Woohoo! My least favorite Borg design staple. Good riddance.

But like, why? What's the appeal of a ball falling down a hole in one place and popping out of another? Everyone's rightfully crazy for "ball-interactive toys," this seems like the antithesis. Ball goes somewhere, does god-knows-what, can't see it, comes back. Yawn.

You guys must love it when you drain.

Ugh, mono targets. Those areas of the playfield are basically dead/wasted. No need to aim for a target bank that completes itself. Requisite double inlane. JB needs a new bag of tricks.

Playfield shots look washed out, like a photo of a monitor (understandable considering the circumstances). I bet the art is waaay more vivid/saturated in person, if I know Zombie Yeti.

There's your subway, on the side of the LE.

Bipedal talking turtles who love pizza, skateboarding & martial arts? Sure. They smile?!? GTFO

Please god no.

I like it.

Stern calls spinners "spinning targets." I assume it means the one in the right orbit.

Foot Clan are the bad guys.

John Borg & Dwight Sullivan.

Looks like they're streaming an LE.

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I'd give it to Panthera. Twelve controlled drops well integrated into the ruleset. Also 40 years ago.

Don't let the door hit you in the shell.

Didn't have a strong opinion either way before the stream, but I gotta say, this thing looks fun as heck to shoot.

Just like JP, these custom animations destroy 25-year-old clips, and just like JP, people will cry for months about "assets."

This thing shoots so well right out of the gate that it makes Clunky Things even more of a confounding failure in hindsight.

Pizza button mash mode? I take it all back.

Loving the throwback early '90s new jack swing/funk soundtrack. What I wouldn't give to play this all night in a shitty pizza parlor with greasy checkered tablecloths.

Overall impression after that first stream? Stern knocked it out of the park. I could take or leave TMNT as a theme, didn't think I was going to want one, but wow. Total package.

Yeah. Pro reveal stream on Friday. It'll be on the front page of Twitch, huge audience.

These pinside boys don’t cut ‘em no slack.

Umm, apparently not.

None of them will have any idea what to do with the diverter. Most of them won't lock enough balls to see the van release them. Pro has the spinning pizza, which they will enjoy. So unless you think a bouncing Krang is worth $2k, pro seems like a no-brainer for this location.

In that case, follow your heart and ignore your wallet.

Are you sure there's actually an 8-ball multiball? I wouldn't even want that. Anything over 4-5 is worse than just having 2 or 3. I think the extra balls are just for staging purposes. Not sure you can ever stack enough MBs to get all 8 in play at once.

Do any of you fuckin’ nerds actually play pinball.

...with Bebop over one shoulder and Rocksteady over the other.

Aquarium with four actual baby turtles. Liquid tilt bob.

First day here?

Won't be as bad as having to turn off, move, and turn on the Star Wars multiplier between shots. One press, diverted.

LE buyers are worse players on average than pro buyers, so it works out for everyone.

Relax guys, I have years of data and crunched the numbers. Irrefutable science. Don't @ me.

Bride of Pinbot 2.0 does most of this.

Red on the premium seems like a case of "different for the sake of different," but sometimes all the same color just works. It's not too late for Stern to ship the premium with green. Even if they've ordered a bunch of red, it can probably go on another game in the near future.

One more reason to buy a pro!

Depends on how strategically you play. TWD walker bombs are a game-changer. GOT upper playfield lets you blow through modes safely.

Iron Maiden premium/LE has an additional multiball.

They're never gone unless you insist on opening a cardboard box. Almost all of them will be HUO. Let impatient gotta-have-it guys take the hit, save a few bucks in the fall.

You have it backwards, unsurprisingly.

Dude it's Monday night in a pandemic, ain't nobody doin' shit.

I'm in the wrong line of work.

Don't be surprised if it's $800. I feel like topper pricing is going through its own version of the previous decade's NIB MSRP inflation. Collectors were reselling boxed LEs for a profit until Stern reached the ceiling. They'll find the limit we're willing to pay for toppers as well.