Quick question for all you premium owners, is the fishtank on the playfield lit up and interactive (reacts to gameplay modes) at all or just randomly lit?

I'm late to the twd bandwagon here and am feeling the need to jump in on it and get one very very soon.

Thanks!

Now just need to get the pin like Chambahz just did!
Congrats!!! Hope to follow suit soon.

Officially part of the club today!!!

Delivery guy was dollying it on a side that said DO NOT TRUCK FROM THIS SIDE, but initial inspection looks ok thank goodness.

I'll be able to spend more time with her tonight, can't wait WOOOHOO!!!!

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I'm having some crossbow mod issues, anyone else encounter this problem...??

I have a mezelmod crossbow mod (the non laser one) I'd like to put on my premium and most of the time when it is on the launcher, the launcher cannot find home and continues to swing back and forth. I have adjusted it to where it will find home by trying to move the crossbow as far back and right as possible before pressing down on the tape. However when I do get it to work correctly it is only with the glass off.

When I attempt to put the glass on, I have to push the left side of the crossbow down ever so slightly to get it to clear the glass. But after this , the crossbow launcher cannot find home again, I assume because the adjustment to get it to clear the glass misaligns it somehow. But again its a very small push down to clear the glass, surprised if this little nudge misaligns it so much.

Launcher works fine when I take the crossbow off.

Anyone encounter this and is there a fix?

Did your crossbow ever touch the glass when you did that? Mines just touching the glass now without a washer, im concerned with a washer it might start to rub the glass. Ill take a closer look when i get home to see if its actually making contact with the apron with the glass on to see if i need a washer. Thanks for the suggestion.

I ended up fixing the issue... I didn't see how the playfield or lockdown bar area could be lowered with a washer (wish I would have seen that message earlier!), but I did end up fixing the issue:

The problem was the left hand circular part of the crossbow was rubbing against the glass causing friction or misalignment, surprisingly that little bit of friction prevented the crossbow from finding home..... that launcher is apparently very sensitive!

So what I ended up doing is using a lighter to gently heat the left part of the crossbow and I was able to 'mold' it or shape it slightly so that it went over the apron BUT also under the glass. Under the heat I bent the left part of the crossbow slightly down and bent that left circular part down as well. The bow strings on the left no longer look perfectly straight but the fit is essentially custom fit to this pin! The most difficult part was bending under heat so that it bends down low enough to miss the glass, but high enough to clear the apron, all while trying not to warp the crossbow entirely! Took a few tries but it's done and good now. It also does not take that much heat to get that plastic to bend.

I just got this TWD Premium so maybe some of the new pins have very slightly different tolerances. The space between crossbow and glass and crossbow and apron is so small that any deviation of that space will make a need for modding the mod. And that launcher is so damn sensitive that everything has to be spaced perfectly!

Just wanted to give an update. I'm good now and crossbow is no longer interfering with the launcher.

Nice fix gweempose! Wish i would have seen that before bending my crossbow, would have been much easier!

Did you have to adjust (forgot the name of them) those 2 small brackets on the inside sideboard that keep the pf from moving around?

Any inside scoop as to whether TWD is getting the colordmd treatment this year? It really needs one!

Damn the pingraffix blood splatter decals on the ramps look SICK!!!

Just applied them and it blends in with everything really well, can't look at clear ramps on this game the same anymore...I actually got 2 packs of them and went all sorts of blood splatter crazy!

Now I have to figure out where to put this Big Tony's Sign.

My Gnassel mod is on it's way, should be getting it any day now. The BG really should have had a light of some sort from factory, I know testers had to have noticed that, wonder why it never made it to production...time constraint or money?

Mine also has to pass a point before you can launch ball. Bg can be hit on its initial swing out though.

Mine was manufactured 2/16. The bg fix was already installed and ive had no issues with airballs like some have had. No stdm from pops either. Ww plastics i still had to switch top to bottom.

Stop! No more lol!

Some of us still have 2 weeks of twd on our dvrs we need to catch up with!

Ive been quickly scrolling past any twd articles on fb to avoid spoilers... not on pinside too!

