Quoted from kool1:

My understanding is there is no answer. Stern tells them nothing and has apparently shipped nothing to them.
I don't think he is lying, especially when other dealers haven't shipped either. An email update is what should have been sent if you don't want 1000 emails asking where your $500 lights are.

Quoted from bhelms:

But I have cats...LOL...!

Quoted from kool1:

My understanding is there is no answer. Stern tells them nothing and has apparently shipped nothing to them.
I don't think he is lying, especially when other dealers haven't shipped either. An email update is what should have been sent if you don't want 1000 emails asking where your $500 lights are.

Quoted from bhelms:

Mine is in my man cave...which because I now live alone is wherever I say it is!...but currently that's my living room. I'm not the best housekeeper but dust on my high-tech stuff gets my attention. So the environment for my machines is fairly controlled. But I have cats...LOL...!

Quoted from Kez11:

This sounds exactly like my current situation, except the Rush machine is in the basement (finished, well kept), instead of the Living Room. Because the Living Room is for my Z scale model trains. hehe
Divorce has its perks, I suppose.

Quoted from Vespula:

Well clearly you're not in the fno club. If you bought your Rush from him and are treated this way that's double pathetic.
Too many people must just pick him because they probably just know of him because they watch his channel. I don't know if people want to say ooh I bought it from Zack Oh I bought it from Zack to associate, but picking someone that popular that's a huge negative. I've seen people post that dealers my get the same allotment, which would make sense if smaller dealers have stock and larger never do. You end up getting lost in the numbers.
Looks like the strategy is that you actually want to pick the smaller hungry dealer that's got room to grow AND a good rep. Or if you bought your rush get it from them unless they are a slouch. Sever the relationship (not quietly!) and move on. I dunno, thinking out loud here... It's definitely not right and shouldn't be kept quiet.
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Quoted from 27dnast:

Definitely not lying. I trust FNO, but I don’t get the annoyance expressed.
It’s a rarity when you click buy and pay in full on an e-retail site, and then find out that no one has any idea when a product will be made.
If I had to guess, I bet we’re looking at July/August. But with the company moving, could it be fall? Who knows!

Quoted from kool1:

I'm not into trains but ff I was divorced the unused living room and the entire basement would be pins and arcade machines LOL

I didn't buy my pin from Flip'nOut but I have bought other accessories. I think you may be right in that they are so big that your little $100 or $500 orders don't matter much, they focus more on selling $10-20K machines. I get it I guess.
I admit I listen to the Pinball Show and I like Zach but I don't think I will order anything that isn't in-stock from them again. They don't care. Honestly the best service I get anywhere is Pinball Life - amazing service and good people.

Quoted from Kez11:

Because the Living Room is for my Z scale model trains.

Quoted from Vespula:

I thought their website duped people into buying saying in stock, yet they don't ship because they really don't have stock?
Did I understand that wrong?
You see a website that says in stock and let you purchase, yet you never received the product? AND no communication? That's deceptive AND negligent.. I've seen class action lawsuits for less egregious behavior.
At this point the choices are two. Sit and wait, and put money in his pocket supporting this behavior, or push for a refund and buy elsewhere. Not that you'll get it any faster from somewhere else, but I would think you would based on what I'm seeing. If nothing more than for the principle of it. And if he tries to keep some of your money, the follow up letting us know he's more reptile than human.
This kind of stuff makes my blood boil.

Quoted from Vespula:

I thought their website duped people into buying saying in stock, yet they don't ship because they really don't have stock?
Did I understand that wrong?
You see a website that says in stock and let you purchase, yet you never received the product? AND no communication? That's deceptive AND negligent.. I've seen class action lawsuits for less egregious behavior.
At this point the choices are two. Sit and wait, and put money in his pocket supporting this behavior, or push for a refund and buy elsewhere. Not that you'll get it any faster from somewhere else, but I would think you would based on what I'm seeing. If nothing more than for the principle of it. And if he tries to keep some of your money, the follow up letting us know he's more reptile than human.
This kind of stuff makes my blood boil.

Quoted from kool1:

Ya, I suppose it didn't say "pre-order".
If someone else had ELs in stock I would ask for a refund but I guess I better stand pat at this point. I'm not mad, Stern is clearly not shipping them.

Quoted from kool1:

I'm not into trains but ff I was divorced the unused living room and the entire basement would be pins and arcade machines LOL

I didn't buy my pin from Flip'nOut but I have bought other accessories. I think you may be right in that they are so big that your little $100 or $500 orders don't matter much, they focus more on selling $10-20K machines. I get it I guess.
I admit I listen to the Pinball Show and I like Zach but I don't think I will order anything that isn't in-stock from them again. They don't care. Honestly the best service I get anywhere is Pinball Life - amazing service and good people.

Quoted from Drussksu:

Yeah ordered day of release from cointaker. Nothing. I did finally email them last week. Got a one sentence response. Basically yeah we got your order.

