My distributor's saying middle to end of the month. They're on the line, and should start shipping out end of next week is what I've heard. And on a side note, not sure why your distributor asked/required full payment for the purchase. I had to provide a VERY modest deposit for mine. If you have any sort of history with your dist, you shouldn't be paying in full until the game ships to you.

Did you take pictures, and can you share them? If I got a game nib and it had obvious scratching, I'm thinking I wouldn't put a single game on it before getting some clarification about why they're there. That's just me though.

Curious about flavored bats? Green looks pretty fantastic, and black isn't bad either. Gettting my LE next week sometime... Excited!!!!!

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I'm SUPER happy to hear that they're sorting you out the right way. You've been super calm and cool about what I would have probably flipped my lid over. It's great to know that Stern took the situation seriously. I've had a few issues with my Sterns, but they've always been helpful and gotten me straightened out.

I'm still digesting the game (proud owner of LE #300) and I'm about 10 days in. Chaos multiball seems to be rewarding, but Raptor doesn't seem to be at this point (code build .89), on top of being dicey to attain (there's an occassional, and downright nasty right lane drain reward for nailing the gate... I'm thinking a backhand shot on from the left flipper might help mitigate said drain threat, but I haven't spent any time to experiment on that shot focus). Basicall, Raptor mode doesn't seem to be altogether implemented in conjunction with the rest of the gameplay. I'm pretty sure that during Chaos multiball, the raptor paddocks becomes a dead target (Code update will fix this to stack it as a multiball.. Again, I'm just getting going on it, and I'm far from understanding the intricacies of the already deep ruleset, as I'm just playing wild (I prefer to do that with new to me games); but from what I gather, there's a rhyme/reason to following the shot progression to rescuing and adding up bonus/dna etc.

All these things said, I've managed to somehow score just shy of 650 million without so much as getting past the first T-rex paddocks (NO the glass wasn't off lol, and the tilt is set pretty sensitive).

In all, this game is on another level. It's the perfect combination of challenging and rewarding.