Champion Sports Bowling Set with Plastic Pins - Ball Included

The pins are not weighted when the set arrives. You have to remove the cap from the top of the pins to weigh them down with sand or whatever you choose. The ball is nicely weighted. My bowling set was well packaged and organized. I waited a long to order this. I'm glad I caught the sale and purchased it. Can't wait to challenge my family members to a game.

We play hallway bowling and the residents love it. The ball is a thick rubber and made well. Pins have sand in them but not too much to make them too heavy. Overall, great item and I recommend for families, parties, churches, work groups, etc.

Although the bowling pins are hollow plastic they seem pretty sturdy, and the ball has some weight (5 lb), and should last with some care (one buyer mentioned theirs split on the seam - probably need to avoid hitting the floor too hard). The pins and ball are full size so make this fairly realistic for practice, except for substantially lower weight, and whether you have space for standard length bowling lane. Although the set seems decent, the price does seem a bit high for the construction, although shipping via UPS was probably not cheap and is included. However, I have some suggestions in preparation for use, partly due to other comments I’ve seen. First, I briefly used an orbital mouse sander to smooth the plastic seam along the diameter of the bottom of the bowling pins, so they sit with less wobble on a smooth floor. Second, the pins are pretty light, at a little over 6 oz, so the ability to add weight seemed beneficial. Some people referred to “filling” the pins with sand, but doing this literally (full), would be substantially heavier than professional wood pins which would be 3 lbs, 6 oz. It seemed to me, for home use, somewhat proportioned to the included bowling ball weight, compared to a standard bowling ball, that bottom weighting the pin up to around a pound with sand, which is adding about 10 oz, or around a cup of sand (about 1.5 inches in the bottom), makes the pins sit more sturdily on a smooth indoor, or on an outdoor surface. This may not seem like a lot of weight but it makes them feel much more substantial, without making them overly heavy. Perhaps you’ll want to use a little less if primarily using the bowling set with smaller children, so will require less force to knock the pins over – but I’d suggest at least ½ cup of sand. Note that you can buy a bag of pre-washed play sand at home depot for less than $5. I would suggest that you obtain and use a small funnel that fits the existing bowling pin hole in the top. Do not drill/open up the hole more as some apparently did so a larger funnel will fit, because it will likely make the plug fit looser when you put it back in the top. Also I suggest you take some sand out of the bag that your purchased, and put in a thin layer (maybe an inch) in a pail and let sit maybe 24 hours, to try to ensure the sand is dry before trying to pour into the pins, because sand I purchased which was in a plastic bag, had been stored outside. The sand was only slightly damp, but initial attempts to pour thru the funnel would clump repeatedly and had to be forced thru with a rod, taking more time and effort than you might think. After being more thoroughly dry, it pours easily through the funnel. Other accessories you may want – bowling backstop which will keep the ball from going too far away from your target area, and keep it from knocking into whatever is behind your pins. You can buy one (for about what this bowling set costs), but otherwise might just use some boxes, or I’m thinking about using several pieces of 2”x4”x4’ wood in some way possibly in the future. Also a “ball cup” that holds the ball in place might be handy and not too expensive (around $6). – Have fun!

Wish it came with a storage bag for the price. Family loves this product. Ball is obviously the most costly part of this product. Ball is hefty, hollow and has 3 sets of different size finger holes. I wish the rentals at the alley had the same options on lighter weight balls. Product comes with score card and pin spacing set up template but this is only useful if you trace the holes on the floor, as the template doesn't stay flat. If the pins had i tiny bit of weight in the bottom it would be perfect (but that would increase shipping cost so i get it).Overall :) LOVE IT!!!

I would have loved this item but bought it with a package of sand as it said I could fill it with sand to make them more stable and more like real pins but there is nowhere to put in the sand without drilling a large hole. Then how do I stop the sand from coming out?

ILIKEIT

The media could not be loaded. It is the perfect indoor bowling set. I bought it for my mom's birthday and she loved it. Perfect for adults and kids. This set was the closest I could find to realistic bowling in the bowling alley but made for home.

This is a nice set. More expensive than I would’ve wanted though. The ball is hollow but it has some weight to it. Pins are kind of light. It’s a good set. Just more money than it should be