Orbit Balls

jamie_1930 · December 28, 2009, 4:24pm

Hey guys I’m just wondering of anyone has the link to buy orbit balls or the name of the company that produces them. I searched all over usfirst.org and couldn’t find it anymore.

P.S. I’ve got a hunch about the game pieces this year

artdutra04 · December 28, 2009, 4:32pm

These are the only ones still in stock:

http://logoloc.com/first/RNR/2009GameKits/FRC-OrbitBalls-orange-purple.html

Andy_Baker · December 28, 2009, 4:33pm

Do you actually need orbit balls? After helping out at a few off-season FRC events, we at AndyMark have about 400. Currently, they are in the form of a Christmas tree after being displayed. The TechnoKats took these balls and created a 10-foot-tall orbit ball Christmas tree.

Send me a PM if you are wanting any Orbit Balls.

Sincerely,
Andy Baker

Akash_Rastogi · December 28, 2009, 4:35pm

1323 also has around 300 (IIRC) left over from their offseason. PM rc_cola1323.

jamie_1930 · December 28, 2009, 4:41pm

Sadly no I’m not looking to take everyone orbit balls from them, what I mainly want to do is look at the rest of the products the company that manufactures them has because Bill’s Blog a while back was talking about them securing contracts with certain companies and my hunch is that we’ll be getting our game pieces this year from the same manufacturer. So anyone know who makes them?

And artdutra04 thanks for the link, but I couldn’t find the company from there. It mention Logo Loc, but they’re expertise is in marketing and shipping not making the balls.

artdutra04 · December 28, 2009, 4:45pm

Blip Toys made the Orbit Balls.

jamie_1930 · December 28, 2009, 4:50pm

What a disappointment, It doesn’t look like any are possibilities unless FIRST moves the game pieces to 2" diameter.

Thanks for your help

wendymom · December 28, 2009, 5:54pm

Please take pictures and post them. It sounds wonderful!

JaneYoung · December 28, 2009, 9:38pm

Oh, silly me - I’m looking in the Gallery section of the TechnoKats website but I can’t seem to find the tree. Has anyone found it?

Sorry…

Edit: Nevermind, I looked in ‘Off-Season Fun And Events’. That’s awesome!

http://www.technokats.org/off-season-fun-and-events

Chris_is_me · December 28, 2009, 9:40pm

You know, the Orbit balls seem like decent enough toys. Light and flexible, if they were still around I’d buy a few just to play it.

James_Tonthat · December 28, 2009, 9:46pm

If they weren’t $10 a pop. I literally spent something like $300-400 on balls, as well as 5 hours with of driving. But yes, they’re fun to kick and throw around.

Andrew_Schreiber · December 28, 2009, 9:53pm

Actually they are, a coworker and I used one to play catch with while we were trying to figure out a problem.

jsasaki · December 29, 2009, 4:12am

hey mr. baker
I was wondering if you were selling a few of those orbit balls? our team only has 2 and it’s a bit hard when we have demonstrations so I was wondering if you still had a few to sell? (maybe 10) We wanted to get more but wal-mart on maui only had one.
thanks
jun
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Kage · January 3, 2010, 4:20pm

I could never understand how teams ended up with SO many balls!
There are 4 teams in my city, and the other three have HUNDREDS!
my team still has the 8 that we had all build season
We were even the HOST of an off season competition at our school! We still only had those 8 balls afterwards

We did get lucky though, when a few teams around town were getting tired of holding all the balls…so they gave us a few.
I now have an orbit ball and a super cell sitting on my computer

We also have alot more to practice with!

the_man · January 3, 2010, 4:36pm

I wonder if my team could host an off season event this year…

system · January 5, 2020, 4:09am