We've been told by George that the art was same as on used on the orignal posters, just resized and re-laid out by Kevin O'Connor for Stern's use.

So I suspect that the original art from theatrical posters had the wrong helicopters and it wasn't a Stern error or rights issue.

Poster art the features stuff that doesn't happen in the movie seems to be pretty common especially for older films. The poster had to convince you to buy a ticket so they would sometimes exaggerate the art to make things more exciting than they were.

Really hard to tell if the Prem is worth it over the Pro until we see what kind of things they do with Bond on the wand. Could be really cool or very meh.

Many people seem to be okay with virtual ball locks vs the physical for Bird 1 so thats not a huge difference for most.

The other main diff with Prem is the inclusion of the divers under the window. George said those would be avail for purchase separately so that difference from the Pro is neglible.

That is a very lazy banner. I was hoping for the same same side art thats on left side of Prem or LE games filling up the banner.

Even just a full image image of the head side art of bond standing from any of the 3 games would have looked way better.

I'm assuming they didn't want (or have time) to get approval on using the same art as cabinets but redoing the layout to fit the banner aspect ratio. The pics they have of the full game were already approved so they just slapped it on the banner and called it a day.

Looking forward to seeing the first pics of an unboxed LE. I'm curious if they still have the extra artwork above and below the divers window.

Yeah I've seen the premiums but I thought were described as show only prototypes so I was hoping the official LE's which are shipping now would have the full artwork there.

Its been mentioned that they started shipping LE's on Friday so some lucky owners should be getting it in time for X-mas.

I know the poster below is not the right Bond for this game but it has "A Christmas Present From James Bond" on it.

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Looks awespme. Thanks for the quick pics.

Looks like no Disco Vollante ship decal on the left side along the side scoop area. Will need to mod that area to add that.

Can you confirm there is an artwork decal on the inner cabinet next to the scuba divers?

If i were you I would block out your personal info on that picture.

I'm curious how the LE plaque looks with the 00-numbering style, can you take a pic of that?

That's what I thought too. Looks just the regular numbered style they always do. I guess the leading zeros will only be on the first 10 games, 001, 002, etc?

Once mine comes in I'm gonna try a thin plastic card with boat artwork printed on it and see how that holds up when stuck to the existing pad.

If someone with a game already can measure the height and length needed. I'll get started on it.

I really like the Ken Adam sketches on the side blades. Is that a fake Ken Adam signature on the lower side blade? If so I think that's a great touch. Ken is responsible for that iconic "look" of the classic Bond films.

Side rails on new Sterns are metal not wood.

George thought the topper would be the same one that's comes with the 60th. If that's the case, and 60th is released in month or two, then I would think the topper would be able to be ordered as an accessory soon after that.

My magnet idea to cover up the ugly insider connected sticker by the right speaker. Universal Exports if the fake company front used Bond every now and then.

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Another magnet to cover up the ugly epilepsy warning sticker on the premium/LE metal aprons. Thunderball art for the LE or You Only Live Twice art for the premium.

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Probably but my game isn't here yet. Can you give me a template of the dimensions?

Are they John Barry originsl score music or Stern originals in the spirit of John Barry?

He also mentioned the need for the foam pad on the side rail near the third flipper. He said the foam pad was added to help reduce amount of times the ball ends up in that side scoop.

He also indicated that the decal of the ship that was in the earlier promo pics should be in the goodie bag. He strongly advised against removing the foam pad though as it would be too detrimental to game play.

I'm guessing it sometimes put one of the upright posts on the spinner right in the way of making the side ramp shot. That probably would be annoying sometimes and reduce the fast flow of some of the combos.

Probably behaved similar to the Batman66 batmobile spinner on the rotisserie. Even though it has a self centering magnet, it still sometimes doesn't self center and you can't shoot through the middle sometimes until the spinner rotates out of the way.

Looks like a key cahin since it has the little hole in the corner.

Is that an LE goodie bag or Pro goodie bag?

