Considering joining the club and really trying to avoid the price increase on a premium and get in at MSRP. Anyone got any hot tips on how I can do that?

I'll give him a call. Thanks to you and the others here for the suggestions. Hopefully I can figure something out.

It's nice to see some local folks here. This community has been really great, especially for folks like me who are newish to the hobby.

Saw this Facebook post on the subject. Looks like there may be some out there.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/35138159505/permalink/10159219031399506/

Just got the request to pay the invoice. I spoke to the distro and it sounds like I might get it by early next week. Pretty excited.

Got my invoice yesterday. I was told I'm paying current year msrp plus shipping, less than Bond msrp all in. I'm paying the same amount I was quoted this year when I ordered. Hope this helps.

Eta pm me if you want to discuss.

Just received notice that my machine has shipped! On replacing the stock balls, are there preferred balls for a GZ Premium, or for games with magnets? I like ninja balls, but my recollection is they don't work with games that use magnets.

Also, do you guys swap rubbers immediately? I like Titans but was considering using the stock ones for a bit. I can't decide whether to immediately swap out the flipper rubbers.

I'm in the club! Delivered today. Build date 10/14, looks like I just made it.

I only had time for a few games but did notice this wire clip looking thing slide down to the right of Mechagodzilla. Any idea what this is for? Doesn't look important but I don't want to overlook something.

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You're referring to the black clip in my picture? If so, where does it go?

That's it. I'm missing the screw and washer, apparently. The clip is fine. My guess is they just threw the loom back there without a screw to hold it in place. I just took a random screw that fit and put it in for the time being to hold it there.

Is hitting the right ramp from upper flipper shot supposed to be hard? I just got my game and have only a handful of plays. That shot only rarely makes it.

I can hit the right ramp easily from the lower left flipper. It's hitting that right ramp from the upper flipper that's hard.

Will be ordering. Love the backstory. Keep on encouraging.

I avoided buying GZ for two reasons: I was concerned it would play too similar to IMDN and I have never been interested in the theme. Well, I've been proven wrong. It plays very differently from IMDN. The only similar shot is the upper loop but on the opposite side. I suppose you could argue the building shot is similar to the underworld scoop as well. I only have two pins, so being Star Wars fans we went Mando first. We loved Mando and played it to death until we started to lose interest. After playing GZ on location and loving it, we picked one up.

This is where theme steps in. My kids love the theme even not knowing anything about the theme before. The humor and campyness is a home run for entertainment value especiallyfor a guy like me trying to make this a family hobby. I have since gotten a little more interested in the theme since getting the game. Also, the layout allows you to approach the game using different strategies to achieve different goals, which means long term replayability. I thought I'd not be happy only owning jus IMDN and GZ, but I was wrong.

My building on my premium raises very smooth, but it rattles/shakes going down. I don't want it to damage the building. Should I be concerned with this, is it normal?

Look at this video at about the 15:44 mark. Hopefully it timestamped. Looks to me like the building lowers and raises smoothly. Mine raises very smooth, but rattles going down.

I'll try to get a video of mine too. Mine is a 10/14 build. The building does appear to rattle more than the video posted earlier, but it goes up very smooth.

Here are videos of the building mech rattle I posted about. One video in test mode and another in game. It seems to be worse in game. Is this an issue and if so any ideas how to fix?

Just ran it with the playfield up. I think I see the problem but I'm not sure how to fix it. You can see in the video I just made the building raises and lowers perfectly when the playfield is up. Sorry for the bad camera work it was hard to film and reach the button at the same time.

It appears that when the playfield is down the building falls forward about an 8th of an inch and it skips/rattles against the front lip of the wood. When the playfield is up gravity doesn't allow the building to fall forward and it moves smoothly.

I don't see a way to adjust the bracket to fix this. I'm wondering if maybe something smooth could be placed in that 1/8 inch gap between the front of the building and the wood to prevent this. I do think over time the building or wood could be damaged by this.

See my new post. I think our issues are the same but I think mine is more severe. I have to imagine this issue affects numerous machines, but a lot of buyers may think this is normal. At first, I thought the rattling might be normal as I thought maybe it was to give the effect of the building being demolished.

Please do post a pic. Much appreciated.

I do have a shaker installed. However, I will say it was shaking a lot the entire way down even before the shaker was installed.

My issue was happening before I installed the shaker.

I wanted to follow up on my building rattle issue. I troubleshooted by tightening various screws and bolts under the playfield. Tightening the two bolts identified seems to have greatly help resolve the issue. These two bolts have soft rubber spacers under them and they have a lot of play to tighten them. I was able to tighten both of them a lot which keeps the building from leaning forward much when the building goes down.

I did notice however that the tilt was affected enough that if I run the building test with the playfield up it will catch on the ramp to the top of the building, preventing the building from moving. When the playfield is down and the game is played the building raises and lowers smoothly now most of the time. It does still occasionally rattle, but it's much less frequent. The game overall is playing great, so I'm tempted to not mess with it further and just enjoy the game.

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Thanks for the heads up. I just played again and it's still rattling on occasion anyway. Honestly, if these bolts aren't the fix, I'm not sure what is.

Man, that sucks. Mine does this, obviously from my videos. Oddly, when the game ends and balls are on the roof it lowers and raises smoothly 100% of the time. I don't understand why it rattles sometimes in game and is smooth during reset. I'd like to know if this is through Stern or the Distro too. I need to decide what to do.

Looks like I have the original one. I wonder why the original in some instances have the gears offset? Looks like I need to inquire with my distro and/or Stern. I've never done that, so please offer pointers if you have any.

I had this happen yesterday and was pretty confused. Must be a bug that needs to be fixed.

I'm happy to report that my building rattle appears to be resolved. I do have questions though.

Aside from the initial troubleshooting I did, which didn't get rid of the problem, I didn't really do anything. The problem just went away. I'm wondering if the building mech just needed some breaking in. That, or possibly something in the code update.

I will say I think I may have accidentally changed the building settings in the software where the building adjustment setting is, but I don't know for sure. Does anyone happen to have the default settings for the building mech and could post them? I checked the manual and it's not in there.

Is it me, or does later code make scoring a billion harder? I broke a billion twice early on. Currently my game has been at code 1.02 and the closest I've come is 600M since then.

Side note. I've held off the 1.03 update because of numerous issues I've heard with it.

My upper flipper started having issues today. I would hit the left flipper button and it would flip the upper flipper sometimes at half power and sometimes at full strength. Sometimes it wouldn't go all the way up. The flipper would also drop at times when I was still holding the button. I saw this issue on a Mando but the issue went away on its own. I'm still running 1.02 code. Is this a connection issue, a code issue or a hardware issue? The problem only presented itself while I finally had a longer than usual game. I'm not a great player so my normal ball times aren't very long.

Thanks for posting. I'm currently troubleshooting a similar problem.

I imagine your mod diverts the balls just a little. That might be better. I'm pretty sure my machine is level and I drain sdtm. I might change the roof but it doesn't matter to me that much. The flip side is the building takes less hard hits.