I think Ben had it right earlier in the thread. If you're a small manufacturer, securing a supply chain for LCD is pretty difficult.

There are only a few companies in the world that manufacture LCD screens and I was quoted minimum order for a production run starts at 50K units. Short of that and you tend to be buying excess production or overstock in secondary markets.

Really? I don't know of anyone that bought 9 at one time.
Might as well buy 2 or 3 at a time because ColorDMD's are just as addictive as owning pinball machines.

Randy is dead to me... He dangled that damn Star Trek color dots thing in front of me... like 2 years ago... and I'm still waiting.
First world problems.

He keeps quoting some lame excuse like Stern created some abusive algorithms to display art on the crappy red display. I'm not longer sure his heart is in it for that game.

Am I bitter... yeah. but I'm also ribbing him a little to maybe light a damn fire under his arse.

Buying color dmd,s are addicting! Waiting for CC & CV ! I'm tired of dots in orange /red there dated.

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Patience...young one. I'm sure no one is jumping at the chance to color it for fear of Stern releasing new game code for ST. I guess you may have to wait a bit longer after ST production ends, which seems to be late this year.

New code for Starship Troopers? Sweet!

That would be SST.

Oh, I guess the lookup is incorrect as shown below:

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I've had one on one chat with the guy that shall not be named (IE dead to me).
I got the distinct impression the "issues" were not FUD related... but were technical because of the unique way the art is sent to the display. I seem to be recalling the "random" word coming up during the brief conversation.

For the record and in case anyone isn't aware of the timeline, at the time they said that color was happening on the next game, the next game was Ghostbusters. In other words, it's very possible that the next game from right now will be color.

...until they find an excuse to not release it...
"we" as in Pinside... have been "expecting" LCD technology from these clowns for several years... we are still saying "next game - for sure".

I'll believe it when I actually see them post a picture of a real machine on their website with it... or people say they got their NIB unpacked with it.

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Is he just a bad player, or is the pin really that boring to play?

It might pick up a bit if you hit more than 2 ramps in 8 minutes

Just played the Lebowski pin, and watched it for about fifteen minutes while waiting in line. The LCD looks great but it doesn't really add much to the game like my favorite DMDs do. You're basically just unlocking movie clips, which isn't something I'm a fan of. I really like classic DMD animations, they're funny and creative - think the additive balls during the whirlpool challenge in WH2O, or the extra ball growing legs and walking away in TZ, or everything with Striker in WCS94. I do like the color DMDs in dot mode, though.

Awesome video clips, music and callouts. But they won't save what looks to be a boring/bad layout. IMHO.

A good player can't make a "shitty pin" exciting. TBL looks boring and clunky. Thankful I bailed.

The "instrumentals" are awful. The video is very cool though.

Damn Ice, that's pretty brutal.

Having said that....I agree!

I think you meant donkey punch.

That video was putting me to sleep even faster than watching a Hobbit gameplay video, Aliens can't get here soon enough.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one to find that game to be boring .... however I won't officially judge until I play it. Music/sound was awful though.