My prize from a Facebook competition 2 years ago. . A blank pre-production. Very open to ideas on something cool to do with it!

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fuckin A man!

I thought that I should let everyone know that despite all of my bitching, anti pot rhetoric, saying the machine will never see the light of day, blah blah blah blabbba blah blah blah blahbah....

I just swallowed what pride I have left and just ordered the machine from Cointaker. And boy did they ever take my coins!

Would make a great shitter!!

Welcome to the club my friend.

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Congrats Dude! You've been riding the TBL bus a long time and it's great to see you finally reach your stop.

Enjoy your game - I'm looking forward to your insights on it!

I am more excited to get my TBL than any game I've ever waited on!
TBL #141

Damn this is one sweet game!!! I agree, most exciting release I can ever remember. Just a cool ass theme that looks like a ton of fun!!

Who's got one arriving that wants to sell? PM me your price!

Such a beautiful pin. Is she as fun to play as she is to look at?

I was so excited that I took the few hours before mine arrived to setup like I was a surgeon. I had a large path cleared to where I would unbox it next to where I wanted it. I had a Dude shirt on and my box cutter was handily at the ready along with a short stool for accessing the top of the box to unload that part. My 5/8" socket wrench to install the legs was laid out next to a thumb drive loaded with game code. Plus, I had nearly memorized the instructions and had a sheet of PDI glass at the ready. I've never been that organized before.

Yes!

For 10K does she ship with regular glass?

yes, but you get a bowling alley lane... soooo much better!

You mean "yes" she ships with regular glass. I'd take the bowling alley over PDI glass Then put PDI glass in it. Man I love this pin.

I can so relate to that. The sad part is any non pinhead reading that would think you should be admited to an asylum.

Well, it was $8,500 as I recall, so at least that's 15%. Yes, it looked like regular glass to me, so I swapped out a piece of PDI from a lesser played game. It's one of my favorite movies, so I was willing to spend the extra dough, as I suspect was the situation for most of my fellow little achievers.

That's the number I wanted...

Is that your lucky number? also Curious what number did you end up with?

OK guys , got the game setup, updated, waxed and leveled. So impressed! My only hangup was the 3 power cables going down to the play field came loose during shipping (see photo, they were the 3 dangling ones)

And my biggest concern was making the right ramp. In my first game , made that ramp several times and happy to say my first character mode was Walter! Sweet.

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SD Tom's belly button!!!!'

Haha.. well, it's hot (for San Diego) as crap and we don't have A/C.

Does it need to be waxed before playing, don't all NIB from anyone come waxed?

Ummm....anyone got any video?

No, but some would say a brand new clearcoat doesn't need wax right away.

Mine is arriving today, might not get to unbox it until tomorrow or the next day unfortunately, lets see if I can rally my friends! SO damn excited!!!!

Congrats to all you getting TBL. Game looks mint underneath the playfield. So jealous of you early achievers.

ok, put all pics from yesterday here:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0GLVwN4NItIVzdaTVFIQi1ZOWc&usp=sharing

will add more today likely. I will try to get video, but I have zero tripods around here right now, so will have to fashion something

OK I made a rig for my cell phone out of zip ties and twine. Um, it may make you nauseous. And btw I suck at pinball.

And everything is running pretty well. Donny is returning to right flipper on both slow and fast shots. I think I have slight hang up issue on dude ramp like you do burning man but too busy enjoying it to dig into it yet.

So pleased!!

Question for owners. Do you feel the game needs more "callouts" and sound effects. Whenever I watch video, it seems like there needs to be more audio cues about what to do. Do you feel that when playing? I could be way off.

I don't think so, not so far anyway, they are in there with the modes and stuff. I think helps not wear them out? There are also a lot of inserts directing things as well (so visual, not audible queues)

Another nauseous video:

The game seems to have hundreds of call outs and sound effects at present, from numerous scenes of the movie, nicely placed into game play so far. You can cycle through many of them and others probably not yet implemented, between games using the flippers. Keep in mind that the code is only 45% complete at present.

However, there aren't many geared towards game play instructions that I can remember. Personally, I don't like too many of those types of call outs anyway, because they can get irritating over time. TWD has a few great ones, such as "there's a [email protected]&t load of points on that ramp." Other games, not so much, "shoot the pyramid."

I suspect more will come as the game code is deepened, but since most of these games will be in a home environment, I'm not sure they're really needed as much as usual. Most initial owners will also see the code develop over time and have the rules and shots figured out incrementally.

Also, DP's artistic take on this game seems very "elegant" so far, for lack of a better word. I wanted to use the word "tasteful" but that didn't seem right given the movie's profanity. . The play field, lighting, call outs, music, and video clips are all nicely blended and uncluttered. It's more of an immersive "experience" than I'm used to in my other games. I don't know how better to describe it right now. Perhaps one of the other limited achievers can step in and add more about the feel of the game and call outs from their perspective.

We have to remember we are at code .45

I think we are experiencing just the beginnings of a great Pinball machine. As is its very playable.
I played TBL for a while this morning....then jumped on BOP 2.0. If/when Lebowski gets to where 2.0 is (with code and callouts/features), its going to be pretty awesome.

Might consider adjusting that right flipper bat up a mm or two. I did that and waxed the balls and that ramp......its much better. Might want to make an adjustment to the coil strength of that right flipper if you haven't already. From the video it looks like you have good power from the flippers already.

Did it come with .44 installed, so just need to download the .45 to update?

yes...on 16 it came with .44 code so I uploaded the .45 right out of the box. didn't even try it with .44

Yeah, be sure to note the email you got from them about the coil strength adjustment after selecting 0.45

^^^^^This is priceless: the man drops $8500+ on a new pinball machine, but doesn't have home air conditioning. Glad to see you have your priorities straight.

none of the houses around me have ac.. it's not normal to be hot here.

You can get away with no AC in San Diego with a couple of fans and that cool ocean breeze.

Orange County, on the other hand..

he is obviously not a golfer....or been to San Diego. just sayin'

I'll take "Crotchety" for $500...

I live in north county inland, we use a/c about 2 weeks every year. Same with the heater, about 2 weeks every year.

It is now 2:48 mountain time and no word. How was that for a prognostication.

Do you get a refund if he doesn't make it by 3?? Like a pizza delivery?

Mine is sitting in the garage!!!!!! AHHH THE AGONY OF WAITING TO GET TO IT!

They arrived at 10 after and its now loaded into my house. - Colorado times 2, eh Bemmett?

Hopefully you have A/C and surge protectors otherwise you're obviously not prepared or responsible enough

Kerist. In Ohio we might go from Heat to AC in the same day.

Here's a further update after playing a couple of games with your question in my mind. There are more game play prompts than I realized. The display is used nicely. When starting one of the many different rug modes it tells you what to shoot, though I hadn't noticed until now. It also tells you how many shots remain to start rug mode. The Sam Elliot sound alike also alerts you to a few things, such as each time you get a White Russian drink or can lock a ball.

There are also several bowling challenges in the lower playfield, including the moving spare. That continues to kick my butt. On another note, I've just noticed that my after ball bonuses are always 6,900. That's cute! The center rug shot progression and scoop mystery awards (only being available part of the time) kind of remind me of Tron a little bit, though the game is not as fast. I love the music, it's nicely done.