I’ve got them on order with my distributor. Well they have a open order for me and will place it once available.

Stern will have them on their site too. No idea if there is hold back for distributors etc.

According to an email circulating - should be mid Julyish

Same here, put my deposit in and asked to have a set of the side armor and inner art blades to. We’ll see what happens.

Typically Stern will sell accessories on their website after distros have claimed their allotment. So I’d say if you are dealing with a larger distro just order through them early and you’ll be fine.

So was mine obviously

They it rotates, wich it does since it has an axis. ONE axis. They didn‘t say it does a full rotation. So everything is correct in all departments altough you‘d udually not describe this fraction of a rotation as a rotation.

The mini playfield does not rotate, the mechanism under the playfield rotates *technically. It’s semantics. Describing the the mini playfield as “rotating” is misleading.

Damn Stern and all their false advertising! This company is just failing everywhere. I’m only buying JJP from now on. Stern games, designers, and programmers are just awful. I mean has anyone ever played that stupid Deadpool game? What a joke. That Katana isn’t even made out of true Japanese steel! And seriously, that pathetic Jurassic Park game!? Then there was that awful Ghostbuster pin! Stern is just garbage.

(Sarcasm)

The playfield rotates around an axis. It's about movement, not what causes it. I can rotate my pen on a table - my fingers cause it, but the pen's motion is still in rotation. It's a weird description for marketing to use, but it's entirely accurate.

Yeah? What happens if you rotate your fingers on an axis changing the pitch of the pen? That’s rotation right? The pen is rotating, yes?

If the pen moves around an axis, then the pen rotates. If the pen changes pitch by rotating around a horizontal axis (regardless whether it makes a full rotation or not), then the pen rotates, just like a plane.

And technically I can use my fingers to rotate a pen without rotating my fingers. For example, if I move my finger in a straight line and cause the pen to rotate (aka spin), then I can cause an object - the pen - to rotate without the cause of the pen's motion - my finger - being in rotation

The mini playfield does not rotate.

Yes it does. It rotates around an axis that runs from the left to the right of the mini PF.

Actually he was probably 9 or younger when John Wick skin came out on Fortnite and he watched the movies. He watched LOTR when Salomon is getting the Orcs army together where there coming out of the ground with the drums banging (personally the scariest scene i can think of hes watched)and didnt scare him but the wolves scene in Frozen freaked him out, go figure. Kids are strange sometimes what there into and what freaks them out, lol!

What is rotation? The new Blue/Gold Dress, or how many holes in a straw/doughnut? Only time will tell.

I liked GOT, my spouse was not a huge fan of it (she found the rules less approachable). We flipped on TMNT (that we currently own), she really enjoys how straight forward it is but I find the rules to be missing some depth (still a fun game, certainly).

I’m all up for Dwight doing the game more along the lines of GOT/SW, but give me an example about what you mean with “breadth”. I generally follow your advice on games closely, when you like a game that basically always means I will like the game...been that way for years.

Mini-playfield cannot rotate. Rotation is around someting 360 degree, a complete circle. It can only move a few degree, by definition it's tilting!

So you are saying something can't rotate 90 degrees?

Well, no, that’s not how it’s defined. But if there’s anything I’ve learned about many Pinsiders, it’s that reality doesn’t really matter to them. They’re just a few degrees away from the flat earth club...

It’s actually 65! But guys stop with the bickering about rotation. Painful.

lol, moving flippers on mini pf are distracting, non moving Yoda, and now, rotation!
welcome to pinside.

About as painful as being stabbed with a knife and then rotating it?

So, how about that ambush code? Remind anyone else of the risk/reward strategy with GNR songs?

Now just wait there.. Grogu rotates??
Next thing you'll say, the earth is round!

Double

So when an airplane goes to take off and the pilots say V1, V2, rotate - you’re saying that the plane is supposed to do a complete 360 degree flip?

