ill take both of those mentioned for gble

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We have 8-10 mods planned. As usual, some will be officially licensed through Stern and some will be independent. Thanks to everyone for the ideas and the feedback on what we are doing.

Those look like they were mad for the game. Can you tell us how many games each pin racked up? I said 2500 each.

Will you be able to see the whole game in your room, not just the front?

I did not see the audits and they are off to the next show. Constant lines for 2 machines.

Yeah that part is butt ugly and right in the players face. Glad you brought that up as something to cover it or a plastic for the top would be great. Problem is it takes hits and the paint is already chipped off the black metal so it'll have to made out of something pretty damn durable. Like titanium lol

Be nice to finish this off before adding a lot of other extraneous stuff. PF already seems cluttered from the get go so I'd add stuff with extreme caution

Gotcha covered.

Figured you might dude. Can't wait to see what you've got in the pipeline!

How about a 3D cloud that covers that ungle black box above the slimer?

Translucent green slime to cover it and something for the connector rod...

Most obvious mod would be a 3-D sculpted firehouse to replace the flat stock one.

While the purple city buildings above the pops are OK, I can see a higher quality replacement being made for that as well.

I know in the main ghostbusters thread, people were talking about adding blue/red EL wire to make it look like the proton streams

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Yeah Toyota I posted the following in the main thread thought it might be worth reposting it here so any modders like Mezel and others can work there magic

The slimer mech is pretty hideous, my plan is to wrap it in a mixture of yellow/orange/blue/purple and make it look like a Proton Stream is holding Slimer and throwing him about the playfield as he struggles being captured. If a modder wants to use the idea and make a Plug in and play feel just send me one pretty please

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All ready thought of this and I'm planning on offering some EL wire proton streams as well as other lighting upgrades for all versions of Ghostbusters. ...

Steve
Pinball Refinery

Has anyone thought of a replacement button where the "tournament play" feature is on the front of the machine under the start button.
This would fill the void for home use customers.

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https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/new-gb-mod-ecto-1-lighted-car

I ordered a few different echo 1 cars, gonna play with some LEDs as well will let you know what I come up with

would that even be possible? How long were they available to play? 3 ball games? were 4 player games allowed? It would take 16-17 hours to put 1,000 plays on it at a minute per game. I say 800 on each.

I don't know, it was just an out of the blue guess.

Pinsider jeffsgames just posted a very nice GB key chain in the GB thread that looks like it would cover it nicely. I just bought 3, 2 for my speaker grills and one to cover that button. It's made out of metal and it looks like it will light up nicely when my Leg Light-Ups are put on.

Thanks. That looks great, Just bought one.

well, seems like i or anybody else can't use the word ecto-1 or the slimer in anyway. shouldn't have to make one in the first place but stern like to cheaped out on every occasion they have.
so unfortunately i won't sale this one anymore but will come up with a new design.

*so swinks you can remove this one from the list.
**watch out nodders.

** can you smell it..... sounds like a $500 ecto-1 topper is coming **

How about a mod to light Slimer? Depending on what he is made out. Would look cool to have EL wire as a proton stream on the Slimer mech arm and have him glowing bright neon green or maybe flash upon registered hits!?

I may try this once I have a game, would have to see if it could be triggered via a flasher or always on.

ECTO 1 TOPPER, ALL WOOD MATERIAL and hand cut (real image soon and will have jun 84 as the date/look just like the back to the future one below) easily mounts with command strips. 81p+RowTp4L._SL1500__(resized).jpg

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looks cool but unfortunately the minute you try to sale those stern will send you a notice.

Then it's not for sale. Stern can contact me and I'll make these for them. If they don't want to do that, I'll make them for FREE.

Okay, so I have asked and shown John Trudeau the Ecto-1 topper. He said it was great! and hoped I could get it done, but wasn't sure if it was or wasn't a violation of the copyright. He said to ask Jody Dankberg...

