A history of Brass Eagle

[The Inflicted]

That's correct - 97-98, Brass Eagle Angels. The Eagleworks barrel for the Rainmaker and the Raptor is a descendant of the Jacko barrels for Angels.

Also, the Raptor timeline - 96-97 Green, 98-00 Silver/Xtreme, LTD 2000 in 00. Might've still been some leftover production in 2001.

I don't think the Raptor Xtreme hit until 2000, and maybe not until 2001.

[Ironnerd]

Added to OP.
Thank-you.

[Brokeass_baller]

Still relevant in the 90s, I suppose. Lol

[dartamon]

Here is Brass Eagle's corporate profile post-Daisy acquisition and up to mid-2000: https://www.referenceforbusiness.com...Eagle-Inc.html

[Ironnerd]

FAX? (LOL)

[Brokeass_baller]

I have a full page ad somewhere. I need to load up my laptop and my backup drive and find it.

[Brokeass_baller]

It's true.

[Ironnerd]

Thank-you.

[dartamon]

That's correct - 97-98, Brass Eagle Angels. The Eagleworks barrel for the Rainmaker and the Raptor is a descendant of the Jacko barrels for Angels.

Also, the Raptor timeline - 96-97 Green, 98-00 Silver/Xtreme, LTD 2000 in 00. Might've still been some leftover production in 2001.

[The Inflicted]

Another odd snippet. According to this old WARPIG article, Brass Eagle was a distributor for WDP Angels. This is the only mention of this I can find, so I'll leave it off the timeline until I can find some supporting info.

Yep. Brass Eagle was briefly the US Distributor for WDP. They facilitated the construction of Hyperball fields at a number of family fun centers and miniature golf places during the late '90s, and the second generation Rainmakers even came with silver versions of WDP's Jacko Infinity Series barrels.

[Ironnerd]

Another odd snippet. According to this old WARPIG article, Brass Eagle was a distributor for WDP Angels. This is the only mention of this I can find, so I'll leave it off the timeline until I can find some supporting info.

[dartamon]

I also think that the Brass Eagle marketing in the late 90s mirrored that of Nickelodeon, which helped with some memory association.

[Ironnerd]

I'm not sure what the last gun marketed under the "Brass Eagle" name was but what happened was that the company had acquired a number of more prestigious brands (viewloader, JT, WGP, etc.) and realized that its own brand name was somewhat poisonous in the mind of most players. So, you ended up with guns like the JT ER2 or DL-9 which clearly shared Brass Eagle (and Kingman) design DNA but were sold as JT products.

My guesses as to the last Brass Eagle guns to still carry the name might be the Talon Ghost II from 2007.

I'm not sure about that. In 2009 (the final year for Brass Eagle's web page) the sight listed
T-Storm
X-plorer
Striker
Raider
Liberator
Saber
Talon Ghost
Talon Ghost II

So maybe they kept the brand alive until 2009, and then rolled everything over to JT. I guess it's possible the Talon Ghost II and the T-Storm share the distinction of being the last Brass Eagles.

It's really unfortunate that Brass Eagle hosed themselves like they did. For a while, they were really innovative, in their own weird, kinda clunky way. I played with a Stingray for a long time and loved it. Played a few times with a Raptor and found it to be a very nice marker (superior to the Spyder of the day). I wish there were a way to bring Brass Eagle back back from extinction.

[The Inflicted]

So what happened to it post-2006? The Aegis line just kind of exploded into a thousand offerings, but apparently there was another Raptor - a pump? What was the last marker that BE made and when?

I'm not sure what the last gun marketed under the "Brass Eagle" name was but what happened was that the company had acquired a number of more prestigious brands (viewloader, JT, WGP, etc.) and realized that its own brand name was somewhat poisonous in the mind of most players. So, you ended up with guns like the JT ER2 or DL-9 which clearly shared Brass Eagle (and Kingman) design DNA but were sold as JT products.

My guesses as to the last Brass Eagle guns to still carry the name might be the Talon Ghost II from 2007.

[Ironnerd]

So what happened to it post-2006? The Aegis line just kind of exploded into a thousand offerings, but apparently there was another Raptor - a pump? What was the last marker that BE made and when?

I can't freaking find anything... It's like BE got sucked into a vortex or something.

I'll keep poking around though. Ya never know...