I agree on the sound. I went external sub but same thing. That thing cranks with the better sound! I also did a shaker motor and wow its just an experience..

I'm getting one next week and can't wait, I had a combo version and while fun the flow was killed by those ramp add ons, I forgot about the shaker and will have to add one, also I'm gonna remove the gate for dual orbital fun, under rated game for sure.

TF may have a new fan. Someone new was over playing mine and really enjoyed it. the more that play it and give it a chance the more that like it.

its good to see that TF is far from being dead...

With a theme of transformers this will always stay valuable rollout son!!!!

I've been feasting on the Netflix Tf Prime cartoons. Not as bad as I initially thought. Resparked my love of the theme after those crappy Michael Bay movies. Now if I could only make progress in the game lol. I think I'm going to make it drop extra balls like a rabbit shitting. So far my best is only completing like 3 modes on standard settings.

the movies do indeed suck....except for Transformers 3. that one is actually kinda good. Mainly because the story is vaguely taken from the cartoon/comic books. Has similarity to some of the story in those. But the other movies are just garbage, and so is michael bay.

The sounds and look of this game really are great. Modes are somewhat repetitive, but the game is hard as shit. I finally finished 4 robots, but failed on optimus multiball. Almost saw sentinel prime..... almost.

It is a tough game that is for sure. Don't miss your shot!

Is there a final rules sheet somewhere? How is the Starscream hurry up triggered, just shooting his ramp X times?

You have to hit it enough to spell "Starscream" so 10 shots, usually.

Initially on the default values you only have to hit it 3 or 4 times. On hard settings you have to hit it 10 times.

here, home, we're playing on full factory seetings, only change is set on 5 balls instead of 3 (and quite often 1 EB collected in the game)...
as it, we often go to the 1st wizard mode, than 2 or 3 full robots on the other side, but never fully completed these 2 sides

We watched Age of Distinction last night and I thought it actually decent compared to the expectations I had going in. I think it was my favorite of the four but need to go back and watch 3 again.

Transformers Prime is an amazing show. My favorite cartoon of the past decade. I love how Megatron is portrayed as ultra competent great leader, but just constantly dealing with petty issue after petty issue regarding his subordinates. So funny.

My daughter loves Transformers Prime. I have watched a bit of it with her and have enjoyed it. She also like the Gen 1 cartoon that I record for her on Discovery Family

I have all the Gen 1 in a box set. Reminds me I need to rip em one day.

Sorry for being lazy on this but before I scroll through all these posts is there any custom pinball cards mentioned within?

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/transformers-club/page/3#post-2786563

i love it !

another nice start, ball 1 (+ 1 EB) finishing with 135M, all autobots beaten except optimus with only 1 shot remaining & megatron also completed on the other side

than, i spend 2 balls to finish optimus
than small wizard mode with roll out at 69M (lane X2 and PF X2)
than also complete starscream, but only started the 3 others decepticons... (big wizard mode is still far)
finishing at 281M and 108 combos, not bad

btw, just added STRAFE & GRIMLOCK, and move the spotlight at the left on BUMBLEBEE, which for sure was intended to have a light there, seing how the PF was done

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I need the schematics for the TF LE. I thought that I had it in paper form but...

It would be great if someone could give me the dl link to the PDFs.

Update: found it:
http://www.sternpinball.com/games/transformers/le

Rollout is an awesome mode. It's a half-marathon to get there, but it's great.

I'm in, possibly the most under rated game out there, fast and brutal with easily some of the best sound design I've ever heard in a pin. I opted for the removal of the wire gate and the toy on the right ramp, orbit shots are great.

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+1

as logically, robots sounds & efx fits of course more than well with pinball

Here is an odd fact about this game from Pinside.

56 Pro owners

177 LE owners

I was kind of shocked by this.

Isn't there 1000 le machines, 500 combo 250 auto and 250 cons?

Actually I think it's 500/125/125

I believe not all were made.

I enjoyed my Combo LE but man the Pro is something special with the flow of the ramps being unaffected by the add on's, this game is just as smooth as ST or SM etc. the rules are fun the gameplay is fast as hell and the sound/FX are something special, with a mode running and multi going its a sight to behold, I'm actually blown away a little, why hasn't this game recieved the accolades it deserves? sorry but I've owned Tron and IM and most of the Sterns, TF's easily holds its own and for me beats the majority of those games hands down.

Mainly due to a lot of people still pissed off because Stern promised a "transforming" robot on the game and they feel they got ripped off by not getting that.

That and a lot of people still consider this game chopping wood to play. I still don't get that argument as hitting the same shot in pinball i pretty common.

Great game and I'm glad it never got any love. That allowed me to pick up an LE for basically current pro prices a year after it was released. Mines bolted to the floor.

Ya, not any more chopping wood than ST is, it is just a harder game than ST I guess.

I knew it would be something like that, the chopping wood thing applies to every pin I've owned, after time what game doesn't start to feel like that? Anyway who cares, TF's is amazing and just a shame that so many will never get to fully experience it, its a really bad trait of a lot of pinheads that games are written off before given the proper chance and yet some other games Tron while fun I believe are over hyped to the level people will buy them and keep them due to the mass appeal.

yes, those are the LE numbers, and no premiums exist. I like the LE due to the fact I like the starscream twitch thing. he's fawked me over so many times, and it's great because it's starscream and that's what he does.

So agree on the Starscream twitch, one of my favorite parts of the game. I removed the Ironhide gate mainly for cosmetic appearance even though it speeds up the flow a touch.

I can understand the "chopping wood" argument to some degree. But as Gov noted, it's not any more or less so than Star Trek. By coincidence, Lonnie Ropp is the software person behind both and they both have similarities in rules design, which either makes Star Trek pro potentially overvalued or Transformers pro undervalued.

Good thing about TF over ST is that it's MUCH easier to start modes for the casual player. That was one complaint my wife had about ST was that she could never hit either of those shots on command which really prevented her from getting to the more fun parts of the game. With TF even the casual player can start modes as nearly every shot on the board counts for progression to start a mode.

Either of the Start Mission shots on Star Trek (especially the under-the-flipper shot) can get old really quickly.

I much prefer that style as it negates the need for a pause in the action, man this game is fast and furious. If I finish the wizard mode it won't last long, but then again what does?

Spotlights on the slings, fluted dome 555 in toy above the megatron scoop, added a 3 led strip to the cube, nice effect I think. Can't stop playing this game, starting to get my strategy down and figuring out the scoring, good times.

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finally, with the noflix active backglass (version 1) :

Have decepticon since new. The clear coat sucked. Started taking it apart to clear coat it. Lot of stuff on this pin. Anyone try clear rubbers?

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You can see the clear is just flack ing away.

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Yeah, I have clear on my game an love it. Plays about the same as white rubbers but allows the light to go through them a bit.

How bad was the PF stripping? I've got a spare LE PF that was cleared by HSA sitting on my wall. I've been needing to swap it in but I'm not real sure I want to tackle that process anytime soon...

clear on mine has been holding up good

What's the number on your decepticons?

mines number 34

Clear on my combo is fine.

Clear is good on mine too. Even the drain where I see chipping on all my other STERNS seems to be holding up better than most. Clear in those pics from post #292 looks awful though, yikes!

35

Cleared with DuPont chromo clear.

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