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[blackmagic71]

Originally Posted by Kahnif

Neosho is about 10 minutes from the Oklahoma D-Day field, both sitting on the Missouri-Oklahoma border. I'm not sure why anybody else would visit Neosho because there's nothing there. I almost toured the plant this past summer and was hoping I could this upcoming summer. Oh well

Does anybody else find it weird the Chicago Tribune wrote about this? Out of all the news going on.. they cover the closing of a small plant that loses only 60 jobs? That's obviously not good for those 60 families but for only losing 60 people I'm surprised it made news.

Originally Posted by custar

I saw the article two days ago in a Joplin newspaper and posted in on Axiscommand.org. To the credit of the local Chamber of Commerce, it sounds like they will put out serious efforts to find jobs for the displaced workers.

custar

Is this the JT plant where D-day is getting it's paint?

If so I wonder what it will do to the game this year.

[p8ntballr68059]

so my cheap reballs are gone forever.. there has to be another plant for that stuff somewhere with how much they put in walmart stores every year im guessing that this was the least producing plant so they closed it in order to sell the building and make a profit

[BeardedMessiah]

Originally Posted by blackmagic71

Is this the JT plant where D-day is getting it's paint?

If so I wonder what it will do to the game this year.

At the Red Dawn event this October at the D-Day field, they announced that they have switched sponsors to Kee Action Sports, so RPS paint will be used.

For Red Dawn they offered two grades of paint, Premium and Marballizer. For D-Day it looks to be the same plan too, except with BT Munitions/Marballizer (from global's post at the top here BIGGEST SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT in D-Day History! - Page 6 - D-Day Adventure Park Forums).

[Awesomo12000]

Wonder what a brand new case of brasseagle paint shoots, the reason for it being deformed is probably because it sits on shelf for about a year!

[Match]

I know a lot of players ran into issues with the BE paint at D-Day. Primarily it dimpling from the humidity. For me personally, I liked the orange fill we shot from 2007 that came from Draxxus. I don't remember having any issues with the quality of that paint.

With that said, I'm sorry to hear about more lost jobs.

[Coop]

What was that tag on slashdot.org for articles like this? "And nothing of value was lost."

[The Inflicted]

Originally Posted by Coop

What was that tag on slashdot.org for articles like this? "And nothing of value was lost."

60 US jobs, for a start.

The peanut gallery on PBN is saying that this is the result of Wal-Mart ending their distribution agreement with Jarden/JT/BE.
If so, this has wider implications for paintball at large.

Say what you want about the quality of the products, but I think that Wal-Mart's carrying cheap paintball guns, even just displaying them, has been an invaluable factor in the growth of paintball over the last decade. If they are to stop carrying them the sport is going to be loosing one of its major avenues for introducing new players.

[mxmtl]

Maybe if they actually made something really good that people wanted to buy they would still be in business and those people would still be employed.

[Psiworx]

Originally Posted by The Inflicted

60 US jobs, for a start.

The peanut gallery on PBN is saying that this is the result of Wal-Mart ending their distribution agreement with Jarden/JT/BE.
If so, this has wider implications for paintball at large.

Yes it does. While I am sure that many would like to claim credit for the explosive growth of paintball, no single event created more growth than Wal-mart picking up the Brass Eagle line. I am curious to see what effect their departure from Wal-mart has on the industry, if any. I would be very surprised if JT Sports survives it though.

[Horizon]

Originally Posted by Psiworx

I would be very surprised if JT Sports survives it though.

JT says it's looking to merge with another paintball company with compatible "passion" for the sport. I think that's code for, "we're in trouble and are looking for a bailout".