The Premium Gomez Bond @ $10k is looking pretty sweet right now. Maybe that has been the strategy all along?

Adding to cart didn't affect stock. Doesn't mean more than five were purchased.

Yeah, just $20k.

Meh, $20k for a game with bad photoshop art of the Bond actors? We couldn’t spring for a real artist??

I've updated the list to fit Stern's marketing

2 ultra flippers with 3D ball action
2 super slings with active feedback
4 ultra opto spinners with 360 rotation
2 mega saucers featuring direct lift action
1 4 bank of drops featuring Stern's new bounce back technology (patent pending)
1 3 bank of drops featuring Stern's new bounce back technology (patent pending)
1 3-in-line drops featuring Stern's new bounce back technology with reverse field action
1 360 horizontal spinner bash toy with ultra fast motion
2 pops with twin direction super movement
1 captive ball with momentum feedback
2 control gates featuring active movement technology

then a few stand up targets featuring high density feedback for rapid ball speed

Iceman -- are you in?

Imagine a few years back when you could own Met LE, STh LE and WD LE for about the same price as this Bond ! Madness

Swing and a miss.

Would have been the best selling home machine of all time.

Already did the same! LOL!

Yikes, talk about phoning it in.

I see why Gary retired before the new year

Gameplay looks really great, but I love the old school single level games. On a whole though the idea of having all of the Bonds in one game makes my skin crawl. Seeing it in pictures and videos confirms that. This is definitely a far lesser theme to me than the cornerstone. I'm so glad that my LE is only Connery. If it was the other way around, I'm not sure I would have bought a Bond at release.

Very unimpressive layout. I'm shocked at how phoned in it looks.

No way should this be priced higher than a Pro.

I am sure it will shoot like a dream though.

Is it just me or does the movie poster art and spinning hat disk seem like a hard rip off of GNRLE?

It does look like mechanical reels which is nice. The sad part is this game and pretty much all others being made today are cool but it's the insane pricing that is off putting. This is sadly the Disney approach in full effect of offering a limited number of "luxury experiences" (in this case items) for astronomical prices and not caring if most of the customer base is cut off.

$20k? Nope.

It’s below the LE and premium

Beatles is a better package overall with more drops.
Bond LE is a better package overall.
Suppose reels and opto spinners aren’t cheap.

Bring on the Goldfinger LE

You should then say because you didn't do something stupid that you should be rewarded with two premiums of your choosing.

If anyone is interested I have a very nice Deadpool Pro I'd be happy to temp trade for one of these for 3 months or so. I think they are pretty close in value. Let me know.

Never know how many actually sold. If they are smart, they say "sold out" after 10 min no matter what. FOMO works.

They would sell lots of Beatles and 60th if they just reused themes from Stern Electronics and sold them for $5-$5.5. I would be all for that. Seawitch - Beatles, Galaxy part 2 - 60th.

They did this with the wrong theme. Slap BTTF on this and one person would have bought all 500.

The art alone on Beatles makes it better than this.

I'm glad I read this. I had it added to cart, and then thought about it more. I like the salute to all the Bonds, but I just can't justify that price point.

highly limited from the biggest manufacturer that every distro buys from, I mean it's obvious they would sell out quick.

It's going to be like Elvira 40th, where we see a ton of these floating around forever at high markups.

This game looks super fun for what it is

Mechanical score reels are too much of a throwback I think. This evokes the 80s, not the 60s or 70s.

I follow pinball pretty closely, I think. I'm certainly not at the level of fanhood of some other Pinsiders. I ask this with the utmost sincerity. What is the purpose of this game? I know that Stern making money is one of the answers. But who wants it and why? There's already a new Bond game that looks way better than this.

crujones4life you have storage for all of those ?

Maybe I can see them fitting in Peabody's Barn

Back to the drawing board for Stern

This model ain’t gonna work

How about the guys putting down $5k “non-refundable” deposits sight unseen with one Distro.

Literally zero innovation here.
A second grader could have done that art in MS paint and google images in an hour.

Any movie clips at all on the screens?!

I'd like a James Bond game with either Roger Moore, or all the Bonds/films if I cannot have just Roger Moore. I'd buy this game for a reasonable price, but it's not reasonably priced.

lol, people thought that leak couldn't possibly be real because it was so drab looking. The only thing we got wrong was that wasn't a placeholder LCD, they just put the reels in in a such a way that it looks like an LCD. Maybe it looks less odd in person when you can see they're more physical, I dunno, seems like a waste of mechanical reels to me to just put in them in like that.

I bet it's fun to shoot! Nothing but love for Keith Elwin and giving him a chance to do a single level layout.

This license sucks. Even on a special $20k game they wouldn't let them have a drop of freedom. That backglass with the mash up of drawings and photos from existing assets says it all. I feel for whoever at Stern did their best to make it cool, definitely not their fault it's not great.

If I ever get a chance to flip one I will gladly take it, that's for sure. (And I mean play it damnit, sure there's going to be a whole other kind of flipping going on, but I can't see people overpaying for this package.)

Any one of us could have purchased a one month Adobe Creative cloud subscription and created the cabinet artwork in a day or two. And that's with zero graphic design abilities....

“40th” / “60th” boring anyway. If it was 25 / 50 or 75 years, that would be better…

Would have been great if Stern had come out with The Beatles game that they did, similar to the Bond 60th (right after they released a real Beatles pin that people would actually want, like they did with the Gomez Bond).

It's hard to believe how stupid Stern pinball thinks their customers are.

They price it at $20K (or maybe more some distros are saying), release the most basic and dumbest looking game possible and they think if they call the layout "classic inspired" nobody will notice how bad it is.

People on here keep talking shit about how they will never buy another NIB again, and I'm sure a lot of the time they are in line for the next one. But sooner or later people are going to stop saying that shit and then just not. I know a couple of long time 20+ year pinball people who are (not) putting their money where their mouth is.

This is laughably bad. It'll be fun to see who here has the balls to admit they bought this.

Don't worry... That's already happening.....

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There are alot of Elwin fanboys (the designer of this) who will blindly buy every Elwin pin because so far they have been great, including the possible Greatest of All Time (Godzilla). Stern was banking they could sell 500 of these if they made a super exclusive pinball machine with an A+ License by an A+ designer.

If Elwin made a pro/premium/le My Little Pony pin right now tons of people would buy it. This idea from Stern for exclusivity was tried partially before with Heavy Metal, but that might have sold 100 pins, was a home edition with a premium price and a recycled layout. This Stern throwing spaghetti at the wall if you ask me.

Friend of mine is a flipper and could get a ton. Had 5 distributors reach out. Big pass from him even at 15k. I think I’m out but like the 20k instead of 25k. Just looks too simple for money.

I think the answer is there are alot more than 500 people in this hobby with way too much money and will happily buy anything with "limited", "rare", "collector" in the name. As someone who enjoys pinball, I appreciate the simplicity of it and would enjoy playing it, but as a small collector there is absolutely no value for the money.

If this and the LE we’re the same price I’d still go with the Gomez LE