I’m still waiting as well and I am starting to approach Bublehead levels of angst!

This is my first NIB and it has been a learning experience. I find it hard to wait when I am now seeing them available by other distributors and available on the secondary market. However, by all accounts it will be worth the wait.

Same here, still waiting impatiently. If I get another CGC game, it probably won't be a LE.

But now we have cut our teeth and are in the number match program so smooth sailing from here right? Right?

I echo this sentiment. I ordered an IMDN late wednesday afternoon from Zach. He shipped it that evening fedex. I picked it up Thursday morning at the fedex depot about 16 hours after I ordered it.

Already got shipment info. Arriving Monday.

Possibly some self appraisal.

How many people are still waiting on their LE's?? Would have thought it would be nearly finished by now

See this thread - https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/monster-bash-le-still-waiting
Quite a few of us are still waiting....

This whole situation really sucks. I feel for you guys.

There’s an original with powder coat and every mod in the world available for
LESS than an SE. What are you guys waiting for ?!?

I am up to a MOR weekly, about right now... just got this weeks one tonight, hard fought too, I had lit every monster mode running and had Frank qualified for Super 666 and drained it on my first ball, went through all monsters AGAIN to finally get their instruments, bashed, Frank MB, and finally MOR, one more Frank and a Moshpit and ended up with 450M plus. Way crappy score for all those modes started... my MOR was only 85 million... should have been way higher score, like 580M easy...

What is going on here?!?!?! Is there a seal in your pinball machine poking his head out???

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Seems like some MBR’s come with a key chain and some come with a black cat.

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I'm still waiting as well I haven't been on the boards for a while hoping I'd get the email that mine was on the way but no luck yet.

I want to thank everyone for putting up with me while I was waiting on my LE, and personally thank @cgc_dougs, @cgc-ryan, and Joe PinballSTAR for getting me my daily dose of crack, er, I meant pinball. And to those still waiting, it was well worth it, just hang in there just a little longer... I have been so happy playing MBrLE, no matter how frustrating it has been to get the SDTM’s from the scoop and dracs feet dialed out, and the left Bride ramp a lot less clunky. My only pisser right now is the clanking rejects from the scoop, but that is due to the hole protectors doing their job. If you didnt care about the chipped wood around the scoop edge, it would play better without it, imo. Maybe someone will get totally pissed and remove them and see how it plays?

There’s always the Mantis protector - it sits inside the scoop, and if installed precisely, protects the wood perfectly with very few rejects. Looks better, too. Cliffy’s slimline protector also works great

Anyone else experience this?

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You are supposed to bash him not kill him!

We’ve got a piper down

Could anyone with a MBr LE measure the total height at the back of the machine, including the topper. I am getting mine in a few weeks and have to decide in which room to assemble it. One of the rooms is a bit low of ceiling. Appreciated, thanks.

About 84 inches.

LTG : )

I would be honored to earn your business next time. Buddy
Mountain Entertainment Inc

Thanks Lloyd, darn I only have 87" where I was hoping to locate it. A bit tight if I need to lift it.

TechnicalSteam re: "

Increase pitch slightly and tweaked level. Happy to report all my Monster Bash issues seem to have vanished.

Just wish it wasn't dimpling so soon.
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What exactly did you do?

I finally received and finished 2 out of 5 Monster Bash LEs for my customers to have them customized. These LEs are beautiful right out of the box but I wanted to add just a few little touches to make them incredible.

My painter did an amazing job on all of the playfield figures, toppers and coin doors. I also installed a few more upgrades, but the painting is over the top.

Let me know when you think,

Steve
Mi Pinball Refinery

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Looks fantastic, like it

What does the flaming arrow above FRANKENSTEIN 's head accomplish?

I have 86 inches and mine just fits with a bit of room to spare. Why would you need to lift it? I put sliders under my feet so I can easily slide it to move. If I need to get it off the ground for some reason I would drop the back box if necessary and leave the topper on. Not sure I will ever need to do that though. I just push it around on the sliders when needed.

SLAM TILT!

Apologies if this has been covered...

We are having major issues getting the ball through the left side bride ramp - even on perfect shots, the ball almost always (at least 18 of 20 shots) hangs up and comes back...

