Quoted from Mikespinball:When you posted this it brought back old memories of when I restored my MM back in 2006. I have this mod in my machine yet today. I bought it off Ebay from Gary Burbacks Pinball Renaissance. At that time not too many people had websites and most mods were purchased off Ebay. Not sure, but he also sold a Knight set and lighted trolls too which are both still in my machine today.
The figurine (damsel) is from a toy company called Papo. They had alot of figurines that were made around the medieval times. At the time he was making this damsel mod I could never find it by itself. Looked many times on Ebay and elsewhere. It just eluded me. So I bought it from him.
I also found the original installation instructions for it and posted the cover page.
Not sure if you can find the damsel figurine today, but am happy to pass along what I know of it.
Mike
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Quoted from Indypin:

The poster above beat me to a response, but his is perfect. I have them in my pin and love them. The only one I didn't do was the dragon because I liked the original better.
You can find the princess character on eBay or Amazon. Just get the one you want and use a cutting tool (dremel) to cut the figure around the waistline and secure her in the tower by sticky tape. That's the way I did it and she's been up there for quite some time and looks great.

Quoted from Jkush18:

Thanks for the tips got my GC tonight.

Quoted from WizardsCastle:

I love and HATE that DTR in LOTR.
For some reason, I can be locked in, hitting everything, and once I get in that mode, I choke!
Same goes for BFTK in MM. For some reason, I can never hit the orbits once I get there, and it I do, I usually am down to 1 ball, and hitting all those gate shots on single ball is super tough to do.
I've beat the game 3-4 times, but everything had to really come together for me.
I feel like AFM is much easier to beat.

Quoted from eroomnek:

Could this just be a dirty opto?

Quoted from Rik_:

had to trade an arm and a leg for it,

Quoted from Rik_:

Fun story time. My fiance and I would head down to the corner bar every Friday night for beers, and after awhile started playing the pinball machine they had set up, a beat up Medieval Madness. After awhile, it got routed out for a Scared Stiff. It was shortly after this we learned that the sister bar, a mile down the road, had a machine as well, Playboy set up.
Fast forward to the pandemic, and we missed playing pinball. After trying to locate a machine locally, we settled on owning our first pin, Avatar. I think we payed 4,000 for it, and told ourselves that we would use it to trade up to our grail, MM. Our next machine, Playboy, arrived due to Captain Jack and a over enthusiastic woman who decided to push down my finger on the mouse button after I had said the bid was over what i would pay haha!
A few more machines were purchased in the coming months, a Sega JP and a Stern Indiana Jones, which we ended up trading both for our Scared Stiff. Second machine of our pinball dating trifecta acquired!
During this time, Avatar had gotten a bit stale, and we ended up talking to a guy with a BK:SoR Premium that was interested in a trade. $1300 later we had worked out a deal and started enjoying the verbal beatdown of the Black Knight. I enjoyed the challenge of the pin, but the woman didn't, so when someone reached out to trade a BM66 straight across, we jumped on it.
Fast forward to 6 months ago, BM66 was getting blown up, billion points games, and the challenge was gone. After posting a few times looking for trades, we ended up trading for a decked out EHOH premium. Loved the game, became our favorite, hated having to take the glass of all the time to tweak things. After poking around locally for a trade, we were ready to make a deal on a GZ when I saw an ad locally for a HEP MM. The holy grail of our holy grail.
I reached out, expecting a "not looking for trades" response, or worse an already taken response. Instead there was interest for a trade, due diligence taken on both sides, and a deal was made for EHOH +$6k. The trifecta was complete, and the promise of Avatar -> MM was held!!!
Sorry for the long read, just like the story of how it all came together and finally happened.

