First pin's go oversea's, initial run of new pins built in this order, Pro's are 1st, LE's are 2nd, Premium's are 3rd. Guessing might see the USA pro's early-mid December.

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Page 35, I wrote up a quick and dirty difference of Premium and LE's over the Pro's
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/guardians-of-the-galaxy-is-here/page/35

Pro's only get's white GI, the first Matrix was a typo, Stern has since updated/corrected the Matrix. Now it still looks lik they have 2 Matix's posted, under the pro as of writing this its the old, under premium its been updated.

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I hope you're right, but I think there is an error on the matrix sheet with regards to the GI lighting. It looks like premium/le get the red/white/blue and the pro gets white gi lighting. I hope I'm wrong but they have 2 line items for GI and its either one or the other.

http://www.sternpinball.com/upload/games/guardians-of-the-galaxy/pro/GOTG%20Feature%20Matrix.pdf

Sadly I've had a backyard firepit conversation about this soundtrack 2 years ago and took a history of music college course. Glad this will finally pay off. I'm actually surprised how many people are getting their genres confused, after listening to Kaneda's podcast, I think some others will even be more confused as a lot of songs were attributed to the wrong genre.

GOTG Vol 1. soundtrack did hit #1 on the Rock Billboard charts in the US but is comprised of a lot of pop songs and pop / rock fusion songs.

I think Stern actually did mean pop songs. This should directly tell us what songs are on the table as a lot of GOTG songs (7) actually fall under the pop genre. Looking at the Vol. 1 soundtrack song genres.

Pop-
Hooked on a Feeling
I Want You Back
Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Power Pop (subgenre)
Go All the Way

Pop Rock - Soft Rock (subgenre)
Come and Get your love
I'm Not in Love
Escape "The Pina Colada Song"

Non-pop songs -
Spirit in the Sky
Moonage Daydream
Cherry Bomb
O-o-h Child (though Chicago Soul has elements of pop)
Fooled Around and Fell in Love

Fantastic stuff!

Damn....well that just a few bulbs to change.

Hopefully that's just it, Star Wars got dramatic zoned GI. Wish GOTG got dramatic zoned as well.

You remind me of Colt Seevers nephew on the Fall Guy right now. College this, college that. Malarkey!

Little did I know that blow off class in 2005 would come in handy in 2017.

ah, give it 15 years. but yes. Spike games will only be disposable throwaway items in years to come. With 6 different node boards and schematics to fix anything. When the next board set is revealed. Spike will collect dust. No fuses means node boards blow out instead. Unfixable node boards. What caused it to blow? Don't know, lets swap the $300 part iv'e been sitting on for the past 10 years and hope it doesn't blow that one out too. Power up.......shaiet!!!! well guys...help me throw this in the dumpster.

While I agree that Spike may not be as reliable as Sam or Whitestar, I think this statement is rubbish. Parts will be available. They might be more expensive. I have no facts, but I seriously doubt that a node board bought through a Stern dealer is $300.

OK, here is fact. Pinball life prices.

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An inexpensive fuse gives the owner the ability to fix/replace something and then turn the game on and see if the fuse blows again. Without the fuse it is hundreds of dollars risked every time a blown out board is swapped out. I don't see how that is rubbish.

Even at $159 a node board, which is probably about the cheapest version, that is a huge risk every time the game is fixed and turned back on after the fix to find out if the fix is the actual fix.

He said the games can't be repaired. He said the games would be put in a dumpster. That part is rubbish.

Can you not put fuses on the game yourself?

15 years from now the parts may no longer be available. My understanding is that each node board has firmware that only Stern has access to so 3rd party copies presently cannot be made.

I'm already looking into trebuchet designs so that I can have something ready for 10-15 years down the road when my game is dead. Todd Tuckey already pushed one off a roof so I need to step up my game. We can all meet at few hundred yards from sterns factory and start catapulting them back at them.

If the PRO is all white GI, it won't be zoned. All GI on or off. I wish GOTG had zoned color GI too. Guess we'll know in 5 days (IAAPA)

I am looking forward to seeing and hearing the game in action.

I wouldn't mind knowing about this as well.

Premium GOTG over here £8295
LE GOTG £9500!

I hope that STERN decide to include the laser cut siderails on the LE.

Shaker motor £120
Art Blades- someone will make alternative, and most likely better ones. £75
The only thing is the cabinet art and LE back glass...is that worth £1000 ($1200ish)

I like the laser cut rails, I could get them for £400 and have the whole cabinet hardware repowder coated for £150 (reckon a nice metallic purple would suit the Premium)

Still saving me some ca$h! If the side rails are included on the LE I will get an LE. If not.. we’ll save some money

Stern won't change their mind. Did SWLE get a shaker? Nope. Will GotGLE get laser cut rails? Nope. Will the Pro have RGB GI? Nope. Plan accordingly.

