Please participate in the poll ONLY if you bought a New-In-Box (NIB) Stern Metallica, Star Trek, IMVE, MMr, Mustang, Walking Dead, WWE, KISS, Game of Thrones, SMVE or Ghostbusters (as an aside: that's a lot of games in 3 years). I'm intentionally omitting cosmetic issues to make this a simple objective poll. Either the game played like it was supposed to, or it didn't. Please don't use this poll to ding Stern on cosmetic problems (start a new thread for that, if you'd like).

If you bought more than one of the games Stern made since 2013, please vote on your most recent one.

Feel free to comment on your out-of-box experience overall.

2013 MET Pro: playable once I adjusted the switch gap on the left flipper, and the height of the magnets (which were trapping the ball). Right outlane switch would cause the first drop target to register. We tracked this down to a diode on that switch.

No problems whatsoever since those initial problems - game has been solid for over 2000 plays.

I'll leave it up to each person to decide what "normal setup" means. If you're an op, that might include things like adjusting switches. If you're a home buyer, it might not.

Crap, I just realized a fundamental flaw in the poll. You only get 1 vote, even if you bought multiple NIB pins. If this is you, please vote using your most recent purchase.

Nice to have a data-driven thread on this. The results are about what I expected, and don't reflect too badly on Stern at all IMO.

Ha. Mine too. He wears his one-toothed grin with pride.

Me too...I included that option just in case there was one, but didn't think there would be any.

So the "glass mostly full" interpretation of the poll data is that you have a 94% chance of having a successful box-opening party as long as you have someone who knows how to fix minor problems, mostly adjusting switches and magnets or reconnecting connectors. Given the complexity and highly mechanical nature of these games, that's a pretty good track record.

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That sucks, sorry to hear that.