Received my POTC LE yesterday. Fantastic! I'm always on pins/needles until a pin is off the truck & verified intact. FedEX freight no issues & pristine. Spent several hours getting everything setup & tweaked. I will say that everything was in great shape out of the box; there were just a few small issues that I'll list in case they might be helpful for somebody else:
- The pop bumper pirate was loose & hiding on the playfield. He has a small set screw that holds him on the post of his pop bumper; the set screw can be accessed thru a small hole on the side of the figure.
- 3 out of 4 of the flippers were loose. As soon as I powered up & started playing, they all ended up at crazy angles. Super easy fix to tighten. Also, you can tighten the upper playfield flippers w/o removed anything. Each nut is accessible under either side of the ship right next to each little flipper.
- The 'L' on the gold standups had a wire running in front of it holding it closed. Somebody else had this exact problem with a picture. It threw an error right away & was easy to move the wire & add an extra wire tie to fix.
- The under playfield chapter select magnet. Wow; this one stumped me. I couldn't figure out why I wasn't getting any magnet action back there at all. The post would pop up & the ball would just sit there. I assumed I was somehow playing badly but all the videos I watched made it seem like it was easy to activate. I couldn't get anything to happen using a coil test & rolling a ball around in there. So I finally called Frank at JJP & went thru it with him. Everything else on that strand was active so it wasn't a fuse or main plug issue. He went off to figure out how to test further on the POTC in their lab & I pulled up the playfield again to stare further. I took the magnet out & left it hooked to power to test it while I stared at it. OMG! When I hit the select magnet test, the orbit magnet jumped...& when I hit the orbit magnet test the chapter select magnet worked! Wires were reversed. Super easy fix. I don't know how this doesn't happen more because those wires/magnets are right next to each other.
Anyway, I'm really pleased with the machine; it's awesome! There were just a few little things that needed tweaked out of the box, but pinball! The machine is built like a brick house (like all JJP machines!) Love it!