Walking Dead - Pro or Premium

Second hand Metallica Prem or TWD Prem. Or jump to $6800 for new ACDC Luci Vault.

What he said above. Those are great choices.

Walking dead or MEt are both nice choices

Metallica....sold my premium a few years ago and had to get another

I wouldn't go with AC/DC next to Star Wars. I like the thought of TWD pro mixed in with SW. Both have fantastic code depth and breadth.

Yes. JJPOTC. It has tons going on with lots of rules and strategies. Definitely a good pin for a small lineup.

Star Trek

Sterns POTC well....kinda blows. It's fun for a month.

It's a little outside your age of game parameter, but Spider-Man is just an awesome game. Well, I guess the Vault Edition would be in there. Anyway, SM is a great game for all ages and one of Stern's best. Lyman's code is terrific. It is a masterpiece of a game.

It's a benefit, in more than one way.

Yes! MMr and AFMr are awesome for a home collection, and the Classic version of the latter fits your budget.

AC/DC layout is too similar to Star Wars. OP specified it needs to be different. Great game, though.

I don't think so. Different designers, different coders.

Gotg is like met and ironman...acdc and sw have similar layouts

Pabst Can Crusher

Meets all of your criteria and then some!

You can get the pro for at least 2k less than the premium. For the difference in price I would go with the pro. Some think the light show on the prem and LE is work 2-3k more. What some video on YouTube.

Stern Star Trek pro is about $4000-$4500. Very fun pin, it’s the wife’s favorite pin. GOTG pro is about $5000. Metallica, spider man and iron man are nice as well. Lots of choices around $5000

Get the LE if you can. It would be the best investment. STLE is best Stern Pin period IMHO. I was told that Stern actually lost money on that one and makes sense since it lives up to a true LE. If not a premium will have the same game play.

To pair with your SW I would suggest a non-space theme. Perhaps Metallica as others have suggested or maybe Aerosmith to keep the displays the same and look cool in your two game lineup.

A little over your budget but JJP is where it's at. WOZ and DI are great and JJPPirates is going to be really dun when complete.

Under your listed criteria, TWD premium or MET

JJ = no
Remake = If you can stomach the price, Medieval is still the best

Don't do that. Stern PotC is shallow and ultimately boring. They themed it great, but there's just not much to it for a home environment.

Check out Houdini, jjPotC, WoZ, AfMr LE. All of them play way different than Star Wars. TWD is also a REALLY GOOD GAME (add Color DMD). I'm not a horror/zombie guy, but the funfactor is undeniable.

Oh, and I have a Dialed In LE on the market for $7750.

Don't even CONSIDER GotG until the software situation clears up. It's still a mess and no guarantee it will ever play well.

Definitely PLAY this one first. Hobbit was not my cup of tea, AT ALL. Easily the worst JJP release, by a good margin, IMO. Too samey and boring and the multiball got real old, real fast, even if you turned up the difficulty to make them less frequent.

There's a gotg at arcade legacy in Cincinnati. I also own one. I'm it doesn't play like sw.

You know whats funny before jjp announced thier pirates. Stern's pirates was a sought after game and many people thought it was fun. All of a sudden people says its trash. The game was true to it's theme, had a lot of toys and frankly got what you paid for. Pinside full of stern haters. Starting at $8500 many people will never own one.

Sterns potc is a fun game dont let the haters bring you down

A bit out of the 5+ years old but I would get something like TSPP or FG. Very different layouts and flow from the SW but have good depth for home use.

Good luck.

I'm far from a stern hater. I owned sterns potc well before JJP announced theirs. And like I said in my post, it was fun...for about a month. But yea, it kind of blows....at least I think so. Much better games at it's price point. I try to be honest as I can with my experience in pinball and I understand there will be fans of sterns potc too, and that's fine by me, that's pinball.

I've watched, observed, and somewhat studied the ruleset of JJPOTC from their tutorial streams. I then applied it with approx 20 or more games at arcade expo here in california. How many people can say they've at least done that before forming an opinion? And fwiw; JJPOTC is probably one of the best pins I've ever played. Well worth the price of admission, and if I had a choice between 2 sub 4K games or JJPOTC, I'd easily take JJPOTC.

I will say this. I love TWD Premium, my buddy has one. Easily one of my favorite Pinballs ever. Very very fun. Now the show TWD, never seen it. Not into the theme in the slightest. I’m not a horror fan at all. The pin is fantastic though. Kicks your but and has you coming back for more.

Now onto your original question. I would buy a TNA or TWD premium.

ST is a really awesome game. The light show of the premium version is worth the upgrade.

I was in a similar situation. Was looking at next pin to buy. Sought advice that was helpful and I think the key was finding the different games and playing them. This was the best thing for me to do. Ended up with MET pro.

I would consider a Tron as well. Totally different then SW and a very good game.

I would say some good advise and some I really disagree with. We all have personal preferences I think you should have enough to get started and find what you like.

Good luck.

St is great game but Ritchie ramps are the same on both. Go with a different designer

I would go kiss, areosmith, or metalica. I think one underrated a game to consider is big buck hunter. I say game of thrones and star trek too wimilwr.

Go with a different play style like a Borg Walking dead premium, Metallica pro, or if you want a different style Ritchie go with Star Trek Premium. If you like the deeper code aspect of a Ritchie go with Game of Thrones premium. Above all those save 1500 more and get a dialed in, which is more fun and prettier than any stern game.

MET all the way although ST is becoming my sleeper favorite. Have the pro and just don't see how the premiums light show is worth the 1500+. That's fifeteen hundred dollars to have more lights to the already blinged out pro. I might have to watch some now videos bc sometimes it's easy to forget how much money we spend on machines where 1500 it's a casual add to a price

I have the premium lightshow on my pro for under 300....

What about a SMVE?