Looks good! Thank you for sharing! Purchased these from Comet Pinball?

Awesome, sold!

Yes, i totally agree with the posts that you and JodyG where this title really ticks all the boxes.
As much as kids are curious into pinball when young, they quickly turn their attention towards wifi powered screens as they get older! Rather frustrating sometimes! But yes, stern and jack danger were brilliantly smart with pairing the band as a hero in the game, introducing a cute villain, and having familiar tunes play out over an innovative playfield layout.

Ive toyed with the idea of one beside my jppro, but most likely id have to sell my other games, drop a kidney, etc and i like have a few older games to mess with.

Yep!

I hear ya and I agree the build is likely wrapped up by now and idk why he hasn’t heard anything. My deposit was $1K so I don’t really wanna walk from that. Only reason I use this distro is because I used him before and he’s the only one local to me. The rest are 2+ hours away. Just frustrating that the answer is always “stern hasnt told me anything” when I’m seeing other people getting them all over. Especially because I’ve already bought accessories. I just want to know if it’s happening or not…No clue if he can call stern himself and ask what’s going on but I wish he would. Bleh. Trying to bury my head in the sand at work today…

Recieved tracking info for JP PE from Cointaker today. For order timeline tracking this was a preorder placed 18 months ago that I had transfered to me. Cointaker advised they are shipping based on order date

Hopefully everyone waiting for shipping details from them gets it today!

My JP PREM arrived home
today

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JP prem on factory Friday today….fingers crossed I hear from my distro today or next week

nice gameroom setup!

My 3 year old grandson let me borrow these for my game.

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Hey park patrol… I couldn’t find any entries with “Mezel, raptor, and stuck”, so pardon if this has already been asked. But is there a fix for preventing side-shots from flying behind Mr. Raptor and getting stuck back there?

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Probably going to have to add mini posts in this area to direct the ball back into the lane. This is one downside of having mods in places they were not designed for...ball trap galore.

are the weights attached to both the raptor and the metal flapper?

I think just the raptor but I'm not looking at it and I put my unit back in place. I'll have it back out this weekend and will look closer if I can remember.

Mission accomplished!

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I guess none of you guys that just got yours have the wireform installed wrong, the raptor hitting the tower bracket, the ramp not flush on the left tower ramp, the trex ramp not reading your balls, or misc screws and nuts and washers laying around inside, that's just me? Lol

I guess it’s good ole American engineering. Prob made on a Monday after a long weekend.

At least you got yours.

If you were really fortunate you would have found a spare node board laying around inside!

Glad that you got it sorted out and you’ll be able to enjoy it this weekend.

Lol
Except I haven't. My trex ramp registers sometimes. Wife has stopped playing it because of it. I'll block off another couple hours to pull it out again and run whatever test on the optics and then presumably black tape some shit.

Sorry to hear about all the problems with yours. I just received mine and so far it plays well. I MIGHT need to do the tape thing for fast T Rex ramp shots. You should be good when you get it dialed in. So far I've been very lucky with two Sterns. Only had a bad opto on Godzilla.

I’m in the club NIB Premium. May 18 build date.

One issue with 5 games in- the Raptor pen wall does not go all the way down and the ball gets stuck. I’ve been making my way through the forum since purchase but hadn’t seen this.

Is this a known issue? Any fix?
Thanks in advance

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I think there is a stopper with a screw adjustment under the door

Same here. Just set it up today.

Flythru to show what these Pingraphix Powerbladez are like. They would be more apparent if i had a darker playing area but for those that may not know, these are artblades with an animation sequence baked into them using some cool tech. Hope this helps anyone on the fence. Personally i like them, but id trade them for the lit shooter rod. Thanks for the smooth transaction Staythirsty

Anybody know where I can get the one of those matchbox helicopter mods for the premium edition? If nobody is selling them, are there instructions on how to do it?

Jurassic World Mission Chopper
Matchbox DFW17 box

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/jurassic-park-stern-2019-owners-club-welcome-to-jurassic-park/page/163#post-5969256

Thanks Svenop and trueno92

So this is my second Spike 2 game. I noticed it clicks a bit from the backbox area when you first turn in on but then settles down. I noticed it while installing speaker upgrades. I don't think my GZ does this. Is it normal?

