Ok so I have two buyers already.... Sweet!

Lmao

Yeah but to see it and hear it up close with hi res / glass off video would go a long way in helping us all make a well informed decision. The chart is really great and helpful for sure.

Everyone seems to agree that the MBr thread should be for MB discussion.

B66 I’d choose!

How much more lucky could CGC get that Stern released Beatlewitch instead of Munsters today?

Maybe play it at a distibutor or a show?

There is nothing like seeing it in person, it's just gorgeous!

Get the LE, JMHO...

Maybe Doug is a double agent inside Stern now...

Which I have done & will continue to do as a MB owner and MBrLE buyer.

I wouldn't be surprised AT ALL if they slowed the Munsters reveal to let the MBr hype train cool a bit so they could have the spotlight to themselves. Perfect time to tease Beatles instead.

Yes, the insert RGBs are integrated on ‘the big circuit boards’ and your stuck with those. If one light goes out, you replace the whole board.

The GI on CGC games are individual LED bulbs which are replaceable. I had to tap into one on my AFMr to install my Eat at Eddy’s mod. They pull out easily, but you have to push on a little white tab (using a flathead screwdriver) which holds them in the socket. They are found daisy wired along the outer edges of the playfield and of course under the slingshots. Yes, the wiring is already there.

I cant be sure about the differences in software from the LE, SE, and CE. When you download updated code from CGC, it’s just one file. Now maybe when the machine unpacks the code it might unpack what is specific to that model. I can tell you the menus for topper are in the SE even though the topper is specific to the LE. That always led me to believe that a CGC topper option for the SE would eventually come. The CE is much different from the SE and LE.

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This is not true. A new LED can be soldered on.

If the same is true for AFM-R and MB-R as it is for MM-R, then this is not entirely true. The way I understood it, is the insert LEDs are integrated into the circuit boards and each insert LED is a cluster of 3 LEDs. If one of the three were to go out, then the other 2 would adjust to reproduce the correct brightness.

I think this is how it was explained...but I could be off a bit. I know they said it was 3 LEDs per insert...

I agree that CGC should’ve posted a side by side comparison of the new toys like they did for their DMD. This was the best I could come up with.

I noticed that they removed the DOHO Easter egg from the graveyard scene where Egor is holding up a torso.

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Yeah, now that you mention it, I think I remember hearing something about that. I guess I could be wrong.

Really? I didn’t know that was possible. I figured they were like those original JJP WOZ boards. Are they easy to replace?

I don't get it - the DOHO is still clearly there?

do it!! i am in on le. no brainer. used ones with oval scoop holes were going for 7500!!

On the new graveyard scene...the tombstones don’t have the letters D O H O on them. Maybe it’s a bad picture, I don’t see them.

I would think so. Get the LE and you wont have to worry about it for 2 years.

They aren't as clear as before, but they're still there. Look closely.

The letters are there, just kind of dark. Here is a version I butchered up to make it more apparent

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It's your monitor. Before I replaced mine I couldn't see certain shades and no matter how I adjusted the available settings I couldn't solve it. Especially noticeable in PowerPoint when a cell was present but not populated with something. Maybe your monitor is newer and has settings that mine didn't but after upgrading my monitor I was immediately able to see things that I couldn't before that my peers would point out to me on theirs.

Has anyone with an MMr had an insert light go out? 3 1/2 years later mine’s still 100%.

So is everybody else hearing 30 to 90 days before you get your LE?

Yeah I bet your right, or their brightness is just turned down too low. The DOHO isn't hidden at all for me - clearly there and not hard to see on my end.

Huh, how about that. They are there, but very dark in the picture.

That really doesn't make any sense at all.

MMr might be a little bit more expensive to make. But only a little. Extra $150-250 on the BoM? Extra hour of assembly (less than $50)?

MMr CE at $2k more than AFMr & MBr CE, and the same price as MBr LE? How many will they sell going forward? Virtually none.

Could be that their original licensing deal on MMr sucked, but they need to renegotiate it if that's the case. There's nothing in it for the licensor either if the cost means they don't sell.

