Where is that pic from ?

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Lmao that’s exactly what I was thinking .$1199 to upgrade to a moving Grogu and install it yourself .

Source: https://sternpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Mandalorian-Premium-Details-Ambient-07-najnefd-683x1024.webp

This is the Pro but the angle is not right to confirm - wire bundle is still there: https://sternpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Mandalorian-Pro-Details-Ambient-07-3fjajsdf-scaled-960x640.webp

Thanks.Well they did say they have some “surprises” ...I’m assuming up theyre sleeve ?

As you do.

From my distro along with many other hi-res closeups so guessing it was a Stern approved mkt packet sent to Distributors.

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Respectfully, that did does not answer whether all the entries are entered and all the balls have the numbers matching with the entries. There is no audit for the public there except a verbal say so. It is NOT a live drawing if the results are loaded after the fact. I have been a caller for bingo for charities and they could take a minute, zoom in on the balls to show the numbers throw them in, and do it live. That hasn't stopped me from buying raffle tickets because I am going on faith but they might get more people to join more raffles and sell through faster if they did it live with a bit of more control. Just a suggestion.

Also, I agree that luck is luck.

It serves the purpose of having the casual person walk up and go 'oh look.. baby yoda!!' and consider putting a coin in. It will do that job well.

People can't seem to respect there are needs beyond their own when it comes to building products for the general public.

Yes it could have done more... yes there COULD have been other gimmicks - but it still has a purpose. And unless baby yoda stole your quarters, I wish people would just move on already. There is so much more interesting in this game then talking about the plainly obvious crap people want to beat into the ground.

I agree with you on the point that it will 100% make them drop in a coin. It feels shortsighted to me though, because if he force moved the ball they would put in more coins. If there was some reference to playing more to discover all that he can do they would put coins in all day.

Does anyone know how the mini playfield will be coded?

I hope it's modes like....you have one shot to hit a particular lit target, or a limited amount of time to hit certain targets vs an all out flailfest to hit all the targets.

It seems like you can easily trap the ball from the feed and take aim. That would be far more satisfying to me.

What?Really man move on already!!Criticizing JJP doesn't change the fact that a Stern game has issues!

Agreed .I think the fact that it does nothing sets itself up for a disappointed casual player .They Will just walk over to JP to see the TRex do it’s thing .

Went with a premium, have shaker motor and invisi-glass waiting for install.

The shot layout reminds me of a standard body width IJ

chuckwurt

thanks! Sadly another price increase, $150! I dunno if I can pull the trigger on that one

At the end of the day - it's a single gimmick. They went a different direction. It's time for people to accept it they didn't do the gimmick they theorized they would do, and see it as such.

Imagine the amount of bitching that would go on and on if they did a VUK with a magnet grab and it didn't work 100% of the time (Aerosmith, Kiss, ST, Houdini, etc). Or worse... they did it and all it did was grab and drop and people would be complaining it doesn't do enough animation, etc. Point is, everyone is full of ideas, and apparently is upset that reality didn't match up to their dreams of possible.. and want to burn the whole house down over it.

It serves a purpose. Its not the main 'ooh ahh' gimmick in the game. That doesn't make the game a stinker, or Stern cheapskates. There is more to the whole thing than just this one element.

I'm more off-put by the weird hanging target mech and it's cosmetics than I am worried about the static figure in the game.

2 of the biggest complaints so far in this thread:

- Complaint 1: Grogu should have been more interactive, maybe he should have had a magnet to control the ball.

- Complaint 2: There is a magnet at Grogus feet and it is pointless/useless, why is it even there?

Umm…..

Anyway, the magnet combined with the 5 upper lanes is kind of cool. Reminds me of an EM - you’ll have to nudge the ball around as it releases from the magnet to spot the 5 letters. Maybe they can do some fancy magnet coding so the ball flings around a bit.

Where did they say surprises???

I think people really over react to the criticism. There is no mob outside Stern, torches and pitchforks in hand. I don't think it is offside to say they could have done better on this one. I don't understand this need to defend and protect them and their hard work. They are a business and adults, it's not like they don't know they could have done better.

I agree with you 100% .I really like the “look” of this pin expecially the shots .It’s just I have 4 pins at home and that’s where I will get deep in a game .When I go to pincades I don’t play them to go “deep” I want to throw $5 in a SW and try to make the Death Star explode .

