{"id":199,"date":"2007-03-11T23:19:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T22:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/11\/plastic-fantastic\/"},"modified":"2007-03-11T23:19:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T22:19:48","slug":"plastic-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/11\/plastic-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all my efforts to create my own plastics I finally decided to give up after I saw a shiny new set on sale at <a title=\"Pinball Heaven\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinballheaven.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Pinball Heaven<\/a>. I&#8217;m a bit miffed that I wasn&#8217;t able to make my own in the end, after all the effort I went to.. but I gave it a good go and I had fun, so hey, I was worth it! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Shiny New Plastics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/2007-02-10-new-plastics.jpg\"  title=\"Neutral Zone Plastic\" class=\"imagelink\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image198\" height=\"85\" alt=\"Shiny New Plastics\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/2007-02-10-new-plastics.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Neutral Zone Plastic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/2007-03-11-nz-plastic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image194\" height=\"96\" alt=\"Neutral Zone Plastic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/2007-03-11-nz-plastic.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new plastics look awesome. The difference they make is really noticeable. The older plastics have obviously heavily faded over time.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Advance Mission Animation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/2007-03-11-7645-advance-mission-ani.gif\"  title=\"Cannon Animation\" class=\"imagelink\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image196\" height=\"73\" alt=\"Advance Mission Animation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/2007-03-11-7645-advance-mission-ani.thumbnail.gif\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"Cannon Animation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/2007-03-11-cannon-ani.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image195\" height=\"96\" alt=\"Cannon Animation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/2007-03-11-cannon-ani.thumbnail.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click the pics for an animation of the old and then new plastics in place \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>In the top right pic you can see that I made a replacement for the tiny transparent bit of plastic which sits just under the delta quadrant ramp, using some left over polycarbonate, so at least it came in handy \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all my efforts to create my own plastics I finally decided to give up after I saw a shiny new set on sale at Pinball Heaven. I&#8217;m a bit miffed that I wasn&#8217;t able to make my own in the end, after all the effort I went to.. but I gave it a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sonicpenguins.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}