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No rainbow puke club! (Post pics of worst color gi fails)

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    #357 6 years ago

    One for sale locally. For whatever reason, this seems especially horrible on an EM.

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    #366 6 years ago

    I guess you can throw every game TNT as worked on into this thread.

    #394 6 years ago
    Quoted from wayout440:

    Why botherwith the hassle of colored LEDs when you can just illuminate the whole game in color for your Ebay photos?

    That bedroom though. How much vagina has been slayed in that room...

    #405 6 years ago

    LEDs to me are like car mods; they're only worth anything to the person who installed them, but the seller always thinks they should demand a premium price.

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    #487 6 years ago

    Lost world has to have warm white bulbs, period. I tried cool white in mine and that even looked horrible. That green is a travesty.

    #574 6 years ago

    Water is blue, right?

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    #639 6 years ago

    So I'm curious to see what the consensus is on my lost world. It's got the full led treatment, with warm whites in the gi and colors in the inserts and pop bumpers.

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    #1081 6 years ago

    So many people with assholes clenched tightly enough to turn their turds into diamonds. Over light bulbs.

    I love this thread.

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    #3839 4 years ago

    It's not rainbow puke, but the previous owner did like the red and green. You can't see a thing on the playfield.

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    #3848 4 years ago
    Quoted from CaptainNeo:

    this is the damn game that took me 4 1/2 hours to replace that stupid shit. Not this one specifically, but one done almost like it.

    It's like Freddy Krueger's house on taco night.
    I just spent a couple hours on mine. Looking much better with comet daylight bulbs. My mpu doesn't appear to be working, so the computer controlled bulbs aren't lit, unfortunately.

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    #3859 4 years ago

    I don't know. That EFTLW I posted above looked just like the picture. The previous owner thought it looked great.

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    #3933 4 years ago
    Quoted from Bugsy:

    Owner considers the LEDs an "upgrade".[quoted image][quoted image]

    I know when I think wild west, I think multi colored LEDs.

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    #3989 4 years ago

    Found this listed on eBay while searching for parts. Dude even swapped the displays with green LEDs to match the rest of that mess.

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    #3994 4 years ago
    Quoted from CaptainNeo:

    that's what mine looked like when I bought it from the guy. 4.5 hours to fix it correctly.

    Mine wasn't quite this bad, but the owner had started swapping in red and green LEDs over a good portion of the playfield. It's already a dark game. Red and green lights certainly didn't help it any.

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    #4097 4 years ago

    I don't think there's that much thought put into it. They watch some TNT YouTube videos and go to town. They just think it's cool.

    #4106 4 years ago

    I've seen a lot of those pinbots decked out in red and blue. Reminds me of the ziplock bags my wife buys that the zipper turns purple when you seal them.

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    #4564 3 years ago

    Looking over the last 10 pages or so really made me realize how badly Space Invaders gets abused with multi colored leds. I don't think I've EVER seen this game in the wild, or in classifieds, with normal lighting.

    #4567 3 years ago

    Yeah, pinbot....I see a lot decked out in blue and red.

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    #5185 3 years ago

    In case you were wondering how to ruin arguably the finest looking backglass...

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    #5376 3 years ago

    Maximum blue led

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    #5438 3 years ago

    Is purple the new blue?

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    #5546 3 years ago

    EMs always look great with blue led's

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    #5550 3 years ago
    Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:

    Sure those aren't cool white? Even so, I think Comet sunlight white would go perfect in EMs.

    Still looks like ass

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    #5899 3 years ago
    Quoted from PinballManiac40:

    Nasty...just plain nasty.[quoted image]

    I just saw that on Facebook. Dude was pleased with himself. Good for him, I guess.

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    #5930 3 years ago

    I don't care for it, but I get putting multi colored led's in the GI. Plastering the back box with rainbow leds however really makes me scratch my head...

