A little bit of woz modding,.trough and backboard light...what a beautiful game!

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Topper plug

Anyone interested in trading their WOZ for my hobbit Smaug?

I only learned recently that Novus 1 can be used for cleaning playfields. I was using simple green prior with good results, but Novus 1 is milder.

I saw a similar screen on my hobbit LE yesterday for the first time, but the game then booted and played normal. Said Unbunto. Never saw it befote. Will be interested to hear what the diagnosis is.

Have a lead on a woz ecle from 2014 that supposedly had the light boards replaced. The game has no mods and is a four owner game. Conditions looks to be very nice. What price are these changing hands?

What was the cabinet style back then, direct print?

Thx

Thx

Thanks, I looked back at the pinside archive, most were selling between 7-7.5k. This is an unmodded game, I was thnking 7200-$7300 would be fair, maybe a little more if the light boards were replaced. There aren't a lot for sale and history seems limited so hard to price.

guys, are these the upgraded light boards? I'm going to call JJP with the serial number to confirm what was replaced.

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I just spoke with jjp, the boards pictured are original and have an older firmware associated with them v1.1, you can see it in the pic. Replacement all the boards is $800-1000 and to upgrade the firmware would require replacement of the i/o board potentially. Not all boards have failed and it's possible if they haven't by now, they won't, but that's not certain.

Pretty disappointed as I had a trade for my smaug for this woz, which otherwise looks beautiful, but I'm not comfortable taking the risk unless there is a significant discount to compensate for these potential light issues. With my luck, they would fail a week after I got the game.

What firmware are your light boards running? The game i was looking at was v1.1/rev 39. The way it was explained to me with this version, the i/o board could also need replacing as just replacing the light boards could cause issues with the colors, including red lighting blue or green lighting red, etc. Basically, the older light boards were wired backwards so you can't just install a new buffered board. I'm not an expert, this is just how I understood it, maybe this is wrong. Totally agree not all games are affected and it likely is in the minority, but a lot have been affected, and you take a risk as even with a jjp discount, you are looking at $600- $1000 to fix them all.

i'm looking at a ruby red manufactured in april 2015. does this game have light boards that are less prone to failure, or is it the same risk as any other woz from this date and earlier? Seller indicated he's replaced three boards so I'm thinking it's not really any better.

Also, what were the standard options provided with the RR? Obviously, red trim, but was there a topper, invisiglass and shaker? did it have the wood apron or was that just the ECLE? anything else?

thx

Finally joined the club, picked up a 2015 RR yesterday. What a fantastic game, much better in a HUO environment. Scored 894k on the first game, my best score on WOZ. The game is a lot darker than I had remembered so I lit it up with a color changing backboard light, a red trough light and a purple light mod for the forest just below the castle. My phone doesn't do well with LEDs (and pinside doesn't help with compressing the files) so I realize the pics may look all washed out, but in person it is really sharp and provides a lot of clarity to the playfield. I really did not like how dark the forest was.

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before...

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after, with trough and backboard

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after with forest lit purple...

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Its a new mod we have. Not listed yet. It will probably be listed for $15 on our site tomorrow, plus you'll need a splitter if you have a topper, which we will include for $7.50. No shipping charge. Not entirely sure this will be the price but we will honor it for pinsiders

Pm me if you want one.

The lighted forest mod is now available on our website.

http://lermods.com/products/wizard-of-oz-pinball-led-strip-illuminated-forest-mod

If you want additional woz mods, let me know and ill make a splitter with more connections at no addiitonal cost beyond what we charge for a 2-connection splitter at a reasonable $6.99. These run off the topper connection for simplicity and ease of install.

Thx

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I installed a newly redesigned winkie tsrget from mezel mod, what a cool mod!

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We've got the forest light

http://lermods.com/products/wizard-of-oz-pinball-led-strip-illuminated-forest-mod

I have the mezel throne room pots and like them a lot. I also just installed their new redesigned winkie, which i think looks awesome.

My game wont fit mirror blades unfortunately. Titl and pingraffix sell two versions of pinblades.

What is the name of the directory on your thumb drive?

Same way you do it with stern or Bw games. You can connect directly to the lugs on the cabinet speaker.

We have some new magnetic pin cups available for WOZ that mimics the green (ECLE) or red (RR) powder coating. $17.50 shipped.
https://lermods.com/products/wizard-of-oz-pinball-machine-magnetic-cupholders-069d97ae-908e-40d1-b532-55c3a269b94a
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Added over 7 years ago: Price changed to $20 due to increase cost of material and shipping.

