Planet Eclipse A1R - Airsoft/Speedsoft

[Magmoormaster]

I agree it doesn't do a great job of explaining the features and why it is in fact miles better than your average ESG build, I don't get the vibe of "airsoft guns suck, let's show you how it's done" from the advertising. I see a lot of people commenting that way on reddit and whatnot. In that same vein, the speedsoft guys seem pretty hyped. While I haven't done a deep dive into the public's reaction, everything I hae seen has been pretty positive. I do agree that they need to get it into the hands of actual airsofters though.

[Sneak Miester]

I think Eclipse is targeting the much larger European “speedsoft” market not the typical “airsoft” market.
They have speedsoft gat you can build with the internal “polestar” parts, cost about the same same i think

Here is a Vinci Custom V2

[vijil]

Speedsoft still has nothing on speedball in terms of size, $, coverage, industry scale etc. though, unless it's growing much faster than I last checked.

[deadmeat3344]

Killing the lv/ego line during a period of substantial numbers of millennials re-entering the sport (as well as a resurgence of poppet interest and "older style" guns in general) is certainly a choice. I was really hoping on day 2 of the PE reveals to have them pull a 180 and reveal an updated LV with smaller grips and a shorter reach.