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- description
- A stationary post is a fixed upright peg set into the playfield — a small metal or plastic pillar, usually wearing a rubber ring — that deflects the ball on contact and never moves.[1]
Posts are the cheapest shaping tool a designer has: they anchor rubber rings, fence the sides of a lane, shield a delicate mechanism from a direct hit and turn away a poorly aimed shot.[1] What separates the stationary kind from its relatives is that nothing about it is powered. [[gameplay-feature:up-posts]] rise and drop on command from the game and [[gameplay-feature:spinning-posts]] swivel when the ball strikes them, while a stationary post is a screw, a sleeve and a rubber ring.
Most of a playfield's posts are structural and pass unremarked. The placements that change how a game plays stand the post between the ball and the drain. [[gameplay-feature:center-stationary-posts]] sit in the gap between the flippers, where a ball coming straight down the middle can strike one and bounce back within reach;[2] [[gameplay-feature:right-outlane-stationary-posts]] sit in the lane that carries the ball past the flippers, where hitting the post can send it across into the inlane instead.[3]
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- Stationary Posts
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- stationary-posts
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- active