If it was from a Pro, maybe decal was only meant for LE/Prem games ?

It also seems non intuitive to me that the pad would keep the ball out more than without it. Usually rubber pads around scoops are there to absorb impact and deaden the ball action. I guess it would be a simple experiment to see how much the ball bounces out with the pad vs without the pad.

Check out this post and the one immediately following it.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/guardians-of-the-galaxy-owners-thread/page/48#post-4456224

Doesn't Stern shutdown the factory between Xmas and New Years? If that's the case, then there might be small gap before the rest of LE's get done and out the door.

Actually it's Ken Adam (not Adams) a lot of people mistakenly add the "s" on the end of his name.

In addition his iconic production design on many Bond films he was also production designer of Dr Stranglove which also has amazing sets.

In additon to coming up with the gadget heavy DB5, he also designed the gadget heavey car for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. That film was based on the Ian Fleming novel, and was also produced by Bond producer Albert Broccoli. It also has the actors who played Q and Goldfinger in it.

As a classic Bond fan I really like the Ken Adam sketches for the art blades.

See if you are missing a screw on one of you coin mechs. Your pic looks like the one that is used just above the knurled screw on the coin mech.

On my game, one of the knurled screws was loose and in the bottom of my cabinet. Saw another pinsider post that they also found a loose knurled screw in their game.

Seems like multiple loose screws from the coin mechs.

Also had a problem with my coin door interlock. When coin door is closed, the switch doesn't activate so I get a missing 48v error.

The interlock switch is not defective because if I manully push it in or pull the plunger out it works. I need to take a closer look and see if they just mounted the bracket holding the switch too far from the edge of the coin door. But on a good note, I got a right angled power cord.

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Looks great but no Diamonds are Forever?

Yes it looks great! Way better than Dr No translight.

Even though Stern was constrained to use existing poster art, the LE has the best composition that looks like it was made for a pinball backglass. The mirroring effects on the LE glass are also fantastic.

Were you able to verify that via Pinball Browser? I wasn't sure it it still worked with the newer Stern games.

Nice, what is the length front to back, not including the blades?

We got spoiled with his multiple podcast appearances and live streams last year and now it's been radio silence as there's not much to talk about until new code arrives. Hopefully all the lost momentum will get restored with a juicy update soon.

Maybe they can do something like Lyman did with Batman66. When you have two modes going at once, you can "change channels" via the action button.

That feature let you toggle between simultaneously running multiple modes to see the shots you need to hit and hear the music and callouts for the mode you want to focus on.

As implemented on Batman66 LCD there were small TV's on the side showing the other running modes playing in the background.

Plenty of room on Bond LCD to do something similar. Anyone know if that feature was implemented on any other Stern games?

I'm not familiar with Stranger Things code. How does that game handle simultaneously running modes?

Now thst you mention it. I think I see a resemblance.

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The actor who played Blofeld in Diamonds are Forever is the same actor who played Mr Henderson (a good guy) in You Only Live Twice.

Stern needed to put the main villain for Diamonds are Forever (Blofeld) on that insert tree. But there was already Blofeld there from You Only Love Twice so put the image of the Diamnonds are Forever Blofeld there but labeld him Mr Henderson instead.

Personally I think that was a confusing decision. They should have just called the first one "Blofeld 1.0" and the second one "Blofeld 2.0". It's the same character but fave was altered via plastic surgery.

The clip they use is from that mode is the correct movie, Diamonds are Forever. I think people are confusing the rocket in Diamonds with the Bird One rocket from You Only Live Twice.

I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say.

The problem is Stern labeled the last insert Mr Henderson, but it's not Mr Henderson, it's Blofeld from Diamonds are Forever. He is the more villain in Diamonds and that insert is the Diamonds villain mode.

The clip they use is appropriate because it's Blofeld's satellite doing evil Blofeld tasks. Probably would have been better to use a clip with more Blofeld footage, but the space stuff is cool too.

