Hey guys, welcome back to the channel. Are you looking for the ultimate topper to compliment your Godzilla original or Godzilla 70th? If so, I'm pretty sure I found it. This is the Godzilla Conquer Edition by Electric Playground. Just look at the detail on this thing. From the light shows to the unique implementation of the LCD screens that interact with the gameplay, this thing just screams quality from the moment you take it out of the box. The black and white weathered look is amazing and it really complements the Godzilla 70th edition pinball machine. So, in this video we're going to take a closer look and see if this topper is the ultimate complement to your stern Godzilla pinball machine. Okay, so other than looking totally awesome, what does this thing actually do? So it does interact with different things in the game. So you've got these really amazing plastics that represent the city. or the different cities. So as you traverse through the cities, each individual city will light up when it's lit on the playfield. So for instance, if you're in New York, you're going to see New York light up. If you're in London, you're going to see London light up. If you're in Paris, Paris is going to light up. And if you're in Tokyo, Tokyo is going to light up. And it's really cool. It has like a cool lighting effect. Now, other than that, there's also a spinner in the back. Now when you hit that back spinner, you get this blue lighting effect in the back, which is really neat as well. When Destruction Jackpot is lit, you're going to have a fire effect and these sort of explosions will show up on the LCD screen. I think that is very cool. The UFO, when the mothership is enabled, the light there, it will actually shoot up a UFO out of the back of the topper. When it first happened, I was like, damn, that is super cool. And then there's also an animation for that as well that plays on the LCD screens of the topper. When Rodin is lit, that's when you have 2x scoring. So on the topper, you'll see this really cool purple scrolling effect, almost like Knight Rider-esque. And then on the LCD screens, you'll see an animated GIF that says 2x. Very cool. Other than that, there's also each individual monitor mode has an animated GIF that goes along with it. So you're going to have tank, raid, bridge, and Tesla. And they're even color coded correctly to the event on the play field. It's really, really cool. I mean, it's neat to have this extra, you know, sort of integration with the topper. Because some toppers just kind of light up and do a couple different light shows. But this does some pretty unique things. And I think that LCD implementation was pretty clever. They have a non-LCD version of the topper that is actually a little bit more cost effective. It's not as cool, you save a little money, but they're like static images that light up versus this which has these animated images. Now keep in mind, the user community has actually created their own because this is open source, so you can create your own animated GIFs So if you wanted to do something different when the UFO is lit you can actually have it do a different image As a matter of fact I going to show you the community created a whole bunch of them that are on Pinside But there's individual ones for the UFO, for Destruction Jackpot, for Heat Ray, and those will go off when you trigger those events. So these are different than the ones that are pre-configured with the card. So he does give you those images that are like the default ones. And if you want, you can either create your own or use the ones that the community created. So, but those are all available to you. All I did was I just had four extra 8 gig cards. So there's four 8 gig cards that it comes with. I happen to have some older 8 gig cards laying around. So I threw the other images on it. You could simply delete the ones that are on there and put the user community ones on if you wanted. It does have to follow a naming convention and in the actual, on the actual memory card, there's a text file that kind of tells you what the images need to be called for it to work properly. So this thing is pretty damn awesome. I'm excited for a lot of reasons. It looks amazing. It's very, very high quality. And I love the open source aspect of it that you can kind of go and create your own. I put some fun retro Ralph ones on there as well. So I'm going to show you a couple of the ones that I had Mason create for me. I haven't slept in three days. The world's turned dark and the only light I've been able to obtain is from my computer screen while making ralph his gifts and editing this video he flew across the country took my car keys broke my glasses and locked me in this room and said he'd mail it all back when his stuff got done so i hope you love them we're we're good guys don't worry he didn't actually do those things we're totally fine i'm safe but actually check this out like you know what i mean so that's the first gift and the other one is pretty cool too but this is nice i like the red channel theme you know and the flip side is the second one you will hear a little bit more about that in a little bit But if you like podcasts, you like pinball, and you like Ralph, it's a pretty good combo. Let's get back to the real stuff. The other thing that's really neat is it's very clever how they did the install. There's a sensor plate that goes over the actual light board that's underneath the play field. And so when each event gets triggered, the sensor simply sees that light, and it tells the topper what to do. I like that because, well, it's really a very clever way to do it. But also, Stern doesn't give these third-party companies access to the software, so this is really the only way you can really effectively do it. But I like it because it's not something that's ever going to change. If you did it via software and they did a software update, that would be hard for them to manage and control, version control and all that stuff. They don't have to worry about that because of the way they implemented it, which is really cool. And there's also some future integration possibilities. if other companies want to make things that could hook into the topper, that's also a possibility as well. I love it. I think it's really cool. And I think you'll probably like it too. And we're crazy in this community, right? We spend lots of money on making our products or making our games sort of our own, right? That customization aspect of it. And this is probably one of the most unique things I've ever seen for the Godzilla machine. I mean, outside of there's amazing mods inside the play but as far as like toppers go this one is probably one of the best ones I seen And it really cool the great lengths that they went to making it something that unique that really makes your game stand out. All right, so I gotta admit, this thing really did