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Review of newer Kraken that comes in paper box- differences: It comes in a paper box! Yay! The screw threads on the half metal half plastic buttplate are plastic, and strip extremely easily, I've super super glued, then JB welded it together. I've reshimed, relubed, and replaced the sector gear with a TM one, and now it is actually very quiet, the spring is rediculous, and would probably push the gun to something like 420fps if it were not for the fact that nothing seals properly. (piston and cylinder head, nozzle) the hop-up rubber works fine, I get the same accuracy as any other stock AK pretty much. If you don't relube it out of the box, well, I saw some pretty funky green stuff flow out of the gaps of the box in about a week of basement plinking. During a game it was... Well I didn't fancy running around with a crappy looking clearsoft gun, but it worked fine, shot fine, and with the new shims and lube, was light on battery consumption, instead of the grinding noise and a hot battery after 1 mag when I just got it. By the way, it chronoed 380 in the middle of winter. The piston head pad has been glued on with magic or something, if you want to put a sorbo pad in, hats off to you, I gave up after stabbing myself twice in the finger. The plastic body has already cracked in various places, especially around the screw holes. If you are purely looking for performance... Well, might as well gamble with this one, you might get a lemon, but you might not. In the end, for around $160 ish, it's pretty fairly priced. (Also it's 18 guage wire)
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