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Re: Out of Stock - Motors/Gear boxes...

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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis View Post
Also, keep in mind that any part the vendor has stock of after the season is over may not be FRC-legal next year. At that point, they'll have a much harder time getting rid of those extra parts!
While past actions are no definitive proof of future results, the trend of the FRC game manual over the past few seasons has been to expand the potential pool of legal motors, pneumatics, and other components. This year is perfect proof of this, with a wide variety of legal Fisher Price SKUs to choose from. In past seasons, while many of these motors are within a few percent of each other in operating specs, only "that year's" FP motors were legal.

This is one really awesome aspect of the game rules that I hope they maintain in future seasons.
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