The Bourbon and Cola type...yeah i know, the bourbon traditionalists will tear me a new one LOL. I just like to start off sometimes with a premix or 3 before going the full hog

Never mind the traditionalists, man. Jack and coke is a great pinball drink, sugar + caffeine for extra marathon-game energy.

@arcadem: Nice Lotus car mod. Where is this coming from?

I got mine on eBay for around $40, but put it on my JB60th as it was used in a post Connery movie.

The Lotus came as a part of a set of 3 figures from Corgi for about $38. I bought it off of Amazon. It was called the "James Bond air, sea, and space collection". Includes the Shuttle and a Little Nellie and the Lotus. I sure you can find it by doing a product search on Amazon.

Ha ha. Plenty of them in Australia!

Got my Little Nellie installed.

Where did you get the Nellie?

The name's Bond. Raphael Bond.

User on pinside.... biglaw

Elmer T. Lee drank his bourbon with Sprite…doesn’t get any more bourbon purist than that. Drink it how you like it!

I wish I could buy more time in the modes sometimes. Maybe cash in my collected chips from high stakes? I only make it so far in some modes and want to go further if I could hit the action button to cash in chips for more time to make it to the end! It's a chance I'm willing to take.

Got mine too, great quality but I’m having fitment issues. When I screw the tank down the front flips up above the switch. Reached out to diddy for help.

There's a couple different sellers on Amazon

"A toy helicopter? This can only be for children! Don't use it Bond-san; take my helicopter instead."

One of my fav lines!!

Yeah, I'd also like some more time to complete modes. The Q modes especially. In the Power Pack mode you have 40 seconds to get the ball in the damn left JB scoop five or six times, I've gotten 3 in there twice in about ten attempts. For that matter, I haven't completed a single Q mode in the time allowed. Of course, I'm just not a great player. So it would be nice to have the timers settable in the Adjustments Menu so you can choose how challenging it is.

Happy Code Day!

Is the action button now going to gain relevance?

This is already there. Service Menu -> Adjustments -> Feature Adjustments (SPI) -> and check settings 49-58 for Q modes, there are both timers and multiball ball save times (as I recall) for the Q multiball modes. There are also timer adjustments for villain/henchman modes.

These are NOT what Viggin900 was talking about as "earned" timer boosts but baseline timer adjustments. If you just want more time for the modes to make them a little easier for players at your home/location, you can easily adjust them there.

Gomez has said "next release" so fingers crossed we get one today

Ready for some new code, lets do it!!!

Thanks, Mark. I might've already made them as easy as possible, LoL, but will take a look again this weekend.

Nice part is, when you scroll through the actual adjustment for a setting there's a spot that pops up and tells you where the Factory Default was. Easy to tune where you and your friends/family like it and adjust at will.

Eegads! A bourbon icon's image tarnished.

What next?! He liked ketchup on hot dogs too?

For the record I like ketchup on hot dogs!

Ugh.

FWIW - little known Bond trivia: he preferred his dogs Chicago style. Steamed in vodka though.

LOL

Hey everyone, newbie pin fan here. I picked up my first machine (maiden pro) here back in March and am looking for my second already! I really like the 007 pro machine and yes, I have read the posts here and on other forums but I wanted to ask here on the owners thread. Is the game getting better with each code update and where do we think it'll land as far as it's final popularity rank goes when the code is all said an done? AiQ or Deadpool range? Will it be as revered as my maiden or JP?

I ask because I LOVE the layout and am seriously considering buying it now when the prices are low just for that. I literally cant get enough of this game when i go on location, but when thinking about longevity and the possibility of resale one day, is it a machine that we think will stand the test of time and be easy to flip later on? Thanks!

Popularity is worthless honestly. What you like might not be what someone else likes. For example, I don't like Elwin and Lawlor games. But they are wildly popular designers. I always go by layout. Code can be added/changed. Layout cannot.
I too love the layout of Bond. The shots are fantastic in this game. I went with a Pro as I couldn't justify the price difference. I'd pay $500 maybe $1000 more for a Premium, but for my tastes, I believe the $2700 was unjustified. So instead I bought a Mando topper (because, yeah, $2K on a topper is justified...not really, but it looks cool). I have some Premiums but Bond was not one I had to have as a Premium

Dino makes good points as always.

I'd only add that I bought an LE in March. It was a gift to my wife who, in an example how our wives know best, liked the game from the first moment she started playing it. I didn't. The game was very limited at that time because of the incomplete code. I knew it was beautiful, it had an unusual raised right platform with two ramps, and a rocket up at the left that seemed to have little strategic purpose. So I bought it with reluctance...

