I struggled to make that shot when I played it at expo. Its definately challenging but is doable every once in a while. I like harder skill shots like that a lot more than the "hit the lit rollover" type.

I assumed it was a collection of driving/car clips from multiple movies.

Has Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing from "Satanic Rites if Dracula" made an appearance in the game yet?

I think the license they got for the game was based on the revived Elvira Movie Macabre series from 2010-2011. This contained 26 public domain movies. So far all the haunts in the game are from those 26 movies.

They released a DVD boxset, Elvira Movie Macabre Coffin Collection, containing all 26 films with the Elvira segments that is now out of print. At one point you could get it for as low as $30, now it sells on Ebay for hundreds. Some of the streaming services have some if the Elvira episodes available.

The films are public domain so if you just want to watch the films themselves without the Elvira stuff you should be able to find them for free on the web or youtube.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 also had episodes with a lot of those films. Should be able to find those online or as DVD's as well

https://www.amazon.com/Elviras-Movie-Macabre-Coffin-Collection/dp/B00LFMZZSO

I agree!

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Just saw the "EEAAGH" movie this weekend on the shout factory "MST3K live channel" via Roku. Pretty ridiculous movie, but great MST3K episode, highly reommended. Will be interesting to see what aspects of the movie Lyman picks for that haunt.

I know we'll never see an official MST3K pin, but Elvira is pretty much the same thing with boobs.

Does the haunts appear in the same window every time or do they move around?

I think they said there were 18 movies they had access to. So wouldnt you have multiple haunts (and thus multiple colors) per window?

I dont own the game (but it's on my short list) so I'm just going on memory from playing it at Expo last year.

So with current code, six haunts in six windows? Plus the secret locked haunts for Santa and Dracula?

Nothing like some good old yankee ingenuity from a Canadian. I like it!

You sure about the 8GB restriction? I believe I used a 32GB drive to update my Batman66 and it worked fine.

I know with spooky the was an issue using 2.0 rated drives vs the faster 3.0.

It will be nice when they get the internet enabled stuff worked out so the games will just update themselves over your home wifi on their own.

I think that's where the size an come into play. I Think Fat32 only works on 32GB or less.

Classic Game Rooms and Automated Services both had NIB Elvira premiums avail earlier this week for those who dont want to wait for the next run.

Well the side blades clearly show "Ray Gun Rampage" so its coming!

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It looks like there is a seam between the middle section and the two end sections. I wonder if the middle section flips backwards to reveal something on the bottom like a dead head skull maybe? Would be cool if it was a skull that was animated to move its mouth in sync with deadhead taunts.

Not sure how the thing would be lit unless the plastic is translucent and has LED's inside of it. Hopefully the topper budget is spent on a cool mechanical device vs just fancy lighting.

However the lighting on the homebrew topper with elvira on the couch and the backlit game logo looks great and fits the theme perfectly.

What is this hardware value you speak of?

Automated services had some in stock last week.

As much as I love Batman66, Elvira has a lot more variety as of today. Plus it still has things yet to be coded into the game.

For multiballs Batman66 has 6; villain, villain escape, Holy, batusi, and gas attack.

For multiballs Elvira has abouy twice as many at 13: wild women, zombie attack, attic attack, trunk, phone a friend, gappa angry, pool party, dance fever, make-out mayhem, scream test, run for your life, house party, directors cut.

For toys/mechs Batman66 has; the awesome center rotisserie with 3 sides to it (2 sides are stand up targets and 3rd side has physical ball lock and center pass through shot), penguin crane, penguin VUK, riddler saucer, joker magnet, gadget 6 target stand up bank, TV 3 target stand up bank, villain vision mini LCD, 3 pops, spinner

Elvira beats Batman66 here as well with; awesome house toy (has multiple diverters and locks within) with impressive color changing lighting effects, spinning turret on top of house with 4 positions, house ramp that allows shot into house or lifts upfor shot under house into celler, drop target in front of house garage shot, back door scoop behind house, dead head crypt with 3 positions that all register hits (closed, open into scoop, open into bash toy), crypt VUK shoots ball across playfield to hit trunk targets via action button, trunk that opens closes as part of left ramp to locks balls, 4 jumping gargoyles that hit the glass, manos virtual spinning wheel, 3 target stand up bank for Trunk, 3 target stand up bank for manos, 3 pops, spinner

Things to do for Batman66 involve fightging 4 main villains (2 episodes per villain) or 1 or 6 minor villains (some minor villains have multiple seasons some just 1 season), bat turn side mode, villain escape multiball after capturing 4 main villains, choice of multiball after played 1 minor villain for each of 3 seasons.