It ended up being the glass that was rubbing against the crossbow that was causng all the problems. Looks like my playfield was made a little higher than the average. I ended up applying heat and bending the left circular part of the crossbow and some of the left crossbow string to mold it down so it clears the glass but doesn't rub the apron.

I also ended up using gweempose's fix which was to put washers under the brackets that hook the pf under the lockdown bar for safe measure. I did have to remove the two inside tabs on the left and right of the sideboard (the ones that prevent movement of the pf) because those were now preventing me from pushing the pf all the way down.

After this , the crossbow does not touch glass or apron and I am good.

Agreed! Of all the sounds they could have chosen, they pick the most annoying screech that sounds like something is broken.

I also prefer no sound to that.

Cheers on getting that thing out of your game, it looks like excessive overkill and i cant imagine it being fun to play on whatsoever. At least now you you can play the game as it was meant to be played....cheap drains and all!

Ive never been a big nudger or slapper...however this game is changing all that the more I play! I love it.

Wow! I just installed the Gnassel BG light mod and the thing is amazing!!! Looks even better in person.

Seriously this mod needs to be in every machine, it is one of those mods that really makes you wonder why they did not implement it from factory.

Lighting up the BG is a no brainer, the flashing red and flickering when hit & mode done is pure gravy. Awesome mod , highly recommended.

https://pinside.com/pinball/market/ad/23327 , its an expired listing but he is still making them, here's his page on pinside:
https://pinside.com/pinball/community/pinsiders/gnassel

Shoot him a pm, he's in Germany, & a really nice guy to deal with too, got my mod quick and am very very happy with it!

60 €

See the links i posted further up this page on post #2366

Np its a great mod, i like how gnassel's mod has the light that interacts and fades red when the bg is hit. Only one that does this.

It was 60 euro shipped for mine, no custom taxes or anything else, it comes in a small padded envelope....60 euro total. Shoot him a pm.

Agreed, it's an awesome mod!!! which El colors did you get? And which color do you like the best?

I got the blue/green one for mine and I like it, looks like electric barbed wire.

This game I went balls out on with mods, I 've put a TON of extras on this pin....it deserves it!

Nice!

Ouch! I would first put acrylic cement on it to strengthen the damaged area and prevent further cracking, i like this: http://www.tapplastics.com/product/repair_products/plastic_adhesives/tap_acrylic_cement/130

Obviously remove the post and screw before doing that.

The stuff works by capillary action so it gets in and bonds the cracks instead of gluing over it. Its clear and dries very strong. Then washers over and under it (clear is good but metal ones will hide the cracks better).

Mines on order...Yay!!!

Wow! That's crazy fast!!! Well if they really did sell out that quick, its pretty much a guarantee there will be future batches. Check sterns site, i thought they were selling them there too.

Thanks for putting this up! Will download and install tommorow!

Could be to put over the back area of the pf (attached to upper wood part of the back of the pf over the prison and fishtank) and then connected to pop bumpers for a cool flash effect everytime the pop bumpers hit. Or connected to the GI since it has the controls for color change/fade effect.

** Update** Problem solved, Tmezel pmed me and its all fixed. The wires were switched on my tower, easy, fix and nothing blew even when I tried it with wrong wires.

Hmmm...., I wonder where I can squeeze in this 'Terminus Station' mod, maybe by the pop bumpers?

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Sometimes my crossbow works perfectly, sometimes (but less often) it fails to launch the ball or launches late after a certain point. Ive got a premium, tried adjusting switches to no avail. Frustrating part is its not 100% consistent no matter how i adjust it. Though it usually works fine, i am leaning towards code bug than mechanical fix.

What i actually had to do not long after i got the game was to shave the end edge of the ramp leading to the crossbow to get the ball to correctly and consistently fall all the way into the crossbow. Before doing that, the ball would sometimes hang on the lip of the ramp and not go all the way into the crossbow.

Now it feeds perfectly each time, so i dont think that is the problem...ive checked that part after modification pretty thouroughly so dont think thats the prob.