So I finally lugged my Mando up the stairs this past weekend. Had to carry up the glass and playfield separately because my weak-a** arms couldn't pull the entire weight at once. Got everything up, installed the legs, then needed one final lift to push carpet sliders under the feet and threw out my back.

How much Beskar does it cost to buy a new back at the foundry?

hmmmm I am missing that as well. I wonder if it’s under the playfield somewhere.

Try your luck on the random “?” might get a new back and only cost ya 100 Beskar

Mando is heavy, I lifted a TMNT & Stranger Things recently for a mate and those two games are noticeably lighter than Mando.

Definitely noticed it being much heavier than my other machines as well. Must be all that Beskar.

True. This is my first NIB and I was really surprised about all the things I had to adjust before enjoying the game at 100%!
One of the most important thing to check for everyone are the screws. On my Mando Pro, 7 screws were slightly untighted to VERY untighted. The worst were the child lanes (some plastics were floating, no joke), there was also one near Boba Fett and one on the left orbit.

Then I had the top right flipper that was in wrong position (stuck in up position) lol probably happened during their testing.

Finally there was also an issue with the left leg, I couldn't insert the bolt in the hole because there was a little piece of thread that was stuck in the middle. Wasn't easy to fix but I got it at the end.

All the rest was the improvment to keep the game reliable like a lot suggested here

There's a replacement decal for every target and a bunch of cast of character keychain plastics. No replacement playfield plastics. In mine..

Mandooooo

Just ordered the side armor shaker and these blades, anyone try these?

https://www.pingraffix.com/product-page/the-mandolorian

I bought an LE day one. Damn this game is good. I have a Godzilla premium and it’s been sitting lately, mainly playing this an X-men! It just has a fun factor and I love the code

Just replaced my broken ramp with the replacement and I got the ramp cliffy installed. Not a hard install at all

I went ahead and cut off the tab on the lower plastic, so it is flush with the rail. The game now plays better and looks better. The left orbit flows better in both directions. I haven't seen an overhang like this on other games and actually think it was a design flaw.

How long did it take you to get your ramp? I ordered a replacement a couple of weeks ago and nothing so far. Also, we can't track the order# we get from Stern replacement, correct?

Mine broke almost immediately when I received it in
The summer. Probably came a month later. No tracking. I went to my distro and it just showed up.

Im having rejects on a left orbit shots, can you point me to where you trimmed?

Where did it break? My game came with metal protectors at the entrance from factory

Left hand side under the protector

All games came with metal protectors on the ramp from factory, problem is they are a little too short and don’t actually protect the part of the ramp that gets the most impact.

Upgrade to a set of Cliffys asap mate as it’s only a matter of time before that one unlucky shot cracks your ramp.

Gotcha, thanks… just ordered though if anyone has an extra set laying around I’d buy it also since I think cliff is a few weeks backed up

Joined the club last week with a Premium (Jan 20 build date) - enjoying the game, learning the rules, adding mods... Really appreciate the tip & tricks contained in this thread, really helpful to get this game dialed in. However, does anyone know about this connector? Its labeled C2 and I found it loose behind the backboard on the mini playfield side. Looked around, can't find anywhere it would connect to. Thanks!

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This connector is not used...for now.

Thanks!! Makes me nervous when I see unconnected things on a just-produced machine, given the various odds & ends that have popped up here.

Might have been the connector for the moving Razor Crest at one time. That design was scrapped for a static Razor Crest according to Brian Eddy.

I'm agree.

Either that or it’s for the topper, I’m sure I spotted another loose connector the other day. Anyone with the BKsor topper in here able to confirm if it connected to anything under the playfield?

Man… If stern could surprise and add a UV kit level upgrade for this game…

Just installed my official rifle side armor. I found it interesting that, while it uses the original bolts at both ends of the cabinet, it doesn’t use any of the original two wood screw holes and asks you to make new holes in that gorgeous cabinet art.

I opted to just attach it with the bolts and left the wood screws off. This does make the armor a little wobbly in the middle and below the flipper buttons. I cut strips of sorbothane to wedge in these spots, which filled in the gaps and absorbed most of the hollow metal noise.

The moment I heard that Eddy originally designed a moving Razrocrest, my first thought was “future official Stern mod incoming.”

I have the Stern side armor, and went ahead and attached them with all the screws and bolts. My thinking was I'm never taking them off so go for it. I will have to replace the right side cabinet decal, because of shipping damage, but the the same things goes. I'll never take them off. I will say it hurt my sole to drill those screws into the new art.

Interesting, maybe I can bend them a little so they sit flush. Definitely not drilling the holes, I never drill the holes near flippers when installing armor anyway

I originally only put the end bolts on too, but then I figured since I'll never take the side armor off I might as well put those screws in, and it looks a little better without those empty screw holes.

I have a BKSOR premium w/topper.. Only connectors are power and Node.. both into the backbox

Thanks to the posts about fixing the left orbit SDTM issue. It wasn't a problem the first several games, but got really bad yesterday, so I guess the guide moved. Not surprising since I had a few loose screws, including at the entrance gate to the upper playfield which flew off mid-game. After that I checked everything.

I did have a bad switch (59) on the upper playfield exit that I had to replace. It almost never registered, even when manually testing it, and when I pulled it out to check things it didn't have that distinctive click when pushed. For now I replaced it with a slightly modified rollover switch.

Thanks for following up, I will do the same. It makes no sense for it to be there and I hit it 50% of the time. You can't see it that part of the plastic in any case.

Pic plez?

Here you go, and yes it happened before I installed the hover pod mod.

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Here is my after picture. Just cut it off even with the rail. Needs a little sanding and smoothing but fine for now.

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Is it hitting that plastic on shots up the orbit? Or when it’s coming round the orbit/out of the centre ramp return into the orbit?

Pretty sure that's the part that's getting hit by balls coming off the center ramp...

Adjust the plastic or use a spacer. It's on there to protect the ball from hitting the bottom of the flasher, possibly shorting the node board.

For me it's every ball that drops off the upper ramp and many shots from the flippers.

I'm working on my NIB this week and was thinking about doing exactly this. I'll try it out and see how it goes. I'm thinking a washer under the plastic and black screw, then some sorbothane under the rest of the plastic leading to that spot.

Have you adjusted your centre ramp feed into the orbit? It’s been posted a few times in this thread Dan but for some reason we have no key posts in here.

I came up with the fix ages back and it works that good I took off the cheap clear plastic that stops the ball hang up, no issues at all my end.

While I have my game in bits again “curse you grogu!!” I noticed my main ramp where it connects to the second part of the ramp behind the back board looks like it was cut by a blind man during an earthquake.

Anyone else’s look this bad?

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I believe mine looks the same as yours. I noticed this as well and thought it was broke or cracked but I think that its just how its manufactured. I can let you know for sure when I'm around my machine.

Mine looks the same, apparently that is how they are made, distro said his is also like that.

My LE looks exactly like that. So I guess they were all made that way.

Yes, the blind man did a very constant job!

I'll take a look at that an possible add something to protect the terminals on the flasher. Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks for the replies people, its good to know everyone’s ramps are the same and mines not the only one cut by Ray Charles

Late to the party on this one, but this exact same hookup mishap happened on mine, and I was in the first batch of Premiums in the summer. However, the wires were labeled just fine so I just swapped the connectors and all was good.

I didn't notice they were hooked up wrong until the Challenge Mode was added in an update after a few months and I couldn't clear the right ramp no matter how many times I hit it, even though a noise was being made!

I had this on my LE also.

Just got my Mando Premium. Played about 20 games and then this happened... Easy quick fix ? Any help is appreciated.

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