New year rocks!!!! btw...the negativity, while annoying as it's incredibly redundant, doesn't bother me. I'm very excited for this game...only way it changes is if, AFTER I have it, gameplay sucks beyond belief. Not gonna happen.

It's a new info thread. It's a thread to discuss all aspects of the game. If someone wants a cheerleaders thread, an official/club thread would be for that. I've pointed out the good stuff around this project as well, but Stern has really not given much to work with.

I hope it's great. A local collector is waiting for his. Nobody wants a stinker. But holy jeez, give us something to work with.

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Ramp flaps appear to be fixed. I wonder how many playfields exist with the old placement. Probably just a small run of test/prototype games. That would probably mean that the Little Shop of Games B66 is a production model.

Getting my LE from Curly......can't wait!

I can get over the head issue if they get rid of her boner. I am just not into trannies.

I don't think it's going to be a stinker. I wouldn't worry about that. It's got the best of BDK (a game I and many others feel is pretty underrated), much improved art, probably a better sound package, and I'm sure better code. The unknown aspects are really about how the features and new screen are going to be tied into things. It's pretty easy to estimate how it will shoot, as it's a fairly basic layout.

It's a f—ing forum, we're here to talk about shit. Everyone who's all worried about the "noise" or whatever is the one that needs to get over it. When there's a video or something there will be like 4 new threads in an hour, chill out.

I swear the whining about the whining is almost the worst, only thing more stupid is this post, that's whining about the whining about the whining.

I love how you resort to personal attacks on specific people at Stern. Well done.

You know a lot of us here are really pretty tired of your crap, right?

Seriously, why are you continuing to post ad nauseam in this thread? You have 88 posts (edit...90 posts) in a thread discussing a pin that you have zero interesting in purchasing with nothing but non-stop bashing.

It is beyond ridiculous, and has got to the point of childish trolling. Sad, especially considering how you said in a recent podcast that you were going to start being "more positive."

Not when you have a single person virtually taking over the entire thread with his incessant bashing, repeating the same thing over and over and over and over again. 90 posts by someone who has zero interest in ever buying the pin that is the subject of the thread. Do people have a right to give their opinions even if they aren't a buyer? Of course! I am the first one to defend that. But 90 posts? Ridiculous.

But I guess we shouldn't be surprised that you would defend that kind of behavior given what you did with the artwork in the GOT thread.

There it is. This time around, let's not make it a point to make Jody hulk out on the stream.

Well that confirms no one will be getting their games this year!

Jack Danger should be SLAPPED!!! for cutting and pasting himself into Robin's seat. Bad Bad Bad...

Can't cover the hair with the cowl, man.

If this thing is ready to be streamed, then it can't be too long before it starts going into shipping. A guy in our pinball league has an LE coming, so I'm hoping that's there before the next event at his place in early February. Seems like it should happen, as I imagine that after the holiday break that they'll be pushing these out.

So use the ignore button you big baby.

I'm in on the LE and I'm very excited to get it.

Congrats man! I so wanted an LE but just couldn't swing the price. Premium for me.

You're absolutely right. Let's support the whining, snivelling, the complaining, the absolute USELESS comments from people who have no interest in actually buying the game. 90+ posts that are absolute crap to read, let alone annoying as Hell -but you want to encourage that?
Give me a freakin break. If you SERIOUSLY think that Pinside is a better place because of this t-r-a-s-h then whatever man. But in my eyes, it is the absolute CANCER of Pinside. It makes for a frustrating read, when threads like these are supposed to be about the excitement of pinball playing and ownership.
If you don't like something, no worries. Go start an "I hate Stern" thread. Oh look! He did that already. -But no reason to have to try to ruin it for everyone else. What we're talking about is FAR, FAR away from a "conflicting viewpoint, or opinion". And if you can't see that, then you're part of the problem.

Plenty of other threads where you can talk trash about whatever you want. LAME, LAME, LAME to be doing it in a thread like this.

Nope.

I prefer to call out the trolls, but thanks for the suggestion!

Too much negativity in this thread. All 80 SLE and 240 LEs are sold out. So I know of at least 319 other people who are excited to get their machines.

Am I happy about the price? Not at all. This is a free country. I am free to buy it or not to buy it. I chose to buy it. I work my ass off and I wanted to treat myself.

I've not seen it said, but what is the street price on the LE and premium games? Usually you get that $700-$1000 difference from MSRP. The SLEs were direct, so no break, but what about the others?

Shipped price of a LE was $9,500-$9,700.

So only a few hundred off MSRP.

The price in NZ was $25k for the SLE, $17k for the LE and $13.6k for the premium.

