Response to Spyder’s MR2

I don't know if any of you have seen it, but the Spyder MR2 looks tight as hell for me, and probably to any of you scenario paintball players.  I know that the MR2 is more than probably Spyder's version of the Tippmann 98 Custom, but I think Tippmann should release a new marker all the same.  How's this: A 2 Piece Receiver, just like the 98, but it disassembles from the top, instead of the side.  New Triggers and Valves and other upgrades could be preassembled "boxs" that could be dropped in to the gun at any time.  Made easy to use, and be able to stand up to massive abuse would be headliners of the marker.  Yeah, the 98C is easy to use, but if you're just entering paintball, even its simplicity is daunting. Tell me what 'cha think!

They JUST came out with the C3, so wait a while...And Tippmann has no competetion from Spyder what-so-ever. So there's really no need to make a new gun.

takedown wrote: yeah the mr2 really looks like crap and the complete opposite of a tippmann and in no way resembles a mil sim gun and poses no threat to tippmann

it's not milsim.  it's scenario.

Sureshot3091. wrote: They JUST came out with the C3, so wait a while...And Tippmann has no competetion from Spyder what-so-ever. So there's really no need to make a new gun.

so true

Monk wrote:   no other company sells "low cost" markers. Exept maybe Brass Eagle.

id do some research before making that assumption

well, the a-5 was one step closer to what your talking about.

Even my gf can dissassemble and reassemble her cpro... and I only showed her once.

Oh, and the mr2 is crap:)


Edited by RavenGuard - 18 March 2006 at 3:10pm

lawls, so much hatred in all of your posts....  Your wrong, before I researched a little, my first gun was almost a Spyder Imagine.  In saying Tippmann has no competition with Spyder....THERE IS NO OTHER LARGE LOW COST MARKER BRAND THAT ISNT A COMPLETE PILE OF CRAP!   Yeah, Brass Eagle is low cost too, but those are the piles of crap I was referring to.

DsXz, i apologize...There is one more low cost marker out there; PMI Pirahna.  People usually dont think of them as marker manufactuers, just masks and air tanks, but they have a strong market of entry level markers, nothing compared to tippmann, but there all the same.  Spyder MR2 is not milsim, and it is a mistake to think so.  A scenario gun is WAY different than a milsim, in looks and in some cases, performance.  But back to my original point.....It takes several YEARS to produce a new marker.  From design board to factory, theres logistics, factory space, and even designing the gun itself to consider.  In my opinion, Tippmann needs to get a head-start on a new gun before Spyder actually does something right and makes a trustworthy scenario marker.  Sorry this post is so damn wordy!

IronFox wrote: Tippmann's have a name for ruggedness and reliability. They are the AK-47s of paintball. I mean they're not Brass Eagles here... Anyway, Spyder and Tippmann are VERY different guns.

  True but, you guys have got to realize that Spyders arn't that bad... They arn't as rugged as a tippmann but TIPPMANNS SHELLS ARE MADE OUT OF METAL. Thats what protects every thing. Any one can say spyders suck when they had one for a first gun and completly trash it because they were stupid noobs. I'd take a Tippmann over a Spyder just becase Its a Tippmann. That right there says it all.

Spyders suck. Period. I should know since I played with a spyder for two years before i got my A-5 three days ago. I originally bought a Spyder becuase it was so cheap. But it SUCKED. If you want to know why it sucks is because the stupid cock would get jammed in the hole if the smallest crap went into the chamber while playing woodsball, the seals were cheap and leaked, and there was absolutely NO, i repeat NO protection for the cock, the whole thing was right out in the open. You say spyders don't suck, they just break easy? Lets take three seconds to decided on what makes a gun good.
1. Reliability
2. Reliability
3. Performance

Spyder gets a big Fat F- for a grade on 2/3 of the quiz so don't ever say Spyders don't suck. This is comming from someone that has went through 3 years of a POS spyder.
Also, i would add another 10 pounds onto my A-5 and I would still use it over any spyder ever made.

Spyders Suck.
End of story.



Edited by -=Tippmann=- - 31 March 2006 at 6:12pm