What a dick comment that was! The guy is sharing photos and gets attacked for not spending more money on his basement finishing? This is a pinball community. Do you even know what that word means? Very juvenile comment. Thanks Tseamans for posting the pics.

We already have a lot of creative individuals in addition to the big companies. There are many individual members on here who have created awesome mods. I love that, some of my favorite mods are from mom and pop type of folks. I think that’s awesome. You can see the love they have for this hobby in their creations. These great entrepreneurs give us what the big pin companies don’t. Really neat mechs and add one to make our pins awesome. And we are all the better for it.

Not really. Stern knows everything including all that is said on Pinside. They are well aware people have been clamoring and whining for a Star Wars topper release for two years. They had a built in sales base and they have known it for a long time. So why market? Isn’t virtually everyone in the entire pinball community talking about it? That’s plenty of free advertising. Whether you like Stern or not there’s no doubt that they are brilliant at understanding their customer base. They don’t deliver things that some of us complain about because they don’t have to. They know people will buy just about anything they put out. There’s a sucker born every minute right? In pinball there’s a sucker born every 10 seconds. I’m one of them.

Well it sucks if they removed it and had planned that feature and then dropped it. That feature alone would push this topper to very innovative and quite unique. It would also justify the price. The license alone does not IMHO.

Even if you put a rubber gasket underneath, that would stop light leak but not sound. There are big holes in the top of the base so sound would come out there.

Topper number 88 is in the house. I really like it. Mine seems well assembled and the stickers are all straight with the exception of the small black one which is slightly off center. It has some really cool game interaction and it looks pretty good from the play position. The only thing I really don’t like is the light leak from the bottom. Right now I have a foam rubber strip temporarily covering it. Definitely need a more permanent fix for that. It is ridiculous that Stern would release it in that condition, but other than that I don’t really have any complaints. It definitely looks cool, and Star Wars is my grail theme, so I had to have it. It really adds to the look of the machine and the overall game play enjoyment plus enhances the theme. I don’t find it noisy either. You can hear the motor but it sounds like R2’s motor so it actually adds to the cool effects and it’s not louder than many mechs in pinball. So although it’s overpriced, and I’m really disappointed it does not include the projector feature as originally planned, I nevertheless really do enjoy it and I’m definitely glad I got it. I think any true Star Wars fan would enjoy adding it to their pin.
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Took my son to see Skywalker last night but they did not have the R2 special

I wish there was a way to order one of those.

Yeah that’s always the case. Thanks for the idea. Thought of that but I’m not paying $100. I’ll see if I can find one. If anyone goes to a movie and wants to sell theirs or can get an extra one PM me. I’ll gladly pay for the $50 cost and shipping and you can keep the popcorn and soda lol.

It looks like it’s exclusive to AMC

I don’t have any near my house so I ended up buying a new one on eBay for $79.99.

So I’ve had my topper now for four days and it continues to grow on me. I’m surprised how much I like it.

Yes love the R2 attract sounds and movement. I just ignore that it’s made of decals instead of molded plastic or painted metal. It still looks pretty good and I love everything Star Wars especially the original trilogy. There is no doubt it really enhances this pin.

Yes I really like the random R2 sounds now in my game room. It defaults to attract sounds and movement every 20 minutes. I set mine to 15. I like the main theme music too but if you leave that on in attract mode it just plays way too often and interrupts whatever I’m doing. So I have music attract off but I have attract clips and topper attract sounds and movement on and it’s awesome.

I couldn’t stand the white T moulding on the backbox so I replaced mine with black leather. Looks cool.

It’s black leather texture molding, still plastic though. Looks great though. Here’s a pic close up and then just the overall look.

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Here’s where I got it. Sorry didn’t mean to start an off topic convo in the topper thread everyone. I’ll post more about it in the SW club thread if anyone else had any questions about it.

https://www.t-molding.com

No I just meant that if you have the main attract music on then you hear the Star Wars theme every time it plays the movie credits and it’s just too noisy. None of them interfere with each other.

The warranty on new Stern pins is one year not 60 days.

Never saw that before. They have covered me for twelve months on all six of my stern pins so far. Never heard of sixty days. Huh.