<$25 means less than $25. Alot of the ones i've looked at are less than $7. Compared to a TBU, a laser (say $10 or $15) with some sensors (say $10 for 10 of them) is cheap. Eyesafe lasers are just that eye safe, besides even with a say 30mw laser their ON time would be too low to damage the eye under direct pointing anyway. I understand trying to get everyone to use something is about impossible and realism can only be achieved to a certain point but, if you don't try to make it more lifelike you might as well just strap up and go play laser tag. The tamiya battle system is a 20+ year old setup, its out of date. Change could be done if its cheap, easy and better. I'm working on it.