Got my note about shipping....now just waiting for the container to fill.

Yep me too!

I´m still waiting (#18) although I was told that it was in production the week before last.....

I'm #17 so you've got to be close. Mine was in test per Facebook over a week ago.

Is anyone in this latest batch considering the air ship? I am trying to have solidarity with my container brothers.. but at the same time, looking to see how much cash back I have accumulated on my credit card (not enough to make up the cost differences).

I got my shipping method email this morning. I'm #23 and I'm going container. It should be almost filled by now

I got mine this morning too - #19. I am sticking with the slow boat.

Just confirmed slow boat as well. Seemed like a full container is coming real soon anyway, then ~4 weeks shipping between boat and truck. I can deal with sometime in August to save $1k.

#14 is on the fast boat ( I don't accept slow boats )

Great news for all of you Guys!

The upside of the imminent transit time; more developed code will be ready by the time of arrival....

Anyway.. It's worth the wait!

Cool! Only a year after you said you'd get it too.

At least you were smart enough not to take me up on my wager.

Posted 5-13-15:

In case you missed it: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/tbl-on-location-in-utrecht-netherlands

Damn those past posts that come back to haunt you!

I had a similar exchange with RobT about getting my TBL by the end of 2015. This year for sure!

Lucky ducks! I thought I'd have mine by August (#53) ...what's a better guess now - October? November?

We could pull up a lot of old posts where people were positive this wasn't gonna happen at all.

If you will it dude, it is no dream!

Do it do it!

Take the fast train so I can slow boat it ...please.. Otherwise decisions will be have to be made and my turtle may not eat for like a month.

just got note that mine´s gonna ship on Mon/Tue.....

This is so awesome. I hope maybe one of my fellow southern CA pinsiders will invite me over to play. I'm at the back of the list, so it may still be awhile for me. So happy for everyone getting there games

still no sign of any shipment

"Where´s the pin, Lebowski?"
"It´s gotta be down there somewhere, let me have another look."

Did they confirm it did ship or waiting for it to leave DP still?

they told me last Friday it would ship Monday/Tuesday. Since then I´ve heard nothing. I sure hope the game´s better than their communication......but we all know that, don´t we?

About a month or less away from the dreaded August mandatory vacation. Wonder if they will get to 50 shipped before then?

How long is the August vacation?

Have they got in touch with you re payment for shipping? DP gave me a couple of dates that the machine would ship on before it actually did ship - the date they gave me when they requested payment was the date it shipped on.

I'm expecting a few parts to arrive from DP in the next few days, and hoping that when they arrive I'll be able to resolve the last few issues with my game. When that happens I'll record some more gameplay.

From memory, 3 weeks.

He is in Germany, so he won't affect our container

Are these parts replacements or potentially redesigned elements ? Thinking if they found sonething they wanted to improve for everyone, might be a cause for a hold up with BigLebowski's machine.

Replacement opto boards for the bowling alley toy, and what I believe to be a screw and washer or similar that was missing from the bowling alley exterior on the upper playfield. Nothing redesigned.

I received the package on Saturday but haven't had a chance to install yet. To be honest with the work week I have ahead, I probably won't have a chance til the weekend.

I wanted to report from Pintastic New England. Jaap was at the show and did a great presentation. He talked about the details they wanted in the game and showed the customization menus. Talked about he modes and stacking. One thing I had seen that hadn't been talked about is that the machines can already connect to the cloud like Bride 2.0. I couldn't find it on the web, but he certainly showed it at the show.

Had drinks with Jaap... it was an opportunity to pound him with questions, but I didn't.

My general impression is that he really cares and want's these to be the coolest pinball machines! He reported the first trailer is almost full and he figured when these machines go to the US reports would blow up on the internet.

The eagle has landed!!!

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and it´s now sitting in my parking garage and I have to figure out a way to get this 160kg beast into my flat on the 4th floor....

I´ll probably remove the backbox because separated they fit into my elevator.

A first look inside:

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more to come.....

Nice

Unboxing party in the parking garage?

Yikes.

Congrats and good luck with the final move! Looking forward to hearing your take on the game when you get a chance.

ShIt, 160 kg

I have to move it upstairs so I will feel every kg. Lucky enough easy to seperate backbox from cabinet and take playfield out should be rather simple

In 3 parts it should be doable.

