Those color names

Mirco

Years before CGC started making AFM remakes, Mirco offered new AFM playfields. I bought one. I let it sit for more than a month, then I started populating it. It looked great at first, but then the clear over several inserts crackled pretty noticeably. I contacted Mirco and he told me that can happen, there's no recourse for it, and to kindly pound sand. Fool me once. I'm never buying another Mirco, whether a standalone playfield or in a new machine. Good luck everyone.

It lifts around ball guides that are mashed into the playfield. It's lifted on my Iron Maiden, Batman 66, & AC/DC Luci. I had to Iron those areas down with Yelobird's method and then I put little fiber washers underneath all the ball guides to prevent it from happening again. I preemptively added washers under ball guides on my TMNT.

Stern should be trimming art from underneath ball guides just the same as posts.

Just a thought: What if all (or most of) the GNR playfields were made at the beginning of the production process, and the longer you go into the production process, the longer those playfields have to sit around, out-gas and cure, and potentially firm up and harden. If that is the case, buyers of later run GNRs may have the benefit of getting a more durable playfield. Maybe that's what is being seen if this is the case.

Looks like JJP and Mirco finally pulled the artwork back away from the posts on Toy Story 4, which will have a positive effect in regards to the blistering/pooling art issue (as in it might eliminate the problem). Time will tell as the games are delivered and played.