Those drops are cool as hell, but yeah they are loud. They better be the designed like a brick shithouse and need no tweaking or they could be a huge source of problems. Even still they are by far the most enticing feature of an otherwise lackluster game.

Not sure who will be polishing things up? Balcer was gone months ago and the game is not far from production. I suspect this is part of why it looks so unpolished.

Based on the bulk of posting you are far from the only one. Definitely a lackluster performance. The backside of Smaug when turned around is unbelievably bad. I have never seen a mountain that looks like that. Might as well do away with the spin feature totally so people can see him in attract mode and maybe want to pump a dollar in. The artwork on the big open area on the playfield is truly bland to borrow your word. I could go on but I am just glad that I never put any money on this.