Finding Orbit Balls In Canada

[Pat Fairbank]

No luck for us, either. One of the parents on the team even volunteered to pop across the border to Niagara Falls, NY to check the Wal-Marts and Targets there, but found nothing.

[Bochek]

I'm going to make some phone calls in the morning to my old employer and see if he can dig up a supplier for them.

Has anyone heard or seen anything to indicate that these were ever sold in Canada?

By the way, our's broke after just a few hours of "studying" it.

- Bochek

[Racer26]

Yup, looks like these balls, which are a) difficult to find to begin with, being that the manufacturer discontinued them, b) relatively fragile for a FRC game piece, and c) not particularly cheap are pretty much impossible to get in Canada for the time being, at least till Karen and the folks at FIRST Robotics Canada come through with this mystery supplier, since even the American teams are having large difficulties getting a significant number of them.

[Wetzel]

We have similar problems in the UK. John Lewis, Toys R Us, Hammleys... none of the staff I showed the picture to has ever seen one. At least we know to protect the one in the kit, whenever the kits show up.

Wetzel

[ttldomination]

Try going to the blip toys website and inquiring about an order.