Although my game wont be here for another month or so I am very interested in adding this to my AMH.

spooky said on latest podcast done by January 1st.
They are at about 3 units per week, so..

#44 4/15
#47 4/22
#50 4/29
#53 5/06
#56 5/13
#59 5/20
#62 5/27
#65 6/03
#67 6/10
#70 6/17
#73 6/24
#76 7/01
#79 7/08
#82 7/15
#85 7/22
#88 7/29
#91 8/05
#94 8/12
#97 8/19
#100 8/26
#103 9/02
#106 9/09
#109 9/16
#112 9/23
#115 9/30
#118 10/07
#121 10/14
#124 10/21
#127 10/28
#130 11/04
#133 11/11
#136 11/18
#139 11/25
#142 12/02
#145 12/09
#147 12/16
#150 12/23

There might be some fudge factor for days off, going to pinball shows, etc., but that list seems to line up with finishing by the end of the year.

i am towards the bottom of the list, and i can not think of anything better to get the couple of weeks before christmas than a NIB AMH!!!

TWilliams is going to help me with the glow in the dark drop bank. Thanks you.

Can you maybe do the same for some flipper toppers, I think that would look cool whether some artwork or just generic something?

To further it some "plastic protectors" for the slings and lanes as well, similar to ones I have seen used on Metallica and Tron a lot. Make it all glow!!!!

except that they are not at 3 per week. It's been half that. They have shipped around 20-25 games this year in 4 months. That's only 5-6 a month. I'm not putting them down, I just want more realistic expectations on timing and finishing by end of 2015 doesn't appear likely

they had less people working before. they've added at least one more full time assembler since then if not 2, and with KT working full time for the company that's more time for Charlie to focus on building. There was also the whole "predator" side project, and probably some time invested in scoregasm.

Road trip complete -- AMH #49 in the house and has gotten the invisiglass treatment.

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And May the 4th be with you!

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Played AMH at allentown and liked it a lot. Wasn't getting as much love as TH and TBL, but it's a cool game.

Likely did not get as much love because it is sold out and many dont care to play what they can not own.

It's not nearly as flashy, those games have better art, we don't have a giant LCD...

But yeah, who cares!

Yeah, but yours is sold out, in full producition, fully coded, and each lockdown bar personally given the special touch by Ben MFin Heck!

On that note, I need to reach out soon and see if mine is still coming in Julyish or if maybe sooner sinc ethey are upticking a little... fingers crossed!

#50 Just arrived. Congrats to the Spooky gang!! 1/3 of the way home.

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You got in during the Texas Rush, so realistically it's gonna be fall for your game.

I ordered on January 24th and I was told a couple days ago that about 25 are ahead of me.

High score this morning, even with a house ball.

Massive multiball, only a couple ghost bosses.

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A comment on build time and the "factory"

I ordered at Expo 10/17 and picked up my game at Spooky on 4/16, exactly 6 months or 24 weeks. There was around 40 to build in front of mine, and Charlie said they were doing 2 a week. Take some time out for the holidays, and I'd say they did pretty good.

When I was there, 3 were in the build row at various progress stages, 3 were in the test row (there's 2 rows of 4 workstations, 3 were in boxes. It looks like a well-oiled process. The other area is their one work desk in the corner, a receiving area, and parts neatly organized (mostly) along 2 walls.

Where did you get the shooter rod and target decals?

Shooter rod:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/amh-ghost-shooter-rod-in-progress

Target decals:

ebay.com link: NEW AMERICAS MOST HAUNTED Cushioned 3M Target Protectors Pinball Machine

Still haven't gotten to test them out in my game though. Still waiting on that. Two weeks ago spooky let me know my game was about to be playtested, so I'm expecting to hear about shipping soon.

I have a set of those protectors here waiting to be installed too. I may get to them later since it's so hot out there!

And good luck Joe! Hopefully you don't get a Monday machine!

Thanks, Jeff. It was great meeting you at Allentown. Good luck with your upcoming business venture!

