Testing the waters (see what I did there) on interest for some custom designed Art Blades. $130 delivered.

Send me a PM if this is of interest to you!

These are printed on Thick Laminate Vinyl pre-cut.

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What is that shark doing?

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Awe….wook at the wittle baby teeth bottom fronts I’m not scared of the water anymore. When I get the game this needs a fixin!

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Grout, like Señor Spielbergo, is Groot's non-union Mexican equivalent.

Like the Death Star in Star Wars. I see the point.

The game might play well as it is but still having the shark "eat the ball" is way better than "bashing the shark."
The movie's not called Chins.

I was going to say the Death Star. It's such a rare occurrence to see it blow up, that it's really cool when it does. But...it's also kinda lame at the same time and if it happened regularly, it wouldn't be exciting.

Actually I’d be 100% good with a scarier shark and a light show when it pops up if possible. Still, what I’ve seen so far is the start of the pins I really like and own. In JP, I love the feeling of rescuing, calling the chopper, catching the Dino and don’t even get me started how cool the Raptor modes are. I see similarities in this so far with the beach goers, closing beaches, chumming , and pulling up the fin. This game looks to shoot real nice as I thought. I hope the early people are correct in saying there’s a couple tough shots as we can’t lose those in games. As alway’s 100% trust in this team .I’d have a prem ordered already, but last year was a pricey one for our home so no hurry right now. It will fit in nicely with the other 3 monsters. Yes people, Eddie is a Monster and maybe the scariest of all!

After re watching I love the Shark standing out in color while moving around as you are trying to save swimmers. This is pinball to me. This is what I really care about. When your doing something, are you just hitting shots or is there something playing out. Lastly I am wondering if there is a possibility of random speed and/or moves of the fin though. Does anybody have anything on that?

There was so much light in the room, no way you can even tell what the lighting is going to be like.

Not called Swallows either

Also the Death Star toy is one of the worst toys. It's so anticlimactic

I like the spot light aimed at the upper right flipper. I hope the night fishing mode turns off a lot of the lighting. Could be very moody.

BALLS IN HOLES!

vs.

BALLS ON CHINS!

I see....I see...

The Megalodon quest on DP, always gave me jaws vibes.
Anyone?

*SNIFF*

Well if that’s the case then shame on Stern for not saying one way or another. Gomez did mention some sort of surprise to the game without saying what. Nothing on the stream jumped out like a holy crap surprise moment.

Was thinking in lieu of eating the ball it would be cool if a little oxygen tank emerged from throat to hit for the “smile you son of a bitch” wizard mode.

Not mine…

One thing I noticed from that footage, it looks like the UP flipper activates with the right button....I wonder if you can triple stage them (bottom two flipped, UP not)

There is potential for a LOT of cool water fx on this game.

I can't say I like those in lane up posts, looks like some kind of training wheel for cradling. How it holds the ball for you to let you shoot the fin. It still pauses and slows everything down but without anything interesting happening on the playfield so you just tap the flippers out of boredom waiting till it lets go.

P.S. Maybe during multiball it would be cool but it just seems pointless with only one ball in play.

What I noticed was in 7 mins that guy was not able to hit the wave ramp to the upper PF.

Edit: he hit the shot once.

"Video of bad player at trade show" is a game launch trope as dependable as potato cam photos.

Yeah that is weird, I get that they want to give lots of people a chance to play but why set them up to play like shit. Just seems so counter productive when your showing off a pin.

That doesn’t make sense at all at shows when trying to sell games. Bring more games, set to 2 ball or hand out those restaurant blinking pagers .

He hits it once about 48 seconds in, he just doesn't hit the upper flipper.

No disrespect to this individual, but he may not be the best representative of the machine's gameplay.

EDIT: And he hits it again at about 3:20, but he again forgets the upper flipper.

Doesn't Elwin miss it a few times in his video, does he count as a skilled player?

Is that the same shot that Carry pointed out in his video that Keith, himself, had trouble hitting?

