I'm ashamed to admit this....but I had a similar problem on an IJ plastic from them once...and was instructed to remove the protective plastic covering. Viola!

Did you?

Hmmm. I do know that the colors are off sometimes. My Mata Hari repro sets for instance. They look cool, but the purple is lighter in the repro set. With that said, I have read in the past that when they repro plastics, they do try to go for the original colors, and not the faded ones of today. That "might" explain the pinkish nature of your line when compared to the purple Obviously not the case on mine, where the repro is lighter.

A buddy bought the klingon assistance and ferengi jackpot last summer from Marco and they were horrid, very fuzzy and grainy looking, the colors were all very far apart from the originals. We were tempted to send them back as well, but his were so busted he decided to keep them. They were really awful

Maybe it is something with the manufacturer of the STTNG plastics, has anyone had a good reproduction from any vendor??

I have taken many a plastic protector film off of sling plastics....FT - sttng -dm- potc the ones i remember.

Nope. Very informative thread. I would have expected them to look much closer to original, maybe better.

I stack broken plastics. I put the new one underneath the old one so I look at the new colors only where the old were broken. Not a perfect soloution, but it has worked for me a few times.

I see your point no need to make an already dark looking playfield look even darker. But I guess if your looking from the glass is half full standpoint at least they still have plastics for the game unlike TS which people were paying an obscene amount of money for.

I have the same issue with my DW slingshot plastics, except the repros look lighter and more washed out instead of darker (the graphics are slightly different too). They still look better than a busted ass ones I took off, so whatcha gonna do?

"They still look better than a busted ass ones I took off, so whatcha gonna do?" +1

I bought the slings from Mad, and they are lighter and look different from the flipper guide ones just below it.

I had the same issue. Bought two plastics I needed and the pink to purple difference is very bad. I figured they were better than nothing, but the quality on these was very poor...especially for the price they charge.

Yep, this was me. Really poor, but like Pin_Crazed said, they were better than the busted up alternatives that were in the game.

Same experience here when I had one...plastics especially slings terrible for this game

Keep in mind your originals may have faded from their original colors. That doesn't account for graininess or line clarity. Probably not the vendor's fault as they just stock them from whoever prints them.

It's definitely not the vendor's fault, but they are better than broken pieces.

Not just that game but I bought a repro kit from Marco for my HS and the slings and lane guides had a little bit of red where it should be black lines on the edge, cant tell really at first glance unless i pointed it out to you, kinda like a touch up on pf. I'll live with it, but if my machine was collectors quality I wouldn't be buying repro kits right, ha,ha.

I'm wondering if these aren't CPR repros. I had problems with plastics (by CPR) I bought for bad wizard where the orange was missing throughout the set

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/repro-plastics-quality

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Yes, the wizard plastics are CPR's and have been documented quite a bit on RGP about the lack of orange.

All the repro plastics I've purchased look like they were printed on an ink jet printer from 1991... and the colors are always off.

I bought three sets of repro sling plastics from three different places and they all look like garbage.

Wow, the font doesn't even really match that closely. It's hard to see from the flash glare, but the original has a thinner, crisper font too. Not being too picky IMO.

Had the same problem with mine STTNG. Bought repro plastics from England and they were WAY OFF in color and details. Same thing with pink - purple color! I never installed them and I regret buying them! Now I've glued the originals and it looks good.