1989 Tokyo Marui catalogue

[heroshark]

Someone shared this on my springer page. Thought some of you may like to see it. I want a fortune teller.

Edited January 28, 2022 by heroshark

[mirinjawbro]

don't think ive ever seen the springer UZI anywhere

[Druid799]

Won’t lie I think I did a man wee over it 🥴

[Cr0-Magnon]

I can hear the creaking from here.

 

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

[RostokMcSpoons]

32 minutes ago, Druid799 said:

Won’t lie I think I did a man wee over it 🥴

 

So we could have looked at another 20 pages, but they're all stuck together now?


Bad form, old chap

[heroshark]

1 hour ago, mirinjawbro said:

don't think ive ever seen the springer UZI anywhere

Still in production till the early 2000s. I have one it's a pretty good shooter.

 

29 minutes ago, RostokMcSpoons said:

 

So we could have looked at another 20 pages, but they're all stuck together now?


Bad form, old chap

[Darkmikey22]

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. 

[BigStew]

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?

[Cannonfodder]

Shame they don't still do the MP5s with the skinny foregrips

[heroshark]

13 hours ago, 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?

The S&W m59 and the standard browning hp where. Not quite up to today's standards though ☺️.

 

https://youtu.be/cI2Qsm0oayE

[colinjallen]

Love the very early MP5 with the slimline handguard:).

[Skullchewer]

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 😕

[Rogerborg]

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.

[Tommikka]

On 28/01/2022 at 18:44, 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?

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 

1 hour ago, 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 😕

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

[heroshark]

1 hour ago, 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.

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. 

56 minutes ago, 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

The LS model kits . 

[Skullchewer]

1 hour ago, 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

Aw man, dig em out and show us, please? 😃