I played this pin (a DP LE) at Pinball Pete's in Ann Arbor on Saturday. It was the first time I've ever played any model of DP and seen it in person. I gotta tell you, I LOVED IT! I can't believe this pin doesn't have more fanfare surrounding it. Playing a 90's era fighting game while you're playing pinball was very fresh feeling and unlike anything else in pinball I've played, and I dug Gomez's non-traditional playfield layout. The humor of the game was also a breath of fresh air, and what's there to say about the art other than it's spectacular! DP solidly landed on my "want to buy" list. I dug the LE features, so I'll be looking for a Premium down the road.

Welp, I'm sorta joining your club. I signed up for a DP Premium from the upcoming December run. Man, that sounds a long way off. I was trying to decide between DP Premium, Elvira HOH, or JP Premium. I'm afraid that DP being introduced in 2018 might be coming up on the end of it's run quicker than the other two titles, and darn it, I simply just enjoy the heck out of playing DP whenever I get the chance to. It just seems to have this special magic combination of art, sounds, LCD graphics, humor, rules, and playfield layout, that really work for me. I've never seen the Premium artwork in real life, I guess by next Spring (if schedules hold out) that will no longer be the case.

Me too. Welcome to the waiting room

Those folks in the sweatshirts look really happy.

Not too confident here.

I'm understanding it as EternitytoM83 is saying that during the assembly process at Stern, an assembler simply forgot to install the washer. It can happen. I keep a bunch of miscellaneous screws, washers, and nuts in my pin workshop just in case I drop and lose one when working on a pin, or in case I need extras (I always need extras for some reason).

I wouldn't recommend that, not specifically because it might be bad for the machine (it probably wouldn't as long as leg bolts were tight), but because loose leg levelers (from my experience), tend to rotate out of place over time, slowly changing your machine's leveling. I go through a lot of trouble leveling my machines, so I need to lock the levelers down with their jam nuts to lock that level in.

With practice I find a nice sharp nudge perfectly timed when the ball is in contact with whatever playfield feature you choose, is sufficient enough to change the rebound trajectory of the ball enough to make it go where I want it to (i.e. not the drains). There's quite a bit of flex available in the length of the legs, even though it may not seem like it. Sometimes I can get a little over zealous and slightly slide the front of the machine with a nudge, though that is not my intent.

I'm pretty sure he means just leave the leg levelers loose and not jam nutted.

My leveling legs rotate if I don't do it. Maybe I'm a tad more violent than I thought

Ah, yes I see in his reply above. Yeah, no. Don't do that.

Great. Had my order for a DP Premium since June.

Me too! I wasn't a big fan of the Premium art, but in Cary Hardy's recent Expo video, the colors on that Premium really popped more than I've ever seen in any pictures. The blues looked really vibrant, and I was like "Wow, that looks way better than I've ever seen, I love it". What did you think of the Premium art in real life?

Hello Deadpool owners (and hopeful future owners). In anticipation of getting my long ordered Deadpool Premium sometime before I'm deceased, I've been accumulating things I want to install when it arrives, and right now I'm looking for plastic protectors.

I'd like a more complete set of plastic protectors than just the typical 4 piece slingshot and return lane set, but I'm having trouble finding a more complete set. It appears that the Playfield Protector Company may be the only place a full (or almost full) set is available. Am I right, or am I missing another source?

Thanks in advance for any information.

Thanks for posting this. I was unaware of maffewl's mods. He's got a bunch of cool mods for a lot of different machines.

Cool, thank you! I swear I looked at Mezelmods, but somehow I must've overlooked this set. I like it!

Ugh... for all Premiums? Including the one I've had on order since June 3rd 2021?

I'm afraid to call Cointaker and ask. Maybe I don't wanna know.

Yeah, verified August 2022 for me. Now I gotta try not to accidentally die for a lot of months in order to enjoy this game. That's a lot of looking both ways before crossing the street and stuff.

I have a feeling they won't. It would be nice to be wrong.

I plan on it. I've added washers to all my NIB Sterns ball guides since Pooling became a thing. Cheap and easy insurance. Too bad we gotta do it though.

