This motion-activated poké ball‘must never be thrown’
The Pokemon Company International and The Wand Company are teaming up to release premium replicas of the classic Poke Ball, Great Ball, Ultra Ball, and Premier Ball. These $99.99 die-cast metal balls come with proximity-sensing tech that causes its button to light up and change color when pressed.
You might be thinking that the point of a poke ball, any poke ball, would be to be thrown, as decades of games and cartoons have taught - especially for one that's motion activated - but not this ball, buddy! This is not a toy. A replica weights in at 10.5oz, which, according to the very first result on Google, is twice the weight of a baseball and 4.5oz heavier than a cue ball. It is distressingly described as having real heft" and being...