That pop bumper begs for a better cap...

Some molded crystals/seeds might be nice

Maybe some test tubes that light up?

Ill keep thinking

All that is intellectual property or whatever so he would have to license them to make.

Hes looking for generic ideas that are in the grey area.

A portal also wouldn’t likely fall under IP too.

you know as to not violate IP, there are sooooo many licensed products available. can be modified, electrified and mounted. by presenting with a nice lighted easy install option, you will still have a successful mod.

Just overlay the launch button with a plumbus, it will still function as a switch. Might be fun to push something squishy to launch the ball.

I was planning on making a plumbus out of TPU as a prototype. Just make a thin but large apron surrounding the plumbus, this will serve as a backing to hold it to the pin... then you reaffix the launch button to hold it in place.

The best (easiest, best quality and for volume) way to approach this is by creating a negative for casting out of silicone once the prototype is demonstrated to install easily and function... once printed and smoothed, use oil-based clay (designed for silicone molding) to make the negative. Once you have a negative it is as simple as setting up a molding box, pouring, curing, then cleaning up the mold.

I appreciate that you are following IP law
Always amazed how modders can get away with selling mods that violate IP, Trademark, Copyright laws.
World of hurt if one of the IP holders decide to take legal action

I'd love some ready to go figurine mounters that would hold the action figures available at the local toy store. A simple piece of plastic with a screw hole in it would suffice. I made my own for my Jurassic Park mods, and I'm assuming I could do something similar for this. However, mine looked... armature and I'm sure you guys could make something that looked nice... Heck, something like that would be able to go into pretty much any machine. No IP violations... cheap to build (high mark up), applicable to multiple games, low risk.

Not a big mod guy, but I think an obvious upgrade would be to have the launch button be a portal. Was thinking it could have Rick's phrase.....and away we go! laid out in a spiral maybe. I have plenty of time to figure out the best way to do it, but if a ready to go mod comes out, I'd probably save my time and grab one.

Nope- That's legal. Purchase a licensed product, you can do what you want and re-sell no worries.
A pickle....unlicensed open product. Just like a banana, place all the foam or plastic pickles you want, no one can do anything to you.

What about an actuated open/close garage door?

On the BSE, the black speaker portal covers being black are awful, maybe a decal of the green and yellow can be created to cover the black?

A door or too much in the garage would ruin the illusion. The transparent floor give the impression that the portal below is opening inside the garage. So the ball never actually enters the garage but from the players view it appears to.

I cant wait to look at the game from the right angle to see this in action! I wonder what the lights in that area are like too...

A lighted green spinning portal launch button would be cool

There's nothing ironic about that.

It does make sense when you think about it. If I add a fax machine to a toaster, I can't just sell it as a new product without dealing with both the toaster and fax machine companies.

I just had a thought. What about a back box mounted lighting system (not on top, but behind) that projects a portal on the wall behind the machine. I'm thinking a 4-5 ft wide portal swirling around the pin. I suppose you could do the same under the cab toward the ground, but it may have to be slightly smaller. I am not a mod builder, but I would love to see something like that.

We have some ideas for casting just waiting on game play. We made custom pops for TNA, tron, Bksor, Twd, AV etc if you want to compare quality.

I think that area over the second ball trough plastic is begging to he turned into a mini blips and chitz.

I believe I read from someone involved with the game (can't remember who) that the pop bumper has RGB lights in it and when lit different colors, means different things. So whatever mod is done to the pop bumper needs to keep this in mind. I believe that was said when someone suggested putting a Plasma cap on it.

Next level thinking with your toasterfaxgument!

Not bad - there is a high resolution picture of the lockdown bar in the main RaM thread that has a better representation of the purple... this might be a better photo to approximate the proper color (assuming you are using something like Photoshop to pull the hex value for the purple in the photo).

I think Id just rather have both flipper toppers be alien faces. Something based on the animation style.

I like my flippers to look like flippers, but I'm weird like that. LOL

Usually I do too, dont get me wrong. I just think some cronenburg monster toppers would fit this game well.

Illuminated Kalaxian Crystal Flippers

My wife is a big fan of the BSE armor color.

Where can i buy the Faxoaster?

What about a plumbus topper for the popcap?

I dont see any restrictions on that in the manual so I guess that would work. Just have to make sure you dont muss up the chumble.

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I like where this is going.

A Portal is relevant on the "Slam Ring" given the theme. I wonder though, if anything else in the Rick and Morty universes might symbolise a disc of death a bit more specifically... like a weapon, or... Death Crystals! ... Death Crystals might be appropriate for the difficult to predict death bringer "sling pop"?. Lol

Or themed with something involving random risk?

There is a real portal mech elswhere on the game, which I'm sure will have many ideas for ways to mod in a representation of the portal feature. The portal pop cap is still a cool option!

There are sooo many options for mods with this theme!

It would be good to know what the code gives you each time the pop is hit?. Like, it may cycle some other shot value, award things, such as the "Slam Save" . This may lead to a more obvious fitting representation for the Pop?

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Almost looks as if the garage on RM was Designed for a setup something like this! ... how much is coincidence?

Set up well, this would give a visual effect of the ball dropping into/disapearing into ... an animated spinning portal "hologram" that appears to be aligned with the surface of the playfield, covering the actual large (dark) hole and making the playfield surface just look like a portal!. Except then you shoot a ball up there, and the ball is swallowed/disapears into the portal graphic image/animation. Which would be Really cool!

Integration with gameplay could be challenging. The easy way is to have it always running, but having it active only when the shot is lit would be best. Using a light sensitive relay on the insert may work, but with the Danesi Lightshow the mod could still just be active all the time!? Lol

The harder way I guess, is devising a way for it to be controlled by the system or code.

Been awhile since I really played with an arduino but if you could tie into the rgb light that is at the portal to look for the "green" signal and turn on the portal display? Would be interesting if this was a thought and got cut if scott or spooky could weigh in?

Looks good. You could even use a simple rotating film with the portal imagfe on it that has a light behind it, vs a display to generate the image of the portal.

This would need to be dynamic and only light when the portal is "lit", if that's a thing.

If done right , 300 would not be too much for me to pay.

I would worry more about how many other modders will be offering similar items and diluting the market.

I think you could get by with something closer to what you're using to make the start button swirl.

No screen, just a backlit slide that rotates for the spinning portal effect. Maybe 2 slides, each spinning the opposite direction. $99 out the door max!

$300 would be fine for me too. It looks like there is currently a plexiglass pane, so it would be worth seeing that the RGB effects are currently before investing too much time, but I think there may be opportunity here. A clever light show may be programmed in already, so when it hits the plexiglass it looks like a swirling whirlpool.

I think the pop cover looks good as is or something else non-portalish, IMO I don't think a portal would work there, since it would conflict with the gameplay story/goals (portal is in the back), e.g. "Shoot for the portal", I've hit the pop, why isn't it progressing?