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Godzilla Pinball Just Got Electrified! ⚡ Mezel Lightning + Custom Drake Building

Wild Dog Arcade·video·25m 5s·analyzed·Feb 26, 2026
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TL;DR

Mezel Mods lighting kit + custom 3D-printed building facade installation on Godzilla pinball

Summary

Wild Dog Arcade demonstrates installation of two mods for Stern Godzilla pinball: Mezel Mods' interactive illumination kit that ties LEDs to game logic, and a custom 3D-printed building facade with painted battle damage effects. The video provides detailed step-by-step installation instructions, wiring diagrams, and testing procedures, showcasing how aftermarket modifications can enhance game interactivity and aesthetics.

Key Claims

  • Mezel Mods makes an illumination kit for Godzilla Stern AC/DC Pro Vault Edition that allows the building to light up from the inside and tie into game effects

    high confidence · Wild Dog Arcade host, direct demonstration

  • The Mezel Mods kit is described as a fairly basic, plug-and-play install with LEDs, LED strips, wires, adhesive pads, and zip ties

    high confidence · Wild Dog Arcade host, physical inspection of kit contents

  • Mezel Mods also offers a pre-made facade option for those without 3D printers, as an alternative to custom 3D printing

    high confidence · Wild Dog Arcade host, stated as product availability

  • The 3D printed building facade is an overlay mod that bolts on over original plastics without requiring complete disassembly

    high confidence · Wild Dog Arcade host, direct installation demonstration

  • The lighting kit uses color-coded wiring (red and blue zip ties) to prevent incorrect installation

    high confidence · Wild Dog Arcade host, observed during wiring installation

Notable Quotes

  • “Basically it's some LEDs, an LED strip, and some wires that tie into different bulbs in the game to get the interaction, some adhesive pads, zip tie. So this is a fairly basic install, pretty much plug and play, so definitely an easy one you can do if you want to do it yourself.”

    Wild Dog Arcade host @ 0:35-1:00 — Describes the accessibility and ease of the Mezel Mods kit installation

  • “Instead of just printing them in the gray and blue and bolting it on, I wanted them to kind of look damaged, similar to some of the other mods that I have on the game. So what I did is I went in and I used an old soldering iron, poked holes, made score marks, and then painted some black and then some yellow, red, and orange embers to make it look like it's burning.”

    Wild Dog Arcade host @ 2:15-2:50 — Explains the artistic customization approach to the 3D-printed facade

  • “So remember red goes in the top white goes in the bottom so just reinstall the bulb sockets.”

    Wild Dog Arcade host @ 5:45-6:00 — Critical installation detail for proper wiring of the light bulb harnesses

  • “You don't want any stray currents, you don't want to damage your game. So unplug it before you get to work.”

    Wild Dog Arcade host @ 3:30-3:45 — Safety guidance for mod installation

  • “Got the building facade on. That really, really changes the look of it. Matches the other Stumbler style mods that I have on the game. So it's damage on it. It's little burning embers on it.”

    Wild Dog Arcade host @ 15:30-16:00 — Demonstrates the visual impact of the completed mod installation

Entities

Mezel ModscompanyStern PinballcompanyWild Dog ArcadeorganizationGodzilla PinballgameLynnpersonStumbler Modscompany

Signals

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    community_signal: Wild Dog Arcade actively engaging community through detailed tutorial content, live Twitch/YouTube gameplay, and encouraging viewer participation in modding

    medium · Host invites viewers to live gameplay streams, provides mod links, and encourages audience to ask questions and replicate modifications

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Aesthetic cohesion strategy: custom mods designed to match existing visual style (Stumbler-style damage/burning effects) rather than create jarring additions

    medium · Host intentionally matched painted battle damage, burning embers, and matte finish to existing Stumbler mods on same machine for visual consistency

  • ?

    product_strategy: Mezel Mods lighting kit adds interactive illumination to Godzilla building that ties into game logic and flashers, enhancing playfield interactivity

    high · Demonstrated installation showing LED wiring tied to red/white bulb circuits and flasher test sequences working in sync with game logic

  • ?

    technology_signal: Growing aftermarket ecosystem for pinball mods including both commercial solutions (Mezel Mods pre-made facade) and DIY alternatives (3D printing, custom painting)

    high · Video demonstrates dual options: purchasable Mezel Mods facade for non-3D printer users, or custom 3D-printed and hand-painted alternative

