Well after months of reading this thread and seeing what Pinball Brothers has produced I finally put a deposit on my 1st NIB pin! I'm in the 3rd Quarter and was told to expect her August/September. Usually summer flies by so this move should ensure a long summer!

Thanks so much for everyone sharing their experience so far. Absolutely love the honesty and can't wait to get my hands on this game!

Here's one of the reasons I plunked down a deposit, these playfields look impenetrable!

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=874644590025528

I can live with dimples, it's the playfields crumbling before our eyes that are unacceptable. With the switches positioned under the playfield without the cut outs there's even less chance of loss of artwork.

Thanks Red Devils!

Great to hear! With all of the help from the initial owners so far I'll be set when mine arrives. I humbly thank you good sirs!

Just received the tracker mod, thanks Andrew!! I'm in Q3 and still haven't heard anything.

Paid in full Oct 22nd Melissa told me there's a container arriving in NYC Nov 15th. I asked if my game would be in that bunch and she replied she wasn't sure but that there is a second ship on the water as well and will hit port 2 weeks after the first one.

I just received the same answer, my invoice #093130. Any day now!!

I keep checking here religiously because I don't want to bother Melissa again!

Spoke with Melissa today. I paid Oct 22nd and she told me they expect to have more games arriving at CT by the 18th. So close...

Sadly no

Outstanding!! Another daaaamn I gotta have that!

When I spoke with Melissa yesterday I told her I'm here in NY let me go pick it up myself. She told me no the games were now in Jersey and I couldn't go pick it up there either. Now hoping they get them in at cointaker Feb 5th.

No these are the SVs that were on the second ship in port Dec.18th

Another call to Melissa to confirm that CT received the container on the 5th. Not only did it not arrive but as far as she knows it's still sitting in Jersey. Oh and the best is she can't give me any answer as to when it might come!

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Yessssss!! I received a tracking #!

Crossing my fingers for you! May your tracking #arrive tomorrow!

Was watching Prometheus in celebration when I saw this and almost choked on my drink!! Too kind and crazy

Those 2 gifs are perfect! Get that excited guys because that's how good this game is!

I have a Dec build and the coils are installed in the right direction. I had to bump my right orbit post 15% past factory and all the other adjustments previous owners were gracious enough to share. Now if I could only adjust the outlanes...

Hi Pinmeister, if you open up a ticket there customer support is fantastic. I was emailing them 10am-11am eastern and was getting responses back in 5 MINUTES! If I email Stern and ask a question I have to wait until 4:50pm until they respond. I have had the game since spring and never had an issue. A couple of weeks ago I turned the game on and all the right side coils seemed to be operating at 50%. The ball barely coughed up to the shooter lane but the coil to fire it on the playfield couldn't make it up the wireform. I removed the glass to test the game with the ball in play and realized instantly that all right side coils were weak. I turned them up 30 to 40% and played a few games. The next day I turned her on and had the same thing happen even though I had adjusted them in settings. I opened a ticket and jumped in the car to go to work. 5 minutes later I get a response. I was asked if I was comfortable soldering and when I replied yes he sent me 2 pics of the pc control board 0092 in the bottom of the control box. Once you remove all the connectors and remove the box from underside of the playfield, open the top of the box and disconnect the 4 interconnects. In the box on the bottom is the 0092 board.
I was asked to remove the 2 transistors circled and jumper them and then remove the board from the box and on the underside add a jumper wire to a cap. Here are the 2 pics I was sent. Once I made these alterations the coils all fired sufficiently. I dialed all back to normal except for the left flipper which I catch the ball on from the overpowered scoop. Please don't follow my advice though and open a ticket yourself to confirm. Good luck!!bLDLnTkYC4jElYSd_aPVZQhOKx1ierMuuQ (resized).jpgPaQ3brF1hbQPcc6cgLa05RPiU_sRYAiL7g (resized).jpg
I should have stated I couldn't get the transistors off with the soldering iron. I clipped the legs off of both then crushed the black body of the transistor until all that is left is the base. I then soldered the pins across both. Here's a pic of what I ended up with. Works great now but wont win any awards for presentation.20220817_115335 (resized).jpg

LOVE the license plate!!

Absolutely love this game! Have had her for almost a year and have been neglecting my other pins. The one thing I wish they would have paid more attention to detail to is the tongue that eats the ball. The detailed head and moving jaw look fantastic but the round magnet on the end of the steel arm is lacking. After looking at it for a few months I decided to carve a wax mini jaw to sit around the magnet. I reached out to pinball brothers to ask for a cross section of the black plastic that the magnet retracts into but a number of requests were ignored. I would have liked to have beefed up the tongue and have the top 2 fangs taller but since it retracts into the plastic tunnel so the ball will drop I had to work with what I had. Instead I used a black sharpie to create stripes on the steel arm to try and make it a ribbed look. The mini jaw was cast in sterling silver so it wouldn't become magnetized and possibly create a problem with the ball releasing. I hot glued it on last December and it hasn't moved since. I had made a mold of the original and will check a second casting on my friends machine this Saturday. If the shrinkage is ok and it just slides on like the original I am going to make them available through Pingraffix if anyone is interested.

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The mini jaws will be available to order at Pingraffix.com Here's a link to the thread: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/alien-mini-jaw-mod#post-7462315

Thanks chubtoad13, I'll start a new thread this weekend.

Thanks for the kind words, will do.

Just edited my post earlier about the Alien mini jaw mod. Here's a link to the thread: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/alien-mini-jaw-mod#post-7462315

You can find them here: https://www.pingraffix.com/product-page/alien-pinball-mini-jaw-mod

Thanks for the compliment and congrats on scoring a super deal on your Alien. It's 8.5dwt of s.silver plus the cost of caster and the polisher. If it was in platinum it would be between 4 to 500. If platinum is your thing and you're interested hit me up.

