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who knows? But seriously, there have to be orbit balls somewhere...maybe in other countries who knows
I tried ebay and amazon
no luck

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I learned something today!

This "issue" falls into an area called "Industrial Engineering."
thanks to those who continue to mentor me ;)

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can anyone find the place to order them on the first website since its been over 24 hrs and i still cant fins it anywhere????

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Coming soon (Right side of main page)
Keep checking this website.
http://logoloc.com/first/

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We managed to come up with a store that had 9....after a team member spent 5 hours driving to 10 other walmarts, he finally found them on the 11th try. Keep looking!

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Everyone,

Just spoke with a representative at Logo Loc Ltd. The Orbit Ball should be available by the end of this week. I am assuming this means by the end of Friday. He told me that they are still ironing out the logistics with FIRST and creating the website page. He also apologized for any delay this may cause. He was not able to give me any pricing information at this time.

Hope this helps....

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As I posted here:

Teams will be hearing officially from FIRST today or tomorrow. Don't expect to be able to buy many balls, though. Don't even plan to count them with a full hand.

It's going to be slightly cheaper than on Walmart. :)

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Wow, I didn't originally think the FIRST Logoloc store was going to be so tight on the number of available balls per team.

With this update, it looks like making your own balls may be very beneficial. :)

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Thanks to the proof supplied by your many emails on this forum discussing how you all purchased damaged balls at numerous Walmarts, I was able to convince the manager of our local store to sell me the slightly damaged ball I argued with his assistant so vociforously about on Tuesday. Now, with the 3 balls I'll be able to order from FIRST tomorrow, at least we'll have the 7 we'd be allowed to start off with in our bot.:D

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This is very surprising to me. I really thought that FIRST would have the toys manufactured again. Only 3 per team? that's going to put a lot of teams in a disadvantage. I hope you guys can find some more like we did. Here's some hints...

- Go to your local WalMart with this UPC Numer.. 065838282040K, ask them to type that in to there inventory scanner to give you and up to date on-hand list of all walmarts within 150 Miles.

-Call those Walmarts and have them set aside for you(Note:It is Walmart's policy to not hold items but when Colin and I did this we spoke to some managers and they were very accommodating.)

-If there On hands say they have some but the employee you talk too says they don't if it's on your way it's worth stopping by because we were able to find several in the ball rack out of there packages with all the other plastic balls.

-Get a GPS, and hit every Walmart that supposedly have some on hand. Colin, John and I headed out to Syracuse to 4 stores to pick up 11 Balls and one of the employees helped us with his inventory scanner and we ended up going to seven Walmarts and got 27 Orbit Balls. Several of the stores we stopped at had originally told us they didn't have any when we called them but they were just in the ball rack and the employees didn't think to look there.

Good Luck in your search, also look into making your own, it might be worth it.