It's the same ratio as a DMD. It's not wider. People forget that DMDs are not 16:9 ...they're much longer.

My guess for pricing is..
$7000 standard
$7500 Premium
$8000 LE

I think if they go much higher they will sell a lot less games!

I like the display but those green rails make the game look like crap. JMHO...

That's where my prediction started, too. 7.5K

I mean more in regards to how it looks visually. The classic just looks better aesthetically imo and more in proportion, on the bright side at least there is a choice being offered, hopefully keeps everyone happy so that's great!

This is an encouraging sign!...

Especially if they are paying attention to details this time.

These are great looking machines, myself I like the Premium the best. They play just like the original and look awesome, be really interesting to see what the price point is but I sure am glad there are remaking these machines and there are more of these out in the wild now. From what I was told the pricing will be presented and will be ready to ship after TPF. Nice to see they have their act together on this one.

The one thing consistent with this remake is that haters are going to hate. It's like MMr all over again.

Given that MMr had two different powder coat color options (gold and black) and the option to go with stainless, I would think AFMr would offer green, black, and stainless. It seems like they should go with red, black, and stainless, though.

I just don't understand how anyone could have green-lit that horrible green trim. Is there honestly anyone on Pinside that thinks it looks good? How can they possibly get something that wrong.

Mars is full of little green men, so it makes sense just as GBLE is green for slimer, etc. Looking at the playfield and the toys on the game, green is a pretty prominent color along with red.

Marc

Even though I would not choose the green, looks good to me.

I just want to get one. Going to be awhile though, my whole life is in reconstruction. I'd really like to get one of these someday. I may not buy the green but I sure wouldn't kick it to the curb, looks loud. I actually like loud.

There is no comparison with GBLE green - it goes with the artwork. AFMR is a complete clash with the artwork. It's not about matching what's on the playfield - it's about integrating with the surrounding artwork. Take another look at GBLE, and then look at AFMR.

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I'm not very picky about colors. Heck, plain stainless looks great to me. However, that green is awful. Really awful.

I don't expect prices to be $7k or less. No way given how much any new pin costs. Why would it when these will easily sell at premium prices. Sure, they might sell a handful more at lower prices but will lose money on a ton of other sales from guys that don't care what the price is.

Green trim looks fine to me too and matches the green in the game. Just another way to make standout art on a game and the pin itself standout more. It'll be rare, and that will be valuable to some people. Amazing to see so many people post an opinion as fact here, and on color of all things, lol.

After all the bother with the powder coat on MMR, I'm shocked they don't just go with stainless on all of them and either sell the powdercoat bits as an add on, or not bother at all and let people do it themselves.

Well someone else said it right. That green trim is probably leftover parts that they want to use up

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Leftover from what? Stern isn't building these games....and Stern knew they were making 500 GBLEs and most likely ordered 500 sets of green armor.

I love the big display. Not sure why I'm appearing to be in the minority there. It's the same aspect ratio as a DMD, but bigger! With the higher resolution animation, it should look great.

Now, I think we can all agree that green one looks like vomit though.

Stainless looks the best, just like it does on MMr.

Hey I'm trying to find a reason that makes sense LOL

I don't like the color choice, but I won't be getting that model anyways.

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Should have used Rainbows end or city lights powdercoating for the LE and leave the others stainless. I have it on my sttng and it looks amazing.
Kind of like space with multicolored flecks that look like stars and planets. It would have matched perfectly with the AFM artwork.

In spite of the green...Still excited to see this game in the flesh with that huge dmd. Sure hope they can make the vision that Sir Eddy wanted in the beginning.

LOVE to see a ship flying around the playfield as per original design. It really would make AFMr a number 1 contender.

Since most of the time you are playing the game standing in front of the game looking down on the playfield, it is more important that the trim go with the playfield and not the cabinet. That green does that and if you don't like it you can either get the stainless steel or do your own powdercoating to make it truly yours. This game is absolutely gorgeous and people here are bitching and complaining over what....green powdercoating? I'm getting my AFMrLE, I'm going to play the shit out of it and I'm going to thoroughly enjoy it ...green powdercoating and all.