From the Star Wars reveal site, although I take it to be more about the code then game feature related.

Stern promises whistling-bird-like innovation, with a gravity-changing, rotating upper mini playfield on the Premium and LE models, as well as more surprises.

...

Dwight Sullivan on some of the game’s hidden surprises.

“We don’t want to spoil all of the surprises, but we have added an entirely new gameplay mode and option called Impossible Play. If you enable this option before you start your game, it will instantly set your game to Very Hard and your flippers will only allow you to flip for a couple of seconds before needing to be recharged. Good luck.”

Source: https://www.starwars.com/news/the-mandalorian-stern-pinball

I don’t blame you. I wanted #11 for stranger things but it was taken. Kind of glad I didn’t have the opportunity. Haha. Saved me from myself.

Sounds like code surprises, anything hardware related would be on the feature matrix by now.

What looks like an area where Baby Yodas hand could moved is likely just a seam where the hand plastic part is attached.

New mod for the Razor Crest!

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Does the Pro not have the Grogru magnet?

No

Premium / LE only

Geez that sucks

So then get the Premium

A magnet that randomly drops the ball into lanes that were already random... the flip ramp is the feature I’d want on a pro

Everything could be better everything in the world.

However until you own a pinball company and are able to do everything exactly as you think it should be than just deal with what is. I remember on R&M people were saying why doesn’t it have this or that. Someone pointed out, you want R&M pinball take it or leave it, you are not likely to get a better one than what they made.

Same here.

Just seems odd to have that big thing there only to do nothing not that the magnet was anything big but it gave the whole force vibe.

I think Baby Yoda is great for pulling in new players. If it did something, it would keep them coming back. It needn't be Rudy complicated, but whatever. It's good enough for most. Besides people will focus on the magnet whipping the ball around and forget the doll doesn't do anything.

The magnet over the roll over lanes and pops is a simple design, but I think they can do some fun magnet tricks with it. That could wow the novice player, and more experienced players don't have to complain about the magnet tricks sending the ball down the middle.

That area is definitely more interesting than the standard 3 pop and roll over cluster. Let's see how the code adds a level of skill to a relatively safe playfield feature

Overall a lot of the playfield seems safe. The Baby Yoda area, the helmet is almost like a bash toy that doesn't punish the player, a few ways to stop the ball to calm things down, a standard fan layout of 7 shots where most of the shots would appear to have safe ball returns.

Most Brian Eddy games have had big sucker shots/bash toys in them. So this is a bit of a departure. It has the target that raises up and down (fun idea, sorta like a drop target but the opposite?), but it's not exactly like the bash toys in MM/AFM/ST.

Theme doesn't do anything for me, but I'm always excited to pour over a new design. I look forward to playing it.

if Grogu's little hand moves, it will be pretty awesome.

Does the target on the ship “stiffen up” to block the center path or does it always have the same tension?

Meh

R2D2 was bigger than the Death Star in the Data East Star Wars. Maybe it's just tradition.

Or, in TSPP, Homer's head being bigger than the garage. Pinball is not to scale.

so the only logical explanation to this is that he does move and they are saving it as a surprise... I am being optimistic... don't roast me, lol

Ok I screen grabbed this from the pro trailer. That is def not there on the pro version.

I also checked the Premium/LE video and I didn't see that as well. So maybe that was an early prototype they photo'd? Could have been a late feature pull then.

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The possibility of this has me really excited. Would want speech from him and everything. Kind of like taunting from black knight. I want this to be the topper! What else would go well? No need for grogu as hes huge in the game. Maybe it could be the hockey puck contract with a hologram that would display your mission?

Without a single flip? Okay...

he has spoken

Yeah I was doing the same thing, thats my guess is they pulled it. Oh well. Modders do the impossible!

hahahaha

What if his eyes light up, his little hand flips around so that his palm is up, and the ball levitates off of the magnet. Now that would be cool.

I believe it stiffens until hit enough times then it loosens to let the shot through .

Reverse polarity with a vertical ball guide and there you go!

Anyone think a Beskar color coated coin door would be a good mod?

I was watching the Hasbro animatronic one cycle through its built in animations and saw it had a dedicated force pose with his hand. How awesome would that be to trigger that animation when the magnet activates.

Anyone have any connections with hasbro?

Flippers don't determine the price. Buyers do.