Would be cool if lyman sneaks in a quick cameo of green hornet and kata in the code somewhere. Maybe as part of some kind of mode where you do a wall climb and the lcd shows different cameos at the window as you make your shots.

We are waiting and watching....always watching.

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If you bought the numbered bluray boxset edition of the TV show, it included a subset of the 66 trading cards.

Burt Ward is gonna be at Terrificon in CT this weekend along with Lee Meriweather (catwoman from 1966 film). I might try and go since its only 1 hour away for me and supposedly this is the first time (so the ad claims) the batboat, batmobile, batcycle, and batcopter will be together at a single show.

When I brought my LE to a comicon earlier this year I took the Adam West card from my LE machine and brought it to his table and he charged me $120 to sign it. It ended up being a waste of money since Later in the show he came and played my game. After I showed him how the modes worked he signed my apron for free.

If you want me to try and get a card signed for you let me know and we can try and make it happen. Celebrities seem to change the price of their signatures from show to show by gauging what they can get away with. With Burt's I would expect it to be $100 plus or minus $40.

Here's the card I have with Robin on it from the bluray set:

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I like how Stern did the apron on the game so you can easily swap cards in/out and change from portrait to landscape mode.
This way if you got a card you didn't like you can easily swap it out for another one.

I think the early code (and higher price) are keeping sale low. I remember seeing one of the distributors putting something along the lines of "new updated code coming soon" in one of their ebay listings for the game back in the spring.

From a purely business standpoint it would make sense for Stern to not relase batman66 code until they are all caught up on Star Wars orders and before the next new game hits the line. That way when there is a lull in production they could release the code to much fanfare and get fresh premiums built to ride the momentum the new code creates.

Is it a NIB or a previoulsy enjoyed one.

I wonder if Stern actually sold all 80 of the SLE's?

Didnt Stern have some kind of clause about buyers not being allowed to sell them for 2 years. That was a bit of a joke and I dont see how they would even be allowed to enforce it.

The current music isnt bad but I would still prefer the actual Nelson Riddle music from the series and 66 movie. He had some great themes for each of the villians.

Once the code is done I plan on using pinball browser to add some of the origianl music to the game.

Hade a good time at the Terrificon today. Lots of cool bat-stuff on display. Got to meet Burt Ward again and talk about his Batman66 SLE. He loves his game but has a problem with the crane and is wating for the service guy to fix it.

Here a pic of him signing the Robin cards a few pinsiders asked me to get signed.

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They had the batboat, batcyle sidecar, batmobile and batcopter. The batcopter and the batcycle side car were the original ones from the show the others were replicas.

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They also had a few catwoman costumes from the 66 movie on display, along with Lee Meriweather herself.

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I met a guy there that made a custpm batcomputer and batsignal on display. After talking a bit it turns out he's a pin head that has restored a few games over the years.

He tells me about his nearly HUO haunted house he got for $250. Seems every pinhead I meet has a story like that except me. LOL.

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Since the show was at a casino I had to look for the Batman66 Kapow slot machine. I saw this machine in my travels. The next Stern/Kapow game?

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After a lot of wandering and asking I finally found it. After I took a pic of it I got yelled at. Apparently photos on the casino floor are a big no no.

It was a lot of fun to play. I put $20 in played for abput 20 minutes and walked away with $32.90. I was happy about that. Great comic show for those in the new england area. Will probably go next year too.

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You're killing me with yet another super find story. Maybe someday I'll find my diamond in the rough.

I got one for one of your mates maybe you can bargain with him for it!

Listened to your interview with "the podcaster that shall not be named". It was a nice listen on my way tot he comic show this morning. Nice to hear someone stick up for Batman66 for a change since the game usually gets a bad rap.

Glad you like the pics. I wasn't sure if some would think I was cluttering up the thread with non pinball pics but I thought at least a few of you would like to see them.

This show claimed it would be the first show with the batcopter, batmobile, batcycle and batboat all together at once. However the batcyle was not there (just Robins sidecar) so I guess I'll have to look forward to a future show where they are all together.

