First machine I've ever purchased without playing it first. I'm super excited to get mine!

It's in my storage room in case I ever break the glass and need a replacement. I also keep it around in case I trade the machine. I never trade a machine with the HD glass.

You are the first person I've heard mentioning that it plays brutal. Can you elaborate? I've heard it plays very fast.

Anyone come up with a cool mod to cover that ugly wing nut?

Yeah, that thing! I have one on order and keep wondering what I could put there. I saw a pizza box on Amazon that looks like it would fit.

Please don't take this the wrong way as my family loves Stranger Things. We have 850 plays on it. However; after seeing the TMNT Pro I want this much stuff on every pro! Lol. I have one on order.

I just keep staring out the window and waiting for that magical truck to appear. Lol. I have a pro on order.

I got some time on a local machine this week. Loved it! I do have a concern that the left outlane drains quickly. There doesn't appear to be a way to adjust it. I always have a lot of young kids playing my games and normally adjust the outline for them. Is there any way to adjust it? Mine has not arrived so I cannot check.

Joined the club on Friday! There are a million posts in this thread. Can anyone recommend a good review of the rules with the latest code? Or, is the original review by Dwight still a good one?

Did you determine what caused the pizza lock issue? I've had it occur four times now in about a hundred games. I have an email into Stern support. My post was close to the playfield so I tried to bend the bracket out a little. It still occurred afterwards.

I've owned mine for 12 days and it has over 300 plays. 75% of those are from my children and the neighborhood kids. The age range is 7 to 18. Every one of them loves the machine. I did put a larger rubber on the left out lane because it was draining very fast for all of them. I also took the pitch down slightly to slow it down. I know, I'm a terrible person. But honestly, it plays so much better for them.

I also will not let anybody that's good at pinball play Donatello. The really young kids love hitting that mult-ball right away. They also like to go after the Donatello championship. I keep that championship reserved for the little ones.

Yep, you are right. It's just a really little ones I have played Donatello. The older kids usually choose Raphael.

Shredder's biological father.

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425 plays in 2 weeks. This game is a keeper!

Did anyone figure out a good fix for the opto that doesn't register when the ball goes around the middle ramp quickly? I'm reading back through posts and I'm not seeing anything.

I've had really good success with this tactic. Well, 20 to 25%. I think that's a good success rate for a shot that was purposely made hard. You don't want it to be too easy!

I've also had very good success trapping the ball on the left flipper, doing a quick flip to get the ball rolling up the left flipper, and back handing it into the lair. I was about 30 to 35% on that shot this morning.

That looks like it would certainly do it. Thanks!

I talked to someone in the support department today and it was the first he had heard of the issue. He was reaching out to other team members to see if they have encountered the issue. If you have the issue I suggest you contact their support department so that they are aware of it.

Anyone having issues with Stern support getting back to them? They were extremely responsive for months and now I can't get them to message me back. And now I can't get them to message me back.

Mine were magnetized as well. As soon as I put in new balls all pizza lock issues went away.

I sent Stern a slow-motion video of this exact issue on my machine a month ago. They said they were looking into it. The ball was hanging the top of the ramp and going completely over the switch.

I was so excited for this topper. I was even willing to overpay at $600. At $1,000 I'll have to pass. That's a lot of money to watch an eyeball go right and left. I'm not angry at Stern. If they can get that prices a company that's great. I'm just really disappointed. I want to toppers on all my machines.

This was exactly my issue as well. It was magnetized balls.

Anyone have the right ramp reject at the wire? Any kind of entrance projector to prevent it?

Dumb question, is there a mode called Rad something? I get to some mode I hadn't seen before. Machine went very dark with the red shots lit and one blue. I think it may have been the Neutrino Pizza Party but I thought for sure it said Rad Mode. There was so much going on it was hard to watch the screen.

Maybe it was radical! Lol. It caught me off guard. It was so dark I was trying to pay attention to the playfield. I did well in the mode and ended up with 150 million. Thanks for the information!

I was playing a friend's TMNT and noticed an odd issue. I've been trying to help him triage it. In Turtle Power multiball the game keeps kicking balls out beyond the end of the multiball. The reason I believe it is beyond the end of the multiball is because the ramp inserts eventually light yellow for lighting a new mode. The ball save is long gone. However; it keeps kicking balls out and I am able to start a new mode within the multiball. The turtle theme continues to play as well. This continues for at least 5 to 10 minutes. Then it gets weird, when the drain finally registers, and I start the next ball, the turtle theme continues playing at the start of the next ball. Maybe theme continuing to the next ball is how it's suppose to function. I haven't played TMNT in a long time. It happens every time I play, but only in Turtle Power multiball. It never kicks out balls during any other mode. The trough switches all test out fine.

I searched back through the forum and I'm not seeing any similar issues. I did tell him to burn a new SD card in case the code is somehow screwed up. He does have an issue where the automatic ball launch will not make it up the ramp most of the time. Has anyone had this issue? If so, how did you resolve it?

Yep, it's the premium. Guessing if it can't make the ramp, it can't reload. We can check the diverter as well. Thanks

Yes, I saw some of the messages and some other folks told us to check the balls. There's an order of carbon balls arriving today. Fingers crossed!

Problem resolved. I appreciate everyone's suggestions and previous posts that helped us resolve the issue. It looks like there could have been two issues. First, once we replaced the balls yesterday with the carbon versions, all balls made the ramp and the van was able to reload. Second, there were nine balls in the game from the factory. I'm guessing that could have caused some problems. LOL.