Shepparton
Very cool indeed!
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Despicable Me Pinball Madness
Pinball Amigos, 2017
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So recently we bumped into a guy named Tom on the internet, he is currently building a boutique pinball named jungle gems,a real ramp monster.
As the name sort of reveals, it is a jungle team and you have to collect different jungle gems.
He will be connecting different boards and write his own code.
After some mail, tom donated a very usable cool lethal weapon ramp to our project.
Look it up, tom has a website, very ambitious project indeed
Hagerstown, MD
Have you thought about using this idea?
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/rgb-led-panels-for-dmd-replacement
This is the scoop for minion bob's belly,we have put a 1 drop target in front of it,you will have to bash the drop target in order to enter bobs belly.
At this point we have the ball popping out when you shoot it in, but we are thinking of making bob the entrance to the subway ball lock in the under playfield that we are currently building.
Everything went smooth this week,this is the machine up until this point,we have everything working great.
We are real excited about building the subway ball lock playfield.
It will give an extra spark to the machine..three levels of playfield,an interactive(gru's house) backbox.
There will be a ton of stuff happening,it is going to be the coolest pin ever.
Why is the left upperloop guide so far from the left.
You loose a lot of space.
Now you only have a loop shot and a scoop and the half left of your playfield space is used.
If you put it more to the left both metal guides , you have space for a extra shot.
If you bring on the minnion scoop a litle down and to the leftyou have space for a lot more things.
Well i see you bring in first the things you want and later sort it out.
You guy's do that al the time,so things get sorted out later i think.
I am on the dpo sunday also, so if you want some help with your layout ask me.
If you don"t want that ,oke we can drink a beer and talk about other people. 
Abbotsford, BC
Quoted from pinballrockstar:So recently we bumped into a guy named Tom on the internet, he is currently building a boutique pinball named jungle gems,a real ramp monster.
As the name sort of reveals, it is a jungle team and you have to collect different jungle gems.
He will be connecting different boards and write his own code.
After some mail, tom donated a very usable cool Lethal Weapon ramp to our project.
Look it up, tom has a website, very ambitious project indeed
I did a search for this project with no luck. Do you guys have a link you can share? It sounds pretty cool!
Keep up the good work, the updates are all looking super promising!
I like the randomness of your trying things out, going on the fly. But as a person that likes to plan things ahead you make me nervous. Keep up the good work!
Yeah, we know what you mean...but one move seems to lead to another you know?
We will be on your nerves a lot in this topic then...lol.
We wanted to make the pin playable to see if shots are satisfying,but before you know it,you are adding code for the matrix lights to see how they interact with switches registering ball events...add flashers just to see if you are in fact capable of making them flash and how the playfield looks with some flash.
And we added the dmd because these are huge steps forward and it really Is a big motivator.
It is kind of a psychological passage through the harder things for us...cause it already is a shooting pin with basegame and dmd right?
We don't like to ride through the narrow tunnel of other peoples visions...we respect them ofcourse, but we like to have sort of an organic flow to our pinball build.
I personally think Brian Eddy at times laughed itself silly and had great fun adding the duke of bourbon voices to medieval madness for example....and that fun reflects in your pin.
That is why Pat Lawlor games don't make me smile, he's a very serious guy....
I too like the simplicity of the art work on the cabinet,there is something nice about a predominant color and simple lines, maybe its just me, but a lot of the super fancy graphics look more like advertising (and it is) whereas these line art graphics are in my mind far more pleasing- very nice!
We have had a lot of requests for the web link to Tom's boutique build called jungle gems.
It was hard to find:
http://www.pinnovations.nl/PITM/
So team minions pinball had their friday meeting again, we discussed some layout for the subway playfield.
We actually agreed to also play some pinball too as i just purchased a restored Totan.(we haven't played a single game in months because of the build,that is what we used to do on friday "pinball" evening)
But addicting as a pinball build is,the entire evening slipped away in the build again..
You have to sort of map your inserts , a subway playfield is actually real hard to implement,just think of the space you lose for a sub playfield AND the subway RAMPS you need to fit.
All sorts of components are in the way at the underside of the playfield.
So it was actually the right moment to fit it right now and engineer our way around it with the rest of all the stuff that goes underneath
We started to strip off some parts of our Baywatch playfield.
It has nice chimnee style vuk's and we decided to build a vuk in the apron,we believe that will be a first in pinball too.
We took off a supernice red subway ramp from baywatch too.
We chose baywatch for a parts playfield not only because it was simply for sale, this sega has the exact same layout as our build.
The upper playfield is oriented on the upper left of the playfield in both cases.
So this was a huge score last week as we have a ton of wire ramp we were searching for.
And ofcourse a bizar load of parts wecan use.
We bought a lot of stuff new and that is a pity,we have a lot of stuff on this playfield that we already bought.
But hey, we don't have a crystal ball right? Only Jersey Jack has those.(woz lol)
Check out how nice our subway assembly fits!
Next we are going to connect the big Bob minion toy (change the scoop)....attach him via subway ramp to the under playfield.
Then our subway loop works.
Bob the minion then will have 2 targets next to his belly left and right, just like Bluto's head on popeye.
If you have the targets lit, the magnet ball lock in the subway playfield will lay the ball in lock,if not , the ball rolls through the sub playfield, in the vuk, and spits back on the playfield.
WOW!!!!! That looks great. My kids and I love following your progress. They ask me several times when can we play. They are very young and don't fully understand how big the world really is. Keep up the great work, and we all love the videos.
With a seminar on Saturday morning from another remake, MM to medieval castle, from pinballwill you should consider to change DPO Sunday visit Saturday
In any case Will is also there on Sunday with his remake in the main hall. Make sure to pay him a visit as I think you share a lot of interest.
Oh, and I don't want to hold back on our sound system progress last week! 
Mpf will be updating on their sound system in the near future because it is very limited. 
.(nevertheless we made it work for us.
Been struggling a bit 
but we have sound and vision. 
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