Ball Color Problem

[martin417]

We have been able to purchase several Orbit Balls from Wal Mart. We have representatives of three different color combinations. They differ from the game animation in that the yellow color seen in the animation for the moon rocks / empty cells is more orange in our samples (including the one from the KOP).

My concern is the similarity between the moon rocks and the empty cell. (orange and purple vs. orange and blue) The purple is not very different from the blue. I submit that if these are representative of actual game pieces, you will not be able to tell the difference from any distance. In the heat of competition, I can see teams grabbing multiple empty cells, thinking they are moon rocks, and getting penalized, simply because they couldn't tell the difference. If a team member is color blind (a very common mutation among males) it will be impossible to tell the difference.

Has anyone else noticed this, or am I alone in my confusion? I can only hope that the actual game pieces will be obviously different from each other.