I picked up #42 on 4/16, it was finished 4/10. I saw #43, 44, 45 being put together & about ready to be moved over to the test row the next day on 4/17. They are doing 3 per week (April 2015). It was about 2 per week in January. I see a post above #50 was 4/29, right on target on Toyotaboy's post.

Hey Joe,
I got mine 5 months 3 weeks. I ordered at Expo 10/17. Picked it up 4/16 but it was done 4/10. They are doing a steady 3 game/week pace now (it was 2 per week in January). I picked mine up, so no help on shipping costs. Charlie told me same thing KT said. MGC and TPF slowed things just a bit, but the production is like clockwork and seeing it person, I can tell you its a great set up and organized well, and the minions were all hard at work.

I'm going to get a mix of purple, green and blue from titanpinball.com
Matt has a great thing with those new material rings - I have used super bands and too much bounce.
I just redid all my white w/blue on Eight Ball Deluxe and these feel spot-on to original B/W rubber.

Mr Mezel, I'll help. All your other mods look great in TAF, etc. in the collection, I'd love to be a part of getting something cool to the AMH owners club

Its 3 a week now. Toyotaboy list is spot on. My #42 was done 4/16 picked up at the factory. #50 was built 4/29 per the photo above

Did invisiglass too, with colored matching LED for the main ghost inserts up the middle + shoot again, Topper, and adding titanpinball rubber rings. Photos when the rings are installed will be coming.

Titan competitive lt blue rubber looks outstanding.

I also made a modification to the little metal ramp at the end of the shooter lane to hopefully eliminate ball hang ups at the basement. Mine hung off into the hole and the screw was catching the ball. Used the Dremel to cut off the corner as the ramp is plenty secure without the 4th screw.

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I also did a fix at the top of the shooter lane. The ramp flap entrance should have that slight cutout in the PF, without it the screws aren't flush (see pic). My fix was a scrap piece from a pingraffix decal (sorry, I didn't take a pic after - pingraffic decals are heavy mylar with a topcoat to avoid scratch/wear and can be removed/reapplied). IMG_7065.JPG

LOL... We should have taken the pick after installing the one screw we did re-use up there.

All - The hole you see had the screw used. It is the part right at the opening that was not re-used (where he cut the bracket). The hang up was mainly due to the screw. They had to screw it in at an angle to catch some wood as the hole is drilled to far to the side. After removing the screw it helped a lot but the bracket was handing over into the hole a bit which was causing a bridge to the back of the hole and also looked as though it would lead to messing balls up (very sharp). Cut it off and all works and looks perfect!

Here's our top 2 scores both from my son. 3ball default settings pitch 6.5.

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Yep can't wait, Aussie ones will hopefully be at Newcastle in November. Spooky are going to ship all 7 Aussie ones together.

Sweet, was just told I am only about 10 machines away!! (mid December order)

ICYMI - This is from Spooky's FBpage.

9 piece AMH plastic protector sets! Protect all those possible breakage areas with a high tech (not really) completely incredible (not even slightly) PLASTIC PROTECTOR SET!
Only $25... and we should have them on our website by May 13th, or just email [email protected] to get yours.

I gotta hand it to Charlie - I asked him on Monday to sell me a set of plastics so i could have another company make protectors, and he came back in a few hours with a newly designed set of protectors. Awesome.

Ordered the plastic protectors tonight, and was told they would be added to my machine.

Dan

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That's a ridiculous (impossible) score. How far did you get to the unseen wizard mode?

Yeah, gotta spill the beans on your strategy. I've had a couple of long games on my friends AMH and the best we could muster up is a tad over 100 million. You must have found a scoring exploit or figured out a good way to rack up points. Due share

There are a couple scoring bugs we've noticed. Sometimes you can get a 100m score in a short game and that's flat out impossible. I had a 230m game that took a while but my son said he noticed every jackpot was 3.5m to 5m... again... IMHO impossible.

I think our honest, unbugged high score is in the 130m range and that felt like I just went through a war.

