New sheriff in town, and the sun dial just hit High Noon.

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For all "New Sheriffs" are you using the factory provided balls or have you swapped them out with Titan's or other? I stuck with factory balls (installed after thorough cleaning to remove oil) but am curious what others decided to go with. I thought I read that the balls CGC provided were decent quality so I figured why discard perfectly good pinballs -- I've only put on about 70 games but am thinking of changing the factory balls out for Titans... any thoughts from others?

There are/were two different Side Rails for CGC Games - one was the 'original' WPC type which required tape to fasten to the game and had a screw hole only at the two end tabs, this was used on MM, and AFM ... for MBR onward, they switched to a thicker metal and one that mounted with screw holes vs tape by adding two screw holes in the middle.

We should have both versions and will check to make sure the descriptions for both are clear on the site. Also, note that 'brushed' finished may vary, so usually better to replace both or should at least not mix the two varieties.

Team PPS

Finally, it's official.

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So, I'm also having issues with my bad-guy drop targets. Game has about 250 plays, and recently the leftmost drop doesn't always want to stay up. Loosening up the return-spring tension, has fixed the issue, but I'm worried it might only be a temporary fix. I've got a ticket in, and I'll let you guys know what happens. I know at least one other owner has posted about this problem, so maybe this is a teething issue that CGC will work out moving forward.

I suspect at least part of the issue is that the pf cutouts for the drops are much smaller on the Remake than on the original. The hole is basically only just big enough to allow the drop target to push through, and so that doesn't allow the drop target to move very much at all. Since on the remake the target has almost no front-to-back movement, or "give" so to speak, that might require CGC to set the drops up with much tighter tolerances than on the original. Making for more finicky adjustments to get it operating smoothly.

This is only speculation of course. But Butch made a point of mentioning how CGC had redesigned the drop targets, and how much smaller the drop openings were. So perhaps a point-of-failure was introduced.

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Also, on another note, our locals are playing the crap out of my Cactus Canyon. Over 200 plays in less than a week. I'm sure the shine will wear off, but this has been one of my best earning games to date.

Honestly, the factory shooter rod is pretty nice. It's not your typical plunger, and instead has a nice hefty ball on the end, that feels pretty nice to plunge. I personally wouldn't change it. It's much nice than the standard Stern or JJP shooter rod.

Nice!!

Thank you for the clarification. I will revisit the PPS online store in the coming days to ensure I order the correct set.

Not only does the factory shooter knob have a nice feel for that type of skill shot, the referenced mod shop is mainly a bunch of $5 keychains from Amazon “fused” to a rod for like $100 sale price on average. Most look terrible and some have little to do with the game… like this one in particular which is some random badge that is being passed off as title-appropriate.

I could go fly American tomorrow and ask the flight attendant for some of those kiddie pilot wing pins, crazy glue them to some rods and then sell them as an “upgrade” for Airborne, F-14, hell even Bon Voyage. Doesn’t mean I should just because I can. Some mods jump the shark the moment they’re ill-conceived.

I just got my machine set up and I agree 100% that the standard shooter knob feels amazing. It's actual solid metal. Not a cheap plastic ball. It has a great weight and feel to it. I certainly won't be changing it.

The ledge the targets catch on is basically same size as Stern Drop targets. The issue as I've seen it is not 'lack of movement' but too much movement. They are reset so hard/far they move and don't reliably latch. That's probably why your lessening the return spring makes it catch a bit easier. I just bent the tab that resets the target down slightly it and it stopped pushing the target up so far so it stopped getting pushed forward/back at the top of its motion which was causing it to dance over the latch.

I just use a standard 2 wheel dolly with big inflated wheels on it. I move my new games around my house and inside solo while they are still strapped to the pallet. As long as you balance the weight properly, it weighs almost nothing.