Any advice?

roll the ball up by hand and make sure it's smooth. there were some games that had problems with the ramp installation and/or burrs on the ramp which impeded the ball

It's a flaw in the design of the ramp. The rails are set so that direct strong shots, the ball rides up on the outside rail and against the outside wall, eventually rolling down into the middle of the guide rail causing it to slow WAY down. I have yet to find a way to really fix it well, though I get a few less rejects now after trying to do some bending of the rail/wall.

"Edgar Winter Frankenstein reference" Good point! But this is a classic pinball machine. It's supposed to be dated lol. Also, a DJ doesn't belong in a live band. Other than that, I love the artwork. I'm also biased, because I play keyboards.

Train him to sit on top of the back box and do the hunchback thing! He'd make a great topper!

I though of this idea for my ACNC, but was concerned about RF problems with pin. Lets us know if you have any strange issues. My plasma globe totally messes with my Microsoft Surface if it's in close proximity.

Not so much in the design, as specific to the remakes. Originals do not have this issue

I was just trying to say something nice.
DJ Frankenstein does not appeal to me, either.

And my delivery truck came and we had to reschedule delivery. The lift gate broke and this was a big ass truck there is no way that I was getting that thing out out of the truck without a lift gate. New delivery is tomorrow. That sucks!

I finally had my MBrLE delivered yesterday (Sunday) by OC Pinballs in SoCal. Shout out to Evan and Michael for a Five Star job delivering and setting it up and hanging out to make sure everything was working properly. It was so nice to not have to deal with unreliable and careless shippers or to miss a day(s) of work. Been there, done that on my first pin, never again. After playing a dozen games on it, I can confidently say it was well worth the wait. Just too bad the people at Chicago Gaming do not see the importance of communication with their customers/distributors when they encounter problems that contribute to 1 to 6 month delays. It's not like we are going to storm their plant with torches, rakes and lawn aerators in hand, if they post that they're waiting for components from their suppliers of only the highest quality for a Limited Edition. I think British historian, Northcote Parkinson, summed it up best when he wrote; "The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation."

I only hope that my fellow pinsiders still waiting for their MBrLE's; receive them very soon and are as happy with their games as I am with mine.

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Is there a post that contains all of the fixes that people have found? The only one I'm getting is an occasional scoop sdtm. That's annoying as hell when it happens but it seems to be once every 5 to 10 games. Besides that, the game is a beauty. Everything else seems great.

Two questions... are people using the balls that came with it or replacing? I know that people say to replace stock balls from Stern so figured I'd ask.

Second, I can hear something shaking around on my topper inside the box on the right. It seems that everything works. Any concerns here?

Easy to open it up and look.

LTG : )

So in other words what you are trying to say is that your wife has the GC score and its pissing you off right?

Put my order in yesterday for a LE.

It's amazing how many games a 4 yr old can rack up in a short period of time.

Entirely worth it when the uncle comes over to see it for the first time and the 4 yr old legit beats him head to head.

The look on his face...priceless.

No, I have GC, she has Monster Bash Champion, and I haven’t knocked the default MOR champion off yet... 200million? That should be a no brainer, but so far, every MOR has been pretty disappointing, get there, start it, dont last long, those pesky balls just keep draining too quickly. Which in another context, might actually be a good thing, but not this one

4 yr old? What is this kid a prodigy? Uncles needs to step it up big time! LOL!

I just got my game and told my 7 year old son to play a game this morning cause I had the topper hooked up. He put up 106 million. He is hit or miss as far as wanting to play pinball but he genuinely looked like he was having fun. He got Monster Mosh Pit and Monster Bash. I hope this gets him to start playing more. He actually has some decent skills when he tries.

In all fairness it was basically her best game ever. Scoop gave her frank and she went to town. Final score around 25-30 million.

It was uncles first game on the machine. All his tricks for the half broke routed original near his house didn't go so well for him on the remake. Also I have a TIGHT tilt.

After a few 3 or so weeks of having this, I can say I really love it, and I really suck at it. I have one minor complaint, and that is since it isn't ROM it takes forever to boot up. I'm used to just turning a game on and in a few seconds I'm in a game. Now I get into the habit of turning it and another game on, and playing a quick game on another one until it's ready.

My phantom flip does a pretty damn good job already. It rarely misses, although it does occasionally go for the wrong thing.

First modern game probably? JJP and AP games take 2 or 3 minutes sometimes. Lots of stuff going on in new games