I messed up a plastic on a TMNT Pro recently, and had to buy an entire set. I try to get full sets of plastic protectors to protect as many plastics as I can, but I was fixing something with super glue, and accidentally had a drop of super glue land on the top of a plastic. Oops. So I just bought the whole set. Maybe I can trade or sell some of the plastics later when people are restoring TMNTs in 10-20 years, LOL.

No they did not complete the run, as I'm still waiting for my DP Premium (on order since June 3rd). Hopefully maybe they can keep squeezing more and more in before July/August, as that's a loooong time to wait.

Yeah, right. Maybe it's my distributor, I dunno. My order is with Cointaker. Has anyone received a DP Premium from this latest surprise run from Cointaker? I haven't seen anyone mention it.

Just an FYI with my experience with the Stern target brackets. Even when I use them, I often find that the clearances within the different blades and spacers of the target assembly will allow the target to lean over a little bit. When this happens, I just go under the playfield and loosen the target mount bracket enough to get a shim under the side of the target away from the the lean (to stand it back up straight - in your case the side of the Snikt target closest to the front of the playfield), then I space the target back to level. After I've done this to targets, they pretty much stay level from then on.

I don't know if that helps you, but maybe it will. I had to do this to my SW and ACDC targets (and others). If it does help, and you end up keeping your DP, it'll be well worth it.

I have access to some plastic shim stock sets from McMaster-Carr through my workplace, so I just used one of those plastic shims and cut a small piece to fit. However, what Fooflighter mentioned works too, and from what I remember a #8 washer used as a shim under an edge of the bracket works good too. A #6 or #10 washer may also do the trick.

Yeah, I'm sure that's how it works. It's too bad Stern couldn't just throw that extra apron piece in the goody bag.

I don't think it's a conspiracy, I think it's fact, as I swear I heard in an interview with George Gomez that they planned on at least a couple more battles, but things were getting so complicated code-wise, they had to trim it back to a more reasonable level.

Yeah, I'm in too.

Hey, as long as I'm in here, does anyone make a full plastic protector set that they'd recommend? I want more than the slingshot and inlane plastics protected.

I should be getting my long awaited DP Premium soon, and this is about the last thing I need.

Thanks in advance.

Cool, I sent you a PM to discuss.

Thank you.

I just need time to drink beer in between the action, so a pause in any game is welcome every now and then.

You guys experiencing Stern drops bricking, I experienced it too on my ACDC Luci and my Walking Dead (Iron Maiden, oddly.. not so much), and I made it a lot better on the ACDC and Walking Dead by doing two things you're free to try:

1.) I unhooked the bottom of the spring that pulls the drop targets down, and I pulled the spring a little tighter, then I hooked a portion of the spring about 3/4 of the way down the spring, increasing spring pressure. This helped pull down the drop targets a little more forcefully.

2.) I went under the playfield, and loosened the drop target assembly bracket, then I put shims under the rear of the bracket only (the opposite side from which the balls hit the drops). The shims were about .020" thick or so. Why did I do this? If you look at the face of the Stern drops, it's angled to prevent air balls (thicker at the top). In theory, this is a good idea. However, I think that when a fast ball squarely hits the drop target, the angled face of the drop rides up surface of the ball as the ball and the drop are both heading towards the rear of the slot in the playfield that the drop target is extending through. The force of the ball will force the drop and the ball against the rear of the slot, or against the washer and screw retaining the drop target, all the while the angled face of the target is supported by the ball, which is preventing the drop target from falling. The target and ball then rebounds at a rapid pace while still pressed together, and the drop target just magically sets right back down on the support shelf, leaving you to wonder what the heck happened. Tilting the entire drop target assembly back away from the ball strike direction, lessens the drop target's angled face, which helps it drop when the ball is pressed hard against it. You'll probably still have an occasional brick, but it won't be as bad, at least in my experience. Double check the leveling of the top of the drops to the playfield surface and level as required when you're done with this.

Your mileage may vary, but hey, give it a shot.

Jeff R.

I had this issue with Sparky on Metallica. I got tired of rotating his head back to looking straight, so I shot some hot glue into the spring pocket in the bottom of his head. This secured his head great, and I haven't had to tweak his head position in 4 years since I've done it. I imagine Lil' Deadpool's head is the same construction-wise.

I just took delivery of a Deadpool Premium, and I documented my factory Snikt target placement before any play, and this was it.20231123_214057 (resized).jpg

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