They put that disclaimer on all their games/models, just look on the website, it doesnt mean they dont make them for overseas

Wonder if it will have multiple reels like a classic EM or just one reel like PBR

100 percent PBR.

They don't even make those old assemblies any more.

Did you listen to the interview with George this morning? Pretty sure he said every Bond actor is in it. Maybe I misheard that but pretty sure that was exactly what George said.

Was told by distributor that the 60th LE will probably be upper 20 thousand dollars. But that is unofficial. PRICES ARE GOING THRU THE ROOF!

reasonable
but kudos to stern/distributors if they sell all of them

I thought he was talking about playfield assets from each era

hoping for a rethemed Centaur layout

I went back and listened to the podcast and if you go to the 13:00 minutes remaining George specifically says all 25 poster movie arts are featured on the cabinet and all James Bond actors are featured on the play field and on the cabinet art. Sounds like they have the whole licensing pkg.

I did not listen to it. That's what I got you guys for!

Lol…happy to do it!

Really really excited for this one. For hosting league, this type of single level layout is needed to change things up. And a new Keith Bond single level layout for this purpose is really the best of all worlds!

So much for collecting all of elwins games...

I'm incredibly interested in how the 'classic score reels' are going to be able to keep up with rapid score changes that happen in these modern machines.

Probably the same as Whoa Nellie.

I think they are going more for Jubilee...

Hopefully one of the Elwin designed Bond games will be at Expo. Would be the only chance I have to play one.

I like James Bond and single level games, but there is no way I am interested in SLE prices. That said, an increase in supply of pinball machines in general will eventually bend prices down, so it's a net good thing. I hope this game is cool and successful.

sure hope one of those is shatz only

Very curious to see this one, little disappointed Keith's first (and I assume only? time will tell) single level design is going to be basically non-existent in the wild, but it's a cool idea and I'm excited to see how it turns out.

So you're saying this 60th SLE is built with spare parts? I aint payin' no 30 grand for a game without ramps, built with parts Stern had laying around the factory.

I'm happy about this version but it's a shame it will mainly go to collectors who don't play much. I'm already in for a Connery Gomez version but would have love buying this too. I'm a James Bond hardcore fan and this version with all the movies, Bonds, villains, bond girls and henchmen would have been awesome to pair with the Gomez version.

Happy for those who have deep pockets but it's too much. If they would create a regular non limited version I would have been all in.

Well of course a distributor told you those prices. They’re the ones that are creating the hype and thus creating the price. Lol.

Elvira 40th on pinside for $19500 currently. Remember that was $30k at first.

Seriously?!? Holy shit.

I worry that this is actually going to stick. Elvira 40 was all cosmetics over the base game. So an extra 10-20 thousand for purple (and yeah, I know, lots of other great cosmetic stuff). This is a whole new game made by the best designer in pinball that you can't just buy a cheaper model of. If it's good, I could see it making a lot of money for Stern.

Maybe I'll get to see it on a stream sometime.

Hard to compare, Elvira 40th was only cosmetically different from other models. If bond 60th was just a sparklier LE then I’d guess the same would happen. This one will be unique, but on the downside may have less broad appeal being a retro style game. Hard to argue without seeing it or actually knowing the price

You’re not alone. Just make as many as demand wants. Stop this SLE bs. Fucking decoder ring super secret exclusive FOMO.

Good luck if it’s 18k+. I’m out. Don’t care if Jesus Christo designed it himself. Stern cash grab.

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Collectors crap barf. F stern for not making this more accessible. I’d much rather have this than the cock rocket

$25k but yeah.

500 of a street level game

This should be wild

Here's the transcript from the podcast with the details on the 60th Ann game;

Nate: I think we need to also dive into the fact that beyond these three cornerstone games you guys are releasing a fourth game at the same time, it's very interesting, it's very exciting.

George: Oh, yes and this one will floor all your listeners. Mr. Keith Elwin has designed a fourth model of James Bond and it's what we call the 60th-anniversary edition. His game covers all of the actors that have played the role and all of the films so I believe it's 25 films. His game spans the 25 films and his game is very different, I think it's limited to 500 units and it's a single-level playfield like old school. It's got reels in the back box. Yes, you heard me right, it's got reels in the back box. Programmed by Mark Penacho who goes back to Williams Electronics days.

