I have been playing mine a lot for over a week. The ball does not get stuck that much around the Hulk figure in mine. Maybe once in every 20 games if that anymore. It can also get stuck on the Black Widow ramp in the gap where the bridege lifts for Hulk multiball. Happens a little bit.
Is it worth $7700, that is really subjective and up to you. I do not regret my decision. I find it fun and everyone who has tried my game finds it fun. But none of them are pinball players.
Here is what I like:
-- looks fantastic, Hulk backglass and side art look really good. LEds ligts look really good.
-- I find it plays fast
-- sounds and voices I like
-- it is hard to get a big score (36M best so far)
-- if I manage to collect one of the Avengers (other than Hulk who is easy) I feel like I accomplished something. My wife will attest to this as I have proudly reported collecting Captain America, Thor. Not even close to Iron Man but will have almost got Hawkeye a couple of times.
-- the tesseract cube...for some reason I like this feature and become fixated on making it spin
What I think could be better:
-- right hand side plastics (Loki multiball, the stupid jet thing that hide the Hawkeye diverter) block the far right upper lane and the Nick Fury target. I have seen discussion on pinside about this and I suspect someone smarter than me and with more spare time will figure out the best place for these and post instructions on how to move them.
-- ball getting stuck (in hulk, and on gap between bridge sections in Black Widow ramp). This does not seem to happen very often for me anymore, partly because I think I can see it coming and will shake the machine a bit so it does not stick. The Hulk I suspect will get fixed. The other occurs because some times the ramp shot is just too slow and stops right in crack.
-- I have not moved the outlane posts on the sides in to make it less likely to go out yet. I think I may because most balls are lost that way now. Is this considered cheating for high score posting or do you have to mark your score with an asterisk indicating posts were moved in?? Ball times can be very short on this game.
-- collecting some of the Avengers seems a bit repetitive. For example, Hawkeye requires 4 Hawkeye ramp shots to start Hawkeye mode and then make the same shot 7 more times to spell Hawkeye. The better one is Capt. America, make that ramp shot 4 times then you have to get 125 (or something like that) Captain America bumper hits. As the rules change and progress this may become different. Right now, I think the Capt. America one is good since it is something different.
-- the green DMD is not bright enough some of the time and hard to see.
-- coin door decal is not a special Hulk one...they should have made a custom Hulk one and maybe same with the apron art. I will need to check with an Avengers LE to see if the only difference is color. Green coin door would have been good too.
I expect there to be some mods for this soon (speaker mod with Avengers logo or even hulk I am hoping shows up soon).
