Cybergun Licensed Thompson "Chicago Typewriter" M1928 Pattern Airsoft AEG Rifle w/ MOSFET (Model: Imitation Wood)

"This gun is one of the first I ever had my eye on when I started airsofting. The Thompson smg is my favorite of all time historical platform, and the 1928 model trumps all. I was very disappointed upon seeing it sold out, and even more so when it remained sold out for TWO YEARS. By then my tastes in airsoft had grown and I had amassed a formidable airsoft collection, but this still remained 1# on my "to get" list. Then, one day I was looking at it on Evike (again) and I idly clicked on the Find in Store button. To my shock, I saw that it was in stock at the Houston, TX location. I immediately called CS and setup an order and had it shipped to me from the store. I spent my savings for a real AR-15 to buy this, I wanted it that much. Now, getting to the gun itself, this is a beautiful replica. I ordered the imitation wood, and it just felt gross on such a beautiful gun. It is pretty thin and hollow sounding. It's also pretty weak, I'm sure it would crack if you dropped it. I hated it so much that I immediately spent another $119 on the real wood furniture, and I highly recommend buying it with the real wood option, as that's just an extra $75 instead of $119 to buy it separately, and it feels and looks great on this gun. Getting back to topic, the correctly placed charging handle is one of the largest factors of why I wanted this gun, because having you're charging handle in a completely wrong spot and of the wrong type is a huge problem, and it's more than enough to deter me from buying a 1920's model. The trademarks are correct, the bolt is correct, this feels like a real Thompson. The weight is correct, about 9 lbs loaded, as near as I can tell.

Pros+
Looks absolutely amazing
Shoots very well with 11.1 v Lipo
High cyclic rate (Like a Thompson)
Heavy
Great hop-up
Looks absolutely amazing (Getting a bit of Deja Vu)
Coolest gun in like, ever
Pretty good trigger
Startlingly accurate
Got some oomph behind it, shoots hard, whoever you shoot is going to have welts
Did I mention it looks absolutely amazing?

Cons-
Might be too heavy for some people, but only if you're used to full-polymer guns
Sights are a little hard to line up
Imitation wood is bleh, but that's kind of a granted
Orange cap fought back like a beast

A few notes that might help: The orange cap was... a new experience. The pin holding it in is glued in place, and it's not in threads, just a plain pin, so an Allen key is not going to work. I had to shave away a ton of material, then wiggle it out with needle nose pliars. This was easy compared to getting the cap itself off of the muzzle. First, the good old reliable wrench. Didn't budge. Next, the channel lock wrench. Nothing. Next, a few matches to heat it up and then the channel lock again. Did nothing but a little blackening. After trying pulling, wrenching, twisting, I opened my wallet once again (It's literally sobbing from hunger by now) and bought a heat gun. I tried the old-fashioned way, letting it heat for a couple minutes and then trying to wrench it off. Not a millimeter of movement. After repeating this process a dozen times, and trying a multitude of methods, including putting it in a vise, I took a chisel and slowly melted the cap off, moving away each melted piece with the chisel. Finally, after melting off almost half of the cap, it came off, only for me to find a lot of the paint taken off. A few coats of matte black paint and ultra curing with the heat gun fixed this though, and it blends in perfectly, it's the exact right shade. Now, mag compatibility. The polymer King Arms mid-caps feed well, and I saw that someone in the reviews said that the drum mag causes fps loss, which for mine is not true. It's true that the drum doesn't sit as close to the hop-up as the stick magazines do, but the performance is the same. 350 fps, 1.15 J, 20 rps with an 11.1v Lipo, stick or drum. Lastly, the hop-up is great, the only thing is that even set to the lowest position it still travels up at the end of its flight. This isn't a problem though, because it already travels really far before going up, and it's better to have it travel up instead of down at the end of its flight. It doesn't cause a problem in the least. On an end note, I can't recommend this gun enough, both for looks and performance. 10000000000000000/10!

