1989 Tokyo Marui catalogue

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I can hear the creaking from here.

Only joking, love a bit of nostalgia. Thanks for sharing.

 
I must admit Im Showing my age, but I had a few of those from the catalogue. My springer xm177 used to have a lever that pulled down from underneath the handguard so you could cock the weapon. 

Not from that book, but the one I did miss was my centre meter master nbb pistol. 

 
Some of those RC were released as Tamiya. I wonder who OEM'd for whom? but sooo 80s why oh why can't they produce GBBs of some of those?

 
Back in the 90s I bought a TM MP5, through my Japanese wife's friend. It was a simple springer.

I wasn't into Airsoft, didn't know it was a thing. I just liked guns in video games and thought it would be a fun thing to have. It was.

It got left in a cellar during a house move.

Probably worth quite a bit now ?

 
Huh, tracers in 1989, I had no idea. Any idea how they worked then?  I'm guessing always-on UV rather than the modern solution of sensors, capacitors and UV LEDs, but... TM magic.

 
BigStew said:
Some of those RC were released as Tamiya. I wonder who OEM'd for whom? but sooo 80s why oh why can't they produce GBBs of some of those?
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Based on this they were rivals

https://radiocontrol.fandom.com/wiki/Tokyo_Marui

But that doesn’t mean that there wasn’t cross collaboration, identical supplier factories, blatent copying or takeover of elements 

Skullchewer said:
Back in the 90s I bought a TM MP5, through my Japanese wife's friend. It was a simple springer.

I wasn't into Airsoft, didn't know it was a thing. I just liked guns in video games and thought it would be a fun thing to have. It was.

It got left in a cellar during a house move.

Probably worth quite a bit now ?
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Even further back in the early 80s I was building the original Airsoft model kits

Some of them still exist in the attic at varying states after hard use

 
Rogerborg said:
Huh, tracers in 1989, I had no idea. Any idea how they worked then?  I'm guessing always-on UV rather than the modern solution of sensors, capacitors and UV LEDs, but... TM magic.
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They made a later version of the Scorpion with an internal tracer. A lot of the spring long guns had battery compartments but they never bothered doing them afaik , they just added weights in them. 

Tommikka said:
Even further back in the early 80s I was building the original Airsoft model kits

Some of them still exist in the attic at varying states after hard use
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The LS model kits . 

 
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