LED frisbee - Which one is best?

[shankus]

The title says it all...which brand is best?
Also, where to buy cheapest?

[FNinjaP90]

I have one of those "LED flashlight frisbees" and it's pretty cool. It's a translucent frisbee with a 5mm LED in the center branching out to 7 points on the frisbee edge with fiber optics. Mine was $25 shipped I think.

[shankus]

Yes, that is the "Flashflight".

Does it have a switch for ON-OFF, or do you put the cell in to turn it on?

[markdi]

this is the best

the red one runs the longest per battery

http://www.flashflight.com/whatisit.shtml

[markdi]

wow I am slow
the flashflight has a twist on/off switch
works great

[FNinjaP90]

Yeah. The LED/battery compartment has one big flat knob. Turn that clockwise to turn on, and CCW for off.

[shankus]

Groovy, thanks.
It shows up on the Kmart website, but every Kmart I've called says they don't have them. I wonder if it's a web only item.
Has anyone seen one in the store?

[shankus]

For reference, the cheapest place I've found online is:
http://www.zbattery.com/zbattery/ffd-07.html
for $15.97 or $20.27 shipped.

They also have the Game Pack for $23.95 or $30.15 shipped.
The game pack has two "TailLights", which are like an LED rope light, to wear around your neck or as a headband, so you have an indication of where your buddy is to throw it to.

[FNinjaP90]

Do you guys ever play ultimate over there? My friends and I do and we would go out to a park at like midnight and toss the light up frisbees. It's great fun.

[shankus]

No. What is Ultimate?

[FNinjaP90]

It's a sport using the frisbee as the ball. It is sorta like a cross between soccer and football. You can do a search on it or something.

[Phaserburn]

trivia: the frisbee was invented by Connecticut college students when they discovered that a tin from Mrs. Frisbie's pies from the Frisbie Bakery (Bridgeport, CT) could fly if thrown upside down. Good thing her name wasn't Zorfenbladder.

[Flatscan]

Like shankus posted, ZBattery is the best price to be found online. However, I haven't ordered from them.

The FlashFlight is pretty nice, with a number of features advertised on their website. It has softer plastic than a regulation ultimate disc and is weighted towards the outside for more stability, so it is easier and more enjoyable to just throw around.

Battery changes (with a red LED, probably never needed) are easy enough, but I don't recall if the LED could be changed to a different color easily.

[shankus]

I ordered a Disc-O version, probably with the RGB LED in it, as it changes colors.
The TailLights that the have were an idea that slipped my mind. I forgot that it may be necessary for the players to be marked as well. I figure that a sweatband marked with glow paint might work O.K. for this...

[FNinjaP90]

Yeah. The fiber optics are melted to a melted out crater in the LED. So LED changes are impossible. I wanted to change my blue to white. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[shankus]

Do you think it's impossible, or just difficult?
Would it be possible to cut through the lens portion of the LED and polish it, and replace it with a white LED with the lens cut off and polished? When the two mate, wouldn't sufficient light pass through the junction?