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Just got notice from my distributor that LE's are shipping in the next 2 weeks!!!!!! Holy Cow, Batman!!!!

Sweet. was hoping before Christmas but was losing faith. Hopefully they'll make it.

I guess the first gameplay video will be from MK6PIN or Frolic.......

Who's your distributor?

Sorry guys....had some employees and a fellow pinsider over and just finished playing ( and drinking)...

Distributor is Mike @ Automated. He's always been a good guy to deal with for me.....email came today, right before I posted...

I take terrible video ( even though I'm an A/V guy by trade), but will certainly post once I get the thing....

Mike and his assistant Nancy are Top Shelf!! Never an issue with any of the NIB Sterns or PPS games I have bought from them. BTW: I just got a great Holiday price on a Ruby Red WOZ from him I couldn't pass up. JJ in Colorado and Mike at the GAP have always done me right too, but Automated cant be beat it seems. Nice to know others feel the same. Merry Christmas!! A Ruby Red-Batman LE Christmas as good as my Hot Wheels Track set Christmas 1970....LOL. Big Thanks to Automated Services, Stern and JJP for making Christmas dreams come true....2016.

Another vote for Automated here.. although i just bought a NIB MMR and went to them first, and Game Room Guys still gave me a better price though or else I would have bought from them again.

He always seems to have the best number on JJP.

Here's to hoping we see some video tomorrow of Batman being on the line.

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Agreed! That's why I bought my Hobbit from him

I think I'll be playing one of these super LEs in the not too distant future, but in the mean time maybe some Pabst Can Crushher during the wait.

Apparently there is a echo effect in the top right corner of the game... because there is NOTHING THERE!

Pfft! Clearly that's BatInvisibility technology on display.

Ironman has an echo effect all over it's playfield, but it's one of Stern's best games!

I bought a vintage comic lot off of ebay recently and included was a 1978 pizza hut collectible reprint of a 1958 batman comic. Within the book was this advertisement and quiz on your "brotherhood quotient". I dont know if it was an oversight of pizza hut to not edit the add or if it reflects how discriminatory 1978 still was. I mean whats wrong with cabbage? (I get to make that joke because Im Irish Catholic and cabbage is a part of my constitutional make up.)

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Thats a good point.. IM is one of the best pins, ever.. IMO

You can say that again.

No, seriously.......YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN!

Ironman has an echo effect all over it's playfield, but it's one of Stern's best games!

No doubt!!!!

Gary Stern has said several times, he starts with the LE and starts taking stuff off to get the Premium and then Pro.
Video is time linked so click to see Gary say this.

Using GB as an example:
The Premium lost the shaker motor Gary's signature, Lollipop rails.
The Pro dropped the above plus saved money by dropping: The nice playfield lift rails (pegs instead) , the rotating Slimer motor, (up/down instead) Ecto goggles gone, 3D models (replaced with flats) , Subway under PF lost, metal-wire ramps replaced with plastic.

I personally prefer the Premium because I get most of what's on an LE and its the last version released so most of the issues are ironed out.

That's not Gary, that's John Trudeau. Skip ahead to the Arch Rivals bit and check out the creepy lizard tongue action though, what the heck is that?

Didn't Ritchie design GoT with the pro first and then add the mini playfield? Not sure if I've heard confirmation on that, but that's what I've heard. I think every designer does things a little differently.

That would at least partially explain the left orbit fiasco in the Prem/LE.

Some people indeed design pro and add le stuff (like Steve R). Quite obvious in got that the mini playfield was added later and doesn't have a huge role in the gameplay.

Others design a premium and take out stuff to have a pro.

Not at all. He specifically said @ the expo tour 2015 (to a small group) that he starts with the LE, then takes away. Borg HAS said in the past that he starts with the Pro then adds for the Premium / LE.

Borg does the pro first for sure. Ritchie didn't add it later. I do agree that Dwight needs to add some more code for the mini playfield, but thats not a design thing, it is a code thing.

Is Automated the only distributor telling people 2 weeks?

Have other distributors starting asking for final payment? Have other distributors said 2 weeks?

People have said in the past that games destined for Europe ship first, maybe someone in the know can confirm/correct that?

I am in on an LE and both distributors I know have said Jan, which I can live with its certainly a nice way to start the new year

Historically, containers for overseas are shipped first and are in transit for a few weeks. After those containers are shipped, the first truck gets sent to Canada, and every truck after that goes to American distributors.

But until they show us the games on the factory floor, I'm doubting anything is being shipped imminently.

I read that LEs are first, then SLEs, then Premiums. There's only 240 LEs. Should take them no more than 2 weeks to get all the LEs shipped.

I'd be curious of this as well, being Mike @ Automated told me when I put deposit down he hated taking money without having more details. We then talked a couple more times after, and he said not to worry about balance just yet, as it seemed it might take some time for these to get built.
This is all the more reason that I DO believe they ( LE's) are shipping in the 2 weeks when I got the email from April.
It would seem odd for them to send the letter otherwise, Automated is a major distrbutor and always been honest with me, and this pin/ release is anything but " the norm".
I'd like to think that we, on Pinside, have all the inside info. It's obviously more the exception to the rule ( although great " inside" stuff is revealed from time to time)

Just shared what was sent to me....I'll call Mike tomorrow and update after that.

I hope/ believe they are, but not the end of the world if not......

This is correct, and exactly what was unilaterally conveyed by Stern at the show ( all the Stern gang, including Gary, George, etc.)

My distributor is saying end of Jan for my LE so would expect shipping just before Xmas which means next week for manufacturing I'd guess?

Cancel your order Neil, we don't want more than one LE in England

Lol - i've promised a few a games on it to some folks to stop them whinging about the price. I think that's worth buying the machine for that alone! I think Lee has one on order also

How many £££s is the LE in the UK?

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Would it be too much to ask to just see a gameplay video already?

I'm really not that bothered. I have an LE on order and I'm not worried that we haven't seen any gameplay.

Not quite the answer to your question... but the LEs were close to 12k € in Germany (incl. 19% VAT) and were not even officially listed on the resellers websites, since they were sold out instantly...

Correct. It may or may not be a special game with magical powers and enchantment delight- but either way if it isn't built (and bragged about on stern fb page) then it isn't on its way to you or your dist's warehouse.

Then again maybe it is just that magical, that it actually will just start appearing at your door. KA-PPEAR!

Sterns favorite customer: Will throw $10k at a purchase on faith. They don't have to do anything to earn that sale.

Here's the real question.

Would anyone be buying this game if Lonnie were on code?

Not in a million years.

I know enough to make me feel confident it will be a great game and it is MY money, I can do what I like with it.

Lyman on code is a great thing...but there is a physical game there to play, and as we've seen with GB - game that looks cool can end up being a physical nightmare. We know Stern doesn't do real-world testing...so that makes the skeptic in me say "What are they hiding?".

No one said you couldn't...but everything that's gone down with this release sets a very bad precedent.

£9995 inc vat