Well, things I liked about the game:

1. Drop targets on a pro.
2. I like the idea of the drop targets leading to falling center ramp (or something like that).
3. The game looks very flowy and fast but fair. Looked really fun to shoot.
4. Lots of modes, multiballs, and 3 mini-wizard modes is pretty cool.
5. It's a good looking machine.

Always tough to judge a game by a stream though. The few people who have played it on location say is fun to shoot -- so that's a good sign at least.

I wonder how long Scott Danesi will bother posting here when we have guys like iceman calling his layout bricks. It's such an awesome joke though! At least Iceman has picked his tribe. Anyway, I get that your irritated by negative stuff being spewed at Stranger Things, but your little joke just makes you the opposite side of the same coin.

I think Stranger Things looks cool by the way, especially the moody atmosphere. I also like the idea of the demogorgon shot, I'm pretty sure Stern will work out the nagging issues in the end.

This has been quite the welcome back to pinball experience for Brian Eddy.

Stern really does have to tread lightly with messing with the resale value of machines (and I think they know this). I'm fine with the pinball hobby as an obscene luxury item if I can recoup a decent percentage of the money back eventually (actually it's the only way I can rationalize this hobby), but if it suddenly becomes a complicated mess to resell machines or the resale value starts tanking it becomes impossible to justify.

I guess they just go back to mainly selling to operators?

I totally get what you're saying and for the most part agree, but:

A counter to this is that I believe a lot of people thought the upside down mode would get more work in future code updates because it was kind of underwhelming currently (a fact sort of acknowledged by Stern releasing this upgrade)-- now there is an improvement but it cost $300. I'm sure people are worried that the non-UV upside down might now get a short shrift too.

Also, speculation on what Stern would do for the upside down was one of the main talking points of the pin, if I recall right -- so it is an important part of the theme integration for people.

I don't think Stern is trying to rip people off here and I bet there's a story behind this, er, unique, upgrade but I get the emotional response from people with skin in the game.

I find it kind of odd that people keep mocking the "buy buy buy!" thing that Zach does when it's actually from his pinball market place bit involving good deals on used machines not NIB pins (I'm pretty sure at least). Just such an weird thing to mock when talking about price gouging by manufacturers.

fun Stranger Things stream (live now):

https://www.twitch.tv/iepinball