Might as well get rid of flippers and slingshots too and go back to the days when the almighty plunge actually mattered.

And at least one has seven.

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What I'd like to see is them bring back the passive bumper. I don't think they've used those since the 60s.

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Gotcha covered. less the captive ball...

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GNR has a dedicated captive ball into a pop bumper area if that is what you mean.

Your setup looks pretty cool, but in the end it comes down to how much playfield real estate it would actually take up. But I like it!

Like this?

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I don't think so since Harry Williams invented it. See pics in above post.

Or even this

Yeah, who needs pop bumpers when you can have thumper bumpers instead.

Thank you Mr. Williams.

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Nice, but again let's give credit where credit is due. The innovator himself, Harry Williams.

http://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1654

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15 going on 56.

To answer the ops original question the point of pop bumpers is on the skirt of selected models to prevent ball hangups.

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No, ruler of Valhalla.

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