Agreed, I don't want any of those things, they don't matter to me.

Haven't seen them show up yet anywhere.... can't wait to see the playfield in high res.

Naw, I love the Dead Flip streams of the new games. You get to see it in the same environment that you would at a bar or a friends house, people having fun.

I don't need a sanitized marketing video, I want actual people enjoying the game (or not).

Game looks great. Really looking forward to playing it in person.

My thinking exactly. I need to get 50 games on one and then see if I want to make this my first NIB. My wife immediately jumped on board.

Groot is supposed to be big, everything about this is great. I wish there were some stuff from the second movie, but this is a great package so far.

Have I mentioned I'm excited?

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Agreed, I really like the art. Well done.

I think you are wrong here, because I know I can personally identify the scores from the majority of marvel movies, especially avengers and guardians.

Marvel is my star wars, I don't actually think star wars is as fantastic as everyone makes it out to be.

Scores from the movies and tv shows.

Gorilla-Man.

PS - Not really, but I did do a double take to see if they were just making a Marvel joke.

Movie spoilers, but CinemaSins just posted "everything wrong with GotG2"

I wish for the LE they had done a Milano themed cabinet/armor.

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Yeah, I'm feeling the Pro. If I put 50 games on it and love it, I might make it my first NIB. It's gotta really grab me though gameplay wise, there are a bunch of games less than $5k that I haven't owned.

This!

It might look slightly gold in that pic I posted but it's orange. Blue/Orange would have been a great color scheme I think for the Armor. Maybe something for me to do if I actually pick up this game.

You might be right. They haven't gotten me to open my wallet yet.

This is a clear cost cutting move by Stern to not include an actual genetically engineered raccoon in every game.

Wow! What a mess!

We are Groot.

We are Groot. Except for pipes. pipes must be Kree. j/k

For better or worse, the Good-Better-Best model of sales is really popular right now, not just in pinball.

It's pretty standard to position offerings that way. Not saying I think it's perfect within pinball, just saying that it's pretty normal these days.

Little bit of rocket and groot history popped up on imgur today:

https://imgur.com/gallery/eYK17

Is it possible to do orange/blue color changing?

I'm asking him if he can do the special color changing powdercoat with orange/blue instead of purple/blue as shown in his pic.

I could have worded my question better.

Looks like it isn't possible anyway.

Makes sense. The nebula look is still very cool.

Saw the new Thor movie earlier today, it's a great addition to the MCU.

Got me completely and totally psyched for the Guardians pin, even more than I already was.

I'm way ahead of you.

All aboard the hype train, choo choo!

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No shame in giving your partner exactly what they want, especially in a huge expensive luxury item.

It's a family purchase, everyone should be able to get something they want out of it.

How does it work with digital actors like Rocket and Groot? Would Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper have to sign off on having film clips of Rocket and Groot on the screen? Not talking about audio, just video clips.

I think I gather from all the other licensing talk that for someone like Starlord to be on screen, Chris Pratt would have to sign off on it. Does anyone know how that works with CGI actors? Is it just Disney that has to sign off on it?

Yessss!!!!!!

You won't have to.

What? Hollywood would never just use characters for the cute aspect.......

j/k, of course they would, lol. Exhibit A: the new Porgs in star wars:

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Don't forget the lesson Spaceballs taught us....

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Wow, that's pretty cool!

I'm pretty sure HighProtein is planning to post some info about it from IAAPA.

Pin2k had a much higher chance of being a pile of junk.

I know spike scares people, but Stern didn't bottle up some mystical infinity stone in these things.

Look at your Vol. 1 closer.

If you wanna get with groot, you gotta get with my friends.

I want to see a giant Milano topper.

Thanks for the stream Dead Flip!

It was cool to confirm that the layout is good. I just hope we see some movement on the code. I want to buy this game badly, but can’t until I see a complete package.

Golden Tee is a game where you see who can hit the control panel the hardest without breaking their wrist.

And loser of every third hole buys a round of shots.

It's a decent game, I'm not super into golf games so I don't really have anything to compare it to console or PC wise.

I more enjoy the social aspect of it than the actual gameplay. I know some people who do take it seriously though and will only play at bars with the most current years game, etc...

I think this year Stern has been building out their ability to better manage code life cycle. They've made some good hires of competent people who can help right the ship as far as code goes, but it does take time.

I fear they have a lot of technical debt that needs to be worked through, which takes raw hours. Outsourcing could be an option, but it would require them to have the software dev process properly set up to realize any actual gains.

Uh yes, just gimme an hour or two to get the kids in bed.

Speaking of Guardians... The first trailer for Infinity War just dropped.

The Guardians show up at the end.

I can't wait. I've never been this excited over a movie.

One of my deep dark geek secrets is that I think Star Wars is just OK. It's cool and fun, but Marvel is to me what Star Wars is to a lot of other people.

Bobbity BO BO!

I'm listening to the call outs with pinball browser, they basically recorded the dialogue from the entire movie.

There are several variants of bobbiby bo bo, all are hilarious. I don't have a pinball browser license so I can't export them, but they are worth listening to. They are under Requests 849, 850, 853, 856.

I find bobbity bo to be hilarious, I pretty much agree with your assessment of the rest.

If I were Stern I wouldn't be paying the voice people until they rerecorded Ronan, Yondu, and some of the Rocket lines.

I got to play Guardians today! BadBrick and I went and checked it out. It was still on the pre-callout code 0.6whatever.

The game shoots and feels really nice. The artwork is fantastic. Christopher Franchi did a great job bringing it all to life. The ramps are super satisfying, and the Rocket kickback is thrilling/scary every time it fires. It comes back so fast! It's very reminiscent of the Yagov kickback on F-14.

Does the code need work, absolutely, but it still works really well even on this early code. If they keep improving the code like I hope they will, this is going to be a great game.

I was worried that playing it would completely disappoint me and turn me off from buying it, but that's so far from the case.

If I end up buying GotG I'm going to write my own superfan edition of the code using MPF.

Edit: Just to be clear I doubt I can do better than Stern, it would just be for fun. There are a lot of people on fiverr who can do impressions of actors though....

I'm pretty excited about the new song additions! Keep on this path so I can buy the game in February.

I think the shots on GotG are actually great as far as tightness and difficulty of making them.