Oh boy! The online airsoft boards, blogs, websites, and social media pages litt up like Christmas trees last week with the news that an airsoft AA-12 will be a reality at long last. The announcement of by Tokyo Marui of their AA-12 Automatic Electric Shotgun (AES) at the 54th Shizuoka Hobby Show generated a lot of excitement, with some starting to save up for something that they believe will be a premium priced airsoft gun.

We don’t know yet when this will be released, but our take is that the Tokyo Marui engineers will be targeting a December release which is always the month that their most anticipated product for the year is released. But don't get your hopes up yet, the company will definitely announce a more exact date at least two weeks before.

Apart from the AA-12, Tokyo Marui admitted about the delays on their other highly anticipated product, the M4 MWS (Modular Weapon System), which is a rare thing for a major airsoft manufacturer to admit. There have been changes to the design ever since the last prototype was unveiled to the public last year such as improvements in durability and hop-up  adjustment method. But what they are looking into is a Summer 2015 release, though they have not quite announced in which part of the summer season it will be.

Some might be bored with the releases of another Hi-Capa 5.1, albeit this has more bling with Gold coloured (or plated?) parts, and thus, being called the Hi-Capa 5.1 Gold Match. But it is one of the best selling airsoft pistols of the company and the Hi-Capa series has a special place in the airsoft practical shooting community and it's the most customised airsoft pistol ever. As for those who already thinking of ways of blinging it up further, release date is still undetermined just like the AA-12 AES.

Now, another M9 gas blowback pistol is coming out this summer, the U.S. M9 Pistol. This is a full 1:1 scale pistol with weight is the same at 944 grams. You would be interested with its variable hop-up system and compatibility with the M92F and M9A1 gas magazines.

If you are needing more information, we have posted the features and specifications of these products last week. But if you want more information, Tokyo Marui have posted online the product brochures that they released during the 54th Shizuoka Hobby Show. Unfortunately, these are all in Japanese, but you can just use Google translate to squeeze whatever information you can. These are limited run downloads so we suggest that you download them now as they will be taken offline by the 31st of May 2015.

Tokyo Marui AA-12 AES

Tokyo Marui M4 MWS

Tokyo Marui Hi-Capa 5.1 Gold Match

Tokyo Marui U.S. M9 Pistol