"I don't have this gun, but I'm wondering, is this discontinued? It hasn't stocked for a long time and it's the only correct 1928 model Thompson.

"Bought myself 2 of these since they were on sale this week.
Externally these guns are gorgeous. Minus the incorrect stock, these are pretty close externally to the M1928 Thompson models.
Out of the box, both have shot around 380 FPS.
Also, the wood furniture seems to consistently be a bit loose on each Thompson, so you'll to tighten those up.
They have inline mosfets, no fancy programmability but whatever.
The orange tips are drenched in superglue and really annoying to have to remove. There are also tiny metal pins in the orange tips.
For some reason, the charging handles are coated in grease. I'd recommend wiping it off before using them in any outdoor games.
I don't recommend using the drum mags that are included. While they do feed, they cause significant FPS loss, by around 80 or so FPS. I'm guessing this is because the drum mags dont sit as close to the hopup unit as standard Thompson stick mags do. Standard King Arms Thompson stick mags don't have this issue and feed just fine with no FPS loss.
Internals are actually fairly good. Theres a QCS system utilized for the gun. The wiring extension that goes from the receiver to the stock is also wired to deans. Very solid cool guns and I'm glad I got them while they were on sale.

"Finally, a Tommy that's actually competitive!

Was so incredibly happy to see this thing pop up on the new arrivals page, having just lamented the fact nobody made a correct 1928 model Thompson.

Pros
-Heavy! Actually feels like the mean beast it is! The real wood stock is very high quality for an airsoft gun
-Excellent trigger response with a 7.4 lipo, and having a MOSFET and Deans is very nice
-Looks mean as hell from the front with the fat compensator
-Shoots a little hot. Managed to get 422-430 FPS out of the box with .23s
-Hopup is simple but won't let you down. stayed consistent through the entire first magazine

Cons

-Heavy! Might wear on some of the smaller folks among us after a while
-Trigger response is nice, but trigger pull itself is still creepy. Realistic, but could use some tuning
-Stock is still incorrect. They've put an M1A1 stock on the 1928 body, weird choice and distracts if you're a stickler for authenticity, especially with how much work they put into for the trademarks and body

"Very well built gun, looks and feels beautiful, full metal and wood with a very realistic weight and feel, only downside of the gun would be the fact that everything came in feeling loose, the stock, and front vertical foregrip (nothing else really just those two), my recommendation for anyone purchasing this gun would be to tighten down on all the screws you see on the wood furniture. trigger response is really great, an upgrade over the king arms Thompson's, and the cybergun/cyma Thompsons. the bolt is non functional, but you can cock it back and forth which is a nice touch ( FINALLY ON THE RIGHT PLACE) glad to see a properly placed bolt on the gun, was tired of seeing that weird M1A1 style bolt on a 1928 Thompson, the iron sights are fully adjustable, and the fire selectors are period correct for a 1928 model Thompson. and the cutts compensator is proportionate to its real steel counterpart, only innacurate thing about this gun would be the stock is still based off of the M1A1 stock. but that's not a big deal at all, as the rest of the gun is really well done.

overall this gun was very much worth the price, very glad I picked this gun up, but please tighten the screws before anything! also the gun comes with a mosfet and is wired to deans connections.

"A very nice AEG. Heavy, power, long range, and accurate. Though mine came with a multitude of problems, which is why I can’t give it full marks. I’m not certain if mine was a lemon but there were several cosmetic damages and issues. I received the real wood version of this typewriter as a gift. It came with a screw missing from the front grip as well as the other screw inside the gun nearly completely sideways. The muzzle on the tip of the gun also wobbles quite a bit and I have yet to find a fix for this. Most of the wood parts of the gun wobbled but I fixed all the unmentioned wooden parts with a flathead screwdriver. Once I had started to test fire the airsoft gun on the first mag (about halfway through the 450 round magazine) the gun seemingly jammed. I later discovered that the problem was that I had simply “outsped” the motor and that simply switching the gun to full auto for a few seconds while firing the firearm would fix the issue. Which worked like a charm but was still concerning. Lastly the firearm had a natural hop that I seemingly couldn’t undo by having the hop completely turned off making the bb have a very minor curve making an extremely specific range difficult to hit your target. However this also mean that this gun is more accurate and has more range than my snowwolf sniper.


