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Originally Posted by The Saint
The availability of aftermarket parts is not always a positive. What people should consider is whether a product can stand on itself own, or is it being propped up by a lot of other products.
The WA system is not blessed with aftermarket parts because of its popularity, on the contrary it needs all the aftermarket internal and external parts to be a viable platform because the WA system was designed to be a plastic gun running off duster. Just as crucially, WA itself has done zero refinement/revision and offers no technical support I know of.
The WE system does not need all the aftermarket internals and external parts because it was designed to be a metal gun supporting up to CO2 out of the box, and WE itself continues to refine/revise each generation so there's continuous system growth and maturity. In addition, WE offers a reasonable degree of technical support. So even if there were a ton of aftermarket parts for the WE, there still would be very few reasons to buy them. Finally, out of the box, the WE system even seems to have received some positive feedback from the mil/LE training ilk.
I'll probably one-night stand a WA, but I'll marry a WE.
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Consider this, WA is a Japanese company lil do they care if the outside world wants it to run on propane, it did what they're suppose to do follow the law and use duster only. WE is made in Taiwan there's few laws restricting what they can or cannot do (Eg able a shell and its bullet head exact spec as a firearm counter part)
If you want to compare Magna vs. Escort Modified use G&P WOC as the proper contender. It is not a very good comparision to use a company who have to follow alot of laws to ensure they stay in business (or the police will come and tear em down)
G&P fixed nearly ALL the problems with the Magna M4 design. There's still some problems wilth the G&P I know I can list it right now:
***Charging Handle will break, WE also has this problem
***Wobble in recievers, WE and Firearms also has this problem. The issue is addressed and theres few play between the two recieevers for serial numbers after around 1500s
So honestly you can't blame WA for doing a poor job, they did theirs. WE is expanding its area hoping to convince the people who want more realisitc and trade it for more models.
G&P will work for about 3k round before it needs to be fixed. If you want to get less problemanic Magna you need to build one from ground up basically (Its cheaper that way, and yes Im cannabilizing my WOC --probably gonna rebuild it later with a Iron Airsoft Hk416 upper to sell it)