Elvira beats Batman66 again for sheer number of different things to do; house has 6 main haunts and 2 or 3 hidden haunts (requires key from trunk to unlock), 3 multiballs on the garage shot, un-happy hour mode, drive me car-azy mode, capture items from the trunk(dagger, potion, key, ray gun) for extra game features, gargoils gone wild mode, gappa angry multiball (has 5 consolation multiballs if you dont make it to 6 on gappa), phone a fiend multiball via trunk, 15 dead heads to fight at the crypt, super dead head shot after beating 3 dead heads, manos wheel for awards, house party after 2 haunts, directors cut after 4 haunts, trailer trash after each haunt.

I think Lyman learned a lot regarding integrating existing video clips into game play from Batman and took it to the next level.with Elvira.

Batman66 shots are a little clunky while Elvira shots are smoother than velveeta.

I still love my Batman66 but I think Elvira just has a much wider variety of stuff to do.

The pool stuff is an homage back to the first game Elvira and the Party Monsters. Thst game has some pool party artwork around the monster waterslide (main ramp of the game).

There is no graveyard, it's just her spooky mansion which might have a grave or two on the property. Her outdoor swimming pool is the pop number area. She's trying to get rid of all the ghost and crypt spirits so she can sell the house. I think Greg's art is great, so many little details to notice once you start looking closely.

Pinball life is even cheaper 79 instead of 99.

Only if stern buys their shakers from the same supplier the makes their coil stops.

Wouldn't a fast ramp lift cause another problem if there was a ball on the end of the ramp when it goes up?

With the angle of the ramp it looks like the rivets might be far enough back that you could have just enough clearance to switch to a nut and bolt instead of a rivet. That would make periodic replacement easier.

I thought the whole reason you were getting rid of the movie spirits via the haunts and cleaning out the crypt was so Elvira can sell her house. So I was assuming selling the house would be a final wizard mode involving the "wild market vale" stand up target. But if you look at the instruction card that target is meant for a hurry up mode. So maybe directors cut is the final wizard mode.

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I did the black paint wash on the boney flippers. Their natural color is just too white. Put a little satin clear on them after painting for protection. I think they look perfect with purple flipper rubbers.

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The game has so many cool mechanical interactions with the ball so it would be nice if the topper was animated in some way. However looking at the pic it's not really obvious what it could do. Some were thinking the middle portion might flip back to reveal something. An interactive dead head would be cool but the middle section doesn't look thick enough to contain an animatronic head or skull face. The gargoyles might jump up but again the base doesn't look thick enough to hold much mechanically. I hope it doesn't end up being just a couple of flashing lights.

Yeah I noticed that as well, you can collect multiple quantities of all the junk items.

Pretty sure the LED's and Flashers in all the Spike games are 5v DC not AC.

I started getting phantom registers on my right ramp as well. When I first got the game it was fine then it got worse over time. I removed the ramp and the screws holding the opto were still tight. I enlarged the holes to 5/16" as described by freegame450 and it's working fine now.

When I first looked at the opto on the right side of the ramp I was looking at the red lit LED with the game on and it was nowhere close to the hole. At first I though that was the LED that should shine through the hole but I think that one is just a power indicator. The LED that should align with the hole is D1 which I think is IR so you cant see it light up.

There is dimmer red LED on the receiver side on the left side of the ramp. Another way to test if the oto is registering properly is that LED will go off when the light beam between them is broken.

It sounds like the ball may be getting stuck at the subway exit. I would check that pin is level side to side and that game is at proper angle front to back (about 6.5 degrees). When the coil in the subway is energized the post should retract upwards allowing ball to fall out. Hopefully the attached picture helps explain it. It shows the back subway directly behind the house.

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I doubt they would undo that feature. My guess it's a new game and maybe they forgot to removing the shipping foam under the playfield that keeps the gargoyles from moving during shipping.

The boney flipper bats really tie the game together.

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Another nice thing about the kenwoods is they look great with the RGB speaker light kits because their white cone material reflects the full range of colors much more than a black or other solid colored coned speaker would.

If you like the round style RGB speaker lights and want to upgrade from 4" to 5 1/4" at the same time it's real easy because Doug sells the 5 1/4" metal speaker grills for only $25 a pair when you buy the light kit with them. $25 was a lot cheaper than other places selling the plates by themselves.