I talked to the batcopter owner/pilot and he went into great detail about it's history and how he acquired it. I was amazed to hear he actually flies it to/from the shows he has it at. The reason it doesn't have the bat emblem on the front is that it makes it hard to see below when landing and taking off. He said the copter only had that painted on for filming and it was removed later. Also the big bat wings on the side made it less stable aerodynamically so for safety reasons they were removed as well. If he stops flying it and just uses it as a show piece someday he'll probably put that stuff back on.

Pinside has been a wealth of pinball information for me on technical repair help, buying/selling info, new or old game info, show info, and just a great tool to connect with other pinheads.

Sometimes people get carried away or overly passionate about their opinions but overall I still find pinside a very useful resource. I try to ignore the bad stuff and promote the good stuff. So anytime I have the opportunity to help others out I try and make the effort to pay it forward.

My LE is just like you described it. So thats probably as designed. To me it looks like both posts are intended to stop a stray air ball from settling in either corner of the apron.

Yeah it doesn't make sense to me either. A little honest communication goes a long way. I dont see the downside of confirming something is coming soon or not and maybe a little tease on what new modes or features are being worked on.

Specific dates are not needed but it would be nice to know if we are talking days, weeks, months, or heaven forbid years.

Maybe with Mr Sharp in place we'll get better communication going forward.

Batman66 was my 4'th Stern NIB in the last 5 years and will be my last. I've learned my lesson. If I like a future Stern title i'll wait until the code is done (or at least appears to be complete) and buy it used.

Stern should pamper customers who spend this kind on money on their games but they cant even be bothered with some of the most basic types of communications that were described in the prevoius post.

It appeared there Stern was on the right track with the whole "commissioner gordon" email sign up sheet thing that came with the game. I only got one email update via that and then nothing.

I thought I read that it was easier for companies to retain and cater to loyal repeat customers than to recruit new ones. Maybe thats not the case in the the 8K+ LE pinball market.

I still like their games and want them to thrive but I wont be a beta tester on future releases.

Any pics of the new ramps?

Bat.......patience..........wearing.........thin........must........hold........on..........just.....a........little.......longer!

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Lack of communication is certainly frustrating. We know they are working on it but would it kill them to throw us a bone once in a while with a tease on what is coming or a least a vague time frame of when?

I had to have my $2K deposit in exactly a year ago this week to hold my LE spot. Back then if someone told me me the game would still be at 0.75 level code in a year I would have said you're crazy. This is Sterns flagship game celebrating 30 years in the business as well as 50 years of Batman66. It was their first foray into SLE territory for the ultra collectors, no way they would drop the ball on this one.

I think this is true. For as many loyal repeat customers thay lose there seems to be just as many new ones to take our place when the right theme comes along.

With Batman66 they probably made back all of their development costs on the game just by the LE and SLE profits alone. So any future sales of the premiums are just gravy. So what business (note I said business not ethical) motivation would they have to make the game any better than it already is? They made their money on it already why not just move onto the next money maker. I guess we should consider ourselves lucky it we get any future code drops.

Glad it made it to the other side of the pond. When I asked Burt if he plans on doing any shows in UK or Europe he said no. So you might have been waiting a while for him to show up.

Thats a great image you picked. Once you figure out a way to mount it on the apron with the Adam West card post some pics so others might get inspired.

Weren't people saying the same thing about grtting a code drop by labor day LOL!

I hope they start bringing them to more shows. No Batman66 at pintastic this year and they didnt bring any to the big comicon a month or 2 ago. Maybe distributors are giving up trying to sell it due to anemic code support.

I thought I remember hearing some high end players (Keith Elwin maybe?) get some early peaks at the updated Tron code to try out and comment on before Stern released it to the public.

The super simple imexpensive mod to light the riddler saucer green and the penguin scoop purple look great. I'd recommend that one to all Batman66 owners. If you dont want to make it yourself I think mezelmods.com has them.

As far as brightening the playfield up I was gonna go with some extra spot lites but decided to try the pinstadium kit instead. That will brighten up the entire playfield and also have options for UV glow flashers and also be GI controlled. I was in on the preorder for it so i should be receiving it soon.

For the speaker lights I was able to use the ones sold by pinball life. I had to enlarge the holes in the speaker light mounting bracket a little but other than that it fit fine with my.flipper fidelity upgraded speakers. I think it looks great along side the color LCD. I can take some pics of the inside of the speaker panel if people are interested.

