Confirmed joining the club whoot, now for the drive to go pick it up.

Been doing some reading so I have to ask. How is Sterns build quality on the BM66 Cabs? Any issues with them splitting or separating at all? I do know the build date of the machine I'm receiving is around July 2018.

After what date period would be considered the later runs? I do know the Munster's Prem are built extremely well and do have that style corner bracket in the machines.

There are some distro's that still have BM66 in stock, you can ask them the build dates if you really didn't want cat-women.

I really like the Mezel Mods crane and work strobe detail kit. Gives the game a nice touch.

Love the mini Shakespeare bust, where did you grab that from?

** Update, NVM I just found it and ordered one lol. Really like that. **

Are you talking about these?

176E176D-9BD3-4434-B0B8-A67A8DD1C4F9 (resized).jpeg

EEC11EC6-878E-44CC-AAC5-8C153FD814E2 (resized).jpeg

Thanks, that is the machine I'm picking up Sunday and at least we know as of Aug 2018 build date they have had these fixes in place. The seller was nice enough to text me the photos that I requested. I just checked my Munster's and what they appeared to have done for this machine was to incorporate the lockdown bar receiver as part of the side wall brace as it's one piece now making turns at the corners and mounted up to where the first side rail bolt comes through.

That's just about where my guide is and goes to the left flipper most of the time. Re-check your level from left to right, check the front and rear to make sure you're good.

Pinball Life sells some nice side rails that cover up the button area, very easy to install.

https://www.pinballlife.com/black-button-guard-side-rails-for-stern.html

My guide is less than halfway to the center of that post, maybe 30% of the way covered. From the photo it looks as if yours is about the same. Maybe post a side shot.

For those of you who had swapped out the Dog chew toy phone for the Mod couple's upgrade phone, did you guys pull the whole turn table to reach that dam plug? I read the instructions like six times and cannot reach that plug no matter what. Yes bat computer plugs etc are all disconnects as well.

It was a PIA for me, but so worth it to get rid of the chew toy to have a more realistic bat phone look and room to add Shakespeare bust there as well.

But then you would hear all the curse words during the install process lol.

That's where you are shooting for the rotating bat mobile:

Building Value And Starting Bat Turn
This is a 40 second timed mode with a base shot value determined by switch hits to the spinning post batmobile feature prior to starting the mode. Each switch registered to the batmobile spinner adds 25,000 to the value, which starts at 500,000. Hitting the spinner 10 times will light bat turn mode at the atomic pile, this will be indicated by a blue insert at the turntable. Additional starts require +2 hits to the batmobile spinner with a maximum of 20 hits.

An additional 20 seconds can be awarded via mystery award
The Mr. Freeze minor villain award freezes this mode timer (and hurry up?).
This mode can stack with all other modes.
Switch hits to the pop bumpers and Penguin scoop temporarily pause the timer. (?)

Bat Turn Rules
After starting bat turn all major shots will light blue and a hurry up based on your built value will appear on the screen. Hitting any major shot will award the current hurry up value and un-light that shot. Hitting the batmobile relights all shots and resets the countdown value, with all successive spins adding more points. The minimum hurry up value is 250K.

When bat turn is running while the turntable is in the villain vision position, it has slightly different rules. In this case the hurry up value freezes, all shots are re-lit if they’re not already, and score 2X the bat turn value. Shots made will un-light and re-light the previous shot made.

Question:

When starting a villain and you shoot the scoop to setup the bat poles shot for 2x scoring, and the game now prompts you to shoot for the bat signal shouldn't the bat signal light be on? I notice mine is never lit when it prompts me to shoot for it. Thanks

same machine, some of the later run batman's had the corner reinforcements as well.

I don't have the topper or a LE/SLE, but I did add in the bat search light to the existing supplied hookup for it. In my mind I thought for some reason that although the orange arrow indicator is lit on the left orbit, being the screen is saying shoot for the bat signal at least the batman logo in the sky from the light would be lit or even the bat signal search light itself. I guess it's as Thundergod76 stated maybe this will be something addressed in the up coming code release when Lyman does some more polishing.

