Whipshot

This product has been discontinued. It can no longer be found in retail stores.

Not to be confused with the BOOMco Whipblast, a similarly named blaster but is otherwise unrelated

Whipshot
Year Released:	1995/1996
Available?:	No
Stock Capacity:	1 Micro Dart
Average Retail Price(s):	$6.99
Family:	Rip Rockets
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The Whipshot is a 1995 Nerf Rip Rockets blaster that holds 1 Micro Dart. It is no longer available. It cost $6.99. It got poor reviews.

The Whipshot is one of the simplest of its line, consisting of only the plunger system, rotation point, and a single barrel. The barrel can be folded down to make the blaster compact enough to be stored in a pocket. However, the blaster does not fire Micro Darts very well, working better and firing much harder with Mega Darts and modern Nerf darts, achieving similar ranges to a modern Jolt EX-1.

Consequently, it was never re-released under the Nerf brand, and was only re-released in a Batman set for a brief time. It is very hard to find compared to the first-generation Rip Rockets blasters.

Trivia

• This was among the last Rip Rockets released.
• It is the lowest capacity(dart storage included) Rip Rockets blaster ever released, only having a single barrel and no dart storage.
• In addition to the above point, it is the first single-barrel compact Micro Dart blaster with no storage, a concept that would be later realized in the popular Secret Strike AS-1, and later the Reflex IX-1 and universal Jolt EX-1.
• It is one of the smallest of its line as well.
• Interestingly, it shares the same color scheme as the Switchfire (1994), and is the only blaster to do so.