Ocala, FL
Looking to add a small amount of color to my VE. Any suggestions on placement?
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Iron Man
Stern, 2010-
Iron Man (Pro Vault Edition)
Stern, 2014
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Quoted from Razorbak86:Wow! I just installed the last code update (1.86) and set a new personal best within the first hour. Completed Jericho, too, and it was a doozy!
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Is the new code much different?
1 week later
Quoted from KJS:So good to be back in the club.
Picked up a really nice example 1st Vault run and been tweaking it over the weekend. My phone takes horrible pics its not as rainbow puke as pictured.
Matching T molding in the metallic red looks great.
Working on a custom speaker panel and 2d translite next like I did with Stranger things but more subtle.[quoted image][quoted image][quoted image][quoted image]
What a great machine. I don't see me ever letting mine go.
Quoted from Utesichiban:I am finally in the process of reinstalling a new right ramp after the original broke a few months back. I dissambled a while ago and got busy with other stuff.
Can anyone offhand tell me where the larger, long screw in this picture on the left goes? I am trying to reassemble it this morning and cannot remember.
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was there a washer with the long screw?
1 month later
Just watched Iron Man for the first time. Now I can relate to the callouts and features it has to offer. Seeing the movie made me realize and appreciate the numerous hours of effort, skill and talent which went into making this amazing game. Will have to watch Iron Man 2 tomorrow. Only improvement in the game would have been an AC/DC sound track.
Quoted from insight75:OK I am in the club with a new vault edition. Crazy these puppies are still available new. Anyway.....ColorDMD ordered. Shaker next. How do I get the AC/DC code? I searched here and didn't see any working links.
Does yours have the large start button?
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When you spell monger the center shot needs to flash to indicate you can raise the monger. My flasher is not flashing. It just turns on solid and stays lit. When I run a diagnostics I am able to manually make the flasher flash each time. Does anyone know why during gameplay the flasher stays solid once it is activated? I have changed the flasher bulb 3 times already and it has not helped.
Quoted from Reaper802:I do not believe that is the case. Monger can be set to "easy" where any orbit will bring him up once qualified or "hard" where only the center orbit will bring him up. I am not aware of anything in the code that is meant to flash those inserts once he is qualified. I have my game set up with "hard" Monger so I have more control of when he enters the playfield.
I have mine on hard as well which requires the center monger shot to make him rise. That center shot has two lights one being a flasher bulb. Once you spell monger this flasher will continuously flash to indicate that you need to make the center shot to rise the monger. For an unknown reason my flasher will just stay solid and not flash at that time.
Photo does not do this justice. But these are the blue flashers installed on whiplash. I took the pic in test mode so all the playfield lights remained on. During gameplay all white lights turn off when the target is struck leaving the blue flashers on. Makes a huge difference compared to the standard white flashers.
20210916_092132 (resized).jpgQuoted from evileye:Sick, need to add that to my Comet order I’m putting together.
These will work, right?
https://www.cometpinball.com/products/8smd-flashers
Those are the exact ones I used. You need the bayonet style for the flashers. I also changed the two flashers under the Iron Monger to blue as well.
These are the colors I chose for the display lighting. In my opinion adding tasteful color to this basically white light only playfield made an enormous difference is the satisfaction I have for this machine. Adding the blue flashers made it that much better.
20210916_094028 (resized).jpg20210916_094036 (resized).jpg20210916_094048 (resized).jpgQuoted from RipleYYY:a new friend is in the garage...
but than will not last long as it not "mine", but just friendly dropped for a moment (who knows what this last word could means !? lol)
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Looks like you have the VE made in 2020. I heard they made around 50 of these to send to Europe. I think the other 50 made in 2020 ended up in the USA. Has anyone else heard this?
Quoted from RipleYYY:yep, that's the last run
and you may be right about the numbers, i think this has been already talked here
Glad I got mine from the 2020 run. IM has to be one of the most enjoyable machines I have ever played.
Quoted from RipleYYY:yes, its pure adrenaline !
fast & punitive, even if you dont miss the shot (as for example, my war machine kickback often send the ball SDTM and not on the right flipper... need a short ball save there... Mr Lyman please)
That happens to mine 1 out of 10 times.
Quoted from Lostcause:Fitted a LED colordmd yesterday, my other pins have the LCD version and are my go to version but after fitting this one I can see why people prefer them.
Colours really pop compared to LCD.
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Where did you purchase that from? Looks great. Are you able to post some more photos?
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Quoted from jfrank:Hooked on pinball has agreed to do a special run of 10 sets reactor pop bumper caps. Tilted81 and myself make 2. We need 8 more. Price $119 for the set. Will post a pic of them shortly. Who’s in?
I would like to see the pics.
Quoted from vbobrusev:Hi guys! Sometimes i make video tutorials about rules on pinballs, i am finished tutorial for Iron Man. It's basically made for Russian audience, but you can turn on english subtitles. If you lazy to explain rules to your friend, show him this video. Also i finished few other pinball tutorials, you can find them on YT channel.
