Above all else now it's 2016 an LCD is more about principle than anything else, sterns putting their prices up to match a similar price point with their competition yet their designs features and tech is not, profit is all well and good but sometimes its nice to be best on the block along with a nice profit margin!

Above all else now it's 2016 an LCD is more about principle than anything else, sterns putting their prices up to match a similar price point with their competition yet their designs features and tech is not, profit is all well and good but sometimes its nice to be best on the block along with a nice profit margin!

Quoted because that idea my friend is simply genius!!

Figures he's probably the cheapest to hire, but custom speech is custom speech aslong as its not the hillbilly on meth from TWD

Such a simple idea but possibly one of the best examples of stern putting thought into something and one of the nicest attentions to detail:

• When you hit Slimer he “slimes” the playfield, turning a bunch of the led lamps green. In this mode you have to shoot targets to clean up the slime.

Only about £300 more for a hobbit here in the UK good old UK import fees and tax

I've seen it asked but no answered maybe I've missed any direct replies but does anyone know what the original idea behind the proton streams was? That seems to be the only thing missing but I'm sure the audio dmd will add proton references at least I hope so. Although I'm sure modders will bring proton streams to the game somehow

I would be happy to pay for the proton beams especially if they came as a plug in and play motorised mech. Although a nice asthetic light show would sell it to me aswell, but ideally I'd love to see a motorised mod that functions with a mode, playfield could go completely dark all GI out, proton packs light up with the dialogue intro from the hotel with dots:

Stantz: You know, it just occurred to me that we really haven't had a successful test of this equipment.
Spengler: I blame myself.
Venkman: So do I.
Stantz: Well, no sense in worrying about it now.
Venkman: Why worry? Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.
Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Venkman: What?
Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
Venkman: Why?
Spengler: It would be bad.
Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Stantz: Total protonic reversal!
Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.

Proton streams light up and mode starts! Have to make specific shots and combos to avoid crossing streams, too many incorrect shots could either cause reverse flippers or a complete blackout for a couple seconds. Successful shots/combos progress the mode and streams relighting GI and a fancy light show to complete mode. Make it so stern and take my money!

For stern I'd say "yes", nobody can say they haven't at least tried new things with GB whether there just a twist on a classic pinball toy - slimmer is possibly the best bash toy I've ever seen or something completely new - like the magna slings & the echo goggles there definitely "innovating" within there own games oh then there is the "stern firsts" a sub ramp into subway, as long as stern stay on this path we will all benefit and there could be some genuinely cool things from stern in the future if GB is just the start.

Has anyone else wondered if they made that ramp intentionally bad to maybe secure more premium orders? Seems to be a common opinion that the pro would be a hit and a buy if only that ramp was different/didn't exist. I myself am going for a premium, however at first I was going to go pro until I saw the ramp being shot and like a lot of people it put me off the pro which other than that ramp looks great!

My plan was to listen to the podcast tonight, but that's as good a reason as any. Thank you for the insight didn't realise GG had been involved on that as well as JT.

Holy cow, that thing looks like a cross between slimer and uncle fester on crack

The slimer mech is pretty hideous, my plan is to wrap it in a mixture of yellow/orange/blue/purple and make it look like a Proton Stream is holding Slimer and throwing him about the playfield as he struggles being captured. If a modder wants to use the idea and make a Plug in and play feel just send me one pretty please

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I believe when you hit Slimer inserts will go green as if he's slimed the playfield which is a really nice touch in my opinion. Other than that and I would guess the inserts also turning a traditional red for lit shots I think that's maybe it, there is no crazy RGB lighting like on previous releases, but I'll take the "slimed" colour changing inserts for GB it's a perfect change.

The Enterprise must be running pretty low on replicated cool-aid by now

Awesome idea sounds perfect to me and a little different to the standard hit red arrows once to collect jackpot, plus since we don't have RGB GI it would make sense to use the colour changing "slime" insets as much as possible in as many ways as you can.

Has Trudeau been pretending to be Kirk all this time or is Kirk pretending to be Trudeau

If true that's good to know, at least they are not just sweeping this issue under the rug like the GOT orbit issue which is still shocking in my opinion that they think that's an acceptable solution. Hopefully Stern send out new slimmer mechs to everyone who has already received there pins so far!

But it's still not good enough, the prices continue to rise but for some reason so do the number of production problems, for what Stern are charging at present the amount of issues each new release seems to leave the factory with doesn't seem acceptable and screams laziness on Sterns part, is any play testing happening during the design phase these days? Or during production? Doesn't seem like it if one of the main mechs requires redesigning once they have already gone into production

Honestly it shouldn't matter, Stern have resigned one of GB main/central mechs and from what a couple of people have said above won't be sending the new mech out to current PRO owners, unless there's is broken with pictures, well imo if they have redesigned the mech its because it's good as broken, I find it disgusting how stern keep treating loyal customers.

