Trevor, WI
$750 is insane.
Looks very underwhelming.
Hard pass at anything over $250.
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$750 for that piece of crap? A rotating decapitated R2D2 with no art and a plaque certifying you as a sucker? OK then!
Quoted from GorillaBiscuits:$750 for that piece of crap? A rotating decapitated R2D2 with no art and a plaque certifying you as a sucker? OK then!
1 of 500 suckers though! LOL
This is complete bullshit if true. Trying to crate scarcity since they are 2.5 years late on the product and they fear that demand may not be there for a full production run. Such a slap in the face that they would try to bend people over like this.
Get the F out of here.... $800 for a topper that looks like that? That's insane! The GOT topper was better and much less.
Chilliwack, BC
Quoted from TheLaw:Is this your first interaction with Stern or somthing?
Yes for me. Be more gentle, Stern.
Quoted from TheLaw:Is this your first interaction with Stern or somthing?
They have never tried to make an LE numbered topper at an insane price. So stupid. They would have sold a ton at $500.
Quoted from kermit24:They have never tried to make an LE numbered topper at an insane price...
Just insane priced LE pinball machines for years and years that people buy here all the time for thousands of $ more and no benefit.
Wanna start a list of stuff "they never tried before" but then did to cash in?
I'm a certified Stern fanboy. I adore my Star Wars pro and think the haters are crazy. But...but...I got nothing here. They done lost their minds.
I mean...I'm happy for them finally bringing it to market. I'm sure they didn't ask for these delays and it drove them nuts. Crap happens. But...yeah I still got nothing. 
Quoted from Jediturtle:I'm a certified Stern fanboy. I adore my Star Wars pro and think the haters are crazy. But...but...I got nothing here. They done lost their minds.
I mean...I'm happy for them finally bringing it to market. I'm sure they didn't ask for these delays and it drove them nuts. Crap happens. But...yeah I still got nothing.
Exactly. I am generally pretty happy with Stern. But this is complete bullshit and they deserved to be called out on it. Not happy.
Quoted from kermit24:Exactly. I am generally pretty happy with Stern. But this is complete bullshit and they deserved to be called out on it. Not happy.
Trying to get the same amount of money by producing less. That is their LE pinball model for sure.
At this point the only hope here is that GAP is wrong on this. It wouldn’t be the first time they have been wrong, they said the topper was coming and pre sold it for $500 over a year ago and said it would be in time for the holidays........2018.
... yeah man, check out my mass produced Star Wars Pro pin with a Limited Edition numbered topper...
Quoted from kermit24:How about a video, better photos, description of what it does, or SOMETHING?
Exactly. But it’ll probably sell out either way.
I’ll stick with a cheap interactive topper remover.
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****Attention pinside people that bought Elvira SE and wasted your money****
This type of BS is targeted towards you.
Please resist bc Stern is really trying to see how dumb we all are as a hobby. If they sell this successfully the bar just continues to get lower.
Please don't buy this bullshit.
We must be missing something here. I'm sure it comes with a piece of the couch from the Falcon that R2 sat on.
Who will buy the POS?? Please people, for all that is the force, This is BS!!! If you buy this, please send me your $$.
Quoted from Soapman:Who will buy the POS?? Please people, for all that is the force, This is BS!!! If you buy this, please send me your $$.
Considering the Jersey Jack CE customers justified +$3000 for a topper and some fake barnacles, this is a relative bargain.
Quoted from IdahoRealtor:Considering the Jersey Jack CE customers justified +$3000 for a topper and some fake barnacles, this is a relative bargain.
The JJP POTC CE topper didn't even come with a plaque, what a joke! Yeah, I'm sure people will still buy it just like spending $5k more for a piece of a couch with Elvira SE.
Quoted from delt31:****Attention pinside people that bought Elvira SE and wasted your money****
This type of BS is targeted towards you.
Please resist bc Stern is really trying to see how dumb we all are as a hobby. If they sell this successfully the bar just continues to get lower.
Please don't buy this bullshit.
images (resized).jpegUntil the msrp is known to the public from Stern, this appears to be a cash grab by GAP to sell some before Xmas.
