New AndyMark Product Game Hint???

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by billbo911

The Nerf Howler is actually quite rigid!

Throw one and see if you hear a Steam Train Whistle!

The Nerf Howler is also in stock and readily available from Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.au, and elsewhere...which, combined with an earlier not-supposed-to-be-a-hint-but-was-totally-a-hint, tells me the Nerf Howler is not the game piece.

(Of the four possible hints--if you count this as one--that point to the game piece being a standard regulation football, it's the "First Choice Points to get some shipped, International Teams Only" that seals the deal in my mind. There is literally no other playing piece I can think of that is ubiquitous in the US but difficult to obtain elsewhere. I've been pretty good at guessing overall game themes most years, and game elements some years, and I've never been as convinced I'm right as I am this year.... That said, it'll be fun to be right, and as fun to be wrong.)

[Branden2648]

Andymark just uploaded a new video on Facebook with the following http://imgur.com/a/PHbIB

[Munchskull]

Originally Posted by Branden2648

Andymark just uploaded a new video on Facebook with the following http://imgur.com/a/PHbIB

WHEELS!

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

(Of the four possible hints--if you count this as one--that point to the game piece being a standard regulation football, it's the "First Choice Points to get some shipped, International Teams Only" that seals the deal in my mind. There is literally no other playing piece I can think of that is ubiquitous in the US but difficult to obtain elsewhere. I've been pretty good at guessing overall game themes most years, and game elements some years, and I've never been as convinced I'm right as I am this year.... That said, it'll be fun to be right, and as fun to be wrong.)

That international game piece option was available in 2016, as well.

[mrnoble]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

That international game piece option was available in 2016, as well.

Yeah, that's just a good response to the years of problems with international teams being unable to get the most basic stuff to compete. I agree that it doesn't give anything away.

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

That international game piece option was available in 2016, as well.

I wasn't aware of that.

Ah, well. Back to the speculation that I'm probably wrong....

[ctt956]

Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss

But what if da red wunz go fasta!?

Add a few flame stickers. Problem solved!

Originally Posted by Branden2648

Andymark just uploaded a new video on Facebook with the following http://imgur.com/a/PHbIB

I started to think that dice(any size) might be game pieces. I see a Rubik's Cube in that picture...Vex Starstruck has a cube-shaped game piece... There's also a small toy robot between the large grey wheel and the stack of wheels. Minibot hint?

[mrnoble]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

Of the four possible hints

Sorry, I'm out of it. What are these hints? I am aware of the dirigible in the teaser video, but I have yet to see any other hints. I haven't been sauntering through CD very much lately, though, so I am sure I've missed it here. Would you mind terribly sharing what the possible "hints" were? Thanks.

[frcguy]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

The Nerf Howler is also in stock and readily available from Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.au, and elsewhere...which, combined with an earlier not-supposed-to-be-a-hint-but-was-totally-a-hint, tells me the Nerf Howler is not the game piece.

An item's availability on Amazon and other retailers is not a very good indicator of it being used as a FRC game piece, especially since FIRST almost always has game pieces made with some kind of branding on them.