9.0 | This blaster scores an 9.0 |
Stampede ECS | |
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Year Released: | |
Available?: |
Yes |
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Average Retail Price(s): |
$49.99 |
Family: |
The Stampede ECS (Electronic Clip System) was released on 9/9/10. It has a detachable grip/bipod mounted on the underside of the blaster. The standard-issue clip holds 18 darts. The blaster comes with three 18 round clips and one 6 round clip equaling 60 rounds in total (Worth $12.00 by themselves) that come with the blaster. Also included is a detachable shield that you can attach to some blasters and a grip/bipod that is detachable via the standard Nerf Tactical Rail system. The blaster is the first clip-system blaster to be fully automatic. Later, another fully automatic clip-system blaster, the Rapidstrike CS-18, followed in its footsteps. It costs USD $50 in stores at this point. It was advertised in the "Clear the Way" advertisement, showing previous blasters being remade with a transparent color.
Hasbro's Description
Launch an all-out assault with the fully automatic STAMPEDE ECS blaster! Unleash a storm of darts from the extended 18-dart clip and reload in a hurry with the three spares. This high-capacity blaster even includes a blast shield to deflect an incoming "fire" and a pop-out bipod for stability! Blaster comes with blast shield, pop-out bipod, 3 18-dart extended clips, 1 six-dart clip and 60 Clip System darts and instructions. Requires 6 "D" batteries (not included). Ages 8 and up. /!\ CAUTION: Do NOT at aim at eyes or face. To Avoid Injury: Use only darts designed for this product. Do not modify darts or dart blaster.
Features
The Stampede ECS comes with the the following features:
- Blast Shield - A mini-shield that attaches on top of the Stampede. Can block darts. Has a rail release button that will allow you to remove it without having to slide it off the rail.
- Tactical Rail- A rail that can have attachments put on it. This blaster has 6.
- Pop-Out Bipod - An extendable bipod used to place the blaster for important shots. Doubles as a fore-grip.
- 18 Dart Clip - An extendable six to eighteen dart clip. The blaster comes with three of these.
- Iron Sight - Similar to that of the Deploy CS-6.
- 6 Dart Clip - A clip holding six darts. The blaster comes with one of these.
Color schemes
- Normal (yellow and orange)
- Sonic Series (green)
Review
Stampede ECS - 8.5 | ||||||||
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BSim | ||||||||
It's pretty much a Nerf light machine gun... Or a gigantic Nerf assault rifle. It's one of those, whichever one you want to call it. | ||||||||
Ammo: Streamline Darts | ||||||||
Pros: A good fire rate, a high ammo capacity, especially if you use a 35-dart drum, the most tactical rails out of any Nerf gun, for those of you who like that kind of thing, and a bunch of other stuff. | ||||||||
Cons: First of all, it's heavy, secondly, it's accuracy is mediocre, third of all, it's heavy, fourth, it's battery powered, and finally, it's heavy.
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For what it lacks in accuracy, it makes up for in sheer fire power. A good all arounder and definitely a blaster you can depend on... Well, assuming you can carry it. | ||||||||
Review by: BSim |
Trivia
- Some people confuse this with the Stampede REV-12, a blaster featured in the Nerf N-Strike video game. Ironically, the only similarities between the two are the names.
- It also looks a lot like the Spartan NCS-12 from the N-Strike Video Game.
- The Stampede was released on September 9th, 2010 (9/9/10).
- This is the most expensive Nerf blaster in the United States, with the exclusion of special value packs.
- The Stampede ECS is one of the heaviest Nerf blasters.
- Despite this, on the below commercial, someone was shooting one with each hand.
- When the blaster was first viewed by select members of the NIC that were invited to the launch event, the original name of the blaster was Stampede ECS-50, in the same styling of every other N-Strike blaster. It seems that after a certain NIC ambassador mentioned to one of the designers that the number 50 should have been a 60, the designer went to speak to a colleague. Sure enough, when they were released, the only ones that said 50 were in display cases. Strangely, the Stampede in its Japanese commercial had a 50 on its label, but the people making the commercial said ECS instead of ECS-50.
- The reason for the Stampede originally being called the Stampede ECS-50 was because it was originally suppose to come with a 50 dart drum. Hasbro later scrapped this idea.
- It is called the Blazing Burst ECS in Japan.
- The Stampede ECS was ripped off by an unknown Chinese Company with extremely minor changes in the tactical rails and comes with a cheap plastic scope.
- It's the blaster with the most tactical rails.
- There is a keychain based on it.
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