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Equipment Boards => Roto Grip => Topic started by: erh300 on November 15, 2007, 01:42:05 AM

Title: New Spare Ball?
Post by: erh300 on November 15, 2007, 01:42:05 AM: Has anyone heard if Roto will be coming out with a new spare ball to replace the Spare Tire? As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't have to be clear. It just has to be purty.
Title: Re: New Spare Ball?
Post by: shelley on November 15, 2007, 09:45:46 AM: The Globe ball was pretty sweet but was an international release. Supposedly it was coming to the US but I don't think anything ever came of that.

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Title: Re: New Spare Ball?
Post by: mttmar1975 on November 15, 2007, 12:30:54 PM: We don't have anything currently working so it may be a while. I know its something that we are thinking about....any suggestions as to what we could put into a clear ball???? we are looking for something new!

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Title: Re: New Spare Ball?
Post by: Fluff E Bunnie on November 15, 2007, 12:41:50 PM: How about a Roto Grip star? That would look pretty sweet spinning down the lane.
Title: Re: New Spare Ball?
Post by: DP3 on November 15, 2007, 01:08:29 PM: Cool looking non-clear spareballs work too. Alot of my customers back down from a $130 spareball, although we did sell about 50-60 spare tires when they were out.

Shiny black solid with neon yellow Roto Logos everywhere, King of them all, www.Rotogrip.com, would be sweet.

Then maybe some Neon derivatives. I really would love to see a solid Sour Green Apple colored plastic. Candy Apple Red, Joker Purple (like the shooter XL), Fire Engine Red Solid. Bright solid colors with a ton of polish look great on the shelf.
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Title: Re: New Spare Ball?
Post by: Fluff E Bunnie on November 15, 2007, 01:22:58 PM: I would also prefer a non-clear spare ball because I am cheap

With the clear stuff, I like stuff that looks cool while it is spinning as opposed to another skull or head put in the ball. The tire was pretty cool in that aspect.

The reason I was thinking Roto Star is because you could have this sweet looking 3D red star and depending on how you threw it it could look like a saw blade or a Krull glaive-ish type thing (sweet I finally mentioned Krull on BR.com). It could also look like a ninja star for those who haven't seen Krull

Not to mention the branding of using the star as a cool looking object and company logo. Would this sell? I don't know.

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The Globe ball was pretty sweet but was an international release.

Wasn't 300 global doing one of these also?
Title: Re: New Spare Ball?
Post by: snowgimp on November 15, 2007, 07:07:28 PM: An engine block maybe?
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Title: Re: New Spare Ball?
Post by: TscottRG on November 15, 2007, 08:43:18 PM: lets make a plastic cover and use the colors of our fav RG balls... Battle, Odyssey, Saga, Quest.... or just a BRIGHT LIME GREEN cuz that would be cool
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Title: Re: New Spare Ball?
Post by: GutterDawg on November 18, 2007, 12:11:38 AM: quote:
lets make a plastic cover and use the colors of our fav RG balls... Battle, Odyssey, Saga, Quest.... or just a BRIGHT LIME GREEN cuz that would be cool

Along this line a plastic ball with the exact markings and coloration as a Battle would be sweet! Just imagine how much it would get in the heads of your competition if you pulled it out on a dry lane just to pick up a 10 pin They would go nuts trying to figure that out.