Yea I only got like 29" clearance in the upper area of the stairs, wider at the bottom. And the turn goes to 28" on the bottom so it would not fit in the turn part still in box.

Mirror blades or art blades? What are people preferences and why?

Nice.

Only Stern Official Shakers in my games.

Art blades because Zombie Yeti.

I have mirror blades in my Premium, and they look fantastic. The light show in the game is top tier, and the mirrors just make it widescreen.

Art Blades from Stern.

I prefer mostly Stern only mods with a few exception. Lately I have been steering away from junking up my game with a lot of extra mods that don't belong there with a few tasteful exceptions but that's just me. The Stern stuff seems like it belongs there IMO.

I have the stern shaker for my JP. I have it set on moderate. Should the pinball life shaker be set on high since you say it’s smoother?

I've got pinball life shaker on my GZ. very happy with it.

Pinball life shaker spike II

https://www.pinballlife.com/shaker-motor-kit-rev-c-for-stern-spike-spike-2-system-games.html

Hmmmm... Not cheaper than Stern's. I got my last Stern Shaker for the same price, you just need to shop around a bit if price is a deciding factor.

Sterns shaker sux

What's wrong with them? I've never had an issue or one that was too violent, as some report. And so easy to tame down if it is. Curious, not arguing

I have 3, they all work great and have had no issues. Sorry to hear you don't like them, not sorry.

Hate them!

Hate. Now that is a pretty strong word to be tossing around about some ol' poor little Stern Shaker motor.

Why's that?

Because he is a Big Bully and Stern Shaker Motors know is EVERYWHERE!

Premium is being delivered on Friday afternoon. We are a 1-pin family. We traded out of a Stranger Things Pro + cash. First pin we have bought without playing first, before ordering, and our first premium - fingers crossed. Looking forward to it!

I had a Stranger Things Premium I traded for a Godzilla Premium + cash my way. Zero Regrets

Kept our Sth premium and still joined the family.. WooHoo. Played one game and stuck all 4 balls... clearly the building needs to be adjusted.
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Stranger Things Premium is a great game if you like tinkering with a pinball machine more than playing it, I had my fill of it. Game has some neat tricks but the novelty evidently wore off for me.

Once I got ours dialed in, I've never had a problem since. But we have 800 plays, while others have a ton more. Always wondered how people play so many games. We play a few games a week.

I was checking the MechaGZ magnet & the magna grab magnet today in the diagnostic coil test (my MechaGZ magnet doesn't work during game play). I discovered that there's a pinball directly behind the magna grab magnet, under the plastic below the bridge. I wonder what the purpose of this pinball is?

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It's a Newton Ball. Hits a switch at the top of the lane.

HAH! Once I got mine dialed in, that's when I sold it.

Regardless.. GZ is great and looks like you have some other great pins in your line up too!

More Godzilla please

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Godzilla is an amazing pin, 100%! Stranger Things Premium was my first pin getting back into the hobby after being out of it for sometime. That TK lock is nothing short of a pain in the ass to get dialed in but I had it working great when I handed it off to it's new owner. I doubt I will ever own the game again. My biggest fear in owning it was if the projector was to fail and I could not find a replacement.

"Kinetic satisfaction"

New Game Code !

V0.98.0 - July 29th, 2022
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- Insider Connected - Home Team

The Home Team features allows Insider Connected players to log in
and play without scanning their QR code.
When the game is registered to a home location and set to Free Play,
Home Team can be enabled via Standard Adjust #51 or from Guided Setup.
Up to 8 players can be added to the Home Team from the Stern Insider
Connected Setup menu.

The Home Team can be shared across all games registered at the game's
location by enabling the Home Team Standard Adjustment on each game.
Players need only be added once to the Home Team. Players can be
later removed from the Home Team, and guests can be temporarily
added to the Home Team.

Find out more about Home Team at http://insider.sternpinball.com.