Quoted from Rik_:

Fun story time. My fiance and I would head down to the corner bar every Friday night for beers, and after awhile started playing the pinball machine they had set up, a beat up Medieval Madness. After awhile, it got routed out for a Scared Stiff. It was shortly after this we learned that the sister bar, a mile down the road, had a machine as well, Playboy set up.
Fast forward to the pandemic, and we missed playing pinball. After trying to locate a machine locally, we settled on owning our first pin, Avatar. I think we payed 4,000 for it, and told ourselves that we would use it to trade up to our grail, MM. Our next machine, Playboy, arrived due to Captain Jack and a over enthusiastic woman who decided to push down my finger on the mouse button after I had said the bid was over what i would pay haha!
A few more machines were purchased in the coming months, a Sega JP and a Stern Indiana Jones, which we ended up trading both for our Scared Stiff. Second machine of our pinball dating trifecta acquired!
During this time, Avatar had gotten a bit stale, and we ended up talking to a guy with a BK:SoR Premium that was interested in a trade. $1300 later we had worked out a deal and started enjoying the verbal beatdown of the Black Knight. I enjoyed the challenge of the pin, but the woman didn't, so when someone reached out to trade a BM66 straight across, we jumped on it.
Fast forward to 6 months ago, BM66 was getting blown up, billion points games, and the challenge was gone. After posting a few times looking for trades, we ended up trading for a decked out EHOH premium. Loved the game, became our favorite, hated having to take the glass of all the time to tweak things. After poking around locally for a trade, we were ready to make a deal on a GZ when I saw an ad locally for a HEP MM. The holy grail of our holy grail.
I reached out, expecting a "not looking for trades" response, or worse an already taken response. Instead there was interest for a trade, due diligence taken on both sides, and a deal was made for EHOH +$6k. The trifecta was complete, and the promise of Avatar -> MM was held!!!
Sorry for the long read, just like the story of how it all came together and finally happened.

Quoted from GoodOmens:

A $4000 avatar plus $7300 is a heck of a deal for a HEP MM! No where near arm and leg....

Quoted from aeneas:

Very happy to receive these plastics in the mail today.
Someone was making the missing plastic.
I had a scan of the nude damsel, downloaded it somewhere almost 20 years ago I think.. don't know who originally made it or what's the history behind it. Probably someone's nsfw adaptation of one of the damsels plastics.
Anyway the person making the plastics had one made for me
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Quoted from aeneas:

Very happy to receive these plastics in the mail today.
Someone was making the missing plastic.
I had a scan of the nude damsel, downloaded it somewhere almost 20 years ago I think.. don't know who originally made it or what's the history behind it. Probably someone's nsfw adaptation of one of the damsels plastics.
Anyway the person making the plastics had one made for me
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Quoted from Rik_:

Fun story time. My fiance and I would head down to the corner bar every Friday night for beers, and after awhile started playing the pinball machine they had set up, a beat up Medieval Madness. After awhile, it got routed out for a Scared Stiff. It was shortly after this we learned that the sister bar, a mile down the road, had a machine as well, Playboy set up.
Fast forward to the pandemic, and we missed playing pinball. After trying to locate a machine locally, we settled on owning our first pin, Avatar. I think we payed 4,000 for it, and told ourselves that we would use it to trade up to our grail, MM. Our next machine, Playboy, arrived due to Captain Jack and a over enthusiastic woman who decided to push down my finger on the mouse button after I had said the bid was over what i would pay haha!
A few more machines were purchased in the coming months, a Sega JP and a Stern Indiana Jones, which we ended up trading both for our Scared Stiff. Second machine of our pinball dating trifecta acquired!
During this time, Avatar had gotten a bit stale, and we ended up talking to a guy with a BK:SoR Premium that was interested in a trade. $1300 later we had worked out a deal and started enjoying the verbal beatdown of the Black Knight. I enjoyed the challenge of the pin, but the woman didn't, so when someone reached out to trade a BM66 straight across, we jumped on it.
Fast forward to 6 months ago, BM66 was getting blown up, billion points games, and the challenge was gone. After posting a few times looking for trades, we ended up trading for a decked out EHOH premium. Loved the game, became our favorite, hated having to take the glass of all the time to tweak things. After poking around locally for a trade, we were ready to make a deal on a GZ when I saw an ad locally for a HEP MM. The holy grail of our holy grail.
I reached out, expecting a "not looking for trades" response, or worse an already taken response. Instead there was interest for a trade, due diligence taken on both sides, and a deal was made for EHOH +$6k. The trifecta was complete, and the promise of Avatar -> MM was held!!!
Sorry for the long read, just like the story of how it all came together and finally happened.

