Quoted from calprog:Stern has no idea what is causing all the problems with the boards. They are sending the cabinet node board this week. The light next to the batmobile broke as it was installed incorrectly. My dist sent a tech. What we found is a led failed on the line. This caused all the lights to flicker. So crazy. We had no diagram to track which light had failed. If they cannot fix this week unfortunately the machine will be sent back to Stern. Oh well.
I hope that this is the wake-up call that they need to fix the QA/QC problems once and for. when we took the tour this past year a member of our party asked if the games were spot checked or each and every game was inspected. we were told that every game was checked at various points through the assembly process. I can't honestly believe that this case, especially given all of the issues that people continue to have "out of the box"
if you're not the only one to have issues like these, it's going to be an expensive re-call process for stern (it's not like an automobile, where you can simply drive it to a local dealer and have them check it out
I've said it before and I'll say it again. if they don't get someone in there to monitor and correct this level of jackassery, "we collectors", who now dominate the percentage of end-users of who the machines are being sold to are going [at some point] say enough is enough (which means not blindly pre-ordering games) and stern's sales are going to suffer, possibly to the point from which there is no recovery