Battlebots Action Figures
 

I don't know if you guys have mentioned or even seen these things. . .

Christina and I ran across a line of Battlebots Action Figures in Planet Comics. . . that means they'll also sell them in Babbage's or Software, Etc. too.

You can own all of your favorites, like the Atomic Wedge, and well. . . I don't really have any favorites, but that's the one I was looking at.

They're kind of small-ish, and they're plastic. That makes them ripe for becoming victims of our robots tank tread, I think :-)

Yep they have little toys. They make ronin, minion, overkill, ziggo and a few others. Look in a few months for R/C models by tiger electronics, scary that they will be selling battle bots with plastic weapons to kids huh?


Andrew

We want Vlad! We Want Vlad! That, and Chinkilla.

Re: Battlebots Action Figures
 

where can you find them? do they sell them at places like Toys R Us or KB Toys?

KMART has them!!! (eom)
 

:D

just chiecking in on this subject but I think that action figure of BB
is the first sign of the apocylpse


dahl
running for cover

Go figure. The store on the verge of bankrupcy (K-Mart) is selling them.

We want Vlad! We want Vlad!

No kidding. I agree with ya there. Maybe FIRST should get a deal to have the national winners etched in plastic for the country to buy. It would be more positive for such a negative country. And it would get us more publicity. :)

Well, having only the winners etched in plastic would create a small set. You could probably do the top 4 from all the past years, and every year, create a set of the top 16 (i.e., the 2002 series of FIRST robots).

We might be on to something here.

Winners...
 

I say just use any robot that is cool (which would be most of them) sometimes the winners dont always have the coolest robots....if u make a winner that isnt a cool bot it may not sell as well as a cool bot that wasnt a winner....


:)


Just an idea.

Like the '00 Chief Delphi.

She does have a point.

I actually thought about the possibility of FIRST marketing little robot toys, but the reason they market battlebots toys is that almost everyone that you talk to knows of them by now. When I tried to explain what I was involved in in January of this year, I'd say something like, "I'm helping to build a robot..." And before i could even finish the sentence people would say something like, "Oh is it for that show BattleBots???" Of course then I'd have to explain to them that it is something completely different, and that we weren't trying to destroy each other. So in closing, in order for the marketing of a product to work, a lot of people have to know the history of the product!!

Whew!!!



P.S. They sell BB keychains now, I got Biohazard, just because it has what looks like a FIRST bridge manipulator type arm, and it actually is functional.

SIDE NOTE
 

BUT............

Next year when IT comes out and Dean becomes all famous, hopefully some media will be thrown FIRST's way and then that would be a good time to market FIRST stuff to the public!!

Hmmmm....I wonder if team fees would go down if they did sell FIRST stuff to the public???

Probably not.

IMO: I really hate the FIRST site. It's too dull, and not enough pictures, descriptions, and videos of the competition. The past competitions section doesn't have much either.

About the bumperstickers and the FIRST web site...
 

I do agree, the FIRST website is a bit dull. Maybe they could have a web design contest for the students of FIRST. But, if you take a look at the canadaFIRST website, it happens to be rather nice on the eyes.

Tomorrow is my day off. I plan to post the bumper sticker preliminaries for voting and comments tomorrow evening so look for them then. I'll make sure that the website is on them all.

Canada FIRST?????


Oh no I better not let somone on my team know that (Vinnie)

:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

Re: SIDE NOTE
 

Maybe it's just me..but isn't Dean already famous? Just thought I'd point that out and be annoying (aren't you glad I got online tonight..you all must have missed my wonderful annoyingness). :D

~Angela

Ah touche'

Yes Dean is already famous but especially only with high school students involved in FIRST. But, When IT is released Dean Kamen will hopefully be a household name and then the publicity for Dean will start a snowball effect and then hopefully more exposure for FIRST will come calling, more than it already is!!!:D

And they will name a planet after him!

Well, you never know. What if IT is a device that can send us (reletively) faster than light?

Back on subject about Battlebots action figures.....

Congrats to 177 for having a mini "Deadblow" duct-taped to their robot at Bash today. It took me like an hour to figure out what that noise was ;)

Battery operated and everything.... attached is a pic:

(i hope they didn't mind my use of duct tape since it is an illegal fastener :) )

Action Figure
 

Come on Tom, you can't take all of the credit for Dead Blow, it was my idea to tape it to the BobCat.:p

that is awesome!!! i'm gonna have to buy me a few of them.

Now I regret missing Bash. That mini Deadblow is cool.