Wow guys! Stop the crying lol Planetary has the WW playfields for sale RIGHT NOW! In stock.

http://www.planetarypinball.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PPS-31-1002-574&Store_Code=PP

$649

Not only that, but they are only $649... Cheaper than the ones on pre-order. Ouch.

Unless something has changed, the BK playfields left have some pretty pronounced print registration issues at the inserts. If you want do do some touchup around the inserts, I bet the BK playfields can be had at quite a discount. I was offered one at a very good price, but passed. I might have bought it but a C37 fell into my lap and I spent my dough there.

Woo Hoo! TY Jim. I gots me one from Planetary after all this. My lucky week? I mean MOP , and now Whirlwind pf ? I need some more people to cancel my order cuz this is working out

Thank you! Got one ordered. Too bad they didn't have the plastics, but I know where to go for those.

Chris

Bay area is going to put them up too very soon and marco as well. I saw planetary did change the price to $699 I'm sure the others will as well.

I got mine for $649. That is less than the pre-order iirc...WEIRD. I paid $50 extra for the pick of the litter they have in stock. This could work out even better than getting the pre-order.

Whysnow you are set now, right? and everyone else who needed one.

Soon and very soon...
My whirlwind is going to see the King...

Alright it's just going to McCune, but I have been so lucky lately a Hymn feels appropriate.

Well I hope I didn't misread the terms of the playfield assurance. As I read it, you get the pick of any open playfields they have (if they have any other opened playfields), after the one they open for you is inspected and you are made aware of condition. If you didn't pay for the assurance, you get an unopened playfield as it was shipped from CPR. Nothing I read suggested they were going to open and rate them all, and you were getting the worst of the lot if you didn't pay for assurance.

Chris

Someone has to get the opened ones that were rejected.

They are sold out.

Honestly I'm just glad to be getting one, but I'd prefer mine unopened as it came from CPR. Considering how quickly they sold out, I suspect they will ship what they can and the assurance buyers will have the choice of their allotted playfield or nothing. If they sold 20 playfields and 2 guys buy assurance, do you really think they are going to open all 20 to make sure you get the best of the lot? Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so.

Big thanks to Planetary for the great price!

Chris

Sara in the warehouse personally opens all of the playfields, examines insert problems, dust specks, raised defects, and artwork anomalies. Rest assure, playfield assurance is the way to go. Certainly the cream of the crop. Was on the phone with her for a week picking out my funhouse playfield.

BAM! There ya go. Better than random for sure. It's a 8.5% premium or so, we should expect something for that.

WW is the top SYS 11 game so it is not rocket science the demand was going to big big. I got on the list when I first learned about it in early 2012, so yeah not waiting four years like some folks have,( I was barely back into PB four years ago), but still, I have been on list over a year, and like apparently many others I got my confirmation on the pre-order list feeling pretty good that the PF was going to come since they are in production this time. I have been working my WW getting it ready for the arrival of a new PF, and right at the end I find out, boom, thru this forum (not CPR, not even a word from them) no PF for me.. It stinks. How would you feel? I am 65 and not getting any younger,waiting four more years or even two more years ain't too damn good. I hope they get them in production sooner this time.

Takes 9-11 Months to get an Insert Order "delivered" once we place another order.....and to be cost effective we need to order all the Inserts for atleast 7 Titles all at the same time....

suggest handing this off to mirco than

Ordered!! ...glad I saw this - THANKS CPR!!

Yeah I am an idiot I was talking to bay area and Planetary send me an email letting me know the playfields were up. BAA said they would put me on the list and let me know later that day when they would be up. So I got the email and thought ok cool planetary has them so bay area will soon and I'll just get the one I am on the list for. Sold out a few hours later and today I learned bay area and planetary are sister companies. Ugh I missed it. They did their part just forgot to let me know they were related companies, I am sure its common knowledge but I missed that.

Could those of us that are still on the list at least get an email stating that at some point you will still make us a playfield. I can wait, But would at least like to know if something is going to happen in the future. Also others will be able to back out if they bought one from somewhere else. Also you could open the orders again for the future run and likely get some more people on board.

it's already been mentioned that we will be doing another run of these (we need more inserts - that's 10-11 months away "after" we order them)

Whahoo just secured a playfield!