This probably sounds stupid but is there any way that we can confront Stern and asked them these questions about the spike system? They are suppose to start communicating with us better right? I think if the community demanded answers that they would have to answer our questions. I just don’t know anything about electronics or how to even go about getting a discussion started with Stern about their boards. This seems to be a possible issue though and I think people need and deserve some answers about it.

I know Spike is here to stay, but I wish they would go back to the Sam system. It was reliable and repairable, just a solid system. Probably Sterns best in my opinion.

No it didn’t
It cost me another £100 to put a shaker in my starwarsLE.

I ordered my starwars blind, as there was some huge HYPE over the theme, my distributor wanted 2K non refundable deposit.
Was I gutted on first reveal.. for sure, but with the new code I think the game is awesome and has a one more go appeal to it. Im not that good of a player and still haven’t blown the death star up yet or got hyperspace multiball... mostly because I don’t know what to shoot for!

I also bought GBLE blind, love the game as well, looking forward to the code polish, still haven’t got to Marshmellow man!

GB had drawn artwork, a nice change from the games before, new mag slings.. should have been used on STARWARS IMO, and and Slimer, Ectogoggles, pop up targets and a ball physical ball lock- again a while since it had been used. Great value LE

Stay Puft mode is very very awesome!

I look forward to getting there!

Stern won't go back to SAM because among other things SAM can't support the LCD. They'll keep at it in revision level until Spike is reliable. Like it or not, this is their go forward technology.

Call them and ask

Doubt you get any answers. Just dont buy those games if it concerns you.

That’ll be all the STERN games been released in the last 2yrs then?
Is SPIKE2 fused? Or is that the same?

Same I believe.

You could try asking on their Facebook page. If you do, phrase your question in a positive way and without a hysterical edge to it to avoid being immediately deleted.

I have another question. As I understand it, the Spike games so far have all had at least some game-specific node boards. Is there an obvious reason that future replacement node boards couldn't be designed to be compatible with multiple titles? If this is possible, and if Stern committed to doing this, it might address some of the concerns about Stern's incentive to provide long-term support for Spike node board replacement.

So GOTG premium price is:
7600$ in US
8295€ in EU = 9660$
8295£ in UK = 9980$

Yep

20%import tax on product price + shipping cost!

And then some for the distro!
An LE here is £9500

Wow and I thought we had it rough

Yep, us brits get fucked over for everything!

Does the 20% import tax apply to used game imports as well? (I'm guessing it does, of course!)

Yeah anything that comes with n from a Non EU country.

Just bought 100 ultra shiny pinballs as they are short supply overhere

$140 + $75 shipping & another $75 in import tax

holy balls....... that is crazy!

Premiums are 7600 here now? Thought they were 7200? If that's true than no way im buying. I was thinking about it around 7 but not any more.

I believe $7300 is more the going rate.

Will LE release before Christmas?

MSRP for the Premium is $7,600. Retail will be a few hundred less than that (I think people were paying $7200 shipped for SW, I'd guess GOTG will be the same since MSRP did not go up?)

Of course it concerns me. I know nothing about these boards so when you have multiple people saying our games won’t be any good in ten years, a person would be a total F’ing idiot to at least not wonder if there any truth to the matter or not so that’s where my curiosity stems from. As far as not buying new games, that’s not the answer that I’m looking for. I want to buy new games. All I want to know is are these games really disposable? My common sense tells me no, but I’m also not educated enough about electronics to truthfully know that.

Did you know there is no spinners in the pro?

What a scam

Im telling you right now that stern is not going to give you any reassurance that your games will work or be fixable in ten years. Thats just a risk you are going to have to calculate before you buy.

The only way to be sure is to buy one, wait ten years then report back.

The answers you're looking for are either “yes for sure these games will be fixable in ten years” or “no these games wont be fixable in ten years”. Truth is no one knows for sure.

Just sell them within ten years, let the next guy worry about the self-destructing unobtanium node boards, and you're sound as a pound! (Perhaps a poor metaphor, given what the British have to pay for Stern games).

Seriously, no one knows. You can either hold off until you're confident you can repair them yourself or that parts will definitely be available (not sure if/when either of those will happen), or figure that the chances of you still owning the game in ten years are relatively low, and in any event if people are still playing pinball in ten years the market will figure out a way to keep these machines running if they're still worth something (and if they're not, the age of parts machines will be back).

Surely STERN would allow/supply a company information so that, if they weren’t bothered in making node boards then a different company could say like RottenDog?