Ordered on Monday, can’t wait to hear when I’ll get my game. This is the first time the whole family has been excited. It should have enough to keep even my youngest shooting and see something cool happen.

It looks like theyve built something really special with this title.

Just got my game setup a few hours ago and loving it. I ordered it based on everyone saying how accessible it is, and they’re correct. However, man, it really does have something for everyone with its depth. Being accessible for my kids does not mean too easy or shallow for my wife and I. I’m looking forward to really spending some time on it this weekend. Two quick questions though.
1- I notice there’s lollipop rails available for the other two AP games. Can anybody comment if this might happen for Hot Wheels? Curious if I should think about powder coating what came on it or wait to see those.
2-every dozen games or so the ball exits the red ramp and takes a small bounce into the left out lane. The game is level. Anybody else see this? If so, could we get a coded ball-save for that?
Congrats AP, this game is a blast!

I’ve moved the ramp over, but it keeps “walking back” to where it was. The screw holes are pretty wide to give room for adjustments, but they’re not grabbing when I tighten it down. Any tighter I’m afraid I’ll damage the plastic ramps.

Thank you to all for the advice, I’ll try both the foam and tubing.

Also check your switches. I had to adjust three or four of them on day one. They’re not bent enough and catch in the up position trapping balls. The switch for “two” on the skill shot wouldn’t let any plunged ball back down, just holding it there. I went through and slightly bent down all of my switches.

I like that, looks good in that color too. I tried to order the plastic guide brace from one of the shops on here, but it kept cancelling the order. Messaged the owner but so far no response. This looks like a great alternative.

Has anybody here powder coated their rails and legs yet? Just got my lollipop rails from AP, and was toying with the idea of a light blue to match both the apron and the blue track clips you get with real Hot Wheels sets. I was thinking a blue similar to the Led Zeppelin LE would look good with the orange?

Yes, but he just reached out to me so no more issue there. Looking forward to trying it.

Mine came as a surprise from my distributor, I wasn't even aware they were making them. You might want to send an email and ask.

I may have read and responded too quickly. I was part of the small group getting bounces out of the lane after exiting the red ramp (usually from spin from the VUK). The kit I got from the distributor fixed that perfectly. If that's what you want a picture of I can put one up.

The bar from the charity supposedly fixes the ball bouncing around the inner orbit as it reduces the flexure of the metal ball guides. I have one on order, I'll let you know how it works when I get it.

This is what I did. I actually removed one of the screws to get it to turn enough, and now it goes straight to the left flipper. Nothing is going to hit that e target hard enough to dislodge one screw. Or at least it hasn’t yet!

There was a set of metal ramp guides that were sent out to owners of early machines. It stopped spin in the ball causing it to walk over to the outlines when exiting the ramps. The kits were mailed from your distributor without needing to do anything.
There’s a post somewhere in this thread about which numbers needed the mod, but if you didn’t get a set I would assume your machine doesn’t need them.

I’ve been having quite a few issues with the shooter rod as well. Sometimes it will be smooth, sometimes it grabs in places as it gets pulled out. Someone earlier in the thread mentioned sanding theirs down, I’ll probably try that before adding anything greasy.

I’m not sure, I haven’t found the post yet. But I am going to try NoQuarters suggestion above first.

They look like they’re lined up starting from the right. Each number doesn’t take up the same space as they do in some fonts. So for example, a score with a lot of ones won’t be as long as one with more zeros, even if it has more numbers.

It’s a semi-common small bug, it goes away. I believe someone mentioned the new code reduces this, but I haven’t had the time to try it yet.