It’s May and in airsoft it is a month in which airsoft players will expect Tokyo Marui to unveil their initial offerings for 2018. But for all those who collect plastic models of different types, genre, character, the 57th Shizuoka Hobby Show is the place to be this month.

Japan has a thriving plastic model industry since the industry started more than half a century ago. Most of the companies are around Shizuoka making the place the “Plastic Model Capital of the World.”  The Shizuoka Hobby Show, which will be on its 57th year next week, showcases what the Japanese plastic model industry has to offer the world.

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For fans of Tokyo Marui, it is an opportunity to see for the first time products that they now want world to know. The company takes research and development seriously that the products they announce were being worked on years before they are happy to reveal them. The company rarely gets delayed in product releases and so far they are the only company to announce exact dates of the product releases as compared to other companies who just give estimates.

As I have already written before, Tokyo Marui have revised their product announcement schedules. They only do it twice a year with the first one at the Shizuoka Hobby Show in May and the second one at the Tokyo Marui Festival in November. Previously, the second announcement was done at the All Japan Hobby Show but they decided to do this at their own Festival to give a proper spacing of product revelations.

But one thing for sure, they will have their shooting range set up again for visitors to try their airsoft guns.

As always it's a guessing game what they will revealat the show at their website. Hyperdouraku usually does some speculations when the teaser goes up before the event, so better tune in to that blog to see what Yas will be predict.

If you are planning to go to Japan or already in the area, the 57th Shizuoka Show is set on the 10th to the 13th of May 2019. 10 and 11 of May are reserved for trade visitors and the 12 and 13 of May will be open to the public.