It would be cool if all the little holes were lighters and the more shots you hit, the more lighters light up, and if you get all of of the lighters lit, you get something (MB, 2x scoring...etc.) sort of like Star Power in Guitar Hero.

Someone mentioned earlier that the mini inserts were city lights and this may be a tour. I think that’s a brilliant way to integrate a band theme into a pin. A few days ago someone also circled those inserts and it loosely looked like the US... perhaps there were some international cities too keeping the circle from looking more like the US.

Instead of a band pin where you just play songs with little theme tie in (looking at you KISS), having to unlock cities or play across a country adds that extra element that take some already great games up to that top tier level. Very much looking forward to tomorrow.

It’s 10/5 on the east coast. Let’s see some pics damnit!

I wouldn't be opposed to Fat Axl x 0, and instead a whole lot of Melissa Reese. Keyboard optional.

Funny how JJP touted fully featured games, and now they have a "gimped Pro" that was their biggest knock against Stern. Seems like they are figuring out what business model works the best, whether good or bad.

True, but I'm still yet to see one AS Prem/LE in person because everyone got the Pro when they saw that the upper PF was just juggling your ball.

Well let's hope that after the pics are all in this thread, someone then copies them and creates a "GnR pics revealed!!!" thread because scattered and repeated information is the best information.

I go to the bathroom allllll the way down the hall. (BTW, by the time you're done watching this, GnR will be released).

Totally! Ironically, exactly at 1pm today, Metallica just sent an email about a new Dirty Donny poster and referenced pinball. Coincidences up the wazoo!

"COMING THURSDAY AT 1 PM PDT
Dirty Donny, an artist who has been in Metallica’s world for two decades, is the man behind our latest poster in the Met Store!

This blacklight reactive poster will be gone quicker than a pinball down the drain, so mark your calendars and be in the Met Store on Thursday, October 8 at 1PM PDT to get yours while you can! A limited number of prints will also be available in the Probity Merch UK/EU Shop and on Donny's website at that time."

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Wow those rotating and pivoting stage lights are unreal!!!

Keyboarding goddess. Also the harmony for a lot of Axl's vocals when he has the melody and harmony overlapped on the studio tracks.

I agree wholeheartedly with the physical CE apron lock/kickback deeley.

However with the RGB lighting count, I think the difference between the CE and LE is mostly in the undercab and behind-backbox lighting. There are a ton of LEDs in those.

Think of "family friendly" as "things that don't have the F-bomb". GnR as a band isn't really family friendly to begin with. I wouldn't pull my young kid from watching Frozen or something and say "hey you got to check out this sex, drugs and R&R pin I just unboxed!". It's just they didn't want to use radio edits, so if the song could be played unedited on the radio, it's in family friendly mode as you could be in the car and the same song could come on... but as a parent of young kids you may be changing the station.

There are a handful of games with inappropriate lyrics, sounds, and/or callouts. Removing them doesn't change the overall theme or the other songs.

I've been toying with the idea of selling my Luci to fund an SE, but I'm still waiting to see some game play to ensure it is like AC/DC on roids.

I'm a bit concerned with losing all the things that Luci/Prem/LE has (swinging bell, 2nd PF, cannon, drops, diverters...etc.) just to get video assets and a better soundtrack on a large screen. Remove the Axl and hat sculpts and screens, and this is really just a 3 flipper, 2 ramp game with a non-motorized spinning disc. My TMNT Pro has a 3rd ramp and motorized disc w/ magnet. I know it's not apples to apples, but I look at what I spent on TMNT, what ACDC has and am wondering if I'm removing all that ACDC has for something with arguably less than TMNT Pro (again, I know the extras that JJP games have that TMNT don't). I'm just comparing at a very high level.

It's a combination of me highly preferring GnR's music more, and the fact that you walk into ACDC knowing you're not getting to Encore and there's really nothing else to strive for.

What I do appreciate about ACDC is that I thought it had the best theme integration prior to GnR's release. At least half the shots are tied to something ACDC related (Hell's bell, TNT, Black in Black, R&R Train, Highway). I think they did a great job taking ACDC's assets and putting them on the PF. It's just that all you have to do is play songs, all of which have the same common goal, and then play the 3 MB's along the way. Because there's no mini-wizard or real side objectives, and because Encore is a pipe dream in a 3-ball game, it's just a game of how much you can load up and cash in Song Jackpot.

I know GnR SE has a lot more going on in the rules department compared to ACDC Prem, but certainly not the PF department.