50 Years Of Tokyo Marui Part 5: Entering The 21st Century
OptimusPrime
At the start of the new millennium, with their experience in building airsoft guns and RC toys, the company decided to put such experience together to release their first airsoft-firing 1/24 RC Type 90 Kyū-maru Main Battle Tank.
50 Years Of Tokyo Marui Part 4: 1991 - The AEG Revolution Starts
OptimusPrime
Tokyo Marui's strength is in creating motor-powered toys, as evidenced in their popular line of RC toys during the golden age of RC. With in-depth knowledge of electric toys, they decided to use this to create a revolutionary way of playing airsoft and freeing up the airsoft player from being tethered to tanks.
50 Years Of Tokyo Marui Part 3: The Company Bets On Airsoft
OptimusPrime
Through the years, circumstances influenced the change of priorities. The "plamodels" were not selling well to expectations with fully assembled products being better sellers. Tokyo Marui considered designing an airsoft gun to follow up with their model gun production.
50 Years Of Tokyo Marui Part 2: Model Cars & Model Cap Firing Guns
OptimusPrime
Five years since the release of the MAT Arrow 1, the supercar boom took place with Tokyo Marui releasing model car kits, such as the 1/24 Porsche Carrera RSR Turbo that is used by the Le Mans 1974 Team Martini and the BMW 3.0 CSL that won the Grand Prize in model car design for that year.
50 Years Of Tokyo Marui Part 1: The First Ten Years
OptimusPrime
This year, Tokyo Marui hit a milestone in its history. As of late April 2015, Tokyo Marui officially turned 50 years old.
Another Man Builds A More Portable Railgun That Fires "Ionized Plasma" Bullets
Logan
It looks like many home tinkerers of weapons are turning their sights into rail guns. This is perhaps the third story of railgun that we have posted in less than a month. Just three days ago, we posted about a powerful homemade railgun, and for this weekend, it's another rail gun.
May The Force Be With You In "Star Wars: Battlefront" Next Week
Gungho Cowboy
Whilst the most anticipated movie of the year is a month away, millions await to do battle in distant planets next week.
The U.S. Army Is Developing A Backpack That Recharges Batteries
OptimusPrime
One of the big challenges facing the 21st Century Warfighter is power, power needed by all the devices and gadgets he/she needs to fight effectively such as radios, GPS, night vision, sighting equipment, and whatever devices that the military equipment researches think will help in the accomplishing mission.
Another DIY Railgun That's Even More Powerful Gets Built
Gungho Cowboy
Last month, we posted a story about a man with the username NSA_lisbot who put together a portable DIY Railgun that fires 1050V and 1.8kJ of enegy to propel its projectile using 3D printing.
Biohazard Game Gets Adapted For the Stage In "Biohazard The Stage"
Gungho Cowboy
The Resident Evil/Biohazard video game series are popular in Japan and around the world that these have spawned movies, merchandising, and even airsoft guns as evidenced by those Biohazard airsoft pistol series made by Tokyo Marui.
