I purchased a NIB LE a few weeks ago and I had thought the same thing about ordering a premium. Since it was my first (working) pin I decided not to wait and paid the high markup. I thought it was worth it since I liked the theme, it had great reviews and it looked like a lot of fun. I unboxed and my kids and I have been having a great time with it, no regrets

I get occasional random loud chirps/pops on my LE but I’ve never tried turning off the shaker to see if it’s related… figured it was a software thing they’d catch eventually

I thought Rodan was mentioned in game but no video yet… maybe I dreamed it

The egg shooter is really uninspired, I was thinking something like a light up plasma ball etc. would have been cool (even if it only lit up to look like lightning or plasma)

Yeah, your right. At $100 I would think it was fine but at $170 I’d expect something more creative like Stranger Things, JP, even Led Zeppelin. DP wasn’t super exciting but at least it was cheaper so I grabbed one.

I was listening to a podcast with Keith Elwin the other day talking about how he wasn’t that into Godzilla before this project, having only watched it as a kid. I was in the same boat but as soon as I saw it I liked the theme. I bought one about a month ago ( my first pin, so I’m no expert) but as soon as i played it I LOVED the theme and the integration of the video clips, sounds/music, lights, and design are incredibly well done. I think the old campy Godzilla fits perfectly with the game.

This is what I want to do, looks great! Anything special needed or does it just get installed same as in avengers

Do you use an external sub still with your pinwoofer system? I’m trying some different things now, haven’t gone full pinwoofer yet but I did just order their card to try it out in comparison to pinnovators cards I currently have. Trying to see if I like the connection to my home stereo or if the distance from the speakers, multiple machines on the same speakers, etc will bother me enough to get the full setup.

Pinwoofer also sells a “do it yourself” card that plugs into the cpu card and splits out the line audio, aux, and subwoofer into three separate 3.5mm jacks… I was assuming they use the same card or a similar one in their kit to connect the cpu to their amp but I guess it’s just a cable harness in the kit.

I’m pretty new to this (so I may have no idea what I’m talking about) but it seems like even though people post these kinds of questions and answers a lot in this thread they are pretty meaningless because all the dealers have different allocations that are also unknown to us (and stern may not give the dealers their full allocation)… so what number in line you are or when you ordered would all get skewed by the dealer you ordered from and how big their allocations are compared to other dealers. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

Impact driver if it’s not already stripped. I’ve got a flexible extension I picked up years ago at Home Depot or lowes

Lol, I’ve replaced about 6 of them over the past few months and as I was fighting with the last one I was thinking how much easier it might have been to just replace the rod…

I didn’t like JP at all when I played one (pro) a few times on site. Then I found one at a decent price (LE) thinking I’d play it for a bit and flip it but now I think it’s a keeper. So much more fun and I don’t know if it was the way it was set up on site or the pro vs prem/LE or just playing at home but the difference was night and day.

Probably the only thing I don’t love about it, made worse when I got a Mandalorian because now there are two in the room with that same powder coating. Rush seems like another armor miss, I was wondering how much copper plating (or fake copper plating) would cost…

Was that for a normal powder coat or a candy coat which I think is chrome then powder… (sorry if I’m wrong, I’ve just started looking at it and don’t quite understand how they make the clear colored coats)

I haven’t had any problems with them on on 5 machines so far (both installed at factory and add-on kits). You can only use 2.4Ghz I think. Also, I’ve always sat on the download screen and waited ( usually about 30min), I’ve never seen them download automatically or in the background while playing etc.

Just tried two models of tp link dongles (the one jjp recommends and a 2.4/5Ghz model. Neither was recognized by Godzilla. One of my kits came with a startech usb150wn1x1w if that helps.

I’m not sure if it started with the latest code but my LE no longer notices stuck balls and hunts for them… has this been mentioned before and I just missed it? I’ve got one stuck next to mechagodzilla now for 15 min and it’s just happily playing music.

I’m confused… I’ve replaced the noodle shop and sign and theater shop and sign with Mezel mods and you don’t keep the old signs on you remove the leds/spacers and stick led boards directly to the new sign… old sign/screws/spacers are sitting in the coin box.

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Nice, I was wondering if you could powder coat that side armor.

Just tried a slightly different approach. Clipped tie straps on wires and peeled back the wrap a bit. Swung leds in front of the sign running wires under sign then stuck it all together with two sided tape (a few layers to match board thickness).

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It is an amazing place, I’m looking for excuses now to drive that way! The games all seemed to be adjusted really well which was a pleasant surprise.

You could just download the newest iso file and create a new ssd using rufus. I’ve had mixed luck with usb updates on various games so on anything I can’t update using the network I just create another ssd with the new iso file.

I did too, just received a week or two ago so the wait wasn’t too bad.

On mine I had missing nuts on the speaker panel that cause the small speakers to rattle during deep bass sounds

#1 for Godzilla is a shaker motor

“Scummy” really depends on where they got it from. Most dealers will sell their machines from stern at msrp but the buy/sell/trade machines at market… this should always be making them some profit or why would they be dealers. Kinda like car dealer, you don’t expect them to be losing money on trade-ins only difference is that right now used machines are selling at or over msrp so I would expect dealer selling prices to be at or over market price on machines they didn’t get from stern.