I wouldn't expect any tournament player to hit every shot every time. I recently watched the Deadflip stream of Iron Maiden and Elwin doesn't even get close to the high score on that game. Also, the guy recording this video didn't realize he was playing both players in a two player game until about five minutes in, so I'm thinking he may not be a pinhead.

If the fin can actually change speeds that would definitely help the challenge factor and add to the fun factor…IMHO.

Have any Hi Res images been released yet / any links ??? please

https://sternpinball.com/game/jaws/

They hit the wave ramp a few times.

Interesting design. @ 3:05 in the video when the guy doesn't hit the Wave ramp with enough force, the right ramp is there coming through the Wave. The ball petered out 3/4 of the way up the Wave ramp and then fell into the right wireform return.

Edit - does it again at 3:53

thank you

It's true. That's one of the reasons the reveal stream is so important, and yet somehow here we are. It'd be different if there were no distributors and it was DTC.

Amazing!! Jaws was announced last week and humans are physically playing it in the wild!! Only Stern.

I look forward to seeing the Deadflip stream.

Which IMO should have followed Elwin’s video lfairly quickly. It was also distracting that Elwin’s video was so edited mixing in what looked like 2-3 games.

Waiting a week and seeing these low res terrible angle ces vids… not ideal

I recognize the player there was not a good player. He was oblivious to the two upper flippers and never attempted a staged shot with upper right flipper. I get it.

I think JAWS is a hard pin and that wave ramp does seem to be the hardest shot to make consistently/reliably

I’m just talking pinball.
Have already said JAWS Looks great to me.

Barrels of Fun did it first, albeit their production rate is about 2% of Sterns.

Pinside: We want Jaws!
Stern: Jaws
Pinside: We want footage!
Internet: Jaws potato cam footage
Pinside: We want high res Jaws footage!
Stern: High res Jaws footage
Pinside: We want Jaws footage of an average player!
Internet: Average player Jaws footage
Pinside: We want professional Jaws footage with an entertaining, above-average player in which all lighting and sound conditions are perfect
Stern: Jack Danger Jaws stream on Friday
Pinside: Godzilla!

Give them credit where credit is due. They are very good at keeping their projects under wrap/secret. But they've been working on these for years, simply announcing it now when they're ready to roll isn't magic. But Stern, and most of the pinball manufacturers, operate like government intelligence with their IP's. I find it funny everything is so secretive because it's so unnecessary and silly. But they are good at it.

There was nothing wrong with the Elwin gameplay vid, I think you guys really just want to stare into Jack Danger's goo goo eyes and don't know how to say it properly.

Ya know the more I think about this… they should have done something like Star Wars Death Star. The majority of players never get to see the shark. The shark is barely in the movie so why shouldn’t the game be the same. Have the damn ball eating thing buried under an hour and half plus of gameplay. Then when people play on location they can all be asking each other… “did you see the shark?” Nah you?” “Not yet but I think I was close!”

I think it should pop up every time it pops up on the video screen, taunting you, spouting smart aleck quips like Rudy.

Okay so I just starting watching the video and he does it on literally the first try at the 45 second mark. Don't believe everything you read.

edit: nevermind I see BRW84 already spotted it

I'm not saying Stern shouldn't have stayed way lower, but when your main competitor...JJP...now has an entry level of $12500, and your highest trim was $10500 with GZ, the appearance is that your highest level product is inferior to your competition's lowest level product.

I don't think either companies game's have this much "value", both are batshit, and are most likely pricing many people out of home ownership.

Captain's Arcade Showroom is streaming Jaws Live right now on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/pinsandpirates

They have (2) Premiums on location that you can play yourself today. Anaheim, CA.

Yes. Why are they victimizing us like this? If only we had a choice! Why are the companies so batshit crazy to charge these prices?

Nice. You need to add these to the other forum post by "Panther city" "Stern JAWS mod thread"

If you're a snob, how on earth could you say Spooky value GUI and animations more so than Stern??? They're rock bottom, competing with AP for lowest tier of visual design.

Not to mention WE have to work on these ourselves. Very few come from the factory without needing a tweek, replacement part or full on playfield swap. What other industry works like this. No cargument, but these are reaching car prices.