Yes, think Beltking is in for the long haul. The other fake owners thread was just sad and almost like Maxazero set it up to have a dramatic exit for Spooky Scoob sensation.

I’m also an LE owner and looking forward to a club that is all in and enthused about one of the best PF layouts, with lots of real mechs, designed by an all time great designer, G. Gomez. We can actually see the ball travel and journey all over this layout. Not hidden half the time like other current offerings. Bond easily tops amateurish offerings of far lesser experience.

Now I love the contrast, with orange (red?) running into the teal. Picks up all the orange (red, which is it?) on the PF too.

Play count is so trivial. Not sure why anyone really cares, as it’s made to be played over and over again. Even people buying HUO shouldn’t care. Pinball machines are mostly indestructible.

Pinmonk seems to be very bias toward Stern in general, although he has some good knowledge of things, I wouldn’t scratch Mando off so quickly from your list. It is an awesome Brian Eddie shooter and Dwight’s code is amazing with depth. Very addictive game with lots of ways to approach it. The upper PF is killer and replicates sharp shooting. Also very additive and interesting with the SW code in it. Anyone that says otherwise, hasn’t played many games. Just saw a video by Nick (Buffalo Pinball) who loves his and was raving what an unusual more difficult shooter that keeps you entertained for the long haul. I tend to agree with him. The foundry is very RPG like and adds another dimension. Do yourself a favor and try it, you’ll definitely like it. ST is another Brian Eddie gem too. Both these games far exceed Brian Eddie’s long ago ancient shooter MM, although it’s good too, you’re right not much there to do. Enjoy either of Brian’s modern games.

Agreed! This game has the insert structure to be great. GG and Mike V has a great deal of passion for this project and will not fail to deliver a top ten game in both shot layout, rules and code. Stern will sell this game for a long time to come, so very motivated to make it a favorite. Never seen George do so many interviews. It’s his game and he’s the boss, so resources are committed to make it great. That alone guarantees success.

Fixes, now let’s get to more modes.

Good advice. What do you mean “bend up a loop” exactly? Do you have any photos showing process of trimming 20% and then reattaching by chance?

Thanks so much Pinmonk! You always come up with such great ideas!

This has been discussed before, but mine eventually stopped working, so I made ajustments first with the very end of the wire form near the right flipper. Then adjusted the top wireform away from the car till it was scooping the ball instead of just direct impact into the wire form flailing the ball all over the place.

Make sure the ball is being scooped by the wireform, not just directly hitting into the wireform. Adjust wireform away from the car.

First photo shows the ball hitting directly into the wire form, not even touching the beginning scoop part of the upper wireform as it should…

B93236C0-8021-4FD1-A279-1652025EFDB0.jpeg …then bolting back into the roof of the DB5, then back onto the wire form at the bottom, violently shaking everything.

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Kept factory setting of scoop upkick at 16. Note: the roof is not attached to the car, it’s attached to the up scoop shaft only. DB5 is just a wrap structure over the up kicker shaft. Also, notching on the inside roof structure is not required. It all works perfectly when the wireform is adjusted properly. Car alignment is irrelevant since its not part of the ball upkick structure at all.

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There should not only be variety, but when we are in Diamonds are Forever mode for example, it should be playing that music. We should know the mode we’re playing just by the theme music. George already said they have all theme songs, except Thunderball and Goldfinger. (We’ll get those 2 in through the club, wink wink.)

Two things we know for sure:

1. George has made one of the best flowing layouts in all of pinballdom. It rivals any game out there, as a flow monster, so fun to shoot.

2. All it needs now is lots of code. George has promised to get it done and he will, as he’s very passionate about his Bond project. He’s not going to let us down and Lonnie is only one of many coders at Stern, whom will also pitch in as needed to get us there.

It does suck its been so long since release that were still sitting on very rudimentary code. To give it .84 release status is a joke. Even could be considered crude code, with music volume levels all over the place for example. But this game code is Batman 2.0 and they did eventually get us there and now every Batman owner is very happy with the machine. George, Mike and Lonnie will do the same with Bond, albeit slow as….

