Small post rubbers hold pretty good. Fwiw, I have 1009 plays, love the glass hitting sound, no scratches at all. You could drill a tiny hole and put a bolt thru it at desired height.

Sounds like a plan!

Agree. I like my frogs on SS and gargoyles to just barely reach the glass on a hard shot, if possible. Rubber bands work, I’ve also used the tiny Titan post rings, those little round 3/8 or 7/16 buds.

Agreed! I reached out less than a month ago on a whim and it showed up last week and I couldn’t be happier with it! What’s not to love? I even look forward to the end of games so I get to see the “trailers”! Great stuff. I just wish I could find the casket/Gargoyle mod for the VUX. That would be the cherry on top!

Finally my machine is running as it should and mods have been installed. The long wait is over and now it’s time to enjoy Elvira.

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I really want these!

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Has anyone that ordered from Cointaker received their machine or received confirmation that it shipped from CT out to you?

My EHOH shipped on the 28th …… FedEx still says it won’t get here till the 10th.
This is torture.
I’ve already rearranged the game room and have all the mods ready to go.
FedEx you’re killing me.

Mine shipped on the 27th and we are supposed to get a snow storm tonight. So I feel your pain. Who knows when it will show up?

Well the ETA to Australia is late April after weeks on the water so the rest of y'all think yourselves lucky

I wasn't a fan of the sound either so I limited the travel on mine.

I put a zip tie around the shaft and then added heat shrink tubing to keep it in place.

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No payment request or confirmation yet. Deposit made 01/2022.

I can’t get over how ugly the IC apron card is. I’ve asked before but does anyone have a source for something better? Such a beautiful game to be using such terrible looking cards.

I bought a similar one for my Deadpool.

https://www.wizardmod.com/product-page/elvira-house-of-horrors-premium-insider-cut-out-pinball-magnetic-wizaprons

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I have to say, I’m a little unhappy with Melissa at Cointaker. I put in a deposit last year for a Houdini and her lack of customer service has been a bummer. Whenever I reached out I would only get a one sentence response (if they were even full sentences). I got tired of it so I called American Pinball and spoke to them. They were great and took the time to talk to me and let me know what the real story is, that they have a chip issue and they don’t know when they will be able to get Houdini on the line. So I then emailed Melissa and she gave me the same “it’s coming soon” story which was/is complete BS. The game is delayed, I get it and that’s not her fault, but stop telling me it’s coming soon when the fact is they have no idea when it’s going to get made. I don’t expect to have my hand held, but when I drop 8-10k on a machine I expect just a little customer service. She still hasn’t responded to my last email from a couple of weeks ago. It’s sad as Cointaker is the closest distributor to me and I was hoping to do a lot of business with them. Clearly my business isn’t valued.

My dealer didn't get his shipment in this past week that was expected, it seems stern is taking longer on this run than expected since it was still on the line on Friday. So probably not everyone's shipments have gone out simply.

Part of me wonders about this in a way - I don’t know how much a distro makes off of each machine - in our minds we are thinking ‘8-10k+’ of our hard earned money - and they’re thinking what? 1k of that? And then subtract out $ for time spent on the sale, support, etc. How much do they actually make off of these? I’d be interested to know. Not that the value is any excuse for a lack of customer service, but the way a lot of these distros approach customer service has me wondering if they even care about the sale of one pin to a home collector - or if the real money is to be made filling up the next barcade, D&B with the latest raw thrills, or operator inventory - I have had to jump around between distros over the years because some of them just don’t even bother to respond. And I’m a person who might check-in once every few months on an order - not daily or weekly. What’s their incentive to provide excellent communication and service?

Awesome thank you. I think I’ll try that out

You all prefer art blades or mirror blades for this one?

I'm usually a fan of mirror blades, but the art blades for this title actually look pretty good.

I would say art blades. Mirror blades make things look more vast. They work good on space themed games. Not so much on Elvira.

Black mirror blades for me

I was going thru Elvira, just checking for loose screws, etc. I noticed the back of the crypt building was a little wobbly. Not much, but wanted see if it was easy to tighten something up. Checked the manual and there's a screw back at the back. Glancing at that area, seemed easy to get a screw driver to it without taking anything apart - good deal. Except there isn't a screw there, nor a bracket. Dimple was in the PF (circled in the photo, hard to see), but nothing was ever screwed into it.

