Congrats, great game.

Congrats. What an incredible first step into this hobby!

By the way, it's not just JJP that is now relying on individual purchasers. They are a much more significant portion of the pinball market today than in former years, when pins could be found in every bowling alley and laundromat.

If you are going to start being a pinball collector/player go big . Great choice . Enjoy , Peace !!

If you figure out how to work on one without dropping pieces let me know. The worst is under the playfield, and the screw will lodge itself into the cable harness. You'll swear it has evaporated.

I always try to lay a towel down in the cabinet when working with the screws.
If the screw makes it down to the bottom of the cabinet, Bam!, it sticks in the towel and does not have time to bounce under anything.

It can help to lay a towel down to catch any small parts you drop. We all have lost screws, nuts, etc., that turned up months or years later.

Welcome to the club. Don't worry, you'll drop a whole bunch of stuff into various nooks inside the pins, happens to all of us!

The post on the left (There is No Place Like Home - TiNPLH) area of the pin has bugged me as well. This thread explains how to move the post. note - I haven't done this yet, but still may help none the less.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/tnplh-post-why-cant-i-move-it

Congrats on your new woz...

If you decide to look for mods there's a bunch of guys on here selling some good ones.

Congrats on your new pin. I am looking forward to your updates.

Very curious on your 'initial impressions/thoughts' after a few days of playing... please post back.

Congrats on your new pinball machine. I am very interested to hear your take on things being fresh to the hobby. At one point or another we all opened our first coin door and took off our first PF glass etc... It is a learning experience for sure. Very fun and satisfying in many different ways. Have fun and play pinball

One thing you may not know is getting status during the game. In between balls (before you launch it), you can hold down the flippers and get the status map. It shows you your progress and where you need to focus your attention.

Jim, The munchkin ball lock adjustment is actually a setting. It doesn't need (normally) a physical adjustment. It's in the software settings of the game . Those adjustments vary on the pitch of the game. I recommend in woz the rear levelers be extended the whole way or near the whole way and the fronts in. Giving the game the greatest pitch. Try that then start tweaking the timing settings for that mech in software. . Also make sure the game is level left to right.

Jim, give the flippers a look over too , make sure those hex screws are tight.

Congrats on getting an awesome pinball. WOZ is so great. Thanks for posting and this is a great site to get feedback, ideas and helpful hints. I see you already even got a reply from a JJP employee!

PLEASE don't push someone else down that path! Jim seems to be a guy who wants to PLAY pinball, rather thyan do the whole barbie-doll-dress-up thing.

Although, there is one *practical* mod I recommend highly for WOZ--the pinballbulbs light kit (http://pinballbulbs.com/products/wizard-oz-pinball-illumination-kit). It really makes the game much more playable by providing better illumination of the central playfield and flipper area.

Magnetized nut drivers. I bought a set after what you described above happened to me. I spent more time looking for that one screw than I did replacing all of the GI bulbs at that time.

I learned to be very careful not to drop something. Once you realize that a quick fix could turn into an hour long job with 3/4 of that time spent looking for what you dropped, you focus on not dropping anything. It happens though...

Story of my pinball-fixing career.

What I do is to not have more than one thing in my hand at one time, don't hold the nut you are putting on and the next two you have to install in the same hand, take your time and work like a surgeon

After you despair that a screw you dropped will never be seen again, replace it and then every week or two check the speaker magnet. Sometimes metal parts migrate there.

I moved both outlane posts too, when doing the left by TNPLH, I had to move the ball guild slightly with it (there is a hole for that too). If that is still a prob let us know. Congrats on the game, we are nearly in the same boat (pin newb, got my TSPP right b4 picking up the woz)