Just got my NIB Mandalorian Pro delivered yesterday. I'm pretty excited as are the kids. I've pre-purchased the metal ramps, animated grogu, mirror blades, shaker motor and a couple of other small mods to add to the game.

This is my first NIB game. I'd love to hear what you think are must have or must do things as I get started using it. I ordered Ninja balls as I've been told the stock Stern balls are no good. I'm not sure if I should apply mylar (I did order a shooter lane protector). I had planned on using the stock rubbers for a bit and not immediately waxing the playfield as well. I'm still a bit of a novice and this is only my second machine. I've only been in the hobby for about a year. Any feedback and advice specific to this machine or otherwise is very appreciated.

Do you have a link? I looked on his site and it looks like these are prototypes.

ETA, I just emailed Cliffy at the email address on the site. Please let me know if there's a better way.

After a quick search I see a lot of people are having cracked ramps. Cliff already responded indicating he's got a three week or so wait. Do you think I'm okay to play the machine in the meantime? I'd hate to crack a ramp after just getting it.

Thanks for the ramp updates all. I didn't want to keep my son from having fun on the new machine. Cliff has already responded confirming my order.

I feel particularly bad for people in your situation. I'm new to the hobby and struggle with the idea of paying for these extremely expensive toys and not seeing them for potentially a year. I got my Pro last week, one week after placing the order. Knowing how long people have been waiting, I just picked up the phone and started calling dealers. I eventually found a distributor with one NIB and purchased that one. Given the backlog of orders, I struggle to understand how that can happen. While I'm thrilled to have my game, I have to think there's a way to ensure people who ordered the earliest get their games the earliest.

I have a switch test question. When I enter the switch test it looks like certain switches are shown as in the triggered position. The game seems to play fine. Is this normal? In the first photo where one switch is shown as hit all the time I learned that that is the ship hanging flap switch, which seems to work fine.

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I'm curious if there's any chance of some Book of Boba Fett content being added to the code. That would be really cool and would be a creative way for Disney to market the new show through existing locations.

Anyone know what this is? It just fell off and was in the inlane. Not sure what it is.

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Winner winner.

Awesome, thanks!

Got all my mods in my pro! Mirror blades, shaker motor, wireforms, animated Grogu, shooter lane protector and Gina ramp decal. Looking pretty premium for a pro.

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On order and still waiting. I was excited to get the other mods in there.

Is code .98 buggy? I have .97 on my Pro and have seen some folks on Facebook saying they will wait until .99 to update. I'm trying to figure out whether .97 or .98 provides a better game play experience.

Thanks for posting this. I just got my game a few weeks ago and I'm feeling it out. We chose Mando because of coop so that we could get our kids more involved in the fun. The 2 v 2 realization just re confirmed this was the right choice.

I am planning on putting a washer under the horseshoe guide. I see a small missing spot of clear there that should be protected.

The only shot giving me problems is the left orbit. I frequently hit the spinner straight on and it will kick the ball back even if the spinner spins. Any advice in dealing with this is appreciated.

Isn't this a fix to have the ball drop cleanly from Grogu into the left orbit? Mine does that fine out of the box. We're trying to get the shot up the left orbit to stop bricking when it's hit clean.

I haven't had the game very long and am still feeling it out. After a few weeks I had only put up a top score of around 150,000,000. After reading this I changed my approach and put up a score of about 425,000,000 after only about 5 tries. I beat my prior top score on 3 out of the 5 games. Thanks for posting this. It's input like this that's helping me become a better player.

What did you set it to? I lowered mine to 20 last night and noticed an improvement. Still getting a good amount of cheap drains.

Updated the code and reduced the slings to 10 yesterday. I enjoyed the game more than I have been with those changes. I must admit, I feel a little like I'm cheating with the slings that low. I'm not a very experienced player and was tired of so many stdm drains. I was also considering removing the tilt, but not sure if that would be overboard or make the game too easy. Thoughts?

The new code feels much more polished. Do I need or mess with any post settings after installing?

I've been holding off the newest code and am still enjoying 1.00. Sounds like holding off the new update is the right choice at the moment. I'm not too thrilled to hear about how you move to the next multiball in the new code. I love that the encounters will advance more quickly, but more points should be awarded for that. Just my opinion.

For those that have upgraded to 1.01, are you liking it more than 1.00? Is it buggy?

I notice that when I select to light heal in the foundry that only the left outlane lights. Is that supposed to be that way? I wouldn't think so.

I installed cliffys on my left ramp and ball trough today. I noticed that the spacers on the ramp are installed below the ramp but the photo on Cliff's website have the spacers above the ramp. Is one method better than the other? Also, I did not install cliffys on the shooter lane because I already have a plastic shooter lane protector in place. Is that sufficient to protect the shooter lane?

Photo from Cliff's website, photo of my install and photo of my plastic lane protector.

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I've noticed this happening sometimes. I wouldn't say most of the time though.

Interesting. Mine came NIB with the spacers below and the plastic over the ramp was flush against the top of the ramp. I think that's what was intended but I'm not sure it makes a difference.

Eta, looks like over is correct. This is a screen grab from the game release video showing it on top. Looks like mine came with those on incorrectly.

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I did not install the shooter lane cliffy. The ball trough cliffy I installed by hand without taking about the ball trough off and it fell off after a few plays. Are these cliffys that helpful? I get the ramp one, but I have a plastic shooter lane protector already and I just don't know that the trough one is worth the trouble.

Yes. Do I have to take apart the parts there to install it?

I was able to get it on without removing the Razorcrest. I put a little pressure on it to get the angle, but everything went on just fine without issue.

My machine is having issues post update to 1.02. I have a Pro.

