Poor adhesion had nothing to do with it.
Their XR-7 project was almost at the end of it's testing phase and would be unveiled as Diamond Plate that following year.
The *real* reason for no more full playfield mylars.
Quoted from indypinhead:My Bad Cats has factory mylar.
Does yours have a painted cab or decals?
Quoted from Magic_Mike:Poor adhesion had nothing to do with it.
Their XR-7 project was almost at the end of it's testing phase and would be unveiled as Diamond Plate that following year.
The *real* reason for no more full playfield mylars.
I thought of that but there were games where some had Diamondplate and some didn't. Wouldn't they have considered Mylar on those that didn't?
Quoted from RustyLizard:I thought of that but there were games where some had Diamondplate and some didn't. Wouldn't they have considered Mylar on those that didn't?
The early DP playfields had various types of issues when it was released. It was horrible!
I remember WMS actually putting full playfield mylars *over* the Diamond Plate in the meantime until they got it right. They didn't want to scrap all of those playfields.
During that time, you could still buy the full playfield mylars.
I just heard this story, I think from RGR podcast hardware flash back. Operators where complaining that when they were removing mylar, that playfield paint was sticking to it, therefore stopped applying at factory and shipping them with games separate. This way operators who didn't want it didn't have to have it and operators who did want it,could apply it themselves.
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