You rang, Mr. Addams.
AB,
You have a much more extensive collection than I and probably a wider experience with different pins as well. Much of your assessment is personal. I would argue with a couple points though.
The width of the flippers is maddening, but it forces me to be very cognizant of my choices. I cannot tell you how many times I have lost the ball trying to nudge from one flipper over to the next after an inlane entry. No longer an option.
I think it is kind of cool to need to reset one's approach to each game. Going from my AFM to CFTBL means I have to take a breath and recall where I am.
I really like the animations and think they are very well done and clever. The theme, art and music is almost a perfect representation of the culture at the time.
Keeping in mind the theme, the KISS animation is appropriate and ties in very well with the video mode and the slam tilt, which I think is fantastic. It may be a bit innocent for your taste as it is for a lot of guys.
I am unsure, but there may be a harder setting for the M.
It does seem to me to feel a bit unfinished, but only with the suggestion of the awards from the inlanes. I have been unable to discover what "star combo" does or was meant to do. I wonder why no one has ever written a home rom completing some of the missing features like was done for WH20.
Overall, it takes no prisoners and gives me a 100% honest assessment of where my game and head are at when I play it.
Nice collection BTW.
You may just be a bit cranky now that hockey is over. 
I know I am!
Dan
Quoted from Atomicboy:haha, just waiting for Mr. Wizzo now
I appreciate that people like this machine, and my point has been rehashed many times, but hay, someone asked, and it's my opinion.
I don't mind drainers, I have pinbot and DW for example and love them, but the flipper spacing on this machine is too wide as well. The reason I care about this is solely based on the fact that it screws your slap saves up, as the timing you develop is timed perfectly for it to hit the tip of one flipper than the other, and when doing that on creature, I find the ball hits just under the tip of the second flipper, and you have to alter your speed when doing this. That of course screws me up for the next machine, and is another reason why I hated this machine, as I use that technique a lot.
Quoted from Atomicboy:For me, CFTBL is the worst machine ever made. It looks good, and I like the theme(s), but the play, animations, and everything else about it rubs me the wrong way. If you could turn off the kiss animations, and do a more with the rules, I might have kept the one I briefly had. The M for example, that shot is always lit... might as well be a GI light. Trudeau should have always let someone else refine the rules, as this game could have been so much more.
Never played TFTC, but I would take a Williams Millionaire over this turd. I have never had another machine I wanted out faster.
Emerald Isle, NC
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