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The Top Historical Paintball Product Innovations, P
2004, Planet Eclipse
Ego
When Planet Eclipse introduced the
Ego in late in 2004 (05 Ego), it probably had a bit of a familiar feel to some
that shot it. After all, the Ego had many
design similarities to the Eblade electro-pneumatic upgrade for the Worr
Games Products Autococker, the brainchild of Jack Wood and Steve “Flash”
Monks. Ledz filled us in on some of
the back story of the Ego, “The Eblade
had put us on the paintball world map.
‘Cockers were all the rage but they
were too slow. The Eblade changed
that, but we were still replying on another company’s product on which to
bolt ours. Jack and Flash were also
looking for the next challenge.” And out
of this came one of the most successful
paintball markers in history.
The 05 Ego was an open bolt, stacked
tube electro-pneumatic marker packed
with great features like a Break Beam
low profile breech sensor, integrated adjustable LPR, clamping low-rise
feed tube, amazing backlit LCD display,
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