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Tokyo Marui (東京マルイ) is a Japanese airsoft gun manufacturer. Although its main market is that of Japan, its guns are sold world-wide through a number of third party retailers.

The company was also at the forefront of the developing radio control hobby in the mid-1980's with a line of electric buggies, monster trucks and even a NASCAR stock car, all in kit form less radio equipment, batteries and charger as is still the custom with most kits today. The "Big Bear," a 1/12-scale monster truck topped with a Datsun pickup truck body 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. 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.

Tokyo Marui manufactures several different lines of airsoft guns:

Automatic Electric Guns (AEG)

Tokyo Marui's airsoft AEG's are characterised by:

  • ABS Plastic Body
  • Metal MechBox
  • Uses rechargeable batteries
  • Typically when unmodified, fires 0.2g BB's at around the area of 270-295 feet per second
  • Typically when unmodified, fires 0.2g BB's at 0.8~1J of kinetic energy
  • Are a basis standard of other companies aspiring techniques
  • Very reliable and realistic

Tokyo Marui AEG's are available in the following replications:

Spring Rifles

Tokyo Marui manufactures a range of Spring Operated Rifles and Submachine Guns:

Pistols

Tokyo Marui manufactures are range of Gas Blow Back (GBB) Pistols

Shotguns

Tokyo marui makes a line of shotguns that shoot 3 BBs at a time. The shotgun uses shells, which have a capacity of 30 BBs, so you can shoot 10 shots of 3 BBs. The Shotguns are spring powered, so you do not need a battery or gas.

M203 launchers

Unlike M203 launchers made by other companies, Tokyo Marui makes their M203 function like their shotguns (3 BBs at a time). The shells for the shotguns are used in the M203, so they are interchangeable. The M203 launcher can be mounted onto the M16VN, M16A1, M16A2, M4A1, or M4A1 RIS.

Automatic Electric Pistols

Tokyo Marui has also made AEPs, electric pistols that 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. The kinetic energy output is about 0.4~0.6J per BB.

RC Battle tanks

These RC tanks can fire 0.2g BB for 25m compare to the Automatic Electric Pistols with a 50m range by official souces.

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