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Then there's this: https://flybrix.com/

Note, "Limited Availability". Nuff said.

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Perhaps that is because they busy filling a big order for a company with 5 meaningful letters in it's name.

In reality this is a really stupid product, like $189 for what is basically a $30 Chinese drone with a LEGO frame.

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Maybe the flying objects could be 2 "blimps" that launch down zip lines at the end of the game, dropping bonus balls/object/whatever. It could be cool. Or maybe push your own blimp to the end of the zip-line or something.
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This. Is. Awesome! But...

...I somewhat agree. It's not really stupid, IMO, just overpriced. There are special LEGO bricks to hold the motors(maybe why they're so expensive?), but you could get a cheap Chinese drone and just rebuild it out of LEGO. Though the kit does make it easier, but not worth nearly $200.

I think you might be on to something. The opposing corner objects look familiar(FTC). But I think(at least, I hope) the minibots, if they exist, will actually fly. Possibly with balloons or helicopters/drones with protected rotors. Or maybe some sort of short-distance plane...wait. I think I've got it! It will be one of those gliders that you charge and throw, with a capacitor to run the prop, but it only lasts for a few seconds. Something done in the regular game will "fuel" these planes, and then they'll be launched during endgame. Score will be determined by distance, max height, and/or flight duration.

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Now that you've pointed out that it has limited availability you've guaranteed FRC will heavily consider using it. Darn it Gary, you know better than that.

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This time, the MiniBots will be provided by FLL teams?

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I like your thinking, that'd be pretty cool. I know over in some other thread that people were talking about shoveling "coal" to power something, and it does make sense.

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Hmm, combining that coal idea with the football idea from earlier and of course the whole steam punk idea maybe footballs will be black (to look like coal) and maybe it will be the alliance who gets the most "coal" into their furnace?

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I thought about this some more, and I think it could work like this: Alliances will place coal and maybe water(you decide whether or not it's real water) into a furnace/boiler. The amount of each determines how much "fuel" is applied to that alliance's blimp/airship, which will be stationed in a corner of the field. Either "fuel " will inflate the balloon, or just charge a battery/capacitor on the blimp. During the endgame, the blimps will be launched(or can be launched prematurely if desired), and possibly remote controlled by human players. It is also possible that coal will be placed somewhere on the field, put onto the field by human players, carried by a train around the perimeter of the field which may be controlled by human players, or any combination of those.

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Honestly from what I noticed. Last game had a ball... now you can say I'm wrong if you want but I have noticed that every other year has a ball..... SO if last year was a ball How could it be a footBALL I honestly think it is a frisbee because last year was a ball. But the blimp does make me think they are going to switch up the order of ball and no ball. That's just what I've noticed
I also have the board game steamworks and it's a game where you build machines..... so I think there is going to be some building by the robots

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Balloon Game 2K17 confirmed. Blimps are just giant balloons, right? :)

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So based off the patterns I saw, the bottom row shows my best guess for the game, ignoring the game pieces, as that the least predictable in my eyes. ignoring the Steampunk theme, which I think is important if you're really looking for good guess at the game (look at Stronghold, that definitely wasn't capture the flag). but all these thoughts on a football-like piece seems likely although it also gives me flags from Stronghold vibes , the zip-line blimp theory seems to fit a tiny bit better.