If they re-released MMr with the new screen and speaker package, even at $75-7750, I'm sure they'd sell at least another 1500 units. $8k for the CE? Lucky if it's a couple of hundred.

Bad picture, too dark, they're still there.

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What is the DOHO significance?

Drac mech is still attached with pop bumper bracket mounting screws.

MMr was their first game. When it was announced, they were ONLY going to do 1000 LEs, because they thought that's all the market would want. Then they sold out in like a minute, and they went "oh shit, we have to make more...but we can't sell it for less because 1000 people would then be pissed that they paid more." So, they came up with the 3 tier system for AFM so they wouldn't get caught in a similar situation.

I imagine they're keeping MMr at the same price as not to upset the thousands who already bought one....not to mention it's probably still selling just fine at that price. Restored MM's were $20k when MMr was announced, so $8k for MMr is still seem as "reasonable" by most who want the game.

Dorris Ho, Scott "Matrix" Slomiany’s wife!

Doubt many sell, going forward, with the new pricing structure. It's way too high.

Things have changed, so I don't see why people should be hurt about that.

Would certainly be novel to see people complaining about prices going down, though.

MM's sold at $20k. They'll sell at $8k if anyone wants one. It's the #1 game for a reason.

...and if it doesn't sell, then I'm sure CGC doesn't care - they have 2 other games on the line to sell & more to come.

See the https://thisweekinpinball.com/11-cool-easter-eggs-in-pinball-machines/ for an explanation on it and other Easter eggs

Handfuls sold at 20k ... not hundreds or thousands.

I'm fairly sure they'd like to generate as much revenue and keep their line as busy as possible.

Bear in mind that there's going to be little to no interest outside of the US. Overseas price gouging on CGC games is generally worse than Stern. MBr CE is ~$8k in EU. MMr CE is ~$10.5k in EU. MBr LE is ~$10.25k in EU.

Good originals are a lot cheaper.

Sure, but as the current state of Pinside has shown, there are buyers who ONLY want new now. Many new collectors aren't the hobbyists of yesteryear, buying original games and fixing them up themselves. To many buyers, "original" = old with problems.

Up here, getting a decent condition title (if you can find one at a reasonable price), then adding in parts and shipping costs to get it up to snuff, buying NIB becomes the best choice financially in a lot of cases. I do miss cleaning up and fixing pins like with the first few I bought, but the way prices have gone on older pins now I'd just rather spend an extra 500-1k and get something new.

I think thats the beauty of the pinball manufacturers they are able to build a game then change to build a different one. So if there is demand for MMR they'll build them. They are definitely still selling MMRs though.

Neil.

Never knew that!

I'm attempting to keep track of orders for the MBr here:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/monster-bash-remake-mbr-owners-club

There are certainly more that 88 Pinsiders that have ordered an MBr, so go there and add your info if appropriate.

Thanks.

Robert

As of 10/24 @ 2:45 pm PST:

I'm in on a CE: 7 vote 7%

I'm in on a SE: 10 votes 10%

I'm in on a LE: 71 votes 68%

I'm out for now: 16 votes 15%

(104 votes total)

This is just what I was saying in my thread that many new people with pockets full of cash would rather buy new from a distro then screw with everything involved with buying a used one. Even if it means paying more.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/cgc-remake-wish-list-what-would-you-like-to-see-remade

What game is thinner... TOM or MB?

What game is easier to get through, and what game has less to see?

I think you all are forgetting that they didn’t manufacture MMR. Stern did. That’s where the $1 to $2k went. Maybe if they rerun in-house it would be cheaper.

About the same from my experience... both are pretty simple and on the easier side ..even set up difficult. Still fun to play for a bit and tom has some neat magnet tricks.

They have made them in house for a while now.

I had TOM for a bit less than year, and got to Grande Finale pretty frequently. I absolutely love the flow of TOM, along with it's music, theme, and all the magic tricks, but I never found playing the modes interesting, and I thought that the multiball was a bit pointless since you could not really use it to advance any goals.

What is it that MM/AFM have that MB lacks?