Looks fantastic! Especially that you can now see the outlanes!

I can't tell if your bracket is the same as mine but I had a square hole in the bracket right behind the coil allowing it to swivel back and forth. Notice in your pic the coil is almost at a 45% angle. I had to flip my coil upside down so that the square plastic base of the coil with the lugs sat flat against the bracket not allowing it to swivel. Once I made that adjustment the drops pop up every time.

At 1st I loved the quick smooth motion of the tongue when upgraded, but for selfish reasons that's just less time my mini jaw gets seen while eating the ball.

Woooohoooo! One of the lucky ones to pick this up beginning of 2022 and I'm so pumped to see Ripley in the game! Thanks so much Pinball Brothers for revisiting the license and making this happen! I can't wait to install the Ripley code!

I kept that secret since I was told late at an after party at Texas. Damn Jonesy is out of the bag now there goes my advantage!

Freaking awesome! My stupid addiction has taken most of my wall space. It's the regular height of your other translites just wider?

Shout out to Pinball Brothers outstanding customer service!! For those of you that are still unsure and almost ready to pull the trigger I'd like to share my experience. I was playing my game, thankfully solo one evening, during the weekend of the Expo show and during a nice game with the Alien side fully completed and self destruct attained when working on the Aliens side the game just went dead in multiball. I couldn't power her back up by toggling the power switch. I put in a ticket and within a couple of hours Andrea was helping me diagnose the problem. I removed the power controller box and confirmed that I wasn't getting the 48V output from the box into the machine. Andrea told me not to worry, that this was a 1st but they would send me out a new power supply box and just return the bad one so they could diagnose the problem. Shawn was at Expo but the day he got back I received an email asking me for my address so he could send me out the new PSB. New box arrived and she's back up and running!! This company has gone above and beyond for me before since the early days. They are now established with more titles on the way. After the Heighway fiasco I was hesitant to pull the trigger wondering how long they'd be around. This game is such a complete package for the amount you're spending just on the SV! As an SV owner I'm so happy the Ripley code will be available for everyone! I just can't get this sh@! eating grin off of my face! This game rocks!!

Wow when this was 1st shown I thought the scale of the borders were longer than the backbox. Now I think I need one...

With 341 pages I don't know if this has been covered before but I wanted to share my experience with the drop targets. Over the last few months I was occasionally experiencing the drop target bank not resetting during a ball. They would pop back up when the next ball was served up. I noticed that in some cases when they didn't pop up they were only peeking out a tiny bit and then falling back down. I lifted the playfield to remove the mech and before removing I noticed the lift plate was dragging on the back wall of the mech. I removed just the plate and ground down the 2 tabs that are in between the 3 longer tabs that sit under the drops. Without those 2 tabs dragging on the back plate my APC targets pop up every time now!
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Thanks Batesy and Baggerman, I'll have to check those as well.

I'm sorry the mini jaw isn't fitting, I pm'd you and CoPinfan. I measured my hood's opening and it measures 15.8mm or 0.6220472in wide. I'm hoping the newer RV versions don't have smaller hoods. If someone with an RV could please measure the width of the hood's opening that the magnet retracts into it would be greatly appreciated.

Even though I rubber wheel them each down to the same specs it seems some pins have a smaller hood. In some games regardless of whether the magnet is centered in the hood or not. I will reduce the outer 4 mandibles to ensure a better chance of it fitting in your game. If anyone has a problem I will have it shipped back and send you a smaller mandibled version. Rager if you want to try again I'll send you a smaller version half off for the inconvenience.

Thanks for the heads up! Just ordered

Hit both flippers at the start of the mode to bypass the video and keep playing

The key is when you sell something you put aside some $ for the wifey so you can play the jedi mind trick and wave your hand in front of her when you're on you're way to the next score. She'll be distracted with the new shiny bling and everyone wins.

Yeah hold em in until they register.

https://www.pingraffix.com/product-page/alien-pinball-mini-jaw-mod
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Definitely considering this as I think it looks cool. Does it impact the capture at all or the dropping of the ball? And any chance the white brass comes back in stock. I prefer that look at its cheaper.

I've had my game for over 2 yrs with one spot of hot glue on the underside before I installed it and it still hasn't come off. It doesn't affect the capturing of the ball at all. I offer up the white brass version as a cheaper option. They're made to order so they;re always in stock, sorry for the confusion. I have to have Joe change the description on the page.

When I carved the piece to fit around the magnet there was just a millimeter and a half of space on either side of the jaw to the black hood it retracts into. With this tight tolerance if the jaw isn't centered the mandibles hit the side of the hood and pop off. If the angle of the rod that holds the magnet is too high, the jaw will catch the top rounded part of the entrance of the hood it retracts into. If the rod is angled too low the mini jaw and magnet will get caught on the bottom of the jaw for the head and can't reach the playfield. The Pinball Brothers site has a support page to show you how to access and adjust the rod's angle.
https://pinballbrothers.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/80000760618-tlc-my-xenomorph
I just had a pinsider reach out to me to let me know his magnet was a little off to the left and that the adjustment of the rod only allowed him to move the angle up and down but not side to side. Instead of removing the whole mech he dremeled out the hood where the mini jaw was making contact. If anyone has a problem having the mini jaw fit please hit me up and I'll have you send it back and I will reduce the area that's hitting the hood. When the jaw is centered and not making contact with the hood it should only require a dab of hot glue. I've had mine on for almost 2 yrs with just a dab of the hot glue. I used hot glue so that if it did catch on the hood it would just pop off rather than catch and grind the servo mech making it retract.