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Tokyo Marui is an airsoft gun manufacturer from Adachi, Tokyo, Japan.[1] Its main market is Japan, but third-party retailers sell in Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China, South Korea, East Asia, and worldwide. Such is the popularity of its guns that the company has its own center for airsoft sport called Tokyo Marui BB Sports Field [2]. As its products are notable for their detail and accuracy, they have made appearances in numerous movies and Tokyo Marui has been mentioned in video game credits. [3] Tokyo Marui manufactures several different lines of airsoft guns, outlined below

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Automatic Electric Guns (AEG)

Tokyo Marui was the first company to produce airsoft guns powered solely by electric motors. Tokyo Marui's airsoft AEGs are made primarily from ABS plastic Body (due to Japanese law), but also have metal parts. The internal gearbox is powered by rechargeable batteries. The stock gearbox will fire 0.2g BBs at about 280 feet per second, approximately 0.8-1J of kinetic energy, however their M14 series AEG's fire over 300 FPS. The gearbox may be modified for improved performance by aftermarket parts, but Japanese law limits the power to 0.98J. The SIG SG550 and SIG SG 551 had a burst-fire functionality. A small IC chip regulated the motor. A user may set the burst for 2 to 7 round. However, under heavy use, the chip would frequently overheat and ultimately cease to work, disabling the AEG. Many end-users removed the chip to prevent this problem. The Type 89 also has a burst-fire functionality, but avoided the SIG series problem by using mechanical methods for burst fire. The JGSDF ordered 600 of Tokyo Marui's Type 89s for training, especially Close Quarters Battle and Urban warfare, and designated them TAG-89. Tokyo Marui makes the following:

Recently announced

AK-74M (Electric Blow Back)
MEU(SOC) pistol
Biohazard Desert Eagle (10 inch barrel)
FN FiveseveN

Automatic Electric Pistols

Automatic electric pistols (AEP) run on 7.2V rechargeable batteries. These pistols are often more reliable than gas pistols in cold weather. However, these AEPs, due to their lower voltage supplies, have a lower muzzle speed than the AEGs. Their kinetic energy output is about 0.8J per BB. Although all are 7.2V batteries, Tokyo Marui sells them under different names and states in their respective user manuals not to use them in different AEPs. AEPs are by nature non-blowback, as the internals take up the entire gun, with the battery fitting inside the slide for the pistols. Magazines are as wide as normal magazines but are relatively thin, like most battery powered electric-blowback magazines. Rather than making room for the battery, they tend to make room for the motor fitted in the grip of the pistol. The bottom sports a fake inserted magazine piece on the G18C model, making it seem as if the entire magazine were always in the gun. The magazine well lies flush with the surface of the fake magazine butt. Tokyo Marui makes the following automatic electric pistols

Automatic Electric Compact Machine Gun

The MP7A1,the new Vz. 61,and the MAC 10 are the only automatic electric compact machine gun so far. It uses a different battery from the automatic electric pistol series. The larger battery gives the MP7A1 four times the battery life of the pistols.

AEG Boys series

Tokyo Marui makes replicas scaled down for use by children 10 and up.

Electric Blowback Pistols

  • SIG Pro SP2340
  • Combat Delta
  • Combat Delta Silver Model
  • M92F Military
  • M92F Silver Model
  • Desert Eagle .50AE
  • Desert Eagle .50AE Silver
  • KP85
  • Centimeter Master
  • Glock 18C

Gas Blowback Pistols

Tokyo Marui Gas blowback pistols are designed to use HFC134A refrigerant to fire BBs and also to blow back the slide, mimicking the recoil of automatic hand guns. Refregerant is sold in canisters similar to small propane canisters used in portable gas range. Propane based "Green" gas can be used, but could damage the replica due to higher pressure it exerts to mostly plastic parts used in gas blowback replicas.

  • Glock 17
  • M1911A1 Colt Government
  • Hi-Capa 4.3 Tactical Custom
  • Hi-Capa 5.1 Government
  • SIG-Sauer P226 Rail
  • SIG-Sauer P226 Rail Stainless
  • Samurai Edge (limited edition)
  • Samurai Edge Kai (limited edition)
  • Samurai Edge Standard Model
  • Desert Eagle .50AE Hardkick
  • Desert Eagle Biohazard 2 (limited edition)
  • Desert Eagle Biohazard 2 10 Inch Custom (limited edition)
  • M92F Military Model
  • M92F Chrome Stainless
  • Tactical master
  • Glock 26
  • G26 Advance
  • Detonics .45

Gas Revolvers

  • Colt Python 2.5 inch
  • Colt Python 4 inch
  • Colt Python 6 inch
  • M19 Combat Magnum 4 inch
  • M19 Combat Magnum 6 inch

