Lightedpinballmods.com have been play testing our Plasma Pop Bumpers for over 9 months. It’s time to start putting them in other games.

We will be selling a few of our Plasma Pop Bumpers at half price ($49.99 each) to people that are willing to purchase, install and send us some pictures and video. We are only going to make this offer once per game. The games listed below are no longer available. The initial cost would be $99.99 per plasma with a rebate of $50 per plasma when we receive pictures and video.

Games no longer available to test:
Twilight Zone
The Addams Family
Star Wars-Data East

The plasmas are 3” standard sized pop bumpers that fit in all major manufactured games and most minor manufactures. They are a little taller than standard pop bumpers, requiring nearly 3/8” in clearance. They have 3 settings; always on, sound activated or turn on and off as your original pop bumper do. Because we use a mechanical relay, there is a little clicking sound, but this can be muffled (these videos are with the glass off). The exception is the Stern Spike games which the only options are always on and sound activated.

The kit comes with everything you will need to install your pop bumper. You will replace your existing light, body and cap. If you are experienced you could get these done in about 30 minutes each. No permanent changes to your game. These are powered from your service outlet.

The plasmas are difficult to make. Each takes up to 2 ½ hours of labor which includes over a week of production time and nearly $40 in materials. For this reason, the price will not drop.

The following are pictures and videos of our Plasma Pop Bumpers in action;

Twilight Zone; set to turn on and off as the regular pop bumpers in the game were designed. These are the crown top design.

Metallica; set to turn on and off as the regular pop bumpers in the game were designed. These are the flat top design.

The Addams Family; set to always on. The 4 front Plasma Pop Bumpers use the crown design, the back red bumper that is under the ramp uses the flat top design which saves 1/8” in height.

Star Wars, Data East; are set to always on.

Color selection: We have red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, purple, black (not as focused as other colors) and rainbow.

Dan

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Games Plasma Pop Bumpers are in (I will update this page):
Star Wars - Data East
The Addams Family
Twilight Zone
Matallica

As I am talking to people about specific games, I am giving them first shot at using the promotion. These titles are currently off the promotion, but if the buyer does not decide to purchase, these games may become available for the promotion again:
Black Knight 2000
AC/DC
Star Trek, Stern
Haunted House
Iron Man

Game that Plasma Pop Bumpers should fit in:
Iron Man
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Terminator 2

Games Plasma Pop Bumpers will NOT fit in:
Creature From the Black Lagoon

The LED light ring that is under the plasma, we call it a collar. The collar is how the plasma gets mounted to the body.

The bottom of the collar is designed to go over a plastic that may be near the plasma. This is more common on Stern games. If this happens, it is normally about 1/16" over lap. You can see on this picture of Metallica.

Also Metallica has an extra plastic that goes over Sparky's feet. The plasma can be adjusted to fit over that also.

Yes, that screw should have been screwed in farther.

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You don't need to replace all of the pop bumpers in the game, you can do just one as a focus.

Because I don't know how people are going to use them, how many in a game, or what colors or styles, each kit has its own power supply. You can run 5 plasma's off of one power supply, so if you want use one power supply plugged into your service outlet and purchase a splitter (we don't carry) that is an option.

These use the standard DC 5.5 x 2.1 mm plug.

ALSO, these run off of 3 volts.

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We will get caught up on PM's today.

Dan

Yes, this mod is not for everyone.

When these were at Allentown, people would trip over themselves to look at these. The main concerns were what did they fit in, which is nearly all games. Next was price. When someone asked about the price, we showed them what comes with them, and the details in construction, nearly everyone felt the price of $99.99 is justified for what was in them, then it was just a question of if they wanted to pay that amount, and for many the answer was no, but for many the answer was yes.

We start with a core plasma. Not all plasmas are as lively as we would like for the game, so we only use about half of the stock we get.
Then some work is done on the plasma.

Next, we must color the plasmas, did you see how close these match to the original colors of the pop bumpers when they are off? Some of the plasma’s take 12 steps to color properly.

When that is done, then the very high end protective resin. This give the proper size and protects the glass. The resin is crystal clear and super strong. We do 2 types of treatments to the resin to get that clarity. Because of the way the resin is manipulated, we can only do 6 at a time. This one step is a very time-consuming step.

Then additional work needs to be done to the plasma’s.

