LMAO. Wonder what the LE is going to cost.

Yikes - hire a good artist next time. Game might be fun, but I can't shell out that much for bad SNES cover art.

Where did you see this? Thats quite expensive, I thought perhaps it would be in the 5K range. Bummer, I was excited for this one.

Stern is more expensive in holland. Ac dc 8k euro....

Well there goes my interest in this one.

Agreed like Predator just to Home brew for me.

Maybe they should have went with a Mario Kart theme?

The prices in the Pinball News article are retail prices for Europe, via distributors.

We are expecting prices for our standard model to be sub $6k retail in the USA, and will explain why when we make our announcement shortly.

Andrew

Plus it will be shipped overseas so probably even more than we are use to.

I am really curious about this one; it might just come down to "most of the world is used to paying crazy amounts for their games, the USA is slowly playing catch up "

Good luck with the game. I was disheartened to see a LE for this game as well (LE everything seems to be infecting the hobby...) but I don't blame you one bit for giving it a shot. It seems to work

This game looks like it has mad flow, but new tech and some killer ideas. It looks sort of like what Steve Ritchie might have designed had he been given free reign at JJP. And that can't be a bad thing, can it?

Looked like a pretty solid game. This price point to me is a little out of line with the current norm. Art and powder coating, Toys LED's. This is LE pricing without the bling not my cup of tea.

If this can help, we have the exact symetrical problem in Europe with Stern NIB prices. I could afford a AC/DC premium in the US, but now way I would pay 7400 euros for a NIB one in France.
Sales tax, import and transport...

for example $6000 + $500 shipping. taxes for the importation French VAT 19,6% 6500*1,196=$7774
You have to pay the custom clearance agent about 3%. $8000

For the moment in France we have no additional customs taxes for a pinball importation (for a TV it's 10% + VAT)

You can see there's still a difference about $1000 but the pinball have to be at the EU standards (220V, 50hz) ROhs compliant before the exportation and ship with an UE standards certificate

The seller have to make the transformation before the exportation otherwise the french customs block the pinball. This transformation is not free. Some claim between $500 and $800 for these modifications. The gape isn't as important as it seems.

Welcome to our world.

at least the regular and the le appear to have the same game play based on the info. LE calculates to be about $1.5k Aus or US.

Interested to hear pricing for Aus as a LE would hit $10.5k with freight / tax, interested to hear the pricing is going to work out.

It is about $8500 Australian
+ $500 shipping
+ at least $900 in local taxes and other govt charges

tad under $10000
pass

Totally agree, the game appears to have good flow and a little innovation, but it is so damn ugly. In the video Iron Maiden is playing, is that on the pinball track or just back ground music?

I was hoping it would be under £4000 GBP and actually closer to £3500. I guess though you are investing in the cabinet and can buy just the playfield for the second game although we have no guarantee how many more games will be made.

I hope the final game has more sfx and call outs. It seems to just be music mostly. That was similarly disappointing on Captain Nemo. No offence to fans of that kind of music but I don't like the music on either of these games.

Well, to be fair, they were showing an incomplete game so I wouldn't put much stock into the music/sound effects at this time.

Yeah, hopefully.

You do realize this is a work in progress (prototype). Looks like its probably 70% complete right now. Even at this early stage in the game it looks very cool and seems to play great. Scoring but no video or effects, no game music, no bumpers. I'm sure there are several other things missing. I am amazed that Andrew and his team got it this far in this short of a time and brought the game to the show to play. Imagine when the game is complete!

From reading the info on pinball news, the changeable playfield, 4 channel sound, dashboard display LCD screen in the middle for video/effects/scoring, RGB lighting in the side panels are all very cool innovations.

I am really digging the game so far and look forward to the next news!

For so many years, with B/W and then with Stern, we are used to seeing completed games shown for the first time, that were developed in secret. All these new companies are showing us their works in progress, but I think it will take some adjustment to understand what we are seeing and that the game will change a lot by the time it is complete.

works out to about £4300 whereas we're paying £8500 for a Stern here. factor in the next game for £2500 and that's well cheap by comparison and shouldn't take an op long to recoup the money.

£8500? You mean dollars? A new Stern Premium is about £6200-400.

yes I stand corrected its only two grand cheaper

all depends on taxes..
if i order a stern from the us, for 5k, i will pay probably 6k euros after taxes and transports.
6k euros = 7.8k dollars

so, when you pay 5k i pay 7.8k.. and i bet my salary is 10 times smaller than all of yours us guys hahahahahah

Would this be better value?

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