I'm impressed. I'm one that whines about lack of new innovation and this has it. Not that magnets are new to pinball but the way it uses them for a ball lock is cool. I do wonder about heat though. You get a bad player and the magnet/s stays engaged for a really long time what happens? The projector is a crazy cool idea as well. Love how the target names/appearance change. With any projector you're dealing with a bulb. Wonder what the life expectancy is and potentially even worse is if Stern uses one of those super cheap ultra compact Chinese jobs what the failure rate of the unit itself will be? Let's face it, as of late cheap has become Sterns middle name.

The clear coat looks really nice (glass like) compared to what they used for JP and DP. Let's hope it holds up. Why Stern hasn't revisited the use of a topside T-nut is beyond me. Compared to RaM (game play wise), this looks substantially better. Wonder how many RaM pre-order people will bow out and go for this instead?