What would it take (and the added cost) to do a protector for the plastic up by the pops as well like this set at Marco? Not trying to undercut you, just that additional protector is one thing I like about that set. For yours I like the color selection options and that you're including the extra hardware!

Those look sharp! Looking forward to seeing pics once you get them installed.

That is a good point. If the plastic is the same for the Pro and Premium/LE then I would say have the part available and offer two kits: 4 piece and 5 piece. For Pros recommend the 5 piece, for Prem/LE indicate the 5 piece will work but it may be not be worth the effort and thus recommend the 4 piece set. If the plastics are different, then just make a Pro 5 piece set and a Prem/LE 4 piece set. My 2 cents.

I absolutely love this cover for the time machine. There would be only two things that I would want to change on it that I'm going to toss out there.

1) get more of a 3D "wheel" look to the year digits. Stern's solution was just some gradient shadowing and perspective skewing of the numbers on the physically flat sticker but it helps. For as nice as the digits on this mod look they seem to feel (from pics at least) very flat while they're actually supposed to represent wheels. Not sure if there is any wiggle room to improve that in the printing? While possibly outside of your build ability maybe a hybrid of printing a flat space similar for a sticker like Stern's and then someone comes up with a nice Stern-like sticker to go in there with the forced perspective tricks?

2) While I think you've got a cool looking solution for the LED lamps, the LED mod Space Coast Pinball came up with has absolutely grabbed me. I think the best of both worlds for this would be a collab between Tmezel and @john_i? Would something like that be possible?

Thanks for taking a crack at this! I was wondering if these were going to be able to work together, it looks to me like the best of both worlds!

Damn! I'm interested but not for a while yet. I need to space out my add-ons to this game and also just curb some of my recent spending. But very impressive and looks great!

Had some issues with the spinner registering on an LE after installing a gold NinjaCamp spinner protector. (More info in the NinjaCamp thread.) Simple fix was a small strip of duct tape for better opto reflection. Unsure if it would apply to the other colors.

Rush NinjaCamp spinner (resized).jpg

Follow up, NinjaCamp is running the gold shield with no issues and I have no reason to not believe them. It is possible this is a one-off on that machine. I'll be installing a gold shield on my personal pin and will test out the spinner opto before and after, see if it responds like the one where I had to add the tape.

Aside from the opto registering issue on this pin, there is no issue with the protector. It plays great! Honestly the extra mass might help get more spins...

FYI, I posted an update to this in the NinjaCamp thread. While the problem I had with the original gold spinner shield seemed to depend on the machine, the new gold filament they're using has worked in all my tests.

In case you missed it from the main Rush thread or the NinjaCamp one...

Speaker light kits that tie in with the expression lighting!
https://vimeo.com/735216088

Still in prototype stage (plus if you hadn't heard the team has some personal medical emergencies) but OutpostKodelia said $100-$200. So that's a pretty big range, but for what they plan for you to get I would expect it to fall in there.

Helping out OutpostKodelia and NinjaCamp, dropping this here...

Only one color available, but this is out there.
US: https://mezelmods.com/products/clip-protector-set-rush-pinball?variant=39962794164321
EU: https://pu-parts.com/clip-rush-pro-yellow or https://pu-parts.com/clip-rush-premium-le-yellow

On one machine where I installed the NC inner loop guide (the angled outer edge bit) it did start to wander. Some good double sided tape on the back solved it. Would hope it wouldn't be necessary, but with the flexibility of the TPU used I think it is inevitable. This does prove that the ball is lifting up off the playfield and hitting that in order to get pushed. Else you can go with one of the other mods that are either more rigid plastic (I think) or just the clear cover.

I bought mine through Mezel Mods but have yet to install them. (at the same time I'll be doing the Rocket City hardware kit and Titan rubbers) I would prefer if they were available in different color options, particularly clear so they don't alter the color of the lighting going through the Stern plastics.