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Homemade. If there was enough interest I could make some more. Its 2 pieces of painted plastic glued together with a small magnet on the back to hold it to the grill.

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I think the chrome would tie in well with the silver flake on the door, legs and rails.

There seems to be enough interest in the bat symbol speaker grill mod so I'll go ahead and order some parts to make more. Will probably take a week or two to get the laser cut plastics made. I will post on update when they are ready.

Welcome to the most patient club ever. You should update to the 0.75 code. Get it at stern website.

I would love a code drop by Expo. However, if the code is still buggy or not finished then they shouldn't release it just because Expo is going on.

If they dont release by Expo a lot of us will be disappointed but I dont think Stern is too worried about us making a "big stink" about it at the show.

If its not released by Expo I would imagine someone at the Stern presentation would ask where the BM66 code is. Gary or George will give the same thing they've already said many times: "We are hard at work on new code, it has new exciting features and modes, we are committed to finishing the game and it will be coming out soon".

Then they will show the next shiny new game (Guardians of the Galaxy?) And everyone will forget about Batman66 and jump over each other to order the new game.

I was about to post something very similar. I agree that BM66 is overpriced but at the same time the BOM on it is definitely higher than a recent Stern pro.

The crane mech was streamlined a bit from BDK to BM66 but its still quite a complicated mechanism. Also the rotisserie has a lot going on with it as well with the physical ball lock, batcomputers, mini LCD, batmobile spinning platform, atomic pile, batphone toy and targets. Also throw in the center playfield magnet and custom callouts by Adam and Burt (not cheap), cpntrolled diverter gate, spinner, lock down bar gadget button, playfield slide supports, steel ramps and wireforms, VUK, main LCD, 20 standup targets. Plus don't forget Joe Kaminkows piece of the profit pie for the BM66 license. No way this is same cost as a regular pro model game.

Its kinda like people originally saying TNA should be a cheap game to build. Once you look under the playfield and see all thats there you realize its not as simple electrically or mechanically as it looks at first glance.

Saying BM66 is same manuf cost as aero pro or TWD pro is just incorrect.

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If you are starting an intetest list for this to estimate demand you can add me to it.
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I was not happy with the lack of focus on it. With the location I had it was just too fuzzy to look decent. I might just end up getting the official Stern version.

I've also been looking at the "rotating" red beacon on the LE/SLE toppers. Why settle for just 10 LED's when you can have 108 LED's! I'll post some pics soon when its fully operational.

The effectiveness of us complaining about BM66 code reminds me of this:

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i.e. Stern doesn't care if we are disappointed or not and will release new code whenever they get around to it. Let's hope they get around to it sooner than later.

No plastic there. The post is there to keep the ball from settling in that notched area of the apron.

Looks great! Did you do a custom paint job on you building mod on the back board?

The bat phone under the cake glass looks so much better than the big dog chew toy phone that came with the game.

I got the crane mod second hand without instructions but haven't gotten around to installing it yet. Based on your recent experience with it, how would you recommend installing it?

Thanks for the info and the pics! I decided to get off my butt and install mine this morning. Here's how I installed it and my mini-review of it.

The crane mod I got was free from a fellow pinsider but it was an earlier version of the mod and was modified in a few ways. This version was originally taller and was cut down a little so it wouldn't protrude lower than the existing front of the crane. The current mod you can buy is the proper height and doesn't need to be cut down. The top of this one was a bit rough from being manually cut down but all of that is hidden once installed. I think my install approach could still be used with the current crane mod available at Mezelmods. Here are 2 side pics of it installed on my machine.

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There are two wires (green and white) that run along the length of the crane and interfere with biasing the crane mod all the way forward. I cut the 3 cable ties holding the wires to the side of the crane and 2 more cable ties holding it to the other wires and to a plastic before going down the playfield hole near the pop bumper behind the crane. Under the playfield the white and green wires go to a 2 pin connector which you can disconnect. Once disconnected you can pull the 2 wire harness up through the playfield hole.

