Hahaha! I took a chance and told my wife I had to get a new pin 'cause it was so good--I just had to! (And, I haven't been tempted to buy NIB in a long time, so I had that going for me). Surprisingly she wasn't mad, just told me to make room (I agreed to move one, she suggested two...). Doesn't matter, she'll get mad when it arrives, anyway!

What else are you going to get? Think about it, you pull this stunt three times, you get in trouble three times. But if you buy three pins, when she returns you get in trouble once. Granted it's a big one but once. Stay with me, you probably have raised the bar so high, that you could buy a pin the next year she goes away and she'd only give you a shrug at that point. That's a win-win-win-annuatized_wins situation. Something to think about

I believed parts4pinball was in Norway...

Who would have believed pro's out of stock!

Exactly. This dude is confused.

Agree

We've had our pro home for almost a week now, so I've gotten to log some real hours on it.
The more I play it the more I really love this machine and I'm really stoked we picked it up.

IMDN is shaping up to be Sterns greatest success

I can't believe to not hear of any QC issues ?

This is a great sign Stern Pinball is really trying to make the commitment for a better product.

Hope they don't start rushing to keep up with demand.

Keep up the great work Stern Pinball

Flip N Out Pinball has a couple in stock ready to ship. Tell them SDTM sent you

I had my first bad experience lately with cointaker where things didnt go very good (late shipments and poor communication). I can say though without a doubt cointaker went above and beyond to make it right and repaired a relationship that i honestly didnt expect to be repaired. Because of how it was handled i would definately be willing to do business with them again.

Been there, done that.

It’s how I bought my LOTR, TSPP & FGY

Now TWD, AS & my Golden Tee were all “wife out of town” purchases.

And to add an extra layer of terrible into the story of my shitty character... my wife was in the hospital when I bought Aerosmith (from birthing my 10lb baby boy).

Shit, I forgot to warn her about WWF & Baywatch way back in the day too.

Sometimes I feel like she doesn’t want me to have any fun lol

For anyone that is getting a Prem quote less than $7300 shipped will you PM me with info (if it’s 7100-7200 range like some of hinted on this thread I’d like to know, if it’s within $50 or less no need to)

Premium pictures.......... where are they ?

They are a Norwegian company, but they are also distributors for Sweden, so this is probably from their Sweden office.

Games arrive in Sweden a few days before Norway (at least with boat)

Release party in Norway is in 3 days

I get my first pinball monday in 2 days. Cant wait to get Maiden in house. I had to make some changes to make space for it...my wife thought I did a good job untill I told here what the ekstra space was for

There are more then that,I know of 3 for sure coming from the US.
Had to find them where we could

Please PM me as well anything less than $7300 shipped thanks

Yea the 10 number may have been more like 10 allocated. People will find them where they can though! Did you get one Dan?

Just checked the IM webpage to see what they were posting about their great new pinball machine. Ummm...nothing. Didn't spend a lot of time on FB, but didn't see anything that came up quickly. I wonder just how involved the band is--I figured they wanted all those LE's to sell to their fans...

Cointaker is awesome! I recently bought a MET Premium from Cointaker and i just gotta say that Melissa is awesome and a pleasure to deal with. I have no doubt that if i have any problems that she will see to it that it gets taken care of. That was my first purchase with Cointaker and they have all of my business moving forward unless they try and gouge me like my previous distro did.....and no i wont give any details so don't ask please. You bought from the right place imo.

Melissa is great no doubt!

This guy here has it all figured out guys! I am going to keep him in mind for future advice.

So I played iron maiden first time this weekend, two different machines, and the flippers felt harsh. Very clickety clickety and the sound was like playing without the glass. Sorry if this has been brought up or asked, but did they do something different with the flippers here? What ever it was, felt it was a step to the worse and didn't like it

It should be twice as loud as a normal 2 flipper machine.
You have 4 plungers hitting against 4 coil stops instead of 2

Have you played any other Spike games? Definitely a different sound and feel to Sam. Surely not as loud and “clickety” as your AMH though?

AMH uses WPC style Williams mechs. No clickety there.

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Wasn’t my experience owning AMH, and TNA is probably even more “clickety”. Not sure why it’s so different, because as you say, it’s standard Williams mechs.

In any case, doesn’t bother me personally, just wondering why Stern/IMDN was singled out when there are other more “clickety” games being produced.

I love the theme and I think its an attractive looking game, but it does come across a little too much like a Rainbow Brite theme with the color selections. I agree, a little darker take on the theme and color scheme would have made it even better.

I'm wondering if same flipper mechs are used SAM v SPIKE ?
I haven't seen a pic of mini flip mech.
Possibly cabinet acoustics. People are saying new Spike is lighter. Has Stern gone to a different ply for cabinet ?
Maybe i'm just over thinking everything again

It’s really a non issue. I personally like the “snappiness” of the Spike flippers. If there is any difference, I’m thinking it’s because there are 4 flippers vs 2.

I think components are getting smaller, metal back box, plastic aprons, LED boards and less wiring make a difference

I have played all the latest Sterns, even the ones that have 4 flippers like GoT but for some reason this felt different, more amplified. Can't put my finger in it, maybe it's just me

Played one for 4 hours today. I think it’s just you imo. The flippers snappiness and mech sounds were exactly like every other modern stern in the lineup over the past 2 years.

With the late Paul Vege?

Shannon, Is That You?

I don't think it's you. TSPP is considerably louder than any machine I own. It makes sense as a two-flipper Stern is louder and more "clackedy" than a WMS to start with so the multi flipper models really show this off.

I have TSPP currently stuffed with foam to see if that would help but unfortunately it doesn't. The sound seems to reverberate right off the PF and straight up.

I calmed down the clack of LOTR by putting rubber sheets between the PF and the two mechs... obviously from the underside.
This DID help so it could be done on any Stern if you were really motivated. One day I am going to do this on the TSPP.

The one on location near me has issues out of the box. It is rediculous to need new node boards out of the box, but it is also what I expect on spike. No one is running to pinside to raise a stink, but it doesn't necessarily mean issues are not happening.

That just means you must set up the volume so you can enjoy the music from the best band there is

I did the same with my tspp. It's so loud even with peel and stick mini cell foam.

Any premium pics out yet ?

Nope not yet unfortunately.

Here is a mod that should help with your loud flipper problem.
It deactivates the upper flippers when not in use.
http://www.flippp.fr/pisim.php

I need to change Can I play with madness to Where Eagles dare, Wasted Years to Wrathchild, Fear of the Dark to Phantom of the Opera and maybe Rime to Quest for fire or Sun and Steel then all is right with the world.

Thx. Just got back today from a cruise. Did not have internet

How about high res pics of the LE playfield ?

Not sure about hi res pics but i dont think there was anything except low res pics. I think Dead Flip is doing a stream on the LE on Tuesday though.

There was a link to Hi Res pictures here on pinside

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Wow nice pics, i didnt see those! Thank you!

the hi-res pictures are also on pinballnews https://www.pinballnews.com/site/2018/04/26/iron-maiden-le-unveiled/