Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster - Yellow

by Hasbro

Product 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 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.
• The piston-powered internal launching system makes it an unstoppable force

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 0.4 x 0.4 x 0.4 inches ; 2.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0013U95U2
• Item model number: 64979
• Manufacturer recommended age: 8 - 12 years
• Batteries: 6 D batteries required.
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,893 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
  • #15 in Toys & Games > Sports & Outdoor Play > Blasters & Foam Play
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (260 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

The Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 gives you the auto-blasting advantage when you're at foam-filled war with your friends and enemies. Children and adults ages 6 and up will love the EBF-25, the largest full auto blaster that Nerf makes. It lets you shoot 25 sonic micro darts at up to 3 darts per second for an offensive assault.

What We Think Fun Factor: Durability: (what this means) The Good: Machine gun-style Nerf gun fires multiple shots per second The Bad: The included 25 darts run out fast; gun is a bit too heavy for running around with In a Nutshell: A great addition to any Nerf artillery, the Vulcan EBF-25 provides an advantage thanks to the sheer force of shooting 25 darts in ten seconds At a Glance Ages: 6 and up Requires: 6 D batteries

This large, brightly colored Nerf gun shoots 3 darts per second.View larger.

25-shot belt feeds through the gun for a rapid-fire onslaught. View larger.

Full Auto Design Gives You a Quick-Firing Advantage
The first thing we noticed when we took the EBF-25 out of the box was how substantial it was. The gun itself was large, brightly colored in yellow and orange, and heavy enough for it to be a burden for quick missions; accessories included a tripod, ammobox, and ammobelt. The instruction booklet did a good job of describing the assembly process, which took about ten minutes. There is a handle that allows you to easily carry the gun around, but we would have appreciated a strap even more.

The darts are held inside an ammobox in a 25-shot belt, which is fed through the gun. You'll feel like Rambo when you carry the gun, or sit it on its tripod for taking out enemies by the bucketload. After we'd installed the required six D batteries (not included), we pulled the trigger to see the gun work methodically through our belt of darts. It took only 10 seconds to blast through the included 25 darts, flinging them thirty feet across the room. We wished there were more darts included in the box since it seemed a bit silly that we needed to spend a few minutes to pick up the ammo, and then reload them onto the belt, after shooting for only about ten seconds. A refill pack can be purchased separately, which, we think, would be a wise investment if you want to effectively beat your enemies.

The gun also has a single-shot mode that lets you shoot with extra precision. Rather than battery powered, you have to pull back on a spring-loaded lever, and then use the trigger release lever to shoot the dart. In our experience, you can achieve a little bit more distance this way than with the auto-fire mode.

Tactical Rail System Allows for Fun Additions
The Vulcan EBF-25 features the Nerf Tactical Rail System, allowing it to use most N-Strike accessories, such as the night vision Tactical light accessory for night-time missions.

For those interested in Nerf-fights, the Vulcan EBF-25 should be in everyone's artillery; the rapid-fire design gives players the advantage when engaging the enemy, and is ideal when it can be used on the back of a moving vehicle, or a stationary setting.

What's in the Box
Nerf Vulcan EBF-25 gun, tripod, ammobox, ammobelt.

Product Description

Complete your N-Strike arsenal and prepare for the ultimate in battery-powered blasting! Be ready for any battle with the Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster-- an awesome, fully automatic dart cannon! Load the blaster with fresh batteries and fire at a rate of up to three darts per second! 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! Switch to single-shot mode for precision blasting. The removable tripod folds for easy transport or a quick escape from enemy fire! Even your toughest opponent wont know what hit him! Blaster comes with ammo box, folding tripod, 25-dart belt, and 25 Sonic Micro Darts ammo and instructions. Requires 6x 'D' batteries, not included. Ages 6 and up.

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Customer Reviews

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179 of 185 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Nerf Vulcan: Serious Firepower For Peanuts!, August 10, 2008

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Joshua Tailswish "Nerf Gunsmith" (Farmersville, OH United States) - See all my reviews

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster - Yellow (Toy)

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

156 of 182 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Tons of fun.... that lasted 1 day, December 1, 2008

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Christopher S. Smith "Chris "Father of Fi... (Asheville, NC) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster - Yellow (Toy)

I purchased this for my sons birthday. He is the youngest of 4 boys and they all like to play nerf dart wars. We were hoping that the machine gun would be a lot of fun, and he was hoping for 'flare and more of a fighting chance'. The gun worked fabulously for the first afternoon and evening. If I completed the review within the first 24 hours it would have been five stars. All of the boys loved it. Early the second day the gearing mechanism started failing to advance the belt and load the next "round". In addition, I noticed the cylinder that releases the compressed air and provides the energy to launch the nerf bullet was jammed and didn't return to recessed position. The cylinder must recess to allow advancing of ammo belt. I suspect it was the jamming of the compression chamber cylinder that caused belt advancement gear failure. I tried disassembling the gun to examine what was causing the jam. I learned there was no disassembling and the only choice was to completely break several plastic welds to learn what caused the issue.

Summary, a great gun for about 500 shots after that the manufacturing materials and quality of assembly failed at it is now in the dumpster for recycling.

67 of 77 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fun Idea, but Junk, November 18, 2008

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P. Valentine (Ft. Worth, TX) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster - Yellow (Toy)

The Vulcan EBF-25 looks like it would be a blast for kids to play with, but unfortunately the toy is "JUNK" Quality.

I bought it for my son for his 8th birthday. He literally played with it for 2 hours. He went through about 6 reloads (it was a bit time consuming finding all the dispensed rounds and reloading the belt).

One of the first problems that he had with it was that the belt would not always advance after firing. I tried it and found that if I "gently" pulled on the belt, it would help it to advance to the next round. He tried it, pulled just a little too hard (nothing dramatic - just a bit harder than "gentle"), and that was it, it's broke!!!

Something internal broke or stripped. Now the gun just makes a horrible noise when trying to fire and it won't advance the belt at all. It won't even manually fire single shot rounds now.

I gave it to him at about 5:30, and between 7:00 - 7:30, it was done!

Conceptionally, it's a fun toy. But man, if it's made for young boys to play with, it needs to be tough enough for a scrawny kid to play with! For $35+, it needs to last a bit longer than a couple of hours.