At the front of the crane the green wire terminates to a ground tab that is held by a screw/nut at the front of the crane. If you want to bias the crane mod right up against the front of the crane you need to rotate that ground tab.

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Just loosen the nut a little bit (8mm wrench works) so you can rotate the tab 90 degrees. Then re-tighten the nut to hold it in place. you can now push the crane mod right up against the front of the crane.

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I added some double side foam tape to the top of the crane mod so it would stick to the top-underside of the crane. I then ran the wire harness through the center of the mod. To ensure the mod didn't fall off over time I also added a cable tie to the front corner of the crane. There was an empty hole there so it was the perfect spot to secure it.

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I added another cable tie on the back end of the crane using the existing middle hole that previously held the wire in place. This cable tie is just holding the crane mod to the crane. Its not holding the wire harness here since the wire harness at this spot is above this hole.

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I added another cable tie on the last hole to hold the wire harness in place. I pulled the wire taut before tightening the cable tie so that the wire wouldn't droop into view under the crane. I then put 2 more cable ties in the same places as the previous ones were to secure the wire harness to the other wires and the plastic
just below the crane. You want to make sure you have a little slack here since the crane needs to move freely. I then ran the wire down through the playfield and reconnected it.

My approach takes a little longer to relocate the wire but I like that the crane mod is centered under the crane. If you don't move the existing wire harness the mod will still fit under the crane but it won't be quite centered. You would need to bias the mod to one side so it fits alongside the existing wire harness.

I like the extra bit of detail this mod adds to the crane and think it looks great. Since this one didn't come with the dome light cover for the top of the crane I'll have to ask Mezel if he'd sell that one separately. You can buy the crane mod from the great folks at mezelmods here:

https://mezelmods.com/collections/batman-66-pinball/products/batman-66-pinball-crane-upgrade

Another pinsider gave it to me and it was just the crane part without the light dome.

I think Stern did a great job with the Batman66 LE/SLE topper. Of all the toppers they've done I think this one really compliments the machine. The only issue I have with it is the rotating beacon on top. To keep the design simple Stern uses 10 LED's that are lit an unlit in a way to simulate the rotating beacon on the Batmobile. It looks OK but is a bit slow for my tastes. Stern also uses white LED's which tend to make the beacon look a bit pink. If you just replace the white LED boards with Red ones its a big improvment. However that doesn't fix the rather slow rotating pattern. Here is the Stern Topper in action.

I first got the idea to replace the innards of the Stern beacon when I saw a used Rescue 911 rotating beacon at the Saratoga pinball show for just $1. I went ahead and bought it to see if I could make it work with the Stern topper. The pic below shows the Stern LED assembly which is easily removed.

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The rotating Rescue 911 beacon did fit inside the Stern housing with a little trimming but the big drawback was that it was noisey. Being mechanical in nature, it mades a noticeable "whirring" type noise when turned on.

I decided to try one of the more modern "simulated" rotating beacons instead. The Wolo Hawkeye 3010-R looked like a good candidate.

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It uses 108 LED's to simulate a rotating beacon and since there are no moving parts its totally silent. The pics below shows the Wolo with its 6 LED panels with 18 LED's per panel. It also has a switch that can be used to set the type of rotating pattern you want.

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I was able to fit the LED portion of the Wolo inside the Stern housing. I had to space it up a bit with some standoffs so the LED's would be centered within the slots in the Stern housing. Even though there are a lot of LED's in the Wolo you will still see them distinctly if you don't diffuse the light from them.

The Wolo comes with a diffusing lens that surrounds the LED's. This lens unfortunately is way to big to fit within the Stern housing. To make it fit I had to cut the top of the lens then a cut a chunk out of its side. I then reformed it into a smaller diameter and glued it in place. You can see the glue seam in the pic below. it looks rather crude but once its in the housing it looks fine.

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TO control the Wolo lights a used a great little mod called "T.I.L.T Mods basic F2S board" You can get them here:

https://www.timspinballmods.com/collections/mod-designer-tools/products/t-i-l-t-mods-basic-f2s-board-5v-version

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I had Tim make me a 12V version so I could use it to to drive the 12V Wolo and not have to bother with getting 5V to Tim's board. The way the device works is you give it power and a trigger. The trigger in this case is the flashing bat logo on the topper. Whenever the topper is on that bat logo flashes and will in turn activate the Wolo. Here is the board and a pic of it installed under the Wolo.

