I like the 1985 Topper version no doubt... but I think I prefer my 2015 topper... Hopefully Stern puts good use with magnets for this title with flying Deloreon's / hoverboards.

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Says the ultimate....

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Now back to Mando. Think Baby Yoda is cuter and could be a wow factor in the game if he has some kind of kinetic powers.

It wasn't the cost of these machines people disagreed with. You have missed the point entirely.

Edit: for the record, even us single dads can afford pinball machines if we bust our asses

Most single people don't live in houses though(unless you count the people still living with their parents), it wasn't until I got married and bought a house that pinball actually made sense.

Any word on a Tron VE? Not sure why the current Tron's are so overpriced.

Overpriced because one sold for some insane money but it happened. Not sure it will hold, we'll see if it cools down or not. Supply and Demand and when it comes down to Tron...period. It was the one title Stern did not make a premium for.

I'd rather be a Dick than a Dink

There were more. Avatar LE & Rolling Stones LE...there were Pros, but no Premium. Transformers had Pro, LE, and Autobot/Decepticon Editions...no Premium. AC/DC was the first to offer a Premium with all the LE features. X-Men had Pro/LE, and no Prem as well.

ELVIS had no premium.

Elvis was the same game with Gold Trim. Avatar was the first LE to have new & different features.

No teaser today, i guess that means less likely to be revealed on May 4. Maybe May 11 after all.

Rumor I thought was teaser on the 4th?

Hmm 4,11 as in 411... information. Phone books have information in them, is this another clue ?!

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Umm but then you look at Munsters Coding? No thanks - And how effin long it took GhostBusters for Dwight!
Neither of the 2 for me now..

Lol yeah true.

Here's a couple pics from the Where's the Code GB thread I created some years back. It was nearly a 3 year wait for Ghostbusters code...Also it was world wide news when it finally dropped lol.

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It's very, VERY easy to do once you're bitten by silverball mania. I've often said that your ideal pinball collection is your current collection plus one. At some point you become the storage unit pinball guy or you go into rehab and get a handle on the addiction.

Think outside the box you guys and go get Haggis Mermaid before they are gone!

Dang relive the 80's already.

We already have newer titles so go go go get your Fathom before it's to late.

FYI
I have many Stern and JJP machines

That price tag though....ouch
Not enough game for my money.
When my SS games started fetching over 4k(cdn), i started to look at them as 2xSS= 1 NIB Stern pro and while I personally really love SS games, im the only one in the house who actually plays them.

-Sold my SoF and Black Knight. Paid for 70% of an Avengers premium
-Sold my Skateball. Paid for 52% of a Deadpool pro

Its just hard to justify a 4k game if its not getting enough play time.

That is great news! Does this mean you will take your moaning and complaining elsewhere,?

2018 called and wants its complaining back. Games these days all come with well cooked code... and if they dont it always matures. Its the nature of the current market. Case in point Elvira. Munsters is shallow... shallow doesn't mean bad.

does rehab have pinball?

Sure. My personal rehab rule is no more than 2 pins at once. I had up to 15 at one point. All perfectly restored by me. Whittling that down was REALLY hard when I got down to the last 4 or 5 of "my babies." Now it's not that hard anymore, and I always have enough pinball to play.

I think I was up to 36 at my nuttiest. I wish I had the ability to cull more. One day....I’m not there yet.

I see you.

Basically at 15 pins I was at the storage unit or friend's houses storage overflow crossroads. I've seen what's down the storage unit road and my thinking was if I wasn't playing them, why even have them? So I chose rehab and started culling. The first 5 were pretty easy. Next five were hard and the last 5 were agony. But now that I'm used to pin rotation, I just tell myself if a pin is really good, I'll have it again. And for some I have. Plus if I'm not buying NIB, I usually buy fixer-uppers and send them out better than they came to me, and that's good for pinball, too.

And the 15 doesn't even count the warehouse loads I had temporarily for weeks or months occasionally until I sold the pins off. I've had 40 or 50 in my garage sometimes while I cataloged, repaired, and sold them.