So the question is why did they label it as aka Mr Henderson? Was it meant as a joke because the actor who played Blofeld in DAF was the same actor as Mr Henderson in YOLT? Did they just not want to put Blofeld as the villain twice in a row? Who knows? Whatever the reason the licensor thought it was ok.

In my opinion, they should have just called it Blofeld 2.0 because it's the "new and improved" Blofeld that has recovered from significant bobsled injuries from the previous film, On Your Majesty's Secret Service.

Of all the gadgets, they choose the absolute lamest one to code first. The little nellie one should be cool when it playable.

I was thinking in the context of the game, as in the second Blofeld in that set of 6 inserts.

To be fully accurate, the Diamonds are Forever Blofeld is the 5th film version. He was in Russia with Love and Thunderball as well, but we don't get to he his face in those.

The second half of that quote is even funnier. After getting thrown out the window she lands in pool several stories down and Bond says "Exceptionally fine shot." The goon who threw her out the window says "I didnt know there was a pool down there".

Connery doest need to talk much he is a man of ACTION!

I thought on one of the interviews or streams george mentioned that they were going to use the 60th armor on the LE but it covered up some of the side art and licensor didn't like it pr somethong along thise lines? Anyone else remember hearing something like that. Maybe I'm mis-remembering it?

I almost wish George didn't say it was coming out in a week. Everyone is gonna lose their shit if it does not come out this week.

He should have said the next was done but going through the test cycle and it would hopefully come out next week. New bugs can pop up during testing that can cause a little more delay to resolve.

I'd rather have them release the next update when it's ready and not put out buggy code just to make a date George mentions in an interview.

I don't, it was just an assumption <insert ASS out of U and ME comment here>

Police on the moon pulling over and giving a speeding ticket to Sean Connery in his moon buggy.

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Maybe it was the same one NASA used a few years earlier.

Then maybe they redressed again a few years later to be Mars for Capricorn One.

5-6 months is nothing. Batman66 first run buyers waited almost 2 years for complete code.

People keep saying this but is there any evidence that approvals are actually delaying development? Or are people just repeating this assumption so much that it becomes an accepted truth?

It might just be taking a while because it's just a complicated task to integrate video and audio clips from 6 feature length films into a fun cohesive gameplay experience.

I think Steve Ritchie leave Stern in fall of 2021? After that George tried picking up Steve' Bond design but soon decided to scrap his design entirely and start over from scratch. So when Bond premiered at Expo in fall of 2022 it only had approx a year of development time.

Compare that to Foo Fighters which Stern says took a full 2 years to develop.

I think that's what happened with Batman66 code. They went in a whole different direction after starting which was one of the reasons it took so long to get to the masterpiece it is now.

Why should we have sympathy for for George? Isn't he the boss of development team at Stern?

If things are not going to plan, he should be the one who has the power to shift resources around, hire more people, etc whatever is needed to put things back on track.

They must at least do something in time for TPF right?

Well to be fair it was said on the stream that Foo Fighters has been in development for 2 years. Whereas Bond was in development by Ritchie but then after he left it had a total design reset and by Gomez. So even though Bond came out about 6 months earlier, it hasn't been "cooking" as long as Foo Fighters.

Should Stern tell the code team on Foo Fighters to not release code until the Bond code team was caught up? That doesn't make sense.

I think (?) the game can still have Thunderball and Goldfinger imstrumental music by John Barry, just not the main themes as sung by Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey.

When Batman66 was in code development hell, I remember at one of the shows they had new code to play on the show games but it wasn't released yet.

Maybe we'll have a similar situation with Bond at TPF this year?

Let me guess. The shirts will be available.in about......... 2 weeks?

