Couldn't agree more Glad I helped talk you into getting one!
Now if Game of Thrones ends up being a table - when you think about it, how could it NOT? - It has a seriously high bar to live up to. What really sucks though is how level sensitive TWD is. We home users get to enjoy it fully, and experience the brutal game it is, but in a fair way. The people that play it on location will hardly ever get that it seems.

On the pop drain issue, I am thinking that a potential fix I'm looking at for Wellverine's shitty sticker may end up also fixing any remaining pop drains. I play to find large rubber, similar to a flipper rubber, and place that around the metal base. It will give a nice, easily replaceable buffer, and the extra 1/4 inch of width should penetrate far enough right to give a tiny bounce to the balls coming out of the pops that have floated away from the rail. Those are the danger balls, and this will probably give most of them a tiny redirect.

Now to spend some time on google looking for something big enough that will fit.
Before I waste too much time, has anyone already done this?

Not really...most of my misses on it are ricochets off the bottom pop, so if anything, i think this would redirect them into the rail a bit, and possibly make them easier?

Arena shot only increases substantially when combo'd. When your hits are within ~3-5 seconds of each other, the value will jump significantly. Shot 1, 1,000,000, shot 2 - 8,000,000 etc. Can get some serious points there too, but for me, I can only seem to hit it 6 times in a row when its not lit, and arena isn't up, so I bank myself like 500 points a shot. Nice, eh?

Last night I hit the tunnel 2 x in a row, super high speed, followed by 4 arena ramps in a row...total points, somewhere around 4,000? Does THAT count as a TWD frustration?

just look at the flowers, honey.

Mine did this at first, but after a little bit of breaking-in, it no longer does. I'm guessing that when I wax it up it will come back for a couple dozen plays then work out again. For me though, it wasn't the ramp that was the issue, but rather the ball catching air from the right flipper after the fast orbit. I managed to actually hit the Fishtank/Crossbow light panel center and nearly knock if off its mount once. I felt like Bo Jackson swinging for a 500ft homer

FRUSTRATION!!!!!!
So yesterday, I rocked an absolutely insane ball 3. Balls one and two were a disaster, totaling about 5 kills or so. Ball 3 had 51 kills, a multiplier of at least 10 I'm sure, and forgetting that I had already had a tilt warning, I made what I thought was only a moderately aggressive nudge, and managed to tilt out, BAH! Lost at LEAST 25 million in bonus points, and finished out a million short of my previous high score.
All of the sad pandas on the inter webs for me

I would love for Lyman to put in a Zombie Kill high score as well. Seems like a no brainer to me, and can't help but wonder why it's not already in there.

I need to up my game skills so I can see the Siege!
I get to horde every 20 plays or so, but as we all know, nothing happens there. I definitely dig the gunk-gunk-gunk sound you get when you hit a shot in tunnel mode, so right now that one is my favorite.