NEW Tokyo Marui BLOWBACK AK74

[Boche]

Originally Posted by 666

Gun will suck anyway. I don't see a lot of people use it with that blow back function and special mags.

Well, I hope it doesn't suck, usually TM's are pretty good. I wonder if it would be a simple operation to disconnect the blowback, that is the one thing that made me cringe when I saw this otherwise handsome piece.

[Dracheous]

Originally Posted by Wilson

Everywhere but Canada.

Very true, but Canada is not TM's primary market now is it? Heck I don't know how low in the list we really are for their market sizes, but I assume we're one of the smallest.

[Drake]

Originally Posted by Dracheous

I wouldn't say that Drake [...]

Anyway, I don't think TM is fearful of its competitive edge, they still have the largest line up of guns available from one manufacture. Yes, several companies are catching up, CA has had a great push lately at their expansion, and ICS is growing too. But the fun thing is simply that if you look at most the other manufactures out there, all their parts are GENERALLY TM compatible, and the fact that we all look for TM compatibility alone should really drive home exactly how safe TM's consumer base really is; for the time being anyway.

Yeah, it was a bad choice of words on my behalf.

And I wouldn't say they're fearful, but the market landscape has changed dramatically over the past 2-3 years. Looking back 10-15 years, Tokyo Marui not only caused a giant shift in airsoft by introducing electrically driven guns, they also dominated that market virtually uncontested (the handful of other AEGs that came out, the KSC G33, Academy L85, etc, never made much of an impact).

Now not only are there other manufacturers putting out quality products, unlike 10 years ago we actually have most of the popular guns covered, and the HK manufacturers are putting out new guns really quickly. I mean look at the FN SCAR; the real one just started limited field testing, but we have three airsoft manufacturers putting them out. It's somewhat amusing to think there are probably more airsoft SCARs around than real ones (heh, try pulling THAT off with the AK :P )

But either way, TM just isn't getting the kind of attention it used to. They use to announce 1 or 2 new guns and people would hang in anticipation for a couple of years, waiting for it's release. Now they put out new stuff, and it doesn't make much of a splash, in part because so much new stuff is coming out in general.

So it's more in that sense that I meant "attracting attention." We are, after all, a pretty fickle lot and sales greatly depend on how much hype one can muster for a product.