube met the orange cap on the end of the mag. So again, anybody else got a Helios and an opinion ? We will not rest until Nerf justice is served.īut seriously, don't take me seriously. Which of course will result in a full disassembly and a federal probe into why the 12 round mag is being discriminated against. ( Admins, I would like a triple word score for "interchangeability", plus a double letter score on the G, thank you)īut seriously, I am disappointed that the Helios is limited to 7 rounds. WTF ?!?! I thought the whole business with RIVAL was compatibility and interchangeability. Most depressingly, it's not compatible with 12 round RIVAL mags. Plus the balance and the priming is all wrong for a pistol. It's too short for me to shoulder fire, and akwardly long to be fired like a pistol. Its 7 round mag is preferable to the 5 round Kronos, but pales in comparison to the rest of the RIVAL line.Īnd that's where the love ends. Like most of my other RIVAL blasters, it performs great ! It's a little better than my Kronos, just a smidge, but not as good as my Nemesis. I have no idea whether the Helios is any good or not, but for the price of a #5 meal at McDonalds, I'm willing to give it a go.Įdit: I unboxed the Helios and played with tested it in the shop last night. So I left it there for some lucky Nerfer and shopped for a coat and some new socks.Īre you kidding !?!? I sprinted to the self check-out as fast as I could and snagged that baby for myself. HeliosI was wandering through Walmart this evening and stumbled across a Phantom Corps Helios on the clearance shelf for $9 buck. ![]()
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