Did Master Replicas Improve the Denix Base Gun for the Han Solo Blasters?

[Mara Jade's Father]

I am not sure about that. I think that MR, just like MGC, strived to replicate a real Mauser but simplified many details. It is just that some details are simplified in the same way by both MR and MGC, while other details are more like the Mauser than MGC.

Whoops. Sorry. I was thinking about the bodies of the MR's ESB blasters.

However, the thought process of reasoning stays true to what I was trying to say: the body of a EE is going ot be hard to beat unless you have a real mauser or a MGC. Not impossible but also not likely for the average collector here.

 

[Darth Lars]

Whoops. Sorry. I was thinking about the bodies of the MR's ESB blasters.

To me it looks like Master Replicas' Han ANH EE, Han ESB and Luke ESB all have practically the same bodies, except for the obvious mounting points and the bull barrel.
The "tell" parts are separate, and differ: trigger, bolt, slider handle and safety.

But ... I have not compared them to each other side to side, because I don't own any of them.

 

[Mara Jade's Father]

To me it looks like Master Replicas' Han ANH EE, Han ESB and Luke ESB all have practically the same bodies, except for the obvious mounting points and the bull barrel.
The "tell" parts are separate, and differ: trigger, bolt, slider handle and safety.

But ... I have not compared them to each other side to side, because I don't own any of them.

They may be the same bodies, I don't know. But the The Empire Strikes Back blasters came before the EE offering. From what has been said on this board before, the real Empire Strikes Back blaster props actually used MGCs. So in order to reproduce the correct look, they based the body off an MGC rather than a real Mauser. I'm not an expert in these matters, just telling you what I've pieced together.