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Havok:
Any updates on this?

Need an intern?

 ;D
ArcadeMaze:
I would think so.  I just read in the July issue of Gameroom magazine that they are going to sell for $20, including trigger.
CheffoJeffo:
Can we all lay off of Fozzy, please ? If he weren't horribly busy with RealLife(tm), he would post something.

Brax is allowed to be impatient, the rest of us should shut up lest Fozzy decides not to go forward with a full run.

Cheers.
Havok:
I offered my services as an intern - so I can ask... No pressure...

 ;)
1UP:
FWIW, the Tron bases are still in the works.  The design has been finished for over a year, but in the restructuring of Spincade they have been put on the back burner until the cabs are officially released.  The bases are pretty custom, not just an off-the-shelf Super.  And the final design does work.  Very well.  :)


--- Quote from: MinerAl on February 23, 2006, 10:06:36 am ---Although the handle is quite tall, one does not play Tron with their hand on top of the stick like they would with a ball top.  In order to use the trigger, the bottom of your hand needs to be in only a little higher position than it needs to be using a bat stick.  I don't know how you play, but I tend to move the stick with the base of my hand (my pinkie and ring fingers and the muscles in my palm on that side of the hand).  I do understand that a longer lever makes it easier to exert more force, but I don't think the difference is as great as you make it out to be, since the hand position is only a bit higher.

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This is correct.  Using a Tron handle on a modified 8-way base is pretty much like operating a normal 8-way by gripping it rather than using the ball of your hand and fingertips, except you are holding it one inch higher.  I have never had any problems, even with the admittedly cheap versions I built long ago for my home cabinet.  The parts going into the new sticks are much heavier, and most of the stress is handled by the grommet.
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