Hi all! In preparation for 1.9, I'm running tests on some new glass item elevator designs in v1.9-pre2. I'm using a piston-based solution to get the items moving up the glass tower, and that part works great. What I can't figure out is how to stop the items once they reach the top, because man they are screaming! Above a 25-block-high tower, I've had an item fly straight through 10 blocks of falling water and a solid block 3 blocks above that (with air in between), at which point it's still going so fast that it doesn't land for almost a minute.

Now granted, I'm only losing one or two items per stack this way, but it still adds up, and I suspect the problem will get worse with higher towers. Has anyone built a reliable solution?