If you do the speaker light kit be aware that they do cause reflections on the glass so I would also recommend using the "bent plastic" mod which eliminates it.

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https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/20-10343

http://www.planetarypinball.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PPS-20-10343

https://www.actionpinball.com/parts.php?item=20-10343U

For our UK friends:

https://www.pinball.co.uk/game-specific-parts/scared-stiff/boney-flippers-pair-20-10343/

If you want pre-painted ones:

http://mad-amusements.com/product.php?id_product=270

https://modfatherpinball.com/products/boney-flipper-bats

Its very easy to paint wash them yourself. Just google paint wash and there are tons if tutorial videos on how to do it.

On the latest Super Awesome Pinball Show podcast they have a great interview with George Gomez. Some interesting info regarding Stern's topper development process.

Based on what he said I think they will continue to have exclusive game play features and interactivity only available to those who buy the topper.

I dont want to get into a DLC debate but if the Elvira topper did unlock a mode or game feature I would be fine with that. I'd prefer that vs just being purely cosmetic.

In the interview George said they want the games design team to be the ones to come up with the topper concept. Elviras design team did such a great job on the game itself I'm hoping whatever they have planned for the topper is equally awesome. I hope Dennis is still in involved with it.

I think he is referring to the 2 runners that B/W had on the back of the cabinet. When the game was in its stored position it was raised an inch or so off the floor by the runners. Newer games just have those 4 nylon glides to raise the game off the floor when folded.

Spooky still uses the runners on their cabs with nylon glides on the runners. Elvira just uses the 4 small nylon glides.

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So your Elvira didnt have the 4 little white nylon guides?

You could replace them with something like this to give you some extra height.

https://www.amazon.com/Antrader-Furniture-Sliders-Protector-Anti-Abrasion/dp/B07J3YF97L/ref=mp_s_a_1_22

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If that a manual plunge or auto plunge?

If that's the auto plunge shooting maybe cut the power a little. You could also try and see where the ball is getting hit by manual or auto plunger. Not sure if there is a way to adjust that or not but if its hitting the ball too low that might make it more prone to get airborne.

I would think air balls would be due to not being centered in the up or down direction versus left right. If the plunger was hitting the ball too low I'd expect that to induce airballs.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00AYR63BO

Beat me by 35 seconds!

Try the recommendations in this post.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/elvira-s-house-of-horrors-the-owner-s-club/page/80#post-5733295

If the upper portion of the ramp before the trunk is a little lower than the trunk lid then it will cause air balls. It was enough of a problem that pinball life made a little spacer to raise the ramp to prevent it. You could also use washers to get the same result.

https://www.pinballlife.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PBL-300-0158-00

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Amen!

Lyman definitely has something interesting planned with the turret. If you use pinball browser there are videos in there involving a flying saucer and the different objects (bat, eyeball, spider, elvira) on the turret.

Maybe the center section will flip back and creepo the clowns face will be there to taunt you.

That statement is pretty much what they say every month.

I'm hoping it does multiple things!

so far just the one from a few months ago.

It looks like that the theory that middle section of the topper will open and close is true.

If you go to the game specific tests area of the diagnostics menu there is a new option for the topper. When you select it it says topper is not detected but it does show the option to "open lid" and "close lid".

So topper will have at least one motor or coil to open/close the lid and a switch to detect if it's open or closed. Looking at the LED and flasher menus I dont see any new LEDs listed that might be part of the topper.

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I dont think a mini LCD would look that good. It was a similar size to the mini one in star wars, or the hobbit book you would need binoculars to see the floating dead head in it.

The idea to move the floating head from the main display to a second display might look cool though if the topper LCD was big enough to see the head clearly.

This one looks pretty close as well.

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My premium has a built date of Nov 16'th and it had the revised guides on it from the factory.

Maybe he will show up as one of the secret haunts like Santa, Dracula, and Gila monster.

Maybe I'm being optimistic but I read "final haunt" as referring to the last haunt after you light all the house windows.

It would be great if Lyman added more movies as secret windows or as random alternates to the existing 6 main haunts. But even if no more are added I'm still very happy with what's there now. He did such a great job integrating the clips and music on the current haunts. The original music from the different films really adds to the variety of the haunts.

