I’ve had that happen on at least one occasion depending on the speed of the return. I’ve gotten in to the habit of tapping the machine before it exits.

I streamed Deadpool Premium the other night with the new HALOGRAPHIC PROS metal flippers and they played great! You can see it here if you are curious. I ended up turning DOWN the flipper power which is crazy.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1585863318

I assume you glued his articulating arms and legs in that in that position to hold the weight of the ball up and stay stiff?

So...

This brings up a great point on a vast majority of pinballs. There's always a shot that if you don't succeed you are LESS than rewarded for that loss. This is that shot on this game. You'd better know you're going at least all the way out or not coming back from the pop bumpers to make this shot or it's on you to recover. Other machines that do this...

Black Knight - Better make up up the flail ramp or you're working at it. (I jiggle it before it's even out as I know this behavior.)
Mando - left ramp. Insta-Drain. Pre-Jiggle.
LZ - Middle ramp. Not going all the way up, Sissy-pants?...here's a drain ball for your half-assed-shot.
Iron Maiden - Right ramp. Barely up? Full drain. Fuck you.
Avengers - Same as LZ. Middle ramp. Pound it or eat it.
Turtles - Right ramp. Can't give it our all...here's all the ball back in the trough.

I could go on, but this is BUILT into games where if you aren't solid on a certain (usually easy) shot...it's your problem now, buddy.

anyone happen to have the height of the topper? dimensions online appear to be for the box it is shipped in. I have a STh topper and it fits by a hair in my basement…thanks in advance!

Back to the roots of Deadpool's disco tunes:

Curious what you did here. Mine broke as well and the replacement switch from Marco doesn’t have a long enough arm to activate the switch and it’s supposed to be the replacement for the original.

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Mine is 7 5/8" tall. Stern's latest toppers all seem to share common dimensions.

thanks so much! looks like it will fit! much appreciated!

Marco must have mistakenly sent you the wrong switch. It doesn't match the image on their package either. Can the switch arms be swapped (put the old arm on the new switch)?

Not a suggestion that will help you today, but it might help you tomorrow:

After reading through this thread & seeing how many people had this problem, I put blobs of hot glue on & around the tabs on this switch. This should reinforce them & hopefully reduce the likelihood of this failure.

(And I also added a spare switch or 2 to an existing order...just in case...)

Thanks,
Jason

It wasn’t a mistake. All sites show the original larger switch to be discontinued and the smaller one as the replacement. Not sure what to do as the game obviously can’t play without replacement and this isn’t working.
Marco took down the replacement and gave me a refund and admitted this wont work

I replaced mine over a year ago with one from Pinball Life. A month or so ago I figured I better get a backup. After reading this I just checked and the backup seems to be correct (180-5209-00). Have you tried Pinball Life?

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I just ordered from Pinball Life and hopefully they are the correct ones.

Yes, I glued the ball to the hand, I then used Loctite Super Glue on the elbow and arm a bit to hold the ball in this position. And because of the weight of the ball and the bowing motion of this character I also Loctite Glued the back of Colossus so that he would stay in an upright position. I did not glue the hand with the fist, that can still be rotated and moved into whatever position I wish. I just really liked this pose as it looked the most natural and with the character already in a fist position it made sense to show it up in the air.

George Gomez said the one thing he wished he would've changed on his design was for this not to happen, it needed a one way gate installed.

You can actually separate the sides of the micro switch pretty easily with a small flat blade screwdriver and reuse the original switch arm. I did that as a temporary measure when I had another micro switch with a different actuator just to get it back up and playing.

Just goes to right flipper on mine. Bend the rail, change something, tune it..

Yeah I can't say I have ever had a drain this way. I've been paying closer attention for the last couple dozen plays and mine just goes to the right flipper also. May 2022 build, maybe the rail is "tuned"?

I have a may 2022 premium and see it go sdtm in certain situations. My early production pro had the same issue both set at 7°

This has been a common issue in the thread.

Joined the club this weekend - what a fun machine! Picked it up from a fellow Pinsider with just 58 plays on it - absolutely flawless condition. Really like the Pinstadiums, but need to figure out the settings still. Also need to figure out how to get it out of his gameroom and into mine on the Stern Insider Connect. I'll work on that this week ... MAXIMUM EFFORT!

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Honest question, honest answers please. I really enjoyed DP Premium but have the itch for a new pin. I'm limited to five pins and the family and I are leaning towards saying goodby to Deadpool. We played Rush at Southern Fried Gaming Expo and we all liked it. Am I crazy for doing this trade? I know to each their own but how do you know when to get rid of a game which is hard to say goodbye to? lol

Based on your collection I would dump Mando first, then AIQ long before I'd ever get rid of DP. My thoughts

We love them. There's me and my three kids. We all get to pick a pin to keep and the 5th one is the traded pin. Son-Mando, Son-AIQ, Daughter-TMNT, Me-SW... I need to update my list.

Understood and I had a hunch there was a reason you were keeping Mando. If you had to ever get rid of a DP I would say if it was a Premium then sure. You can always rebuy a Pro one day if you miss it.

Fantastic! How did you mount her? Also, all them I see have the small purple guns not the large one you have?

Giggity

I need to think a little more before I post that he has a large one and mounted her ...