Gameplay is the same.....

With that thought process, toppers would be pointless as well. Not sure I agree with that - it's also like saying since you are sitting inside a car most of the time, the cars interior color is most important and outside color not so much.

I'd better start saving up to get one of these.
How long are remakes typically for sale for?
Two years?

They'll be available as long as enough people want them to warrant CGC building them. There's no time limit on the license.

It has a standard DMD.
The big DMD's have a little cut-out for the logo or you can program whatever you want there, like your bar or location name/logo.

Theoretically they could do that for the "classic" version, too...since the standard DMD isn't a DMD, but a monitor with unused area on the top and bottom.

I agree, but I think most people will get the middle priced option with the big DMD and shaker etc.
I do like the topper on the collectors version, but Im not sold on it. For the extra money I would like anti-glare glass though, but they havent talked about it yet.

Probably somewhere around there. There was a last call for MMR before AFMR a month or so back after near two years production so I'd expect AFMR to do something similar. I got in on that MMR last call. . Skip all the drama, hate, early issues and get a NIB machine with all the production refinements. Sounds like a win win.

Yeah, if I were a customer, I'd prob get the middle version...although even though I don't care about the trim or topper that much - I would want the tri-color LEDs that are on all the saucers in the LE. Hopefully those can be purchased separately and added (or modded) to the middle version.

One thing to add is the backboard decal with the city-scape and flashers tied to the multiballs.
I really hoped that they would do this like in the prototype.
I guess they left it to the aftermarket for refinements.

Exactly, toppers are pointless and offer nothing to the gameplay of a particular game. If you are like me then you have a large collection where pins are sitting next to each other and do not see the side art. You are left with the playfield, translite and trim to look at. Therefore make the trim match the playfield and translite not the cabinet. In that case, the green works. A better solution would be to change the Attack From Mars letters to green on the side decals of the LE. That way everything matches and gives it a more rare look.Why does the LE cabinet have to look like the standard cabinet?

The standard has a color LCD the same size in MMr that is displaying a single color like MMr . The LCD takes a color software upgrade for additional money. The other models have a larger LCD that already has the software upgrade for color.

I was at Amusement Expo yesterday and wrote a small report on it which I published here: https://issuu.com/pinballmagazine/docs/pinball_magazine_christopher_franch
It includes some details on AFMr I haven't seen here...

Not if you live in Australia...

1k less per version and I'd be all over it. Now I'll probably wait and play some other new offerings and see what I want.

Yeah the classic is what 6500 a stern pro is 6000 ish in the states? So here in the U.K it's going to be pretty steep but I'll wait and see and I could still be interested if I can get the tri colour leds on a classic.

What do you expect, they are not going to be the Same price as the USA, they will be similar to the rest of the World, shipping, warranty,gst etc

LE and special are Still $1000 cheaper than a Stern here

They are the same as MMR Le were and we sold out of them

35 of our Le allocation are sold already

I think people are crazy to order right away, I mean what issues and problems will arise? do they have the play field chipping issue taken care of like on mmr? I will wait and see what issues crop up before ordering and won't get sucked in to the so called le version because theres only 1000, only 1000! lol! Those of you that order early good luck but you deserve what you get.

6500/.76 + GST + Import Duty + sea freight.

Where are you getting the $1000 cheaper than a Stern?
Stern LE in Australia is $12350.
AFMr prices in Australia are as follows
$11500
$12500
$13500 for the LE

We also have to remember there is no way our Australian distributor is paying full American RETAIL price

No, but neither are the US distributors. That's why I started with 6500 (for base model). That's the price to the US end user. Adjust here for FX, taxes and shipping and that's the equivalent.

Same old bullshit from sheltered Australian retailers. Amazon is coming. They can all die a slow death.

I just paid $14,500 for a le batman