Quoted from JH315:

Cointaker has had terrible response lately. My order is in...and once this one is fulfilled, never again. Plenty of other vendors.

Quoted from Vespula:

I thought their website duped people into buying saying in stock, yet they don't ship because they really don't have stock?
Did I understand that wrong?
You see a website that says in stock and let you purchase, yet you never received the product? AND no communication? That's deceptive AND negligent.. I've seen class action lawsuits for less egregious behavior.
At this point the choices are two. Sit and wait, and put money in his pocket supporting this behavior, or push for a refund and buy elsewhere. Not that you'll get it any faster from somewhere else, but I would think you would based on what I'm seeing. If nothing more than for the principle of it. And if he tries to keep some of your money, the follow up letting us know he's more reptile than human.
This kind of stuff makes my blood boil.

Quoted from 27dnast:

I think that’s an unfair picture you’re painting. I don’t think FNO is being deceptive on purpose. And Zach provided an update when I asked him.
The root problem is Stern. They are more focused on games, less focused on accessories.

Quoted from DylanFan71:

Fair enough but don’t take full payment on accessories before you have them and don’t have things marked as in stock when they aren’t.

Quoted from vikingerik:

I'm pretty sure this happens only in a multiball. If nothing is lit at the time machine, it will let the ball pass through rather than grabbing it.
During single-ball play, the time machine will always attempt to catch, and either fling it through (if you scored an album, upgrade, or mode shot) or drop it (if nothing else was lit but it counts towards the time machine multiballs.)
I think this behavior is the Pro trying to replicate what happens on the Premium with the elevating ramp - any time the Premium ramp would be up, the Pro will pass it through; if the ramp would be down, the Pro will grab and drop it.

Quoted from 27dnast:

I think that’s an unfair picture you’re painting. I don’t think FNO is being deceptive on purpose. And Zach provided an update when I asked him.
The root problem is Stern. They are more focused on games, less focused on accessories.

Quoted from Mikedenton49:

Howdy guys. Experiencing a weird problem and curious if anyone else has seen it.
Pressing the action button does not switch the lanes. It makes the noise but the flashers do not indicate a change, nor does the coil fire. Everything checks out nominal in test.
Thanks!

Quoted from Mikedenton49:

Howdy guys. Experiencing a weird problem and curious if anyone else has seen it.
Pressing the action button does not switch the lanes. It makes the noise but the flashers do not indicate a change, nor does the coil fire. Everything checks out nominal in test.
Thanks!

Quoted from Mikedenton49:

Howdy guys. Experiencing a weird problem and curious if anyone else has seen it.
Pressing the action button does not switch the lanes. It makes the noise but the flashers do not indicate a change, nor does the coil fire. Everything checks out nominal in test.
Thanks!

Quoted from Fuzzdaddy:

I finally started all mutiballs and unlocked The Voyage as a song option during regular gameplay. I was disappointed to see that there is no concert footage to go with it - just cartoon animation that doesn't fit with the game at all. Stern could've pulled Cygnus X-1 video from the R40 concert release or at least created animation that isn't so cheesy.

Quoted from swampfire:

That animation is my favorite thing in the game, honestly.

Quoted from Mikedenton49:

Howdy guys. Experiencing a weird problem and curious if anyone else has seen it.
Pressing the action button does not switch the lanes. It makes the noise but the flashers do not indicate a change, nor does the coil fire. Everything checks out nominal in test.
Thanks!

Quoted from swampfire:

That animation is my favorite thing in the game, honestly.

Quoted from swampfire:

That animation is my favorite thing in the game, honestly.

Quoted from Fuzzdaddy:

I finally started all mutiballs and unlocked The Voyage as a song option during regular gameplay. I was disappointed to see that there is no concert footage to go with it - just cartoon animation that doesn't fit with the game at all. Stern could've pulled Cygnus X-1 video from the R40 concert release or at least created animation that isn't so cheesy.

Quoted from Vespula:

Hey for anybody that installed the Ninja camp expressive speaker light kit, did you remove the foam piece completely for aesthetics? Or does it look better with them on?
Here's a picture of what I'm talking about for reference
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Quoted from upsfeedr:

i took mine off so you can see the speaker better..

Quoted from upsfeedr:

i took mine off so you can see the speaker better..

Quoted from Vespula:

Did you have the pinwoofer kit?
I've got the low profile expressive speaker kit and I ordered the five and a quarter adapter plate from pinball Life and the four threaded post coming up barely clear the expressive lights. Did you run into this?
I'm not sure what to do with the hardware kit they sent me I don't see how this was expected. The instructions don't say that I use those pan head screws to bite into the plastic of the expressive lights but I guess that's what you have to do with those pan head screws? It's literally digging into the frame?
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Quoted from Vespula:

Hey for anybody that installed the Ninja camp expressive speaker light kit, did you remove the foam piece completely for aesthetics? Or does it look better with them on?
Here's a picture of what I'm talking about for reference
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Quoted from Vespula:

Finally got the full kit installed and thanks so much for everybody's help here! I swear it even sounds better with the speaker light kit. Lol.
Maybe it is that little foam piece! flofixer

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Quoted from swampfire:

Many thanks to Mike Nogle (Great American Pinball) for sending my armor now, since we’re looking at July/August for the expression lights. I’m taking my Premium to SFGE and I wanted to make it look as nice as possible.
One note on this armor: it needs its own armor. I was surprised to see that the Starman is printed on paper, basically the same stuff you get every day as junk mail. I guess I was expecting vinyl, or something a little more substantial. I’m planning to put some thin clear plastic between the paper and the rails to keep it safe.
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Quoted from ExSquid:

I’ll jump in , in the last 4 days I got kenwoods with speaker lights , the dice mod for the scoops and just today the Shooter rod accessory ! It’s coming along.[quoted image]

Quoted from Vespula:

Yessir! Quite nicely! Game looks so good glowing in red!

Quoted from ExSquid:

Thanks! What’s annoying is the plunge shot that still rattles all over the place even after I put in the NC lane fix. I had to deal with this with my Godzilla F’n UGH!

Quoted from ExSquid:

Does anyone have the ABE FlIPS fix and the NC fix?

Quoted from Vespula:

Mine got worse with the new shooter because I didn't mark the location of the previous plate. I just recently remove the red screws loosen the other ones and tapped it a little bit to one side to get it more center on the ball, and locked it down at the red screws and tighten the other ones... it wasn't much it was very little but it made a difference, and it doesn't rattle on the short plunge and definitely shoots better. I may fiddle with it some more.
It hasn't really been much of a big deal because I never tried to long plunge around I always go for the short plunge skill shot, but I don't always make it, for the extra points and the ball save time. It was a lot of games in the beginning before I even understood the skill shot was a thing. Lol.
Now if I want to go around to the pops , I just press the action button on the bar and let it launch. I only use the rod for the skillshot into the side scoop or inner ramp/loop which are all short plunges.
Sometimes I only half plunge to get over the first switch and let it fall back to start the video so I can sit there and watch I still haven't seen all the videos start to finish but I have watch some of them ... it's on my list to watch every one.

I do have both fixes the Abe's and the NC. I had the Abe's first So I can't really give you an independent review but yeah I do have both.

Quoted from ExSquid:

Even the action button for me shoots around the loop maybe 3/5 times. So you have both on? And it’s still a little wonky?

Quoted from Vespula:

It was fine after the fixes until I switched the shooter rod And because I'm a noob I didn't know to mark the plate before I remove the old one.
Now because I'm a noob I got to figure out how to get it aligned right and It seems to be trial and error. When I had a ball in the shooter lane and looked down the rod was to the right of center of the ball just a hair, but it was putting some left spin on the ball which I think was causing the problem. So I remove the two red screws and loosen the other ones and tap the plate to the left with the butt end of a screwdriver and then locked it all down again close the playfield And it is better. But after I've been playing a bit I still think it could be better but maybe not. I'm still learning. It definitely sounds like yours needs adjustment. My action button will send it around all the time so to me then indicates that either both my fixes are helping as well as I got it adjusted closer to where it should be hitting center of the ball.

Another interesting point You may want to do sooner than later is put some Mylar down on that shooter lane where the ball comes out because the wood is so soft that in mine got a little marred up before I noticed. And also lower your eject power to the bare minimum cuz mine came on Max 255 and I lowered it down to the bottom which I think is 176 and it still ejects fine.

Quoted from Vespula:

Mine got worse with the new shooter because I didn't mark the location of the previous plate. I just recently remove the red screws loosen the other ones and tapped it a little bit to one side to get it more center on the ball, when I was eyeing it through the glass with a ball in the lane it looks like it's just a hair to the right off center, so I tapped it to the left and locked it down at the red screws and tighten the other ones... it wasn't much it was very little but it made a difference, and it doesn't rattle on the short plunge and definitely shoots better. I may fiddle with it some more. It's a pain yep.
It hasn't really been much of a big deal because I never usually long plunge around and mostly I always go for the short plunge skill shot, but I don't always make it, because I'm going for the extra points and the ball save time. It was a lot of games in the beginning before I even understood the skill shot was a thing. Lol. (Hint: Read the rules)
Now if I want to go around to the pops , I just press the action button on the bar and let it launch. I only use the rod for the skillshot into the side scoop or inner ramp/loop which are all short plunges.
Sometimes I only half plunge to get over the first switch and let it fall back to start the video so I can sit there and watch I still haven't seen all the videos start to finish but I have watch some of them ... it's on my list to watch every one. Before I learned that trick, I would either trap and watch or if I was lucky and got the ball in the shooter lane under the upper flipper I'd take advantage of that sometimes and watch.

I do have both fixes the Abe's and the NC. I had the Abe's first So I can't really give you an independent review but yeah I do have both.

Quoted from Jamesays:

I put the Abe fix on and it did nothing,mine rattles through like crazy.Time for me to try this.