We then work on the collar “mounting system”. These are done separately and have 2 LED’s in them. Are you aware that many playfield mods that are on the market are a $5 toy with 2 LED’s in them and they sell for $100? Much time is taken to have the proper color in the collar to match the plasma.

When the above components are done, then they need to be assembled and tested.

We must custom cut a body for the mounting system.

Then the electronics, each plasma comes with its own circuit board to control it, and its own power supply and some other parts.
The above is just to give an idea, and I did leave out some steps.

To sum it up, one person in our shop can make 6 of these a day, they are very time consuming to make. EVERYONE will spot these in your game, it will be the first thing they look at, and they make a HUGE impression.

These are so detailed to make, that I don’t see anyone ever making a less expensive version.

If the price does not work for you, then please do a pass on this mod. I estimate this mod will work and look good on over 50 games, and if I sell one set of 3 of these to someone in the world a day, that will work for me.

Dan

Thanks for the feedback. Part of the reason I put a picture of the kit, so people could get an idea of what comes with it, and were some of the cost is.

Having the plasmas on is nice, but having them turn on and off as the game is designed, really makes them pop. The plasmas work off of DC, and the power for the original pop bumper is AC, so that was a hurdle to over come. Also the latency (delay) to make the plasmas turn on and off quick, like in Metallica (see video) or TAF multiball was another small challenge. Using the service outlet made a simple and quick way to avoid electronic feedback, but added to the price.

You need about 3/8" clearance for the pop bumpers. I found if I can fit my pinky finger between the original pop bumper cap and any ramp above it, these should fit.

The main reason I am running this offer is because these fit in so many games, but people need to see it in a game.

I was mainly a Bally/Williams guy, but now I am starting to get some Sterns, and am really enjoying them. I have had these in TAF and TZ for so long, I got used to them. We designed them to go into Stern, just never got around to getting them installed. Finally got them in a Stern a couple of weeks ago, and OMG, I was blown away by how good they looked. My friends that came over have been amazed also. With Metallica nearly any color could goes in the game. I am not really happy with our purple and black yet, I got them, just not my favorite colors of plasma, and purple is my favorite color.

Orange, Red and Yellow are very popular colors, fit in a lot of games. Another nice thing about this mod, is that it is NOT custom fit to one game. If you have them in a game you are selling, you can pull them out and put them in another game you have.

My gal should be catching up on PM's tonight, got a bit over run today.

Dan

No, they just have 3 settings, always on, sound activated and turning on and off as the original designed pop bumper.

Some games have that designed on the original game (The Addams Family and Metallica as examples). I never noticed how the pop bumper lights were programmed until I had these installed.

In the kit we supply a new pop body that will fit in your game that holds the plasma pop bumpers.

I just wanted to update everyone.....

The games currently taken off the promotion are as follows:

AC/DC
Star Trek (STERN)
Haunted House
F-14 Tom Cat
Iron Man

Games Plasma Pop Bumpers will NOT fit in:
Creature From the Black Lagoon

Games Plasma Pop Bumpers are in:
Star Wars - Data East
The Addams Family
Twilight Zone
Matallica

I just wanted to update everyone.....
The games currently taken off the promotion are as follows:
AC/DC
Star Trek (STERN)
Haunted House
F-14 Tom Cat
Iron Man
Big, Bang, Bar
Embyron
STTNG

Games Plasma Pop Bumpers will NOT fit in:
Creature From the Black Lagoon

Games Plasma Pop Bumpers are in:
Star Wars - Data East
The Addams Family
Twilight Zone
Matallica

Ashley takes care of all of the emails. I want to thank everyone that is helping us on these tests.

And a OMG to bbriese, what an incredible job and challenge he had to get these into Haunted House. He may be modest, but Haunted House did not have the space to fit these. He wanted these so bad, that he lowered his play field 1/4"and he made an a very nice metal bracket to mount the relay's. What a professional job he did, very impressed. I just wanted to share the work he put in this.

Grinder901 also did a great job. On many games they are tight under the ramps, which means you have to take the ramp out. Also the whiplash plastic lays over the bottom bumper. We also had that on Metallica.

Ashley is talking close notes on all feedback. The person we had doing our pinning and wire connections did not do as good as we liked, so we upgraded that on the plasma's.

Once we get a bit more feedback, we will start listing for sale.

One thing everyone agrees on that see these is they make sure an impact that pictures and descriptions do not do them justice.

Gatordad, don't worry, about time, I appropriate everyone that is helping.

Dan