If anyone feels this game needs a lunch box option like GTF here ya go:

https://www.lunchbox.com/collections/custom-lunch-boxes/products/james-bond-dr-no-lunch-box

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Good job Pierce, https://people.com/movies/pierce-brosnan-goldeneye-pinball-machine-found-good-home-after-elton-john-aids-foundation-auction/

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I think you are confusing movie scores with the main title vocal songs. The random John Barry stuff you mentioned IS from the original movie scores and there is quite a bit in the game now when you are in the various modes. Hopefully they keep adding more. During gameplay between modes its pretty much the Bond theme on a loop which gets quite repetitive. I guess Stern didn't learn their lesson with IJ4. No matter how good the main theme music us, you don't want it playing all the time.

Gomez said they have rights for all the vocal title songs for the Connery films except for GoldFinger and Thunderball. John Barry did an excellent job putting little cues from the main title music in a lot of the instrumental score music, so hopefully we'll hear more of that in future updates.

Some people dont like the Moby take on the Bond theme but I think its a nice change of pace as long as it's limited to a wizard mode that only happens once in a while and not all the time. Maybe Stern will put that music choice as an option. Kinda like how Godzilla let's you chose classic or modern for its music track.

Nice! Let us know what you notice as new or different.

I think I heard little some of Goldfinger instrumental music when I entered my initials after getting a high score.

Here's where the the high score enter your initials music comes from. It uses some of the beginning part put on a loop. It's a march with the Goldfinger instrumental theme in the background.

John Barry masterfully incorporates the instrumental music of each of movies main theme song with other incidental music throughout the its soundtrack.

I thought the Moby Bond song was going to be the only modern music in the game.
I think thats ok for a wizard mode that wouldn't be used often. However I noticed some newer style Bond music that sometimes plays during normal game play instead of the standard Bond theme. It sounds like it might be the song "Bike Chase" from Tomorrow Never Dies which you can hear via the DJ mixer.

I'm glad they are playing other tracks instead if the same Bond theme over and over but I wish thay stayed consistent with using the John Barry (or John Barry style) music. The newer stuff mixed with the older during regular game play is a little jarring to me.

Maybe Stern could do something like Godzilla where you can pick the soundtrack style in settings; classic John Barry only, newer Bond music only, or a hybrid that mixes them together.

I had crackling/distortion on my LE and saw that the speakers for cabinet and backbox are both labeled as 4ohms but the game settings had them at 8ohms.

I think he was referring to the "Bike Chase" from Tomorrow Never Dies and the Moby song.

I kinda like how the flippers just die at the of the "Bond...James Bond" mode. Makes ot more excitng to try and get all.th3 shot in before its too late. Reminds me of Capcoms Kingpin.

I watched the Deadflip stream of the new code last night hoping to see the 2 new Q modes but he never got them. If a player as good as Jack can't get them after almost 3 hours of play I don't think I'll ever see them LOL.

Well since they already have have non Barry music from the Brosnan film Tomororrow Never Dies for ball 2 and 3 as the main back ground music, I think John Barry music from non Connery films On Her Majestys Secret Service shouldn't be breaking any licensor rules.

John Barry also did great music for Man With The Golden Gun, Moonraker, Octopussy, A View To A Kill, and The Living Daylights that could sound good in the game as well.

I remember when Elvira toppers were announced and everyone thought it was gonna be limited to just 200. They ended up doing multiple batches of those. Unless it comes with a numbered plaque I wouldn't assume its a limited run.

Recall this post from when the Elvira topper was announced, everyone thought it was limited to 200.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/elvira-s-house-of-horrors-the-owner-s-club/page/112#post-5915477

I'm still skeptical this one is really limited to 500. I hope it's not limited as it just pisses off customers who really want it but cant get it, especially LE buyers. LE buyers are more likely to be big fans of the Bond theme and many would probably want the "complete package" for their machine.

If it is going to be limited, it would be nice if they gave LE owners first dibs and then after a specified amount of time opened up sales up to everyone else.

I wish the wizard mode was a direct user selection on the screen like it is on Batman66 with the Batusi, Holy, or Gas Attack multiball when you complete a minor villain from all 3 seasons.