Bolt action air rifle

These are Bolt Action "sniper" rifles. Before each shot is fired, the shooter has to pull the bolt, cock the piston and load BB into the chamber. All three versions share the same stock, same internals and same air chamber. Pro-sniper version has black stock, 430mm long inner barrel and most accurate of the three versions. Real Shock version has a metal weight in the piston to simulate recoil. Real Shock has simulated wooden stock and same 430mm long inner barrel. However, due to the vibration caused by the heavier piston's impact, Real Shock is the least accurate of the three, albeit only by less than an inch difference in 20m distance. G-spec is shortened version with a silencer attached. Inner barrel is 303mm long, but slightly tighter bore. Due to short inner barrel it's accuracy is close to Real Shock, but a couple mm more accurate. A needle like contraption called air brake pretrudes from the piston. Air brake plugs the cylinder before piston impacts, trapping last bit of air between piston and cylinder. This reduces impact vibration and adds to VSR series' unique accuracy.

  • VSR-10 Pro-sniper version
  • VSR-10 Real Shock Version
  • VSR G-Spec

Air shotgun and air Rifles

Tokyo Marui makes several replicas that are powered by compressing a spring. For the shotgun and grenade launcher models, each shot fires three BBs at a time.

Air handgun

The spring is compressed by racking the slide. Some have hop-up and some do not.

Radio controlled models

Tokyo Marui was also at the forefront of the developing radio control hobby in the mid-1980's with a line of high-quality 1/10-scale electric buggies, monster trucks and even an unusual NASCAR stocker, all in kit form. This kit of Bill Elliott's Coors Melling Ford Thunderbird was built on a four-wheel-drive buggy chassis; full-scale NASCAR racers are rear-wheel-drive. The body could be raised or lowered for either onroad or offroad use and two full sets of wheels and tires were included, pre-mounted sponge slick tires for onroad and knobby spiked rubber tires for offroad. The Big Bear Datsun, a 1/12-scale monster truck topped with a Datsun pickup truck body, powered by a Mabuchi RS-380 motor and initially sold via mail order, was one of the best-selling radio controlled models of the period and contributed greatly to the hobby's growth. Scale variations on the simple and strong Big Bear chassis included both regular and "Super Wheelie" versions of the Jeep CJ-7 Golden Eagle and Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser, each lacking the oversized wheels and tires of the Big Bear and equipped instead with more scale-looking Goodyear offroad tires. A proposed third version which would have been Marui's ninth release was that of a Mitsubishi Pajero, shelved due to licensing problems. Twelve models were released in all, numbered 1 through 13 since the aforementioned ninth model never made it to market. Strong competition by the end of the decade, especially from Tamiya, caused Marui to pull out of the hobby-grade R/C market. They returned to the R/C market in 2000 with a still-popular line of ready-to-run, 1/24-scale military tanks (see below). The company released and sold the following models:

  • Hunter 2WD entry-level sport buggy
  • Galaxy 2WD sport buggy
  • Galaxy RS 2WD sport/mild competition buggy
  • Shogun 4WD sport/mild competition buggy
  • Samurai 4WD competition buggy
  • Ninja 4WD competition buggy
  • Coors Melling Ford Thunderbird 4WD NASCAR stock car
  • Big Bear Datsun 2WD sport monster truck
  • CJ-7 Golden Eagle 2WD sport offroad, available in regular and "Super Wheelie"
  • Toyota Land Cruiser 2WD sport offroad, available in regular and "Super Wheelie"

Radio controlled battle tanks

Tokyo Marui has combined remote control and airsoft by making a series of 1/24 scale remote controlled tanks that fire BBs. By remote control, a user may move the tank forwards and backwards, turn in place, rotate the turret, elevate the barrel, and fire. The range is only 25 m for 0.2g BBs. The tanks run on eight AA batteries.[7]

Others

Tokyo Marui has also in an attempt to compete with Tamiya manufactured 1:24 scale model cars, Mini 4WD of their own RC cars as well as licensed by other companies including Kyosho and educational models. The early nineties recession would force the company to scale back production to airsoft guns. Tokyo Marui has since returned to the RC car market, albeit the lucrative mini RC market with its 1:24 cars [8] and also since 1994, builds remote driven Godzilla models. [9]

References

  1. ^ http://www.tokyo-marui.co.jp/company/index.html
  2. ^ http://www.tokyo-marui.co.jp/field/index.html
  3. ^ http://www.tokyo-marui.co.jp/tieup/index.html
  4. ^ Burns is a misspelling of Barnes
  5. ^ Production was temporarily halted until January 2006, when manufacturer of red dot sight went out of business
  6. ^ Production was temporarily halted until September 2006, when upper receiver mold broke
  7. ^ http://www.tokyo-marui.co.jp/products/rcbattletank/index.html
  8. ^ http://www.tokyo-marui.co.jp/products/rcclub/index.html
  9. ^ http://www.tokyo-marui.co.jp/products/rckaiju/index.html

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