Minneapolis, MN
Wow!
Beautiful - if a little garish - art packages!
Mad props to Jack for - above all - his streaming and all the fun he brings to the hobby. I am stoked for him to be advancing in his career in this industry, for sure.
Still, as for this layout, I do have one concern and it's kind of a big one:
The creativity that he applied to his inlanes - a target?! - is going to muck up the flow of the ball to the flipper. Elwin makes the best the flipper-return ballguides because he knows the importance of flow in those lanes for roll passing. His ballguides are laser-cut stainless and the elbows have slightly-larger-than-normal radii to encourage speed. This design has no true elbow; the ball rolls off the rail above the target, falls through the air, then doinks against the stainless ballguide an inch or so below before rolling to the flipper. Could it be great and I'm selling it short? Of course! But the odds are it will kill flow in the the lanes I will miss a traditional ballguide every time the ball rolls through. Plus, it will prevent a reverse toss - when the ball flies through the inlane in the opposite direction and squirts out the inlane and into the playfield. Those are fun.