    #5934 3 years ago
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    #5951 3 years ago
    Quoted from dlbuller:

    I did it for my kids. I really thought they were getting into pinball. I let my 6 year old and 3 year old pick them out and they had fun helping their dad. I was also going to put some rad cals on the sides once they came out. I get it’s not every bodies cup of tea and it’s not a great selling feature...but man, makes me feel crappy I’m just being made fun of.

    You'll find no quarter here...

    #5954 3 years ago
    Quoted from CaptainNeo:

    it's still not ok. Kids or not. If the kids wanted to help, they can put a white LED in that socket just as easy as a color. I'm not buying it.

    I mean, it's ugly, but he didn't punt a baby across his front yard, or anything.

    #5963 3 years ago

    I think you're being a little dramatic.

    A lot of people who've gotten into collecting pins in the last several years has gone through the colored led phase. I did. You see TNT videos and have at it. I grew out of it quickly, as many others have and many others will. At the end of the day, if I buy a machine with rainbow colors, I spend another 50 bucks on a bag of warm white Comets and swap them out. Problem solved. I enjoy this thread. I enjoy posting and seeing pics of machine and having a laugh, but I don't take it personally. No one should. I'm not going to act like you slapped my wife's ass because of colored lights in your machine. It's just pinball.

    Down vote away...

    #6035 3 years ago

    It's green. Like the light when you're racing. It's poetry.

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    #6086 3 years ago

    Speaking of...

    The purple really brings out Stallone's chin.

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    #6090 3 years ago

    Blue led's are so 2010. Purple is where it's at these days.

    #6094 3 years ago
    Quoted from girloveswaffles:

    Ass-Hat spent all that time puking LEDs into the game and didn't do anything about the thrashed coin door, the dirty lock down bar and apron or the score and price cards.

    To be fair, you can hardly see any of those things with the purple leds

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    #6102 3 years ago

    Grabbed a screen shot of the latest TNT video. If there's one game that should never have colored leds, it's paragon...

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    #6113 3 years ago

    EMs with blue led's. Nuff said

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    #6120 3 years ago
    Quoted from schudel5:

    $10k less and you can have this one instead.
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    Maximum purple for your dollar

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    #6160 3 years ago
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    #6180 3 years ago
    Quoted from Vino:

    You must be High...Speed.
    When GI isn’t enough, replace beacon.
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    It's red and blue. Like a cop car. Don't you get it?

    #6194 3 years ago
    Quoted from snowy_owl:

    Not mine, but I couldn't help posting this.
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    They're doing the lords work...

    #6195 3 years ago

    That pinbot... lordy. I think they must've thrown all their leds into a bag and just let fate decide what colors go where.

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    #6395 2 years ago

    Purple leds look especially great in early SS machines.

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    #6401 2 years ago

    There's nothing worse than a rainbow lit EM.

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    #6464 2 years ago

    In space, no one can hear you scream.

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    #6490 2 years ago

    So many things, not just pinballs, have been ruined since the invention of the blue led.

    #6493 2 years ago
    Quoted from roffels:

    So true. I don't want all my electronics bathing my room in blue light all the time. Especially things like fans that I want running through the night.

    Yep. Every piece of Chinese garbage in my house has a piercing blue led on the front.

    #6537 2 years ago
    Quoted from skywalker:

    Refurbished playboy [quoted image]

    There's been an abundance of purple playboys lately

    #6543 2 years ago

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    As someone who's actively been looking for a DM, seeing one decked out in blue makes me sad.

    #6550 2 years ago
    Quoted from jgreene:

    Not sure what they were going for with the 2/3 purple, 1/3 teal green. Bad part is there's actually a decent looking embryon playfield under the smear of colors.

    There's probably some purple and a 1/8" dot of teal green in the artwork, so they decided purple and teal green leds all around. Color matching, bro.

    #6554 2 years ago

    In need of rescue 911

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    #6569 2 years ago

    Somewhere in China, there's a led factory worker who put his kids through college just from the blue leds produced for this thread.