Transcript

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0:00
Welcome to the Wild Dog Arcade. Today our Godzilla gets more interactive! Alright today what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to be installing two different mods. First off, Mezzle Mods makes an illumination kit for our Godzilla Pro building. So right now it really doesn't have much interaction. So this is going to allow it to tie in with the game, light up from the inside, and do some cool effects. Second, I'm going to be putting a building facade on here. Now this one is a 3D printed mod. There is another facade you can buy from Mezzle Mods as well, if you don't have a 3D printer and don't feel like doing this. I have a 3D printer and I like doing painting, so I thought I would do this print. I will put the links to all of these below, so follow along and we'll go through this install. Alright, first up, this is what's included in the Metal Mods kit. Basically it's some LEDs, an LED strip, and some wires that tie into different bulbs in the game to get the interaction, some adhesive pads, zip tie. So this is a fairly basic install, pretty much plug and play, so definitely an easy one you can do if you want to do it yourself. Alright, the second part of this mod is the variety of 3D printed parts. As you can see here, I've got three building facades, the front and the left and the right, it's a two-piece building top. Basically it bolts on over top of the original plastics in the game, so this is not a complete disassembly of it. It's more of a facade and overlay. I have a multi-filament printer, so I'm able to print these in one shot, so the gray and the blue both get printed at the same time. If you don't have a multi-filament printer, you may want to consider purchasing the Mezzle Mods version. Now I did a bunch of painting on these. Instead of just printing them in the gray and blue and bolting it in, I wanted them to kind of look damaged, similar to some of the other mods that I've got on the game. So what I did is I went in and I used an old soldering iron, poked holes, made score marks, and then painted some black and then some yellow, red, and orange embers to make it look like it's burning. Kind of wanted it to tie in more with the aesthetics of some of the other mods I've got in this machine. If you want to see the painting, you can go to the end of the video. I'll put some of that there. All right, now we're going to get onto the install of the Mezel Mods Interactive Building Kit. So first thing you want to do is always turn off your game and unplug it. You don't want any stray currents, you don't want to damage your game. So unplug it before you get to work. Alright, first off we want to remove the top of the building. Basically there are four Phillips screws here and you can just unscrew them pretty easy. and voila, your building top is off. Alright, first thing you're gonna want to do is put the playfield in the server's position. Make sure you take out the balls so they don't fall out and damage anything on the actual upper part of the playfield. Then locate these two light bulbs, so they're kind of at the bottom, middle, middle right. So remove these and you need a quarter inch nut driver and just take them out.
3:14
All right when you pull them out make note they are two different colors of bulbs the red is on the top and white is on the bottom and be very important offer you to hook up the next part. Okay now what you want to do is replace your light bulb so push push in twist pull out the old bulbs I keep them in the coin door in case I ever need to undo this mod. So in that, in the kit, you're going to find some wiring harnesses with a red and a white one. So make sure you plug in the same color back into the original sockets. Basically, that ties into the GI, keeps some of the GI, but then ties in the other mod parts. In the kit, you'll find this other jumper harness. So basically, what you're to do is this is going to splice into the original harness and pulls off a power for the mod so find this connector comes out of the same hole unplug it and then we're just going to put the jumper back in it so basically plugs in exactly as it does today so basically the original bulb will still work pulls off the power for the mod all right now you can put the bulb back in their position. So remember red goes in the top white goes in the bottom so just reinstall the bulb sockets.
4:46
Okay this step is going to be a little different than the instructions because I'm going to loosen up all the side plastic because I'm going to be taking them loose so I can put the overlay on it later but I'm just going to loosen all the screws so I can get them out of the way.
5:01
So that one there, this one, these are only being loosened. I'm taking the top screws out so that they flex open. The new mod will actually just attach to that top screw. Front plate's going to be a little different. I'm going to take it completely off. So there's two screws and you can get right to them. Try not to drop your screws, they're tiny.
5:33
All right, then this one should rotate right out of the way. Okay, this next step I'm going to do, I'm going to take off some of these plastics and get them out of my way so I can route the wires a little bit easier. You don't have to do this, you can fish them in. I'm just going to do this to make it a lot easier on myself.
5:57
