Enough With The LINE Hate - READ

Alright, I've had enough. Just cause the Invaders "sucked" this year doesn't mean everyone should automatically hate LINE, since most of you probably havnt read the 06-07 LINE thread, here's what a rep (or Levinthal himself, not sure) from LINE said about the Invaders and past years.

Quoted from Snowninja on Jan 27, 2006:

I've always been straight up with you guys so here's some Line durability clarification. I know for a fact that over the past 3 years there has been no brand of ski out there more durable than ours. I know other companies warranty return rates from shops and our skis have been the least. 10 years of evolution building skis for the most abusive skiers on the planet has lead us to be extremely innovative and create one-of-a-kind materials and constructions like our Macroblock Core, the Fatty Base & Fatty Edge and overall assembly and construction processs to maximize durability. On another note we did have more problems than normal with the Invader this year regarding the occcassional random delam then other models. Our engineers have now been able to fully analys the situation and gotten to the bottom of it. We already changed the molds on next years to eliminate any delams just like all of our other models of skis.
It would be easy each year to just put a new graphic on the same old ski or make a new ski with the exact same features and construction but as always we developed a revolutionary new ski with tons of new features from scratch which I think you all appreciated from what I read. With innovation comes learning and next year we'll have an innovative product again and this time as bombproof as the all the skis we're known to be.
Thanks for the support,
Jason

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So basically, don't say LINE sucks right away. Give them another chance. Just because they tried something amazingly inovative and progresive towards the ski community doesn't give kids on the site to start a massive unofficial boycott from what other disappointed costomers have recieved.
Sure, I own the Invaders, yes they have delamed a little, but I'm not complaining. Why? Because the ski is amazing, the edges underfoot havn't worn down a bit, the bases are scratched very little underneigth from the grass skiing on the east, and the random rocks on the limited amount of snow, and the ski rides great. The butter zone is really fun, it's not as soft as most people think it is, the Invader is sturdy. And the centermounted bindings provides for a fun park ski. Everyone that has tried out my skis (from racing Rossis, to Soloman 1080s) say that my skis are really fun. They provide for pop, and the length in the back keeps from slding out on backseat landings which tend to happen.
So what all the kids on NS are going to say is that the Invaders suck just because of a small cosmetic problem? and everyone's going to believe them, and LINE will loose valubal business? I sure hope not. And besides, what happened to everyone saying they don't care about the looks of their ski, it's the way it rides, not the topsheets' looks?
LINE's a core company and has been from the start, they helped progress twin-tips as far, if not more, than anyone else in the business. I know I will continue to buy their products. If anyone disagrees wiht me, saying "oh, well that's what you get for buying a 300 dollar pair of skis" I'll just reply, "Damn, I made out with a hell of a deal didn't I? As you're riding down the hill with your 600 dollar Armadas that are no better then the Invader.
Thanks for reading, and I hope I convinced some people to stop the hate.