Rick & Morty Pinball from Spooky!

Joined the club and hoping this will be my first Spooky pin! After reading through this thread (well skimming a bit), one thing I was surprised to see were the posts from SpookyLuke. The fact that a pinball company is willing to participate in a conversation with their fan and customer base is just fantastic! I’m just use to JJP who keep their customers totally in the dark. Anyway, hoping R&M lives up to the hype!

How awesome would it be if the upper playfield (assuming there is one) had a set of in-line drops, or even better, a Danesi lock! Not likely due to the large mech required, but that would be really cool!

I hate the upper playfield on BKSOR, kills the flow of the game. I'm sure Spooky can do it better.

Early build, before all the standards.

Just noticed the toilet from The Old Man and the Seat on the left side of the cab. That episode only aired a couple weeks ago!

Pinballstar for the win!

Do we have a pinside owners thread (or is this it lol)?

Anyway to know the the number if purchased via distrib?

later.

I had the same thought but there's an entire ball trough under there for staging multiple balls.

Can we start using RAM rather than R&M? Ampersands are a pain.

Because it FIRES the ball right at the flippers!

Pretty sure I read from a prior post that the pin will have five balls. I wonder if it will pre-stage one (or more) balls in the secondary portal trough before or after a game, similar to how STTNG works?

Right. But if there's a multi-ball mode that uses all the balls (one would hope), there's a chance the game could end with no ball in the secondary trough.

I believe Jungle Lord was the first to have magna-save with timed user control.

POTC doesn't really have different modes. The pin is amazing but that's the one aspect that JJP really over sold. I recall them claiming no two games would be the same or something like one billion different modes, but really all that changes are which combination of characters (shots) you need to hit to complete each chapter.

I have no doubt that RAM rules and code will continue to evolve and improve beyond the initial release. POTC released with really solid code but it's still not complete (no final wizard mode) and sits at 0.99 while JJP releases updates to WW almost monthly. If you can't tell, I have a lot of love for my POTC but not so much for JJP. After POTC I swore I would never by NIB again, yet here I am. Spooky convinced me to try NIB again

I don't think PinballStar has released numbers yet but as I recall Joe said it would take a week, so hopefully soon

I think it was mentioned earlier that a ball can be bounced from one side to the other. That would mean a ball behind the drop would switch sides when another ball hits (and drops) the target. Unless the center post is up in which case the locked ball would be released. Unless the drop resets really quickly and keeps the ball locked. So many possibilities!

Wonder where PinballStar slots into the build list? Guess we'll find out tomorrow.

I'm pretty sure Joe had a family emergency last week. Hope all is ok.

I wonder if three balls can fit between the drop and the post?

Keep in mind that the drops are stock parts so they can't be locked in the up position. But they can drop and immediately reset, so that's basically the same effect.

Hi Joe - first, so glad you and your staff are all safe! Wow that is crazy about the support beam.

Can you clarify one thing, what was the deadline for switching from standard to BSE which kept the slot based on when deposit was paid?

You can add one as an option. A few weeks before your build Spooky will provide you with a list of optional add-ons to customize your pin.

That might work! Would probably need an EOS switch like a flipper coil just to be safe.

I'm just happy this thread got going again, I was so bored this afternoon I started reading the Stranger Things thread, ugh.

We'll need Spooky to chime in on how the drops work, forced to stay up or drop and immediately reset. But either way the locked ball could be knocked to the other side.

Here's another possibility with the Danesi lock - if a ball is locked, and the center post is down, and the target is in a mode where it is not forced to stay up, then a solid hit would transfer the ball to the other side, but a glancing hit would release it.

At least until Pinside lets us start the Owners thread

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Came back to this thread after a couple hours and was excited to see 85 new posts – must be something good! Nope, just knockers. So might as well join in – I’ve got a Bally Firecracker which has a spinner under the playfield used to randomize the “Firecracker” hole award. The spinner is kicked with a spring mech, and each rotation advances the award wheel. The random sound of the solenoid advancing the wheel kinda sounded like firecrackers. You can see where I’m going with this one… I wired the free game knocker to the same circuit and now it really sounds like firecrackers going off! Talk about scaring the unsuspecting player!

Scott talks a bit about the lighting effects in/under the house. He mentions they can create rotational lighting patterns in the garage, which sounds really cool! There are also additional flashers under the portal and in the death crystal!

I was expecting like an extra toy figure on the playfield or something similar. This just blows me away! Thanks Spooky!

DC motor = spinning portal?

Not sure if this has been discussed before, but do we think the spaceship toy on a spring is active? Is there a solenoid/mech underneath that makes it shake?

Last we heard from Scott I believe he only confirmed a two ball lock with the possibility of three.

Figure 34 weeks from whenever Spooky start shipping. Unless there are SEs with lower build#s than 338 (so far nobody has reported that), in which case it could be sooner than 34 weeks.

I agree, the action button on POTC is really fun because it requires you take your hand off the flipper button (for more than just a second) with the ball or balls in play.

Same thing with JJP POTC, they could only afford one voice; Gibbs (Kevin McNally), but he did a great job. I guess these days the A-list actors are just too expensive. Crazy how back in the 90's Williams could get the entire STTNG cast to do the callouts. As for R&M, it would have been nice to have some lines from Jerry or Summer, but not going to complain given we've got SO much content from Roiland!

I recall a post on the POTC owners thread from someone at JJP that Johnny Depp would have cost $500k per movie. So $2.5m for him to have done the call-outs.

Anyone putting a low build (or any build) R&M on location in SE PA area?

3.5 hour drive, that's a bit long, but never played Alien, hmmmm. Thanks.

Great review, thanks for that!

Location, to avoid shipping costs.

All this talk about the orbit on R&M had me thinking about JJP POTC which has multiple orbits and none are smooth. Here's a slow motion video of the ball transition from the inner to the outer main orbit. I'd say a third of the shots would reject and roll back. I ended up making a custom bracket to reinforce the back rail which reduced flex/bounce and helps a bit. But basically the geometry it not good.

Regardless of what people think of Kaneda, his opinions hold weight with his followers and I think it was really prudent for Scott to get ahead of this, just brilliant!

True, but if you're looping to build up gold or just a high value skill shot, then failing at the top of the orbit kills that. The extra bracket I added definitely helps, I can try to grab some video next time I remove the upper playfield. But this is POTC talk and probably doesn't belong here

Whenever someone in my league is selling a pin we always offer to others in the league first (often at a below value price), just to keep them in the family!

Funny you should mention TNA, I've been thinking the same thing. I'm not looking to back out of R&M, but with the wait time increased indefinitely, I started to think about maybe getting a TNA, and there's an really nice one for sale near by at a very reasonable price. Hmmmmm.

If you're planning to sell these I'd definitely be in also!