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AC/DC (LE)
Stern, 2012-
AC/DC (Premium)
Stern, 2012
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Addams Family, The
Bally, 1992
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Apollo 13
Sega, 1995
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Attack from Mars
Bally, 1995
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Batman (The Dark Knight)
Stern, 2008
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Big Buck Hunter Pro
Stern, 2010
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
Williams, 1993
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Elkhorn, WI
Abbotsford, BC
Hey,
The best effect in pinball involves either turning five grand into a plywood box, or me waving my hands and getting a buddy to help me move a 300 pound toy for the cost of a couple beers.
Not specific to a game, but I think shaker motors are pretty cool...
Luke
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One good way to measure "best effect" might be to measure the reaction from non-players. We have an MM, but, we also have a TAF and, without question, when Thing comes out of his box and picks up the ball it gets the biggest rise out of our friends. They watch the castle and it's kind of "meh", but when that hand comes out of the box people go nuts. They jump back laughing and make all kinds of exclamations of OMG-type comments. It's so unexpected.
Quoted from csprings74:One good way to measure "best effect" might be to measure the reaction from non-players. We have an MM, but, we also have a TAF and, without question, when Thing comes out of his box and picks up the ball it gets the biggest rise out of our friends. They watch the castle and it's kind of "meh", but when that hand comes out of the box people go nuts. They jump back laughing and make all kinds of exclamations of OMG-type comments. It's so unexpected.
Exactly! I can love pinball machines as much as possible but without bringing new people into the hobby, it wont continue to survive.
My sisters wife came over today and saw our new games, she couldn't get enough of WoZ and all that was going on. The only other game she played was Spiderman. ( TZ is down until I fix the clock connector )
Breda, Holland
The only reason I play AC/DC is to hit the bell.
The only reason why I will buy AC/DC is to hit the bell.
I want the highest score whenever I play a pin, except when I play AC/DC because all I want to do is...hit the bell
Quoted from jayhawkai:This thread should be titled "name any toy from any pinball machine."
Meh, thats like saying "Why own more than one pinball machine, aren't they all the same?"
Wow nobody said Star Trek Le! I love afm but The Star Trek ship is more impressive than the afm saucer.
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Villejuif
Quoted from jlm33:Surprised the hand on TAF is cited several times, while the "thing flips" is not.
The hand does nothing to me (besides slowing down the game) while I always found the accuracy of that automatic shot fantastic....
I agree. Thing is cool once. Then I want to reach in there and take my ball back.
Another vote for the glove in Johnny Mnemonic. There aren't many toys that give the player an actual decision to make. It's a key element of strategy in the game, and your choices are different depending on whether you are trying to maximize score, reach Power Down, maximize modes, maximize gigabytes, or other possible goals.
best physical effect toy: hologram in cftbl
best tie-in with game theme: tron le ramp ramps
best ball saver in a game: inlane/outlane swords in totan
best visual/physical combination effect: winning a magic token in safe cracker
worst looking toy: mary shelly's frankenstein (did frankenstein have both of his arms broken just to be put in this position?
Quoted from WOLF:The dolls for playboy that are shown on the cover of PBL.
I want to thumbs down this just on principal (no I haven't been reading the thread since my last post, and don't intend to), but I did LOL, so I guess thumbs up for that. 
2 weeks later
Quoted from ek77:I love my ac/dc but the bell is lame as pin toys go.
That's because you have the Pro. I'm no premium/LE snob but a solid bell shot on the premium is immensely satisfying.
No one has mentioned Dracula on MB yet - fun to hit a moving target.
That bowling alley on TBL will give a few a these a ride for there money!
Singapore
Quoted from JoeinNJ:Are there any toys from the EM days that should be on this list?
The spinning post disc on Triple Action is cool. (Predecessor to the TOTAN lamp and several recent Stern rehashes.) And some older EMs that had 2+ saucers so the ball would hop from one to another.
Also, I construe a pinball "toy" as meaning something that interacts with the ball. So several mentioned here don't count in my book, even though they may look cool (like the Tron LE lighting). Stuff like the MM castle, Shadow lock, TOM trunk, TZ Power, etc. are all cool "toys."
Another simple but cool toy is the menagerie ball in CV. Especially because it has a target and second switch behind it. It messes with the ball a bit on a cool way.
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