    #6572 2 years ago

    Rocky and Bluewinkle

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    #6579 2 years ago
    Quoted from roffels:

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    I like how they threw in just enough purple to shake things up

    #6592 2 years ago
    Quoted from Vino:

    Defeat the Black Blight
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    See this guy has imagination. Instead of just blue or purple, he went all out. The full spectrum.

    #6596 2 years ago
    Quoted from slochar:

    It's better than brown wind.

    Is it?

    #6601 2 years ago

    Unfortunately, the common folk love them rainbow leds. He'll probably unload it pretty easily in rainbow bright form.

    #6603 2 years ago

    Scro-tem.
    Playfield is OK, but that back box...

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    #6617 2 years ago
    Quoted from snowy_owl:

    Star Blech: The next constipation[quoted image]

    The final frontier is purple.

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    #6631 2 years ago

    That dude just took it to a new level.

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    #6662 2 years ago
    Quoted from PinballManiac40:

    The Shadow knows............
    ........how to puke!!![quoted image]

    A shadow is all you'll see playing that game.

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    #6683 2 years ago

    Green LEDs and an ass ugly translite.

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    #6685 2 years ago

    Green LEDs and shit translites are apparently pretty common on this game.

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    #6697 2 years ago
    Quoted from 72Devilz:

    Blue’d Out.
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    That wiped out my retinas

    #6703 2 years ago

    Black(lights)hole

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    #6890 2 years ago

    Since the theme is jungle warfare, may as well camouflage the ball.

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    #6905 2 years ago
    Quoted from Pablito350:

    Vomit
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    I really like the randomly placed green lights in the backglass.

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    #6926 2 years ago

    I think I hate purple leds more than blue.

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    #6928 2 years ago

    From Facebook, the land of people showing off their purple pinball machines

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    #6933 2 years ago

    No Good Lighting.

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    #6952 2 years ago
    Quoted from PinballManiac40:

    Rainbow Poker[quoted image]

    Those 2 random green leds in the backglass really tie it all together.

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    #6961 2 years ago

    Pinstadium. How much more purple can this game be? The answer is none.

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    #6970 2 years ago

    The machines won

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    #6975 2 years ago

    The lazers in terminator were purple, therefore, you make the whole god damned machine purple. I hate having to explain this shit to you people.

    #6986 2 years ago

    Big ___?

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    #7003 2 years ago
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    #7008 2 years ago

    Is it? Even all that rainbow shit going down the sides?

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    #7099 2 years ago

    No time for love, Dr. Jones.

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    #7107 2 years ago
    Quoted from DanMarino:

    It really is odd to mess up a classic machine like that. For some reason I can give someone a break for using confetti LED lights on a lesser title like Gold Wings, Gottlieb Rock, or even Bally Spy Hunter.

    I think it's because old EM machines just look so off with colors. Hell, even having bright white bulbs in an EM seems weird to me.

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    #7166 1 year ago

    "Has a few colored leds added"

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    #7174 1 year ago
    Quoted from Boat:

    This was just listed across the country. My old tftc. Looks like they re puked it after I replaced all the gi with cool white
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    #7187 1 year ago

    *insert star trek pun

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    #7193 1 year ago
    Quoted from roffels:

    [quoted image] Rainbow hole?

    They say not even light can escape the gravity of a black hole. I wish that were true

    #7209 1 year ago

    If he's the black knight, why did they make him purple?

    And is the GI actually white and the reflection of that shit in the backbox so intense it drowns out the other lighting? Or is the playfield a mix of white and colors? Brain can't compute this picture.

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    #7285 1 year ago

    Insert blue pun here

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    #7301 1 year ago

    If there's anything that goes well with early SS machines, it's purple leds. Welcome to the jungle, baby.

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    #7343 1 year ago

    Another blue'd out Demo man. They didn't forget the back box this time.