Shouldn't have to go through distro's Stern should be doing the stand up thing and sending them out to people without them having to ask anyone.

Has anyone who is in on an LE heard of any solid shipping dates yet? Last I saw in here was the pro is being delayed probably due to the slimer mech re design but has anyone heard when LE or more importantly premiums maybe hiring the streets now? Dying to try out these magna slings for myself in person before pulling the trigger on a premium

It's nice to see some added extras to code midnight madness is a nice little touch, extra modes/Easter eggs hidden within the code go along way to making a games code feel special and unique, hopefully stern/programmers keep this moving forward but make them unique so not every game as a midnight madness some special little hidden mode game specific in the code though would rock!

Probably right on that one, Ghostbusters was a huge hit and has remained popular since its release, i doubt there are many players out there that didnt grow up with Ghostbusters, so it has a HUGE nostalgic place for a lot of pinheads I'm sure.

I'm a younger player and I enjoyed Ghostbusters about 10/11 years after its initial release and I remember being entertained and having all the toys as a kid, it's a everlasting licence from generation to generation.

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I've offered to order these in bulk and ship them to people stateside but as of yet all those that said they where interested haven't replied in the issues thread so I have no idea how many could possibly be wanted

Bigger flipper gap? Pffft

This will show Mr.Trudeau

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I agree man, when I heard GB was coming I thought it would have some awesome mods maybe even more modding potential than TRON but so far most of the mods for GB have been pretty lackluster, hopefully those proton stream mods will show up and change that.

I just don't get the light bar, yeah ecto-1 is on the cabinet of the pro and premium (Stern seems to have limited themselves as this topper is even more miss matched with the slimer centric LE art) but it just feels out of place to me. A ghost trap maybe 2 or the stay puft marshmallow mans upper body with tracking eyes would have been awesome and felt more fitting IMO.

Yeah that sounds cool love the sound of that! An idea I had that I thought would be cool (inspired a little by the skulls/spines from Predator) was to have two ghost traps hanging off the side of GB backbox and have them light up, open/close and possibly even emit some smoke to simulate ghost being trapped

Cool little trap mod I see, where did you get that from looks awesome!

Let's just all remember Ghostbusters Pinball. No one say anything bad about Ghostbusters II

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I don't know about that, if Stern can save a $1 on a machine they will so that extra .36 cents probably made it a must do

They are pretty cool Paul, would look awesome with some Slime/Neon green EL back lighting, would look good on any model of GB I reckon, I might get a pair and back light them on a premium see how they look

I know it won't be me as I've got too many projects building up a back log as it is but I look forward to seeing it when it's done. Definitely need to be lighted green yet keep his tongue a nice bright red at the same time would look awesome.

As annoying/inconvenient as the power switch being relocated to the backbox is, at least there are a variety of work arounds/options to add back the convenience lost through the use of power bars, control switches etc like a few pinsiders have demonstrated and linked in this thread I can deal with it.

Plus if the cost savings from all these little changes means we get more $$ put into the playfield & GB certainly looks and feels to have more $$ in/on the playfield than a lot of the more recent/past Sterns then I'll keep my torches and pitch forks away........ For now at least.

A hidden/secret Vigo mode would be pretty cool, I know people have mentioned there is a midnight madness mode in GB maybe that could be Vigo themed?

Yeah that was my thinking sorry Kirk my initial post wasnt clear.

I ment it would be cool if instead of the current (generic) midnight madness mode, that having it themed around Vigo would be pretty cool especially as you point out the timing in the movie is coincidental don't you think? Maybe this is Dwights plan when he polishes the code? One can hope.

Well there's the solution for Vigo, little kids who would be scared of Vigo shouldn't be up at midnight anyway, problem solved

I have a pretty cool idea for a Vigo mod but only if he was in the code somewhere would it make sense for it. And yeah it was always clear GBI was going to be the main focus but there's already a couple of elements taken from GBII in the game so why not Vigo @ midnight when only big kids are up playing pinball

Bingo! That was exactly my thinking, plus I'm sure there is someone smart enough here to program it to be a little more interactive, would be nice to have a mode to tie it too and midnight madness seems to obvious choice so the mode can be themed.

Maybe Dwight needs to theme the mode around Vigo and set it to activate at 23:55, if you survive for the 5minutes up to midnight it goes from 2 ball to 4 balls (ball for each stream/slime cannon) get some nice DMD animations in there from the Vigo scene and you beat the mode and it just goes into victory laps till you drain (basically going into midnight madness mb)

Awesome idea Rare, Avatar really does seem to talk to the player from beginning to end really adds to the immersion, still think it's one of Sterns best sound packages.

If the streams got released I would most probably pull the trigger on a premium I couldn't resist having my shots link up to physical streams on the playfield, it would go from a must buy down the line to a must buy now!