Maybe Stern is counting the green LED's in the fish tank as the green in (red, green and white)?

It's in the fish tank, lol.

lol wouldnt surprise me.

If the GI is only red and green then the types of GI lighting that Lyman can code up are going to be quite limited. Metallica and ACDC, and even Avengers (i think) had 3 colors, which is a huge part of buying an LE for me.

I'm very curious to know how the extra magnet in front of the well walker comes into play.

Yes... please share

Is the crossbow just a piece of metal?

Why is this thread not getting more action? Where are the videos? Is it a time zone thing? Are all the people in France that played the game asleep?

They are almost getting up again, lol.

Can't wait for the video!

Always disappointing that everyone has cell phones that can record video but it takes forever to get one of the gameplay. The initial post was 16 hours ago and no vids yet.

Green would have looked pretty terrible in this game... white and red make sense. Green would make it Christmassy.

Like Avengers?

Yup. I plucked out most of the greens from Avengers LE and replaced them with warm white.

Not at all, Star trek is kinda the same and lot of people are fine with Metallica pro. I like the subtle extras and would always buy the best representation I can get. The LE's might seem overpriced for the difference but its worth it to me.

In an interview a while back (can't remember where), Borg said he designs with both pro and LE in mind simultaneously. Gomez was the one that designed pro and added for LE. Steve Ritchie said he designs LE and strips back for pro.

Just throwing this against the wall.

Maybe the green is mode based like in Space Station and thus hasn't been implemented yet. Or it hasn't been seen yet because of where it is in the gameplay.

Chris

They could have a green only mode. Vomit zombies.

Where are the videos? Vive La France!

After looking at the pictures it looks like there are two additional and previously unmentioned zombie heads added to the LE model. In addition to the skull type zombie head near the star rollovers as was previously mentioned it looks like Stern added an additional zombie head on the right side of the playfield Mid length just behind the Woodbury drop target.

Ahh, the old time difference fun. Not only have all lot of the posts happened in the middle of the night but in the UK it's also the day that the clocks go back. Not 100% sure it happens in France on the same day but assuming it does then that'll add another hour you have to wait

Should be early morning there now so hopefully some footage in the next couple of hours.

Can't believe they haven't stuck something more on the cross bow though to make it look more cross bow like.

Gary Stern should be...

OUPS

ok merci Iba pour les tofs et bon amusement
we're all waiting a video

i can hear gary now...no green gi..but i gave u two more stupid out of place zombie skulls

Will the LE be on location after the French show? I will be in Paris in a couple of days and I want to play some pinball.

chris

Another Stern release accompanied by really bad grainy pics/video from half way across the world (I'm sure the guy that took them did the best he could).

Just a thought....would it not have been better to release the LE at expo last week? Maybe it would have been overshadowed by all the other releases? Or would it have given them something to compete?

Yeah. Poor, poor strategy on that move.

Pro reveal, THEN the LE, is not a good idea.

The last time an LE came first, it was Avengers, and definitely the LE suffered because of it.

Yep sure did. And with ac/dc they noticed the lightningbolts broke of easily on the pro, so the LE/premium had bolts with metal behind it.

I forgot to mention the spinners and Woodbury drop target, so there are actually five gameplay features the LE has over the Pro.

As an LE buyer, I definitely prefer the pros being made first so they can work out the kinks. If it means I have to wait a little longer to get my game, so be it.

What video are you referring to? Did I miss something?

Are any of the non-color changing inserts socketed like they are on the pro?

I was told the US orders of the LE had not started shipping yet as of Friday 10-24-14.

How could you do that? I thought the GI in LE's were controlled by software to change colours? What happens if you change one of those colour changing bulbs out?

They aren't color changers. It's like AC/DC where there are clusters of different colored LEDs throughout the game. The clusters can be controlled as a group to create red or white GI.

I always thought the GI were colour changers in LE's like in Xmen. What other LE's have colour changing GI? Does TWD LE have colour changing GI? Because if not why would they list it on the feature matrix when you can just change the bulbs in the pro for the same effect?

Even if you changed the GI on the pro to exactly match the GI on the LE, the code would not support it the same way. For example, the LE can turn on just the red bulbs to create red GI. This is not possible with the pro. Also, the matrix says nothing about color changers in the GI. It just says "Multiple color LED general illumination". The RGB color changers are only used for the arrow inserts and star rollovers ...

TWD lighting.PNG

Oh ok, thanks for the explanation.

I completely agree. The LE should follow in production after the Pro model has been rolled out for the obvious reasons mentioned.

After looking at the additional features offered on the LE including its added lifting ramp with bicycle girl target, an additional woodbury drop target, the mechanical crossbow shooter, added red GI (yes should have been tri colored! ) and the green backlit fish tank with heads, additional magnet in front of the well walker, also some yet unseen additional guts effect on the well walker, and the suprise two new skeleton heads that were not announced previously also the eye catching 3d looking LE Mirrored Backglass and the "dead inside" LE cabinet which I believe helps this title to be more of a timeless machine for the series as other key characters come and go in the coming seasons I am generally happy with what I am seeing. With these additions I am very happy to have ordered an LE version. More money? yes. Way overpriced? unfortunately yes as this pricing is keeping pinball ownership out of reach of most people. But with all that being said really would I be happy knowing this machine was out there and I had settled on a Pro which is still very cool and nice but? For me unfortunately No. Luckily I am fortunate enough to be able to scrounge up enough coin to buy this machine this time. My kids may have to use last years shool clothes again this year (totally kidding) and I may be eating frozen dinners and ramen noodles for the next couple years rather than eating better but at least I will be doing so sitting in front of what I consider to be one of Sterns best machines over the past several years. That being said there are still many mods that I plan on doing to help this machine reach its full potential including the armor and Greg Nicotero sculpted Fish Tank topper mods and stern designed plunger. All in all I say well done to the design team and I look forward to getting this machine.

I've never understood why they don't just use full-spectrum RGB LEDs for for every LED in the game like JJP does. It seems to me like this would be the easiest thing to do, and then they could just code the game however they want. Perhaps one of the LED guys can enlighten us as to why Stern doesn't do this. Is it simply a cost saving thing, or is there another reason?

Well, technically the fish tank has green LEDs, right? Hope this isn't what they meant?

The fishtank lamps are not GI they are controlled lamps. If I recall someone said they correspond to virtual ball locks.

I fear this may be exactly what they meant.

Good point.

There will never be another Metallica at stern

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What does twd have to do with metallica

Ill be more specific. IMO Metallica has a total package. It's the best pin they have done to date. Yes better then acdc IMO... I bought twdle blind, its shipping to me in the next week or two. I may not even open the box.

Ummmmm, good for you

Then why did you buy it, to flip it?