I don't know if it's the best Stern ever but it's definitely the best "still in production" pro that you can buy right now.

The pro/prem/LE differences are many and most were mentioned in this thread. I just don't see the differences adding much to the actual game play/rules of the MET pin. The features on the Prem/LE are more like eye candy to me.

I have played all 3 versions quite a bit, and I do like all of them a lot.

I don't care about the grave marker raising.
I don't care about physical ball locks.
I don't care about the snake's mouth moving.

I think that the color changing LED's are cool, but I can live without them.
I do miss the spinners and I do realize that I can "hard mod" them in on a pro, but I haven't yet.

So, I am not paying thousands more for color changing LEDs and Spinners. The hell with that noise.

The rules to achieving snake multi ball are a little different on the pro. I actually think it's much harder to achieve snake MB on the pro, but I would invite others to weigh in on that fact.

Those rules mentioned were NOT the differences that I was talking about. I was specifically referring to the rules regarding the collection of SNAKE letters to progress towards snake multiball on the Prem and LE machines vs. the pro.

Everyone seems to like the fact that you can park a ball in the snakes mouth durin MB's... I do not like this fact. The reason is because it makes getting bigger scores in multiball that much easier.