92.5 percent im in on the Pro. Premium / LE should be epic, but I think the pro is fine for me.

Re watching season 2 last night was the ONLY thing that kept me awake past midnight, and I normally hate re watching anything. Every season is a masterpiece.

This will be my second as well. My wife is currently in the "you are not getting another machine" but then after I say nothing she turns and says "youre just going to get it, arent you?", phase. So I can get it with little consequence, but she will be fake mad for 30 mins or so once she sees it.

itll certainly look sharper the darker it is, we shall see! equally as pumped to see the projector myself as i was to see the game for the first time.

Probably one of the more odd questions, but is the apron lit on the premium? Or only the LE?

sooooo, help him out? maybe tell him your experience purchasing from your local distributor? id be curious myself what others are seeing.

Absolutely going this route this time. Next game will be from Zach @ Flip n out. I got Metallica on ebay nib for 5600, but only because the only place close to me wanted 6200 for a floor model... I just couldnt justify that, especially with the mixed reviews of my only local distributor.

That said, ive heard nothing but good things about the 2 people chuckwurt mentioned, and both are in driving range for me which works out well

very much felt the same way, but the vast majority of people are very friendly to stupid people such as myself. i just got in last year to the hobby, and have learned so much from this site. very thankful.

I saw a stream today from arcade hunters and noticed something I have yet to notice. There is a "Rainbow" mode with clips of elevens mom just repeating "Breathe. Sunflower. Rainbow. Three to the right, four to the left. 450.".

just epic.

Just played the game chuckwurt setup. F the haters, I love this game and want to play it 1000 more times.

The outlane can ead though.

Protection is a must.

Dude....... those outlanes. Lol. Yes

Looking goooooooood.

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Pardon my post. I’m slow as a turtle today.

nothing to be sorry about, this is attention to detail at its finest! great idea.

its great. ill be getting with you

Thoughts are it will look great in a room with appropriate lighting, just like any other projector.

this is incredible.

I believe this IS the owners thread. Even through many of us do not yet own it.

your avatar is the legendary Billy, so it is assumed you are just here to bully everyone.

i know this is your first nib, be sure to wipe your balls!

which is blasphemy! I wanted magnets all over this machine! haha

Pro is officially on the way from Stern. Much back and forth mainly because im so indecisive, but the wife wants a new refrigerator, so getting a pro vs premium is essentially a free refrigerator.

The plan is to put a keg in the old refrigerator, and drink enough to forget im missing out on the projector.

I think so but mainly due to the justification of money more than anything else. My basement would be PERFECT for the projector, but ill love the game regardless. Plan to play it again tonight actually at the bar.

Currently at a local music venue waiting for dead south to come on stage. Can’t stop thinking about getting to the upside down.

I like them all EXCEPT the first, this is why we have options though . Slick back hair Eleven, or any reminder of the Chicago kids will NOT be displayed on my game!

To each their own, but I compare that episode to the "fly" episode of Breaking Bad. It has its place, just not for me.

Messaged ZMeny literally less than 2 days ago about this game on facebook. Here she sits, going to be a long rest of the day at work.

Thanks ZMeny & Flip N Out Pinball! Stupid fast service.

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Love that rug!!!!

Also. Wtf? This seems impossible.

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ill look more into it, but just tried chuckwurt s suggestion of testing the ramp via service menu. oddly everything disables when you open the coin door, lights go out, nothing works, etc. i had to hold in the button simulating the coin door being shut, then i could perform service testing. unsure if this is normal, but my metallica doesnt disable anything when the coin door is open.

probably a setting, but looking into it now.

Just wanted to say thanks for this feedback. Set my machine up identical to this. Wont be playing till tomorrow, but its ready

not a huge deal if its a pain, but do you happen to have pics of your ice blue trough light?

if you look at the lanes, you will see something that is u shaped made out of thin wire. these are designed for the ball to hit them and travel through, but if the ball comes rolling back, it wont allow it, this is the one way gate. I assume they want you to take a look and see if those may have fallen off and possibly are causing your issue.

My game has 0 plays, and will 100 percent have dimples tonight . Sounds odd but overtime they do blend in, happened on my Metallica, will happen on my Stranger Things, and will happen on almost any machine I play from today till the end of time. As someone totally new, it can be frustrating, but I promise once you learn your way around the machine itll be no big deal.