When James Bond entered our home he was facing stiff competition from a gorgeous Monster Bash SE and a Simpsons pinball party that is a ton of fun. As with the character, this machine seems to get the better of the competition. We play Bond more than any other machine. It's bolted to the floor, as far as I'm concerned. I don't see ever trading or selling it. Heck, I've thought about buying a pro just to have another Bond to experience with different difficulty settings and mods. The LE is a flow monster and the pro is even more so because it doesn't have the ball lock.

So, by all means, follow your instincts and buy a pro. You'll play it over and over.

To your specific question about future trade/sale value and ranking, I think it will hold its value and climb the rankings from here. Most owners on here have said they think it's a top ten game if/when the code is complete. I have an AIQ premium and about to get a Zilla premium. Bond is right there with them and Deadpool, JP and IM.

I think it's a low-risk purchase, especially if you can get one for less than MSRP. It's getting better with every code update (next one expected tonight) and the opinion tide is definitely turning positive. Anyone that reviewed the game before 0.90 code did not see what the game really had to offer. But only buy it if you actually like it. It's difficult to predict how the market will change (seems to be slowing) or how the value of this particular game will change in the future.

Bond Pro will be worth 10k in three or four years. But who cares, you are going to want to keep it because it will be a legendary table.

We got a LE (our only LE) from the beginning because of theme, layout, and Gomez as the designer (maybe his last design). Have not regretted it, at all, for myself/our family. No issues with play, mechs, etc after a lot of plays. Each code update improves/expands the game a lot. I do think the games value will go up when code is done (like so many other games). Think people are letting their disappointment from an admittedly horrible launch blind them to the quality of the game. No one will remember the launch in 1-2 years.

Get a game that YOU love. It’s your money and you are the one that wants the “one more game” feeling to keep playing and enjoying.

Remember this is supposed to be FUN first and foremost. Get a game because it’s the right game for you and it will make you smile, plain and simple.

I can’t think of another recent Stern game I’d trade my bond for.

Like from "From Stern with Love"

Buy it to fucking play it!!

Fuck that resale shit!!

It's a great pro!
I'm tapped out on new games or I would buy one.

5:30 eastern. NO CODE FOR YOU!

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It comes out at 6 est but my guess is that it will come out tomorrow since they had memorial day off. Just a hunch.

Never smart to release software on a Friday. If not today I suspect not this week.

Yup, looks like it will be next week at the earliest.

But… but…. But…. It’s code day…

Hey, if it’s great code we’re waiting for, so be it. Get it right, guys.

Not today

My game is downloading a .91.0 as we speak . Not sure but I’m guessing a bug fix

0.91.0 was released three weeks ago.

Tis the time of forks

Gotcha , just unboxed today and saw .90 and then this update . Makes sense

I've been going back and watching the Connery Bond films and something dawned on me in relationship with the pinball machine.

In the game, Mr. Henderson is associated with Diamonds are Forever. Even though the playfield says AKA Mr. Henderson, the actor Charles Gray is never called by that name in the movie. However, Charles Gray played Mr. Henderson, a British agent who is murdered, in You Only Live Twice.

Obviously, the game designers couldn't include both Donald Pleasence as the villain Blofeld for Your Only Live Twice and Charles Gray as Blofeld as the villain for Diamonds are Forever. So, did they just hope no one would notice and call Charles Gray AKA Mr. Henderson for the Diamonds are Forever villain even though Mr. Henderson has nothing to do with that movie?

We’ve been over this a few months back.

Me Henderson is a different character in a different movie with the same actor.

It makes absolutely zero sense. I think it was just a mistake, but it’s too late now. No changing the playfield text.

There’s no reason they couldn’t have just gone the “blofeld” and “blofeld 2” route or something. Or just called them both blofeld. We all know there’s 4 different actors who played blofeld in the first 7 movies.

Sorry, I must have missed it between pitchforks and lack of updates.

We didn’t have a lot to talk about back then. With that said, it’s not worth revisiting

I actually like that they are taking their time with this update because I think this means it’s a big one. Knowing that the multiplier and Bond girls are in this release makes me think that they are spending a lot of time balancing everything out scoring wise. I read somewhere that the Bond girls are being added last so they can balance everything out. I wouldn’t doubt that this will be the release that sets this thing into motion as far as cohesion goes.