No doubt that prices were up across the spectrum, but still, the price of SThLE seems to have exceeded others, including JPLE and AIQLE, which is quite surprising considering how many people were crapping on this pin early on.

I'm sure that the lack of premiums play a role in it as well.

Pro all the way, very happy.

Premium and LE will always be more rare for this title. Same with Pro, unless I’m wrong. I think we all found a sleeper of a game. My first DMD was a $1600 Congo, and that lesson sticks with me.

Getting a lot of lip outs from direct shots to the scoop, has anyone tried putting a piece of foam on the metal backstop to deaden the bounce speed a little?

I assume that when UV kits start shipping, someone will post here.

I checked with Jason from classic game rooms today, no news on them from stern

My distro said that accessories are really backlogged right now. My fiancé wont stop bugging me to get the UV kit on her game haha.

Mine has been on order with Game Exchange of Colorado since Apr 27.

I put a piece of target foam on the backstop and it’s helped alot

Stern could save their distributors a lot of phone calls and headaches if they just had a status page for back-ordered items. I used my one call to Jason six weeks ago, so I’ll just wait patiently.

I swear I'm going backwards on this game now ...... ...... scores have been pitiful for the last week, like in the low hundreds at best. I think I'm doing the over thinking it thing

Anyone notice end of ball drains not registering as quickly as you’d expect? Like sometimes sitting there 3-5s after ball has clearly drained and sitting in trough until the bonus sequence kicks in. Maybe Not always but fairly often fir me.. just seems like it should be kicking in faster. Or is that normal?

I'm curious about this too. It happens to me also. Not every ball but maybe 1 in 10 drains. Mine is a NIB with under 50 plays so I was going to look at the trough switch. Sometimes it will ball search and then realize it's drained. Seems like I need to align the last switch in trough?

If it’s ball searching def seems like a trough switch. I don’t get any ball searching, which is curious.. but also very low plays, I should check them just in case probably.

Just swapped the translite on my Pro. Much prefer this one from Retro Refurbs - more of the shows characters , not just the 4 big heads, has the arcade sign, loses the Netflix logo …and overall just a bit brighter and more exciting.

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Retro Refurbs Season#2 Version
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Apologize if this has been posted before...what does everyone prefer on the flipper strength for this pin? I dialed mine down a bit and I think overall it's shooting better. Less airballs and less rejects from left ramp/ball lock. I have the pro and the ball would come in so hot it would bounce off the lock post and fly back down the ramp lol.

I did the same

I dialed my down and then found I was having trouble making the Demogorgon kill shot Dialed back up all good again, I may take it down in small increments and see how I go ,as yeah it is very powerful.

Would you guys mind posting some real world pictures? I’ve been considering this but am torn because I prefer the season 2 and 3 versions.

I have a pro (season 1 art). I’m not sure how much the variety of eleven’s hairdos is going to bother my OCD. Hah

I considered doing the same for my premium (incoming) but the giant Will head bothers me. Has anyone experimented with any other translite?

Retro Refurbs sells two other alt translates (basically one for each season).

Those are real world pics of mine.

I quite like Season 3 design also but chose not to have it as it doesn’t feature in the game .

Haha. I wish you hadn’t pointed that out ! It wasn’t bothering me until ….. now

Same. I said that to my daughter last night no more airballs but now seems like kill shot less likely. Yeah I'll find a happy setting thanks

Hmm, is this normal?

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Whoops. Replied to very old post.

Yes, it makes it easier to get that plastic off. There is a shorter one on the other side as well.

I prefer the original Pro translite to all of the alternates, but I’d love to buy a Premium translite if anybody wants to sell theirs. I just feel stuck in Season 1.

There is 1 left on Ebay. I bought mine from him, looks much better imo.

This is one game where I think all the translight artwork is just awful.

Don’t understand. This doenst hold any plastic off? Otherside havent got one.

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I bought a JP Premium and have played it a ton and man there are an astounding amount of different shots and the game is incredibly excited. That being said… still prefer my STH 10x’s over.

What do you prefer that pushes it that far over JP? If I didn’t pick up a Sth I would have probably ended up with JP, but I haven’t played it too much. Curious what makes one better than the other for home owners

JP shoots and looks great but I just haven't been able to connect with it yet. Can't quite put my finger on it but I guess it feels sort of boring for lack of a better term.

Just curious....did you track your order from them? I bought a Translite for JP. It departed Zagreb (shows shipped abroad) over 2 weeks ago and that is the last update I have. All of my other international orders arrived in NY 1-2 days after departing their country of origin.

Man, the TKO lock adjustment is so frustrating!! I adjusted it to the required width/height with calipers first time and it didn't work at all. Then I've been readjusting it, throwing balls up it till they seem to be consistent and locking the coil down.. testing and it seems to be working most of the time. Then I play a few games and by game 3 or so they never make it up anymore and 1/2 of them scream down the ramp to a drain and the other 1/2 don't make it, but do a post lock. It's like it keeps getting out of adjustment somehow.. I dunno.

It's such a cool effect when working but this is getting maddening.

A question as well -- I was adjusting projector images and it seems strange to me that the projector turns off during this. How are you supposed to line things up correctly if you can't see what your doing?! Is there some way to turn on the projector during the adjustments?

Make sure you have the updated ramp cover from Stern and a fan on both flipper coils.

Like you said… I can’t quite put my finger on it. JP has so much going on with T-Rex and in fairness I don’t completely understand the rules on JP like I do with STH. I like JP for the multiple challenging shots. There are so many different chord in comparison but I love STH for its simplicity. Obviously not simple but not as many technical shots. Huge fan of both themes. More so STH.

JP has made me a better but I just don’t find it as engaging. Once I have a better understanding of the rules I hope it will become better but I force myself to play it over STH.

I have both JPLE and Sth pro side by side... neither will ever leave and stranger things gets 5x the plays.

JP is a top 3 theme for me and stranger things theme is meh.

I sold my JP Pro to a friend a few days after getting my STH Pro. They’re both great pins, but I had JP for about 18 months and I felt like I’d had enough of it. STH just has a lot more mode variety. Every paddock on JP felt the same to me. Sure, you get the T-Rex modes and CHAOS multiball, but grinding through the paddocks is not fun to me. It’s hard for me to be objective when STH is new, and I’ve had 500+ plays on JP. I’ll know in a few years if I made the right decision.

One thing I do know: there will be a lot more Jurassic Parks on the Pinside market in 5 years, than Stranger Things.

Interesting to hear that feedback on JP vs STh. Thanks all!

Ramp cover is there, I need to print the flipper coil fan brackets and wire up the fans though. I'm talking like 10 minutes of play tops, just testing though. I wouldn't expect them to heat up in that amount of time enough to go work working fine to not at all?

I live in UK so it shipped and delivered quickly, via DHL

Who is the best mod person to send my Hopper & Billy cars to get them wired up with lights? Thanks. I can't recall who's offering that service.

Also, what's the Stern fix-it kit I have seen mentioned? Is it something for the TK lock? I have the LE.

Thanks

Have you pulled your ramp out from the wall?

Yeah, pulled out and shimmed