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    #7366 1 year ago

    I think Slys oxygen supply has been cut off

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    #7433 1 year ago

    How much more blue could it be? The answer is none.

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    #7464 1 year ago

    Welcome to the jungle

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    #7478 1 year ago

    Number 2.

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    #7480 1 year ago

    Laser Hue

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    #7484 1 year ago

    Poor Demolition Man. I think this game has gotten it worse in this thread than any other.

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    #7514 1 year ago

    Woof

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    #7516 1 year ago
    Quoted from transprtr4u:

    be nice .... very few are talented enough to match wall paint color to a pinball machine !

    But did he match the leds to the walls, or the walls to the leds?

    #7518 1 year ago
    Quoted from roffels:

    Are we sure the walls are green? They just might be white and lit by green LED lights.

    There is a shitty green glow coming from behind the machines...

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    #7561 1 year ago
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    #7565 1 year ago

    This one's a low hanging fruit, but, "Pukerino"

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    #7574 1 year ago

    It can stay lost. As an EFTLW, this one really hurts.

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    #7655 1 year ago

    Blurricane

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    #7658 1 year ago

    Vom.... Er.... Comet

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    #7676 1 year ago
    Quoted from roffels:

    Get away please.
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    #7704 10 months ago

    Not the worst Comet I've seen, but definitely not the best

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    #7716 10 months ago

    This riverboat is up shit creek

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    #7732 10 months ago
    Quoted from Beatnik-Filmstar:

    Clownpuked, and I would assume they used clear lens LEDs in the head?
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    Dear God. As a comet owner, I'm offended.

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    #7736 9 months ago

    Theater of tragic

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    #7748 9 months ago

    Turtles=green. Green lights. Brilliant!

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    #7760 8 months ago

    Beam it back down...

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    #7763 8 months ago

    I think it's just a terrible picture

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    #7766 8 months ago

    What color should I make the GI?

    All the colors.

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    #7769 8 months ago

    Facebook giveth today.

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    #7783 8 months ago
    Quoted from Gubbin:

    You can prolly see this one under water
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    Water is blue, bro. Blue leds are am inspired choice.

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    #7785 8 months ago

    There's a special place in hell for those who put colored leds in an EM.

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    #7786 8 months ago

    Seeing the ball is overrated

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    #7797 7 months ago
    Quoted from rickker:

    Came across this eyesore in the wild last night...[quoted image]

    That guy shit on star wars worse than Disney

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    #7804 7 months ago

    Before and after on the Demolition Man I recently purchased. All in all, it wasn't horrible. The ice blue leds they had in the GI didn't hide the ball as badly as most other colored leds. Still, this machine didn't nothing to relieve my hatred of blue leds. I still think it just looks better in white. Unfortunately, the led/neon wire they had super glued to the metal ramps(shown post removal) and Five Below led strips that were glued all over the cabinets and speaker grills weren't working, so I couldn't capture it's full glory.

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    #7808 7 months ago
    Quoted from jrcmlc:

    I like the before better.

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    #7811 7 months ago

    In space, no one can hear you scream. Or eee the ball.

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    #7818 7 months ago

    Re-Tardis.

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    #7822 7 months ago

    On the Spectrum

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    #7825 7 months ago
    Quoted from jcg9998:

    Is everybody in here 100% opposed to color LED's in totality or just in certain spots? I agree with most of the people in here in that just about every picture posted looks bad. I think most people don't know how to use color LED's.
    If there is any white (or skin on a backglass) showing at all you can't use a color or it bleeds through the white and looks terrible. Also, if the bulb is visible to anyone looking at the game (like underneath the slingshots or any other plastics), you pretty much want it to be white. I almost always use cool white, with anything including all bulbs in my house. There have been some games in which I use the natural or sunlight when it matches better. But there are a lot of spots in various games in which the color looks pretty spectacular. This even works in some of my old woodrails (The horror!). It really depends on the game and the thickness of the plastic, clarity, color, etc. The more opaque the plastic, the better it looks. If you have an area in which the lights don't bleed, the color often looks great. For example, a bumper that is a solid color but with little to no clarity. Same goes with backglasses. Unfortunately, I can't really show you what I mean because I suck at photography and my pics never come out looking like they way the game looks in real life.

