is there anywhere we can go to get a picture of it or anything?  or did you just hear this from someone with track?
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I agree with Jeffrevs.

RANT ON!

I mean how many super oilers can a company put out in one year without customers wondering if Track is just throwing balls "out the window" and hoping they'll eventually get one right. As it is, who can use the Mutant AND the Freak AND the Super Freak without gloss polishing them or throwing them at 25 mph???

I've just verified that they've discontinued one of their best medium-dry balls, the Hex and that was their least hooking normal ball. (The Magic is dull & particle; it is not for anything but medium oil.) It's like no one can use a Track ball for anything except medium conditions with either putting the pin on the PAP or gloss polishing them or both.

How about some arsenal balls, Track and cut out the 49 versions of a medium oil ball: Freakout, Threat, Crunch, etc?

Next thing you know they're going to discontinue their best ball, the VooDoo.

Rant off.

It's the Hook in a Box addiction.....and Track seems like they want to be the provider!  

That being said, I , however, do not mind when a company releases a couple new balls, but provides information to which balls they are replacing...that I don't mind.......Storm seems to be doing that......replacing the Trauma line with the X Factor line...and that doesn't bother me 1/2 as much........
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CharlesT....

I hate to inform you but 2 of my major suppliers have put the VooDoo on their discontinued lists.

DP3...

Wouldn't it make more sense though for a company to make a wide range of balls so they could sell more balls to one bowler? I mean why would Track want you to go buy a ball from another company to round out their set up?

I personally like sticking with one company since you get tho know their covers, cores and can start to predict the reactions of the new balls. You seriously get a feel for what the new releases will do by just looking at the components they are made from.

I agree with the other guys....round out the line and stop with the hook in a box.
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I have said many times in the forum that Track lacks that ball for light lane conditions. I currently use a Track VooDoo with the pin 5 1/2 in from PAP, polished with 3 coats of contoll it.

Track has seemingly jumped on the wagon as far as hook monsters go. However, alot of the balls they have out may hook, but they give a different look on the lane when/where they hook. The Freak gets down the lane better than the Mutant, the Super Freak gets nowhere near the length the Mutant gets.....The Threat, has incredible backend, but for the guy that has more ball speed and it is not enough ball he would want to choose the Freak Out.

The Voo Doo is indeed on the discontinued list for Track Equipment. For alot of average-to weak handed league bowlers they walk into a pro shop and want the ball that HOOKs. You may never see a staffer use a Super Freak because he has far too much hand for it.

I am not defending Track, I am only saying what comes to mind when I look at what they have out. they certainly lack a ball that would fall in the Brunswick Groove-Columbia Scout-Ebonite Tornado-Storm hit/big hit category. What they are doing correctly right now is giving people a core (morpheous-and the core in the phenom) that have not been in any other equipment. Can Brunswick/columbia/ebonite/storm say the same? No. They are releasing balls (not all, but most) that have the same core as many of the older stuff they have released. Has anyone forgotten that Track released the first ball that had an accurately marked MB?

To answer the question ealier on in someone's post. I saw the drill sheet with the picture of the core. Very interesting look. It looks very powerful. If you were here I could draw a picture, but it is very difficult to explain.

Aside from the weaker/or even 3pc core I would like to see them release a reactive coverstock with the morpheous core.

I guess I will eat my words about not wanting one of the high-end balls. I have always trusted my Track Money to be my oil ball and have been fairly satisfied.  But lately I have been completely unable to hit the 'sport condition', bowling more like I have a broken arm than like a bowler and I was really getting down on myself for it, pretty much settling into the fact that I am not a real bowler, just another house bowler.  

Now I come to find out from a pro shop guy that I really trust, that the Money isn't a good choice to play inside on the flat or reverse block we usually see in tournament conditions here, especially the way it's drilled.  Turns out I have no equipment drilled in a way that will be productive on that condition.

As a result I will probably be getting a Mutant likely with the pin under the ring and CG kicked right an inch or so.

Excaliber,

Thanks for the info...I will be looking into both as a result.  Most of the patterns we see in tournaments around here feel like reverse block with outside 10 as OB.  A big swing isn't really that much of an issue...something to get it to the break  point without going to OB is more the key.