Is telson 100 hyper the same as Telson 100?
Pretty much, yeah... Or at least I believe so.
According to my coach, the original Telson 100 apparently was pretty good but not great, so Loki made some sort of change to it almost immediately after launching it. That new version then became the T100 Hyper, which was far more popular than the first T100. Loki then retired the original T100 and then ran with the T100 Hyper in it's place, which is now known as the T100.
Honestly don't know how accurate the above story my coach told me actually is...
But I do know however that every time I order a batch of "Telson 100" rubbers from Loki, the rubbers they send me all have a "Hyper" badge on the bottom LARC area. I also recall that the very first T100 I ever played with *didn't* have that 'Hyper' badge at the bottom.
The story therefore fits with my own experience of these rubbers, so I suspect it's probably true.
(It also sounds pretty par for course from Loki as well frankly 🤔... They love to put out multiple variants of their rubbers, to the point of actually confusing people).
Anyhoo... the rubber I was originally referring to above in my first post, was the T100 with the "Hyper" badge down the bottom. Assuming your experiences of dealing with Loki all echo mine, then *that* is the rubber you will end up getting, if you order a T100 from them directly.
There might conceivably be some older stock out there amongst retailers of the original rubber, but given that one was apparently only made for a few short weeks, that's also pretty unlikely.
Hope this all helps. 🙂