The important thing is not to get frustrated, because you will just get more frustrated. When I first changed the plastic protectors on my Metallica I snapped another piece I was working on, and wanted to throw the damn thing in the wood chipper. I slept on it, did my due diligence and consulted the great community of pinside, and got it fixed up. Once I got the bugs worked out ive had easily over 1000 plays with 0 issue. Right , wrong , or indifferent, you WILL be working on this machine.

Just dont beat the shit out of the ramp at the expense of playing, haha.

its an AMAZING community. super thankful for people like chuckwurt and countless others who allow us to bother the piss out of them with stupid noob questions .

wait till you attend your first pinball show/convention. i HATE crowds, but never had such a great time at a convention in my life as i did @ pincinnati . everyone is just genuinely happy and having fun, hard to explain in words, but it truly is a strong community.

You actually live in Currituck? LOVE obx! I plan to attend at least 3 shows this year for sure.

I have a feeling many of us are going to need pics . Can you give a hit on the custom art?

Well, I know very little about pinball, but I know 255 is a mistake which is surely why they gave the option to change flipper power so quick.

Playing 255 power at the bar (code didnt allow changes at the time which is why I assume this) - Glass hits almost every game, volleyball all over the place (granted I suck but still).

170 Power - 5 games so far, 0 air balls, and MORE than enough power to hit any shot.

Game feels amazing at these settings. Also - demo hit 1 out of 4 times.

Loving this game

In terms of shaker motors, I know its a code thing, and will improve, but has anyone played this with a shaker yet? If so what do you think? This game seems like it would be perfect for one. Also, my apologies if this has been asked a billion times, but what kind do people normally get?

edit - im behind.

Not certain, but it seemed like the premium still has the lock post that does the first ball, just like the pro. A static ball is on the backboard that is magnetized and physically locks 2 and 3. The post the grabs the 3rd free ball, and the 2 stuck to the static ball, and post held ball come down for multiball.

I could be wrong, but thats what it looked like to me.

This, makes much more sense now!

To this point if you want to check out the 35min mark of the stream Brian Eddy goes through an entire rotation on his own (magnet locks all 3 and starts mb)

Thanks for that, also I noticed someone in the other thread replied to your ramp issue, said they had the same thing happen. Might be worth checking out. Again, great community .

Personal preference, but try turning your flipper power down, see how you like it.

This almost sounds like the rod isn’t pushed down in the hole enough (that’s what she said). The rod is a compression fit into the up down mechanism, is it pushed in all the way?

My portal to the upside down / Will communication station in the basement. (Ok it’s a lava wall my wife did for the tiki bar and some Christmas lights, but a boy can dream)

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Your flipper power suggestion is a big part I believe. Mine looks fantastic. I even took it to 180 to live life on the edge.

Did you clean your balls? Serious question.

You’ve yet to play but can’t understand why we would buy this instead? Well, hard to argue that logic.

The two games you mentioned are amazing! I really thought long and hard about jp2, wanted this instead. No regrets.

I keep creeping up seeing how far I can push without air balls haha. At 190 currently.

The next code update needs damage kill ability for the demo. Top priority.

On this note , curious if others will be protecting the scoop hole, seems like it could use a protector of sorts, mylar, etc.

Not sure if this is old news, but the manual is now on Sterns site.

youve been waiting! excited for you

Pardon my ignorance but what is the pop post gate and why would it change? Just curious. Ive noticed the right orbit gets a little sketchy unless you hit it just right, but not sure if this is what you are referring too.

I gotcha, ill check mine when im home later today. Mine was manufactured on the 14th, so technically not first run. I havent played a TON, but quite a bit, no issues, and never got 1 ball stuck outside of user error, I accidentally put the right ramp back on incorrectly, so when I hit the left orbit and it circled to the right, it got caught at the ramp lip, completely my fault.

Also, I am sure this is normal but if you are moving the out lane posts you cant remove them even after taking off the bottom nut, TIGHT. A deep 1/4" nut driver, or deep well 1/4" socket removes them easily. Probably common knowledge for most, but lets just say the ones on my Metallica are pretty eaten up.... needle nose pliers are NOT a substitute tool in pinball as they are in many other applications, lol.