I believe when stern was using press boards on the bottoms they were painted black, now with real wood they are left natural. I guess they are trying to say "Hey look, we are increasing our build quality" statement.

Keeps showing in stock then when adding to cart it's out of stock.

But they do have the Riddler in stock:

https://www.hallmarkornaments.com/2018-The-Riddler-Batman-LIMITED-EDITION_p_24801.html

It's on the back of your lower cabinet not the backbox. My machine has a build date of Aug 2018 and no interlock switch.

Actually there are a lot more dimples if you look further up towards the Carousel the dimples are even closer together. This is normal, steel ball wood surface something is going to give. Over time after many 1000's of the plays the surface will become pretty much compressed all over and they will be less noticeable again. It really don't matter how hard they clear coat etc.... dimples will happen not a matter of if but rather when.

Oh the thoughts that ran through my mind LOL, yep just as AUKraut said novus polish, then I wax afterwards with pure carnauba wax on top and rubber changes.

Pretty much yes, I use Mother's and don't use any that have detergents in there for cleaning that can cause some abrasions in the clear coats. That's why I look for pure wax without those additives.

Currently Yes.

IMHO, you have made the best choice. Lyman is the man...

Thanks for the photos of the copter wire mount Vireland, made installing one a breeze. Wasn’t sure if I wanted to put batgirl or copter there but I like the copter. Even made it hover over the ball trail and the rotor moves too with shaker motor and lots of action

0D1B5405-DCF6-4E1B-A680-93DFE8C42D37 (resized).jpeg

351E570C-77DC-4D37-917E-EE02113DFA47 (resized).jpeg

Hallmark settling nicely into BM66 with some major villains. To bad they didn’t make the Penguin or as of yet anyway. Now onto the minor villains.

5683299B-2D92-4B6F-B39B-A4DC6A8F3340 (resized).jpeg

1FB0876F-543C-4E31-9454-5BFA1331B5DE (resized).jpeg

4BB74324-C6BB-436C-A3C5-B5F86D79C056 (resized).jpeg

Joker is like $58.00 with free shipping on ebay, catwoman can still be had for about $20-25 on ebay. Riddler I grabbed for $15 shipped.

how about batcopter?

On the minor Villains I already purchased all six : Mr. Freeze, Bookworm, King Tut, Egg Head, Shame and Madhatter. I'm just waiting on the plexi to cut the mounting plates and then drop them into the machine. Not sure how it's going to look but I think it might be pretty cool, I did sort of the same thing on my TWD LE when I had it with walkers and it came out great.

LOL, tell me about it. With my mirror blades I wanted to go in even less then that, not happening been there a few times already. Nice and easy is all I can say. At least the minors are all on top work so that should be easy...

Actually picked up the machine with them installed, but from what I hear it's easy to pull the PF. BTW 2015 Joker is classic TV, the other 2008 is from the animated series and the 2013 is Heath Ledger from the movie.

Hot glue gun with variable heat settings. Then I used the glue sticks from Stanley called Duel melt sticks, set the gun to low setting and those sticks super grab without high heat so there is no distortion to the plastics. If you ever choose to remove them you can do so with a nice tug and peel the glue off.

Oh and the batcopter I used a wire hanger and formed the wire mount using Vireland photos.

and most likely cheaper too, I think I grabbed it for 11.00 prime on amazon w/free shipping.

Pretty sure that smells like a scam......... I would be very careful.

I wouldn't care if it's counterfeit as long as it shows up. Copy is fine it's just for the machine for appearances. Hope it works out let us know.

After the the major villains were installed (thanks to Hallmark, still need Penguin tho) thought I'd give a little love to the minor villains. Just like a typical Egghead, he still didn't show up but his spot is reserved.

In addition I thought Penguin need a little recognition, so we tossed in a little Penguin represent, really I mean a little represent.

