I also posted this in the stern what's on the the line thread. My JP Prem that I ordered back in Oct shipped out directly from Stern on 5/19. The previous update from my distributor was that I was going to miss the April build (which was reportedly pushed to July) due to reduced allocation and probably wouldn't see mine until maybe Q4 or '23. Needless to say I was quite surprised to get the call this past week.

On a side note, I can happily recommend Jarrett @ Gulf Coast Pinball. He's a real stand-up guy, easy to work with and the best price I could possibly hope for all things considered. It might be worth checking if he has any available from this current batch.

Add me to the list of raptor gate issues after the update. It now cycles up and down once or twice after power on and then stops. During a game it cycles up and down a few times, waits for a couple seconds and then repeats.

Interestingly enough, my game reports a tech alert for the up switch not reading properly with this new behavior. Initially I went through all the switch and mech tests which passed fine. I was really confused until I came here to see if there was an adjustment I had missed. It is curious it doesn't affect all games. Here's hoping this is a quick turn patch release for Monday.

The team worked over the weekend to find root cause, develop a fix and complete testing. It is obvious that there was a unique hardware dependency to the bug that their test machines didn't have. Take it from someone who has spent decades in compute and cloud server HW design, testing and deployment, these type of problems are impossible to avoid and typically only show themselves after a release. The response is what to pay attention to and the Stern JP team really did a great job resolving this....irrespective of how many hopes and dreams were destroyed over the course of the dark four days.

True, but the converse is possible where someone uses the image to make a scam ad more believable. Also insurance claims require serial numbers, so could be used in insurance fraud. The semi-recent KLOV arcade scam comes to mind.

What a weird left turn this thread has taken

For those looking, here is the great write-up from @mr_tantrum. This really should be a key post.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/jurassic-park-stern-2019-owners-club-welcome-to-jurassic-park/page/162#post-5967641

I used these instructions to guide me through my install and I eventually came up with an alternate solution. Instead of using the "JP12" model, I used the seemingly more available "JP18" - $13 from Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08VZ13NP4/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00

I modeled up and printed my own custom mount.
Screenshot 2023-08-24 142639 (resized).pngPXL_20230822_213845608 (resized).jpgPXL_20230822_214005533 (resized).jpg

Yeah, I found playing multiple co-op games in a row unnecessarily tedious as well. Also if you hold the start button for a game restart in the middle of a co-op game, it will restart back to normal play. I am curious if TMNT co-op behaves the same. It might be intentional. I sent in a request to Stem to change this. Wouldn't hurt if they heard it from more people.

How much lower does it need to drop in order to clear?