surprise me. In a good way, because I'm not really a topper guy. So when Rob over at Electric Playground said, do you want to check this out? And the backstory is, he saw the videos I was making on my Godzilla 70th Black and White Edition. and he's like, hey man, I think this would be a cool thing to show your audience. So he offered to send it to me for purposes of review and man, the second I took this thing out of the box, you can tell this thing is quality. And what really struck me was these four 3.2 inch screens he has out in the front of the device, which actually interacts with certain things in the gameplay. The whole topper interacts with various different things throughout the game. I just was like blown away by the overall quality and then I actually really enjoyed it. I'm like, man, I think this thing is really cool, which is probably going to lead to me buying more toppers. And I was not a topper guy. So thanks a lot, Rob at Electric Playground. You guys make some really cool products. And this isn't the only topper they make. They make other toppers. As a matter of fact, if you're going to be at Pinball Expo, they'll be featuring this product among other products that they make. So you're definitely going to want to check that out. Now I do want to mention, the install is probably a little, maybe intermediate. If you have never done modding to a pinball machine before, this is going to be a pretty difficult first mod. It's not that it's difficult to do, but for someone that's brand new and hasn't really tinkered under the playfield, you may be a little uncomfortable with it at first. But the good news is, is the directions are really good. So not only do you get printed directions that Rob and Electric Playground keep up to date all the time as things change, but there's also complimentary videos. So this video isn't an install video, but I'm telling you, you won't really have a hard time doing this if you're comfortable with modding already. If it's a brand new thing for you and this is a new venture, then you're going to need a little bit more help. And you'll just want to read through the instructions really carefully so you don't mess anything up. During the install, it went pretty well. The only issue I had is one of the sensors was just slightly off and it wasn't working. So I had to pop up the play field, go inspect a little bit of what was going on, and I fixed it. and I did tell Rob what was going on. He said it's probably just one of the sensors moved when you installed it. Sure enough, that was exactly what it was, but Rob answered my question super fast and we were off and running. But I am very, very happy with this. I'm super stoked. And if you wanna check it out, I'll have a link in the description to the device. This is the Conqueror Edition, but there's versions of this product that don't have the LCD screen, so that one's a little bit cheaper than the one that has the LCD screens, runs about $1,500 or so, about in line with what Stern charges for their toppers. They're kind of in that price range. So it's not like outrageously more than them or less than them. So I feel like it's reasonably priced for what it is. And it really does do a lot of cool, fun, interactive things with the gameplay. Even my wife who really doesn't understand why someone would pay extra money to put something on top of their game as a decoration. She like wow that actually really cool Okay so I sure you probably wondering would I actually buy this with my own money Well as a matter of fact I ended up buying this one off of Rob at Electric Playground for two reasons One because I think it really cool Two because I really lazy and didn want to uninstall it and put it all back in the box and send it back to him. So I was sold. I really like it. But the one thing that sucks about this is it's going to lead to me buying more toppers for my games because I can't handle looking at a game, seeing a topper, and then seeing a bunch of games with vacant toppers on top and nothing there. So Rob, you kind of did mess things up for me because that's money I could go towards additional pinball machines. Although I'm kind of starting to run out of room. So you guys know that that's been kind of a going problem. If you've been watching the channel, I tend to run out of space, but then have some illusion in my mind that there's more space than that's actually in the room. So we'll see. We'll see where it goes. But I really like the product. I love that it interacts with things on the play field. I love the pop-up UFO thing. I think that is super cool. And overall, the build quality of it is amazing. So if I paid that amount of money for it and the thing was not well built, I think I would probably rethink it. But because the quality of it is so good, that kind of took it over the edge for me. Now the install, like I said earlier, it's a little bit more advanced. I'd say it's probably like intermediate to advanced level, but he makes it pretty simple. It's just that you kind of have to get behind some wires, unplug some things, and if you're not familiar with modding, you may have some reservations doing so. If you've been someone that's done pinball mods before, it's not that big of a deal. And the thing is, the instruction set is really good, and so is the complimentary video. So I gotta just give props to Electric Playground. This thing is badass, and if you're at Pinball Expo, which I would encourage you to go to, it's only like two weeks away. Pinball Expo kicks off, I believe on October 15th, 2024. I mean, just go to the website. I'll have a link in the description. But if you are there, Rob will be on the show floor showing off all of his products. You can even buy them there at the show. I think he'll ship them directly to you. I'm not sure. Maybe you can take him home from there too. I actually don't know the answer to that. But either way, he will be there. You can check out all his products. They'll be there for you to touch, feel, and look at. You gotta do that. And come to Pinball Expo. There's so many cool things. You're gonna have Uncanny X-Men. You're gonna have Avatar. You're gonna have the Godzilla 70. yet. There's so many games that are going to be there and who knows what other surprises. This is the 40 year anniversary. This is, there's a lot of hype around this event. It's my favorite show of the year. So come to the show, come say hi to me, check out Rob. And also I'm going to do a shameless plug right now. If you're looking for additional pinball content, check out my pinball podcast. It's called the flip side. It's on a channel called retro Ralph live. I'll have a link in the description. You can watch it on retro Ralph live if you want to have the video version, but it's also on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Thanks so much for watching, guys, and we will see you on the next one.