Build your own blaster with five interchangeable parts that you can take apart and reassemble any way you want. This prevented attaching tall barrel extensions, such as the Mega Dart Barrel Extension from the Tri-Strike, to the blaster. The Recon MKII originally suffered from a design flaw where, because of the handguard in front of the handle, the Recon MKII only accepted six dart clips, twelve dart clips, and Flip Clips. The Recon has had four direct successors: the 2012 N-Strike Elite Retaliator, the 2015 N-Strike Modulus Recon MKII, the 2019 N-Strike Elite Recon CQ-12, and the 2021 N-Strike Modulus Recon MKIII.

The sides of the well near the back have also been straightened to accommodate the wider protrusions of drums. The original version is easily fixable by cutting off a plastic wall inside of the blaster in the front of the clip well.

In part, and perhaps due to its name, it may also be considered a successor to the N-Strike Recon CS-6.

The Recon MKII is a clip system blaster advertised as being a "4-in-1" blaster, due to its included accessories. To start battling, load the clip into the blaster, move the priming slide, and press the trigger to fire 1 dart. The decorative sticker on the water tank of the Super Soaker XP 20 and Super Soaker XP 30 water blasters may contain levels of lead in the ink that exceed regulatory limits.It was re-released four times, starting with the Red Strike version in 2009, as a part of a Black Friday Walmart exclusive. banana clips and eighteen dart clips fit in but could not be securely locked due to a protruding section that was blocked by the handguard.

Fire 12 darts in a row with this clip-fed blaster that comes with a 12-dart clip and 12 Official Nerf Elite darts. These Nerf Blasters are some action packed outdoor toys that make great gifts for 8 year old boys and girls and up. The Recon MKIII is a re-release of the second version of the 2016 Recon MKII with different accessories. The newer version of the Recon has a sloped groove on the back of clip well to accept protrusions from larger clips.Lastly, the hand guard on the new version is narrower to provide additional space for protrusions from larger clips. The front of the original Recon has a small protrusion near the bottom with a five-dot "dice" pattern on each side. The fixed version and old version can be told apart by the front; the fixed version has three dots on the dice pattern (on each side), while the original version has five.