Agreed...People see profit in these limited runs and for good reason... Stern and CPR are both guilty of not producing enough to meet demand for many of their products, the LE and pre-order playfield scheme remains at the center of this.

Conspiracy!

How this all went down is "somewhat aggravating" -- YA THINK!! I am still scraping myself off the ceiling.. I have ordered from CPR in past and been very satisfied with quality of the products they provide the PB community. This was my first attempt to order a repro playfield from them (albeit an unsuccessful one). I am old school, ran my own business for years and the one thing that irritates me here is that no one from the company has even enough "spunk" to contact me by e-mail and first apologize and then provide an explanation of why I am not getting my "pre-ordered" playfield after over a year long wait and what they plan to do to rectify it. And, I'm not talking about just jumping on this thread with some short shrift responses, that is not what I mean. Even though it is a lot of money, I would have gladly pre-paid 100% upfront to guarantee a playfield, as I am sure many others who were left high and dry would have done for this Playfield. This is like the stinking airline industry that deliberately way overbooks flights in order to guarantee (themselves) they will have a sold out flight but often times at the expense and great inconvenience to their customers. If you cannot assure that pre-orders will be filled, then why was the pre-order list held open so long past the actually number of PFs to be made?? It sounds like the pre-order list was allowed to grow well beyond what was intended to be made in order to guarantee a 100% sell out. Not sure what the solution is but something needs to changed because this process stinks, stinks, frankly.

Here's a crazy solution. They should take a non-deposit, say $50. That'd weed out most the flakes.

CPR are great guys and will look after everyone as soon as possible. Been ordering from them for years and always awesome product and service! Shop with confidence. Shoot them a mail and they will look after you and answer your questions soon as they can but keep in mind they, like us all, are very busy people.
We need people like these to keep our pinball treasures playing like new! Thank you CPR! All I can say is....Keep up the great work and ... more of everything please.

$50 deposit is nothing - especially if it is refundable.

Sorry, I meant non-refundable. They could do $100 or whatever covers the material cost.

How about this novel approach; 100% pre-paid guarantees a PF once they go to production, plain and simple. No more waiting for over a year only to find out at the 11th hour you are screwed and are not going to get a PF for your game.. No deposit required to get on the pre-order list, but that would not necessarily guarantee you a playfield (like how it works now, kinda, sorta).

Too bad somebody else don't jump in the reproduction business.

We have IPB, CPR, and Mirco all doing playfields. How many more guys do you think we need?

Jaz

+1 They've already stated that they will need to re-run this title, so those who don't get one now, will get one eventually. It's all good, just chill and play your other games in the meantime.

I have been waiting to buy the plastic set for when i get my playfield to save on shipping. Will there still be plastics available when the new batch of plafields are run or should I just get them now?

Id just get it now through another distributor when you place an order, the plastics look great BTW

I would get them now. No telling if they will be all gone if you wait. If you need them, get them.

Got my playfield today. If I put my nose up to it, I can see very slight crackling on a couple inserts. From 3 feet away with a flashlight they look great. The biggest thing I notice is a couple spots in the clear that need to be buffed a bit more, but again that's looking with a flashlight. Without the flashlight I can't see them. I'm totally pleased. This is one of my favorite pins and I'm very happy to have scored a new playfield. Big thanks to CPR for getting this done. Their next playfield is another of my favorites, Taxi. I'm not feeling too bad about the wait for Earthshaker now as my wife would kill me if I spent ~$2K on playfields in one year

Chris

No such thing as "just enough" or "too many". As long as pins get wear & tear, aftermarket parts business will never die, no differently than aftermarkets car part suppliers.

If anyone is in need of a CPR playfield now, I just noticed that someone posted on on Ebay for $875 shipped with BIN. Still $115 more than buying from CPR direct but at least you wouldn't have to wait if you have a pf swap you want to get started on.
ebay.com link: Williams Whirlwind New Pinball Playfield

The eBay Lister/Seller is pretty much a DickHead for putting the CPR text in there at the bottom...I hate Assholes like this......

Sounds like CPR will make more in the future if you preordered. I am going to wait but might be worth it to someone who is not on the preorder list.

Agree!

Agreed - no need to bash - especially when you are flipping for a profit.