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The video below shows the new and improved beacon in action.

Ironically enough as I was finishing the mod tonight I had MeTV on in the background and tonight they were playing the Batman66 False Face episode. That episode uses the "False Inflatable Batmobile" gadget which also happens to be the gadget version on my Batman66. Holy Bat-coincidence!

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I have no idea what Lyman has in mind regarding topper inter-activity. Hey Stern, if you are reading this would it kill ya to give us a tease as to what to expect? The suspense is killing us!

If Stern made the logo light all the time in a future code update you could use other topper LEDs to trigger the beacon. For example, you could used one of the LED's on top of either of the side stalks. Those probably only turn on when the beacon was meant to be on. I just picked the logo as the trigger because it was an easy location to solder an extra set of wires. Tim's mode has screw terminals so if you decide to switch the trigger source its easy to just unscrew the wires and replace them with others.

I actually like the idea of a real mechanical rotating beacon like the rescue 911 one but it was just too noisey. I still might use it if I can figure out how to make it quieter.

Expo will go fine for Stern whether they have a code drop or not.

If there isnt a code drop by Expo somone will undoubtedly ask a question about it during the Stern talk. Stern will say how hard they are working on it, maybe throw us a quick video clip or describe it somehow then move on to the next question.

Here's what I think people feel like behind their keyboards before the show.

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Here's what they are like in person at the show.

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I'll be at Expo this year and will also be expressing my dissapointment about how they handled Batman66.

Maybe we should have a Batman66 support group meeting at the bar after the Franchi Batman66 talk on Friday.

George and Lyman said they are lifelong Batman66 fans, lets invite them with Franchi and drink to the late great Adam West and hug it out.

Looks nice. I think that set was a comicon exclusive a few years ago.

Maybe code is coming sooner than later. Over the last week Stern had had a couple facebook posts referencing Batman66. I wasn't sure why since it just opens the door for people to respond with "Where's the code Stern?" So maybe something us coming soon and they are trying to start putting the game back on peoples radar.

Surprisingly there are a few snarky code comments that people have left in there that Stern didn't delete. Maybe Zach has convinced his bosses to do social media the right way. Or maybe there were much worse comments that did get deleted? Who knows. Some of them are funny.

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Batman66 code complaints have even made it to Frachis facebook as well where he teases his new Stern game reveal at expo. So maybe the percentage of disgruntled stern buyers is getting bigger.

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Some of those comments go beyond inquiry and are more of a jab at Stern. I'm glad to see they didnt get deleted.

Thst would be cool if they gave Batman66 some love. If Guardians isnt ready for the line yet they might try to reinvigorate interest in BM66 again with a big code update. They gotta keep that production line humming.

If Guardians isnt going to be there I wonder if they would let Franchi show any of his artwork for it during his seminar on Friday.

Its drawn that way on the pinball game side drains as well.

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"Batman Day" is an annual day promoted by DC to celebrate all things Batman. It started 4 years ago to commemorate the 75'th anniversary of his first Batman comic.

This year it was yesterday, Saturday Sept 23'rd. I was hoping Stern would use that day to maybe tease us with some more solid code update news. I guess not.

Franchi posted it on his facebook page. It was a tease for his Expo talk in a few weeks. He said he plans to show a lot of behind the scenes art stuff regarding Batman66 during the talk. Maybe he'll be be allowed to show his new Stern game art as well?

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Bruce Wayne is a millionaire, he can afford to have a permanent dock for the batboat so he'd never need to tow it around.

The batmobile looks nice by the shooter lane if you couple it with the Gotham City 14 miles sign. I guess you could have the batcyle there instead of the batmobile.

Stern uses a white pop bumper body for the atomic pile. I replaced mine with a translucent pop bumper body which allows for a brighter flash from the flasher inside of it.

http://pinball-mods.com/oscom/game-specific-products-star-trek-the-next-generation-pop-bumper-body-p-42.html

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If you want villain cars from the actual TV series, eaglemoss produced a few. They did a joker mobile from the surfing episode in season 3, a catmobile that eartha kit drove around in season 3, and a batmobile after penguin stole it and pimped it out to be the "bird-mobile" from season 1.