Are you sure you understand what a good pinball layout is all about? Does loaded mean lots of plastic to you? Pinball design 101 informs us that a good layout is not loaded with tons of plastic that hides the ball and is open enough to have good flow for shots to flow for combos. Do you get that??? Loaded with ball interactive mechs can be good if the mechs don’t interrupt the flow and allow for good shots being made off the flippers. Do you comprehend this part of good table design my friend? Maybe that is what is challenging for decisions on what to buy...TMNT is a great flowing table, with flowing combos and qualifies as being loaded with ball interactive mechs. Sure Mando will be the same.

Just played mando vr.... great game. Some nice assets i hope transfer over to the stern game. Also has Cara Dune on it which is nice to see so its a good bet she is on the stern release also.

Per K, mando will have magnets and a green baby

Any eggs involved.?

At one point I squeezed 7 games into a one bedroom bungalow. Four in the kitchen, one in the living room and two in the bedroom.
We can all get a little carried away sometimes.

Lots of rumors. Just pointing out the last few releases had Friday teasers and Tuesday reveals. If that pattern continues, it points to no reveal Tuesday. May 4th tease and May 11th tease seems, unlikely. I don't think Stern has ever had us wait a week after a teaser, but they enjoy trolling us more and more, so maybe.

There is no universal "good layout."

Stern loves to keep Pinside on the edge of our seats. I can't wait to see the reveal!!

The way you post makes me think you have never played a pinball machine before. Just bizarre.

Guess what, nearly every modern pinball machine has mechs that stop the ball briefly. That's normal. Pinball is more then just ramps and orbits. Flow can become overrated when it means minimal mechs on games that now cost $6k - $9k+. This is one of the reasons many have hammered on Star Wars pro and LZ pro.

Oh, please let me know the name of your Pinball Design 101 book so I never buy it lol. Here's the front cover for you, sounds like your perfect pin. Send $8k and I'll build you one, it's a flow monster.

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2 best themse for pins not out there yet.

Goonies

The Princess Bride.

News of it being Mando is really exciting tho! Maybe they will make a star wars theme that kicks ass!

If it’s Mandalorian I hope Helicon Brewery gets one of the first off the line (since they always seem to get first dibs on all new games).
I love the show and put it up there with the original trilogy (and Rouge One). If it’s good, I’m totally in on a pro.

Not true. They didn’t make premiums for X-Men either. And others.

Rogue one is one of the best star wars movies of them all. I dig Solo also but I know I'm in the minority on that. Rogue one is easily one of the tops in the franchise tho!

you really need to include Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice and Beeetlejuice !

Im a star wars nut and totally agree. Rogue One is awesome. Really wish the new trilogy followed more of the Timothy Zahn novels story(mara jade!) but they waited too long and everyone got old. Force Awakens was ok, last jedi was meh, but the last one ruined the whole damn thing..... Hope new trilogies just forget about these characters/skywalkers and we get new stuff

Yes but do you have this Star Wars NUT

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As well as trust fund babies. None will admit it though. Age 31, with 31 pins. Ok sure lol.

Nut? Looks Chewie!? Thank you I’m here all night!

Lol, like the cover. Good one for you.

Name of the book is, “Stop N Go by P. The Freak - Pinball Design .86” Noticed it is written with big block letters, in a very easy to understand format. It’s a three minute read I see.

Next Stern pin to be announced soon...so stay tune.

All throughout the galaxy everyone seems to want BACK TO THE FUTURE!

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No trust fund here my guy. Built my business myself. Sorry if that triggers you.

I’m probably gonna get lit up by people but I personally put Rouge One up there with Empire.
It has some weak moments but in total it is a fantastic movie.

Speak for yourself, I can remember a time in my twenties where I had to live off of little mini hotdogs for a month that I got for free from a gig. No one handed me shit. I hustled my ass off to be able to buy a home and pins etc.

Agreed the best “spin off “ movie by far . Better than some of the main stories as well .

Believe it or not the Mandalorian series may be my favorite of all though .. it’s so well done .