I talked to one of the Stern guys this weekend and he said there is a delay in getting the interociter parts.

I don't think anything is 'delayed'. I just think none of the ecto google animations were ready by the time they made the shoot of the Premium/ LE models. Otherwise they wouldn't have taken an 2d artwork snippet off the playfield wich clearly won't featured there as well.

Or, to put it differently: Our newbie friend would probably not even have noticed any difference to traditional slings, apart from some cool tricks the magna slings can do, if he wouldn't have seen the discussion here.

It will most likely have next to no impact on gameplay at all. Slings with kickers are basically "randomizers" meant to provoke unpredictable ball movement. Magnetic slings do exactly the same but will probably be slightly more predictable due to the placement of the magnets.

One of the most basic skills in pinball is to avoid the slings anyway, if they are driven by kickers or magnets won't make a big difference.

But yeah, it's a feature of this one particular pinball machine because it a 100% perfect fit for this theme. It's not meant to be a paradigm-shift that will forever change the way slings work.

I have a hot tip ss. It has an actual score reel in the base and chimes. The reel fires anytime a point is scored. Because they were afraid of the player being concerned of the sound. So before you buy you new premium to go next to your other premium and new armor and aftermarket speakers. At least someone made the jump to solid state and a sound board. That damn reel draws power from the rest of the game and got disconnected.
I think the magna slings will be awesome and less like a novelty like some of the "features" on premiums lately.
P. S. This thread would be easier to follow without the speculation of why people post what they post.

I, for one, welcome our new magnetic sling overlords.

WOW,9399 posts,and the game is 60 days to delivery of the cheap models yet!!!

For those wondering what they look like under the playfield.

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From the looks of things...It doesn't look like there would be enough room to install traditional slingshot coil assemblies.

I have been told weeks until the pro, and June , July until premiums. The cheap ones were sold at Macy's 20 years ago.

Was just told my ordered Pro just got pushed back til Mid May......What problem have they now discovered.

Yep, heard it from my dist!

My distributor said my LE is pushed back until June 2027, guess those mag slings are a bitch after all!

Yup and my Avatar LE is a good example of that too. It doesn't just let go of the ball it gets thrown.

Was told my pros would be here possibly this week. Will update if that changes

Was told by a distributor this afternoon that early May is when they plan to start receiving them. Hope something didn't happen right after that! Got all stupid excited with it only being a few weeks away... but after reading some of the posts here I'm starting to doubt early May and am now crying.

Early may for which model?

I would rather they be perfectly built and finished code. Stern you take your time on my GBLE I am in no hurry at all

Yup! Take your time on my LE too, august is fine, just make it supercool

Just interested to know with all this magnetic sling concerns with playfield wear. How many games do you think these Shadow, LAH, AF or any other sited/container pins would have had in their life to cause such playfield wear etc? Now I don't think I have that much time left on this planet to rack up that many plays on 'my home use only'' to get close to worry about playfield wear caused by magnets.

If I need to be concerned, then maybe I better sell my sea side home before global warming washes it away. The bloody real estate agent should have warned me about this I guess.

Less scare mongering and more patience and lets see what gives.

Yes, please update us! My original ship date was April 15, got pushed back till the 29. Now this.

After seeing all of the LED boards on the underside of the game I wonder why Stern didn't make every insert color changing on the premium / LE. Could Stern have limited the number of color changing inserts to accommodate all of the other toys / features on the game? Keeping the same lighting system across both games may have very well allowed all models to have a good number of features.

Same here but for my Pro, it'll get here when it gets here.

No, they pull the ball away from the slings. Also JT said they'll be able to throw the ball up the PF or play catch between the two magnets, couldn't do that if the magnet was under the sling.

I'm pretty sure they could play catch with the ball if the magnet was behind the slings but if they want to throw the ball UP the playfield I imagine the way they have it now is better...

It's the amazing technicolor cheese wedge!

I agree with slow rolling my Premium on delivery. I want it asap but I want it working right and with the right code. Send out those pro's overseas and let them work out the bugs!!!

The magnet won't activate until the ball hits the physical switch at the sling rubber. If the magnet was under the sling it wouldn't be able to kick the ball away from the sling like a mechanical sling would. So the magnet needs to be outside the sling. There could be other times where the slings would activate without the sling switch being hit to do specialized ghost tricks.

The magnet would pulse sucking the ball into the rubber sling and then release, that's how it would "kick" the ball away. Anyways, i'm sure it's better the way they have done it.

Makes sense looking at the magnet placements picture earlier in thread. They look close together

It is going to be a while. Latest word is late May until the pros get shipped. June/July on LE's and I am sure premiums will run into August.

1/2 the posts are duplicates, the other half is discussing the magnetic slings

Time for a new unboxing thread.

Is Stern taking a page from JJP playbook? Announce a game and wait several months / years?

Well, it is for sure looking like months. They got really backed up over the last 6 months and it is starting to show. Stern's strong point was always announcing a game and shipping very soon after. I am hoping they are focusing more on quality product/code and that is the slow down.

What would that increase insert LEDs cost from $0.10 to $0.15? LEDs are so cheap they are basically free.

It's not the cost of the LEDs, its the programming and support behind them that costs $$

Can't say I'm not disappointed if the delays are true but hopefully it will result in a more finished product.

ya, the crappy consumer grade ones

Probably pushing back all the home use games so they can ship the pro's to the release parties.

I could see that it does look like a lot of distributors are having release party's in the next week or two.

I can only imagine the backup if they didn't build that new factory

I have a Pro ordered that my distributor says should arrive on or around April 25/26.

I don't mind waiting one bit. I suspect Stern jumped the gun somewhat due to

1) leaked photos
2) the game is so damn gorgeous that they suspected it'd soak up some pre-order money and/or pull some people off of other non_Stern games.

I do wonder if this will negative effect games like GOT and SMVE if people were on the fence decide to wait for GB.

The wait is slow for every game right now, not just Ghostbusters. Stern is literally months behind on some orders. I know people who have been waiting over two months for a Game of Thrones, others have been waiting a very long time for Star Trek or Metallica. Spider-Man is behind. Stern has a lot of games on the line and there are just tons of orders in.

This makes me wonder if 3 new Titles a year is sustainable? Maybe the move affected things a bit..prolly takes awhile to get the kinks worked out I am sure. Someone had mentioned they were waiting for parts from venders on here. Just babbling