We all know how rabbits are. Breeding like mad. Let's hope that upcoming Year of the Metal Rabbit (starting this Thursday) means that we'll finally have some new airsoft guns from at least China, if not Taiwan as well. Last three years had their share of ups and downs, mostly downs (2008 Olympics, then 60th Anniversary of CPC, then Pan-Asian games) and only recently some new stuff appeared - the clone of Maruzen PPK, Bell's and Tercel's Broomhandles and Snow Wolf Barrett M99. Let's see what's already reported as coming:

WE decided to go GBB ga-ga. We already got the G36, the P90 is pretty much done and going through licensing process (hey, it's not like they gave it away to Cybergun, they're gonna still profit from it!) and revamped SCAR and M16 platform, not to mention an all-new AK and L85, are incoming. As for handguns, the clone of Tanaka Browning HP is already out in a variant used by the Chinese Army during World War 2 and we may get other versions soon.

SRC announced a big-*albatross* GBB fest a while ago but didn't deliver much yet. Of all the stuff (and the list goes on and on), the G36 GBB is first to be released. What's next? We already heard about the TT, the Five-Seven, Colts, Berettas and some other things, including GBB MP5s (maybe ones that will finally work), but we haven't seen anything.

KWA decided to pick up the production of a TT GBB as well after Hudson went under due to its founder's death, and also decided to go for other exotic replicas. Kel-Tec PMR, Sphinx pistols, Kriss SMG and a special Totally-Not-A-Glock-But-Sure-Feels-Like-One pistol for the American market - I can only guess all those were designed by KSC and just licensed to KWA for worldwide release, as usual.

And now, G&G. I sense great RUINAYSHUN of airsofters' wallets - the announcement of WA2000 (and apparently a GBB at last), K98K and the reveal of P90 fitted with a laser sight means that a lot of people are going to fork their hard-earned cash for at least one of those beasties. But sorry guys, new laptop is higher on my priority list, and it'll take you some time to put a working WA2000 GBB together.

Mainland China ain't no slouch either. Real Sword finally got their asses in gear and managed to show a QBU-88 sniper rifle they promised LONG ago, JG admitted that the FN FAL I announced long ago is their work, there's some weird CO2 SVD coming up and DBoys decided to return to their WWII line with a wood&metal M1 Garand that is NOT a Marushin clone (cloning Marushin usually doesn't get you far - see the long-discontinued M500, the discontinued Winchester rifle and the discontinued DBoys K98K).

...man, I seriously need a raise.