To excuse gouging us with a ridiculous price by justifying it through another gougers price i.e., Stern, doesn’t help your cause. Difference with Stern’s price is we’ll likely get most if not all of our money back if we wish to sell later. With your product we’ll never seen much more than $75 on 2nd hand market. If we tried to charge more than that, buyers would laugh us off pinside. You’re dreaming buddy.

Can you leave off the small soldier figure and reduce the price by say at least $675 dollars?

Let me know, as I’ll be down below with a big net to catch it.

A word of advice: modders can not be successful and charge buyers for their on the job training. Trying to recover your absurd amount of time 200 hours spent on modeling on a quite simple straight line object like the dragon tank is silly. Could design that, since there is an exact model to copy in a couple of hours myself, not 200. That’s your investment in schooling costs, to never be recovered except over the long haul.

Take Modcouple Batpile for example. Creative work went into that one, since it had no scale predecessor to model after. Price: $168.00.

A dragon tank replacement part could be purchased from Stern for a fraction of your price even and then modded with $2 leds.

Better yet, buy from one of the best modders in the business, Lermods. His dragon tank looks fine, without the steel ball breakable flame extensions. He charges a price of $149.00. You’ll never sell even one at $450.00. We’ll all go to your competition Lermods.com for a fraction of the price. (BTW, not affiliated with Lermods in anyway, just a customer.)

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Okay, please explain. What makes your version worth $750 or even $450 and the Lermod version worth only $15?

What? Did I misunderstand you? Didn’t you say it was a $15 item that could be modded in 10 minutes? You still haven’t answered my question: what makes your $750/$450 mod worth the price, but Lermod’s only a $15 item that should sell for 1/3 of $149?

(Agreed, lets take this discussion to PM please.)

Back to update: love the music changes, was so tired of hearing Bond theme over and over and then even after game ended, hearing it all over again in its entire length, lol.

Now if we can only get Lonnie to balance trim the audio levels so it all matches throughout game play. New music is so quiet in spots, with some sounds extra blaring even causing speaker distortion. This is my first machine in a long time, I’m not upgrading sound system, till sound/music achieves professional levels. Seems like it could be easily upgraded to sound levels all matching across the code.

Thanks for the nice explanation video! It really helps us to see what quality you’ve done here, now if priced below the $250 to $200 mark, could be a go. Like the flames are not breakable, which you should have shown us from the start. Also, is there anyway to make the white paint around the tank eyes to be done better in keeping within the lines of the eyes ovals? Maybe if you had a mask cut to size to keep the overlap and make it more precision applied like in the photo below?

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It won best mechs/toys, but should have won game of the year and best layout (imo), if code would have been there.

Best layout went to Rush, as well as game of the year.

Excited for this to hit! What can you tell us?

Code based on inserts and feature list alone means it will be stellar. If LEs can be had at a discount, wow jump in, you’ll make bank once code is fully fleshed out. 8 months from now they’ll be hard to find if still available. GG is committed to making this top notch you can count on that.

It’s Jill St. John, don’t know why people wanted her to leave, except there were few modes in the game at that time. So seeing it over and over was a bit annoying. With all the other Q modes in the game, it’d be great to have her section back.

Santi Claus, please make it real good this time…

At 6.388 GB Bond has more code in it at version .89, than any other game to my recollection.

I also hear it all through the audio. Don’t even need higher end speakers. Stern badly needs to use higher bit rate audio files. Please email: [email protected] all of the audio issues you’ve mentioned here.

Again, please email: [email protected]
Request for Bond to have the same TV viewer they did for Batman 66, so we’re able to switch between channels/movies to clearly see what shots need to be completed for that particular show. Makes it easy to switch between modes with the action button, just like in Batman and it keeps movies separate as well.

Easy shot, if backhanded by left flipper. Actuate flipper, let it roll up and then back down near tip and flip. Goes into Thunderball trough with ease.

You mean way overpriced and produced 60th, not Gomez Bond…

Pinside only allows images, not videos to be posted? After you see it done, you’ll get it.

Gomez Bond will become a masterpiece and GG will make sure it does. It’s his baby, so he won’t let us down. Hard pressed to find a better shooting flowing game than GG Bond. Lots of toys/mechs, this will be highly sought after when 1.0 is reached, imo.

