Wow, I gotta play me a Star Wars! Kudos to Stern for all the recent code updates.

I need to invite myself over, hahahahaha

Eventually you'd think the Empire would re-think the whole "Hey, let's build a Death Star!" thing. I guess in the end the Empire's gonna Empire though. It's just what they do.

LOL, are you looking for the power switch? The power switches on Stern games with Spike systems are located on the lower right bottom of the backbox instead of the usual spot by the right front leg on the bottom of the cabinet. I notice you posted this question 4 hours ago, so you might've found it by now.

Hahaha, I was wondering, but around here, who knows?

Unless it gets worse, and continues to get more worse, kind of like some marriages.

Wow, I dig the comic book style art.

I like the black too, but it looks like the stock art on the back panel has a blue background, so it looks odd to me seeing the side panels with black colored space and the back panel with blue colored space. I might be tempted to go blue just to make it all match.

Darn it, I also like that Pro comic book/bed sheet art way better than the Premium comic book/bed sheet art, but I want a Premium playfield. Wonder who I could bribe to build me a Premium in the Pro cabinet?

This is coming from Stern, the company that sells out LE's and SLE's before anyone even gets a chance to play them. Why would they think that with their customer base they'd have to show us the courtesy of providing any video at all?

That would make sense if we had a typical Manufacturer / Customer relationship. Unfortunately it seems like pinball is an odd outlier, where manufacturers don't have to supply a meaningful warranty, provide any info on products for sale, communicate with you on issues/concerns, etc., etc. It's kind of crazy.

Well, I finally joined the club with a Comic Premium model which I just put on order. I have a shaker, plastic protectors, and a shooter lane protector on order. Is there anything else that would be considered a must have or that fixes any known issues with the design?

Also, does the scoop hole come with a built in protector from Stern?

Thanks in advance for any info.

LOL, I was going to message and tell you that this afternoon. I wanna play it "as is" for a while before I start stuffing things places to prevent the balls from fleeing the playfield.

Yeah, I'm aware. I put some money in an LE at Pinball Pete's in Ann Arbor. I figured maybe at home I could come up with some defense strategy against that left lane, but as you said, I'll see.

I'm thinking about pulling the coil stops and having a welder (at the machine shop where I work) weld the stop to the angle bracket on the backside where the apparently weak crimp is. Otherwise, I'm sure I'd probably experience coil stop failure based on a lot of other recent NIB Stern purchasers.

Do you have a link to it? That sounds like something I'd be interested in. Thanks in advance.

I just got my new Star Wars Comic Premium set-up in my gameroom and had to chuckle at that date of manufacture. Anyone else have a machine made in "Octuber"? LOL

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LOL, that was my first thought. It says 120V 60HZ USA, so I think I'm good.

Question: Am I missing the center LED lens/cover on my new Comic Premium Death Star LED array, or is it supposed to look like this?

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Cool, thanks! I honestly never paid attention until it was in my gameroom.

I managed to do that for the first year I got in the hobby (back in 2006) with a lone Twilight Zone. Now look where I am, LOL. Things could be worse though as I'm having fun and I've met a lot of great people along the way. Congrats on the SW Comic Premium, I just got mine this week as well. Welcome to the club!

A buddy came over today and helped me install Stern art blades in my Comic Premium. These are comic art blades to match the rest of the comic art. They look pretty sweet (IMO) and seem to brighten up the playfield.

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I put them on my SW Comic Premium and I highly recommend them. They look awesome installed.

Refer to my post #8459 on page 170 for a couple of pics of the Stern comic art blades in a Comic Premium.

That's really cool! Thanks for the link. I'm a new Premium Comic owner and I never knew there used to be a Midnight Madness mode. It would be awesome to have that back.

I recently bought a SW Comic Premium and I love the Death Star lift ramp shot up to the Hyper Loop. It is harder to shoot up the Death Star lift ramp than the Pro, but man does it feel good when you hit it, and I don't find it that hard. I've even been able to backhand the lift ramp a few times. Also, during Hyper Loop Multiball it's fun trying to see how many balls you can get in the Hyper Loop. The best I've done is four balls. The Hyper Loop is a really cool feature/toy. I can't imagine playing SW without it. The only drawback is when the lift ramp is up, if you hit the Hoth shot, your ball will hit the back of the lift ramp and stop, then the lift ramp will drop and let the ball out before it rises again. That causes a brief pause in the action that you wouldn't encounter with the Pro, but I don't find it that bad at all. I think the benefit of the Hyper Loop outweighs it.

I'm in on one of those action button plates RPZ. Please add me to the list.

That's what I did. I bought mine in January (Oct. 30th build date). I love the pin. Great layout, code, and art. I've had a blast with it.

Nice line up! Those are the 4 Stern LCD screen games I'd most like to have. I'm halfway there, lol

The only reason I bought a SW is because I liked the comic art so much, so the easy button worked on this nitwit.