- Mechagodzilla Magnet - pulse magnet when trying to drop any ball that has been held, this will try to shake loose residual magnetism balls
- Mechagodzilla Magnet - added a warning sound and lamp effect when the held ball is about to drop
- Godzilla Multiball - Super Jackpot now has a base value of 10M
- Planet X Bonus - after finishing Planet X you can now work your way through 3 city objectives (Tanks, Bridge, and Power) to light Planet X Bonus at the scoop, worth 19% your Planet X total.
- City Select - added objective status icons to upper right of screen
- City Select - added control perk text for each city
- Super Spinner - now defaults to 2X spinner value (was 6X) + another 1X per godzilla city under control... godzilla powerup L7 now adds +2X. No more cap to the super spinner rip.
- Loops - boosted loop cap by 2X --> 750K to 1.5M
- Annihilation Bonus - adding a 75 switch cap for Bridge Annihilation qualifying
- Fight Or Flee - hold ball in the scoop / on the magnet after fight or flee through the totals... player can blowoff if they want to skip
- Fight Or Flee - added amount of seconds that will award as a preview before choosing fight
- Fight Or Flee - added time bonus text when flee is selected
- Fight Or Flee - added sub total and total when flee is selected
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah - Jackpot at scoop awards 2X instead of 1X value
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah - added award value / jackpot value status meters
- Godzilla vs. Megalon and Gigan - Jackpot base changed from 1.5M to 3M
- Godzilla vs. Ghidorah and Gigan - arrow shots changed from 2.5M to 7.5M
- Godzilla vs. Ghidorah and Gigan - added switches / flee jackpot value status meters
- Battle Timer - fixed an issue where timers would occasionally not show on the screen for some Battles
- Oxygen Destroyer - fixed an issue with the building not going to the 1st floor for Oxygen Destroyer when Super Train was running
- Godzilla Powerup - Level 5 - moved "Sacuer Attack +3 Seconds" to Level 1 left side pool
- Godzilla Powerup - Level 5 - added "Collect Imposter" to where "Saucer Attack +3 Seconds" was
- Godzilla Powerup - Level 1 - added "Monster Rampage Spot Letter" to right side pool
- Godzilla Powerup - "Tier 1 Battle Timers +10 Seconds" changed to +20 Seconds
- Godzilla Powerup - "Tier 2 Battle Timers +10 Seconds" changed to +20 Seconds
- Monster Rampage - Destruction Jackpot Multiplier increment will now also light Advance Rampage insert
- Monster Rampage - Summon Ally will only light Advance Rampage insert until Monster Rampage has been started the first time
- Monster Rampage - added Rampage X that starts at 1X and gets permanently incremented for each award level
- Monster Rampage - +1X at Extra Ball
- Monster Rampage - +1X at Destruction Jackpot Builds
- Monster Rampage - now showing Rampage X on background text
- Monster Rampage - award that increments the X shows text that the current Rampage X has increased
- Monster Rampage - changed adjustment "RAMPAGE ADDITIONAL SHOT FOR +1 DJP" default from 12 to 16
- Monster Rampage - changed contribution to Destruction Jackpot base value from 5% to 1%
- Monster Rampage - changed priority of award display so it shows up before the Extra Ball award and also will kill the Extra Ball award if another Rampage Award happens
- Tank Attack Multiball - change Godzilla Wallop shot spot order to prioritize shots closer to Godzilla Shot first
- Flipper Display Blowoff - added blowoff of "Battle Is Lit" display effect if the ball is held
- Mystery Award - changed "Advance Rampage" award to "Light Advance Rampage" award and allow it to be chosen any time the Advance Rampage insert is un-lit
- Hedorah - can be qualified again on the 6th Secret Combo
- Super Train - shot up the middle awards a "Super Train Exit Jackpot" which is equal to the current mode total to that point and exits the mode
- Instant Info - added power page for powerlines status
- Instant Info - added Annihilation info for Bridge, Tanks, and Power pages contains current Annihilation percent, value, and multiplier when the applicable annihilations are running
- High Score To Date - added "LOOP TOTAL CHAMPION" which is the highest total loop score achieved for a grouping of consecutive loop shots
- High Score To Data - added "SUPER SPINNER CHAMPION" which is the highest total Super Spinner rip now that it is no longer capped
- DJ Mixer - added Oxygen Destroyer song
- DJ Mixer - added Godzilla themed background option, see "DJ MIXER BACKGROUND" adjustment

