Hyperball
Williams, 1981Been working on this project for a long time now and should be complete in about a week. I started off with a beat up Hyper ball and re themed it to a Buzz Lightyear. Custom powder coated all the metal on it. Made custom decals/ back glass and a custom speaker. Just about done. What do u guys think?
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photo 1(1).JPGWow, that's really great work. Well done. Can't wait to see your finished project. My son and I loved playing my old Hyperball machine, hence my nick. I had to laugh at the reflection of you taking a photo of the playfield. Sorry, but it looked like bigfoot to me at first glance. 
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are you improving the targets' art too, or are they still like: A, B, C, D, E, ... ?
let me know when you want to sell this 
i've been looking for a hyperball f-o-r-e-v-e-r, and this makes it great !!
Really beautiful...I love the colors. I remember how excited I was to play Hyperball for the first time when it was new, just like I was excited about any new Williams game back then. They did a great job promoting it ahead of time so there was a lot of anticipation for it. I will leave it at that...don't want to spoil the thread, but hey...at least they tried! Pinball was in big trouble then and they had to try something! I'm sure it will be a lot of fun rethemed, and a huge source of pride!
Very cool!
Did you change the boardset at all? My Hyperrball was problematic to say the least!
Great work on the re-theme!
Chris
So...little confused here. The original playfield is just smoked plexi with some painted areas? 
I always thought it had proper inserts in it or it was masked off black. Great idea for re-theme...just trying to understand how the new PF works without light bleed..
Matt and I have been working on this together for awhile now. This Game is sitting in my personal collection here @ Pincades. Some of you Pinsiders have been here and seen it in the making progress. I as well had it in my booth a few years back at Chicago Expo.
It should be back together and shooting within the next few weeks. We will post a video when its finished. As far as for sale! Yes it will be, but undetermined price YET!
Pincades
JT
Quoted from Frax:So...little confused here. The original playfield is just smoked plexi with some painted areas? I always thought it had proper inserts in it or it was masked off black. Great idea for re-theme...just trying to understand how the new PF works without light bleed..
Basically yes. That's what gives it that extremely sleek look.
The "masking" is done by lights sitting in cutouts in the wooden playfield under the plexi overlay.
I love my Hyperball and would not change a thing about it. As for yours, you could do what you wanted with it. And what you did was INCREDIBLE. It looks like a whole new game, not just a flashy paint job. I am so impressed. Everything was tastefully done.
PF difference is more subtle but the cabinet art is night and day. Way to breathe life back into an otherwise dated looking game. 
Quoted from Shoot_Again:PF difference is more subtle but the cabinet art is night and day. Way to breathe life back into an otherwise dated looking game.
! Hyperball is one of the coolest looking games of all time! Gameplay is stupid, but i would put a Hyperball in my gameroom just for the looks if i had enough space.
Nevertheless a very nicely done job on this one.
Quoted from SilverUnicorn:My Hyperrball was problematic to say the least!
And it still is.
Quoted from Patofnaud:And it still is.
LOL, sorry to hear that! Chris Hibler did great for me, but it just kept doing odd stiff. Does it still take like 10 min for the cannon to shoot at full strength?
Chris
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Seeing as the acrylic was a transparent blue that I stenciled off the rockets and other wording I needed to put something behind it as not to see the bulbs underneath it. So bought a full sheet of white defusing film and cut out the shape of the playfield and all the drill holes with an x-acto knife. After that I started to reassemble the PF. Still more to go but it is taking shape.
photo 2.JPGmade some custom decal for the 9 of them. Working on making the plastic set and the letters as we speak. Gonna add some more Buzz green to the pf.
dropped by matts yesterday and saw the playfield SWWWEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTT
we may drop it in the game today!
JT
Quoted from BackAlleyMatt:made some custom decal for the 9 of them. Working on making the plastic set and the letters as we speak. Gonna add some more Buzz green to the pf.
LIGHTYEAR? or just an image?
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