That doesn't sound right you need to make sure you level is correct. Some of the phone level apps have a calibrate option. Put it on a surface you know is pretty flat and make sure your level app agrees with that. If it doesnt, hit the calibrate option when it's on a known flat surface.

Colors dont match mine either from connector to connector. Red goes to red, green/brown goes to pink/purple and black/orange goes to black/brown.

Seems like alignment of holes or undersized holes is common on this game so I would confirm it is not an alignment issue. Might be easier to take them off the ramp to determine if they are working correctly. If you confirm one side is bad you could try swapping with a known good one from other part of the game to narrow down which side is not working.

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If the coil it energizing and there isnt a ball there to break.the beam then the opto is probably not aligned.

See this post which had a similar problem that was fixed by enlarging the opto holes.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/elvira-s-house-of-horrors-the-owner-s-club/page/55#post-5592156

I had a similar issue (and quite a few others apparently) where the right ramp opto would have phantom triggers. In my case the pop bumpers firing would vibrate the right ramp enough to trigger the opto. You would start un-happy hour very quickly and gets lots of jackpots because it thought you were making right ramp shots over and over again. Enlarging the holes stopped the phantom triggers.

Stern seems to be making them just big enough but if the alignment is off just a little and you have problems. Seems like making the holes a little bigger makes them more robust against slight misalignment. Makes me wonder if there is any drawback to making them too big. Maybe Stern is worried about ramp integrity if holes are too big?

Just installed the gargoyle and casket mod. I think it blends in really well with the art style of the game. Thanks Medisinyl!

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Could be bad coil stops. Seems to be a fairly common problem on recent Sterns.

Could you use a cutting wheel on a dremel to cut a slot in the screw head then use a flat blade screw driver in that slot to unscrew it.

Awesome to see that Stern released a trailer for the new Avengers that shows the topper and other planned accessories.

Makes me wish they would release details on the Elvira topper.

That's crazy. It better be pretty cool for that price. Maybe they see all the excitement for the game and decided to see how far they could push it price wise. You could buy 2 fully animatronic black knight toppers and a fully animatronic deadpool talking head for that much.

I also see they listed the new Avengers topper for $599.

You used regular playfield wax or a lubricant like super lube?

If you look at the other Stern toppers most of them have sold out. However the Star Wars Topper at $749 is still avail from multiple places.

You would think Star Wars is more much popular than Elvira so if $749 Star Wars toppers don't sell out, I wonder why Stern would think Elvira toppers would do any better at $999?

My guess is that it's got a big LCD in the middle. It flips up when crypt is open and displays the floating dead heads on the topper LCD instead of having them on the main LCD. That looks cool and fixes a complaint many have that the dead heads get in the way on the main display. Give the topper owners something cool regarding gameplay but non topper owners arent missing a new mode. Cost of the LCD plus 3 to 4 node boards for LCD, motor, lights, switches drive the cost up compared to the flat plastic toppers with only lighting effects that cost $400 to $600.

If they want extra credit the use the LCD in a "peppers ghost" type set up or one of those hologram fans so the dead heads look more ghost like. Maybe throw in some strobe flashers for lighting effects in sync with the game thunder audio. That might be worth the extra money.

About the only thing he said about it was that it was very heavy. Hopefully he'll do another Elvira stream soon and we can finally see what it does.

I hope we dont have to wait until oct to find out what it does.

I heard it is not limeted to 200. Anyone else hear that as well?

$1.99 at autozone. One of the most valuable tools in the toolbox.

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Creepy false mirror TV? That's sounds cool, care to elaborate?

Won't make a decision until I see it in action.

Sounds cool. Post some pics when you get a chance.

Stern pinball, rumored cost is $1,000 and is expected to be avail soon.

Beat me by 26 seconds.

I agree it's way more interesting to make the topper compliment the games theme vs just duplicating stuff already there. The Stern topper for TMNT prominently displays the TMNT logo just a few inches above the exact same logo on the backglass.

For the DIY types I saw this spooky old timey movie projector Halloween decoration at Lowes the other day. When triggered, the two reels spin and it projects a flickering pic of Frankenstein on a nearby surface. You could replace the internal slide from Frankenstein to one of Elvira or the movie macabre logo and trigger it to run whenever you are in a haunt. Totally fits the theme of the game and is $970.01 less than the Stern topper.
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Multiple topper choices from Stern would be interesting.

Batman66 is only Stern game I can think of that had multiple toppers available. They had the batmobile topper that only came with SLE/LE games and couldnt be purchased separately. Then they sold two different toppers as accessories; the batsignal projector and the "villains" topper.

