Quoted from TechnicalSteam:I'm not even sure how to react to Pinside post anymore and wonder why people even bother to serve our Toxic community lately A company spends a huge sum of money developing a decent product that solves a problem for the community. They ship a "large run of playfields" to a pinball manufacturer who does not properly QC every playfield for flaws. Second the pinball manufacturer may of not adequately designed the mechanics to work well with the product. Subcontractor gets thrown under the buss by the consumers for something that might be out of their control.
There are only so many options available to Pinball restoration community. I don't see many others else navigating the complex world of licensed playfield production today. I can only think of a hand full of people that can produce a playfield today at the 1000-700 dollar price point.
Throwing those people under the buss just doesn't make much sense. Especially if you restore games. I've owned several Mirco playfields over the years and for the most part the quality has been exceptional and if I wasn't satisfied I know they would step up to make it right . If your beef is with JJP you should look to JJP. If you don't like the "reproduction" you should see if you can do better. Love to see 10 of the biggest whiners try to reproduce artwork for playfield production, then figure out the process to print it, clear them and do 1000 of them flawlessly. Then take into consideration a dozen people assembling games under tight deadlines. Yep shit happens.
Yikes... Clearly you have no idea the history behind this...
Jeff
Fort Lauderdale, FL
