Looks cool but the price hike, no metal rails (at LE level) plus no LCD = a pass in my book. Sorry Stern. Its time to innovate if you want to charge $8k+ for an LE.

That head from TWD pinball is worth at least $3k right? WOZ also has two mini playfields, 5 magnets, the crystal ball toy, clear coated apron, actual metal rails, and multiple VUK's. You compare one of WOZ's most minimalist toys to TWD's most detailed...wow.

The heads from TWD do look really cool.

Don't talk about yourself like that. You say that but thumbs of Crazy's post. Go figure. lol

Nah, I'll stay in it. I don't need to bring up anymore about WOZ's toy's as that was just in response to Crazy. It won't go any further. I do have interest in the game. I want to see what distributors offer the game at. Like you said to me earlier the MSRP is actually $200 less then STLE so let's see what the actual prices are.

I wish I could afford both TH LE and TWD LE but can only pick one. I'm still leaning towards The Hobbit but will keep an open mind about TWD.

Don't put words in my mouth. I never insulted TWD's sculpted toys. They look amazing. It seems like they may even move like in the show.

Stern is set to release mini t-shirts as well as mini polo shirts on their store for the currently shirtless zombie. Shirts will be offered from Nike, Ralph Lauren and Old Navy and for an additional cost can be made to look weathered.

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe you bash the door down, bash the zombie which then flips up and another shot is revealed behind it.

I would sure hope so. If Stern cannot get at least one of the actors to provide custom callouts they should at least use lines from the show. Part of the reason I never bought Avengers is because lines from the film are not used and that the custom callouts from hired voice actors break the immersion of playing a game set in the Avengers universe for me.

I'm sure that cost is a big factor. It sounds like Stern first has to acquire the license for a game but then also has to acquire a license to use actors audio from the movie or TV show? Somehow Stern pulled both off brilliantly for Lord of the Rings, Simpsons and Family Guy. They also got lucky that Karal Urban is a pinball fan and were able to record custom audio in addition to using actual voice audio from the films. Let's home something similar is done with The Walking Dead.

A Daryl custom callout update would be amazing for this game. Norman Reedus recently signed up to provide audio for next Silent Hill game. I would think he would be willing to do custom audio for a Walking Dead pinball machine.

http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/the-walking-dead-norman-reedus-to-star-in-next-silent-hill-video-game-1201281527/

Is anyone slightly bummed about the ruleset not being story based similar to say Lord of the Rings and Star Trek? Based off the rules card there appears to be modes spread throughout the game but none that follow a set path where you must progress through the shows story. I hope I'm wrong as a mission based ruleset with story elements seems to fit The Walking Dead theme very well. Having a mini wizard mode for each season finales main event would be awesome in my opinion. Once the show is complete a final wizard mode could be released by a software update.

Very cool idea!

I hear ya. Sometimes it's fun to just play a game for 5-10 minutes and bash the ball around. At the same time it's also fun to have that deep story based ruleset that keeps you coming back again and again to see how far you can get. If everything is unlocked from the beginning on the playfield (other then MB modes and wizard modes) a game can get old quick, especially in a home environment, in my opinion. Hopefully there's some unique twists on the rules such as the idea that Jeffpm mentioned.

I'll admit that the first time I saw 1/3 of the detailed head models I thought they were going on top of the bumpers similar to how JJP put "trees" on top of WOZ's bumpers. 3 zombie heads on the bumpers with them making zombie sounds as the ball bounced between the pops would have been pretty cool. I could see someone making a mod for this.

Nice video. The game certainly shows better when you hear just the sounds from the game alone versus other pins audio. The match animation is awesome. Then the announcer guy spoke...ugh. Help us Norman Reedus with your custom voice work...you're are only hope, lol.

That would have been awesome. Maybe the toy could have had 4 in line zombie head drops with a scoop behind the last one (ball lock) representing the 5 windows on the prison toy. Each time a drop is hit a window lights up with the middle window lighting up when the scoop is hit. Mutiball would then start. A difficulty setting could be changed to require the entire sequence be done 3 (lock 3 balls) to start multiball. We can dream

I thought the same thing about the match sequence. I was thinking "damn, that's gross, but awesome!" haha. That has to be some of the best dot work I've ever seen.