The weird thing I never understood is that the way cooler projector topper came with multiple node boards, was interactive with gameplay and cost $250. The "villains" topper was flat plastics, no node boards, and no interactivity and cost $400.

It's frustrating to know that here is an Elvira topper thats been on the Elvira machine in DeadFlip's studio for a couple weeks now and he cant tell us what it does yet.

If you are the original buyer then the distributor you bought it from should be able to help.

If you bought it used then find out from the seller which distributor they bought it from and try asking them if they can order it for you.

Thats disappointing.

Who is your distributor? Did they send you any new pics that are different that what was leaked earlier.

I had right ramp phantom triggering and enlarging the opto holes in the ramp fixed it.

I'm guessing its backlit as well.

Not sure why the staic image is basically the same Elvira pose that's a few inches below on the backglass.

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It's like the TMNT topper where they duplicated the logo from the top of the backglass to the front of the topper.

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When that stuff happens the art director should step in and say, "WTF guys?"

Is that yours? If so how about some description to go along with the photo?

Ed Vanderveen has very short videos of it on his facebook page.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/627978587968815?view=permalink&id=822693788497293

Looks like code to active opening/closing isn't it place yet. They did show adjustment #263 in the menus to enable/disable "topper attract mode scream".

I dont recall anyone mentioning that before but I also see it in my menu without a topper installed.

I tried the scream setting adjustment and it lets you adjust it from 0% to 100%. If you set it to 100% then when you hit a flipper button during attact mode it screams. If it's at 50% then sometimes it screams and sometimes it plays a random sound clip. If its 0% it never screams, just plays a random sound clip when you hit flipper button.

Did Stern officially say it's limited to 200? The Star Wars topper was limited and had a numbered plaque. All the LE machines are numbered. If this was limited to 200 you expect it to be numbered as well. Maybe the first batch is 200 and if there is still demand they will make more?

All the pics so far with the center flipped up have only showed it open to up to about 45 degrees. Does it flip up all the way or just halfway?

Tiltforums rulesheet may help you. It's only up to 0.93 code rules but it does describe the shots needed to complete the main haunts. For some haunts there is a specific shot to make that will end the mode (usually is lit a different color than the others) but by shooting the other lit shots you can stay in the mode and keep building points.

http://tiltforums.com/t/elvira-s-house-of-horrors-rulesheet-wip/5815

Looks like Dugfreez's type 13 speaker light kit in action. He provides the 4" to 5 1/4" adapter plates, colored trim rings, and LED's at a very resonable price. Be aware though that these do create a lot of reflection on the glass so plan on anti reflective glass or bent plastic to mitigate that.

http://www.speakerlightkits.com/Type-13.html

I could have sworn on one of the podcasts some said first batch was 200 and maybe more if there was enough demand.

I'm guessing this topper will have 4 separate boards. Based on the photos I see 7 LED's per gargoyle plus 4 more LED's for the skull eyes plus the strip of LED's below the crypt sign and whatever LED's are behind the Elvira pic. So that will require two of 16 output LED driver boards. The lid opening up/down will need a motor controller or a coil driver board as well as switch inputs so that's another node board. Finally you need the the main node board that talks to CPU and then tells the other topper boards what to do.

The question we all have now is how interactive it will be. We've seen the gargoyle and skull lights change during gameplay but the lid is still a mystery. I guess we'll need to wait until the next code update to see how interactive it is and if it adds a topper exclusive mode or not.

Those look nice. I saw these on amazon that you could have sitting on the backbox.

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Besides Batman66 LE/SLE have there been any other modern Sterns that have shipped with toppers?

Not a Stern, but all the Ricky and Morty's come with a topper.

New code preview streaming right now on deadflip twitch!

Jack showed some of the work in progress readme file contents (99.10, 99.12, 99.17) from Lyman during his stream tonight. I'm assuming these will all be folded into the 1.0 release when its ready.

If you didn't catch the stream here's a few screen caps to give you a sneak peek of all the cool content to look forward to with 1.0. Jack showed them during the stream so I think they should be fait game to post here.

I love the attention to detail and theme integration Lyman continues to add to the game. For example, during a multiplayer game if one the players scores is significantly lower than the others a spider comes down the display and spins a web over the lowest score.

Who has a guess as to what the "PEW PEW PEW" mode is all about?

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