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MegaMav

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Smokin Inferno White Pin?
« on: August 01, 2006, 04:08:54 AM »
http://bowlingballreviews.com/ball.asp?ballid=2913

is there any product specialist that would care to explain this?

im sure everyone would like to know what its about.
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Re: Smokin Inferno White Pin?
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2006, 02:33:19 PM »
Here we go again...
Is this going to be like the Zone Classic with it's gazillion different colored pins?
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Re: Smokin Inferno White Pin?
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2006, 02:54:53 PM »
The 123bowl.com description says the blend is higher in urethane, so it's a milder ball. Another off batch over cover.
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Re: Smokin Inferno White Pin?
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2006, 03:06:48 PM »
cant say ive ever seen a white pin, maybe these were held back from release by Brunswick, lay these out semi-pin axis, and watch out, it'll be a control freak.

Yin & Yang I guess you could say with the Red/White pin balls.

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Re: Smokin Inferno White Pin?
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2006, 04:52:54 PM »
I wouldn't trust anything that's on that site anyway. They still say the Violet is harder and straighter and that the Red Pin has the SlayR cover.
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Re: Smokin Inferno White Pin?
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2006, 08:03:38 PM »
What color is the pin SUPPOSED to be?  I had one right after they came out. it had a very light colored pin in it and it would skid FOREVER.  Hook was very unpredictable ( hook one time, skid the next, both in the same place)

 Hated it and almost gave it away ( $20 ). I still love my original, but not this one!
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Re: Smokin Inferno White Pin?
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2006, 08:17:14 PM »
I believe Red was the real pin color.  I know back in the days of the Riot Zone, Danger Zone, etc... Brunswick use to make 4 different color pins for the tours, so that the public would see it as a Danger Zone, but it was really something different.
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Re: Smokin Inferno White Pin?
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2006, 10:13:24 PM »
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I wouldn't trust anything that's on that site anyway. They still say the Violet is harder and straighter and that the Red Pin has the SlayR cover.
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I have had 3 ZC's. 1 red pin dark purple...1 green pin dark purple... and green pin violet. The violet was the straightest reaction out of all. When I tried to change the cover on the violet I did notice it was alot harder and took much more effort to adjust. The red pin dark purple was about 2 times stronger than the violet GP.
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Re: Smokin Inferno White Pin?
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2006, 10:15:22 PM »
Violet is the same as the regular Green Pin. Period end of story.
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Re: Smokin Inferno White Pin?
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2006, 10:21:32 PM »
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Violet is the same as the regular Green Pin. Period end of story.
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Re: Smokin Inferno White Pin?
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2006, 11:02:42 PM »
Similar to what happened with the Zone Classic - Red Pin, we had a batch of Smokin's come out too hard and we replaced the pins in those with White Pins to distinguish between those and the Regular Smokin's.  

We are just in the process of releasing these into the public. Once again, as with the Red Pin Classics, these were not intentional, as some would like to believe. We would rather sell them for what they are at a discounted price instead of junking them, seeing that they still have a viable use.

Sir Bowl-a-Lot......a "gazillion"? LOL....2 pin colors - Red and Green.

mvpbowler......we don't ever want to intentionally get into that multiple color pin situation again. From what I recall, before my Brunswick days, those ideas were the beginning of the end for Brunswick's success. We have since recovered from those days, and we vow to never head down that road again. The Zone Classic and now the Smokin' are results of "mistakes" made in production that we feel we can sell at a discount rather than scrap them.

  If interested, begin looking for them in various locations around the country. And yes, it is ACTIVATOR coverstock. None of this "It's a Slay'R coverstock" baloney. LOL.

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Re: Smokin Inferno White Pin?
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2006, 11:15:17 PM »
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we feel we can sell at a discount rather than scrap them.


Send one my way, I'm up for a drier version of the Smokin'

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Re: Smokin Inferno White Pin?
« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2006, 11:44:51 PM »
People were up for a "Drier Version" of the Classic too until they threw it and cried cause it didn't hook enough.  This should be interesting to see.  Most smokins I've seen were pretty long to begin with but really angular.  Maybe this will be the closest to a reincarnate of the Blazing Inferno.
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Re: Smokin Inferno White Pin?
« Reply #13 on: August 02, 2006, 12:07:43 AM »
Hmm,

I love my Smoking, but was going to pick up a Punisher for light oil and burnt lanes, any idea where the white pins would show up on the Brunswick chart?


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Re: Smokin Inferno White Pin?
« Reply #14 on: August 02, 2006, 12:29:57 AM »
Thanks Bob for clairfying that up for me I know it basically stopped with the Riot Zone(or at least I think it did)... Just knew I use to talk to Benoit about them all the time and what each one really was...
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