So you basically, you've got two Phillips screws that hold the rails in place. You've got two hex nuts that hold on a stud. So before you get too crazy, make sure you pull out that washer that hiding underneath the rail there Don lose them in the game Alright so what we kind of mostly loose there are these hex posts that are that are here i going to get a wrench and actually remove them so i can remove the plastics that will let me feed the wires up make sure everything's nice and neat before i put those plastics back in all right go back to the underside of the play field you're gonna see with this harness is all in place there should be three exposed connectors so So this one's got a piece attached to it. You're going to have to take that off so you can feed the wires up through this hole. Notice that they all have zip, two of them have zip ties, red, blue, and one doesn't. That way you can't install these wrong. So first thing you do is unplug this mini connector and then feed the three reining wires up that hole.
7:09
there once they're fed through put the play field back in the down position and then we can go on to doing the wiring all right next what i'm going to do is i'm going to start installing the actual leds there are three different leds there's a single little pod there's a strip and then there's this panel all three of them go inside the building here and each one has a different purpose so first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to install the big panel here. So there's a hole and a screw. Take this screw off and bolt that right through there.
7:52
Next up, I'm going to put this little blue piece in here with this little little pad of LEDs. So there are some included 3D self or self-adhesive sticks and this is going to go right in the middle. So basically, install in the middle of the pad, peel. I always hate getting these off. Alright, now that's done. And position it so it's basically in the middle of the actual unit and then strap it down or squish it down so that's two of them installed now the other one this one's a it's like a it's like a light bar you see on the front of a utv it's going to sit just in here behind everything so first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to take there's you got to put some double-sided adhesive tape on the back as well so it doesn't come pre- installed so install it one pad and two pads make sure it's squished on there good peel the other sides cover off and this is going to sit right on there Kind of center it pretty well. Stick it down. So these all go along to the plastic cover here. So you're going to see you've got a variety of different connections you still got to make. All right, time to hook up some wires. So as I mentioned before, there's actually some color coding to these wires. So two of them have a red and a blue zip tie on it. then the other one does not so it's pretty easy to hook up the correct one so first thing let's hook up is the blue one so down in there when you put the little spotlight in the bottom there was a blue printed base so the blue zip tie goes to the blue that's pretty explanatory so now the red one there's a couple of things you're going to want to do one is this LED here actually had a connection that was loose I don't know if that was intended or whatnot but plug that one in so basically plug that in that connects both of these LED panels together and then you take the red notice this zip tie is down here on this one so red to the end of this connector and that will plug it right in well there's the red and the blue connections made and then take the last remaining one and hook it to this front LED bar. So this completes all of the wiring underneath the hood here. It all will tuck inside when you're when you get the whole thing back together. So now what we're going to do is we're going to turn it on and we're going to run through some tests to make sure they're hooked up right. All right I have turned on the game and so you can see it's pretty washed out because they're LEDs so you can see that the back ones and we rotate over so these back ones here are red they're tied into the red bulb down here you can see the red bulb is on back here white is turned into the turned on to the white and then we've got the LED strip on the front so let's go into the test menu. I'm going to go to the lamp test and I'm going to do GI. There we go. That one, upper playfield GI, red. Upper playfield whites, that's flashing. Okay, so you can see the red and white are working.
11:59
All right, let's do a flasher test. Building spot. Top spinner flasher. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. So that's going off with the same flasher over to the right. So it looks like it's all hooked up. So now we can move on to putting it back together. All right, first thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to put the plastics back into place to cover up the wiring. So this is our flasher plastic I going to move that down onto there So there a couple of things spree wires that what going on so we find a nut I start the nut on the front here All right, next step is the hex post here. So we're gonna go back down, and let's get this hex bolt going in here. So grab that and my little quarter inch wrench and let's snug that in place. Don't go too tight, don't want to strip anything out doesn't need to be terribly tight all right so now let's get the other piece of plastic in here which will help secure these wires coming out of here you don't want them in the way of the ball there's a kind of a little crevice that they will stick in okay this piece of plastic will go in and cover the remaining bits and that is the cover
13:49
Let's find the other nut and put that on there and we'll take the wires kind of out of the way. Nut. Okay, so the baseplastics are in. There's a nut, hex post, nut and hex post. now let's do something with this wiring. So the wiring right now is kind of falling and stuff like that. What I'm going to do is get a piece of tape and put it on the backside just to keep the wiring nice and retucked on the backside. The mod that I'm doing I did not print the back so I'm leaving it as the bare plastic as it came from stern. It is not really seen in the game so it's not that important. but let's move on and let us put the the rails back in place it's got a washer that goes underneath this one wants to flex a bit so be patient with this one and also don't lose your nut or washer.
