Quoted from Rarehero:

The tech isn't the problem. It's the approach. You can do good animation that feels like it has weight and nice timing with the lowest tech imaginable. It's how the animator animates, not the technology. It's how the artist sets up the scene...composition and cinematography. That's what's lacking most in this display animation...but it's also the models/style/art direction. It's just not that great. To be fair - good animation takes time... they probably accomplished all of this work in an extremely short turnaround...so, kudos to them given the circumstances. IMO, it would have been easier and looked better to just use show clips & manipulated 2D art assets instead of full 3D characters.

Quoted from IdahoRealtor:

Maybe it's just me, but I think too many of you are way too fixated on the animations. This is a pinball machine, not a video game or a movie. The game occurs under the glass. The LCD is just a glorified way of showing the scores. All the complaints I've had to read about pinball LCD animations being amateurish makes me wish they never became a thing.

Quoted from Aurich:

Everyone has different things they focus on. I know that I'm definitely in the minority about things that bug me about fonts for instance, and I mostly keep it to myself unless someone really goads me into a rant.
But the continued success of ColorDMD says to me that there are people who do care about getting the most out of their displays, even if the focus during gameplay is on the playfield.
I'm not knocking Stern's efforts, because I know how much work it all really is. They're just not taking approaches that personally appeal most of the time. I haven't played enough Batman 66 to really judge, but I think that one has really smart asset use. And I definitely respect the level of effort that went into original world building on the new Black Knight screen. Was more interesting to me than the playfield honestly.
But much of the LCD stuff just feels a little like the CD-ROM era to me, remember that? Just the vibe.
I'd like to see some different style of thinking in general. You have a high rez screen, you really can do anything you want. Sometimes less is more, you don't need a lot of 3D model animation to feel good, even more static elements deployed in a dynamic way read really well. That's a lesson you can take from the source:
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Quoted from IdahoRealtor:

Good point! I say let's go back to alphanumeric displays and put the money back into the playfield.

Quoted from PinMonk:

They promised an "exciting gameplay experience" which Munsters is not. It's about as dull, repetitive and shallow as they come. When CASUALS at locations hate it in droves, that's a problem. Sitting right next to an Attack from Mars, which probably has LESS code, the AfM DESTROYED it in earnings, even the first week at the location I helped with.