John Williams score that is still iconic decades later...
Game changing sfx from industrial light & magic
Generational director Steven Spielberg
Great thriller story

Yeah... no idea why the love was liked or spawned a whole series.

Watch the film today and it still stands up great, even in the sfx department.

Huh?

Jeff goldbum’s character - Ian Malcolm. It boosted JG and he’s still wuotable to this day
Dennis is the source of memes to this day...
Allan grant and Hammond were personas referenced through all the movies too

Of course the movies put raptors in everyone’s lexicon as well

It's simply that the actor had other roles that were bigger or their persona became bigger. It doesn't detract from their prior work.

Everyone knows Wayne Knight as Newman (Seinfield) - but everyone knows the character from JP.. even if they don't know him by name. Plenty of major characters make memorable impacts, even if you don't know them by name.

Good Fellas... who knows Joe Pesci's characters full name? No one cares.. they know the role.

The other characters in the story established a foothold and mindset referred to multiple times, even if they weren't onscreen. Hammond's folly is a recurring theme through all the movies.

JP isn't Star Wars... but it's up there in Spielberg's portfolio and a pop culture reference in many ways.

It’s simply a lesser of evils. The distributors being in the know and being able to answer questions and TAKE orders is a much bigger gain then the distributor looking stupid when the public knows.

Stern has to know the info will get out. But for all their agreements with 3rd parties etc they would still be in good standing. So it’s a nice happy medium where everyone is happy. They get their hype... the distributors are ready, and deals like IGN are maintained and stern did nothing wrong.

If the JP animations play with audio not synced up to them.... get back to us. Until then... that comparison is horseshit.

Who cares? The original JP didn't have the video assets of the movies assets and we know how great and iconic many of the elements have proven to be. And games like Wonka show that just because you DO have film assets, it doesn't necessarily mean its better.

Seriously.. the media integration in Wonka is horrible. From Scenes that don't climax before the ball is released... to horrible audio clips chosen for the visuals being seen, to scenes you clearly are staring at the people's FACE - yet to not actually play audio that fits the established scene, etc. It's so unnatural and ill fitting.

It points out its WHAT YOU DO WITH THINGS - not what you have, that makes it good or not.

I call BS on this. While you may be right about actual voice lines vs watching someone's face... they have the sound effects, etc sync'd to the video. Take for instance the start of multiball on hobbit... smaug's movement through the gold and his fireblast are all sync'd with the video. Same with the jackpot clips.. the sound effects are in sync with the videos.

Contrast this with Wonka, where we get completely disconnected video clips from the sounds and lines played. Like the gobstopper lock 1 and 3 animations..

The whole 'you don't want repeats' also is a poor excuse. You don't face high repeats on mode start animations... yet.. they are devoid of classic lines or scenes played in sync. It's purely them staying away from licensing. They've acknowledged the constraint - they've just done a poor job of working around it in this game compared to prior games.

Why do you think the balls are even on the PF? It's hard connected to the shaft.. they could be above the PF surface.

So some fun watching the trailer video closely...

Anyone notice what appears to be ZERO saucers on the game? He's using up posts where we'd normally see saucers (like the control room)

Looks to be zero subways in the game? Everything is up top! Could be a way they've been able to shift BOM credits around to more fun on top!

People comment about T-rex or newton ball wear.. But the jump ramp shooter lane feed will probably wear quicker . Or how about that spiral ramp drop into the orbit?

The shooter lane feeding the U-turn scoop... and the same scoop being shootable from the PF? That's pretty cool!

Notice the layered backboard WITH lighting??

REAL POP BUMPER TOPS! Not plastic tops with LEDs popping through! (ok, sorry Pro.. looks like you still have the ugly f@$%ers)

The game in the video appears to have silicon style rubber on posts, rings, etc... (except the upper right flipper...)

Who can tell where the left orbit (just north of the tower, and between the t-rex ramp) goes? The center spinner shot.. this shot.. and the feed under the spiral habit trail are maybe all one common big orbit at the far back?

