Just got a JM-- Love it! One design flaw though in my opinion is when the ball comes down from the pops, it rolls down the right side of the left ramp and directly onto the right sling. What's the deal with that? Also, I have a question about strategy. When you're going into the matrix and there is one of the nine spaces on the matrix blinking, is that the one that you clearly go for? It seems like you get an award of some kind regardless of where you put the ball on that thing.

Thanks!

Does anybody have a line on JM sling plastics or the plastic that hovers over the curve of the left ramp?

Please PM if you do.-- Thanks!

Haven't gotten to Power Down yet. Have any of you ever taken the cheap way out and started a mode, held onto the ball, started another mode, so on and so forth until you get to Power Down. I don't want to do that, but I've had it for a couple of weeks now and want to see it! The strategy may be cheap, but it's better than taking the glass off.

Just discovered that yesterday. A definite wrinkle to my plans-- haha. That's actually good though. You can't get to Powerdown by going the cheap route. On TAF and TZ, you get to wizard mode just by starting the other modes. You don't really have to perform at all in each mode. I took that tip from Astropin about lighting EB in your 1st trip to the matrix. It's hard to follow the DMD and the matrix though to figure out exactly which slot it is since I think it changes every game.

My best pin story ever happened today. A sound board interface error shows up on my JM. So, now I'm upset. I did a little looking around on the forum here and noticed that the ole' standby of reseating the pins could be a solution. Sure enough, it was. On the very first game I played after doing that, I got to Powerdown. What a rush! My last one to go out was the spinner. Is it legitimately based on how well you do, or does the Powerdown happen in a prescribed manner? Very excited. Looks like it was the first one ever on my machine. As a result, I scored my personal best of 7,800,000,000. Man, JM was at the height of scoring inflation.

I put black flippers/red rubbers on mine as my "mod" just because I thought it looked cool on the flyer. It looks just as cool in person.

I have a question about the plastic that sits above the left lane in this pic. Mine looks EXACTLY like it. Is this plastic cracked in the upper left hand corner? Also, some of the decal is missing in the exact same place as mine. Must be common, eh?