I picked up the plastic protectors and bat signal mod from Little Shop. Very nicely done and highly recommended.

Hurry shipping company, hurry!!!

Very, very nice!!!

Well, the DMD era is well and truly over now, the LCD looks great on this game.

Now wouldn't it be cool if someone could re-theme this as Batman the Dark Knight with sweet clips from the movies.

Does your machine have a gadget or an episode?

Its an SLE so no gadget or episode plaque. It get a different plaque saying something about the 30'th anniversary of stern or the 50'th anniversary of batman.

Thanks for posting the vid GAP!

Removed.

Hot damn this is what I've been waiting for! Thank you!!

My imagination or was it all music and zero voice over/call outs? Really early code

It does look cool but i still perfer custom dots with color dmd as it seems to go with the gameplay better compared to these random clips....

You have no idea Ice, you really have to see it in person. Credit where credit is due, it looks killer.

I get where you're coming from, but do you really think this theme would look better with red LED dots? I sure don't. Dots had a long, good run, I still love them, but I think it's time to move on.

This is Stern's first attempt with an LCD, maybe it's not mind blowing, but give it some time. T2 didn't exactly have amazing dots either.

Didnt say i like red dots .....i like stuff like twd and met but with color dmd ... i guess im not a fan of clips like this basically and i like custom animation that fits the gameplay more.

Im sure its just bc the super early code and it will obviously be much better in a year or two then will see how i like it..

Metallica has imho some of the best dots ever done. But even in color I can't see them doing justice here. Purple blob for Penguin? Eh.

I think you're more responding to the LCD being kind of dull, just a TV playing back clips isn't that exciting. Not much energy or custom editing etc. But I don't think that's an indictment of the LCD, just the choices.

It's early still, maybe it will get better. Or, it's Stern, maybe it won't change at all and you'll be begging for code changes for years to come.

Either way I think the transition to LCD was smart.

Its definitely different and will take some time getting use to i suppose ,especially after 26 years of the dot matrix.....lol

I'm cheering for Stern's first colo(u)r display! Long overdue. Loving the complete Batman 66 package. I would have sold my Ghostbusters Pro to buy Batman 66, but that price jump was just a bit much for me to get past in my head at the moment. Thought I would sit back and let the dust settle. To put it in perspective, the extra dollars for Batman 66 Premium is the equivalent of half a Stern Pro game in Australia.

Will this new display cause more delays for code in future Stern games?

Damn!! I've been somewhat scepticle of this machine and how the LCD would look- but I have to say I'm really impressed with that video, even with obvious early code.

The game looks like a lot of fun, and that rotating platform thing looks great. I think I'll end up with one of these at some point for sure.. can't wait to play it

I'd increase the pitch on that game. For a Stern it seems like it's playing in slow motion. Do most of you guys set your games to play that slow?

Thanks for the vid though - most appreciated.

Look at the clip art purple penguin they put on the crane to make it "fit" the theme. Love the toy but why not put the grinning Penguin himself on with a sticker? This just looks too forced and half assed at the same time.

I'd have to peel that off day one

Others will undoubtedly love it.

It looks like its better flow and faster than TDK, but really annoying music -_-

B66 just with Nolans Dark Knight trilogy would be great!

Awesome videos thank you! I am supposed to get my LE tomorrow, i will unbox it at my restaurant and have it there on location if anyone wants to come down and play.

No. But really, there are two camps on that. Some people like them to play lightning fast, and others like the slower and calmer. It is always funny to go to someones house when they say they are a great player, and find their games to be slow and easy. To each their own.

Slow ain't easy.

I don't like shallow games as it's harder to control the ball with the flippers. Steep games are much easier for a skilled player and more fun as well.

Awesome- you have the Korean buffet place (can't remember the name...) right? If so, I was there a cpl mos ago and your TWD had my sound-mix and I thought that was so cool to see my work across the country on location

Batman is clearly running basic code but still looked great to me. Wide open ball travel, some ramp flow, the crane, great theme appropriate music, screen looks fantastic and not Overwhelming like I find the jjp's. Pumped to drop my $10k lol

I worry that so many were "pumped" to drop 10k on this game without even seeing it, that we have just paved the way for Stern to push prices into an area that would of been unthinkable only a few years ago.

Ditto on arrival date. I sadly won't be able to unbox, set it up until the weekend now (this crazy thing called work)....

Nice video.

Since the noise of the ball and mechanisms are so loud I guess the glass is off? I can't tell on my phone.

No doubt- but, Dead horse man... kapow... boutique... more license to recoup, LCD development costs, etc etc. Read the pinball magazine interview with George Gomez.

For clarity- I'm not pumped to drop $10k on just any game; I'm pumped to drop $10k on THIS product of limited build qty, awesome theme/layout/development team. More dead horse beating.

They probably didn't have an art asset of The Penguin that fit. The art is from artist, but he didn't create the vast majority of the art for the pinball machine. The art is still pre-existing art and was put onto the game in collage fashion. That limits a bit what they could do for small stuff or really special placement. I'm guessing that it was license restriction, because the sound effects are recycled from the Batman '66 slot machine as well. High quality art, sure, but it's still not custom.

What! I hope you mean game times. If ball times are 4 minutes my BM66 prem will never see location play.

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There is a grinning penguin inside the cab via a plastic insert. Actually 3 plastics so he's on all 3 sides. Not sure if it lights up or not. If it doesn't that could be a nice mod.

Pretty sure that art is custom since it shows him controlling the 2 handles for the crane. Artist also created a lot of other custom art for the game.

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Worked up an appetite picking up pinball.

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I'm finally jealous of an SLE owner, awesome dogs and fries.

Looks pretty sweet!

Thanks for the videos...looks pretty cool!

hell yes, chili dogs and pinball!

Oh there is some custom art, sure. It's just that the vast majority is from pre-existing assets. That's why it's not really fair to nitpick little things in this instance. There was definitely some sort of licensed art package to work with.

Picking up some dessert for tonight.

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Pass the napkin, I certainly would lap up some peanut butter cheesecake right off that sparkling armor. No problem!

A real beauty of a game, congratulations!

Wow that game looks freakin' amazing. I am so jealous. Enjoy!

10k AT Xmas.

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Where's the topper?

Ha! I asked the same question after I got home with it. A quick call to Stern revealed the topper will ship after the first of the year.