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Companies => Off-the-shelf companies => Kookaburra => Topic started by: cricket-master on June 12, 2009, 04:19:11 PM
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I found this on a shop site and also now on kooks
T/20 WORLD CUP & ASHES SPECIAL EDITION
Only 200 made of the blade
100 of kahuna
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Kahuna Special Edition carries the same new Australian Range Graphics which Master Batsman & Australian Captain Ricky Ponting will use during the remainder of the summer. Produced in Five Star quality unbleached willow it will be produced in Short Handle only at weights from 2lb 8oz to 3lb. However, be warned that availability will be limited to 100 units – each one of which will carry its own unique reference number.
Blade Special Edition again carries the exciting new graphics which Australia’s Left Handed sensation Phil Hughes uses. It has been manufactured in Bleached Four Star quality willow in Short Handle only at weights from 2lb 6oz to 2lb 9oz. You will need to be quick to make sure of your supply as numbers will be limited to 200 pieces all of which will again carry their own reference number.
Blade is below £80 and kahuna below £160 from millet sports
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what is a 5* quality willow?? I would assume this to be at par with the willow used in the Mayhem series if not lower.
Can anyone shed light on the quality of the willow?
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Call me cynical, but this looks like an excuse to sell cheaper bats at a higher price by labelling them limited edition ashes bats.
Surely it would have made more sense to use their 'test match' quality willow and sell it as ultra-exclusive best of the best bats.......just my thoughts on it anyway.
im not sure what 5* means anymore - they have test match, pro, special edition, limited edition blah blah blah - it all gets a little confusing to be honest.
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I checked out some bats at Barrington Sports. One was a beauty almost up there with the RP Kahuna in terms of ping and pick-up but the others were disappointing. Some of the Mayhem bats were better than these so called Special Editions.
The Blade ones which are G2 bleached willow were totally rubbish.
Maybe 20%-25% of the 100 0dd Kahunas maybe worth a go, but I rather buy The Beat which costs only £200-£210, but uses the top quality willow (as used in the RP Kahunas or the Kahuna Twins)
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id rather not but any of the kooks! give me a bat from any one of the batmakers on this forum and i'll be a happy man - and considerably better off aswell!
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i like the stickers for these . . . .
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Who will be the first to come out with the stickers? Only time will tell.
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have to agree with sillyshilly on this one, im always a little bit sceptical of 'limited editions'. coming from a marketing background myself I can assure you this is a tactic commonly employed and it doesn't necessarily mean you are getting a 'special' or 'valuable' product - just something with a fancy sticker on it.
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Limited Edition=limited to the amount you can sell.
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but these are special editition
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that makes the difference then basically the same thing!