It’s the setup you’d expect from a Rapidstrike (scotch yoke pusher, three switch setup), but with extra bits attached, and a main PCB controlling everything. The darts are made from expanded polypropylene (EPP) which is brittle and not as flexible as most foam darts, and similar in appearance to styrofoam. The full-auto only operates at two darts per second, but it also doesn’t see any notable slowdown in launch velocity. This entry was posted in Dart Blasters, Reviews and tagged 2021, blaster, blasterhub, hasbro, nerf, review, Select, Ultra on July 11, 2021 by BuffdaddyNerf. This also corresponds to the area under greatest stress when ULTRA Darts impact their target, weakening this joint and often causing the heads to come loose or detach.

Initial testing has them hitting much tighter groupings at distance, as well as slightly better initial velocities out of the Select. It has a streamlined dart head, similar to that of Mega Darts, though the dart heads of ULTRA Darts feature two small parallel holes towards the top. The blaster still retains the standard Ultra-sized grip, along with a hand guard that’s restrictive for larger fingers, especially in the trigger area. Standard Ultra darts, at least over the chronograph I was using, averaged 94fps, while the new design averaged 103fps.

There have been reports online that ULTRA Darts suffer from significant wear and tear around the dart head. The notable “gimmick” of the Select is the ability to select which magazine to fire from; moving the forward grip slides the magazine carriage from side to side (simply pushing the carriage also works). At that point, Hasbro could delete the switch to save money…and since molds were already made, there was no point in investing in new ones simply to remove that slot. These Ultra Accustrike darts (for lack of a better current name) feature wide heads with flat fronts, similar to how Mega Accustrike was done. Paying a premium for a proprietary dart is one thing; paying even more for what it should have been in the first place is absurd.

When that signal gets cut, the pusher motor is put into reverse, retracting the pusher instead of continuing the initial motion. Experience the gold standard in Nerf dart blasting with Nerf Ultra blasters and darts -- their advanced design and performance delivers extreme distance, accuracy, and speed. War use is still up in the air (if there’s wind, you’re out of luck regardless), but even so, we finally have accurate Ultra darts. With the absence of Toy Fair and other press events, releases on the Nerf front have been relatively quiet, aside from new lines like Rival Curve Shot or Hyper. The operation is as you’d expect – depress the rev trigger to turn on the flywheel motors, then pull the main trigger to fire.ULTRA was first leaked in early 2019, with Brickseek listings for the ONE and the twenty-piece ULTRA Dart Refill. The new darts show what Ultra could have promised, had they waited to release the line a little longer. Now, the Ultra Select is silently releasing, but (within reason) meeting those expectations, two years later. Interestingly, if no ammo is present (or the wrong ammo, because this is made only for Ultra), the pusher mechanism will stop, reverse itself, and turn off until the next time you pull the firing trigger.