Baby Pac-Man: Pinblades?

Tighe

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What do you guys think? Would adding custom pinblades to Baby be an improvement? What do think they should look like?

My two thoughts are either to continue the stylized maze and dots from the bezel a control panel on black, or to do blue like the playfield with the cartoon characters.

Thoughts? I'm not sure how I feel about it.
 
There's plenty of Pac fan art out there, lay out a design, make a post. Put it on Pinside also as those guys may be interested. Gauge interest, get preorders, print and ship.
 
It's custom inner art for the pinball machine. Covers the usually black regions on the sides and back.

Examples
http://www.pingraffix.com/#!pinblades/cdpj

Wow those actually look really slick... I'm loving the Ghostbusters one...

Now it makes me wonder why they leave all that area black on pins... Maybe it's a clarity issue or something? Or maybe they just didn't bother to do art there?
 
Inner sideart on pins always gets ruined. Bad idea.
Plus it just wreaks of aftermarket rice job.
 
Now it makes me wonder why they leave all that area black on pins... Maybe it's a clarity issue or something? Or maybe they just didn't bother to do art there?

Lowering retail cost, no real demand for it in the market (remember: we're talking distributors and ops as the target market, not collectors), visually-distracting, and:

Inner sideart on pins always gets ruined. Bad idea.
Plus it just wreaks of aftermarket rice job.

These also.

I remember seeing one (a Twilight Zone, IIRC) where the inner walls had been - for want of a better term - mylarised. Each wall had been covered in material that was reflective to the point of being a mirror. It made the gameplay truly awful: too much visual overload, lights both inside and outside the machine being reflected directly into your eyes, etc.

Admittedly, that's not the type of stuff we're talking about here. But it does definitely fall into the Bad Ideas category, and gives some idea of the extremes it can be taken to.
 
Would NEVER put on my Baby Pac... but that's just me.

I try to recreate what the game was like in the arcade with obvious deviations where reasonable (free play for example). I'm not out to "bling" a game beyond LEDs (which serve a legitimate technical purpose as well as an aesthetic purpose in my humble opinion).
 
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