Hey, all! Wanted to put out a couple pieces of info for my NIB JP Premium, made June 5, 2020, which arrived at my distributor on July 7th, 2020:
1. No pooling or chipping on the playfield (or defects otherwise) that I have seen
2. I don't personally care, because it's bound to happen and it doesn't affect gameplay, but I've seen others here who were curious, so: my playfield started seeing dimpling from the ball basically immediately
3. My game shipped with the incorrect, green spring on the plunger (it is supposed to be the higher-tension orange spring). I have reached out to my distributor, who has been in touch with Stern, who confirmed the incorrect spring, and is sending out a replacement
4. My game shipped with the red/orange rubbers on the flippers
5. Interestingly enough, despite the 1.01 code dropping in April and my game having been made in June, my game shipped with 1.00 code
Loving the game, fickle and brutal as she may be
Update: A few other things to mention:
6. The raptor toy's tail was not a tight enough loop at the end, and so was hitting and being restricted by the metal plate at the tower. I had to bend the tail more to allow clearance so that the raptor could move up and down freely
7. The top fork of the rail leading into the raptor tower was bent in slightly, allowing the plastic piece above it to protrude and make contact with the ball. I used a tool and bent that fork out a bit to be flush with or be slightly proud of the plastic so that the ball contacts it instead
8. I can't quite tell if my flippers are out of alignment or not; the bottom flippers are not 100% identical as far as where they're lined up on the alignment holes, but I don't think it's been a big enough deal to get in and mess with them. The one thing I'm curious about though seems less an alignment issue, and maybe more a general placement issue compared to the plastic of the inlanes - if the ball is rolling down the inlane very slowly, as after an aggressive post pass or from a floaty ball finally bouncing into the inlane, there is not a smooth transition from inlane to flipper, but rather, there is a slight bounce as the ball moves onto the flipper, like the knuckle of the rubber at the top of the flipper is sticking out above the inlane, or that the gap between the inlane plastic and the flipper is too large or something. Is this normal? I've tried testing and comparing on my Star Wars premium, and I've tried watching game play online from others closely, and I *think* I've seen the same thing happening, but I'm not completely sure. Can anyone speak to this? Is this how it's supposed to be in general, or does this sound like a defect?