PROS:
- Large ammo capacity
- Good feeling (Real Wood)
- Powerful sound (for an AEG)
- Decent range if you know how to aim it
- Heavy (Can be a CON for some players. Fully loaded the gun is heavier than my sniper which weighs around 15lbs. I’d guess the typewriter weights around 18lbs when fully loaded with .2 bbs.)

CON:
- Motor is easily “outsped” in semi automatic fire
- Mine had major wobble and some parts are not fixable with home tools
- Extremely powerful hopup (Can be a PRO)

"Only if they made the stock correct... Other than that, it's a beautiful replica.

"For a while, I had been looking for an authentic Model 1928 Thompson. However, I was disappointed because pretty much every airsoft 1928 I came across had the M1-style side-mounted cocking handle, and that bothered me. Conversion kits were pretty much impossible to come by, too. Then, enter King Arms with this gorgeous Model 1928. Finally, a Model 1928 with a correctly top-mounted charging handle! I bought the real wood version, and it feels just as hefty as a real Chicago Typewriter. As for performance, I took it out to my first game, and...the gun ran away and shredded the gears on the first day of play that I used it. Fortunately, Evike was kind enough to fix it for free, and it's done me well since.

Now, about the performance: I never used .20 gram pellets in this gun, but I used .25s and got an average of 330-335 FPS, and 305-310 FPS with .28s, which is good enough for me. One of the things I really like about the gun is the drum mag. Considering it holds 450 rounds, you may never run out during a game unless you're running a really long one. Another plus is that the gun seems to be reasonably accurate, although on my gun, the pellets still travel up a bit even with the hop-up turned all the way down. The rate of fire is really good with an 11.1v lithium battery, though, and I like how this one comes with a MOSFET. A guy I played with also claimed that it was pretty quiet at longer ranges.

If I have any negatives about the gun, well, first of all, like other reviewers said, the screws that hold the grips and stock on were somewhat loose on mine. Fortunately, a flathead screwdriver solved that. Also, while the gun feeds fine with the included drum mag, I tried using hi-cap stick mags and could only get them to fire two pellets before they stopped feeding, and I'm POSITIVE that I wound those mags all the way. As for the people who claim that it has an inaccurate M1-style stock...well, I can't really tell the difference myself, though I will say that the gun's a bit awkward to shoulder if you're more used to an M16.

Overall, if you want to make your next airsoft game roar like the Twenties and turn heads at the same time, then you can't go wrong with this Thompson.

PROS:
*Good performance
*Good rate of fire
*All right accuracy
*Real wood feels nice
*Comes w/MOSFET
*Comes w/drum mag
*Turns heads
*Feels nice and hefty
*Has charging handle in correct spot unlike other airsoft 1928s

CONS:
*Grip and stock screws are pretty loose
*Stick mags won't feed correctly
*May be a bit awkward to shoulder if you're more used to guns with inline stocks.

"Overall good gun shoots completely fine my model had some external issues though. The mag release being the important one, was extremely tight against the wooden grip upon unboxing and had scraped the wood far down permanently and needed pried upwards away from the lower with a screwdriver to prevent further damage and make operation easier. Also the safety switch is very loose and often is found slowly sliding down during use.

The only other tiny issue although it not really being that important is that u need to tighten all the Flathead screws holding the furniture on the weapon when you get it and even then the foregrip still noticeably wobbles and mag acceptance is very hit or miss because nobody sells stick mags so if you have old mid caps they will most likely need sanded down for proper fitting but once done will feed normally