Data East art always seems like a semi-rough sketch to me and way unrefined. I could never get past their art. The Star Wars Comic art reminds me of the vintage bed sheet sets a lot of us kids had in the late 70's. They could've called them Bed Sheet editions instead of Comic editions and I'd still have been fine with it

I did read that wrong and I do see what he was saying and agree. The original movie art version ratings did get dragged down by a bunch of knee-jerk ratings that were probably done by some people who never even played the games, based on the perceived empty playfield and the fact that nobody could do a Star Wars pinball machine justice based on the perfect Star Wars machine they had imagined in their head.

My SW Comic Premium would occasionally do something like this, and I'd lose power to the flippers. I found the switch in the bottom of my Tatooine saucer was set with a hair trigger, and sometimes vibrations would set it off, making the game think my ball was in that saucer. I realized this when the R2D2 Mystery animation popped up a couple times when it shouldn't have and my flipper power died at the same time. I set the switch for more travel and that fixed that issue.

I talked to Chaz about the problem before the above fix and he suggested making sure all cable connections to Nodes 8 and 9 were nice and tight, and he also suggested possibly swapping those 2 boards if checking connections didn't do the trick (making sure dip switch settings were right for each board when doing so). I never swapped the boards, but while under the playfield I put some rubber isolating washers on top and bottom of the Node 8 mounts to try to help dampen it from flipper vibration a little bit, as man... it's right near the flippers.

I used Mylar and then threw Cliffies over it, LOL. Overkill I know.

It beats my best of 12 billion-ish, so I would say yes.

I can't argue with you there. I love mine.

I used to consider No Good Gofer's Hole In One shot to be the greatest shot in pinball, but I rank the Hyper Loop shot right up there with it. It feels so good when you make it*, especially in multiball when you have more than 1 ball zinging around up there. I dig the premium.

*And it can be infuriating when you don't, LOL

Inconsistent indeed. I never pay attention to any bubble levels on any of my pins. I only level them glass off, with a level sitting directly on the playfield.

I went with the comic art blades, and I love them. See my post #8459 in this thread. There's pics.

No, there's no rubber missing on that post, as that's not a location the ball would ever get to, so Stern left off the rubber on purpose. If my memory serves me correctly, that post is simply used as a stand-off for mounting a plastic.

Jeez, that would be a dream come true. I think we all would love a co-op option (I know I would), I just can't believe Stern would give Dwight the time to do that. If there was a bunch of unsold SW Pros and Premiums just sitting around at distributors, maybe they'd to that in an effort to sell them.

May the Force be with you!

Thanks for posting this info! During one game I had an extra ball pop up on the mini-screen, and there was even a callout that said something like "There's an extra ball in the vicinity", and I wondered how I triggered that. Now I know!

Man, speaking of checking scores, I'm bummed. I had a killer game about 6 months ago on my Premium where I scored between 12-13 billion setting my best G.C score ever. Then the code update came and I lost all my high scores and so far I've only been able to get back to a 7-8 billion G.C. score. LOL, I guess I gotta just keep playing right?

I have a Comic Premium. I was interested in a SW Premium, but the standard art never did anything for me. It looked like the standard SW art assets I saw for years. Not offensive by any means, but just nothing that stood out for me. When they announced the comic art packages seemingly out of the blue, it was what I was waiting for (that I didn't even know I was waiting for), so I pulled the trigger ASAP. I do like the Comic Pro art a little better than the Comic Premium art, so I tip my cap to you Comic Pro owners. The Comic Premium right side with Boba Fett and all the bounty hunters I do absolutely love though, so I put that on the end of my line up. The other side with Darth Vader, eh.. not as much.

I don't think they sold a lot of Comic art models because it was introduced so late in the run, I always figured anyone who wanted either a Pro or Premium SW already bought one a lot earlier in the run.

I would like to buy a Mando Premium and put it next to my Comic Art Premium someday. I love Randy's art and think they'd look pretty stunning together.

Nice line-up Freddy!

I'm pretty sure it was a special multiball round that kicked off when the pinball machine's clock hit midnight. It had images of the cantina band from what I recall. I would bet that Disney, or whoever is in charge of asset approval, had something to do with it being removed.

Yeah, that piece of art goes away or gets modified somehow with the new apron's Insider Connect scanner cut-out.

I usually have to shove the ends of about 3 toothpicks together into a stripped out screw hole in order to totally fill the hole. I coat the toothpicks in a quality wood glue before I shove them in there. I then let them dry thoroughly, and I use a wire cutter to cut them off as close to the playfield as I can. Then I sand the remaining ends of the toothpicks flat with the bottom of the playfield (this is all done with the object that the screw was securing removed). I then reinstall the object the screw was securing and use the hole in the mounting flange for a template and I reinstall the screw.

