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Poll...is there an issue with your GNR playfield?

By Dantesmark

3 years ago


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“Hows your gnr playfield doin?”

  • Great! No issue whatsoever! 120 votes
    43%
  • Some pooling around my posts. 62 votes
    22%
  • I have chipping and/or missing artwork. 99 votes
    35%

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Post #40 Another good pic of the pooling concern Posted by TheGunnett (3 years ago)

Post #42 Another key pic of the issue Posted by jandrea95 (3 years ago)

Post #52 A key answer to the record disc problem Posted by Yelobird (3 years ago)

Post #66 A good overview of suggested fixes. Posted by Sako-TRG (3 years ago)

Post #92 Another well documented pooling issue with pics Posted by Coolpinballdino (3 years ago)

Post #102 Another well documented clearcoat issue. Posted by Tdavis7965 (3 years ago)

Post #161 To be fair, a success story of not issues with pics. Posted by Procrastinator (3 years ago)


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#78 3 years ago
Quoted from EricHadley:

Seems like the way to fix this is hold the supplier to the fire. Make them pay for the expense to replace ALL defective playfields with a new populated playfield. Maybe they’ll realize how important this part is and get it right going forward. In fact, I would make that part of the contract with any playfield supplier. If you supply defective playfields you will pay for the expense to replace it with a populated playfield. This idea that the customer can replace their own blank playfield is crazy. It’s enough of a stretch to think a customer can swap a populated one. This hobby/industry lives in la la land. Removing this game from my wish list, its a hot mess.

Agree 100%. Many large businesses have similar types of agreements, called Service Level Agreements (SLA's), in place with vendors. For example if a company relies on the service of a vendor and that service (such as a vendor website providing some type of functionality) isn't up the vendor starts getting charged X number of dollars every hour, day, etc.

#79 3 years ago
Quoted from Sako-TRG:

If they haven’t sorted it by now through all the POTC + Wonka fiasco, it makes you wonder. I honestly think they thought these issues were behind them but alas.... have been caught unaware. Now it’s in front of them, staring them squarely in the face, bearing all the hallmarks of a company knowing the issues exist but looking for the easiest fix without hurting production.
I believe they have made the business decision to carry on regardless.
Potential reasoning behind this:
1. Is this pharmaceutical or military grade equipment with zero tolerance for manufacturing issues? No
2. Damage limitation ? A few moaners from middle aged men with expendable income - big deal! Worse case - phone call from Jack and an unpopulated playfield - good to go!
3. Will it really impact our bottom line - well going by Wonka + POTC - peeps still bought the titles regardless - this is a bigger theme - the mugs will keep buying....
4. Can we be held accountable? - The warranty is underwritten - normal wear and tear ball bouncing off wood will obviously cause damage, hard to prove otherwise.
Decision with minimum impact on manufacturing?
- Rubber washer (hide damage)
- Incommunicado (No admission of issues)
- Continue production
I sincerely hope more is going on in the background though to resolve as it’s the greatest title.

I've bought 4/5 JJP pins prior to GNR and this time I'm waiting at least 6 months before considering a purchase. If I just paid $9,500 for an LE and saw pooling / chipping on my game it would make me sick. If I saw washers installed from the factor that's better but I would still be pissed as that just proves games are being shipped with defective playfields.

#108 3 years ago

JJP should have solved this issue 2 years ago with Pirates. There's no more excuses. These games are insanely priced and the last thing customers should have to worry about are playfield issues. I love JJP games, and still think JJP is making the most loaded and fully featured pins in the industry. However, none of that matters if this is the type of playfield quality being offered.

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#274 3 years ago

64 votes for issues so I'll guess maybe 10 - 15 are legitimate and the others are by the Stern Army lol.

4 months later
#341 3 years ago

There was no excuse for these issues at $9500 and certainly not at $10,500. JJP should use the extra profits from the crazy $1k price increase and send owners of affected games brand new fully populated playfields. It doesn't matter if this only happened to a handful of games in the middle of last year, it shouldn't happen at all considering the issue popped up with their 2 previous games.

The other day I had a chance to play a TMNT LE, AIQ LE, and GNR LE on location. The TMNT LE and AIQ LE playfields looked great, no artwork around the posts which I thought looked just fine. However, GNR LE had chipping around the sling posts. I'm pretty sure the playfield was made in the middle of last year (location got one of the first games) but it still doesn't look good. On a side note the speakers on TMNT LE and AIQ sounded great...not so much I found for GNR LE.

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