When I hit the scoop it only sometimes advances early missions to mission start. Also, regardless of how I get the scoop to mission start position, I often have to hit the scoop a few times to get a mission to start. The scoop recognizes the ball is there and kicks it right out, but most times there's no blinking white light, it just kicks it out.

Also, after a multi ball and sometimes after a mission the Razorcrest ramp does not light either for a hurry up or the next multiball. It does light again after I drain.

The scoop shot not advancing missions or starting a mission is clearly a problem. The Razorcrest I have to imagine is also not intended to operate like that after the code update, but not certain. I did a full update with verification. Please let me know if anyone has any input on these issues.

This answers the Razorquest question.

I'm 90% sure this is the issue with the scoop. I saw a Deadpool thread noting this same issue. I found a loose ground wire on the scoop switch that I'll reconnect. I might have to bend the metal part so the switch stays actuated too.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://sternpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/sb186.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjg9bDxosn1AhWWkYkEHclDCU8QFnoECAgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2vRuNliciNZSP2G1_CSEhk

This is a known problem on a number of Sterns with a scoop. I posted that this happened to mine some pages back. The fix is the scoop switch needs to be replaced. Bending the hook on the switch may help for a bit, but eventually changing the switch entirely is the solution. I just fixed my switch last week and it now plays 100% again. Here is the switch you need to replace: https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/180-5209-00

Here's the Stern Bulletin and text from my last post identifying this problem:

I'm 90% sure this is the issue with the scoop. I saw a Deadpool thread noting this same issue. I found a loose ground wire on the scoop switch that I'll reconnect. I might have to bend the metal part so the switch stays actuated too.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://sternpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/sb186.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjg9bDxosn1AhWWkYkEHclDCU8QFnoECAgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2vRuNliciNZSP2G1_CSEhk

I came across something new (to me) yesterday! I got to play Dank Farrik multiball. It's the first and only time I've had that happen. Such a fun and weird multiball Easter egg. I think I activated it by picking the ? in the foundry and then stopping the selector on the ? with the action button. Totally unintentional and fun. Anyone else get to play this?

That's it. I edited my post. So cool!

Finally broke the billion mark for the first time on any machine. I'm still fairly new to the hobby. I have the machine set to award an extra ball for a high score instead of a free game. Not sure if that's considered cheating. Regardless, felt pretty good to finally do it.

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Does anyone else seem to randomly get an extra flamethrower or whistling birds? On rare occasions I'll seem to get a second flamethrower or a whistling birds even though I haven't acquired it with beskar.

I can vouch for the Lermods version. I purchased the full plug and play version for my pro and it's worked perfectly since install. I have added an on/off switch myself that I placed where the tournament button would go under the start button. I do like the ability to turn Grogu off while I'm not playing. I'm not sure running him constantly would hurt much, but it gives me piece of mind that I'm not working the motor any more than necessary.

Nice video. My approach to the game is very similar to yours. I do hit the left ramp from the left flipper to progress through encounters as often as possible. I also really didn't like that you had to start a hunter mode or drain to enable progression on the multiballs and hurry ups, so I changed that setting to bypass that requirement. Just too many cheap drains starting hunter modes. I like the game so much more with that setting changed.

The rules have this as the default setting for mutiballs:

"After playing a multiball, the Razor Crest can be relit to start Razor Crest Hurry-Up by completing a Hunter mode. The Razor Crest also relights when the ball drains, if it isn’t currently lit. Playing all three multiballs in a single game qualifies Precious Cargo as the final Razor Crest award. Every Super Jackpot scored during multiball adds 2.5 million to end-of-ball bonus."

In the game settings you can change this so that the Razor Crest relights automatically to allow you to progress towards the next hurry-up and multiball without the need of completing a hunter mode or draining. In my opinion, changing this setting makes the game much more enjoyable.

I've also had missions repeat back to back before.

I beat it. I made the extra balls liberal and bypassed hunter modes between multiballs. I focused heavily on encounters and got my nudging to a point where I could often knock out three stages per visit to the encounter playfield. I also had the left flipper to left ramp shot super dialed in to the point where I was hitting that shot 75% of the time. The game taught me a lot about pinball and associated strategy. Mando to me is more about patience and accuracy than flow.

I left the club a week ago. I can only afford a couple of games and getting something new means selling something. My kids were sad to see Mando go, but it was time. We saw everything there was to see.

The topper was the only thing holding us back from selling. We were really excited about the puck idea. It's rumored to be a puck that incorporates a 3D projector the projects images upward from the top of the machine. This includes numerous images and statistics. It could possibly bring in a new mode too. That's super exciting and I can see how approval from Disney would take awhile. Some if this is existing rumor and some is my own speculation on top of the rumor. I hope this is what it is, as that would be pretty ground breaking.

I don't think it's going to project on the ceiling. The idea is it would be a fan 3D projector that would make the animations appear like 3D holograms on top of the machine.

I wouldn't say it like that. I'm much newer to the hobby here than most. I've only ever owned two machines and that's what's in my budget. I played Mando every way I could think of to play it. I tried to focus on it from a "blow up" the score approach. I focused on it from a game progression standpoint. I focused on it from a mode/multiball stacking standpoint. I also focused on it from a pure get better at playing pinball standpoint. I learned a lot and enjoyed the game thoroughly. It provided a lot of entertainment for me and my family.

We never once looked at it from a beat the game and move on mentality. The reality is that over time and with more visits to the arcade more games get released and we got introduced to more games. Eventually, we thought it'd be nice to change it up, so that's what we did. We don't have a spare $10k laying around, so selling a game to get another is the only way we can afford to make that happen. I have a hard time believing people here can't relate to this.