The right ramp feeds the spiral which feeds down to the PF itself in the orbit. Hasn't it been awhile since we've seen a ramp+return feed back to the PF surface like that? It should make for some real fun combo action too... right ramp... delay... upper flipper to tower, orbit, etc.

Notice none of the signs have their bulbs protruding through as we normally see? Are we seeing some different bulb setup here, or maybe small board mounted LEDs?

The matrix mentions 'ez slide' rails. Are they talking the PF supports, or are they incorporating what backalley did to improve the actual slide mech so we don't have the harsh bump stop at the end?

This game looks killer from what we see so far. My biggest concern playing is going to be that big massive open area down low, and everything being so far at the back. During multiball that can be tough! Can't wait to see how it actually feels shooting.

I think there's a new King in town...

How do you plan on getting your head all the way up there into the cabinet to see that?

I know they've shyed away from them (using saucers that just kick back) - but they've been there in some. But here, no saucers OR subways or Scoops below the PF... I'm wondering the motivation behind the choices. Could it be fitting better to the node board capacities in some way? Either way, it's an interesting twist compared to other designs they've done.

Someone who thinks you should waste 15mins watching them on YouTube so they can monetize your eyeballs... instead of writing things down for free.

Saucers vs scoops.. Scoops the ball drops into, and fire the ball to flow up the curved return or via VUK. Saucers the ball sits in above the PF and is kicked out of the hole.

Batman 66 has a scoop as well - but with VUK return tho vs returning where the ball came from.

So you're saying IGN wasn't a launch partner of Stern for recent games and it's all happy coincidence IGN has the exclusive photos and launch timing?

Remember.. we're not talking about origin story of how you two came together - but the content.

Did you see the baby before you threw that bath water out?

We are talking the other ign stories in the past where ign was part of the launch... not as you were this time with JP.

Shoots off a short jump ramp into u turn ramp that feeds into the habit trail. So the same right side u turn is reachable from the playfield as a wide night shot... and plunger shoots into that same shot.

Presumably you could short plunge for skill shots as well as times shots from right flipper on full plunge

Where/when did stern go on record about that?

Helped unbox a JP Pro at Ocelot Brewing in Dulles, VA today. First in the DMV area.

Game was built just Aug 10th. No problems out of the box.. we were able to unbox and get it going right away without any fuss.

Game looks like it will be fun to explore... lots of different shots, difficult shots but not brutalizing shots. Not super dependent on multiball.

Things I noticed on this vs other recent sterns I've setup.

It has metal washers under the slingshot star posts... trying to be defensive about the recent clearcoat issues? They also had fatter washers under any of the metal posts with nut bottoms. Plastic posts had no washers.. and some star posts further up the PF also did not have washers under them.

Power plug on back has some sort of hood now.. keep fluids out of the socket?

Looks like there will be lots of strategy on how scores are boosted with this title...

It is just the first week really.. only people getting games so far have been people tightly tied into the Stern-operator loop for first dibs at games.

They will come.. patience

The JP we unboxed last week had metal washers under those posts from the factory.. game built Aug 10

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Done at the slings... but not the plastic posts or Star posts further up the PF

The flippers were weak on our local JP. Lifted the hood...

All three cool stops were like this...
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Less than one week of play... 36k flips by the audits. Game build date aug 10

This plus the weak engineering on the flipper post have made it tough to keep this game earning :/

They weren't wearing... literally the plug just separated from the bracket. Looks like the plug was not properly riveted in place... no significant mark on the back where they are normally pressed

Ask them to check.. super easy to see... as the stop is clearly missing when you look at the bracket even when installed. (The stop slides into the plunger sleeve)

Stern's self-destructing coil stops is a long running problem. This is just an example of how bad it's gotten where the parts aren't just wearing poorly, they are completely defective.

They have a parts supply issue.. and they haven't really addressed it.

If this were new ideas... maybe.. but Stern has been using the same coilstop design since the 90s... and is not unique to these builds. So..

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