The eaglemoss cars are a little bigger (maybe 1:43 or 1:50 scale) but very detailed. Hot wheels also put out a penguin bird-mobile at one point as well.

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Batmobile on the spinner looks to be 1:64 scale, about 80mm long.

I can measure my eaglemoss batmobile when I'm home tonight. Its a little bigger than hot wheels but def not 8-10".

Here's pic of my Eaglemoss Batmobile installed in my shooter lane area. Also some pics showing Eaglemoss Batcopter (biggest one in pics) vs Hot Wheels Batcoper (smallest one), and Hallmark Batcopter (has Batman and Robin figures in it). This gives you an idea of the scale difference between Eaglemoss and Hot Wheels vehicles.

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I replaced the batmobile on my spinner with a different batmobile. My original batmobile was a flat black with black flames on it. The flames being black weren't really noticeable but I didnt like the flat black either.

My replacement batmobile was the exact same size, 80mm. But some hot wheels batmobiles are bigger. My batman66 bluray set came with a hot wheels made batmobile and its about 105mm. This website lists a bunch of hot wheels batmobiles. They all sorts of variations so you nned to measure the one you get to make sure it fits or not.

http://www.1966batmobile.com/hw.htm

My eaglemoss batmobile is about 120mm which is way too big. The 80mm size fits the existing spinner perfectly. You could go bigger and over hang it off the spinner but not by much before it would hit stuff. Might need to worry if ut would spin as well if ut got too heavy.

Hot wheels did have a 1:87 HO scale batmobile which should be smaller but I dont know how the detail looks compared to hot wheels version. Being smaller the spinner might spin differently than it does now.

Its all personal preference. I like the hallmark one as it has decent detail and I like the mini batman and robin in it. Thats the one I put in my game.

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Congrats on the new addition! Ad you go through the game you should double check that the turntable is level with the rest of the playfield in all of its positions. Thats happened to a few if us. If its not, you could get ball hang ups on slow moving balls when enterimg the lock. Will also lead to premature wear if not flat.

The SLE speaker lights look awesome! Good job.

Thsts what I would think as well.

IF there is a code drop coming I would think they would want it out this week. Then it would get some momentum buzz going by time expo starts.

Stern will be pretty busy getting ready for the show and tour next week so you would think they would want to get the update(s) done and out if the way this week.

The downside would be if it was buggy or had issues then it would be an embarrassing point of discussion at expo.

Stern mentioned some code status on their facebook page. They mention "major villain cliffhangers".

Hope they do something with the minor villains as well with the next update.

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You can see the new star wars video modes here via a link in this thread:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/stern-star-wars-video-mode-navigate-the-asteroid-field

Apparently they got some early beta code to evaluate it.

So who here has an early release of the new Batman66 code and can tell us whats in it?

If there was new minor villain stuff you would think they would have mentioned it in their teaser post. I really hope this isnt just an incremental update with just one new feature added.

Yes this is good news and hopefully will be a recurring thing.

So based on the screen grab it looks like you play a villain mode then after a certain point you have the option of collecting points and ending or to you can keep going and possibly risk losing your points?

Does Lyman have anything like that in his other games?

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How does that mode work?

Thanks. Sounds like a nice risk vs reward option during gameplay.

I really like how Lyman is linking fun elements from the series (like the emergency bat-turn and cliffhangers) into the playfield features and modes. It truly integrates the theme into the game vs other games where the theme almost seeks like an afterthought.

Looks like star wars just got a new code drop.

Maybe Batman66 is coming later today as well?

I noticed the new stars war code had a Sept 29'th date on the readme file. I guess it was in test for a while before they released it today.

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J85M, Is code update next week just a guess or do you know something?

Anyone install a pinstadium lighting kit in their Batman66? I'm in the preorder list and finally got my shipping notification today.

I'm getting the base kit with GI control and the UV flasher option. Trying to decide which of the 8 flashers would be the best one to trigger the UV glow with.

I was originally going to add some spotlights to try and brighten up the overly dark playfield but when I heard about pinstadium that sounded like a better approach.

