I just picked up a Hot Wheels the other day having never played it before. For some reason this game has never gone on location in my area and with COVID there was never a chance to play it at a show. Still, after doing a little research I decided to give it a shot and glad I did. This is a highly under appreciated game. Loads of fun for all skill levels and being the first AP game I've purchased I am more than happy with the quality of workmanship. With todays crazy pricing, this is definitely the best deal in pinball right now.

I'm getting a warning message the the page is unsafe. Maybe they got hacked.

This is the message I get if you go directly to the Store.

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Looks like the American Pinball site is back up

My game suddenly started doing this tonight. The number 4 stays on green when the rest of the numbers are out and doesn't light red or blue.

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I recently bought the topper lighting kit for my Hot Wheels. I plugged the connector into the end of the daisy-chain as described online but it would not light. It appears the end connector is bad on the last back light. If I removed a connector from a different section of backlight and plug the topper light in there it works. Any suggestions on how to remedy this problem?

I'd have to unplug a strip of backglass lights to make it work that way.

Yes, apparently the plug on the topper strip was installed backwards. I had to break the tab on the strip in the backbox to make it fit, but it's working now. Thanks

Occasionally, I'll have a game that goes Red Line Mania crazy. For instance, last night I think I hit Red Line Mania about 15 times in one game (played them all horribly and ended up with 1.5B.)
But two of the Red Line Mania's came on the launch of the ball after a Red Line Mania. Has that happened to anyone else? Is that supposed to happen?

Yes, it was the switch on the R. Thanks

Has anyone on here made custom topper for Hot Wheels? I tossing around ideas to make one myself.

I've been working on some parts for a Hot Wheels topper. It's coming along nicely so far.

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Topper completed....for now.

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The AP shaker literally rocks my machine. I had to tone it down a lot to keep the glass from rattling but I love it. They did a great job of coding it in with gameplay.

Is there a fix for the way the flippers sometimes feel spongy?

This is the only American pinball I own, but the flippers just don't seem to have the 'snap' of the Stern, CGC, Gottlieb or Williams games I own. I saw a while back someone listed 'flipper upgrade' on their Hot Wheels when listing it for sale. I was just wondering what can be done to get the flippers where they don't seem to have give in them when making contact with the ball.

I installed Pinstadiums in my NASCAR a few years back. It seems that the install instructions may have been online. I don't recall, but the ones I got were pretty detailed telling exactly where to plug things in and where the clip onto lights under the playfield.

Hot Wheels is vastly under rated because so few people have actually played it. It came out at a bad time at the beginning of Covid so it never was at shows and few people put it on location. Since then I have never seen it at a show, or a bar or an arcade. In fact, the only way I got to play it was do a blind buy on recommendations I saw on line.

I'm wondering if anyone can explain this. I've been trying to set the replays at a score where the kids can get one now and then. The problem is, whether I turn the replay percentage on or off, the replay scores are going with percentage rather than the scores I've set.

Sorry Ferret, I'm not so tech savoy, you're going to have to explain how to capture the logs and game configurations files.

Same here as well. There was no place to play the game and test it out so I just watched some videos and thought 'If Greg Bone likes it, that's good enough for me.'

I do not regret make the purchase.

Went to Recbar 812 in Indiana this evening. The first time I've seen Hot Wheels in the wild. As I suspected, it was getting more attention than the other games in it's room
Full disclosure, Mando, Stranger Things, Godzilla, Batman 66, Avengers...were upstairs
But there were about 70 other games downstairs with Hot Wheels.

Yes, it makes a pretty good background for a topper.

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I would but it would probably be on a production schedule worse than Stern's.