I'm sure Jack will have news at the Pintastic Show. My guess is 2 - 4 weeks left on WOZ back orders, & then Hobbit starts going full bore. Like people have said for his open house you would expect Hobbit on the line.

I switched over my Hobbit deposit money to a WOZ 75th. So people can have a chance to play a brand new pin at Pintastic Show this week. I sold my WOZEC, & got a lot of shit from my wife. Didn't realise how much she, & everyone likes the game. That was way back with early code. Here is Jack today with the pin before it gets on a truck on Tuesday to the distributor bringing it to the show. I look forward to seeing Jack again, & to see what he has in store at his seminar.

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Doesn't seem to be much of a update on Pinside. The people that were at the Pintastic Show got to see the Hobbit, & Jack talk very briefly on a number of things. I got my first chance to play about 10 games over the show since I was watching my WOZ next to it. At other shows I just looked at the Hobbit. It played well in my opinion, & was very impressed with what I saw. I got to admit that with Hobbit turned up, I did the same with my WOZ!

It was a pleasure to see Jack & company at the show. There were 3 WOZ 75th at the show, unfortunately my WOZ had a rare failure & we robbed a part from the middle pin. I had a lot of fun with my WOZ with Jack there, & decided to get him going with my WOZ going down after working for many hours during the set up at the show.

Here is my brief story line: Thursday night late I decide after many beers to open up my WOZ & look to fix it myself. So after going over just about everything in the cabinet it was time to remove the monitor in the head which I have never done before. Saw the 4 screws & asked Jack if that was the way to go. Well I can't imagine the thoughts going through his head watching me going at my new WOZ 75th just off the line & on the truck to the show. So he said wait until Butch or Lloyd were available Friday before the show. Well I didn't sleep well knowing my pin was down. So after breakfast I went over everything again, & Jack decided to see for himself knowing I was going for the monitor next. That was really funny since Lloyd arrived & we watched Jack going over everything. So Jack was stumped also. Butch showed up & I worked with him. I was right the 4 screws remove the monitor for service, & we tried the next game monitor & my pin came back to life. I have a very loose 12 volt harness I will secure with silicone. I guessed the board with ic's to the monitor failed, but it was the smaller board. So i'm sure Jack was thinking that I always seem to get the cursed pin, but it's always fun working on stuff.

Really enjoyed seeing & talking with Jack & crew. Yes Jack still gets inside the pins to fix them. Job well done & didn't have to open a service ticket!