This is the Way - Stern Mandalorian Pinball is Here!!

We gonna see more today or just the tease?

Pinside post of the year! I LOL'd for a couple minutes thinking of this

If it's anything like the LZ teaser it'll be a few days/week before we get more.

Rise of the Resistance is truly amazing and one of the best attractions ever built, but the rest of Galaxy's Edge just blows. Smugglers run is underwhelming unless you can be one of the 2 pilots. The rest of it doesn't really feel like I'm in a SW land. Take out the prop ships and it feels nothing like SW. I guess its in the name, but then the idea was flawed from the beginning if that's the intention. Fans don't want to be on the galaxy's edge, they want to be immersed in it with the very familiar set designs that they have come to know and love.

Ok, so what's your excuse for "The Monkey's Uncle," "The Misadventures of Merlin Jones" or "That Darn Cat?"

I guess I just think it's silly to be complaining that Disney has sucked my entire lifetime because Walt died well before I was born. Reminds me of people who insist the Beatles died when Ringo joined.

Damn I had no idea how bad the slide in quality was when I was at Space Mountain as an 8 year old. DAMN YOU DISNEY!!!

Nailed it!

Actually if you look up the history of Space Mountain that was Walt's plans after the Matterhorn ride did so well in 1959.

The quality of Disney CINEMA has clearly slipped, feel free to wander off topic though.

Right...but Space Mountain sucked when I was 8 because Walt was no longer in charge.

It sucks even worse now! Some idiot added speakers!

And the churros seemed stale at the cart outside.

All in, premium or LE on theme alone for this household. Besides a "school of witchcraft and wizardry" theme, this is a close second for us.

Same here! Wife was like get a LE and my kids have never shown any true excitement for pins until this one. Been a good week for us Star Wars fans. Oculus SW pinball then today Minecraft Star Wars for my little guy and now Stern with this cherry on top!

Did Walt invent the churro as well?

I have no opinion on churros, no idea what one is and I'll be damned if I'm going to look!

Space Mountain was cool.

How the hell are you paying for it? From what I understand allotments have not been given, details have not been announced. I love this insane frenzy around every new release now...lol.

Also, is there anyway we could get more people bitching about things in this thread? HAHA...I sign in during work to see if there are any updates and end up reading posts about stale churros. I am utterly impressed at how many things people can hate.

What abbreviation are we using for Mando?

TM is already taken for Time Machine?

It’s going to be just that, I’d expect. ‘Mando’.

Mando's good. We could do something stupid like SWTM, but it's only 1 less letter than Mando, so why bother.

Is it weird that Zen is doing their version at the same time? Is there any chance they are similar or related? I don't know how Zen operates but I have to imagine they are kind of barking up the same tree right?

MAN?

Really like the Death Trooper, probably one of my favorite soldiers, hope they incorporate it well in this release.

That would make too much sense. Needs to be some kind of convoluted acronym instead to confuse outsiders.

Zero relation or similarity. Zen does a lot of their own versions of the same themes real pinball makers use. Marvel, Star Wars, Jurassic, Alien, Family Guy. Zen's always suck. There's no back and forth between their silly video games and real pinball.

BY - Baby Yoda

In line for an LE IF my distributer gets enough. Got on the list a few weeks ago. Would go nicely next to my SW comic premium

MANLE?

Happy Cinco De Cuatro!

I think you should sell me your comic premium to make room for that sweet Mando LE!

Heh i think the game i need to move is wonka. I have 6 games and thats all the room i have now. Wonka would be first to go right now

So this music would fit well in a mode !

Any word on who's on code?

Not a fan of the theme, but if it's a fun game, I may have to pick up a pro or premium.

I guess I need to make room.

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Kaneda revealed this would Stern's next pin weeks ago. Looks like he was right!

Damn - that's pretty amazing. Never really noticed the quality of the music before...

Distributors already have a waiting list ! This is the first time my heart quivered , jumped into my throat as I immediately closed my eyes and prayed that I get one ! Please !

This is the best news I've heard in long time. I CAN'T WAIT till the reveal comes and everyone shits all over it; Always entertaining.

I mean it better have magnets right...cause like the force and stuff!

LOL, its not mando, mando isn't a big enough theme, stranger things is bigger, the fans want BTTF- LOL what codswallop!

LE sold out sight unseen days before the game came out. any one still doubting how big this IP is?

Brocktoon might work.

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What's the rumor roundup? Designer, artist, etc?

This game BETTER have innovation!!!

And by innovation I mean magnets and upper playfields...you know stuff from games built 40 years ago.

To be fair, isn't every LE sold out instantly these days? Till a month later when it turns out they aren't?

Maybe I'm off on that but you guys would know!

Food Truck is gonna make Stern Mando its BITCH!

Mick on a stick
Ick on a stick
Yoda ... on a Pagoda?

I thought it was Evil Dead / Army of Darkness that was going to do that?

Theres definite fear of missing out going on, and probably justifiably so.
Look at how fast GNR CEs sold our as well as other Stern LEs, Rick and Morty etc etc.
I know several people that a month or two ago told their distributors to put them on the list for the next LE regardless of title.
This was when the rumors were Back to the Future, Mando and a few other titles were being thrown around.
I guess it doesn't really matter which of those titles it was going to be, because they are all pretty solid themes.
Even if the distributor doesn't know what the title is a few months before its announced, what's he/she going to say to a customer that buys a ton of pins off him or her in a calendar year?
If I were a distributor and a client thats buys every new pin off me that comes out (sometimes multiple) asks me to reserve the next LE for them, my answer would be "yep, no problem".

Ok but seriously what can we re-use here to keep the price down?

Well sweet Baby Yoda likes to eat pinballs, we all know that, so I ASSume Stern has a few boxes of Gene heads laying around? Synergy!

I hope they don't stick him up on that barrel like the RCT troll.

Magna...*ahem* “FORCE” slings...?

Black Knight topper with Mando-helmet instead! $2500 easy!

Don’t lie, I know you man and you would love to watch the fallout from that

Eddy and Eddy for design and code (heard it here first) the guy that did SW comic edition art.

I called and placed my order for 5 toppers

Love Eddy on code. Does he get paid double?