Has anyone emailed a link to this thread to Patrick or Chas at Stern?

Crap it's starting, I can't imagine Stern is gunna send out mass quantitys of populated playfields over this issue.

This is the response I got from Stern on the last NIB I purchased that had clear coat issues on the playfield.

Below is a quote from the email Stern sent me in response after I sent them pics of my playfield:

"Considering the size of the hard coat bumps, this shouldn’t cause any problems. We have had games on test at various locations that have bumps the same size or even larger and it hasn’t been a problem."

Translation... Thanks for sharing the pics, we have seen worse... goodbye"

I don't think anyone is asking for a flawless machine (I'm not), just consistent/decent quality. I don't want to hold my breath when I unbox an $8000 machine hoping that my decals are not peeling and my playfield clear coat doesn't have issues.

Ps. My first ac/dc had a hazy lower playfield, I never said a word to Stern about it.

I've owned many Sterns and I have never had ghosting on any of them, that's why I was so surprised by the recent photos of nearly new Stern games.

I always thought it was odd that CV was very prone to ghosting, is there a reason that game seems much more likely to have ghosting issues than other Williams games from the same time frame?

Thought that was a hoax

My local barcade just got a GB pro, some of the inserts are already doing this...

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Seems like most of the issues are on the playfields that were produced in May (over sea's LE's)

Don't the Canada games have early build dates as well? Does anyone have a July dated playfield with crazing?

What date is stamped on your playfield? I havnt seen anything but the ones dated in May doing this.

Are you shitting me Ice?

What's the date stamped on the playfield and what's the build date of the game?

Well im no expert but, when you only make 1 game every 4 years i would guess it's a little easier to crank code out for that ONE game. I am honestly suprised the Hobbit code was so incomplete when it started shipping, given how long the game had been in development.

I asked my Distro if I could jump to the back of the line with my LE order as it hasn't re-shipped from the factory yet. I was told that Stern is making the last run of LE's now, so it's either cancel the order or take the game when it ships. Stern tell us something! I don't want to cancel

I talked to my distro again today as my GBLE was supposed to have shipped from the factory yesterday. I was informed that the last run of GBLE is on hold for a couple weeks (including my game), I am happy to wait! Hopefully they have a fix in the works and don't want to ship more games until it is in place.

The 2 reasons KPG got a call from Gary
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BING!!!

ZING!!!

From what I can tell they are not making GBLE right now so hopefully when they start running them again a fix will be in place.

Dang! I have only seen cabinet separation like that on games that were dropped in shipping Are you sure it wasn't? If it fell over flat on its side during shipping the box could still look fine. I wish Stern used those indicators like DP that tell you if your game has fallen over during shipping.

Any idea of exactly what the issue was?

The best playfield I have ever seen on a stern were the 2 STLE I have owned, the worst was my IMVE.

Waiting for my LE that I have confirmed will be built using a Churchill playfield.. The bad/ghosting playfields were not made by Churchill.

I think they figured that problem out.. we shall see.

Oct 4th is the build date on the machine, can you tell us the date stamped on the playfield?

The person who told me this has been to Churchill recently and seen the GB playfields in production, this person is well connected and I trust them 100%

Is that Cliffys TZ gumball protector?

Sweet I can't wait to get my LE!

Wow they are about to start replacing playfields? It would be nifty if they could build the GBLE that I paid for (in full) more than 6 months ago.

I just got 3 of these from Cliffy, how do they attach to the drain hole?

They sent you an old playfield for a replacement? Lame! I'll bet money that is not a Churchill playfield, they probably had an old playfield laying around and rolled the dice and sent it to you as it wasn't ghosted yet... not cool!

Yea we really have Stern over a barrel! I don't think they can take much more of this.

Anyone else's inserts on Batman LE/SLE look like this?

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