You cam weigh down the MKII by puting some lead weights in the stock and some more in the handguard and just in the handguard for the PARA but thats only if there is room to do that.

You can expect the Star M249 to cost about $1200ish.

$1200ish? Damn, that's a lot of money. If only there was a Canadian distributor for STAR airsoft, who could get these (and other STAR airsoft products) in for us, for say... oh I dunno... $730ish??

$1200 is more realistic due to shipping and customs and dealer markup. $730 is a pipe dream. $900 would be nice but still...

Found a video from Guarder's website showing the installation of Star's plastic gearbox into the M249.

http://www.starairsoft.com/Video/M249A.wmv

Congrats, but it was already on the Star site for a long while.

Oops, I nevered visited Star's website, was browsing through Guarders website and found this which might be of interest to some.

I guess this could be good for the people who haven't seen the video yet.

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The M249 Para and SAW version is out at www.airsoftgi.com :p
I wanna get it hahaha

they sold out of the para in the uk already and they only can out yesterday and they are almost out of the SAW as well.

Someone buy one and post a review

they've now completely sold out in the uk ..apparentely they got put on the website this morning and sold out of both versions by this afternoon...
to be truthfull we are all pretty eager for a review on these..as soon as i get one or even get a sniff at a review i'll post a link here for it..
also were pretty eager to get the first sa80's from star also

there is a review on http://www.arniesairsoft.co.uk/forum...howtopic=37077

http://www.ukasc.net/pics/starmag1.jpg

new mags from star

Wow. I dunno if I like the fact that it has it's own "special" connector for the feed tube and battery connection....

Why not? On the box mag you already have one tube for the BB's anyhow why not have a specific one for the power.

ON my m249 I would of loved that. I had small connectors I had to undo all the time. This would be a lot more convenient.

Link of Fake bullets hides them anyhow.

Because it precludes you from using anything but the Star box mag. I guess for most people that was deemed to be plenty, but I plan on stuffing my LBV full of M16 mags so I'm glad the CA has the option. In fact, the CA249 comes standard with a 300-round M16 hicap rather than the box mag.

Another point to consider is the proprietary connection system provides another potential failure point. With a Tamiya, Deans, or Power Pole connector you can replace it easily should it fail. Can't do that with contact pads.