Bus has already been missed on this. Too many competing products, and I certainly wouldn't remove my powerblades to install an "official" blade.

Agree. I bought a set of the flames creeping death blades cheap from a Pinsider who never installed them. Was worth checking them out but after a week of them installed I plan to buy mirror blades at Pinfest to replace them.

I had the official GoT blades for my pro and thought they looked fantastic and match the game perfectly. Problem is the blade creators can't use any licensed images and Metallica is screaming for a great art package on the blades.

Anyway, the new artwork mod Aurich is creating should look fantastic and all the current blade designs would surely clash with it. So mirror blades are the best look available now (expensive powerblades aside) and will also be future proofed from clashing with the upcoming mod.

I am not a big mod guy, but I have to say hands down that the official Stern art blades are leagues above and beyond the quality of the competing products I have seen. Normally I would never pay up for any of them, but I ended up getting the Wrestlemania blades for free and I was really pleasantly surprised with the look and quality of them. They are a much more durable and quality material than the competing products I have seen and the price is very comparable as well. I would really now consider buying the Stern brand for any blades they make available for the games I own.

I have the Creeping Death light kit on my pro with the speaker panel and purple armor which looks great to me all the way around. On the LE I like just mirror blades as the playfield would look crammed with the hammer and light bars to me.

While I don't expect it -- I'd love to see art blades that match up with the rest of the game art. I've never gotten any for my game specifically because the options that do exist don't match up with the style/colors.

I agree. Still need to get the GB ones....

I have said the same things since its release, also with a speaker panel decal. All the companies that do provide us with great mods have missed the mark due to copyright.
Its not their fault, but DD side blades and speaker panel art would be bad ass.

Ha, thanks, but don't let my project I haven't shown influence your thinking in any way.

That said, my hand drawn art on it is meant to compliment the existing Metallica art, so Dirty Donny blades would probably work great with it.

Agreed, we should start a petition!

With how often he shows up at events these days, somebody has to have a way to get Donny's ear directly. Facebook or otherwise - should bring it up to him too. Plant the seed. He might whip them up and go "hey stern, checkitout"

Off topic, but how long do they have with the license now that it was re-upped?

I have the Ride the Lightning blades and front panel sticker on my game. It's better than nothing, but really doesn't go with the rest the of art package. I'd love to have legit Dirty Donny art to replace them with!

Extra points if they look awesome when lit by the Ride the Lightning light bars too (DD's specialty is black-light art, not that the light bars are true black lights though).

Hey, Stern could even do a set of legit blacklight light bars for the game that tie in with the Art Blades. How sick would that be??

Say what you want, I thought the VU meter powerblades were the right color choices for the game to fit the art and matched the theme. So did my wife, for that matter, and I've gotten compliments on them. /shrug

If they did UV reactive blades, I might buy them just to stick them on the wall.

I emailed Donny a link to this thread, so yeah, this is probably a done deal.

I thought about doing those VU blades but decided it just didn't match the game even though it's a cool idea.

Count me in! I agree that none of the current blades out there match the art work on the pin and really work except for the mirror ones. Given the number of Metallica pins that Stern has sold you'd think it would be worth it for them to release DD art blades.

I love his Art!

Would buy them in a heartbeat,if available.

Thats what Shia said about it:

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