Some modes have the chance for more jackpot scoring than others, specifically Prison and Hotel.

In hotel, once you've saved your friend, each of the targets you light in front of the ghost increases the Jackpot multiplier. BUT it's harder to collect as you have to shoot hellavator to drop the targets to collect it in the ghost loop.

Prison requires you to clear the ghost targets 3 times to add 3 balls (up to a total of 4) You don't have to keep them all in play to beat the mode, but the jackpot scores X # of active balls when you hit ghost loop (so up to 4x!)

My goal was to allow "unlimited" scoring in almost any mode - as long as you keep a multiball active, you can keep scoring = based off your skill. This way you can "always do better"

Secret hint: War ghost typically takes 3 hits and then you beat him. BUT if you stack a Hellavator MB on that mode you can keep hitting the ghost for jackpots until you're down to 1 ball again.

I believe it was the prison mode that caused the incredible score. Played that mode what seemed like forever. Just kept adding balls and had a 4 going for a very long time as the ball save is one for each ball added. Kept hitting the ghost -- jackpot, jackpot, jackpot.... super jackpot, super jackpot, etc. Game play was so fast I wasn't even looking at the score but it was climbing fast!

Also 2 extra balls awarded; video mode 3 times. Just a "whole-lotta" fun.

Just got to get the hang of Ghost Photo Hunt so I can add more to the bonus. For me it is hard to start as it will not start if other modes are running and that GLIR is reset after every ball. Most games I never have any value to the photos taken bonus.

I don't remember getting any ball saves when a ball is added in prison mode. The only time I can add a ball is before the jackpot stage, when completing the ghost shield. Definitely no ball save there, because I immediately lose balls at this stage often. When are you adding balls and getting a ball save in prison mode?

Okay, I got the word from KT that my game will be delivered on Memorial Day. I placed my order on November 11, so if you count the time from when I actually placed my order to delivery to my door it's six months and two weeks. I also paid the first half by check, so that could have slowed things down a little, and you factor in the holidays, spooky's time at shows, and the fact that they have increased their staff since November and I would think that the turnaround times now would likely be faster than mine. I bugged KT with e-mails once in a while during the process when I thought enough time had passed or when I had specific questions, and she always answered quickly.

A few tidbits that I picked up from communications with KT in case they hold true and are useful to others who have ordered:

- I offered to send the second-half payment as a gift via paypal, but she said that's a no-no, and that they have to pay the paypal fees as a registered LLC.
- KT said that the Chase credit card offers a direct easy pay option that goes directly to her bank.
- Spooky arranges shipping for you and ships the games UPS, which only picks up at their shop on Tuesday and Friday, then arrives at your shipping address two business days later (i.e., Thursday or Monday). For me, the game is shipping to Pennsylvania.

Of course, I can't speak for spooky about whether these details will be true for you as well, and I assume you could, say, arrange for a different shipper if you wanted to do that, but I just thought I'd throw these details out there in case they're useful to others who have been, like me, waiting and are eager for pretty much ANY details. Once my game arrives, I'll probably post something, including what number it is, but I'm hoping to spend the Memorial Day holiday setting it up and playing it first!

Oh, and my shipping was $289.45.

Chase quick pay, via bank account, works very well. most large banks use something similar and kt should be able to take it.

Anyone know exactly what Spooky's facebook post today about upgraded ghostbusting color matched LEDs is about? I'm assuming an upgrade option essentially, but just wasn't sure if someone know more. My game is being built in the coming weeks and would like to upgrade if its an option so I don't have to dig into it myself. Thanks. -Tommy

Its an upgrade kit being sold by PinballLife (I'm assuming), that Charlie mapped with various colors to get it just right, and Terry will be putting together and pricing soon?

There's been a lot of requests for "pre-installed mods" and Chuck only recently has had the time to set them up.

Terry will sell this, but you can also pay to have it added on to your game if it hasn't been built yet.

It there a cost estimate for this? looks much better and I would like to have it installed.

Eleventy trillion spacebucks.