I was told this is the first to be delivered anywhere.

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Just got home from work. Waiting for a buddy to come help lift it down the stairs

One thing I noticed is that there are no unboxing instructions on the box. There's information in the manual, but that's inside the box (hopefully).

So I went online and read over the digital copy.
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Got it outta the van and just down the stairs.
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I was asked for a pic of the throne. Hope these work
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Sorry. That's my friend Ryan. He's gone home and we've switched to moosehead beer.

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I also made the Mario and bowser pic above the couch with perler beads.

The game rocks. I'm very happy. I haven't had an orbit shot work for me. The left orbit has been dropping into the pops. The shaker is awesome, worth the couple extra dollars. The battering ram shot needs to be a solid hit to register, but shakes the machine when your successful.

A quick video. Sorry my buddy's not the best player.

I added the shaker before I turned it on the first time.

The VUK has worked flawlessly. Unfortunately I've been bricking shots all evening.

Blackwater multiball.

She likes to be called Queen Alicia, and that was the first game played on the machine.

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I've ordered Scott's translight, hopefully it's here soon so that I don't have to look at that guy for to long

Booting the game up

No issue at all. She asked who's that? I said he's the ice king, he's the bad guy. And that was the end of it.

Here's another shot of the throne. I don't think that this looks broken at all. Nice square lines.
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I put a sticker on the plate by the sword lock. I think it looks great. There's also a blue version but I like this.
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Next was blue plastic protectors. I ordered these weeks ago, before the game was built and they didn't line up perfectly. The plastics must be different then the pro. Ah well, I just added slots for the wires, no biggie.
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It's a shame that the lane dividers are red and not blue. Looks like an opportunity for someone to make a mod.
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Here are the protectors on the left side notice the blue glow
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And now on both sides.
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Here's some widescreen multiball for the PC users.

Ya. That's a lot of key chains. Extra sling and inlane plastics are nice too

Late last night my buddy got to hand of the King, and almost broke 1B in points. I tried to get a good vid, but it was over pretty fast. I don't know if anyone would like to see it, I also have some poor (low volume) video of midnight multiball. The hodor multiball is kinda cool and fun, reminds me of TSPP having homer say doh for each shot. This game kicks ass.

We've put in over 150 games, almost 500 balls played.

Right orbit shots happen once in a blue moon, left orbit shots are non existent. I might rip off the upper Playfield today and try to fix it.

The VUK took two tries to get to the throne on one occasion, every other time it has worked flawlessly.

Exactally. I know that it's not supposed to do it all the time, but even fighting Martel house where you need 3 orbit shots to win it never makes it around from the left to right orbit.

Rule questions.
1) how do you increase the spinner level?
2) what's collecting swords for?
3) what's collecting castles all about?

I thought castle multiball was from completing the castle 4 times. (That's the 3 stand ups and then one drop off lane). This advances the Arrows, Charge, Breach, Castle Multiball inserts on the upper Playfield. Every time the castle is completed the drop target in front of the right ramp raises limiting access back to the castle.

But in the top left of the upper Playfield there is an insert with a castle pic on it. My friend collected a castle while playing. I think it was during hand of the King, but I'm unsure.

I had my first repair today. The last couple games last night played a little odd. The diverter didn't seem to send the ball to the VUK properly. So when I started my first game today I took a look at it and noticed that it was loose. So I pulled the Playfield forward and had a look see. Sure enough the diverter was flopping around.
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So I removed the balls and flipped the Playfield up. Turns out that the Phillips screw on the diverter shaft was loose. Easy fix.
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When I tightened the screw I made sure to hold the diverter tight to the rail. Now the right orbit shots flow like butter, but the left ones are non-existent. I can see what's up, looks like a fatter diverter may be needed, so that the ball doesn't hit the V groove on the rail. I tried to loosen the diverter unit and move it closer to the front of the cabinet but it didn't seem to budge.
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While I was at it I took off the upper Playfield, this is an easy job. Remove the dragon from the back. 4 screws for the mini playfield and 2 for the ramp. Unplug it from below and it pulls out. It's in there tightly so you have to be careful when taking it off.

I put Mylar down the steel ramp behind the two drop off lanes. I also noticed that there is already Mylar on the Playfield where the ball drops from the ramp, and infront of the kickback. I didn't look between the pops but I'd imagine they put Mylar there too, I'll check it out next time I have my head in there.

I've been following your great thread. Thanks for the info. I forgot to check my battering ram, will do for you.

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I double checked. There's Mylar between the pops, and also in the inlanes where the wire forms drop the ball. It looks like they've covered all the major areas.

Nice. Good to see there getting delivered.

Less then 10 days in and over 375 plays. other than three small issues my game has worked flawlessly. The loose screw on the diverter arm was an easy fix, and the known left orbit issue will be fixed shortly.

The right orbit air balls seems to be fixed. The rail needed to be bent perpendicular to the Playfield, it tapered out a tiny bit giving lift to the ball. I bent it back inline just after the spot where the ball trail marks disappear. These pics also show the great clear coat on the Playfield. I really think they did a good job with this Playfield.
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The left orbit also needed to have a couple washers added to these screws under the upper Playfield. The ball was just lightly coming into contact with the bottom of the screw as it rolled past. I want to comment on the quality of this plastic beneath the upper playfield. I think that it's cool to have ghost's image there. It's a totally hidden plastic, it could have been blank or made a solid colour but instead someone took the time to create graphics under there. Maybe it's just me, but I think it's cool. I wonder what the LE plastic has under the mini Playfield?
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While I had the Playfield up I switched out the sticker on the plate beside the sword, it's now blue and looking great.
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Let see some other people's machines. What have you guys done for mods?

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I forgot to put these pictures up, but I added the blue inlane dividers. I've also added a blue start button, blue coin door inserts and light up flipper buttons....in blue.
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Some days just feel like Christmas. Hopefully I'll get these installed soon.
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Armour and art blades installed. I had a friend help me lift out the Playfield and had them installed in under an hour. I also installed new pop bumper cap from beatmaster.

Another change that happened to the game recently was that I removed the blue plastic protectors and put on a set of clear ones. The old blue set was just the slings and inlanes. The new protector set also protects the plastics above the drop targets and above the lock targets.

I also improved the quality of swords that are behind the gold targets to nice metal ones. They're replicas of LOTR swords, but look nice none the less. Hopefully I'll find GoT swords to replace these sometime. IMG_2618 (resized).JPGIMG_2620 (resized).JPGIMG_2621 (resized).JPGIMG_2622 (resized).JPG

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