- Adjustment Changes:
- Home Installs now set the following:
"FREE PLAY" - YES
"HSTD INITIALS" - 10 LETTER
"ALLOW LEFT+START TO END GAME" - ALWAYS
- added "GODZILLA" as an option to the "DJ MIXER BACKGROUND" adjustment
- added "MONSTER RAMPAGE BALL SAVE DECREMENT" min: 5 max: 20 default: 15, this is the number of seconds the ball save is decremented each time Monster Rampage is started
- added "END OF BALL BONUS SPEECH FREQUENCY" min: 0 max: 100 default: 30, this is the percentage of time the speech will be played to react to the size of your End of Ball Bonus total
- changed "RAMPAGE ADDITIONAL SHOT FOR +1 DJP" default from 12 to 16
- changed "OXYGEN DESTROYER" to "OXYGEN DESTROYER ENABLED" to be more descriptive, this adjustment optionally turns off the Oxygen Destroyer feature

- System - Updated to V3.20.0 on OS: V2.6.0
- Updated to nodeboard firmware/protocol v1.00.0

Anyone have a pro with the side armor? Looking for a good picture to help me decide whether to purchase or not. Also, any thoughts on side armor in general?

Finally! What takes these guys so long

Code is great, but what's taking so long with the topper!!!

Tell me about it…

Look how sad my lineup looks without one!

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I think they are just so focused on getting caught up on backlog of games that toppers are not even a priority right now. They should just contract someone else out to only make toppers and just get a percentage of each sale.

Just received word that my premium will be delivered this Friday. Can't wait!

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Looks like i'm joining the family finally, waiting on delivery to local distro this week or next then its coming home yay!

I'm in the same boat

Just be thankful you don't have A Mando as well. Been waiting a year for that one.

Played a quick game on new code. I like the adjustments especially monster status before you change cities.

Yeah that sucks too, hopefully that one will be worth the wait. I had Mandalorian when it first came out but sold it to get whatever Keith Elwin game was next and that turned out to be Godzilla. Not disappointed in that decision but I do kinda miss Mando every time I play it somewhere else.

you can search this thread for side armor and see some pics of prem and le. I think the prem and pro are similar enough in color scheme that you can decide if you like the look.

As far as general thoughts... it's $300. There are dozens of great mods you can do for less than that, that have a bigger impact (assuming you spend more time looking under the glass than at the side of the machine). Even outside the playfield, i'd focus on backglass mods, speaker panel, shooter rod, etc, maybe even powder coating the legs/rails before i thought about the side armor. But, if you ran out of stuff you'd rather do with that $300, and really like the side armor look (I could take it or leave it), then go for it!

Born on 7/25/22! Time to load the latest/greatest code. Waited quite awhile for this one...didn't want to pay a FOMO tax (state tax is bad enough

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This may already be covered in a different thread but I have a question about the home game room connect changes that just got released. Does anyone know if these changes mean you only need one scanner to now use connecte on multiple machines for anyone designated as “home team”?

I guess if you want to move it around, but what happens is you go into the menu enable Home Team, then you can scan in a number of players, I think 8, then before you start a game hold in the left flipper. The home team menu comes up and allows you to assign different logins to each player 1-4.

You could move the scanner around to each machine and store people that way but if friends not on the home team want to log in they would still need a scanner.

Just got a NIb GZ Premium from last weeks run. Going to add the full playfield protector before any plays. I'm ocd that way. Not easy but worth it. This is my favorite all time pin.

My minty GZ Pro is going up for sale soon.

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Aim is great! The flippers feel more solid and powerful. If you also get the machined flipper bushings, all 'slop' in the flippers are essentially removed.

Also - since the flippers are not permanently attached to the shafts, you can easily adjust flipper angle from the top side of the playfield.

They are currently Out of Stock, but I think John's expecting inventory in the next week or two. He's a nice guy to work with also, which is a plus!

https://pinside.com/pinball/market/shops/1341-precision-pinball-prod/06654-precision-flip-flipper-system