Thanks!

Thanks and party we will!

Still need to:
- get all my furniture up there
- hang all my pinball art and WOZ collectibles
- get Spiderman statue set up
- install the sleeping mattress
- setup all my parts and tools
- fix all the bugs in the machines!

Here's a short video walk thru

Thanks and enjoyed sharing it!
More info to come as we polish it up!

Feels like a deam!

Thanks so much

Thx!

Very kind, thx!

Thx so much!

Can't wait to have you over Darin!

I'm thinking my wife might have to come drag me back downstairs. Especially 'cause there's a bed up there too!

Congrats on your success as well! Almost 10 years for you and sounds like you're doing well!

Bean chasing a few gremlins (most self-made) as I bring the Loft up to full speed.
I could not for the life of me get my new ceiling fans to work.
Switch appeared wired right. My wiring from the J-box was correct ...hmmmm
So I pulled off the base cap of one of them to find I never plugged the actual switch part molex connector into the supply line - doh.
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Spider-Man is in the house and 8 feet tall!

Parked him right next to SMVE

And, yes, I'll be painting that panel box

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Had 5 games total that after storage have an operational issue that must be addressed for gameplay:
Johnny Mnemonic (still down - hand issue, ball shooter)
Star Trek (fixed ball jam caused by UV light bar screw fell out - found in cab)
Volcano (still down - connector issue)
Middle Earth (playable but lost most GI and backbox)
Jokerz (playable but lost left GI)

And ... Iron Man ... no flippers and no menu in coin door (fixed but see below to see if you can spot the problem)

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Got it. Good eye!

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Thank you sir!

Man I’m always working! And this is good advice for anyone ... slow down and enjoy

Thanks. It’s a dream come true for sure

Still at it. Hope to get some artwork up by this weekend and a few other new ideas I had. Will share pics as well. Meantime, building the windmill fan that will hang in the great room. Wow ... it’s 6 feet wide and in a million parts. Pics of when I started and partway through. It’s all together now and will be hung Friday because it takes a custom size down rod (ugh)

I’ve been using my new Dewalt gyroscopic screwdriver to put things together and it came in super handy building this. I liked it so much I bought one for my electrician (who loves it)

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At the Amazon link above. Directly from the maker - Rubies out of NYC
I paid way less than the current price and I'm guessing because it had a blemish but not sure
There was a "ding" on Spidey's face that I color matched with some paint and covered it up - can hardly see it now

Very cool piece especially in person due to its commanding height!

Got some art up last night. Hardest part was the Woz area. We have a pretty large collection of Woz memorabilia:
- pieces of yellow brick road, hair from lion costume, witches boots, wagon wheel, etc
- lots of signed materials from the cast and munchkins

Tough to fit it all in a fairly tight space

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3D lenticular Iron Man and Spider-man prints

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Christopher Franchi signed print from TPF. Got the larger version hanging in my office too!

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Autographed sling collection that I mounted in a Hobby Lobby shadowbox

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If you saw the Steve Ritchie "pinball confessions" session at TPF 2018, this is the sign he held up before each "confession"
I chased him down after the session and he was gracious enough to sign it
Pic I took of him and Gomez during session
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Kiss conventions poster, signed by all original members.
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Blake Dumesnil Kosmic Khaos poster autographed by almost every pinball designer that was at TPF that year
Beautiful artwork. Blake is a great guy too

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Great question. Considered it because as you know we used to have a Woz bathroom but I got almost all of it in the corner. You’re correct, that’s why I purposely put the game there! Looks like it will be bolted there for a while!

Too kind! Thank you.

Got my pinball attract screen monitor mounted and running tonight.
The monitor plays the digital attract screens from virtual pinball machines. These files can be found free on the internet
I grabbed about 75 of them, popped them into my video production software with some cross transitions and created a MP4 file at about 4GB in size
I put the file on a USB stick, plugged into the back of a dirt cheap 32" smart TV - got it set to loop/repeat
Plays for 45 mins before looping!
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Here's a super short clip of it playing
Cool thing is that you can also stream movies to it so no other connections needed AND it pulls out from the wall, rotates to horizontal and can be viewed while up in the sleeping loft

Also got my Tom Whalen Star Trek print hung along with both signed prints we got while at Fanfare here locally a couple years back
Shatner signed my inlane plastics for my Star Trek and Lieutenant Uhura signed the other!
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Almost forgot, if you want to do the vertical monitor thing, you'll need a special TV mount that allows a portrait display
This one allows you to rotate between landscape and portrait - for less than $25 you cant beat it

Plus, it also extends from the wall and tilts too

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Thanks and all good but holy moly is the stress level at a 10 right now!

LOVE your build and YES. Looking to at BBH HD in future

I still stare at it and wonder from time to time. What was it like for these people. Do they know the impact they had. Etc.

There is! Not sure the spot but I think on VP forum and I found this to get you started.

https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?showtopic=6994

Pasted from CLEllison
I don't get jealous ..... until now. Seriously so much freaking wow with this whole project. Congrats to you and yours and enjoy being the green envy of 1000's of people <end quote>

Me:
Hey it’s just stuff in the end. Cool? Yup. But stuff nevertheless and I’ll take my families health and happiness over ALL of it in the blink of an eye. That quad bypass thing got me thinking about priorities in a very good way

Updated to include the original link I used when I downloaded all the table attract screens

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/digital-translite-wall-hanging#post-4914118

Thank you and ... more progress tonight!

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Got my Playmatic Black Fever backglass display up. It's quite a deal to hang this because it weighs just under 50lbs total!
Added my Python Anghelo signed print and the other KISS autographed print from Pyscho Circus album
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Got the LED remote mounted and all of the 8 switched 20 amp circuits labeled
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And BINGO, we finally received the custom mattress covers (grey with black piping)
Got those installed in the sleeping loft and climbed up for some pics.

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I've got color changing RGBW spots in the 4" cans up in the loft - got them set to blue in a few of the pics
The view up there is awesome !!
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Yup. We camped out there last night.

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