1st part:
2nd part:
Great video. Nice to see you have these machines in Russia. Must not be very many in that country.
4 weeks later
Quoted from RobF:Yes. My dist. said it is a run of 75 and currently listed as Nov '21 build. I have one on order and hope to see it first week of Dec. Not sure if the build dates/prod numbers are US specific.
Did not realize they were making more of these after their early 2020 VE run of them.
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Quoted from J85M:Has to be one of sterns best sellers and longest running games at this point.
Impressive considering everyone shit on it at release and myself and others where called idiots for buying it
One of the best games in my collection. Never bought one until the 2020 run. Glad I did.
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Quoted from Boatshoe:Hey Everyone, Good news is that I'm in the club! Yay! Bad news is that I quickly realized that this was the fastest playing Iron Man ever. Turns out someone put in stronger flipper coils. Boooooo. More work for me.
The Whiplash plastic is cracked because of this. Is there anyone that makes just this specific plastic replacement?
Thanks!
Welcome! What version IM did you get?
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Quoted from JagDaniels:Yeah it's from 2014 ! I sold my avatar for this one, and tbh i don't miss my avatar .
This game is way better imo.
The games was painted from a airbrush expert in the colour red + glitter. I was a bit unsure at the beginning but now i like it.
Iron Man is a great game.
Was it originally in an arcade?
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This is the only post made for this sale 33% OFF on pinside - Lasts only for the weekend. $10 instead of $15
https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shops/1054-flashinstinct/00668-iron-monger-decal
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Great looking decal. Would you take a pic with the monger lifted?
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Quoted from lowbeau67:So what is the purpose of this cutout on the left ramp ball return?
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I only need that one time when a ball went out of control and landed on that ramp. The ball moved so slow that it eventually fell out of that cutout. Very unlikely it will ever happen again.
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Quoted from RaoulJuke:Hey everyone
Owned this one in my collection for a few years now & will never leave, however the Iron-Monger on mine is currently NOT GOING DOWN.
The mech goes up ok in test mode, but will not go down. The Crank arm rotates 36degree's & all the switches read in the test switch.
I contacted our local Stern provider and asked them the same issue and they have not been able to diagnose the issue either.
If someone can help with this that would be great. the manual shows a pretty poor description of how its meant to work. The iron-Monger rises from the crank arm rotating up, but i cant see how its meant to go back down. Is there a motor which runs it back down, or is it meant to be gravity?
Help is so badly needed here if anyone can offer some. Even if its just a video of the mech working properly would be great[quoted image][quoted image]
Try directly emailing Stern's tech support. That has helped me in the past.
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Quoted from data_eastside:Solved my post above- I just had to run a ground wire directly from the SM PCB to a nearby ground. The "ground tap" adapter that comes with the specific SM that I got (the adapter that the instructions says plugs into J16 in the backbox) is not plugged into the backbox board at all, instead it should be cut right after it leaves the SM PCB (show on attached picture circled in red) and that chord ran to a nearby ground. Hopefully this helps someone else![quoted image]
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Quoted from maiscseb:Hello guys,
I just received an Iron Man Vault but there are any scratches on the cabinet decals.
Where can I find cabinet decals for the Iron man Vault edition ? Impossible to find them on the web...
Thanks
I have the lower set of decals. Both left and rights side as well as the coin door.
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Quoted from Rarehero:That was all Stern plastics for an era. Even Metallica with its great hand drawn art is “dotty” if you look close. I wonder if the last run of IM Vaults has higher quality printing.
Nope, mine is the 2020 run VE and it has the same low quality art.
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Quoted from Rarehero:Well like I said, I’ve got the Incandescent setting on even tho my game has LEDs, cuz I like having the different fading light shows. The slight strobe in the fade effect doesn’t bother me. It bugs the shit out of some people, and that’s when you’d wanna switch to LED setting, as it gets rid of all fading FX.
Are you able to make a video of this?
Quoted from evileye:Here are a couple of pics from my VE. I’ve been wanting to try it out and you guys just reminded me. The first one is of the default LED mode and the second is incandescent. The setting can be found under adjustments —> game specific adjustments. It’s one of the last options.
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Don't see a huge difference from the video. The LED seems to go out slightly faster. Which do you prefer?
Quoted from evileye:Yeah the LED is instant. It’s much more noticeable in person, the videos came out grainy because I exported it to GIF format so I didn’t have to deal with YouTube.
After staring at it for 5 minutes, I went back to LED mode. Incandescent wasn’t bad I just felt like the LED’s were working harder and on for longer. I felt like it might shorten their lifespan but I’m also no expert on this subject at all.
Also that “fade” effect of incandescent isn’t like that all the time. Only part of the attract mode does that and when you’re going for “we got a bogey” mode. Probably some others too, but I didn’t play long with it on.
Mine was built in 2020 so I will have to try that mode.
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