A lot of this happening in the Foo Fighter thread. Seems like bad PDB. PinMonk is on a quest to solve it but it seems requesting a replacement PDB from Stern is the solution. Some have had success and some have said Stern said its fine...

Thanks man..I'll talk to my distributor on Tuesday.

Initially Stern was sending a PDU then something else and now they’re doing further investigation before RMA.

Mine clicks about 5 times before doing anything when powered on. Not always 5 though, sometimes it's 2, sometimes it's 7.

Here you go. Attached directly to clever girls ass. Unless there is something else wrong with mine, I assume that's correct. Lol

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Does anyone here have a JP and a Foo? Do they feel too similar? I can't help but see JP layout when I see Foo Fighters.

Well I couldn't immediately find the switch test for this so I threw some black tape on the right side (as you're looking at the machine) and it seems to have helped the not registering trex ramp shots BUT it has not helped trex not picking up the ball. I hit him in the teeth a dozen times over 3 games and another bunch by hand and he just let's me throat fuck him and never bites down. So, black tape is coming off, obviously not a fix for me, back to square one.

I got my le speaker setup from pbl today and installed it. Looks good. Sounds good. There are 4 white dots you have to cover, they're the back of stickers on the speaker brackets and I removed them, seems odd they're there anyway where you can see them. Changed speakers in setup to 4ohm to match new Kenwood units. Also added comet matrix trough light strip, and my yellow cup holder from upkick, completely done other than need to get it actually working. Right now it's like a cool car with half the cylinders down.....just don't try and drive it and it's amazeballs.

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And my start button is crooked. Fuck this game.lol.

I’m on the verge of buying the premium and I’ve not even had a chance to play one. There’s none around close to me but everything I see and hear says buy it and it looks fantastic lord help me lol

This looks incredible. Do you have a link to this whole LE Speaker kit package?

Can someone who knows this game well help me out?

What are all the count down timers for when I am hearing "running out of time" or a actual countdown? What should I hit to complete before the count down is over?

Thanks

Pinball life made it for me, they had me buy their Kenwood lit speaker upgrade mod thing and email them what color I wanted and the subbed in the speaker gasket and yellow trim for the lighted stuff, $99 and it comes with the brackets, the correct larger speakers, the gasket and trim, wires and connector, even has the hardware and a frigging ziptie to replace the one you have to cut. Complete other than their instructions are for the lit kit, not thos le setup, but it's not much different. Then rememeber to go into audio settings and change back box speaker impedance to 4ohm (old small speakers are 8, new are 4).
I'd recommend emailing them ahead of time just in case something changed but I JUST got this.

https://www.pinballlife.com/rgb-led-round-speaker-upgrade-and-light-kit-for-most-stern-spike-2-pro-premium-machines.html

They also have the different color plastic for behind/around the pro/premium badging on the backbox. I chose yellow to match the speaker trim, etc. Think they're $5.

That's awesome man, thanks. I want to do this to all of my machines.

This game is fantastic. You see people say "there's so many options on how to play and what to shoot for" and its absolutely true. The more I play this game the more I'm seeing different ways to play. I love the moving TREX and bashing the Raptor gate. The shots are tight. This isn't an easy game by any stretch. Multi-balls seem shorter than my other games and I seem to not get much out of them. But I absolutely love this game. Not sure how much longer they'll be running this one but I fully recommend grabbing one while you can.

Do it!

I ordered the same setup for GZ too. Thanks. I think it looks much better than the plain black speakers. Here is a before and after.

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Yeah I'm about to order 6 of these kits lol. Maybe they can throw me a bulk order discount lol. Doug @speakerlights has been awesome in answering a bunch of my questions but I'm not looking for lights as much as I'm looking for that LE Speaker look. Do the actual LE speakers have lights in them? Also, what's the speaker gasket from PBL for? Sound dampening? Kind of a spacer?

They don't. I love his setups just on other people's stuff, not mine if that makes sense....I just really liked the LE style and for the price I have zero complaints. $100 for everything you need. Add $5 for the premium/pro badge colored thing. Sold.

I always wonder the same thing. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! I look for flashing arrows and shit - come up empty every time

Yeah I’m sold. Reached out to PBL. Thanks again.