One incredibly talented high technology guy that very impactful in everything he's touched at Stern since he's been with us. He raised his hand said, "I really want to do this." Owen did an amazing-- It's not what I did with Beatles where I took Sea Witch which and updated it and cleaned up the shots and all that stuff. It's not like that it's a from-scratch Keith Owen single-level playfield that is built around all standard pinball things. It's got spinners. One of the coolest thing it's got, is it's got a three-dimensional molded odd job hat in a spinner very similar to what we've done on a variety of games with a post.

Nate: Like a Tesseract. That's what I choose to think of.

George: Exactly, like a Tesseract. One of the things is it does have a display it's got the small display from the home additions and that display is actually flat on the playfield or facing the player on the playfield. Everything else is there are no ramps it's just all shots, but man, has he done a job with the shots? You're talking about a guy that he spent so many years having to play that old-school stuff in the tournaments.

Nate: Oh, the classic PAPA tournaments, the classic divisions.
George: Yes, so he understands the kinetics of those games really well and so he said, "Yes, I'd love to do it."

Nate: Oh, interesting.

George: Yes. They really wanted a real package and everything and they did some fun stuff on them. Imagine that the reels are situated where you would expect where the LCD sits in the back box and on either side of the speakers. In that panel, with the real Mac, there's a bunch of old school, the ghosted images for game over and all that stuff, they’re all back there. Very, very cool. I think that game comes with a topper and it's a single-level playfield but it's a very premium game and it's going to be a very special game.

He's got a shot I've never seen before ever and I don't know where he came up with this. It works really well. It's got drop targets, it's got an inline set, it's got a traditional set, a for bank. I think it's got, what is it? Three spinners, Mike?

Mike: Four spinners.

George: Four spinners. It's got four spinners, it's got the spinning Oddjob hat thing, it's got-

Nate: A couple of saucers.

George: -a couple of saucers. It's got a trapped newton ball.

Mike: It's a lot of fun to shoot it.

George: Yes, it's got the kitchen sink for up for a single-level playfield I should say.

Nate: From a business side of things do you see this as something like okay, we had this opportunity Keith wanted to do it, it's great, it's special. We just forced the hand of all our mega collectors to maybe buy two games? Is this something that could happen again, is this something you see as maybe Keith doing?

George: Maybe, we'd love to see how we do with it, right? Every once in a while, the beauty of where we are business-wise is that we can try strange stuff. We're not hand to mouth like our beginnings and so we can try different things. This also, by the way, the two distinct game thing also lends itself to we're going to do something interesting Insider Connected stuff where progress or things you do in one with a cornerstone open things up in Keith’s game and things you do in Keith's game open stuff up in my game.

Even though they're going to be hard to find because when you're talking about 500 games for his game, they're going to be hard to find, they're going to be in somebody's house but it's okay. We thought it would be fun. Certainly, for the people that own his game, they'll have access to some of mine. If somebody buys both that'd be amazing but I don't know if that's an expectation. I don't know if that's my expectation.

Nate: I wouldn't think it's an expectation but I think we have rabid pin bowl collectors out there who are going to-- especially with a theme like James Bond, I think it'd be exciting for the collectors out there.

George: Yes. The art on his game is all 25 films are represented with their film posters on the sides of the game, on the playfield every actor that's played Bond, Connery, Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby, of course, Daniel Craig, Roger Moore, they’re all represented on the playfield. Then there's elements he's got villains from each of the Bonds and he's got game features from each of the Bonds. His gadgets and his weapons and stuff work differently than mine but he's basically picked a representative device from each.

Like where I use the films he used the Bonds. He said, "I need a Roger thing, I need a Daniel thing, I need a Sean thing. I need a George thing.”

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George said on the podcast, “we are gonna try things”.

They “aren’t hand to mouth like the old days”

So they are pushing the limit here thinking Elwin will drive big time FOMO sales on a 500 Bond edition.

We will see

Quote a fun Monopoly feature.
"Cash Grab"

Does sound cool though.
Sadly, this will be for the ultra rich: And many pinheads are.

Looks a million times better

I'd imagined real physical score reels :/

Agreed. I like the look of this! Too bad I’ll never spend the price it would take to get one. Would be a cool pro though. Oh well

I would rather spend 30k on a muscle car than any pinball game. What a joke!

For $25k?

500 buyers? “Let’s try it”. Gomez

The topper is worth $10k alone

Honestly, think this will be an aftermarket buy for many if at all.

Elvira 40th?

Gotta salute Gomez for the Elwin draw

500?

The front looks bad all black with only the 60th 007 logo. Looks unfinished hmmm..

Looks like a premium.

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