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Re: Source for Orbit Ball

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I heard from a reliable source that Blip has discontinued these balls. Wal-Mart said they won't be getting any more. FIRST has enough for the season, but teams (and offseason competitions) are likely to find them hard to come by for a while.
That's unfortunate if true.

So much for buying 150 of them and making a competition legal playing field.
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Re: Source for Orbit Ball

well that kind of stinks...i was hoping that it would be easy to find; its going to be like trying to find pool noodles in February
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Re: Source for Orbit Ball

Sayso: Check ebay for the noodles, we've gotten em from there before because they're hard to come by. And good luck finding the balls in Richmond... we're having trouble...
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Re: Source for Orbit Ball

To anyone who has already broken one of these: can you find out what plastic material they are made of? I'm looking for an exact answer (such as acetal, PET, etc), not just something like "Its plastic, duh".

The reason I ask, is that after finding only four of them between two local Wal-Marts, the engineering and New England frugality instincts inside of me rang out. The orbit balls don't look very hard to [re]produce!

Using calipers, the interior plastic material is about 1" wide by about 0.1" thick (cannot tell for sure due to felt thickness), and the material they are coated with seems to be identical to the material used on stretchable Book Socks. The plastic (depending on the actual material) should be easily source-able through McMaster, and book socks aren't that difficult to find.

If someone can get me an [exact] answer within the next few days, I'll immediately place an order into McMaster to make about twenty or thirty of these balls, and then I'll raid the school supply sections of every store in the area like a loaded refrigerator.
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Re: Source for Orbit Ball

We got 4 of them from our local Wal-Mart, making it 5 total that we have. but we should pick up some more if they have discontinued them

As far as noodles go, well we where waiting for them to go on sale, and when they did, they where gone, well it looks like we will need to buy them online

EDIT, we bought one of ours, wrote our team number on them, and then flipped it around, and guess what, the plastic was broken, but the "silkish" outside is still intact, so still useable. once fully broken, i will post it up!
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Re: Source for Orbit Ball

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658382820404 as seen in this picture in CD Media http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...e2b978c1_l.jpg.
Thanks.
I managed to track down 6 between 13 different stores. I can tell you that Toys R' Us Carries/Carried them, Found one at a K'Mart, None at 2 different Targets, and 5 at Walmart. So Walmart would probably be your best bet.
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Re: Source for Orbit Ball

We found 5 at a local Walmart -- three were missing packaging and broken and two were intact and in packaging. Walmart gave us the broken ones at only 10% off, grr.
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Re: Source for Orbit Ball

went to the local walmarts, the balls were sold out. the manager said that they cant order anymore because balls are no longer in production, any ideas??
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Re: Source for Orbit Ball

I think we will have to contact the manufacturer to actually obtain these orbit balls. Plus these balls have become a commodity. I bet someone would put it on ebay eventually and the price will just rise.
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Re: Source for Orbit Ball

we got 12 at walmart!! yay Chris Elston! anyways, the Blip toys website said they are available at wal-mart, k-mart, target, radioshack, and toys-r-us.

http://www.bliptoys.com/wheretobuy.htm

we did end up paying 10 dollars for all 12, but from my calculations (by playing half an hour of basketball with a tote and the ) these things are going to have a hard time making it through the season,
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Re: Source for Orbit Ball

yeah they snap real quick, o well, at least they can't deflate like those tubes 2 years ago, we went through 14 of 'em
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Re: Source for Orbit Ball

i looked at our local walmart and a guy from 360 was there taking the last of them they had... but that was only 2 broken ones so i went to another one about 20 minutes away and snagged 9 brand new ones... but yeah, they were about $9 a piece tho :/
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Re: Source for Orbit Ball

Hopefully Blip will offer these things online.
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Re: Source for Orbit Ball

My mentor and I were able to get 5 from multiple different walmarts. A little advice for finding them in the store, Check the ball bin! We could not find them in the packaging that the picture shows on chief delphi but if you search through the ball bins they might be there. That's where we found our 5.
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I have a question, what is the material of the moon rocks and is there any chance that they could be squished, like if for example someone ran it over with the robot?
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