Was trying to only use some super strong double sided 3M foam tape, but didn’t hold enough when lifting the playfield, ended up using one long black zip tie around the legs.

As for the gun, it was included with the eBay buy of the used toy as a customized accessory. I super glued the gun to the hands, and the side arm to holster so they don’t come loose in the game.

I have a bunch of pins, and to me deadpool would be one of the last to go, and rush is probably on the chopping block soon if I need room. Its a great shooter, but the theme doesnt do a whole lot for me. Guess it depends on how much you like rush, but deadpool is way more fun for me and my family.

Also, my daughter wont let me get rid of Mando.

DP is about to be the first pin I have ever owned twice (Pro now Prem)! Gonna get it powder coated…for all of you proud powder owners please share pics of your powder! Need some ideas (I’ve already got alot of red in my lineup so looking for something different!)

Check out this cool blue/purple one from awhile back (not mine). https://pinside.com/pinball/market/classifieds/archive/71981

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I did purple too, mine are in the gallery.

Sweet thanks for sharing!

I think the problem is that it has nothing to do with the shot not making it. It's when the ball exits the pops and goes down the rail. Not sure what I can do to prevent that. The pops can sort of create a little chaos. I could understand if my shot doesn't make it all the way and then it rolls back down. But, this is just when the ball didn't start in the rail, but exits the pops, if that makes sense.

Seems like it. I tried bending the rail, and it still does it all the time. I don't mind a SDTM if I brick a shot or the ball doesn't travel all the way in a shot, but I hate it when I make a shot, it hits the pops, and then rolls down the rail SDTM. I shouldn't be consistently punished when I didn't screw up.

Finally got around to adding the rest of the figures I got for the game, I think it turned out pretty good, might still look for a different wolverine because the one I got is way less detailed than the other figures.

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I am sure this has been asked before, but I did not find it in this massive thread. Apologies in advance if it's been covered.

Just picked up a NIB DP Premium and I am loving the game. I'm about 10 games into it and have no idea what I am doing yet, but I did manage a 600M score. I know, not that great I guess but still pretty happy with it. I still need to level it properly - it tilts too much to the right and I'm getting a lot of drains on the right outlane due to that. Have also gotten quite a few STDM balls when lil' DP releases a ball. I will reserve judgement on that though until I get the game properly leveled.

Edit: I see there is a ball save adjustment to deal with this issue.

I have a question though. Is there supposed to be a post rubber here?

Edit: I forgot to check the topic index. I guess it's not supposed to be there by design. BUT, has anyone installed them anyway? Did it make the game too easy or have any other negative affects? I dislike it when they don't put a rubber here as it takes bounce out of the game and wears the heck out of the post over time.

Thanks.
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I played without the rubbers off these posts and with them on, and I enjoyed it more with them on, so I choose to leave them on. They did come with my PIN in the bag so it's all preference and optional. It really comes down to the speed of play and difficulty, with them off the balls go down the lane fast, and if it's a slow bounce there's almost no way to save it from the outlane by bumping. I'm not the best player, I'm average and I just didn't like metal-on-metal contact, also I wanted to learn how to bump better. So I left mine on, but feel free to play both ways and decide for yourself.

Gomez said they were left off the posts on purpose. Putting them on does make it easier.

I left mine off, I think it's more fun without them, and it's how the designer intended the game to play. But the rubbers are included with every new game.

They weren't on my pro in the latest run, are they in the goody bag?

Yes, in the goody bag. I highly recommend adding the rubbers if you are new to the machine or have below average players consistently playing. Makes the game much more enjoyable and ball times significantly went up. This is the beauty of deadpool, can easily be changed for all skill levels.

I'm squarely average now lol, I have a 17 month old and have less and less time to play it seems. Plus side is machines will make it much longer before I get bored of them!

All insider connected replacement apron plastics sent out! I Have 4 more left from this batch and likely for now the last batch I will produce.

Moving onto a project I have wanted to do for a while.

The project (I have a very rough working proto) will upgrade the disco ball, disco ball lighting as well as enhancing another very important and used part of the playfield with something theme specific that will integrate all the above into one neat package.

Will announce more once I have the next iteration of the proto up and running this coming week, I may even post pics if I am happy with its current form.

Where can we see this apron?

I’m not involved in the apron, that’s another project from the guys that made the Alien apron.

I’m focusing solely on making the disco ball light show and integration far better than factory and incorporating those upgrades into another mod that will enhance another part of the playfield integrated into the theme, but I don’t want to reveal what that part is yet until I am happy with the prototype, I’ll have version 3 hopefully done this week coming.

Also average or below here, Deadpool was just about the first machine i played when i bought it.

I tried both and the games is better as designed in my opinion with the rubbers off. I've never broken a billion, but i have 950m odd.

Has anyone added the yellow speaker surrounds from speakerlightkits.com to their LE or a pro/prem converted to 5.25" speakers?

Really curious what this would look like.

Thanks.

I agree with this 100%, some games you can mess around with this type of thing but this one just plays better without messing with the designer intention there.

I have upgraded my speakers to 5.25 and also added Myth Pinball Lights to them. Here is a video on the link of an install video I'm putting together, and a screenshot for a quick view of the Myth Pinball Light Kit. Enjoy.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ez7DquZPYL1x4bAP9
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