Some local pinsiders: Badbrick, Kniessl and I decided a few months ago to start work on a Rick & Morty pinball machine. Our plan is to build 3 of them, one for each of us.

The focus of the pin will be on as much technology as we can stuff into the game, including some fun plans like a new backbox design etc...

We don't really have any cool details to show yet, because we are still just going through concepts, but we would love to know if anyone has any ideas or must-haves for the game.

The soundtrack has been amazing, and there are so many cool things we can include so far, here are just a small sampling of the things we are tossing around.

- Gear wars
- Portal gun w/subways for portal travel
- Tiny rick
- Keep Summer Safe
- Roy / Blitz and Chits
- Purge
- Squanchy

Some of the call outs we've assembled so far are:

- End game call out: From season 2 final episode wedding speech: "...in the end we all die alone"
- Gear Wars: The thing people don’t realize about the Gear Wars is that it wasn’t really about the gears.
- Abradolph Lincler: Prepare to be emancipated from your own inferior genes!
- Squanchy: How bout a taste of my squanch?
- Tilt warning: In bird culture, this is considered a dick move.
- Ball Save: You appear to be dying. I will make efforts to prevent this, but can promise nothing.

Let's hear what you think would make a good addition to the game!

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Not really. I'm in a holding pattern with Spaceballs until after November, so we've been kicking around some ideas for Rick & Morty. I've got some upgrades to do to the CNC router, so the whole machine has to come down so I can work on the table that it sits on. It's delaying the next step in Spaceballs, which is to cut v4 of the playfield.

Fleshing out a lot of the design of modes and things on the R&M playfield first makes designing it a lot easier. Trying to learn from my mistakes on Spaceballs.

Love the ideas, keep them coming!

I love the ideas!!!!

Thanks for all the enthusiasm. We hope to put together a really cool game. Even if someone else did one or a big company did, ours is from a different dimension.

Keep the ideas coming, I'm extracting them all out into a document that I'll paste back once it's more cohesive.

The explanation of how a plumbus is made. I got mine with extra schleem.

Check out what toyotaboy contributed to the project!! It's an LCD TV mod modeled after the TV in the Interdimensional Cable 2 episode.

It plays clips from the interdimensional shows. So badass!!! Little bitsss.....

Holy cow! I love all the ideas!

Sorry for the radio silence on my end, I've been on vacation for the past 2 weeks and haven't really been near a computer.

You guys aren't going to believe the thing Toyotaboy sent me. I'm gonna take some video tonight. It's amazing!!!!

Dude this is awesome!!!! Maybe we can get them both side by side at a show or something in the future!!

More to come as I completely catch up on this thread and everything from the past 2 weeks.

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From the genius mind of toyotaboy, he created a sweet ass interdimensional cable box to go on the game. One of the coolest things I've seen in a while.

He modeled it after this:

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I made a quick video of it plugged in and running. This thing is awesome!!!

It's a super busy season right now for me, BadBrick and Kneissl. I think we are aiming to get together the week after christmas and go through some playfield ideas.

It won't be as good as this one.... when we get around to making it...

Kneissl, BadBrick and I got together last night to talk Rick & Morty.

I think we came up with some cool ideas that I'm going to start putting into CAD. I'll post some pics as I get things in over the next couple of weeks.

Here's a short list of some of the things we decided:

- 3 flippers (excluding mini playfields)
- No LCD - RGB DMD only
- Interactive backbox game
- Dynamic lower playfield under a window and a mini playfield up at the top.
- Subway system
- Multiple playfield displays
- OLED targets and inserts

Is there a compelling reason for it? There are going to be a LOT of screens doing things on this, if you include the OLEDs and playfield LCDs.

We hadn't really gotten that far. In my mind it was all color, but maybe price will play a factor in it. Not all inserts will be OLED, just select ones.

Lots of fun stuff like that in the plans.

Nothing worth posting. I've been slowly putting in CAD time to get the basics all in before we start with the fun stuff.

Dangit!! Now I feel like I've been Revolio Clockberg'd:

I love some Rick & Morty.

No updates on the pin, it's going to be slow. Season 3 slow.

Completely agree!!

Share what you have done if you want to!

LOL, as far as Kneissl knows. He is one of the builders, he knows.

He is right though, we haven't done anything lately because of my push to get Spaceballs ready. After SFGE I think we will have a lot more time to start messing with it.

There's no doubt season 3 will have an impact on the machine, I'm kinda glad we don't have a ton laid out yet.

hahaha, I just saw that earlier and had the same thought.

I picked up a couple Rick and Morty funko pops at SFGE, including a Mr. Poopy Butthole.

"Join us LIVE tonight at 9pm ET on http://adultswim.com/streams"

Can't wait!!!!

As always I love your ideas. Keep them coming.

We are definitely doing the LED ring idea, but we hadn't considered doing it on the playfield, that sounds awesome. We are planning to do an ice cold beer type of game in the backbox, and were hoping to use something almost identical to your mockup for the lit ring around the holes.

I love the idea of using them on the playfield too.

The targets with OLED displays are a definite. I've been experimenting with using the displays as the actual targets too, and how to best protect them.

