Stern JP is supposed to use JP2 or JP3 depending on who you talk to but its so good that I've noticed it's usually just JP and the old one has been resigned to DE JP.
I think if a game is good enough it gets the better acronym. Time will tell but I'd guess this one start to get referred to as TMNT and the old one will just be DE TMNT.

Help raise money for this little boy's affliction. He is chronically addicted to pinball. With your support we can get him the life saving TMNT he needs. Call now. Operators are standing by.
(Disney World, Florida 1990)

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Is see Funhouse and Tron in the layout. Xmen disc, Star trek away team flipper hideout, Yes...Musters banks, phurba diverter...I mean, these may not be new things but it seems.like they put a lot in there. I'm.actually very excited to see gameplay. I'd hoped for a more comic look than the cartoon but meh. My main concern is the downgrade to pro. Whats missing? Not only are premiums out of my range but I just dont get a chance to even play many on location where I live

If the pro has no actual diverter and no spinning pizza it's such a big pass.
I know its insanely unlikely now but I still hoping the funhouse layout means there is a trap door/sewer in that loop we arent seeing.
Also I may have ordered pizza for dinner tonight. Needed to be done.

Idk. I think Rarehero made some valid points about online play. I dont think he was ragging on p3 really. No multiporphic hype threads though.

And stop trying to compare Cosmic cart racing to Mario Kart. Its embarrassing. You can just say cart racing. We get it. It's an existing genre in video games.

Oops

It deserved one. I sold my junkyard after a month. Go so bored of that clunker so fast. Fun theme but unless you have 40 other games to play its just a big ol waste of space.
Stupid Bob and his stupid dog lol.

It may have already been discussed. I'm catching up.
Is there something going on in the shooter lane area we arent seeing? The Turtle head plastic is in a different location (meaning a different bracket that I dont see Stern making needlessly) there is also clearly a gate on the premium but no obviously visible one on the pro. This pro is pretty stripped down. No Elwin pro that's for sure. Super pumped to watch gameplay tonight.

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But I want Uncle Phil to be Shredder.
R.I.P.

I can deal with the theme being off but damn those call outs are bad. Not even close to how the Turtles sound.

No telling yet how the weapons work but I imagine you can have one or two sides lit at a time and divert the ball where it needs to be to collect. Seems like the kind of thing that could switch from left to right from sling hits or something.

I dont even need them to sound the same as the 80s voice actors. They just sound weird. Like a regional accent or something. Not what I expect of four teenagers in New York during the 80s

Fair point. Fingers are crossed.

Hoping the "start episode" means lots of actual clips from the show. The nerdier side of me is kind of hoping for a fourth wall thing where the Turtles need your help to stop Shedders plan to erase them. Collect the episodes he has stolen by playing through them or something. We will.see what's up soon. I already told my son I'm busy this evening lol

Do we know they didnt hire the voice actors or is that just based off of the theme song?

^^^^THIS has nothing to do with your observation

Dont be that guy telling people they have Disney tapes worth thousands. I sold off my game collection for over 15k cdn in the last 3yrs to fund my pinball habit.
You want a sealed, graded copy.? Here's two i found in 2min on eBay.
9.0 is about $1,600 usd
6.0 is only less than $600 usd

Maybe not mint but factory sealed and graded. I literally used the first two completed sealed listings I found on Ebay.

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Remember when DVDs were getting big and some of them had them had elaborate 3d rendered menus that looked terrible even back then?
Why does TMNT have early 2000s DVD menu quality animations? Animations dont make or break a game but those character models look pretty darn horrible. Like the foreign cgi cartoons on Netflix horrible. Game play however looks great. I love the layout.

Its about what you do with what you have. Maiden animation are.nothing to call home about but they are better than this. Deadpool, JP, Black Knight....again, not modern day game expectations but perfectly adequate for pinball. Tmnt animations are visibly poorer quality. This is the first game since Aerosmith where the animations actually make me cringe. (Mayne more so because I can't stand Aerosmith *the band, and grew up on the Turtles.

The turtles also ordered ice cream and pickles on their pizza. The joke was that nobody but the turtles would order anchovies. (Nothing against the salty buggers actually)

By no means a complaint but I would rather level up all four turtles gaining their specific perks as I go until the whole playfield is lit up for points explosions. Deciding what order to train and level up each character to fit the player's style.

Hot wheels should come free with a box of cereal

"The pizza eating contest was John's idea" -Dwight

Even Dwitgh know its dumb and people will hate it. Mayne they will convince John that it need to come out in a code update. Otherwise be sure to work on your pencil flicking skills (track and field style)

Shhhhh, dont give Stern any ideas about forcing proprietary parts on its customer base

If you have no nostalgia, the original movie is the only one that holds its ground still

He means this

I'm inclined to agree though that this should NOT be a club thread. Too much speculation and hate. Also lots of lurkers that likely won't ever own one. People love speculation bit that's done now. If anything, change this to another Next Stern Speculations but not a TMNT club. Imagine this is your first pin, you discover Pinside and this thread and read through all the garbage before any actual owners start showing up in the thread. Boo urns.

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I'll take a set of DP LE blades if 5hey remove in one piece

Maybe Stern used this as their character model. I wish theyd just get the rights to the arcade game sprites. I mean, its Konami. Konami would sell you their own grandmother.

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That's the kind of shit that make me stop buying from a company. I dont want your stupid topper so I dont get the full game for my thousands of dollars? Piss off with that business model.

It's not even anger over the price. All Stern toppers are way over priced. The issue is I dont like topper. I dont want one. At all. On any of my games. Closest I have is the beacon on High Speed. I plan on getting a JP but dont try to force me to add crap I dont like to get more game (which is all I want)
For someone like me who does not like the look of toppers (mostly, afmre is great cough cough) it is nothing but a $600 DLC. That's more than another 10% on top of the game itself. I dont know how different thing are from Canada to US but I can get a used JP for under $7,500 cdn (bit over 8k nib) and that topper would be another $800 cdn. Screw that noise lol