Anyone else missing one?
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I like mirrors on some pins and art blades on others. EHoH has several really great art blades to pick from. The Stern ones are very popular and feel like they are part of the original stock design. I have the multicolor ones from Tilt Graphics below…mirrors look great on most pins too, and the ones avail from Pinball Life are awesome now. The entire back is adhesive, so no screws or tape to deal with.

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Just added the speaker lights and some homemade LED strips for the playfield. Looking great!

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I have been looking at the PDI black mirror blades as well. I have never used them before. How do you like them compared to the regular mirror blades?

Anyone

I’ve never heard about them.

Do you have a picture of that when game is on, by chance? That sounds like it would look really good. The art blades are also really good for this game!

Thanks for posting man. Those look great in there too.

I liked these too. Has an evil clown in the third picture. Thought these are rad too. https://www.pingraffix.com/product-page/stern-elvira-house-of-horrors-art-pinblades

Good art options for this title, it's refreshing for sure

I looked on my LE and it doesn't seem to have that either.

Rob

I only have the blades, still waiting for my game.

I'll share pictures when installed

I have the PDI gold mirror blades on my MMr. They look incredible!

May the pinball gods bless all those waiting patiently for their second batch EHOH orders. May this week be the week for all!

Hoping for the email soon. My distributor said it will be this week, but it’s been so long I won’t believe it until it’s delivered.

She's here!

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Nice! I’ve been getting the mushroom treatment…

I find the modesty sticker actually brings more attention to it, but maybe that is just me.

haha yep, makes it appear that she is topless in the backglass...

leads me to wonder if CPR would make that version?

Here's a couple of pics of her going in and one of her in her final resting place. I am in love.

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arrived saturday, need some mods though. Anyone else's ramp edge hit the left gargoyle when the ramp goes up on the house?

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Yes, mine just started doing that. Been busy adding lights and art blades but I am going to try to look at that issue tonight.

Even in the official Stern promo video for the game, the ramp lifts up a gargoyle (the right one in the video)

This is true.

What is everyone’s choice for non-glare glass? I have a really bad back-box reflection on the upper play field and the machine is too gorgeous to cover the back box!

Edit: My ramp caught the pin holding the gargoyle, not the gargoyle itself, so maybe this post didn't answer your question. But it might be appropriate, so I'll leave it.

Yep, but mine is not from the most recent build. Drove me nuts numerous times, to the point I paid more attention to that than game play at times. I'd tinker with it, it would be OK, then over time it was hanging up again. Grrr... I *might* have resolved that issue last week. I played it over the weekend and it was OK and I was going to shoot some more tonight - but I don't want to declare victory yet. I'll post pictures later (can't right now).

But in a nut shell if it catches the pin:

1) Make sure the nut under the PF is tight. While you're at it, try to bias the bracket up top to so it provides more clearance when everything is assembled.
2) I replaced the screw up top w/a hex head/lock washer so I could snug it up a bit better. Maybe not needed, but made it easier to tighten w/o taking the gargoyle off.
3) Added a little blue thread lock to the hex head screw up top.
4) The pivoting bracket - I bent one of the taps (the left one) outward to help prevent the pin from scooting to the right too much. This helped a lot.
5) The pin that allows the movement is squished on the ends to keep it from coming out... Mine seemed to be excessively long (the squished length), I ground the right side down some. There's a picture posted in the thread not long ago (I posted about my ramp problem earlier) that show another gent's pin having a lot shorter squished length. This did make a difference.

I did these things over the course of a few months (not in the order listed). Each one helped, but there was never 'one thing' that seemed to fixed it. Since this evolved over time, maybe they are all not needed. There's just so much slop in everything, if they all go the wrong way - then the ramp could hang up on mine. All Stern had to do was make the flap on the ramp slightly narrower and that would have solved the problem.

I should add, I've never taken the house apart. Perhaps there's something in there that could be adjusted.

Set the backbox lighting to a lower level when game is in play.

Good tip! Thanks!

Is this an option in the menu?

Yes. It is. You can set backbox lighting levels for attract mode, play mode and service mode. (This applies to all Spike 2 games.)

Waiting for mine to arrive. XPO is killing me here!!