What and where to buy Twilight Zone Mods

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Pretty sure I might be coming home with a Twilight Zone in the near future and was looking to get some suggestions on MUST HAVE mods and where to buy from. Ive been looking around and some places are sold out. I have seen a post on pinside about this but I wanted to start a fresh one here to get KLOV member suggestions.

Let me know!
 
Seems like the typical mods are available on eBay. Robot, slot machine, camera, gum balls, car, piano. TZ is kind of sparse. But I'm not a fan of crowding it with mods.

I like the robot, camera, gum balls. Lighting the gum all machine.
 
Yeah I looked through ebay Im just never sure if the quality is the same compared to some on the dedicated sites like pinbits (who seems to be out of stock of most of the mods they offer)
 
there are no must haves. dont make your game look like a toy aisle exploded on it. I have one, its got some mods it came with. Im just too lazy to remove the crap. Both the rocket over the kicker and the robot are ball traps. don't get the stupid spiral crossing ramp, its blocks the playfield and looks like $&*@. If you do something dont do things that impact gameplay. The replacement lamp over the powerfield is just and upgrade of the existing lamp, it does not cause game play problems. The slot machine is a small visual block but does not impact play at all. sticking a giant car over the pops or a huge streetlight in the pops looks like hell.
 
Going to be hard to top this one:

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TZ is easily overdone to the point of tackiness...

I've got a lighting mod for the gumball machine, and gumballs in (both relatively cheap).

I picked up a translucent blue clock housing which looks very nice, along with one of the clock board upgrade kits for reliability (see: clock upgrade

The piano mod is nice and looks good, but the price is a complete joke, unless they've gotten substantially cheaper...

I also put a color changing LED strip behind the translight, where the door is located - very nice effect, very cheap and easy to install.

Regardless - don't worry about any of the above until you completely shop the game, and get it playing 100%. If it doesn't play correctly, it doesn't matter how nice it looks!
 
I appreciate the input and can see how it can get to be too much I think you are right keep it to the minimum on the toy type mods. I'll probably add a color dmd.

I always find an individuals idea of "shopped" interesting - how would you list out what is involved in a "shop"
 
Shopping out a pin it probably different for everyone. For us it a tear down of everything on top of the playfield, cleaning, waxing, re-graining all the metal guides, new rubber, new bulbs, flame polish ramps, replace anything broken. Under the playfield, new coil sleeves, new bulbs, clean subways, replace bulbs, replace any broken parts, rebuild flippers as needed. Vacuum cabinet and wipe it down inside.

But ever pin is different, and everyone defines a shop out differently.
 
Careful - don't be one of those pin guys that buys $500 of mods and $500 in blades and special rails and toppers... Then wonders why you can't get $80,000 for your pin in two years.

I'm in the market for a couple HUO pins (titles 5-10 years old) and I'm shocked at all the guys who spent untold amounts of cash adding crap to their games - and they throw hissy fits when they realize most buyers aren't impressed.

I'm all for doing what you want with your games (you should) but just do it knowing that at resale it often takes value away... or adds no value to many buyers.

Just my two cents.
 
The message I am getting so far is dont over do it - but what if any are "must have mods"? or is the general consensus to just not add any mods at all?

Gumball light mod will probably be something I do along with color dmd.
 
The message I am getting so far is dont over do it - but what if any are "must have mods"? or is the general consensus to just not add any mods at all?

Gumball light mod will probably be something I do along with color dmd.

Truthfully I believe you should do anything that makes YOU happy with your games. I was just warning you not to be delusional into thinking that a $50 mod increases your game's value by $100 (or even increases it by $1). That is where many people go wrong - they don't understand that mods aren't valued by all... and they go to sell the game later and have sticker shock when people won't pay up for the mods.

Personally I think Color DMD is a good one.
 
Completely understand and I appreciate the comments. I was just putting it up for discussion - not really looking to just buy whatever people post but am interested to hear others experience with the mods.

I also understand the value you thing - and I am cheap so certainly will not be dumping more in to it and I agree anything custom is not always going to be of value to someone else. I learned the hard way with a car I sold that had some aftermarket parts - nobody wanted that crap and my market ended up being extremely small for sale.
 
I'm not a big mod guy. But in TZ, the gum ball machine doesn't look right without gum balls. That's about it. But it's really up to you.

I totally agree. I am not a mod person either. But my TZ does have the gum balls in the globe. I do like the color DMD's but I hate all the extra plastic toys that people add to their games.

I do like the stuff that some of the proto games have that got deleted due to the added cost. Things like the 3rd magnet on the proto TZ's, the dancing boogiemans on the proto Scared Stiff's, etc.
 
Truthfully I believe you should do anything that makes YOU happy with your games. I was just warning you not to be delusional into thinking that a $50 mod increases your game's value by $100 (or even increases it by $1). That is where many people go wrong - they don't understand that mods aren't valued by all... and they go to sell the game later and have sticker shock when people won't pay up for the mods.

Personally I think Color DMD is a good one.

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do what you want, nothing is must have. realize what you like might suck to everyone else and when you sell it may or may not impress the potential buyer. People always thing if the game cost 5000 and you put 1000 in mods in the game is now worth 6000 (or more for the labor). You gotta realize you are now selling used mods that the buyer might not want.
 
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