SuperDead Paintball Clear Shield(ish) Bottoms

[k_obeastly]

$300+… a fool and his money.

[BrickHaus]

I just realized. I bet a handful of the buyers are also people whom say crbn masks are too expensive at $280 with 2x lenses, and a mask case.

[Impactfour]

I think these would look neat dyed properly, but I'm not a fan of the length or how see through they are. The price new was nuts, the trades and cash prices I've seen offered are even crazier. Also there's a seemingly believable rumor that there will be a new run of clears from whoever is making proflexes now, I'd imagine their value/quality would be similar to IZE vs ICE series flexs

[iamthelazerviking]

This just in! Super Dead shot at these to test their endurance, and state that they "meet ASTM" standards, however they are not actually ASTM certified. This costs a bit of change and you have to send your product to their lab.

The NXL rules state that all goggles must be ASTM certified, and all manufacturers must submit their own independent lab test results to the league.

[latches109]

this seems silly, whatever happened to the $10,000 cheek shot. Sport is getting soft.

[uv_halo]

As someone who participated in the ASTM Paintball Subcommittee for a year, there's a few finer points to be made here. The ASTM doesn't certify products. The ASTM subcommittees devise the standard, and it's up to the manufacture to test their product and, it is advisable that the manufacturers use a 3rd party.for testing to serve as evidence in light of a legal claim.. If the NXL requires 3rd party testing, that is specifically a thing for the NXL.

[Chuck E Ducky]

The NXL don’t and couldn’t enforce that. Only way they might is if someone complained or brought it to their attention. It’s attached to an ASTM certified lens and frame, and it looks just like an existing mask. Honestly they are probably safer than an old IZE mask bottom.

[SignOfZeta]

$300 and limited edition would indicate they are printing this in some something…possibly Nexa Xip. If they had made actual molds they’d be selling as many as they could to lower the price on each one. There is no economy of scale with 3D printing though. You max out when the bed plate is full. The price only goes up. After a while you run out of customers with infinite money and it’s discontinued.

To me these are a nice idea but in actual use they make you look like a Punisher skull which is as far as one can get from the sort of “fun” that I associate with JT. Luckily they are also crazy expensive so I guess I win!

Other than the obnoxiously horrible “Prizm 2.0” lenses I don’t have a problem with current JT stuff.

[Araphel]

Much more likely they're made with a pourable casting resin in a silicone mould.

[SignOfZeta]

In that case $300 for a single piece resin cast part is ridiculous.

[Impactfour]

It's hard to blame them when people are willing to pay for it. I joined a flex group on Facebook to sell some old flex parts for ridiculous sums. I ended up buying 2 new proflexes with the money from just a set of bottoms I got used back in 07 as a freebie with an ion. So far I've seen 'clears' these sell consistently for 500 for the ears/bottoms, but have seen a few go for higher. Hell some masks have sold for well over $1000 dollars on that group.

On a side note I'm with you on the current JT products, everything is good but some of those Prism 2.0 have insane levels of blurring akin to putting on the wrong prescription glasses.

[autococker04]

Kind of reminds me of these, and I like these.

[$L!mBo]

Guys!
I found the matching joggers!

[The Inflicted]

D-Pants?

[$L!mBo]

lmao hell yea man i havent thought about Tim and Eric in years

[Mr. Hick]

JT Mask and Accessories have become the Harley Davidson of this sport, but far more AGG.

[$L!mBo]

someone finally cut some and they look a million times better

[Impactfour]

That's so much better looking. I've also seen some pretty awesome dye jobs so far, own set was done in a slime green and looked like uranium glass.

[Cdn_Cuda]

I’ve just enjoy watching all the scalpers and the prices slowly dropping. Still stupid expensive but most were asking $500 and now dropping to $400 range

[Psycho91]

I want one but not for the prices they are asking, I think JT stuff is to over hyped

[Riot]

Someone rocked these yesterday at Pumpapalooza and they are pretty 🔥… not gonna lie.

[packersrule729]

Yeah agreed, look sick in person

[cougar20th]

They did look neat. I did like them. But there is absolutely no way on hell I'm paying the retail prive never mind the batshit crazy resale prices for a mask bottom.

Also they are hard with zero flex. I prefer the bottoms on my masks to be stiff but still bend if I do something stupid. Which as you all know I never do.

[Chuck E Ducky]

Yeah they are much thicker than the original bottoms as long as they are IV resistant they should hold up. The clear ears are soft gummy like material to. I like the cut ones posted above much better. They are neat just not 300+ neat.

[Reformed Boiler]

I bought a proflex because it looks cool and feels comfy. The agg speedballers at my field bought the superdeads, and all of the other crazy pro shield kee era proflex accessories. They won’t stop talking about them. The only guy at my field who isn’t annoying about his mask is a guy with a push unite. I’m probably going to get one of those next.

[Impactfour]

Flexs are funny that way, I love how customizable they are but couldn't care less about the agg/collectable parts are. I ended up selling a bunch of flex stuff when I get back into paintball and built 2 new masks and had cash left over afterwards

[$L!mBo]

the speedball scene definitely has the most annoying fanbase but unfortunately they are the ones the big companies invest in as their main demographic.
they buy into the hype and go for the new stuff every season.
its a shame but they the ones keeping money comming into the sport and keeping fields in business
i try to convert
as many of them as possible to stock class!