I unfortunately am now holding off on my premium order. Playfield issues strikes again. Not trying to over exaggerate either.

My wife and I loved it! Thanks for the good work guys. I'll try and get a video to you tomorrow also.

Sounds rad! I have a fun idea for one I'll make this evening

My wife was not as impressed as I was.

I even said "Look how handsome Greg is!" as a form of enticement! Wtf...

Wait, Greg's handsomeness isn't the main reason for everyone to tune in? I didn't even realize it was a show about pinball machines until halfway through season 2....

New SDTM shirt

I just tune in for Greg's handsomeness

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Super fun vid...can really feel your enthusiasm. Well done!

Nice unboxing video. Glad you got your dream theme Greg. Your excitement was great to see. If STERN ever does Evil Dead, I am sure I would be the same way.

I've been scratching my head wondering what theme would make me go nuts like that and realized it's already been ruined. I got into pinball collecting after Ghostbusters was released and no matter how much I want to love the game and think it's beautiful, it's just not fun for me at all.

My next hopes are Gremlins (not going to happen) or Harry Potter.

Nice unboxing video for Greg's dream theme. Good job. You must have edited out the scene with Zach on the toilet...

Ha ha thank you sir

Zach wanted to do that scene sooooo bad!

Is it everything you expected Bone and then some?

Porta a Potty in your yard would have impressed the neighbors - especially when the walls fell down and there is Zach dropping kids in the pool.

Played a pro for about 20 games last night. I had no idea what I was doing, but it was a blast! Zero complaints so far. The music is very immersive and their light shows get better and better with each game.

Played some more. Super spinner inlane to a juiced spinner. So sweet!

The game does shoot really well....

Quick video sent!
Last day to all you other last minute people like myself.

Plz all Team Greg:
Notice that the house on the opposite side to Greg's is for sale.

Ha ha I could use a good pinhead across the street!

You better critique his collection before you go all in and get him in that house.

I hope it's you who sells this.

(Sorry we only sell to pinheads!)

Next we get Poochie the Dog as unwanted addendum on Straight down the middle.

Can you guys get together and play JP with some goofy stakes like that Bone-slap Houdini episode? That was a damn crowning achievement outing. Maybe the loser has to get some spitter dinosaur "goop" in the face? Or maybe do some pingolf type rules.

Zach - listening to the latest TWIP podcast and man - I just can't disagree with you more regarding this chipping BS. Accusing folks of being "dramatic" and to just play pinball and don't worry about the pf issues at Stern. Really Zach? I'm not even going to go down the obvious path of how interesting that is to come from a distributor - I'm just commenting on it as being one of the dumbest things you've said period.

People spending 5-9k on these games and then you have guests explain to you in pain staking detail that the owner is F'd - full blown fucked zach if that pf starts to chip. Your response - life is too short just play pinball? Wow really just irresponsible and prob the biggest head in your ass statement you've made thus far. I still can't believe you were so flippant about it - what the hell type of standard are we holding these guys to zach if that's the case? Just fucking dumb period.

Still like the podcast, still enjoy your thoughts but with the good comes bad. This was terrible zach. Not looking for a response - just had to mention this b/c it was really ridiculous.

btw - market trends is one of the best segments. Buy Buy Buy!

Well I guess whatever Zach says would be wrong. - If he'd say this is serious, he'd have to take back every game back that has these faults.

In my opinion:
There are some games that look horrible and I'd try to return if they were mine, but looking at most of these photos you have to zoom way in to even notice.
Wood is a natural building material and with this you have a lot more given tollerances and wood needs time to sit.
You can't speed up the process any way you want.

You do understand the issue is not what they look like now right? The issue is when that ripple begins, and it will, to crack....then what? As for taking back every game that has these faults.....you're right. He should work with Stern to right those folks no questions asked and hopefully that's happening. It's really very simple.

You get a true to the Data East days Playfield!

Yeah I know what you mean but that still won't matter within a half millimeter of a Starpost hidden by some plastic (wich is some of the cases we are talking about here).

Still of course I get the fuzz, paying top Dollar for something like this.
When I had a new Pin on order and that ghosting issue floated around I shat my pants.
(Then again my GB had a tiny crack and it didn't bother me at all.)

It's also simple to save the environment, loose weight, stop smoking, be nice to everybody and stop discrimination but sadly that's not how it works.

Do we know eachother??

I don't know...

...but it actually is not impossible that I bought a pin from you (or the other way around) or that we met at DPO.

funny b/c I have GB LE with two ghosting inserts and I never even notice them. IMO that was totally overrated but I wouldn't tell folks to ignore it and buy more NIB. This is actually going to lead to cracking in the PF which is way more serious!

I'm in for a premium but I'm not touching NIB right now. If you value money I would suggest everyone reading this thread to do the same. It also shows stern and JJP were not going to be mindless zombies and buy games with obvious defects.

I agree of course.

But I propably have too add that you usually can't buy "NIB" here. If the games arrive here each one gets unpacked and checked again. So the game is new but you don't buy sight unseen. And if the first issues/ service bulletins pop up the retailer will fix/ do them for you. In addition the playfield has an additional month to cure while it's in the shipping container.
So "I guess" we might have less problems locally because of that?

Jurassic Park is amazing. If I was ready to buy today I would.

you’ve obviously never watched SDTM

Zach i couldn’t agree with u anymore. we buy these games because they are so great so we won’t want to sell them and we don’t care if the value goes down a little because of a little pooling. it doesn’t affect gameplay. just play your fucking pinball!

MJR

Hey Zach im thinking that you need to dress up as Chumlee for this years Halloween special, that would be awesome!

On a serious note, what are you doing to your games that are chipping to prevent them from getting worse? Anything at all or are you just going to let them chip away?

Well delt said that was the dumbest thing that you have ever said so i thought maybe you should dress up as a dummy for halloween and Chumlee came to mind for some reason lol. Some people are using neoprene washers also and i think that idea is worth looking into as well rather than just putting a regular metal washer over the bad areas. If its not chipping though it may be best to just not mess with it at all. Kind of one of those if it aint broke don't fix it things ya know?

I am pretty particular with my pins and pretty much anything else that i own so playfield defects bother me. The pooling wouldn’t bother me if i knew that it wouldn’t chip, but my IMDN is doing just that so i am pretty bummed about it and i want Stern to take care of it because it is a manufacturers defect and it’s not something that i should have to look at or deal with. I still love ya though Zach, i don’t care what delt says about you.

Are Greg and Zach selling any sdtm or flipnout hats ?

Wow, that was random.

Somebody PM me when their line of underwear comes out.

Ewwwwww..........

Yeah, like you wouldn’t want to sit on a picture of Greg’s face...? Come on man, let’s be serious.

But eventually we do sell them and the value goes down a lot not a little. There are plenty of Huo games to choose from. Noone is going to buy a game with chipped playfield with bad clear or rippling wood when they can buy one without those problems. Fixing the problem means a playfield swap $1000 and a new playfield $500. So you’re looking at a huge loss when you try to sell your messed up game. My Woz had these issues and I had to finally sell it for about $1000 less than the going rate.
There is no way I would even touch one of these defective games unless I got at least a $1000 discount and probably not even then.

Forgot to update the thread title.