OK, History according to how I saw it:
Saw my first
V-6 Angel at World Cup 1996 at the Brass Eagle/WDP tent. Initially B.E. was to be the sole US distributor of the Angel. I remember calling B.E. to inquire about purchasing an Angel soon after WC. The receptionist confirmed that they were a distributor for WDP but was clueless as to how I would go about buying an Angel (absolutely true story). WDP wisely ended their exclusive deal with B.E. a short time later.
About a year later Planet released the Eclipse Angel, it was splashed either Banzai Blue, Brit racing green, red & white on black, and I think that was it. It was also slightly milled with slopping from the feed neck-forward, and also flat grooves on the breech-block. Most importantly it was available with a pre-anodized double trigger and no trigger guards back then either. Two of my teammates bought one each and they were pretty nice (turned out to be the nicest ones I ever shot), too nice in fact for the players that my teammates were. And this began my impression that only old, fat, ****ty players shot Angels. This impression lasted until WC 98 when I played a game against Avalanche that lasted all of 2 minutes (it was in the woods). I got an LED a short time later, then sold it and bought an LCD. The LED was the better gun by far, and the Eclipse Angels my old, fat, and ****ty teammates had were even better than that. At WC '99 I watched Lasoya shoot his LCD and wondered why the $1,100.00 I gave up for my LCD was not good enough to acquire a gun even remotely as fast as his was. A short time later I sold my LCD and bought an AKA Excalibur.
The End.
