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Equipment Boards => Storm => Topic started by: BeerLeague on November 16, 2017, 10:47:25 AM
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Just checked today ..... February 2018 it says ??? Is that correct?
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Bowlingball.com still says December 15. Not sure if it got pushed back.
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Buddies Pro Shop still says 12/15/17 release.
I have not heard any different from Storm on release date either.
Not yet anyway
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Yeah, Storm site now says Feb 9, 2018.
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What a bunch of Bullsh*t
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Ouch. Originally both the HyRoad Nano and SonIQ were listed as Dec 1.
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From the day 1, Storm had the Hy-Road Nano releasing 2 weeks before the Son!q in their notes to us.
I know when the Hot Cell got pushed back, it was because production on all of the other stuff was still so strong that they had to back off the date in order to make enough of them to fill the supply chain before they opened up the sale date.
It may be the case again, I wouldn't know for sure. But as good as all of the Storm and Roto stuff is in the lineup right now, I'm sure they are selling across all lines very strongly. Last January, I was fortunate enough to bowl on a pair with David Symes. He was very nice, bowls well, and we talked about the company a bit before we started bowling. He told us at the time that their production capacity in Utah was 30,000 units a week (4 day week, 10 hour shifts in production). If that is still the case then a strong selling line up with a very anticipated new release could cause the date to be backed off. Frustrating, and yet a good problem to have for Storm/Roto.
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Probably some international releases are tying up their production considering bowling is dying on its ass here stateside.
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Probably some international releases are tying up their production considering bowling is dying on its ass here stateside.
Well that's quite negative speculation to the date change.
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Probably some international releases are tying up their production considering bowling is dying on its ass here stateside.
Well that's quite negative speculation to the date change.
Yeah I can be Mr. Sunshine and Smiles. Maybe Storm is stealing domestic market share for all I know. Still pretty sure the US ball market is not growing overall at this point much if at all.
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The release has indeed been pushed back to 2.9.18, the plant is going 24/7 again to keep up with current demand. Releasing it just for it and other balls to be backordered doesn't make much sense. I really don't think it's international market. Other companies are having to virtually give stuff away to get it out of the warehouse and we can't keep up . . you can debate on whether it's actually the best product or not, but one thing that isn't debatable is that it's the most popular.