I'll be sure to do some before/after pics once I recieve it and get it installed.

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Maybe George will hand out flash drives with new code on it like he did at TPF.

I just checked the tracking info and it looks like mine wont arrove until next tuesday.

I'm leaving for expo on wednesday so you'll probably get a chance to play with yours before me.

I see 8 flashers in the game so I'm trying to decide which one would be the best one to trigger the UV glow flashers in pinstadium.

The choices are:
Left sling flasher
Right sling flasher
Bat symbol flasher in center of playfield
Crane home position flasher
Pop bumpers flasher
Bat signal on back board flasher
Top of crane flasher
Atomic pile flasher

I'm thinking the backboard batsignal flasher might be good as it goes off every now and then. Crane might be good as well if it goes off each time you smack the wrecking ball. Pops and slings might go off to much. I'll have to experiment.

Hmmm maybe a chart comparing the two could be used to create a trendline to extrapolate when 1.0 will be reached for each code base. Who could create such a chart?

That would be cool. I think Houdini has reverse flippers as well as upside down flippers. Upside down flippers are stuck in up position then when you hit the flipper button they go back to down position. Very challenging to get your shots right with that mode.

Robin did say "holy reverse polarity" in one of the episodes so they might have that soundbite in the code already.

When I was planning a Batman66 retheme I was going to have a reverse flipper mode that the joker did as a trick to you. I was thinking about adding a joker "shocking" feature. you could have Joker zap you via a mild electric shock via the lock down bar (similar to those fake joke lighters or pens that shock you). A milder method would be the flipper buttons themselves would vibrate to simulate a shock. I think there was a game from the 80's or 90's that did that but I can't remember the name. I think they called them rumble buttons?

I also thought about a frozen flipper mode caused my Mr Freeze. You have to "thaw out" by hitting the action button a bunch of times and then hit required shot before you get frozen again. Or you just call it "cat-a-tonic" mode and its works the same except instead of being frozen you are paralyzed from catwomans cat-a-tonic poison.

Can't wait to see what Lyman has in store for us.

Well I havent had it in a game I've owned yet so it will be new for me. I looked at the callouts in PBbrowser and there is the sound clip from the 60's show in the code that has robin saying "Holy Reverse Polarity". There is also another sound clip of the Burt saying the same thing that was recorded specifically for the game. So if they had him record a custom clip of it then thats a good sign that a reverse flipper mode might be in a future code update

There are also some clips of him saying "Bat Magnet Batusi". Wonder what the Batusi mode will be? The current code has an entry for "Batusi Champion".

Lets hope we finally get some of the custom sound bites in the next code drop. There are about 600-700 custom callouts from Adam and Burt and around another 800 by the narrator soundalike guy. Thats in addition to the hundreds amd hundreds of vintage sound bites lifted from the TV show.

Although that would be extremely disappointing, it would not be surprising.

Did they actually say it would be this week or we just assuming it because of expo?

Sparkle looks nice. I was thinking about doing the speaker panel myself via the silver glitter method Yelobird outlined. I figure if I screw it up I'll just send it to someone who knows what they are doing.

I was thinking about replacing the ball deflector on the bottom of the batgirl plastic with something more interesting but was still functional.

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There is a Batgirl cyle out there I could use but who knows if she'll ever be in the game or not. I was thinking about using this since it has a fun mode in the game and it looks cool.

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Also thought about putting it on a bumper cap as an alternative location.

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I thought about adding lights to it but if i did not sure what to trigger it off since there isn't a specific insert to signal when that mode is active. I guess you could hook it to GI and have it on all the time. It wouldn't be to hard to add the light when I'm building the van.

My game was an early build so it didnt come with the ramp flap or divertor and I had go request them from Stern. Before I recieved and installed the divertor I had the ball jump onto the plastic a few times.

If you put the cycle there it should block the path enough that you shouldnt need the divertor at all.

For those who've been collecting the Halmark Batman66 ornaments there is a new one this year of Robin. Similar to last years Catwoman ornament, its a limited edition so its only sold in stores while supplies last and is not available online. They just started selling them this week.

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RELEASE THE GRAPH !!

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