This has been my method of restoring stripped holes in the bottom of playfields for the past 15 years that I've been in the hobby, and it's worked great for me.

I suspect it was due to lack of Disney approval for the mode, or something pertaining to the mode. I'm sure Dwight knows, but he may not be at liberty to say. I wish it was still there.

Thanks for the link! That was cool. It was crazy how much points that round of Midnight Madness was worth.

Also because lots of SW fan pinheads had so many preconceived ideas and desires about what their version of a perfect new SW pinball machine should look like and be programmed like, most of which certainly involved the playfield being layered in toys like someone doused the playfield with the contents of a SW laden toy box, that they set themselves up for disappointment, and I think this was (and is) reflected in a lot of reviews for the game. That's just my opinion of course. I personally love the game, including the frenetic action introduced by the moving multiplier, the fast Ritchie layout, and Dwight's great modes and code.

Man.. I was just screwing around, playing as R2D2, and I got through everything except "Escape Boba Fett". So close to battling the Emporer for the first time, but I couldn't seal the deal and drained. Still great fun!

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I can't answer your question, but one thing I'm wondering about that could be topper related for Star Wars: I've heard rumors that the topper for Mandolorean may be the IG bounty hunter droid, with laser guns and a spinning head. That would actually look cool on the Star Wars Comic Premium at least, as one side of the head has the bounty hunter droid IG-88 on it. I just wonder if it would work with the Star Wars pin? Probably not, as even if it did with the rotating IG droid head, what noises would it make? If it made R2D2 noises, that just wouldn't be right. Of course, all this is speculation right now, as the Mandolorean topper could be something completely different.

It's not cheating IMO. I just hate the way they play.

You'd think that Stern woulda made a regular non-motorized not-so-fancy Star Wars topper for the plebs to purchase, but noooooo.

I meant when the game was new, not now.

AFAIK, it was always $199 for both the pro and premium kits. I wish it was $99.

I think it would be worth it, but I'm a fan of the insider achievements and objectives. It gives me extra replay value, and my friends like coming over and seeing if they can get certain achievements making for some friendly competition.

For instance, on BM66, one achievement is for getting all three kinds of skill shots in one single game. I mean, who would even try for that if it wasn't for this Insider Connected (I/C) achievement list?

Due to various things like that in each Spike 2 game with I/C installed, I think it's a lot of fun. However, some people could also not care less.

I wouldn't worry about it. I bought a previously routed Stranger Things Pro that had over 26,000 plays on it! I wasn't sure if I'd want it when I went to look at it, but the playfield looked surprisingly good in the pics, especially for a machine noted for air balls flying all over from the Demogorgon ramp. When I saw it, I was impressed as the entire playfield was almost pounded perfectly flat from millions of air balls, with just a nice orange peel patina over the entire thing. No real inset damage or anything else. I figured this thing was pretty much bulletproof at this point, and if I play 5,000 games on it, I'm not hurting it at all.

The only thing I'd suggest doing to prevent unnecessary wear is to put Cliffy protectors and/or mylar in the shooter lane, as when you sell it everyone always wants to see how much wear is in the shooter lane, and the Cliffys and/or mylar helps prevent that. I also put plastic protectors on my games, as when I used to by routed games when I first got into the hobby years ago, there would always be broken plastics that plastic protectors would have prevented.

Otherwise, just enjoy your game. I love my SW.

Yeah, that's a shooter housing for two LEDs like in the Jurassic Park "mosquito in amber" and Stranger Things "12 sided die" Stern mods. Did the powder coater do an exchange with your stock shooter housing and accidentally send the housing with the LED holes?

Wow, I just had an extremely intense lightsaber dual. I was flipping around a high multiplier like mad, trying to extend time as necessary while making shots and keeping the multiplier going.

This game has moments unlike anything else out there. It's too bad more pinheads don't get it. I am pumped up with adrenaline right now. From pinball. Amazing.

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I had my best ever game of SW tonight by far, smashing my previous best by 8 billion. I played as Luke and beat everything, except for one thing: I couldn't start "Escape From Boba Fett" for the life of me. So no battling the Emporer (never have done it). So close though.

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Can you backhand it from a left flipper cradle on the Pro? If so, I know the shot would be pretty tight at that angle.

Nice work. I didn't want to install my IC kit on the apron of my SW Comic Premium either. I like the stock art.

I'm dying on this hill!

No, never Pukestadiums. NEVER.

I have a Premium, but whether you get Pro or Premium, it's the code that shines on both of the models, so you can't really go wrong. The moving multiplier is just so much frenetic fun on all models. It makes the game for me, and will probably appear on nothing else, because for some reason some loud people equate the moving multiplier with "math". On the contrary, it seems pretty effing simple to me. Welcome to Mensa International I guess.