On the topic of hitting the demogorgon, and I know this is useless for most, as im sure many machines have slight variations. With the naked eye, the ball was hitting high, so I took some slow motion vids. In reality, it was skimming the bottom lip, bouncing up hitting the upper lip which again, could not be seen with the naked eye. So in my case, turning the flipper power up to around 200 helped, but im still skimming the bottom lip, but it tends to have enough momentum to go in.

Eagerly waiting on someone with more experience to run into this and share their thoughts, but I certainly dont want to monkey with it without proper resources.

Broken record alert : adding damage kills will take away 90 percent of the frustration with this game, and take it to the next level.

This is why SDTM is my favorite pinball youtube channel. The wire trick is some great low hanging fruit! I too had a gap between the demo and the post. First game 3/3 in the mouth! Highly recommended.

Pardon my terminology. First things first get your head down low and look under the demogorgon, there is a tiny chrome post that limits the forward motion of the toy. In my case there was a small gap, so if i pushed the back of the demogorgons head it would come forward, ever so slightly. Releasing it, would result in it "springing" back. Now look at the back of the demogorgon, there is a wire connected to it, that routes down through the bottom of the playfield. I personally didnt go under the playfield, but just gently pulled this wire up so that it gives some slack. The demogorgon should then rest freely on the post, rather than leaving slack.

Hope this helps.

Wow, so its upside down and down under at the same time. Unsure how to handle that.

I love how you have the vpx version next to it.

I like your feedback about 210, im hovering around the same and finding the same. At that power I personally noticed the ball hitting low, as sounds to be your case as well. Have you tried the wire slack trick Hollywoodbone suggested? It certainly helped me. Ive never hit it so consistently since ensuring the demo is resting on the post from underneath it. The wire if too snug, restricts its movement.

Anyone else finding the right out lane “clunky”. If I hit it just right it goes up and into the pop bumpers , but many times it will rattle around. Hard to explain.

It does look narrow. I’ll see what others are saying. Maybe it’s an easy fix.

Current setup for me is 6.7 / 205 flipper. nailing it left and right

Download the pinguy app on your smartphone, calibrate it, enjoy! love it.

Is Find Barb a random mode where when you hit the correct lit shot you finish the mode? If so that is pretty damn cool. I am just asking because the mode lights up every light, and after hitting 2 of the shots I had completed it.

I did not notice but I certainly will now. Thank you.

Hows the machine running ?

Code suggestion - for the demo multi ball, LEAVE THE RAMP DOWN until the second ball drains. I cringe so hard every time I about nail the edge of the ramp as it raises after a slight delay after ball 1 drain.

LE speaker mod? Where can I get this ?

Just curious, if you were to start it up right this moment, would it work? Does it always work "at first" and then start acting up? Or, is it completely random with no rhyme or reason for failure?

Its hard to make out, but this wire feeds down through the playfield. Be careful since it comes up and rests on a metal edge

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Regarding extra ball via burn it back loop. Unsure if its a bug, or intentional and I am missing something, but after being awarded extra ball several games I just flat out stopped getting them. So with intent I went for the burn it back loop, each game it said I needed to hit it 50 times to light extra ball. I can promise, I hit it no where near 50 times when I actually got it games prior.

So looking through the menu options I noticed the 1st extra ball is set to AUTO with each subsequent extra ball requiring 50. The "AUTO" seems to default out to 50 games, but I could be crazy. I set it to something low (changing from auto) and it indeed worked.

So my question - Is this a bug? If not, can anyone explain what AUTO means?

Thanks !

Im not 100 percent sure what you guys were referring to, but this is from the manual.

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Thanks for this! I personally havent had an issue but im sure its a matter of time. I did have the demo gate pop out like others are reporting. Bad thing is I was on ball 1 @ 120 million... demo multiball started and the gate stopped about 1/4 of the way down.

Thoughts on invisiglass/hd/etc for this machine? Ive never had it before, but there is quite a bit of translite glare in a dark room on this one. Would be worth it to me if it did indeed reduce that by a bit.

Thanks for that, certainly can use the 300 for something else if it isnt that much of a difference. I did notice you can turn the backbox bulb brightness down, so ill play around with that.

Would love to take you up on this. Really want to check out that projector.

