viscaria from japan?

I heard that butterfly japan will reproduce viscaria. is it tru?

Your source of this info is...??????  

I know that BTY USA just got some more Viscarias in stock.  I ordered one two days ago.  It has shipped.

If you look in the butterfly japan website you will see that viscaria is not anymore in their current offer only viscaria light... butterfly discontinued viscaria one year ago... if you read their official report you will see that..

horsti wrote: You can buy the Viscaria in this Butterfly store in Germany: http://www.butterfly-nordbayern.de/tischtennis-shop/hoelzer/viscaria-holz.html

huri wrote: We have a store in or country that sells a lot of bfy blades and there is a note at viscaria that they have to order it directly from Japan so the delivery time will be longer..

It is removed from Butterfly Japan website but my recently bought Viscaria from Malaysia still got Made in Japan printed on blade face and JTTAA on handle. I assume people in Japan might prefer something new so they release the Viscaria Light and also ZJK to replace it. They plan to fade out Viscaria just as TBS by TB ALC. But they are surprised to see the demand of Viscaria is sky rocket high because it is being made famous by ZJK and they can't force ZJK to use their new ZJK blade, so they have to continue producing Viscaria to fill all the demand oversea until it die down. Of course it is only my guess but I believe Japan is still making it and not just selling out all the old stock. Otherwise it will be a collector item with at least triple the price.

Technically speaking, Viscaria FL is still in production.  It is just that sale has ceased in Japan since late 2006.  On the other hand, the ST version was discontinued a long time ago.

Edited by zeio - 01/20/2013 at 7:44am

Well folks mr. Ball got the right point on the butterfly chinese website you can find viscaria but on japanese butterlfy websites no. So let`s get back to this topic title "viscaria from japan" for the moment my opinion is the answer is no, no mather what table tennis dealers will tell us or how those viscaria blades from the market looks or what logo wears..

adishorul wrote: Well folks mr. Ball got the right point on the butterfly chinese website you can find viscaria but on japanese butterlfy websites no. So let`s get back to this topic title "viscaria from japan" for the moment my opinion is the answer is no, no mather what table tennis dealers will tell us or how those viscaria blades from the market looks or what logo wears..

I'm still hoping you will provide a link to the Official BTY report where you said that they announce discontinuing Viscaria production in Japan.   

I received today my new Viscaria from Butterfly USA.  It weights about 90g.  It is by visual appearance identical to the others I have purchased, dating back several years.  It says Made in Japan on both the blade and the box.  The printing on the face of the blade has the usual grammatical and spelling errors (e.g. "perfomance").  The top bar code on the box matches the serial number on the blade, and teh bottom one is 4906901003570.  The first three numbers of that GS1 code indicate that the company is registered in Japan, which we knew already, but with a little research, I have found that companies registered in one country may manufacture in another without changing their bar code.  Except for blade serial number, the box is identical to one I purchased a couple of years ago.  The Butterfly badge at the bottom of the handle is square and silver, and as usual, it says J.T.T.A. below.

From this, I can't say definitively where it was made.  If not for this thread, I would simply have assumed Japan.  However, if it was manufactured in China (which has yet to be proved to me), they have pretty much duplicated whatever they used to be doing in Japan; so it may not matter.  I will play with it this weekend and then I will know for sure if it is somehow radically different, beyond the usual variation.  By the usual tests that one does prior to playing, there is nothing different.   

Edited by Baal - 01/23/2013 at 8:18pm

Frogger, I think so too, but not everybody agrees.  Anyway, it is good they are still available.

 Congrats on your new blade. N. American distributor has been out of Viscaria's for some time now. I think the 2012 Olympics pushed the Viscaria to the status of a "Must Have" blade.

adishorul wrote: Look http://eshop.butterfly.co.jp/html/item/001/001/item985.html made in China officially recognized by butterfly headquarter. Unoficially who knows ?

Hi, if you look clearly on the picture above, you'll see "Made in China" on the blade face.
IMHO there is no Viscaria with that writing on the blade face.
There is also no made in JAPAN writing on the grip lens.


Edited by roger_rabbit - 01/25/2013 at 5:51am

frogger wrote:  Congrats on your new blade. N. American distributor has been out of Viscaria's for some time now. I think the 2012 Olympics pushed the Viscaria to the status of a "Must Have" blade.

They got some more in.  That's where I bought mine.