That's a shame Bob.

i did, ecto-1 or slimer or anything related to ghostbusters is an IP infringement.

I'll make a "donation" then. Same with you too Bob.

i'm not the only one who received the notice.

looks like $tern is coming up with something related.

I received notice on my car. Too bad, it's a really cool mod. I guess I could sell it as a modded car for a pinball machine and not mention the offending terms. Maybe I can give it away and just charge for shipping??

Any IP lawyers here?

Time to create a bunch of Ghostcatchers mods, huh?

The mods we all create all equal up to a couple hundred bucks, maybe. Maybe a grand between us all?

I understand the principal behind it, but some of this I believe they don't have a right to enforce. A magnet? A license plate? Looks good on a pinball, but hey, it looks good on a fridge, or put on top of the mantle or a desk. Who says it's pinball?

Makes me feel like NOT buying a pro. That would be one less $5,000 machine not bought, that otherwise would of been. Would it be worth it for them then?

I don't think so.

I'm not saying this is mezel mods fault, because it isn't. However, the partnership stern has with them making "licensed" mods is what is causing these new takedowns Stern never used to send. They are less protecting IP for ghostbusters perhaps and more protecting them selling really high priced mods.

deal Mezel made with stern is I'm sure incredible for them, but has raised the price on all mods and toppers and definitely lessened the market for the home modder.

it has nothing to do with mezelmods, stern wants to be part of the market, this is an opportunity for them to make money.
look at what they are selling now, sideblades (or whatever you wanna call it) someone came up with the idea long before they did, same for toppers, shooter rods, side rails, powder coat, copying everybody else's ideas, why? because they can.
and at twice the price.
they say they want to work with modders, i don't see anybody else (i could be wrong) i know a lot of modders tried, no results, they never get back to them.

will it stop me? no fu*king way.

From what I understand is that Mezel Mods was already making mods, it ruffled Stern's feathers, and rather than shutting down the Mezels, Stern offered a partnership instead. I imagine that if you have a mod that you'd like to sell that you could work with the Mezels to get it in their store, however.

The mod community used to be pretty much the wild west. At some point license holders saw lost revenue opportunities and gray area IP infringement stuff going on and they decided to lock things down.

Swinks, you are correct. Stern cannot hold anyone accountable nor block anyone from making or selling anything that is copywritten by Sony. Stern can block you if you decide to replicate their pinball machine, parts, etc...but if you choose to chance getting away with building a prop and selling it for $'s whether making a profit or not that Sony owns the rights to, (a characters name, scenes, figures etc.,) Sony's legal would find and serve you a S&D letter... Which could either could be a warning or a collection of fines depending on what sony's legal has decided is worthy in pursuit of collecting.

It's a chance you take building mods that infringe on Sony's copyright.

Stern is protecting itself and I'm sure it's more work for them to prove a prop/mod was not made or sold by them if Sony see's it on a game. Certainly the scare tactic is enough to be sure they cash out on props for the game before anyone else.

Positive note, Stern is at least looking out for people's best interest to warn prop makers, (but if it takes away $'s from Sterns pocket) they will share with Sony who is individually infringing on their IP. Pretty easy for them to do since there is this one thread titled GB Mods.

Exactly why I said not their fault and they didn't cause it.

Absolutely nothing against mezel in the slightest, have offered kristen to carry their mods at shows on the west coast we go to they don't, for example.

Anyways, I wouldn't be listening to stern about any mod you make about IP infringement, unless you are copying something they did specifically. Let the GB license holder reach out to you

Just bought a collection of Mattell Matty Ghostbusters, all 4 with proton packs that lights go round on, Ray I think has a little trap that opens. el wire the stream on that maybe!? Or pulsing LED in the trap!? Oh and included was the 20" marshmallow man!! Paid a pretty penny ($470) for the set.

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Sony isn't coming after u for a $1k u might make on a few mods...