Added over 7 years ago: Ugh, not sure why it crossed everything out. We have the pincups, price is $20 shipped for glitter, $17.50 for non-glitter colors.

Yes, we do...

https://lermods.com/products/wizard-of-oz-pinball-machine-magnetic-cupholders-069d97ae-908e-40d1-b532-55c3a269b94a

I'm not sure the newer games at $9-$9.5k are worth it. If you can get a RR at around $8 or lower you'll be ahead of the game. If your boards start going out, which is unlikely by now, it will cost you around $800 to replace all of them.

As for lighting, we have a forest light mod, backboard and trough lighting that make a big difference. It's still a dark game, but our mods do help with visibility and being able to see detail.

https://lermods.com/t/wizard-of-oz-pinball-mods

For those who may be interested and want another option, we are offering a color changing rgb backbox mod. Much more vivid in person, very sharp.

Not on our site yet, but will be later today.

$45 shipped.

The bottom part of the playfield seemed really dark to me so I put in two extra spots, I think it helps a lot. I didn't want the entire pf lit and generally prefer accent lighting. I tied them to the same spotlight that lights the house so it should be interactive with the game. I tried white and red and like red better. The red looks really washed out in the pic, much better in person.

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Yeah, not sure I'll keep them in and will have to see how the game plays with them. If they remain on in lights out mode, it might not be good.

$8500 shipped for dile is very aggressive pricing. Lowest I’ve seen is 8600 not including shipping.

Maybe for standard, doubt you'll ever see nib for an le at that price.

Yes, be very careful taking the glass in and out.

Pm sent

I’ve had the game about a year, still can’t figure it all out. Not very intuitive/linear, which is fine as I always feel like I’m learning something new about the game. Wish someone would do a nice tutorial on the game.

How is your game that dark stock?

Here’s my game with just a trough light and backboard light, $60. Your inserts look pretty washed out

https://lermods.com/shop?olsPage=products%2Fwizard-of-oz-pinball-led-strip-rgb-backboard-with-single-color-trough-light-kit

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Thanks, glad you like the candy mushrooms!

If you look at your yellow brick road inserts in my pic and your before pic, they are easy to see lit. In your after pic, you can’t tell that they are on as the white lights from your mod “wash” them out. Maybe the inserts are actually off, but it looks like you can see light coming up through them so I think they are on. The camera may also exaggerate the effect.

If you look at my pic, look how deep the red color is around the slings, in yours they lose that deep rich color because there is too much white light, IMO.

In the end, all that really matters is that your are happy with the result and it sounds like both your and your wife are. your game definitely is lit up and you can see areas in your game that you can’t see in mine, I just prefer more accent lighting (including purple in the forest area). I know I’m likely biased because I sell accent lighting, but it is my preference.

Looking for a tester for low profile spotlights with covers similar to what we’ve done for wonka and mbR. It’s a 3 smd light strip inside a 3D printed cover with a decal on top. Pm me if interested. You’ll need to take some pics for me and provide feedback. You’ll receive a free set. Must be in the US.

https://lermods.com/shop?olsPage=products%2Fwilly-wonka-the-chocolate-factory-pinball-spotlight-covers

https://lermods.com/shop?olsPage=products%2Fmonster-bash-remake-spotlight-covers

Edit: tester found.

Given how dark the game is at the slings, we came up with a low profile spotlight option that attaches to the slings and reflects light on to the lower playfield. We had these out to a tester and the feedback was positive on the install and the effect so ready to offer them more widely. Hopefully he will chime in.

It's shown in red, but we will offer it in green, warm white and cool white. The spotlights covers are 3d printed with a yellow brick road decal on top. The spotlights are 3 SMD LEDs. These are now available in our site and will be in our pinside shop shortly.

https://lermods.com/shop?olsPage=products%2Fwizard-of-oz-pinball-spotlight-covers

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Ha ha!

We haven't had feedback on it being too bright or we would offer a dimmer, but what you can do is cover one or two of the three SMDs with a piece of electrical tape if you want to tone it down. You can't cut it to make it shorter, however. We can offer a dimmer option if people do think it's too bright.

If you feel overwhelmed with woz, no way I’d go with Bk as the next game, much more difficult to diagnose and work on.

It’s likely to be more efficient for you if you try to resolve your issues in your other thread. Some questions you raise here were already answered in the other thread, including crystal ball. In addition, when someone else has similar issues, it will be much easier for them to follow the fixes in a dedicated thread. All connections should be done with game off as noted in the other thread. There is also an sd card in the crystal ball mount, remove and reinstall it.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/just-bought-first-pin-and-all-hell-broke-loosetalk-me-off-the-edge-#post-5592740