    I could care less about inserts, but I've come to hate colored LEDs in GI and back glass.

    #7832 7 months ago

    Flush.

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    #7849 7 months ago

    Man. TMNT has become the new demolition man in this thread. It was until now the king of awful led swaps

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    #7890 6 months ago

    Bypassing the machines and going straight to full room puke

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    #7940 5 months ago

    Chuck it back in the ocean...

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    #7983 4 months ago
    Quoted from MoSeS_1592:

    Came across this pic accidentally and nearly barfed on my phone.
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    Danny Glover's getting too old for this shit

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    #7986 4 months ago
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    #7990 4 months ago

    I don't hate that Konami style back glass

    #7994 4 months ago

    I can't wait to see how Future Spa and Hotdoggin turn out

    #7996 4 months ago

    I think my growing disliking of colored LEDs is spreading to Christmas lights. Driving through my neighborhood, I can't help but notice all the super saturated blues, greens and reds lighting on the houses. Or maybe in just a weirdo.

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    #7998 4 months ago

    Starship Poopers.

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    #8000 3 months ago
    Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:

    Although not pinball, this 30 minute rant on modern Christmas LED lights and a crusade to fix them spiritually belongs here.

    I watched his video on Christmas lights last year. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't almost considered hand painting a couple hundred warm white LED bulbs...

    #8008 3 months ago
    Quoted from TheLaw:

    WTF is happening here

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    #8028 3 months ago
    Quoted from TrisPin:

    Not sure if this is colour gi but saw on marketplace
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    I think the color changing lights are built into the game

    #8033 3 months ago
    Quoted from TrisPin:

    Oh lord. Not a fan tbh haha, leave the rgb to gaming computers haha

    From what I remember playing GnR, the lights are mostly white while playing. I don't remember it being horrible

    #8038 3 months ago

    TZ is already a fairly dark game, or at least the one I played was. Replacing the GI with people and blue depresses me.

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    #8042 3 months ago
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    #8046 3 months ago
    Quoted from Engine09:

    I know some of the perpetrators of these crimes are checking this thread, have to be. I have questions.
    Do you actually think adding colored bulbs to GI makes the game look better?
    Do you realize that the playfield and plastics are already printed in color?
    Do you think that maybe colored GI makes the ball harder to see?
    Where did you get this idea?

    I think I can answer this.

    When I first got into the hobby, I watched a whole lot of TNT videos and every game they refurbish gets the LED Rainbow Brite treatment. I just figured it was the thing to do. I quickly realized that it did in fact look like the dog threw up Skittles on my machines and started swapping in white bulbs.

    #8055 3 months ago
    Quoted from DanMarino:

    I have a quandary with the new Space Station I brought home last weekend. I am adding cool frosted white LEDs to the regular GI. The upper playfield thing is translucent blue plastic and on the GI at the USA rollover lanes on the playfield, it originally came with exposed GI lights with blue condoms on them. I am torn between inserting frosted blue LEDs there (since it was the original intent) or sticking with cool frosted white.
    There is no quandary about adding frosted green LEDs for the Condition Green multi-ball mode. I can't wait to add them in once they arrive in the mail. The original Condition Green bulbs with green condoms are all faded and not bright enough.

    Try frosted ice blue. I think they'd still give the blue look and give off enough light to have a good view of what you're doing

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    #8056 3 months ago

    When your Zizzle just isn't shitty enough...

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    #8058 3 months ago

    Lasers.

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    #8226 24 hours ago

    There's a warm place in hell for people that put green LEDs in an EM

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