On the surface, all you need to do to get to iron throne is to complete 7 modes. That’s not that deep. However, depending on the house you pick and how you choose to use that house’s powers, that path can be very different. Breadth comes from all the different paths you can take, and side modes you can go down (WIC and WHC/Wall MB/Hand of the King/castle MB). So you can go sideways along the path instead of a straight line the whole time.

Mando seems to have some of that same breadth with collecting beskar and buying abilities and weapons and armor, etc. Side missions like hunter, scope, and ambush are things to help mix things up and or maximize score along the way to the final wizard mode.

Will Mandalorian have a physical ball lock or is it just a virtual one?

Right on tiger.

Basically what chuckwurt said.

To add to that. The most common and popular rulesets are linear but deep. Easy to learn and follow along, not too much thought involved on your journey, but as you get deeper more of the game opens up, i.e. depth.

The vocal minority typically hate games that offer breadth. They don’t want a game where there’s too much strategy involved - it can be overwhelming and confusing. A prime example of this is Mr. Kaneda; his idea of the perfect game is playing a game scene by scene from start to finish as if it was the movie.

The kings of breadth are GOT and SW. others would be TWD, DP, AIQ (from what I’ve researched but can’t confirm), Hot Wheels (from what I’ve researched but can’t confirm), WOZ, JJPOTC, and even X-men to an extent.

Ooooooo can anyone confirm if it’s a moving virtual force motivated rotating lock?

By this logic, the flippers dont actually flip and the pops dont actually pop.
Come on man. We get it. You're unhappy with Sterns phrasing. Its really not a big deal to anyone but you. Move on. Get a pro. Whatever.

Hey, just watched the video and I’m sure that the playfield moves. No need to argue about it. I got y’all.

Maybe in your household. But please don’t lump your version of America with mine.

How did we end up here??

Stern should say the mini Playfield TILT’s to avoid misleading advertising.

Then it’ll be “Why would they put a tilt bob on a mini pf?”

It 'rotates 65° if you are looking at it from the side

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Does it tilt in a circle or up and down???

Anyone know if the mini-pf flipper(s) rotate when the main flippers rotate?

Can't wait for the streaming, it's more important ha ha for me! A tilting mini-playfield or tilt the machine, it's the same

Holy crap I took a short break and it’s gone from “will it move” to “degrees playfield tilts”.Stern should go Pay Per View Friday.

My eyes have almost fully rotated into the back of my head

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Can anyone else think of another game which has rotating plastic ramps?

Flippers are stationary, the game moves around them.

Okay guys, as a pilot, I have to step in here since comparisons are being made in above posts to aviation... when we talk about rotation (at V1 Vr Rotate), we are referring to the rotation of the control yoke (not the aircraft) to manipulate the elevator, stabilizer, or stabilator depending on the aircraft, in order to change the tail down force of the aircraft to manipulate longitudinal control about the lateral axis which travels wingtip to wingtip, the movement about that lateral axis is pitch...and we pitch the aircraft to a degree above 0 or below 0.

So in our mini play field, the servo or mechanism is providing rotation about a lateral axis. That movement is pitch. One could say the play field rotates on an axis, but a more correct term would be that the playfield pitches to a specified degree... But it isn't marketing sexy.

According to Dwight (the programmer for this thing), there's a physical "lock" for the mini-PF where the ball gets trapped on the left upper flipper. This will result in multiball action on the mini-PF.

I also noticed there's an up-post at the right orbit where the ball exits the mini-PF, that could be used for locks too. That said, the foundry scoop can be used as a short "lock" for 2-ball MB.

That would be a FULL rotation.

Any word if deadflips stream will have both the pro and premium/le?

can somebody come to my office and tell me if I need a rotating or tilting chair

Screw that chair, what you really need is a Mando pinball!

I heard Brian Eddy wanted a swiveling upper playfield but the bean counters at Stern only allowed him a rotating one.

Exxxxactly, thank you!

If you think 4th dimensionally the entire game rotates as we are like rotating around the sun as a planet man.

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