Well, they usually do powdercoat these days. But it'd be a damn crime not to have a colordmd in it regardless. IM looks fantastic in color.

Some people just prefer the mechanical action, I guess. I don't understand it personally. Unless them dropping reveals a ball path, or a secondary target, it's just not important to me. But people like different things.

The points for hitting the unlit targets is very minimal - it's not going to make or break a win by any means. And I'm pretty sure the software continuously resets them in cases where they're worth more points, like in IronMan Scoring which is a switch hit mode. So, I don't think the value matters much. How it affects play action is a bigger deal.

But really, some people just think they're 'cooler' than plain old targets. And I get that.

Do you always raise them? Because you do get points for hitting an already lit target while spelling "Iron Man". If you're leaving them knocked down until the bank is completed during normal play, then you would lose *some* points.

There's also the behavior bit that on default settings, any target adds a letter on that side toward completion (at least for the first completion, not sure about subsequent sets). So if you hit "I" twice, it gives you some other un-lit letter. If it's a drop bank and the targets stay down, you'd get no credit for that second hit on progress.

timebandit - I’m curious, why not full rgb for the GI so you could do green for whiplash and purple for monger?

Rgb bulbs are available from pbl now, but they’re built for p3roc/pdb, so the voltage/operation is different than standard bulbs.

https://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=4943

It's a lot more directly in the players view on the apron. So there's that.

Checked out the Tron video - holy shit is it great in that game. Looks fantastic!

Stacking war machine/whiplash ... eh? Eh?

Full GI control? Ooba dooba!