Quoted from Chosen_S:

Mine was going too fast and flying off at the blue spot , so I put a thin piece of foam on the side of the ramp where it is not visible to slow the ball down, now the ball only flies off maybe 5% of the time as opposed to 50% of the time

Quoted from Rik_:

On mine the ball was just barely hitting the top of the red plastic post just before the blue circle you posted. Dremeled down the tip a bit and haven't had the issue again.

Quoted from SuperMas77:

Great idea! Would you mind annotating a picture or snap a pic of yours where you placed this foam?

Quoted from Rik_:

On mine the ball was just barely hitting the top of the red plastic post just before the blue circle you posted. Dremeled down the tip a bit and haven't had the issue again.

Quoted from dschulpius:

It looks like these bushings being split and a Snap fit that they could be installed over the bridge shaft, slipped in and snapped into place.

Quoted from Skyemont:

I am out of things to check..

Quoted from Rik_:

Strange thing started happening recently on my machine. At some point during a game, randomly it seems, the castle VUK will fire off twice in a row for no reason, and continue to do so every so often. Once this happens, the machine will start registering gate hits randomly anytime a coil goes off. Checked connections, optos are aligned, nothing weird shows up in switch test. Anyone have any ideas...been going on a month now and I can't seem to figure out what is causing it. TIA

Quoted from bobukcat:

Have you tried putting it in switch test mode and banging on the playfield with your palm to see if any switch(es) register from vibration? Could be a weak / failing opto at the gate but I'm not sure that would cause the VUK to fire.

Quoted from bobukcat:

Could be a weak / failing opto

Quoted from LTG:

That or poor solder joints on the opto. And try cleaning them. And VUK be sure the thing hitting the ball isn't going the whole way back down and partially blocking the opto.
LTG : )

Quoted from Rik_:

I'll check both, but outside of one coil the soldering on this machine seems to be pretty solid (HEP). What I can't understand are the random gate hits once the VUK starts doing it's thing, as far as I can tell they don't share any wiring.

Quoted from Mikespinball:

When you posted this it brought back old memories of when I restored my MM back in 2006. I have this mod in my machine yet today. I bought it off Ebay from Gary Burbacks Pinball Renaissance. At that time not too many people had websites and most mods were purchased off Ebay. Not sure, but he also sold a Knight set and lighted trolls too which are both still in my machine today.
The figurine (damsel) is from a toy company called Papo. They had alot of figurines that were made around the medieval times. At the time he was making this damsel mod I could never find it by itself. Looked many times on Ebay and elsewhere. It just eluded me. So I bought it from him.
I also found the original installation instructions for it and posted the cover page.
Not sure if you can find the damsel figurine today, but am happy to pass along what I know of it.
Mike
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Quoted from Rik_:

Strange thing started happening recently on my machine. At some point during a game, randomly it seems, the castle VUK will fire off twice in a row for no reason, and continue to do so every so often. Once this happens, the machine will start registering gate hits randomly anytime a coil goes off. Checked connections, optos are aligned, nothing weird shows up in switch test. Anyone have any ideas...been going on a month now and I can't seem to figure out what is causing it. TIA

Quoted from Skyemont:

QUESTION GUYS/GALS: My original MM has zero featured lights working. The GI's are fine. I have tested the following:

Quoted from branlon8:

is a “feature light” a lamp matrix light?

Quoted from LTG:

That or poor solder joints on the opto. And try cleaning them. And VUK be sure the thing hitting the ball isn't going the whole way back down and partially blocking the opto.
LTG : )