[MadMax]

Nope. Can't be cheap though. Their full up standard mechboxes already retail around $300 with motor. I would hazard a guess at around $350-$450 for a Revo box which would come with all mechanical components, motor, and electricals. Not bad if you were to tally up the prices of the bits separately though. The PTW optics board alone is $150+ and the switchboard about the same.

They've priced themselves into a bit of a corner with the Revo box. At the bottom is their prebuilt stock box and motor kits costing between $250-$300. At the top is a built MP5 PTW at around $850 with metal body sexyness and all of the internals. I can't see a reasonable price between the two without costing close to the cost of a built standard box. They would have to lower the price on their standard boxes to make space for the Revo which comes with no gun body parts.

The nice thing about superior design is that sometimes the parts don't cost all that much more to make, but you generate a more valuable product. It means it makes your worse designed stuff look dumb at the same price though. I have a feeling that their costs in electronics is not that high (even though they charge such a high price on spare parts) so they can offer deep discounts for buying assemblies.

You can tell I'm stoked about the Revo gearbox. I was going to spring for PTW MP5, but I'd rather upgrade a CA which uses low cost mags and isn't crippled by a bad hop up design. I'd miss having such a well built metal exterior, but the CA is pretty not bad at least and I can do stuff like use a sliding stock with a real battery pack up front.