Bring on the FIRST merchandise!
 

So what happened to all the merchandise that FIRST was selling at the regionals last year?? I know that glow dog was selling the reflective clothes for FIRST last year. Is there going to be any FIRST merchandise this year????

From what I understand, FIRST lost too much money on the merchandise, sooooo, no merchandise this year. The only merchandise for FIRST this year will be done by DISNEY. Oh well.....

I wounder what would happen if ppl wore reflective chlothing near a ball shooting-optic bot :D (smart F.I.R.S.T. :p )

Probably nothing important, with a 6' high barrier in between...

Official word from FIRST(I asked them at GLR) is no non-Disney merchandise this year...they didn't go into why, but I guess I'm just going to have to wait until Disney to replace my hat....

I'm definately bringing my visa card...cause you know what they say; it's everywhere you want to be! And i want to definately be in FLA during the competition!

I have two FIRST euro stickers I made, one of them I made into a window decal and it is on my car.

Euro stickers are the white oval ones that you see all over the place.

I have had the best idea for a bumper sticker...well someone at my college does....whenever I walk to the parking lot I see a car with a homemade bumper sticker that says:

MY OTHER CAR IS A FIRST ROBOT

I love it....I wanna meet the kid that has that sticker!!! What a smart thinker he is!

/me was looking forward to buying some this year.
I spend to much time in tigerbolt chat, I speak /me....

Hope there is better stuff at Disney this year...

Cell Phone Plates
 

At the Motorola Midwest Regional, I saw numerous people with FIRST Cell Phone Face Plates. I think it might have been something that the motorola teams did, but i am not sure.

Does anyone know where these FIRST Face Plates came from?

Know how I picked my cellphone? It was between a Motorola & a name I don't remember.....and the two phones were basically equal in comparison....and basically, I thought "well, might as well go with someone who sponsors FIRST"

I would love to get my hands on a FIRST faceplate!

There's another thread for the face plates....

That's a shame, I've waited two years to buy a FIRST t-shirt and now I don't get one....bah.

They used to have nice keychains, and I even probably have a merchendise brochure somewhere. I really wanted one of those black long sleeve shirts with blue print on it, they were neat.

Ditto, I finally get a job, and no shirts at VCU.
And I got a real nice keychain last year, for free. 255 was handing them out.
Any teams out there make stuff like bumperstickers or window clings and sell them to raise money?

The problem I would be worried about is making compy write or trade mark infrengments. This is a great idea, but the legality would worry me.

In Toronto they had Regional T-Shirts. $7 American, $10 Canadian. They had FIRST Canadian Regional (or something like that, I loaned mine out and haven't received it back yet) written on the front, and on the back they had all the team #s and names. Pretty nice!

~JVN
Strategy Head
Team 229 - Clarkson University

Look here and here

My own design!

Well it makes sense that they would have FIRST merchandise available at the first International regional if nowhere else besides Florida.

I get a feeling FIRST lost money on the Glo-Dog stuff because at least IMHO it was low quality, and they didn't have much that DIDN'T glow. (I had a problem with the 2000 disney shirt when I accidentally wore it on a day I was working in the photography darkroom ;) )

If they do have something at Nats... anyone volunteering to pick a shirt up for me? ;) Looks like that one day at VCU was my only competition for the year. :( Especially now with gas prices starting to sky rocket...

~ lora

Not selling them (don't want to get sued by FIRST! :-)) but I will exchange some with other people for similar team related merchandise, buttons gadgets and etc. If you want a really big one 8.5" X 11", then I'll take your robot in trade! J/K

Re: Cell Phone Plates
 

idenstore.com

see this thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...?threadid=3464

I'm told as soon as this Friday......

KA-108

What model of Motorola phone? Did you get an iDEN/Nextel?

KA-108
Motorola, Founding Sponsor

I got 2 different shirts
 

For the past few years at Philly they have used T-shirts as tickets to get into the party. I also bought a shirt up in Canada that has all the teams on it that attended there.:D

I'm sure they will be at Nationals. They only have one Coin Machine.


Oh, wait. I just remembered. Didn't someone tell me that Small Parts isn't a Huge sponser anymore

Come find me in Florida (Team 88, really tall guy taking pictures)

I'll bring a few of my extra Team 88 Keychains.

Mike