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Purple Dave
10/05/09

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Two companies? I'm pretty sure both of them are made by Hasbro (the yellow one sports a Hasbro copyright, and no mention of EA on the body, while the game box states that the property is licensed by Hasbro). From what I can make out in your photos, they used the same molds (does it still say "US Patent Pending" on the left side in front of the trigger guard?), barring the obvious addition of the clip-on flip-up targetting sight. This version probably doesn't have any EA branding on the box, but I'd really have to see a copy of the previous stand-alone EX-3 to see if it was EA-branded as well. Yeah, this is second version of the EX-3, but it's the _third_ way to buy one. At the same time that the N-Strike game came bundled with the yellow EX-3, they were also selling the yellow EX-3 by itself:

[www.amazon.com]

The box front has no EA branding, but the original game bundle does have the EA logo on both front and back. If the original un-bundled EX-3 box doesn't have any EA branding on the back, then it had to have been sold directly by Hasbro, which I suspect is also the case with the blue EX-3.
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Purple Dave
10/10/09

@Purple Dave:
And after looking at all three products (game bundle with yellow gun, non-bundled yellow gun, and blue gun), all three have the EA logo on them, and all three say they are licensed by Hasbro. So, apparently EA is the front end party on all of these, and Hasbro is just getting paid to supply them.
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Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation
10/05/09

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What exactly is the difference between that gun and the other one? Because once it's outside of the package, they both look the same to me.
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Gruntybreath
10/05/09

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I heard these made Wii shooters really easy to play until they nerfed them.
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th3-h077n355
10/05/09

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when did nerf make the switch from suction tips to round tips on their darts? Thats not the nerf i remember.
Im glad that im too old to be pissed about it(but apparently not old enough to not bitch)
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Improbable
10/05/09

@th3-h077n355: They've had both available for a while now. The round ones have a little whistle cut out.
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Gruntybreath
10/05/09

@th3-h077n355: TOO OLD? For nerf guns?

The only nerf-thing adults are too old for is not owning one of these.
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716
10/05/09

@Improbable: The whistle darts are great for messing with pets.
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716
10/05/09

@Gruntybreath: Think that's awesome? What if we gave it more power?

Argh argh argh argh!
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BlackAxxe
10/05/09

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we had a preowned one of the old nerf guns at my work that we would shoot at each other when no customers were looking. it was awesome.
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shaunmcilroy
10/05/09

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Isn't it shit that we have to start declaring to the government whenever companies send us stuff like this, stuff that we would otherwise never have much use for barring the first usage.

Give it a go with an on rails shooter, I'd love to hear what you think of it with HotD Overkill.

If you have it that is
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Vamplosion
10/05/09

@shaunmcilroy: Yeah...I hate it when companies give me free stu-Hey wait what?
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Katelyn Schreyer
10/05/09

@shaunmcilroy:

Actually, I have done exactly that. (With House of the Dead and the Wii nerf blaster that came with the nerf game).

And it's AWESOME.

Seriously, it's loads of fun, and with our big HDTV it feels a lot like playing the rails shooters at an arcade. I'm also definitly more accurate with the wiimote-in-gun than I am with the wiimote by itself.
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Gabryael
10/05/09

@shaunmcilroy: I bought this when HotD Overkill first came out. Great blaster. And it doesn't hurt that I'm a bit of a Nerf fanatic, so I couldn't pass it up.
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Anto103
10/05/09

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A Wii nerf gun? Why? What's the point of a Nerf Gun for the Wii?
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Yossarian
10/05/09

@Anto103: This way you have a handy way to punish anyone that dares distract you or walks in front of you while you're playing.

If mom dares poke her head into the playroom demanding that you come to dinner, then BAM!!! Nerf shot to her head, and she'll then learn to respect the fact that you're currently kicking ass at Wii Sports Resorts archery.
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