I'm just quoting this for the next page. Mind you, I think the game is fun as-is, but some polish never hurts. Wonderful news.

Nice. I really want to start making my own toppers, half for the fun of it, half because my pins are under a low basement ceiling and a lot of standard toppers won't fit. How did you fasten everything up there?

Got my color premium in today. Loved it on location, love it at home so far. Such a great theme and just a straight up fun game to play. A lot like Batman '66 -- lots of humor and fun songs and '60s TV clips, it puts a smile on your face every time. And those lively go-go songs get my wife's butt wiggling while she plays, so that's an added bonus.

I find it weird some are so hard on this game while Metallica is considered one of the better pins of the last 15 years. No hate for Metallica here, it's sitting 4 feet away from my Munsters, but Munsters is kind of a slightly souped-up Metallica. Both have bar targets on the side instead of drops. Orbit, left ramp, bash toy at about 11 o'clock, right ramp, orbit. Munsters premium has the under playfield, Metallica premium the hammer into coffin lock, both awesome. Metallica has those great graveyard drop targets, Munsters has Spot under the stairs. Double left inlanes, one right inlane. Two kickass themes. I dunno.

Just installed some Pinstadiums on my Munsters. Or as they say in New England, Munstahs.

edit: Doesn't look great in the downrez'ed forum post. Click on the photo or right click and "open image in new tab" to make it look better.

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Nice. Have any pics? This is what got me hooked on Pinstadiums. Bought a used Avengers Infinity Quest, it had Omegas installed, now I'm selling blood to get them on all my games (except the EMs).

Yeah, really. Stern has made some wicked toppers lately, but even at MSRP I can't pull the trigger on any of them. How often do you look up there when playing? Somewhere slightly north of never. I just bought a SW comic art and might sell the R2D2 topper off it. It's cool, but...

I enjoy it a lot. It does not have deep code, so that area of criticism is accurate, but it's all about how much that matters to you. The code certainly isn't miniscule, it's more like an average '90s DMD game.

edit: Oops, I didn't scroll down to see this was already settled.

Yep, same opinion. Maybe just one more/different wizard mode, plus more video clips, and we'd be good to go.

Huh. I think Munsters has way more personality and is also a better shooter. I was into TMNT as a B&W comic in the mid-'80s but missed most after that, so maybe this is partly my age speaking. TMNT has better rules for sure, but I think I'd give every other category to Munsters. Munsters also doesn't have a damn spinning disc, which is annoying enough on its own, but in TMNT it tends to put a persistent spin on the ball so any regular bounces you assume will go "there" instead take a sharp carom in unpredictable ways. 4 out of every 5 bounces on the top of a slingshot turns into an outlane drain. Not fun.

Same here. Out of all the LCD Sterns, TMNT and GotG are the two I just don't want/like. Zep pro is kind of a bum as well, but presumably the prem/LE is better with more shots. I don't consider them awful, just "C level" games.

$7000 w/topper, $6000 without is my guess. There's not a lot of recent pro data to go by*, so I'm estimating the average pro gets $5200, yours has pinstadiums, shaker, powder coating plus other mods, that's a good $700+. I don't know if the topper is worth $1000 to people, I only know "topper people" are a bit nuts.

* seriously, why do 95% of people on here not mark what their shit sold for? are you really that busted up about giving pinside thirty bucks on your $6000 sale?!

Ah, I did not realize that.

Yeah, I don't get it. People who sell through Pinside yet don't want to pay the fee should try selling through Facebook or Craigslist exclusively. Phew! Sometimes it works out fine, but most of the time it's a royal pain in the ass in comparison. Pinside is awesome to sell through with (usually) eager and knowledgeable buyers with feedback and post histories.

Oof. I really don't see Rob as a fit for this. Sometimes actors or directors will surprise you by shifting into a gear you never thought they had, but the fact he's casting his wife as Lily already seems to say he's going to reshape The Munsters to fit his style and not the other way around. The innocence and good natured humor of The Munsters seems way out of his wheelhouse.

Not sure of his reasons, but I think EHOH has much better code but Munsters is a better shooter. I like EHOH but it might be the easiest shooting game of the LCD era.

Do you (or anyone) remember what events it's used for? I'd assume at the end of the collecting jackpots sequence. Maybe when you hit Herman or Spot? Would like to know before buying one. Thanks.

I don't understand. There are no missing bits, or bits from other sets crammed in this one. What kind of wizardry is this?!

Been updating lots of Stern codes tonight (Munsters, Beatles, LZ, ST), seems to be a common theme: Initial update gets stuck in a reboot loop, power off/on with usb stick still in, update then runs fully and game plays.

Some I did quick/no verify, others full/verify, both ways got stuck in the reboot loop. Thankfully they all responded to manually rebooting the machine.

Martian atmosphere does things like that (at least according to Total Recall).