It’s fun to speculate while we wait for gameplay. Stranger Things said zip about UV anywhere. But it was always there.

Do we all so quickly forget Wolverine from xmen?

Why should Stern spend money developing fancy mechs? They just need to make it easy to modify and someone will do the work for them.
Same goes for sound.

The podcast with Brian E was great. the code sounds awsome, specifically the impossible mode and co-op mode this sounds like a home run

Did it move yet ?

In 2021 the cases of Shaken Baby Yoda Syndrome increased 200%. MOOOVE JUUST FFF'NGG MOOVE GOD DAMN YOUUU

Not if you set him up properly. We had zero hang ups on our LE.

Did he mention anything about a moving Grogu?

I think I saw him move...

The coolest thing is a magnet that is like Grogu is using the force? Wow, a magnet. Even 25 year old machines have more impressive ball levitation effects. Gotta say, lackluster given the source material they had to work with. Grogu could dance like the alien in Spaceballs and it wouldn’t spice things up much.

Brian Eddy sort of says that Grogu has no animation but he's talking about how an animated Grogu would be a maintenance issue on location. So it could have been in the non-location type machines, premium/LE but who knows? Listen at 26:45...

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who cares if it moves or not really, I am not buying the game based on that. I want to see how it shoots!!!

Ok, but that also requires ignoring Brian E's quoted statements where he says entirely the opposite.. where the doll was the FIRST thing he placed.

Yodagate.

It moves but uses a Jedi mind trick on you while playing ...”You did not see me move”(slow circular wave of hand)...”I did not see you move”...”keep playing”....”I’ll just keep playing”

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“Put more quarters in”...”I don’t have any more”....”go get some “.....”don’t move I’ll be right back “

Where is this quoted?

He does state "something special he does..." so I wonder what that refers to?

Maybe when the magnet catches the ball the do a dramatic lighting effect and set off the shaker to try to make it a moment?

Looking forward seeing more gameplay footage.

That's a cool insight you make. Turn on the shaker when the magnet has the ball and Grogu shakes. Interesting.

he did, it does not move but has a roll with the magnet in the code. the code really sounds great to me

Where is this?

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I haven't seen a lot of talk about the play field art, I am pretty impressed myself. His first crack at Star Wars Comic version I felt was largely taking the first machines and changing the style but I really like what I see here. Not super crazy about the cabinet art or the back glass art but his play field work looks awesome. I probably like the artwork on the Pro cab and back glass the best with the exception of all the orange. Props to the Randy and I hope to see a lot more from him on Sterns moving forward, maybe see what he can do outside of Star Wars.

Of course Grogo doesn't move... this is Stern 2021. Slap it in, place a standard magnet over..... roll over lanes!! Yeah, that's the ticket!! That will get people excited!! Look at how awesome the spinner that pops up went over in LZ!!

That idea surely got someone "employee of the month".

the artwork in the nicest I have seen in a Stern after Deadpool and AIQ - I know it is a different artist - and his style fits Star Wars and Mando well.
I really like it, have no complaints about the art. The doll at the back it bothers me a bit.

I recommend listening to the interview that was posted earlier if you have the time. I think this is going to be a great game.
The shots are all really fun and seem to be a fast table. The mini PF in the Prem/Le might be a good gimmick after all, it is pretty well described in the interview and it sort of sold me on the game now.

That’s what I’m doing. Stranger Things has been my top earner, I have no doubt Mandalorian will do well too.

And if this was JJP it would be a fully loaded and featured game... that no one would ever be able to buy.

That being said, there are a lot of cool titles that Stern has where I think JJP would have knocked it out of the park and not just cheaped out...

After listening to the Brian/Dwight interview, the “impossible play” sounds so damn fun when you get a few buddies over that have dollar bills to lose ItsOnlyPinball - Brilliant!
And the co-op is PERFECT for me and my sons to play together. So much depth on so many levels built into this game.
Something for everyone.

Guys just relax I will be selling a mini fan that blows up Grogu's skirt every time the magnet engages and it will be way less than $350 at $329.95

Now seriously can someone please complain about the coin inserts on the pro vs the le...... go

So True!

If you're bored, check out the threads about how JJP will absolutely make more POTC! Because reasons!

People will believe what they want to believe, myself included.

Well, which is it? Does Grogu not move, or does he roll with the magnet?

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Watching the trailer again why does the mini-PF flippers work at the same time as the main flippers. Seems that the mini-playfield flips should only be available when the ball is on the mini-PF and not all the time. Player is in this mode use these flips only.

Because if a $2 switch broke then you'd never be able to play the upper playfield (the game wouldn't know the ball was up there and it wouldn't activate the flippers or the mode).

This is why all upper playfield flippers are wired to the main flippers, or have their own buttons.

Who cares anyway? You paying by the flip?

Maybe he moves, but it really IS the Herman Munster model reskinned so it's really embarrassing and they regret ever doing it

I was wondering if there are any games in which the main flippers are deactivated during play in an upper playfield. I figure it would be difficult to manage during multiball - unless it‘s impossible to use the upper playfield during multiball. Not deactivating them because of switch reliability seems kind of unlikely, though - there are many crucial functions in a pin which depend on a given switch functioning.

I haven't worked on the games from the past few years but at least on the older stuff, the flippers aren't really cpu controlled other than a relay turning them entirely off or on, so to turn off one set and allow the other set to work you'd have to have a couple relays the cpu was controlling.... the typical way they used to do it at least was the end of stroke switch has another switch next to it that triggers the upper flipper, or you have doubled up cabinet switches on the buttons.

So you could disable one or the other but you'd have to add a relay to do that. In this particular game the ball can likely enter the upper playfield very quickly so relying on the cpu enabling and disabling certain flippers at certain times doesn't seem very useful to me.

There's just no real reason to turn off the top flippers. Every other game that has a third flipper or four flippers always has them flipping when the bottom ones do so I'm not sure why anybody needs to change that...

Not that it matters because who cares but my money is on they flip when the ball is up there and when in multiball.

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the Mando mask is quite a tricky one to draw up.

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Still it wouldn't be that hard to make it a setting: standard always all flippers on, and for homeusers who'd like that: only on when a ball goes into the mini-playfield untill a non-miniplayfield switch is hit or a timer runs out (if you want that for your mini-playfield-game, you could even make the miniplayfield-game about earning seconds before entering the miniplayfield so there's a bigger chance to achieve there what you'd like). And flipper on while in multiball. A home-user that uses that setting would know when to replace a switch.
Advantages being less noise and less maintenance.

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The smart thing to do would be to disable the mini-pf flippers when not in use. Too much mechanical clatter.

Really surprised to see a mini-pf in this game...especially with basic flipper control. Maybe they have it slowly tilt up and down during it's operation, that would make it fun to shoot for.

It’s really common for upper pf flippers to work all the time even when the ball is not up there.

Is it common? It's solved with a simple in and out opto, like is done on Twilight Zone, for example.

I guess optos cost money.

I agree that having the two huge mini pf flippers pointed at your face being active at all times is dumb. At least in the pro it feels more like a third flipper so no big deal. Isn’t this just an easy software fix though? I assume they are disabling the flippers with software for the impossible mode right?