IMG_6555 (resized).JPG

IMG_6556 (resized).JPG

IMG_6557 (resized).JPG

All games dimple in time, there is no such beast that does not dimple. Just keep hitting the start button and enjoy this wonderful game. Keep it waxed & clean change balls and rubbers regularly and it will last.

I also have the heroclix figures, I have the sub-villains on the outlanes 3 per side, and have the joker penguin, catwomen and riddler on the atomic core mod just like in the video when multi-ball starts up showing the batcave.

Nope no connection, that looks right.

Enhancing the Atomic Pile mod a little....

D3283980-821F-40F8-BD8F-7FEA7CA4CFDE (resized).jpeg

According to Sterns last two SOU anytime now.....

Check to make sure that the belt shown below in the diagram didn't come of it's pinion gear.
crane (resized).jpg

Try with the power off. I know the lights add quite some light to the area but never get into the habit of installing mods with the power on, these can only get screwed up that way.

If anyone seen the movie and missed it, here it is.

I just loosen the screws that mounts the front part of the turn table from the underside ( the side towards the flippers and action area, not the rear so with the PF up it's the top two mount brackets) and dropped a washer or two between the playfield and mounting bracket on the screws. That lowered the disc just about even with the PF and airballs are no longer an issue.

I have mirror blades on my BM66 they look awesome as well a brighten up the machine.

PM on the way......

The bat signal does work during certain times but not as we think such as to the bat poles or shoot for the bat signal prompt. I think this is something being addressed in the new code update. However when the game just ends it does work in attract mode so see if it is lighting up at that point.

Exactly, it will never see the abuse of a routed unmaintained machine.

However, yes to adding Cliffy's

Not to sound too bias although you are asking in the BM66 club thread BM66 is one of the best coded, childhood titles fun machines that I have ever owned. What more is there to say, it looks great, shoots great and has Lyman who btw is still dropping code updates for it. Played SWLE and it was ok, not BM66 Good but ok, DP I hear is a fun title as well but have not played one and Wonka is an easy pass for me as it does nothing for me.

Nice, but those zips for the heli on the ball trail will interfere with it's travel.

Go for it, and yet another code update is about to drop. The gift that keeps on giving.

So I have been reading some of the PF chipping threads, have any of you BM66 owners seen chipping in the clear coat on your machines at all? I have not seen any on my build date Aug 2018.

From what I can hear in the video, that sounds pretty much the way mine does and just about every other one I have seen and heard. They have a gritty sound to them.

Isn't it " Shall we Robin " , never in the TV series has he ever called Dick "Robert" especially when suited up.

When you were in test mode and tested the switches which all registered, did you use your finger or a ball? If you used your finger test the switch chain again using a ball to roll over the contacts to see if it is fully depressing it to register.

That is awesome, where did you find that popcorn machine....

We do it was mentioned in the STOU letter. I'm fine waiting as we know Lyman will knock it out of the park with his coding skills

I would like to be on that possible interest list as well.........

It does sound like the turn table cable wire issue, did you zip tie any wires underneath there at all? Semi lift the playfield and go into test function of the turn table let the motor rotate it and see if the wire tightens up like a guitar string.

No, you wouldn't want to do that for then you'll be in the Michael Keaton era

The RJ45 locking tab is under that black tail piece. Just press downward on the clear plastic tab and then with slight pressure pull the wire out.

Try using a flathead screw driver to see if it'll grab and remove them. You can then call Stern or just goto your local hardware store or Homedepot / Lowes etc and get new ones the same length and tread. If you are going to do that I would go with socket head or torx screws instead.

Doh, dam Siri.... yes Torx screws but don't torque them down to tightly

It looks as if he is using the Hallmark Batcopter, if that's the case they fit real nicely into the machine and one of the nicest ones to use.

While you're at it, kick Dwight in the nuts and tell him to fix/add to The Munster's code

Because we ran out of space in our machines to put him anywhere

Exhibit A

8070248B-4F30-4C58-AA8F-1F76BE819A1E (resized).jpeg

Maybe it's just me but I didn't see much more added to the code other then a few adjustments.

