Mezelmods came up with these ‘dentures’ and they brought the snake back to life. Then fangs started snapping off left and right, so VERY QUICKLY Stern decided it would save a lot of headaches to grind off the teeth…leaving Metallica with a giant turtle on the playfield. So, the first run of Metallica games came factory installed with a snake head that included sculpted fangs. Maybe not recommended for hardcore tournament players, but it’s never bothered me much. They feel a bit better now after nearly three years of use, but I still feel the stick a little bit. My only knock is that the flipper buttons seem to stick just a hair. I forget, but they’re still installed! I chose orange, but many colors are available. Maybe order $100 in LEDs and get a free set? I want to say it was a New Year’s Day promotion. These were actually free with some sort of promotion from Cointaker. They were available on eBay for a short time, and then I thought they disappeared! After some digging, here they are. I bought these on Pinside shortly before the seller was booted from the site for some reason. I did have to drill and screw them into the cab, which was a bit of a jump, but I figured having this skull screwed in instead of worn off decal ink was worth the trade-off. So badass! These ‘lollipop’ inspired protectors are made with thick metal, matching the paint and thickness of the factory cabinet rails, with a chromed piece of metal underneath, just like the Mirror Blade material that is commonly found. This is my number one favorite mod, hands down. Skull Flipper Area Protectors – Paid $52 shipped on Pinside, currently $70 from I don’t care what you use, but don’t use the Stern factory balls! And the $6 balls become magnetized and do not work in games with magnets…like Metallica. I’ve tried $6 balls, and they looked ‘normal’ compared to these high gloss balls. These Premium balls are by far my favorites. Using rough balls is like rolling sandpaper around inside your game. The balls that came in my MET and XMEN were pitted and discolored. THROW AWAY THE FACTORY BALLS IMMEDIATELY. Premium Ultra-Gloss Pinballs – $1.50 each (MET uses 4) from (Also, it should be noted that I have done work for MezelMods since their inception, and many of the mods listed here that they sell are ‘test prototypes’ on my game and were free, or close to free, though also not as ‘nice’ as the items they sell on their site!) In most cases you can click on the underlined segments for links to each product. I’m not planning on listing everything in any kind of order, but I do have a few mods that I would consider to be my ‘favorites’. I’ll add links and price points where I can, and I’m ready to weep when I total everything up to see what I’ve paid to deck out my MET PRO over the years. I thought it might be fun to detail everything I added to the game in a blog article. I had about six weeks to wait for it (nothing compared to the much longer wait for Jersey Jack Pinball’s Wizard of Oz, as detailed here and here), so I had lots of time to check out new mods for the game, and have everything ready for my first NIB (New-In-Box) pinball machine.Īs Metallica is a ‘keeper’ game for me, I haven’t minded dumping mods and money into it to craft it into the game I want it to be. I ordered mine in May 2013 and received one of the games from the second run of Pro models, in early July 2013. Stern’s Metallica was released in April, 2013 with five different ‘models’ eventually being offered (Pro, Pro LED, Premium, Master of Puppets LE, Dirty Donny LE).
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