Last Man on Earth with the great Vincent Price and Omega Man with the also great Charleton Heston. also agree Logan's Run remake has lots of potential, "run runner run".

Would this above the playfield or below it?

If it's a peepers ghost illusion it's actually much older technology since that's been around since the 1860's. The best modern example of it that most of us has probably seen is ballroom part of the haunted mansion ride at Disney.

Anyone think they will actually have one at the Texas show?

So the composition of this is different than the earlier leaked translite art. Bill Murray and Erie Hudson look the same but Ramis and Aykroyd look like different drawings. Could this be the art for the Slimer LE translite?

I thought that as well but since 2 of the characters are different drawings and slimer was front and center I thought it might be alternate translite art. Aspect ratio is off for translite dimensions as well.

Italian Enada show is March 16-18'th, Expo in Vegas is March 15-17'th, TPF is March 18-20'th. The question is if Stern made enough machines to support all three of these shows simultaneously. I hope they did because it would be great to see and play Rob Zombie, Alien, and Ghostbusters at the show.

The Shadow sanctum magnet would bring a fast moving ball to a complete dead stop than accelerate it forward. I think that a lot more stressful than putting some extra spin/speed on an already moving ball. I think these slings would be more like the the "power of the force" magnet in SWEP1 or the witch magnet in WOZ. Anyone one with either of those games know if they have wear issues over time?

If you look at the Stern video on their Facebook page at the "-23" time stamp you see animated CAD file showing a shaft that rotates and moves down. I assume this is the shaft that attaches to the arm holding the Slimer toy. If that's the case, then Slimer on prem/LE would raise and lower as well as rotate left and right to block shots. Kinda like a mini version of the crane on Batman Dark Knight. On the coast 2 coast podcast Jody said Slimer could move and cover 4 shots.

I called marco and asked and they told me they were getting 2 ghostbuster pins from stern for TPF. Didn't know what version though.

It's like that at the end of the movie as well. Venkman is the only ghostbuster not totally covered with marshmallow goop at the end.

I was trying to figure that out as well. After looking closely at the pics my guess it's just a single post that comes down and the balls just roll back to their starting positions via gravity. I wonder if the balls will always reset after each player or not. If not, than players could "steal" their opponents balls.

He also said they could play "keep away" where they could bounce the ball from one sling to another. If they coupled that with some cool audio of the ghosts taunting you that could be a cool effect.

The plastics above the sling show ghosts holding balls so I think the vibe they are going for is that the slings are haunted and controlled by ghosts. Sometimes the ghosts help you by holding ball and deopping it to your flipper and sometimes to mess with you. I'm looking forward to see they actually play.

The flyer says "negative reinforcement". How cool would it be if the game actually gave you a mild electric shock ( like the uncle fester shocker arcade game) when you guessed the wrong card. Considering all the epilepsy warnings they already have on the apron I'd be surprised if they let it shock you no matter how mild it was. Maybe it would trigger the shaker? Would be a cool after market mode to make shocking flipper buttons.

If they turn out to be duds (I doubt they will) you could replace them with standard slings. In his interview Trudeau said the magnets fit in the same space as the traditional sling mechs. I guess you would also need to drill a hole where the kicker arm goes though the playfield.

The top rollovers sound effect sounds like the one in the WOZ top rollovers, that sparkly tinkley magic wandy sounding one.

Can anyone who bought a recent stern topper comment on what the connector looks like? I'm wondering if it's just a simple on or off signal or something more complicated that would require some circuitry to reverse engineer cpu commands from the game.

I agree the topper theme of a light bar is perfect but the design of the one looked a little too lacking in detail. I don't think it would be too hard to make your own that's more detailed and authentic for the same cost as the stern version. The interactivity is what may be trickier if its more than just an on or off command.

So who thinks adding flourescent colored balls in the captive ball areas would look good?

You could go with all slimer green or mix it up with some of the other colors like pink, blue, orange etc. The artwork on the flyers show flying ghost orbs with trails that have similar colors offered with the flourescent balls.

Maybe try the glow in the dark ones too. However that would require adding a UV spot light somewhere to charge them up.

Just a 2 wire power and ground or more wires?

But if you replace all the captive balls you need four. Three for the left and one for the center.

Any one know if the newton balls on GB the kind with a threaded rod through them or are they just regular balls trapped within a wireform/plate assembly? Mezelmods sells a colored ball set for ghobstbusters that is 4 balls but I wonder if you'd need 6 to do all of them? Maybe its a bad idea to put one of the colored plastic covered balls as the newton since the coating on the ball might not transfer as much energy to the ball behind it as a harder steel ball would?

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Looking at the pics it definitiely looks like its not the style with the shaft through the ball. So maybe mezelmods.com can make a 6 ball set in addition to the 4 ball one. Getting a little pricey at $12 per ball though.

Isn't there one behind/inside the Gene Simmons head on Kiss?

I think it's all in the timing. This is what i assumed was happening, once the ball is held at a standstill the magnet turns off and the balls begins to roll down away from the magnet. Before it gets too far away the magnet turns on again to pull ball back up and then quickly turns off so as it passes over the now turned off magnet it has enough momentum to keep going towards the lock. I just assumed it always attracted and didn't repel. I think the sanctum wear is from suddenly stopping a fast moving ball to a standstill. Unless the GB slings do that I don't think it will wear as quickly.

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.

I'd be really surprised if Stern makes a unique playfield glass with a special coating.

The little tent thing with the LCD/OLED in it is pointing down so display will just be reflecting off of the disc on the playfield. The disc will need to be coated so that it reflects the image and at the same time lets you see through the disc so you can see the ball as it travels underneath. Just like pinball2000 just smaller.

It will interesting to see if they put a lens between the lcd and the reflective glass disc below it. In the stern release pics it looks like the simulated ghost image is a bit bigger than the tent holding the display. The cheaper LCD/OLED displays are only 1.4 to 1.7 inches but if they use a lens they could make the ghost effect a little bigger to fill the glass more. Without a lens the ghost image might be pretty small.