That was the older update.
The latest stated LE's would be done before next MM run.

Congrats on your purchase.
It will be worth the wait.

Nice photos.
Laughing at the "Say To drugs"

I was just going to say.
I bet that topper is already sold.
Lol

As tempting as an SE is now, we are staying the course on the LE.

I was going to say, jut bend a new loop in the spring and you are good to go.
Glad you got it going.

Awesome.
Who needs an entire doorway anyway. Right?

No kidding.
And the row behind AFMr looks to be
TWD
GB
GOT
Metallica
Tron
and maybe ToTan. Can't quite make it out.

Yea. He does not list ToTAN in his list so I am trying to guess what might have yellow power coat.
Ripleys maybe.

Sad to hear they can't release it.
Love to hear the Dirty Pool quote even if it is hard to get.
I do hate it when simple things can't happen for stupid reasons.

Thanks for the clarification.

Neil was at Pinburgh with me.
They had one there, so that would be my guess.
I have played 4 different models and did not notice any Flipper lag.

Agree.
I can't stand droopy flippers.
Ghostbusters came set with crazy low droopy flippers. When put back to normal it was no more difficult to hit the shots at all. All it does is make it harder to trap up.

Pretty sure you can get 21 Million with only one shot.

Because you should not.
The guy had to admit in the thread that he messed up the original test.
Turns out the Bally/Williams games have the exact same flipper variance that the remakes have.
Play on with confidence or fall to the placebo effect.

And on a more serious note, could somebody circle the part they think the ball may be hitting coming out of the shooter lane?
I don't notice anything wrong in the photo.

They both look great.
I'm really a fan of the cool look though.

Just talked with Doug From CGC today at IAAPA.
We asked if they planned on doing an original theme someday.
He said it is already on the whiteboard
This company is on a roll!!!!

Got my final payment request from Game Exchange yesterday. Out of town of course so can’t get check till weekend.
Very excited though.

Got the email from Game Exchange that our LE has shipped.
Oddly enough, unlike everyone else that is getting them by FedEx, ours is shipped SAIA.
Probably because it is business to business I would guess.
We get all our games shippped to our business and just load the box in our truck.
Can't get here fast enough.

Ours should have been delivered days ago.
Been sitting in Amarillo and Dallas for ever.
SAIA is the slowest trucking company I have seen.

Good question, but here is my tracking info so far.

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Game finally arrived in town this morning.
#445 is in the back of our truck as I type
Can’t unbox till 8:00 tonight though.

What Flipper strength are most using?
I remember reading that most are to strong out of the gate.

We will be doing a live unboxing on our Twitch channel soon. Probably about 20 or 30 min from now.
Twitch.tv/thepinballmafia

Stop in and chat about all of our mistakes

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Thanks.
Going to have to open a support ticket.
If you watch our live unboxing video you will notice that we did not get green legs for our game.
Also no manual either.
Other then that the game was well packed and in great shape.

Here is a photo of the game set up. Can't see the legs though, but they are chrome color.

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Hold down the green button until the CGC menu shows up.
Then press the green button a couple of times until you get to the screen with Flipper Strength.
Press the black button once to activate then use the red buttons to raise and lower.
When done just keep pressing the green button until it exits.

We settled on the -8 for our flippers.
Plays great and plenty of room to bump them up as needed

If a shot is going to get rejected on our game it is the Lock shot, not the left orbit.
But even they are fairly rare.

Congrats on getting your game.
We are enjoying ours every day now.
We just did a live stream tonight with 2 hours of game play on our Twitch channel.
For anyone who has not received theirs yet and wants a taste of what is to come, here you go.
www.twitch.tv/thepinballmafia

You should be.
It is as god as everyone is saying.
As long as CGC is making games that I don't already own in minty condition I will be interested.
And if the game has this huge upgraded graphics screen, I may even be tempted.

Congrats.
Guessing you cut the topper off the box already.

Make sure the latch handle is pushed all the way to the right.
Also sometimes if the glass slides down a bit before you get the bar in place it will do that as well.

Agree with snaroff. This game has enough bling already.
Only thing we added was a piece of invisiglass.
I guess I might consider the 3D translite someday.

Just logged in to see 59 new posts.
Thought for sure CGC had made an announcement or released new Software.
Only to find meaningless topper talk.

Nice photo, but how is that bracket even staying in place with no wood screws in the other two holes?
Makes it look like it is just glued on which I know can’t be the case. Lol.

That is indeed an issue.
open a support ticket for sure with this issue.

Also makes me think you may have a foreign object in your ball trough or a mis-adjusted switch.
Should not think balls are missing if all the switches are activated properly.
Of course Loyd is the expert so certainly try what he says first.
Hope you get it going again soon.

Got my chip in the mail yesterday from Game Exchange.
I posted this in the CGG update thread already but since this thread get more use now I will re post.

Install went well but the rubber band used to hold the chip in the holder busted in shipping so some of the pins on the chip were a bit mangled.
Straightened them with a needle nose and installed it.
Seems to be working great so far.
Set flipper level to -4 like most have suggested and it plays like a dream now. No more airballs all over the place.

I understand the frustration if you got a wrong color playfield.
That would not set correctly with me either.

That said our game is in perfect shape and has played great since day one. Did not even have the ball shooting around Super Skill shot issue.
In fact the only issue we had with the game was that they packed in the wrong color legs with it. We got Silver legs with our green game.
However after opening a ticket, our green power coated legs were in the mail the next day.
Very happy with this game and cant wait to see Monster Bash.

Maybe Doug can bring some key fobs to TPF and pass them out at the show.

Sad message indeed.
Really wanted to see and maybe even play this game.

Any news on Doug leaving CGC and going to Stern?

Thanks. Read TWIPs last post and it has no info at all other then it may happen.
Looks like pinball news and Pinside for the win.
Now we just need CGC's response.

Finally had it with the droopy factory set flippers. We did like Josh Sharpe did and raised each one a touch so it is now even with the lane guide and now looks like every other pinball.
So much easier to trap up now and all the shots are still makeable.
Just about 1/8 of an inch or two was all it took.
Still can't figure out why the sent the games out the door like that.
Loving it.

I have played a lot of Bally AFM's. None had droopy flippers. (now I will admit that all of them by now have had many flipper replacements by now so none are factory anymore). But I feel relatively safe saying that Bally did not send games out the door with droopy flippers on purpose.
I also have no problems hitting the side martians at all.
But I do agree that if you like the droop style. Leave it.

You can loosen the nut under the flipper that holds the flipper shaft. This will allow you to raise/turn the flipper up about 1/8" higher then the workers at CGC decided to ship the game out at.
I have been restoring and playing pinball for over 30 years, so the droopy style really bothers me.
It just makes all my shots be off enough to piss me off. lol

Funny. I just edited my post while you were typing that. lol
But I do not agree that it is improper.
I have owned tons of Bally Williams games, even one brand new in the box and it did not have this issue.

Nope.
Building fits perfectly, looks fantastic and no rubbing on the saucer.
I got lucky running the wire but I can see where t could be a pain to run if you keep getting a bad feed.