Yep, I'm one of the 319.

Chambahz and RobT are right, critiquing a pinball machine is one thing, I always like to get differing opinions and viewpoints, but the incessant BITCHING and WHINING, is F ing out of control at times.

It's not just the general idea of WHINING, its what some you guys are F ing whining about. WTF, a ramp flap covering part of Catwoman's head! Gomez said it would fixed and all we get is 2 months of non stop crying about it.

If the pin sucks gameplay wise then I'll show you something to really bitch about.

You know I use to have a lot more respect for some of your comments because of your knowledge. Not anymore. Now you just sound like a bully.

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I completely agree and I'm with you! Been watching Batman since I was a kid. It's timeless! Super excited about getting this machine. This is going to be spectacular! I bought this machine for 2 reasons: the theme and Lyman is handling the code. Anything he works on, I go after, especially after playing TWD.
Does anybody have anything bad to say about his work?

Keith Johnson is responsible for the deepest code in pinball, but I think Lyman is responsible for the most fun code in pinball. If I had to pick a single programmer to work on a game that I had money on, it would be Lyman. He might work a bit slower than other programmers, but his code is incredible by the time he calls it complete.

I agree Jar. My expectations for complete code upon release of this game is low. (Yeah yeah I get it, "for what you're paying you should get complete code!") But what I'm hoping for is another masterpiece like TWD and that takes time. At least that's how it went down with TWD. I don't think it was an accident that GARY stern put his top guy on his anniversary pin but I could be wrong. I usually am!

Count me among the lucky ones who are looking forward to getting this pin. The incessant bitching about a pin nobody has seen is nothing short of amazing. But then insulting those who decided to take a leap of faith on it is beyond lame. I believe with Stern making this their 30th anniversary "piece de resistance" that it will be super cool. If we got it wrong, we'll be ridiculed enough for the cash we shelled out. In the meantime, I'm happy to see others excited to get their pins (hopefully) in January!

Me too - can't wait! I think this game is going to be a hit!

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Now that's how you end this year and start the new year with BM66 gameplay

Just wondering have you guys in the US been asked by your distributors to pay remaining/full balance?

Couple weeks ago for me

And if you don't lock in the 2016 price any new orders go up. Nice trick.

Really?!! Stern's price increase takes place next year for sure? Anyone have an idea of how much more per pin?

My Dealer hasn't asked me yet!! I'm in for a "gadget"LE may take longer to get! I hear the PRe's are coming out first! This makes no sense! I also heard late Feb,early March for the LEs!

120 LE's will be based on episode titles and 120 will be bat gadgets. I don't think you get to pick which LE style you get. As mom always said "You get what you get and you dont get upset".

At expo Gomez thought there might be some trading going on between owners. Not sure how many people will bother unscrewing their plaques and trading with someone else. You would have to find someone else with a title/gadget plaque they didnt like that happened to like yours.

90 posts in 6400 comments is less than 2 percent of the posts in this thread. I've made 145 posts in this topic (which is a very surprising number to me because I rarely check this thread).

We are all potential buyers and more likely all players. A miss in QC or PR on one game has the potential to affect future sales so everyone's opinions should matter.

The best tactic if someone is annoying you is to ignore them. It's hard for a person to have a conversation by themself for very long.

ignoring takes all the fun out of this site, face it head on and pass judgment, that's the ticket.

New Stern FB vid shows work being done on BM66

Never mind that in those 90 some odd posts that I've had good things to say about the game as well. I've also shared info about the game that I've received from people who are 100% in the know.

Anyway...last time Stern did the reveal stream for Ghostbusters they answered a lot of questions in the chat, despite the whole "I am Spartacus/kpg/kaneda" silliness. There's a good opportunity next week to understand a lot about the game's finer details and what future plans are if we don't wreck the chat. I'd love to know of the SLEs how many went to the invited buyers and how many were through submissions. When it was 30, it seemed like 20+ accepted the invitation to buy, based on the initial video submission contest and how it was worded. When it upped to 80, I don't know if all buyers came from video submission or how that was handled.

Thanks. Ramp flap doesn't cover catwoman anymore. I can finally sleep at night!!

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I am very surprised. that's awesome!

Awesome news, I haven't slept for weeks because of that now I know it's fixed I can....

It might have been a small issue and trivial to some buyers, but it is great to see Stern actually giving a shit over the finer details and I applaud them for that it's the perfect show of attention to detail what with all the QC issues recently

Nice!!! Looks like we will be getting our games soon.

My dealer has a alotment to sell!! this is not random choice! if your not in at time of deposit,then ?? There all sold now,so well see!!!