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Remember the Egg? - its back but with a proper lid

Canon Fodder

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Just stumbled on this on techpb, normally gives me a headache to look at that site for more than a couple of minutes but I digress:



I always liked the egg apart from it falling to bits and the funny lid. $60 and 18 bps, force feed and eyes, made out of tough plastic this time as well apparently, if I get one I'm still going to wrap it in insulation tape to remind it of its heritage though.

Who actually shoots more than 12bps nowadays, is there any point spending £150 on a hopper when this can feed your marker as fast as you're going to fire it?
 
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Canon Fodder

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I know it's not a popular opinion but I really do believe the rotor, while a fantastic hopper, simply isn't worth the price. Back in the days of all the marker manufactures racing to make the highest bps it would have been a god send but now we shoot relatively slow bp and markers have eyes so why do we need a force feed hopper that will feed 50bps.
 

Tony Harrison

What is your beef with the Mac?
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Sssssh. You'll just upset everyone who bought one. Not to mention Dye, who are laughing all the way to the bank.`
 

Random Invert

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I know it's not a popular opinion but I really do believe the rotor, while a fantastic hopper, simply isn't worth the price. Back in the days of all the marker manufactures racing to make the highest bps it would have been a god send but now we shoot relatively slow bp and markers have eyes so why do we need a force feed hopper that will feed 50bps.
Its definitely over priced, I payed £90 brand new for mine as part of a package deal. But for its simplicity and reliability it cant be beaten (at least not at the moment) so the egg although a decent loader still has a long way to go.

Im disappointed the new egg hasnt kept more of its original shape.
 

Care_Bears

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Oh come on Guys tell the truth !! they were rubbish !! how many times did you find whilst playing with them the Lid just popped open ( the wrong way ) and then lost your balls, and if you played any more than 2 x rounds with them without changing the batteries... you were lucky. Now if your going to spend £1000 on a gun, why put a 10p hopper to make it do it`s job, just as well use caterpaults then stick a Rotor on so to make it feel expensive, If you`ve got a cheap gun then the hopper above is Great or perhaps you just want to save money. Ahh yes !!! I remember all those screws to undo hoppers but I`m trying to forget !!!
 

Canon Fodder

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Yes the egg 1 and 2 fell apart and were hard to strip but the 4 had just two push pins to take out to take apart. It looks like they have carried it over to the new one so stripping it won't be a problem. Battery life was also quoted as increased on the 4 so even if you have to put new ones in at the start of every day £100 will buy a lot of of batteries.
 

Liam92

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I know it's not a popular opinion but I really do believe the rotor, while a fantastic hopper, simply isn't worth the price. Back in the days of all the marker manufactures racing to make the highest bps it would have been a god send but now we shoot relatively slow bp and markers have eyes so why do we need a force feed hopper that will feed 50bps.
when the rotor was first around, it was a little over £100 which was expensive but still competitively priced to make it worth it. whereas being £150+ now they are just so stupidly priced that i'm amazed people still buy them new!