So the Rotor can feed 50+ bps so dye says.  The cool thing about the Rotor is that it can be completely disassembled for cleaning with no tools in less than 10 seconds.  Which is very cool, if you have ever had to clean your hopper a lot.  The rotor system contains no eyes, no sound activated trigger, and no constant pulsing.  It must just sense the tention on the ball and feed according.  Its rotor sensor looks like over sized impellers.

Check out the new 2009 Invert Mini Colors.  Invert will be discontinuing the polished colors for Dust Colors on all their guns.  The Current Titinium Grey and Sunset limited edition colors are being replaced with Army Tan.  We have abotu 10 of the Sunset colors left, and maybe 30 of the Titinium Grey colors left, so once there gone there gone for at least a few years.

The dust red has the a shot of the new Invert Carbon Fiber Barrel on it, the Whisper.  Its a cool light weight barrel said to retail in Autococker and Ion threads for $30.

After popping in the Dye tent at World Cup to see the new DM9 , Dye had this new hopper front and center in a array of colors.  The new Hoppers Name I guess is the ROTOR.  Over all initial impression?  Total POS.  Don’t get me wrong, its pretty looking, which is what Dye does, they make pretty looking junk.  I tell people buying anything DYE is like Buying an Audi.  They are design first to look pretty, functionality and reliability come in line 3rd.  Not knowing what second is.  That goes for VW too.  Back to the Rotor.

So this thing is small, really small.  Much like how Dye or Smart parts adds a plastic layer or trim piece to their guns to add color, Dye did the same on this Roto Hopper.  So its small to begin with, and it has a thick wall.  It looks like if it can get 140 paintballs in there, it would just barly fit.  I tried to take a picture of the inside of the hopper, but for somreason the flash didn’t want to go off.  The inside was as normal as it could get.  Standard impeller system, with super cheap feeling plastic.  I saw nothing new what so ever.  So priliminary thoughts are Dye just made this hopper pretty becuase they know you will by it becuase it says Dye on it and looks pretty.  The consumer thinks it quality, and its the opposite.

SO when we were down in in Orlando at the PSP World Cup event.  All the major paintball manufacturers were down thre showing all their goods.  Eclipse had a cool display on their EOS gun.  It was basically a side section slice of the gun.  You can clearly see the spool valve and their soloinoid positioning.

So most of you should know that DYE purchased the Spool Valve Patent from Smart Parts, so Planet Eclipse must be paying DYE some sort of dollar amount to make this gun.  If not there is no doubt Dye will Go After Planet Eclipse like a hungry dog on a bunny, so I’m sure they already struck a deal.

What I don’t understand is why release 2 guns at the same time at the same price?  I’m referring to the EOS and the 2009 Ego.  Are they going to see which gun sells better, then drop the less selling design?

GEO Paintball gun in Fire Red

So other than sharing the same name as a old, unreliable GM sub compact car from the 90s.  The Planet Eclipse GEO is pretty cool looking. 

Traditionally spool valve guns were always very high maintenance.  I would never go to a field and not see some guy working on his DM, or PM gun.  They purred great when they worked, the fact is they went down a lot.  Some people say they don’t because they are fast at replacing orings and enjoy working on guns, but the fact of the matter is if you have to work on the gun a lot to while its down or as preventative maintenance its still trouble on your end. 

Eclipse solved this problem by putting the same solenoid the 2009 EGO  has in the GEO before the spool valve.  This allowed Eclipse to put less strain on the spool valve, and also allowed them to eliminate half the orings a normal spool valve gun would need. So with the GEO you get the best of both worlds, reliability and a little longer more accurate ball.

We have breaking news that KEE Actions Sports (formaly National Paintball Supply) has their 114,000 sf ft. building up for sale with an undisclosed price.  You can view the listing page here http://www.loopnet.com/xNet/Looplink/Profile/Profile.aspx?LID=15921481&stid=spirit .  Kee Action Sports is currenlty closed for invintory counting until Monday so we have no way to get them to comment.  Kee Action owes a number of primere paintball brand names includeing Empire, Evil, PMI and Invert.  They are alsot he exclusive distributers of Ben Tippmann Paintball.