Quoted from Rarehero:

Why do people keep saying magnets were cut from Star Wars? I think this is just something people WISH the game had...but if they were never planned in the first place, then they were never cut. Technically it does have magnets - that's what whooshes the ball around the hyper loop thingie.

Quoted from Rarehero:

Gotcha! Well - sometimes things change during production due to creative reasons & not cost. People would probably still say "it's bare" with or without that magnet.

Quoted from Rarehero:

Please play more pinball
Iron Man was once known as the most stripped down "cheap" game ever....but even Iron Man has a really cool reveal of a bash toy, and that bash toy has a magnet in front to attack you back...plus Whiplash's magnet that "whips" the ball around & War Machine's "cannon" kickback. This was a game that was slightly less than $4k at launch, and initially was TORN TO SHREDS....but compared to Star Wars, IM seems full featured. SW Pro is $5400 and has nothing on the playfield to interact with at all. It's got an LCD (zzzz), a Tie Fighter on a spring (lol), and a Death Star that does nothing. All 3 of Iron Man's main features, despite being simple or recycled, fit the theme perfectly. Nothing on the SW playfield is exciting or really relevant to the theme.

Quoted from spinal:

Whenever the art sucks, we always hear from Stern that it was the licensing restrictions and I for one just don't buy it. Sounds like a convenient excuse.
Have you ever noticed that movie posters often don't suck? Well, they probably are under the same licensing restrictions. Also, license holders want the art to look as good as possible as well - it's not like they would have any interest in having their art look bad. I just don't buy it.
Look I'm not saying it's easy, I'm just saying they are not investing enough effort and cash into it as they should (my main example was AC/DC rerelease). They need to aim higher - this is 2017.