So instead of hitting the Goldfinger target or pops, the 4 wizard modes would show up on the LCD and you just pick the one you want to play

I think MV said on stream they were going to have a challenge mode like (at game start you can select a challenge mode instead of regular gameplay) like they do on JP. Hopefully it won't be tied to having a topper like it is on Godzilla.

Amazing!

Dalton was a decent Bond. I watched both films not too long ago and they have a nice 80's charm to them. It was cool they brought David Hedison back as Felix Leiter after he played him 16 years earlier in Live and Let Die.

Whats U-turn code?

I watched the 0.95 video stern posted today and the Goldfinger Jackpot looks like a great mini wizard mode. When the mode finishes the clip shows Bond stopping the bomb countdown.

In the film the joke is that the bomb countdown clock is at "0-0-7" when it stops. In the game it shows the counter at "0-1-0". I can't understand why Stern would make that change. Unless it's just a bug?

The have the pops and goldfinger target to change things but I'd prefer if it was more like Batman66.

In that game when you enable the minor villain mode, a screen pops up so you can choose which minor villain from which TV season you want to play. Then you get enough minor villains to enable the minor villain wizard mode it again let's you choose which of the 3 you want to play (holy multiball, batusi multiball, or gas attack multiball).

New code is out!

Too bad they didn't put it out in time for Pintastic last weekend

Batman66 as well.

I'm not good enough to get two mini wizard modes in one game. If you get to a second wizard mode, does it block you from playing the one you already played?

Have they said anything about a live stream like they did with the previous recent code updates?

I thought the next run was delayed until Q4 next year?

I wish they made the mode selectable on LCD via flippers like on Batman66. That method works great to select a mini wizard mode. You've done all the work to enable the mode just let the player select which one they want without jumping through more hoops.

Well they mentioned having a challenge mode in a future release. Maybe it will be the OHMSS wizard mode?

I think George already stated in a podcast interview it was something they were thinking about.

I think people are slowly coming around to Bond being a great game with the improved code so maybe there would be enough demand for a 500 unit run of a new LE Goldfiner edition.

In my opnion, the first LE should have been Goldfinger instead of Thunderball. Even though Thunderball made more at the box office, Goldfinger is almost everyone's favorite of the Connery series.

I imagine the majority of current Thunderball LE owners would feel the same way.

Maybe if they did it they would make enough money to condifer adding the Goldfinger song to the code.

Post #6040

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/james-bond-official-owners-club/page/121#post-7519401

It does seem strange. They've done such a great job representing all the other core features of classic Bond: Q's gadgets, villains and henchmen, and classic John Barry music. But they've really neglected the women aspect of the theme. I really hope they are better represented with a future code release.

Tron was designed by John Borg not George Gomez. Gomez joined Stern after Tron was released.

I think that would annoy Bond owners because Goldfinger is much more iconic than Thunderball. I would suspect most LE owners are Bond fans and would have preferred a Goldfinger LE vs a Thunderball LE.

Electrical shock would be the best part. I vaguely remember an Addams Family Uncle Fester themed game where it gave you "shock". I think it was just a vibrating mech to simulate an electrical shock.

Would be a cool pinball machine gimmick to "electrify" the flipper buttons or lockdown bar. Surprised no one has tried that yet.

Batman and his villains had the same OCD labeling issue. They labeled everything. Must be a 60's thing.

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Mike V already mentioned adding a challenge mode like on JP that can be started right away.

I was hoping for a challenge mode (wizard like mode you can start via start button). I thought Mike V said they were going to have one for Bond.

I really like how they added a lot of the movie assets into the final wizard mode. They took a lot of good clips that werent applicable in the regular game modes and used them well in the wizard mode.

For the Stern games that have a challenge mode option at the start of a game, is it usually the same as the games final wizard mode? Or is it a whole new unique mode on its own?

That's good since I fall into the same skill category as Gomez mentioned in the stream, i.e. "never get there in my lifetime". Putting OHMSS wizard mode (or variation of it) in as a challenge mode will give us mere mortals a chance to play it.