To be fair, most mods and products in general are similarly cheaper and way marked up after a manufacturing process. But their “fusing” process is top notch and the epoxy finish very smooth and nice and balanced. I have a few plungers from super skill shot shooters and no complaints. But yeah, choose a good one that does fit the game you’re buying for!

Yea I've held the exact shooter in question at a show and it didn't feel cheap at all

It would appear that we are creeping toward the halfway point of the SE run. Still looks like we will be way into June before we might see any LEs ship. Hopefully they will have the parts to build them by then.

To be 100% clear, when I say "set up" I mean assembled and playable. I got it unboxed, roughly leveled, and played it for about an hour. Then had to unplug it, and cart it into another room. Unfortunately my CC arrived directly in the middle of a remodel of the basement/game lounge. My area is nowhere near as cool as yours JFH, but here are the pics. It's a mess..... Born on date was about 1 week ago.

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Looking great! Thanks for sharing the pics!

So who ended up winning? Original distributor or new one?

Received the large CC Banner today and its amazing. So colourful, just need to organise a banner stand now.

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Original, which was way easier for me.

JFH -- I never provided my Serial and Manufacture Date for my CCr... see below

Serial #: CC-1396
Date: March 23, 2022

Thanks! Appreciate the info.

So, does anyone know, is there any order to which of the Bart brother appear? During my short time playing, it seemed that some games I'd start off against bandelero Bart. Other games, big Bart or Bubba Bart may come first. I only saw bionic Bart once and he was last. I kind of assumed the other 3 Bart brothers would always be presented in a certain order. Is that incorrect?

I forgot to post my CCr tag info. Arrived April 4th (picked up on the 8th)

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makes me laugh every time ...."suitable for indoor use only"

I love having my pins outdoors in the rain and snow nothing more refreshing than multiball in a thunderstorm !

S/N 1316 for the record
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I love your optimism ....

Just a comment on the progress on SEs thus far and when they likely will reach 500 shipped. I have no idea whether the topper or other custom LE hardware parts will be available to start producing LEs by then.

If they do have 2 lines going then maybe the second line is producing and stockpiling LEs. That would give you your ~70 games/week.

Because they have before. For the Royal Edition they stockpiled and shipped out large quantities as opposed to this way now.

I am guessing that the strapping/boxing they are doing now is slowing them down a lot as opposed to just shoving the game in a regular box. Also, looking at how they are palleting the game now it's hard to see how they could safely attach the topper box. If they don't then it's guaranteed that shippers (I'm looking at YOU FEDEX) would have a greater chance of losing/damaging the topper. What if they are expecting their shipment of regular CGC boxes soon and they are stockpiling for that reason? We have no way of knowing either way unless they release some info. It's just fun to speculate.

This may sound crazy but with all CGC has in the works, is it possible that the SE might be the smallest production run and be done after initial 500, if the LE and SE+ are 1250 each or whatever the number was?

Looks like a standard box to me.

It would be nice if they hit full capacity, but I think things are still being slowed down by parts shortages. I could see them getting games close to finished and then sending them out as soon as the missing parts arrive. This could explain the spurts of games being shipped we have seen.

For what it's worth, my machine was in an official CGC box. See my image above. It was well constructed, and had built in holders for the legs glued in the box. Box also had a diagram on the side of how the pin was positioned inside which was nice.

Mine was in a CGC box as well, but I've also heard of later ones which were in bottomless blank boxes strapped to a pallet. On those, if you wanted to transport in your car, the straps had to be cut and the box lifted off the pin.

Mine was in a generic box that had no bottom (the bottom was just the pallet that the game was strapped to and the box slipped over it). Everything had to be removed to fit in my 4Runner instead of sliding the box in like a Stern

This reminds me of a change-selling machine I was setting up in the casino where I was working. The machine came with a manual written in Chinese-translated-to-English.

In the section titled Field Setup was this one sentence: "Do not set machine up in field! Machine was made for inside!"

Go the delivery scheduled! One week from today. This is gonna be a LONG 7 days.

Build date

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You were lucky #13!