Exactly what chuckwurt said.
And sideart too

I had issues with a couple bubbles and a ton of scratches in my clear on my ST premium. Took several pictures and submitted to my distributor. Stern sent me an unpopulated replacement playfield.

My Munsters Premium has some pooling around a couple of the posts but was otherwise immaculate. I didn’t file a ticket for that.

It’s a dice roll honestly.

I have the Stern official ones. They look great IMO. There may be others that look great too. I do wish they were UV reactive though.
I personally have found that the Stern official ones are more sturdy (thicker) than some others I've installed. They're less likely to tear or get scuffed from the PF. With the other brands I always use those plastic side art protectors before raising/lowering the PF. They also already have the hinge bolt holes cut out. You would think that ALL the manufacturers would pre-cut the holes, but nope.

Edit.. if you're adding a powered sub (as you should), buy a pinnovators sub out kit (like $40). Easy peasy hook up. Works perfect. No soldering or splicing wires

I'm worried. Turtles looks awesome, and I don't even care about the theme. I hope that they don't forget about ST when it comes to code updates.

Looks like I'm joining the party. I knew something good would shake out of a tree when TMNT was revealed.

I understand that, but when Stern as a whole moves on, it often forgets about other games, irrespective of the software designer. I'm sure that Brian Eddy is already in the initial stages of his next game, as is Ropp.

I think the closest you can get would be games that went a little sideways instead of forward to the finish line. AC/DC cannon modes never really got done, but the game can still be called feature complete with everything that DID get included. Xmen stumbled around like a drunken sailor before collapsing just over the threshold with its final still-kinda-bugged update...

Munsters is the only true stinkbomb in the Spike era that Stern calls complete that literally is almost exactly as INCOMPLETE as Batman '66 was at launch. Unfortunately that was Dwight. But from the stream, it looks like TMNT is a much different story, thankfully. Munsters will be a stain on Dwight's rep for a long time.

I need the Stern side armor for this thing now. Looks like it's sold out through Stern and backordered at Little Shop of Games. Anybody know anywhere else that might have it in stock?

Hasn’t been available yet. Just preorders. I put my order back in Feb, and still waiting.

Gotcha. That makes sense. Thanks.

Thanks I'll keep an eye for that on my machine

Stern's over-use of giant screws to secure (i.e. mess up the look of) plastic pieces to playfields and ramps always bugs me. It's no different with Stranger Things. So, I redesigned the DANGER and hnl plastics in 3D and made them hidden mount, eliminating all visible screws. Once I got those done, the corner on the left suddenly looked wrong, so I made a matching hidden mount corner piece for that, too. Should have the set of three in the Pinmonk store pretty soon.

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Is anyone else experimenting with fans for the flipper coils? If that is a fix, we can hit up Vireland to throw together some brackets and get a kit together.

I sleep with that exact fan blowing directly into my face. I have a weird thing with still air. Truth be told I have weird things with a lot of normal situations. But that fan is fantastic for moving a ton of air. Are you just going to let that thing hurricane in the closed cabinet?

On another note, does anyone know if Mezel is going to run another batch of his Arcade sign mods? I want that one, but if he;s done with them I'll grab the Lermods one.

I think mezel is having problems with the motor that turns them. I dont think they made manybor these, I have been wanting one since day 1 and they been out of stock

Did you get the UV kit? I'm quite happy with my Prem.

Yeah, the one I found was already loaded. Just need the armor and I grabbed the Retro Refurbs woods blades and his S2 translite, too.

It’s been a good week. Found this Stranger Things Premium, and just last night got the word that a MM Royal spot just fell into my lap. Good times.

Last night I had a 2nd session with my friend's Stranger Things Pro. He had just installed the UV kit.

Wow! I'll start out that the sound set is fantastic. And it is at the bottom of the list.

A UV kit is a requirement, IMO.

I need more room. I need to win the lottery.

Nice pin.

I enjoy the shaker on this game. The only thing I question is why it doesn't shake on the telekinesis multi-ball. I expected it to shake when the van hits the ground.

exactly what I thought! the ball release feels/sounds violent without a shaker, but they absolutely should have put in a shake on that event. booooo

trickshot off the demo ramp! ruined a good game

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I get lots of glass slapping air balls from the demo ramp. Even with flipper power dialed down.

Chas says the glass should be able to take it but it’s still jarring and frankly makes me nervous to play with too much excitement.

I don’t have air balls from the right ramp though. Them sending you the missing plastic should take care of those.

Ball will not break the glass, you need to hit that glass pretty hard with a hammer to shatter it.

May I ask for a little tech help, please? Does "burn it back" register with the opto switch or the physical switch behind the opto on the loop to the right of the demogorogon? I noticed that I wasn't really getting many "burn it backs" or extra ball opportunities. I was wondering what was going on. I went to a switch test and it seems like the physical switch on the burn it back loop the one past the opto switch is not registering hits all the time. I've also noticed that "burn it back" won't even light on my game right now. Does the game know that the switch is acting up so it automatically shut that feature down? The switch does register sometimes.

Thanks a lot.

A switch adjustment seemed to be just what the doctor ordered. Thank you!

What worries me is that Mike Vinikour was on the TMNT LE stream suggesting he jumped ship from STH. He did a lot of the legwork on recent STH updates. I'm hoping we're at 1.0.0 by Christmas (as expected).