Joining the club for a while tomorrow. Getting a pro (I love the cab art) with the light kits and picking up a topper as well. Definitely have to get a plunger and side armor. Going to look good in my basement but also going to be the first to go when I need room.

Expression light kit is amazing. I think I’m skipping the side armor though on this one.

I bought an SD card and wifi dongle from Amazon and stretched an ethernet to my other machine to get it online and added it to my Home Team. Cost $15.

As long as you have 1 scanner/kit you can do it. To install it you need all 3 components, the scanner, micro SD card, and ethernet/wifi connection. Once you have it on one machine, you can just add the micro and wifi adapter (<$20) and run an ethernet to the scanner on the other machine just to get it set up. Then just add your name to the home team and it will save on all your machines. You can walk up to the machine without the scanner, hold the left flipper button down, and it will pop up your 5 team members to choose from. It works for me since I only have a couple frequent users on my home team. I have the full kit on Godzilla and Iron Maiden, no scanner option on Led Zeppelin. If somebody really wants to play my LZ they can join the home team on one of my scanner machines and it will save to LZ.

It does have the DJ mixer mode. After all this time I realized what that mode was. Really cool now, especially with 3 music pins! I did not like the side armor for my pro, as it looks to be designed perfectly for the premium. I did get the shooter rod though and love the topper.

I really love the III artwork and when I saw the reveal, I didn't care what features I was missing, I was going to have the III cab in my basement. I do miss that u-turn ramp though, but not the middle mech.

The one song I wish was on there was Houses of the Holy. That's my personal favorite and a lot probably don't know it by name, but they know when they hear it. I guess that's probably true for a lot of their best tunes.

I think the expression lights are a must for this one. People also love the topper with the spotlight, otherwise they all go to the other 3 machines. Granted it's not a fair fight with Godzilla, IMDN, and FF... I love it because of the pro artwork / LZ III and didn't get the side armor to detract from it.

I really wish that loop back ramp was in the pro. Would be so much more fun to hit that and keep the flow going instead of hitting a dead end. I didn't do a deep dive but I thought I remembered somebody doing a ramp mod for that shot. I may have to look it up.

It’s a little hard to tell from the picture do you have a close-up of the target and how it meshes with the ramp? I imagine it just hits it on the way up through the loop? It looks awesome.

I grabbed one as well. Can’t wait to try it out.

The return ramps are very nice and glad there are options for plug and play, using the current target, and changing out to an opto as well. This change could literally be the difference between keeping the machine and moving it on. It's the one thing I don't like about the pro.

It’s a beautiful thing. Well done.

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It looks like you need to snap in the other side above the inlane. Only one of them is snapped tight to the existing rail wire. I really do like the design of this and even if it doesn’t go up and around all the way, it will still score the hit. I do smile every time it rides that rail back!

I kind of went back-and-forth on mine a little bit, but it is clamped down fully now. It’s amazing how bad I am at the machine. I was trying to hit the shot with the glass off even and I’m terrible.

That pro mod is really nice. When I get one up there and it returns it brings a smile to my face like the Overdrive/dead post shot on FF. It is nice that the shot will register even if you don't quite make it up the ramp, but there also is a bit of a challenge added. I would sometimes hit a wimpy shot in there and it would just barely hit and register. With this mod, it needs a little bit more momentum on it to get those accidental hits. Coincidence or not, I have had my 2 best LZ games since it arrived after I put that mod on.

For me it was always going to be the Pro model. I'm in the crowd that really likes the LZIII album and artwork and wanted that machine in my collection on looks alone. Happened upon a routed model with the EL and am pretty happy to have it. In terms of the music pins I have, it has way too few songs, and the selection isn't my favorite either. I added the loop back ramp and am really happy with the speed and flow of it overall. It's still the one on the chopping block though, when one has to go, but I'm glad I got to own one and get some time on it. Bit of a pain with the rubbers that take a beating behind the drops and by the hermit area, but at least I don't have to go to a location and fix it.

No extra modes on the topper that I've found, but the spotlights trick you into thinking somebody is walking behind you. Either that or I do have ghosts!