As of last week my distro told me price was the same as previously reported.
Sounds like we will know soon for sure.
It's not a cash grab and I was told by Stern the MSRP price is $750 when I picked them up. If Stern releases a different price than what I put out I will refund the difference but I highly doubt that Stern will change the price.
Quoted from Jarbyjibbo:Stern MSRP is $769 plus shipping. It's for real.
The topper must be Stern’s last quarterstone release for 2019. 
This shit is ridiculous.
Now they are using the “LE” designation for toppers? Trying to create demand? This is just an embarrassment for Stern all the way around. And the price point...laughable. I guess we will see how many they sell. I just put my sons robotic R2-D2 dude up there when he was done playing it, it’s about 15” tall and looks pretty snazzy IMO.
Warrington
Quoted from JoinTheCirqus:Now they are using the “LE” designation for toppers? Trying to create demand? This is just an embarrassment for Stern all the way around. And the price point...laughable. I guess we will see how many they sell. I just put my sons robotic R2-D2 dude up there when he was done playing it, it’s about 15” tall and looks pretty snazzy IMO.
And the plaque (which is a complete after thought and cheap trick to create demand and artificially create limited demand) is on the back! Where you won’t even be able to see it!
That’s like taking the LE plaque off the speaker panel and putting it on the back of the backbox 
Quoted from J85M:And the plaque (which is a complete after thought and cheap trick to create demand and artificially create limited demand) is on the back! Where you won’t even be able to see it!
That’s like taking the LE plaque off the speaker panel and putting it on the back of the backbox
It's on the back to hide the shame you feel at falling for the old LE trick 
Quoted from Shapeshifter:It's on the back to hide the shame you feel at falling for the old LE trick
And likely due to the fact it wasn’t designed with the original intent to have a plaque on the front, otherwise those grills would have been on the back and the plaque on the front, proof it’s an after thought to create artificial demand and make people think they are getting value for money, couldn’t type that last bit without laughing
Would have been a smarter move to add a projector to it like BM66 and project Leia’s message to Obi-Wan and tried to sell it for $800-$1000, still ridiculous mind you, but the Prem/LE jump on BM66 was $1500 I think, for topper and some armour and that topper is cool!
Wouldn’t have even cost Stern much to add that feature, can get the projector above which has great reviews projectd video and even plays sound!
Quoted from J85M:And the plaque (which is a complete after thought and cheap trick to create demand and artificially create limited demand) is on the back! Where you won’t even be able to see it!
Maybe the back is the front now. I guess it wouldn't be too hard to make the grill in the back now since it spins around (I do agree it is a cheap after thought).
Any chance this is a msrp vs street price deal?
I mean the Stern pins themselves usually have a msrp that is higher than the actual street price.
I was in at $500 but not at $750.
Quoted from Psw757:Any chance this is a msrp vs street price deal?
I mean the Stern pins themselves usually have a msrp that is higher than the actual street price.
I was in at $500 but not at $750.
Never been the case for accessories. Also, I bet they add it to the website AFTER the 10% off Black Friday Insider sale is over....
Someone really needs to make a nice aftermarket topper for a fraction of this atrocity. But it would have to be by word of mouth sales only. It was done with BM66 aftermarket Bat fin armour.
Losheim Am See
Quoted from thundergod76:Someone really needs to make a nice aftermarket topper for a fraction of this atrocity. But it would have to be by word of mouth sales only. It was done with BM66 aftermarket Bat fin armour.
The hologram generator toppers are the only way to go on a Star Wars pin. They also only cost $250... it seemed expensive till stern dropped this turd.
Quoted from kermit24:Never been the case for accessories. Also, I bet they add it to the website AFTER the 10% off Black Friday Insider sale is over....
Yeah...I understand that but there have never been limited edition accessories either and there is a first for everything. Some of the other big stern vendors still have it at $499 on their sites and not in stock.
I have a feeling Disney and licensing are a factor here. This has been over two years in the making and the basic design has been set forever with a $500 price point.
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