And so I knew the cost didn’t have to be that high. So I knew electronics manufacturing from a long time before I met Gaz. And I had been working in electronics industry for 15 years at a company called KMS Fusion and the Magnesus company. And so I went home and we had just finished the prototype rollout cycle of the model airplane. And that’s why I told him, “I tell you what, I could do that for a third of that price.” And he just looked at me and he said, “If you can do it for a third of the price, I will take three systems.”Īnd just like that. That was the going rate for the equipment. Now, it turns out, he didn’t over pay it. And I was shocked at how much he had paid for it. ![]() How much did you pay for it?” And he told me. I just went up to him and said, “Hey, it looks like you got some problems, buddy.” I just looked over the counter and he was harried from all that goings on there, in saudering the equipment, he said, “Yeah, and if you knew how much I paid for it, it’s just ridiculous.” And that’s why I just asked him, “No. And after it calmed down, it was several hours before Brent was available. He was repairing the vest as he was trying to handle all the parties and 500 people in his lobby. He was bringing vests out of the vesting room and I saw these wisps of smoke behind the counter. I thought I would wait until Brent’s birthday party was over. So I just got myself a newspaper and sat down in the corner. ![]() The lobby was elbow to elbow and he was backed up. So we had just spent about four months developing this product and going to press with it and going to some model airplane tradeshows.Īnd I went to pick Mike but I think it was Brent up, he was at that Zapzone in Canton and there was – the owner of that Zapzone, there must have been 500 people in this place, all partying. You go out to the model airplane to deal and everyone is trying to demonstrate how they are a better pilot than the other guy or fly their plane faster but no one was playing laser combat with model airplanes. But back 30 years ago, it was a new thing. And now, there are a lot of products like that that everyone sees. So at the time we decided to start Laserblast, we have just introduced a product for model airplanes to shoot combat. And I had spent the time since I was 5 years old and up in model airplanes. ![]() It’s just a question of in what business. So I played once and I got a Master’s Degree in Entrepreneurship from the university, a business school, and so I knew from the time I was 18 years old that I wanted to start my own company. We got to have the biggest, badest vibrator there is because that was a cool thing when you actually feel the laser hit you. And that’s a very good experience because I remember that first laser beam coming in me, it had a big clunky vibrator on it and when I felt the impact because the vibrator came, I mean that’s it. It’s funny how you out of the thousands of games of laser tag I played, I remember the first one. ![]() You got to come try it.”Īnd so, Carla was not with me when we played the first time. He would say, “There’s this great new thing. My brother-in-law invited us to come down. In fact, my brother-in-law, it’s now called Laser Web down in Dayton Ohio and that was the very first time I had ever played laser tech. Tim Ewald: When we decided to start Laserblast, I had heard of laser tag.
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