darts ,’ they say ‘ Let ’ s go play nerf ’. My thoughts were I wanted to name that would create is great create a fun connotation for Gelly . I started thinking about it . I don ’ t like what that we got this little round ball . Tt ’ s blue , they come in different colors but the blue really looks good it ’ s bright color and we put eyes on it . I went and bought one of those cheap balls at Walmart and I put the googly eyes on it and my daughters were helping me . We were like we ’ d kind of made some arms and we had this mockery thing looking at it looked really cool . I had a friend of mine ’ s a graphic artist I said can you draw this up for me ? 2 days later I had the Gellyball character and then I was like what can we call this ? We went through dozens of different ideas and this that and the other . We came up with Gellyball … It ’ s actually a sodium ball it ’ s pure salt so it just makes sense coming into the paintball industry . So Gel like Jelly so that ’ s name Gellyball . I took it to Clay I showed him everything . Clay kind of giggled for a minute . So we tested it and it did well … We did show the product at the Paintball Extravaganza in 2020 [ in Memphis ]… a lot of the big manufacturers laughed at us thought it was not gonna
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Gellyball has found a new market to the Bouncy Castle world , and are selling complete set-ups as add-ons .
Most of your customers are getting smaller bunkers now with Gellyball , do you still make those massive bunkers ? “ We are but they aren ’ t paintball wise . We ’ re moving more into the mobile side that ’ s not even paintball … the nerf and Gellyball and achery tag as well they just don ’ t need the big inflatables that you would need for paintball fewer of them or they lay them on the ground . With the big shapes not needed but we sold some lately for lasertag and lay them on the ground and they use the kids walk around them .” Brent Davies – Airups . www . airups . com /
Registrations started off strong , but this was a smaller show than the last few . Only a few out of country came . Martin from Germany , Christopher and I from Canada and some
“ Happy ” Holton checking out the new Airups bunkers . www . paintball . media
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