Some input and corrections...
ECMB:
"Collecting gifts requires you to rollover any character and then collect that character at the ramp. (Do this 3x once for each or just any 3 even with repetition?)."
- you must shoot a rollover of a character you haven't collected yet, and then shoot the ramp. Don't know what you mean by any 3 with repetition --- but you can't hit any rollover three times followed by the ramp. Each one must be hit. And you can't stack rollover shots prior to collecting a character on the ramp.
Crystal Ball modes:
- An INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT part you left out is the color of the BALL letters corresponds to each of the modes that will start if you shoot the spinner shot to the VUK. These should have been a some of the pinside rules posts, but I understand it might be difficult finding the information: Blue = lights out. Yellow = lights on. Green = Weak flippers. Red = No Hold Flippers. Light blue = Flipper Frenzy (reversed flippers).