Typical it is indeed 3 weeks however I understood it is 2 weeks in this case but not full capacity for a few weeks more. So a more spread holiday

A few weeks yet until the first container of 21 games is filled?

Any specific discussion of game production rate? Hardware refinements? Code upgrades?

He was talking about the Netherlands extended holiday period. Think there's some fingers crossed that container will be full before end of month

Good news on that part mine has moved two floors and for sure I'm not taking the beast upstairs in one part!

Removed the backglass (damn heavy!), backbox (by removing screws from inside backbox). Luckily there are a very few connectors to be disconnect the backbox.

Also need to get PF out which at first seemed to be problem since cablebooms were strangled (by tie wraps) but cutting a couple + disconnecting a couple of connectors ON the PF-Board it was surprisingly easy!

So quite an doable task after all (well done DP!)

Tip of the Day: when having the PF out of the cabinet and before reinstalling I would recommend to stick a strip of soft liner/band on the PF side to prevent future scratching on the nice even black cabinet finish!! I bought roll of sticky tick tack band and just use the 'soft side'.

Is production still around 5/week? Just curious if anyone could provide a ballpark on when some pins might be available to those who didn't preorder. I'm guessing about a year from now if they keep the current production pace.

When I put a deposit down with Cointaker in early June they said October/November... I don't see that happening. Honestly I'd be surprised if I had it in the first half of 2017. I'm fine with that- after all, The Dude Abides!

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Dp has repeatedly said that all pre orders will be shipped this year. Highest known pre order serialnumber is approx 200. I estimate production is now like 5 pcs per week and slowly increasing. When I was there like 5 weeks ago they were testing serialnumbers up to 16 and now they are close to 40?

First run of machines is 300. This leaves like 100 to none pre-orders? Like ordered via CT or Nitro? If they do all pre orders this year I would guess the extra 100 will be like 10-15 weeks? For sure they should be than at a production rate of around 10 a week? So dependable on where you are between 200-300 this would set you first or second quarter 2017

Pls note my guessing is about production time and doesn't include waiting time for containers to fill, shipping etc.

Sofar my educated guesses but we all know how bumpy the road can be of pinball manufacturers. If you would have ordered a MMr in NL you still dont have it for example. First delivery of TBL in NL was sooner ...

Good to hear, thanks !! Even better to read you like to enough to take the effort to move it upstairs

Hi Nilroc, thanks for asking, I´m doing fine. TBL has arrived on the 4th floor. After taking off the BB it was not such a big problem anymore.
Taking off the BB is much easier than we are used to. A few screws, a few connectors and off it goes. And once you´ve taken the backglass and the LED panel out the BB doesn´t weigh much anymore anyway.
Unfortunately I had to leave for the weekend after the transport, so putting it back together and starting the first game will have to wait til tonight.

I tried to document the steps that are not in the Quick Setup Guide Barry sends you when your pin is on its way:

To disconnect the backglass (be careful, it´s much heavier than you might expect) you have to remove the left part of this connector:
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Don´t worry about reconnecting it, it only fits one way.

To remove the Speaker Panel you have disconnect the 4 horseshoe from the lower left of the soundboard, the big blue VGA connector from the LED panel and the other half of the little yellow connector:
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Reconnecting is also easy. The speaker cables are marked "left" and "right", red goes on the "+" connector, black on the "-".

To remove the backbox from the cabinet you have to disconnect a few more cables:

1.) 3 white, 3 black and 1 black/purple cable from the power supply:
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Just to be safe I marked the white and black cables, but I assume they can go anywhere as long as white goes to "V+" and black goes to "V-".

2.) 4 subwoofer cables from the lower right of the sound board:
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I marked them, because I wasn´t sure if they can be interchanged.

3.) The black USB cable from the mainboard:
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4.) The blue ground strap from the backbox hinge screw:
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Now cut a few tie wraps and remove the nuts from the backbox hinge screws (be careful that the hinges don´t scratch the cabinet) and you can take the backbox off the cab.

Hope this helps.

Herbert

Whats that metal box in the corner in the last picture? Is that the power inlet?

The power switch

The power switch? As in like the new spike system power switch. Jesus flip! After 2 1/2 years of waiting no one felt it necessary to mention this? How the hell am I gonna reach that thing? I'm out!

Dannylite - Sorry to see you depart. as previously indicated, I'll be delighted to take one of your spots!!!