15:22
Okay. There she is, folks. All right, so next up, I'm going to get some tape, put that on there, and then we will continue on with the installation. All right, moving on to the building facades. So first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to be installing the front here. So this
15:44
Pops in it's gonna screw on Just like the original I'm not gonna put the original plastic on this front because I can completely remove it so it'll be light up a little bit better
15:56
So now just get your small Phillips and let's screw the things back together Now we're going to do one of the sides with a very small screwdriver in order to fit in the space. So a tiny little one here. All right, the other side. These sides are only, they're an overlay, so they only screw in with the top screws. All right, that's three sides. So the top actually consists of a few pieces here. actually three pieces or two pieces that layer on top of each other so kind of find the ones that match up and then what you're gonna do is put them on tucking this stuff in and then they're gonna just go into the original screw points which can be easier said than done
17:26
All right, there we go. Got the building facade on. That really, really changes the look of it. Matches the other stumbler style mods that I've got in the game. So it's got damage on it. It's got little burning embers on it. And when it lights up, these are translucent. So it'll light up really nicely. So let's put it back in, turn the game on, and see how it all looks together. All right, returning the game on. Start up in progress Oh, and there we go Got some of the lighting going on
18:10
That's what we wanted to see Some glowing It's like you can even see it You know, the front light strip right there is in the front You even got some glow through Since it's a pretty thin plastic part Where on the top looks like the building is burning from the inside So yeah, this is going to look cool. Let's go through some of the tests and do some of the lighting tests. And there we go. There the upper playfield white the upper playfield red white red and now let go with the flashers there we go there what the flashers look like in the building so now we've got this cool facade and good lighting on there so excellent mod welcome to the painting so what you see in front of you is the parts that I 3d printed we've got the front and the left and the right and then a two-piece top thanks to Lynn in Denver who put these mods together. These are an overlay so they're going to be bolting on in front of the plastic. So what I'm going to do now is paint. But first thing I'd like to do is, first thing I do when I'm going to paint any of these, these are painted with PETG and the first thing I do is use an adhesion promoter for plastics so that way it basically melts the surface just a little bit, gives it something to bite into. What I did after that is I had printed the windows in a blue, but it was very, very transparent. So what I did is I just frosted it with this Dupli-Color Perfect Match. I found this at the auto parts store. It's a pretty close color, and I just ghosted the back. So what it does is it gives it a little bit more opacity, so when the lights show through there, it won't be so distinct. After I'm done painting, I'm going to actually clear it with a matte finish so just a Krylon low order clear finish this will match some of the other mods that I've got going on at the game well I didn't want to go with high gloss here all right so I'm gonna create some battle damage I've just got an old soldering iron in here I'm gonna do some melting and dimpling of the surface to give it look like that Godzilla has actually done some attacking so I'm just gonna do some some creative melting in some certain places to give it some damage
20:38
Okay, so there's some of the battle damage. So basically I've just melted bits and pieces of the surface here. I'm going to clean off some little stringers and stuff like that and loose things. and then I'll get on to actually painting. So this piece, you know, you only see the side because this goes on top, so I did some damage on there.
21:15
And I'll clean off all of this stuff, get a little exactly when I pop off the excess, and then ready for paint.
21:35
Thank you. All right, so I've done a lot of the painting. So I did a lot of these detail work off camera because my head was in the way, so it wasn't really worth watching. But so you can see I've done a little bit of the black work and then over top of it, I've overlaid a watered down red orange and yellows to get myself some really good burning effect on this is all ready for clear coat now so you can see the different damage on this part so a little bit burning it kind of goes with the destroying aesthetic on this thing so this is ready to put on to the game after I clear coat
24:01
All right, there we go. We got our building modded with interactive lighting from Mezel Mods and then a 3D printed facade. I will put the links to the 3D print files. If you got a 3D printer at home, I'll put a link to the Mezel Mods lighting kit as well. If you don't have a 3D printer and you want to do the same thing, Mezzle Mods offers a very similar mod for your building for the facade on that. So you can also buy that there if you just want to do a bolt in and bolt and run. Thanks for watching this video. We do live game play on both Twitch and YouTube, so join us on one of those platforms and you can see us play games, talk to us, ask about the game, see how it's played, and we hope to see you then.
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