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Anyway, the Walmart in Tewksbury, MA had zero. |
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please see my post under Source for Orbit ball page 6. I explain how to go to Walmarts and use their Telxon system for finding Orbit balls in nearby stores.
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it was quite hilarious seeing them walk in.i think these are the most fun game pieces i've seen thus far Last edited by The Pre : 06-01-2009 at 14:51. Reason: i had to fix spelling mistakes, lol :D |
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while I purchased 3 from one walmart, and 1 from way across town (20 miles from the other), I did see one at a Big K-Mart. However, It was so badly destroyed and mangled, being at the bottom of the ball rack, that it hardly represented anything close to what I would be willing to spend money on. The store I went to and got the 3 balls at actually had an employee there looking at the orbit balls and asked me if I was on a FIRST team. Apparently he was at our local kickoff event and was glad to see a FIRST team take them instead of a "random" customer. Just found that to be interesting.
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We checked our local Walmart Sunday and did not find any balls, although we did find the $9.97 price tag for them on the shelf in the ball section. Yesterday we saw that list that said they should have 10 in stock. Today we visited Walmart again for something else, but we found a dept. manager working in the toy department, and asked her if they had the balls (pointing to the price tag on the shelf). She said she thought they did, and went and looked and came back with a carton of 3 balls, and said there might be more. Apparently she had trouble with them having the packaging removed, and people playing with them, and hasn't been putting them on the shelf! So you might want to find the toy department manager, and ask if they have any. Also she said they were moving a lot of the toys out and getting ready for the pool toys display...which means pool noodles should be available here soon! And it also means that you might be able to find pool noodles if you ask the toy department manager.
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We canadians have no hope of getting orbit balls for no where else but first hey wait what about ebay?
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Thanks for that tip. According to that list, there should've been ~18 balls at one local store, but I couldn't find any at all. And as far as I know, there are really no area teams that didn't have another Wal-Mart closer to them which carried the balls.
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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.
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About 14,000 orbit balls available.
1,685 registered teams. 14,000/1,685 = 8.????? If you bought more than 8 balls, find another team to share them with. We need to remember our gracious professionalism. |
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And they're up - http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=71587
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So, before I head out to buy Spandex - what are the appropriate colors? And a note to Boston area teams - Fabric Place, which was a great fabric store, is closing/closed so don't try them for Spandex. JoAnnes is a good store, and there are a fair number of them. One of the larger (I think) is on Rt. 9.
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I'm betting Wal-Mart wishes they had ordered them self's a train load of them about now.
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Correct colors should be purple and orange for moon rocks, blue and orange for empty cells, and green and purple for super cells. Green is a lime green color, purple is probably a dark lavender (Viking's uniform purple), blue is a medium hue like royal blue, and orange is well orange (dare I say Gus Orange!) ![]() |
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