(Topic ID: 271579)

Mr. Tantrum's Pinball Apron Cards (with poll)

By Mr_Tantrum

3 years ago


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    “Who likes installing custom apron cards for their pins?”

    • The first thing I do when I get a new pin is to tear up the ugly OEM cards and PM Mr. Tantrum to see if he has or can desing me some new ones. 17 votes
      21%
    • I like custom apron cards, but I only have them on some of my pins since I prefer well-made ones with quality graphics. 44 votes
      54%
    • I'm happy to download any old card design from on Pinside, well done or not, print it on my crappy printer on cheap paper, and slap them on my pin. 9 votes
      11%
    • Who in their right mind would deface a pinball machine with custom apron cards? 12 votes
      15%

    (82 votes)

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    #51 3 years ago

    New Aerosmith cards have been posted. While some of these look like others already out there, I've completely redone the graphics as those available were lacking in image quality.

    http://aproncards.com/index.php/nggallery/pinball-apron-cards/aerosmith

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    #53 3 years ago

    Any Ghostbusters cards in the works?

    #54 3 years ago
    Quoted from Karl_Hungus:

    Any Ghostbusters cards in the works?

    No, but there are several good ones already out there. I'm always happy to make cards that aren't my original designs for $10 a set. Same process is used with photo quality printer, clear gloss vinyl overlay, colored edges, etc.

    #55 3 years ago

    Just got my LW3 cards and love them!

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    #56 3 years ago
    Quoted from bossk4hire:

    Just got my LW3 cards and love them!

    Those look great installed. Thanks for posting.

    #57 3 years ago

    GNR would be cool.

    #60 3 years ago

    I got my Star Wars cards and they look great! I saw people wondering why anyone would pay 10 bucks for this and it is easy. I don't have the resources to make this quality of card. They are more than just a photo print and are very high quality. I also had a minor issue with one card and Mr. Tantrum made it right for me with no issues. Great service. I'll post installed pictures when my second set (Ghostbusters) arrives!

    #63 3 years ago

    Looks great installed!

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    #64 3 years ago

    Excellent quality apron card, have a few of them already and just placed another order for a few more for my Stern machines, well worth the $10.

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    #67 3 years ago
    Quoted from MisterScappy:

    This bums me out.
    When I first tried having custom cards printed, I sent them to Walmart’s photo center. When I came to pick them up, they wouldn’t give them to me without a release form because they had a copyright symbol on them. Funny thing is that CVS’s photo center printed them with no issues, but their quality sucked and they zoomed in on the image. After that, I started printing them myself. There’s another thread here on Pinside where someone was posting custom cards that he created and the OP went silent in that thread. One can only assume that he got a C&D from PPS aa well.
    I hope you can work something out with PPS, maybe producing cards for them?

    I have dealt with copyright infridgement for most of my career. Its a funny thing, the holder of the copyright is under no obligation to monetize or really do anything with their Intellectual property, but they own it and must demonstrate the defense of it to hold up in court. That said, the holders can usually be enticed to 'license' it if they can can make a revenue stream out of it, or they can own the entire process and merely sub-contract the production. If someone wanted to talk with PPS and offer to "revenue-share" with some mechnism to audit/authorize, then the discussion would be different. PPS would need to be 'reminded' that their is a ton of creative that goes into each piece, and that creative needs to be paid for as part of the revenue-share plan.

    So two options/avenues which would benefit everyone:
    1) PPS licenses their IP to someone or some company with some audit/revenue details worked out to cut them in. Licensee takes care of the creative part, the production and the shipping. PPS doesn't have to do anything but collect their license fees. (Money flows to PPS)
    2) PPS remains the exclusive exclusive license holder and card SELLER and promotes these cards on their website and then simply 'sub-contracts' EACH ORDER they receive at a fee the production to a third party which could also be drop-shipped to the buyer. No licensing required. (Money flows to Third-Party Producer).

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    #68 3 years ago

    Mr_Tantrum did an exceptional job producing brilliant, high gloss score cards for my 1988 Gottlieb Diamond Lady! Order from this guy! He sent the cards immediately after I purchased!

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    #71 2 years ago
    Quoted from TigerLaw:

    Nothing for either BSD or TZ?

    Unfortunately, due to PPS demands I do not offer any cards with Bally/Williams content: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/mr-tantrum-s-pinball-apron-cards#post-5717456

    #72 2 years ago

    I've added several cards recently, including Alien

    http://aproncards.com

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