Wow, you got a deal!

With a statement like that, you have to be an owner.

The cabinet is the exact same size on 60th as all other Stern machines. It sits lower because the rear legs are adjusted lower to allow for a lower pitched old style PF, just like on Beatles. But cabinet dimensions are identical to all other standard Stern machines.

Code .90 released!

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Wonder if he really made this moronic trade. A $13k game that will be top 5 all time for a $8500 game??? An idiotic move trading a stellar game for wood chopping. Sorry, JP LE owner here and its wood chopping by comparison to Bond, even with the code still so infant. Patience young muppet/grasshopper, code will come…

The pinside owners false 100 rating system is so full of BS it’s not even funny. Its owners puppy guarding their purchases at its finest. (Think pinside itself might also be in on puppy guarding for various reasons.) What person in their right mind gives any credence to such a faulty meaningless ranking system. Use our own brains, try the game out and judge its merits. Who cares what anyone else thinks, especially those that have spent $10k+. They will never denigrate their purchases.

Wait…had to check the heading, as I thought for a moment I was in an Avengers thread, lol.

Don’t give them any ideas. Pros are priced high enough now. Not long ago they were just over $5k. Stern has certainly overpriced the LEs by about $3k. LEs at 1,000 now being made, are no longer much of anything unlimited. JJPs Limited 1,000 CEs and even more hillarious 5,000 premiums they call LEs, is even more of a joke, lol.

Sorry but totally disagree and like longer scenes from Bond.
Stern do not listen to this, we do not want any cut scenes trimmed! We’ve paid for full on Bond. If a player wants it trimmed, just watch what you want and then bypass the rest by pressing flipper buttons. Can’t imagine how bad that’d be on Batman if they trimmed the cut scenes. It’s what makes the code so great and puts the player in the game. Theme integration is what most of us want, not just continual ball flow. If a player wants nothing but flow, buy a pro and disable the up-posts.

Some of us are offended at your constant taking of the Lord’s name in vain, Levi. Other comments without that are appreciated.

This is funny! But actually, would rather hear the f word than taking the Lord’s name in vain….

….but back to Bond. Just had a party at my house and everyone loved playing Bond and didn’t even know the code was still lacking. I didn’t point it out until we were done playing. They all loved the shots, toys, flow, music and thought its an exciting game to play. Did mention there is still a lot more code to come. One asked, you mean there’s a lot more to this game Stern hasn’t programmed in yet? WOW!

Does anyone know what mark is used to properly align the upper left flipper?

Also, any suggestions at where its best set upper left flipper to hit the henchmen ramp easier?

Never fear, projecting those two songs will get into the code in the future after it’s all done…Shirley and Tom can’t be left out after all.

I did too and one airball during a multiball of colliding balls ended Bond from ever driving again from that spot. Just wait, MB airballs will crash your’s too, lol. (The bad guys got Bond in mine.) There’s a reason Stern attached an airball bumper post on top of that plastic.

Anything in that spot will get destroyed. Have already experienced it as stated above. While nice looking, that mod totally removes the bumper post Stern installed there. Outlane drains aplenty anyone?

They’re not reading this thread. Take the time to contact them directly with suggestions at: [email protected]

This is the only way to let Stern know what you want. Don’t know why people always assume Stern has time to read club threads or even interested in viewing them. Its a forum, Stern has better things to focus on, like making our games better.

Not sure why there won’t be Bond women added to the code. They’re part of the movies after all. They included Red Grant in just his tiny towel. So women (except Rosa Kleb) are not okay? They’re just in bathing suits or such. Why would they not be included? Elvira is far more risqué that any Bond woman. Please Stern put them in the game and not just as “baseball” trading cards.

More polish is making this game top notch. Is it just me or are the movie screen size for show clips larger? Loving the new code!

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Our Bond games are so amazing! Just discovered that if Bird 1 MB is started while in another mode; cradling the ball, watched about 12 minutes of movie of the Bird 1 volcano invasion. Wow! So fun and immersive bringing you into the game. Hope Stern team does more of this. Has anyone else seen this yet or is this old hat to some of you?