Keith lays out almost 100% of the rules for his own games and has his programmers implement it. It's a bit different than how other lead programmers work at Stern.

Looks good, but I'm always a sucker for upper flippers and diverters!

Why do so many people feel the need to ALWAYS bring it to everyone's attention they are not into (whatever) theme.. who cares.

I think theme discussion can be good, but just stating they hate this theme or that theme is just pointless. Stern obviously did some market research to determine what makes sense for them to license. Of course I don't often agree with their choices either, but I just think it's a silly thing to keep bringing up. If a theme isn't for you, maybe the next game will be, otherwise it's just noise. It's like you people can't possibly have a discussion about a game without first qualifying whether they hate the theme or not.

I cannot for the life of me why anyone would think TMNT is a bad theme for pinball. Even if you don't care about it or the show, it's easy to recognize it's a great theme choice and a ton of people and families will think it's great.