It’s really three different decisions and your post makes it clear why at msrp an LE is the easy choice if you can get one. It will pretty much always give you more than your 2k back in the future. A market price LE vs an msrp prem is a different decision because it’s a much bigger gap. You’ll probably still get most of your money back on either in the future and for some it’s worth tying up the extra funds for the backglass etc.. When both prem and LE are hot like Godzilla it’s a really tough call if you don’t want to wait… I went with the LE but with how many they made and the high cost it was a tough choice. STh is another game like this where so far I’m sticking with the pro because both the prem and LE prices are very high.

Yes, it’s nice for people that complain about the looks of ic. You can just leave them inside of your machine and not mess with the aprons or coin doors… though it does make me wonder why they didn’t just sell ic as a stand-alone device attached to your wifi instead of a separate scanner for each machine you own. Seems like they could sell a cheaper kit with just a wifi dongle and sd card for people that already have one in the house…

When you are on software update and it says it’s up to date if you hit start you should get a menu (not sure which code versions gave certain options) if your download completed you can select “install now”. There are also options to download automatically and install automatically if you want. I think you can still access this menu while downloading, I was doing 8 machines yesterday and some were more automated than others until I got all the settings the same.

Cc is the abbreviation we’d commonly use in the us (for milliliters in medicine only). I’d think mil for any metric term would be really confusing because you have no idea what unit you’re talking about …

Stern topper prices do seem too high for something that is not limited (or very complex). Even now when they seem to realize the toppers should be more interactive 1000k plus is still a lot when you think for $60 to $100 bucks imaginex or Fischer price would be able to make something amazing (I know the production scale makes these cheaper). That said, I’m still waiting for Godzilla, Mandalorian, Rush toppers I just hope they shoot for Black Knight greatness and not Jurassic Park laziness (who knows, maybe the licensing ties their hands on some toppers)

I don’t think he said 3k over premium msrp, he said 3k over current asking price of premium which probably makes his LE 13k+ which is still a great deal right now as an LE would sell (pinball) fast now in the 15-16k range, maybe more. The only one sitting for any amount of time on pinside is in Canada at almost 17k.

Yes, definitely if you’re willing to wait that’s different. Also with the numbers being produced I’d think the premiums will eventually sell used below msrp. For LE’s if you miss the boat on initial sale, there’s not much choice. I just started buying 9 months ago which was a terrible time to get into pinball (price wise, not game wise) so I’m assuming I’ll eventually lose some money on at least half of my collection, but at least I’ll have fun in the mean time

At first I was thinking this would be too much coding for something that would be used very little (because I was only thinking of people trying to link up remotely like the discussions about competing on line with ic ). This is actually much better because it’s two different games so the likelihood of a home or location having both to play together (if this was a reality) seems a lot greater… a good way to sell both games. You could do a similar thing with two of the same game but most homes or locations wouldn’t want two of the same game.

I think it’s ammonia you need to avoid with the anti glare

It’s that damn mirror backglass (and the foil artwork). You can pimp everything else out. I have to put pros/premiums on a different wall . Mainly the backglass though, The foil art and dagger shooter on HoH 40th looked amazing but I couldn’t pay that much for that upgrade.

It’s funny to read this now. GZ was my first game and I watched a bunch of videos on ball handling (I think they were using STTNG) and then tried to learn post passing and it seemed so much harder than the videos. Fast forward as I picked up more games and had mixed results, JP was easy in one direction as you mentioned. Playing mostly IMDN lately and it’s relatively easy, I thought I was just getting better lol

Even with that huge pallet, looks like they rolled it down some stairs

Lol, the problem with ratings is that people are involved

Probably easier to fit than kiaju battle…

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I don’t think you need the paid ic membership though (if that’s what you were asking). Just the free one.

When they dropped new code for all the machines at once I was pretty happy to just turn them all on and let them do their thing . The usb route is faster for one machine, but that quickly changes as you scale up.

I’m not sure what the issues are there, hopefully they address it in the future. When I did them all at once a while ago the speeds were very different on some and it was not a home wifi issue (not sure about the dongle). In that case most games were very fast but Rush took all day. If I notice Rush is slow on a future update I’ll try swapping dongles.

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I have a cart but thought about picking up a pinjack or two for lifting during leveling because with the machines in a row the cart isn’t a lot of help for the rear levelers

I ordered an IMDN topper back in August, last I spoke with him a month or two ago and he was still waiting on parts. Not sure if that’s a general issue or specific to that topper.

I still get emails for each release

I think someone posted AC/DC was because they separated Premium and LE into their own groups and the LE ratings being the highest boosted its ranking. Not sure if something similar is happening with Star Track

I have the topper installed and updated to the new code but there is no option for the extra mode that I can see either holding both flippers or with IC and the game mode select. Am I missing something?

Why would they do that? Seems pretty entitled for people to cry about how Stern is supposed to run their business. They’ll only be able to misuse the term exclusive so many times…. I would have appreciated some exclusive modes in my Rush topper for almost 1/3 of the cost of a pro

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