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Maybe I'm really starting to lose it but does anyone else remember Tamiya making static models of guns? I want to say it was around 87/88ish. I remember the Hobbytown I went to had them next to the r/c cars and the one that sticks out was an AK47. They had little bullets that went in the clip and everything from what I remember but I have never been able to even find mention of them online anywhere. Does anyone else remember these?

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I don't remember Tamiya doing it, but there was a company that was John-something that made some super realistic cap guns that still had magazines and bullets-

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Hey Erich, I can't remember what I had for supper last night but I do remember a long time ago that a couple of the local mom&pop hobby shops had a display of static guns that could be ordered. Can't put a handle on if it was tamiya or not but I do remember the display. I was more into the slot cars at that time and the display displaced a bunch of parts so it wasn't good attention I was giving it at that time is why I remember them I guess :roll: . Someone around here will have to remember them or who made them though...
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I vaguely remember some company making models of guns like the AK-47, M16, etc...but I don't recall it being Tamiya.
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It wasn't Tokyo Marui was it?

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Maybe it was marui. I know the shop carried them too. I'm not completely positive who made them but they were pretty real looking (hence they stopped making them lol)

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Lowgear wrote:It wasn't Tokyo Marui was it?
I was thinking Marui myself, because when I was researching & restoring that Marui Galaxy, I learned that Marui made a lot of air guns and one of them even might've been named Galaxy, too.
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If they made them today they'd have to have that stupid fluorescent orange tip on them... :roll:
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Speaking of which, who here remembers Entertech squirt guns?

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Lowgear wrote:Speaking of which, who here remembers Entertech squirt guns?
Battery powered! :twisted: Suck by Super Soaker standards, but were awesome in their day. I had the Uzi. Fill the clip with water and soak those bitches! ...Well, 'til the 8oz of water it held ran out... :oops: :mrgreen:
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I was bored and can't sleep so... :mrgreen:

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Lowgear wrote:Speaking of which, who here remembers Entertech squirt guns?
omg wow, my best friend ( who happened to be a girl ) had one of those handgun ones. battery powered, was the coolest thing in the neighborhood !! double cool it was owned by a girl too i thought 8)

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They cost as much as a real AK :roll:

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A real AK will run you about 5000

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