They just took an awesome pinball machine and launched it way over the top now with this update....( sarcasm )

If this was the touted update to stay tuned for, they pulled a "Munsters" on us.

I'm hoping it's just a foundation for something good coming with all the hardware updates.

Absolutely agree with all of this, we were or at least I was just basing my comments off of Sterns months of SOTU saying New BM66 code is coming rather then BM66 code fix coming, I feel that was sort of misleading unless this wasn't the code update that they are referring to.

I thought the LED lights were cool

I think that was sarcasm....

Well then, this was a bigger let down then that time my Viagra pills didn't work.

Is the cable wire underneath the carousal free? If it's pulled taunt the table won't move and give tons of errors.

Mine has never fallen, but you can try a dab (not a shitload lol) of hot glue on the two ends. If you have an adjustable glue gun lower the temp to the mid 200's.

go even smaller and get the nano led chip light

Doubt it.

Now in reality, there is so much dimpling on that PF that it actually smooth out and they aren't noticeable any longer unless you look from an angle with good lighting.

I believe that's the 48v driver board under the playfield mid left hand side. Does your game have a interlock switch on the coin door?

Looks like they really had that ball guide tightened way down a little too much and it wore into the PF as the scoop was taking hits. Hopefully they'll make good on it.

Before cutting any wire, do you have alligator clips? If so use a pin and back out the mole x pin on CN4 from the plug, then use two alligator clips on a wire attach one to the mole x pin from CN4 and the other joker and tighten it down closed hard it should bite into wire to make contact and then test it. This was if your theory is right you then can make permanent changes. Might be a little more time & work but it will save headaches if it shouldn't be that way.

Yeah I fixed my original statement lol after I just read it again. The mole x pins are held in place where the mole xpin as a tit on it that rises into the plug that you can see on one side of it. You should see the tine metal are, use some sharp and small, pin xacto etc and press the metal are downward into the plug and gently pull the outwards from the plug. Then use an alligator jumper from that wire to the other joker plug wire and clamp the alligator onto the wire and make snug it with a pliers so it makes it bite enough for contact.

Being the ramps are catwomen shots, folks have ordered leopard print laminated decal sheets, cut them to the ramps shape and installed them. I ordered a sheet as well just didn't get around to installing it as of yet.

Alluring Pussycats

However both Met and BM66 have "for whom the bells toll" reference in them

Is there a setting buried somewhere to adjust the flipper strength? Thus far all I found were slings, ball launch and through.

Thanks

I agree with everything stated above except the longer ball times, I wish I can keep the ball in play longer then I do lol. I also loved LOTR but those ball times were like going to work, when I'd go down and play a game my wife was like see you in an hour or so.... but on BM66 I go down faster then an old man who ran out of Viagra!!!

Just an awesome pin all around and one of the best integrated themes ever!!! LOTR is long gone but the bat is here with no plans of moving it.

A few months ago we kept hearing on Sterns SOTU "BM66 code coming soon" then when it finally drop it was very anti-climatic to say the least. Now are you referring to that one or did you hear of a potentially new drop? It might be hard at the moment as I believe Lyman is still on Elvira but boy I sure hope it's true for I'd love to see Villain Vision finally come into play like they stated when they advertised BM66.

That will all blend in over time and not look so dimply sooner or later.

A big source of dimpling is from airballs coming off the carousel targets, if your getting a lot of airballs off of those targets you might have to adjust the height a little bit most likely needing to lower it.

IMHO some of the modes have a decent light show, not off the charts but decent. The one thing I'd like to see if the bat signal light finally get addressed and work properly i.e. "To the bat poles" etc... Just some small stuff like that.

I know Villain Vision was never promised but it would be the icing on the cake, the taunts would make it even greater.

BTW Harbor Freight sells these great little 4” candy/ snack dish for the machines too.

55BF4C3F-3B8F-43FF-A6D2-A860D94159ED (resized).jpeg