Trindawg - fantastic to hear! I was afraid you would have to kick the wife out

This is where I am at. Not asking for the world immediately, just some things that seem like low hanging fruit code wise. Add a damage kill ability to the demogorgon which would allow you to complete the mode in lieu of a one shot kill. Also, I HATE the fact that the ramp on the 2nd demo comes up shortly after draining the first ball of multiball. Its just asking for you to beat the hell out of the ramp trying to get one last shot in, and a direct hit on the edge of that ramp, even once, is not going to be good.

Lastly, and this is just me being a weirdo, that left kickout hole is going to get beat to death. It needs some sort of protection, and I am unsure how to achieve this. I dont mind the normal pinball wear and tear one bit, but things such as this (and the potential ramp edge damage I mentioned) keep me from enjoying the game completely, as its always in the back of my mind.

The game itself, layout etc, I have absolutely no issue with. The things I personally mentioned, are fixable, so no regrets.

P.S. - how epic would a magnet save be on this game?

I did reach out to Cliff, he said a templateer should be helping him soon, but could be a while obviously as hes just one guy. Those few things I genuinely feel are important and will certainly give me a piece of mind. Im with you, I dont flip when the first ball drains, but it really takes your head out of the flow.

Yeah I am sure it will be fine. I just personally want it protected, it really is a personal thing. Just like after I put cliffys on my Metallica around the mushrooming magnets, after that, I just enjoyed the game more, haha. Now, thousands of plays later, game still looks amazing, so I want my stranger things to be the same.

Yeah its a super tight shot. I would say I am way better off than your 10 percent, but, I would say 50 percent of the shots are butter smooth, and 50 percent are rattling clunkers depending on how I hit it. This one MAY be intentional, but curious to see what others think.

I just got notification my titan rubbers are in, so tonight I am going to tear all the ramps out, change the rubbers, and give everything a good wax, including the orbit metal. Things certainly feel "sticky" compared to when I first played the game.

Check page 35 of the manual https://sternpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/StrangerThings_Pro_web.pdf

There is no kit yet, I was going to upload one others could use, but seemed like a pain.

Just click this link https://www.titanpinball.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=33&product_id=52 and start adding to cart accordingly, everything the way its listed in the manual (OD vs ID, etc) corresponds to titans site, its pretty nice. Image of my order below for reference.

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Just gave it a nice wax. Game is too damn fast ! Lol. It’s amazing how butter smooth this is with wax and titan rubbers. Feels so good.

I owe you a beer. I didn’t realize you could set the back box different for gameplay. Huge.

Agree 100 percent.

Also, if anyone else has changed their rubbers out, how in the blue hell did you change the one to the immediate left of the pop bumpers? I didnt bother changing that one, nor do I see the need to right now, but it certainly seems like you have to take the lower post off it wraps around. Even still seems like a bear to get back in there as it pinches the rubber in between the post and the rail for the burn it out loop.

I got the thick for my Metallica. I like them, but a little too bouncy. I really like the thin ones, no regrets.

That’s the whole piece Trindawg , it just popped out. Now that you fished it out I’d leave it out. Haha.

I just popped mine back in and hand bent it out a bit to put a bit more tension. Stupid design, but easy fix.

Trindawg has 17 nib motors at his house that were to be used in LE machines.

I like this, especially if it glows in the dark, is this the mezelmods one?

Also I dont know if I can without it looking stupid, but id love to illuminate the tiny arcade sign just above the shooter rod. Small detail, I like that little sign but I simply cant see it in my basement.

I could feel your frustration, and think you were an absolute champ through all of it. For this being your first nib machine you just pulled the short straw for sure, and seemingly all over stupid wire connector.

So, now that you got it all worked out im genuinely happy, and even better, we can harass you about it.

With the LEs shipping I’d assume new code soon ?

I fiddled with it quite a bit and it just worked, but mine was tight from the get go, so its ok now. I truly think a spring is a terrific idea, let me know if you come up with something.

Currently @ 6.5 pitch at the flippers, which for me is around 6.6 where you showed the reading at the ramp, and 225 flipper strength. Making the shot from both flippers fairly consistently.

Unfortunately I dont think this is a magic formula, and many machines are different. Very intrigued to see what chuckwurt finds on his machine, since its a different mech altogether. Very happy with mine, but still wanting to see damage kill options in the code.

Great to hear. What new content have you noticed. I believe the LE is running .83.

Awesome to hear! Have you messed with any of the projector settings yet? Curious how your lighting is where the machine sits.