One of the two events that we hear about product releases and announcements from Tokyo Marui is the All Japan Model & Hobby Show. This is the last major trade show that the company attends for the year. If you have noticed in the past years, product revelations from the company usually come in fours. At the 54th All Japan Model & Hobby Show which took place last 26 to 28 of September 2014, four products were also announced and revealed to the general public.

For product specifications and details, please click here. I'll be more writing about the story of what the exhibit area of Tokyo Marui was during the public openings of the 54th All Japan Model & Hobby Show.

When we posted an initial photo of the Tokyo Marui booth taken from the show, one Facebook fan noticed how big it is and wished that such displays can also be seen in trade fairs that involve airsoft in his country. Indeed, the Tokyo Marui displays during the Shizuoka Hobby Show and the All Japan Model & Hobby Show are massive and generate high foot traffic to their products.

At the 54th All Japan Model & Hobby Show, the Tokyo Marui exhibit area is comprised of three corners. My heartfelt thanks to Yuki for explaining the rationale for the exhibit area design, which is very much logical and highly organised:

NEW PRODUCTS CORNER

Whilst this is where the upcoming products are displayed, for this year, not much foot traffic happened here as compared to the previous shows they were at. Perhaps due to the inability of visitors to test fire the products. The Tokyo Marui HK417 Early Variant New Generation AEG (with blowback and recoil) is finally on display and can be handled, but cannot be test fired. They are still in the midst of testing the designs so we cannot expect yet a late 2014 release, unless they make further news announcements before the Holiday season.

In recent years, Tokyo Marui's New generation models have been from the Heckler & Koch series, such as the HK416D and the HK416D DEVGRU Custom. There is such demand for H&K NEG models from Tokyo Marui with the HK416D series that making the HK417 Early Variant is an obvious move for the company. We hope that they move even faster releasing a USMC M27 IAR version too.

Still writing about H&K airsoft versions, there is also the HK45T (Tactical). It's not exactly a "new, new" product since the HK45 GBB version has been release earlier and it's more of an update. It was actually a popular product at the hobby show, and being the first Tokyo Marui model that has a silencer installed (other airsoft pistol they have with silencer is the MK 23 SOCOM Non-Blowback/Fixed Slide Gas Pistol).

With the revelation of the Silencer for Tokyo Marui gas blowback pistols, many visitors enquired if they can have silencers that can fit the other gas blowback pistols. So far, there are no revealed plans yet, but the company does listen to customer feedback, thus, it might just be developed.

Other products that were on display in this corner were the H&K USP Compact, This is the V1 (Variant 1) Model with the Control Lever which was reproduced faithfully found on the left. The safety will be on by lifting the lever regardless of the position of the hammer. And decocking by lowering the lever. It is 1:1 scale with measurements taken from the actual real steel pistol itself. Also, the first Tokyo Marui Hi-CAPA AEP, the Hi-CAPA E, resembles the gas blowback version, but this has semi and full auto features. Being an AEP, this is a fixed slide version. The grip safety in the 1911 and Hi-Capa GBBs is not a feature for this model.  Accessories such as a rail mount can be purchased separately, and there is also a long magazine version for this. The Smith & Wesson M&P9 and the HK45T GBB Pistols still do not have definite release dates and that more information will be released by the company in the coming months.

Before I forget, their affordable Tokyo Marui M4 Lightpro M4 CQB Tan version was also on display. This is their entry level model that runs on AA batteries and can do single shots with batteries run out via the charging handle.

FULL PRODUCTS DISPLAY CORNER

Just like the Tokyo Marui Festival that took place in Akihabara last July 2014, visitors can check all 50 Tokyo Marui products that are in production. They can touch and test fire the models (they were unloaded/no BBs in the magazines) and this corner also generated much foot traffic is there are enough products that can be admired. With the success of the Tokyo Marui Festival, the visitors are now more familiar with airsoft creating even more prospective customers for the company. You can see more people of different ages and genders actually holding the airsoft guns, from kids to seniors, and more women checking out the various airsoft guns.

SHOOTING RANGE

There were long queues at the shooting range as people wanted to try their hands on shooting at targets using HK45 GBB for adults (18 years and above) and for minors the TAVOR BOYS were made available. For the first time, the visitors were able to bring home the paper targets they shot at and many tweeted their records.

I hope we can see more of Tokyo Marui, which means the company more active beyond the shores of Japan since most of their appearances are within the country. They are more represented by distributors and resellers in other countries but we never experienced the Tokyo Marui displays seen at the Shizuoka Hobby Show, Tokyo Marui Festival, Victory Show, and the All Japan Model & Hobby Show. For now, for airsoft players who want to have the full Tokyo Marui experience, the place will always be the metropolis to which the company is named after --- Tokyo, Japan.

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