In my head, this game has to have no technological expense spared, it's what Rick would do.

That truck doesn't come anywhere near me, or I'd buy so much shit.

I emailed them and they said they will stop somewhere in SC toward the end of their trip!! Woot!

I'll definitely be there. Maybe I can get BadBrick and Kneissl to come with me

I don't think those are really spoilers.

In a few minutes they will replay season 3, episode 1.

Settling in.....

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It also needs technology out the ass. OLED displays everywhere, everything RGB, amazing sound, etc....

This game can't be skimped on. We are already putting an Ice Cold Beer style game in the backbox, lol.

There's no reason Spooky can't make a $10k game. They just haven't chosen to yet.

I know @badbrick, Kneissl and I are superfans. Myself especially. I literally have every word from every episode memorized, and have watched every episode at least 20 or 30 times at this point.

We will do our damnedest to make this game bring R&M to life.

That's cool! I'm trying to print a pickle rick with rat mech suit this weekend.

That would be amazing. I hope what we are doing makes them smile and laugh.

The winter build season is almost upon us, and I'll begin bringing ideas for this game from digital to physical.

Finally we get to see the rise of the evil morty!

These are great ideas!!!

I think we are thinking along very similar lines, but you have some better details that we will incorporate for sure. One of the big aspects I'm trying to work into this is a lot of moving things on the playfield, that uncover other things. Shots that can vary based on what is going on and where they feed the ball. I think that brings into play a decent number of cool elements: subways, ramps w/diverters or ramps that can move, trap doors, etc...

I learned a lot with Spaceballs and I'm ready to take that to the next logical level with R&M.

Made a stop at GameStop on the way home this afternoon just to browse and these two guys followed me home:

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My halloween costume this year, fat rick from dimension c-kitkat.

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I couldn't do what I am planning to do with the P3, unfortunately.

It would be very neat for a graphic intensive version of a Rick & Morty game though!

Naw man, I don't take any offense to that stuff. I too dislike how far people can take it in the name of being "fans". The car for the szechuan sauce is ridiculous, and obviously was just done to get 5 minutes of fame. Same with the guy screaming like a lunatic at McDonalds.

These are the same people that smoke one joint and start slapping 420 stickers on everything and wearing hemp clothing.

I love Rick & Morty in the way that I can repeat every line and describe every visual/scene. I won't however go stand in line for a packet of sauce, lol. It was a joke in the show and they should have left it at that. McDonald's did the sauce release without even letting the show know beforehand.

We are definitely building this game, it's just been a slow start. Going to be wrapping up Spaceballs over the next 3-6 months and then we will start to do some of the physical construction on Rick & Morty. Space is a big constraint for me.

An interesting and timely article:

"The Rise of Toxic Fandom: Why people are ruining the pop culture they love"

http://junkee.com/rick-and-morty-toxic-fandom/130622

I picked up Gran Turismo Sport earlier in the week, and was messing with the livery editor.

Morty, I turned myself into a racecar.

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Just messing around on a sunday afternoon with some ball launcher models.

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Already got it on preorder!

I picked up the Spirit Halloween one too for my costume.

In pinball news, I've been working on the PCBs for the portal gun shooter. Fusion 360 now has integration to EAGLE so I can go seamlessly back and forth between the two.

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I believe the company you are thinking of already has purchased the license.

Won't stop us though. Wubba lubba dub dub!

It won't.

I'm hopeful both games turn out awesome!

We were out shopping today and I was able to pick up all but one of the new Rick & Morty construction sets. Close up of my favorite. Oh boy, here I go killing again.

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This happened today.

BadBrick and I went to the truck, but it was raining and the line was already 50 people deep, so we went down the street and played pinball. Was really cool seeing the truck and all the fans though.

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This one features wireless technology!

It's been a busy winter for the project team, so we haven't done much on it unfortunately other than digital design and some prototyping.

My dad is a scale modeler, and does a lot of his work from scratch. While he was here for christmas he taught me some of his molding/casting skills. We worked on the chamber for the top of the portal gun shooter. I've got a lot of work to go still, but here are my first ever attempts at molding/casting. The rick and morty portal gun prop is at the top, and then you can see my 3d printed portal gun body (minus the handle and button), and the castings I did to mess with colorants and additives.

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Love it.

I think your idea of hitting the targets to clear it up probably works well enough to get the point across.

The clips and sounds it plays could be from that episode and you progress through it by cleaning up the green targets.

Yeah that thing was crazy.

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I'll buy it. There was a PS VR logo at the end of that trailer, which means it will have a VR component too. I'm a sucker for that right now.

The rumor is a manufacturer has the license, but no idea if they are actually going to make it.

I sure hope they do.

That is who I heard has the license (I have no info other than the rumor to back that up). I'd prefer to see Stern do it as well.

I love the concepts, but I think we are going to avoid doing a playfield window with this one. Even though we haven't posted in a while, one of the team came up with a really cool prototype playfield that I think we are going to use as a starting point.

What?

Oh yeah, there is another and they are much further along!

Yeah he does.