I play this game every chance I get and I love it. I expected it to play slow and boring with weak flippers and slings like the first Grand Champion I bought for $30 as a teenager, a heavily routed beat up discarded game that I now know needed to be shopped. This is a fast and fun game that obviously had the flippers, slings and pops rebuilt while the previous owner had it.

The steppers in the backbox were sluggish or frozen with decades of grease. They were torn down for a good cleaning and re-assembled with a thin coating of Super lube on the metal to metal shafts and wiper contacts. Stepper thread here: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/stepper-unit-dis-assembly-questions

Harry William's playfield design is so unique when you think about the layout of the 9 trap holes beneath the 1-5 trap hole. The impulse flippers are such a delight and I enjoy the colorful theme. As far as I know, only one other owner, Michael Schiess of the Pacific Pinball Museum, has a playable title. I plan to rate this game at IPDB.

I'm probably the only Grand Champion lol.

I'm trying to find other owners with a working example of this game for gameplay comparison and Michael Schiess is the only other owner I know of. He told me his game isn't in the museum but is available for play during special PPM events.

I'm thinking to trade this one for another game after I get the other one set up. It would have to be a game with bad or missing backglass that Shay has in stock because he owes me one.

There's one available on eBay right now. Local pick up Lake Forest, Minnesota.

ebay.com link: itm

The backglass is worse than the ones on my games. There's also missing patches of paint on the playfield in the flipper area and looks like it's missing an insert. Probably about what it's worth.