I don't know why, but I'm hoping the Blob makes an appearance.

He was apart of the brotherhood.

The diff in XMEN PRO to XMEN LE vs TRON PRO to TRON LE is alot bigger...

Anyone else find the fact that the four ball multiball wacks Wolverine around strange. Dude! Give the guy some space... And what happens on the pro? STDM with all four balls or what?

Exactly Greg. I was the first one to post my disappointment with the voice work that I heard in the video (in the main X-Men thread), but I also said I want to hear more....and in context. Could make quite a difference.

I hope it tanks, so I can get one super cheap.

You guys with stupid money can keep the LE's...I really don't like what they've done with the extra features. Nightcrawlers is kinda cool, but not for the money. Iceman ramp looks like a TOTAL gimmick for one mode and that's it, and then to top it all off, the spinner, since they made a decision to have it go at a slower speed, doesn't give that crazy Twister/Lost In Space action of balls going everywhere.

Did anyone else notice how many times in that video that the spinner did not grip the balls very well, or at ALL? And when it had 4 balls locked, it was WHAP WHAP WHAP on the side of wolverine?

I really hope I can get over the voices, I was going to buy a pro, now I'm not sure. The only voice I like is Rogue .

Well the good news is it seems Stern is no longer cookie cutting their pins. Even though I'm not a huge x-men fan I think they did a pretty fantastic job on this game. When I saw those night crawler pop ups, Immediately I thought about the trolls from MM. And I think that moving ramp, spinning disc, magnets etc.. those toys / gimmicks have all been already utilized but sterns jamming in a nice amount of them into one game. Game seems to play VERY FAST. Between JJP and Stern I think things are just heating up. I'm excited to know what's next and on the horizon.

WTF Wolverine says "I'm the best at what I do" ?

Did anyone notice that the Blackbird scoop plastic is missing (hope they have a better representation than the first photos).

Finally! My point exactly two posts up.

It's certainly more groundbreaking than AC/DC (ok, groundbreaking is the wrong word, but it certainly has more to offer (pop up targets, bash target, two magnets, moving ramp, sweet fast feeding VUK, etc.). I haven't seen ANYTHING groundbreaking in pinball in over 10 years, so what's the point? Explain a game that has had something "groundbreaking" in that time frame. Lots of great games produced also. If anything, X-men is more groundbreaking in the fact that it's all original, the first to do this in a very long time!

I don't think we'll know how the bridge blocks the view until we get to play it. But it doesn't appear to be a problem from the pics/video.

I'm up in the air about the speech also, but if it bothers me, I'll just go into the menu system and turn down the speech or turn up the music.. or both. I think I can live with it if the speech call outs aren't as prominent as they will most likely be at stock settings.

Agree. The code on this one should make it a great Home game! I'm liking what I see up to this point!

And I also like the figures. After all, it's a comic pin, and it looks like a comic pin. Totally happy with that!

I've watched it 3 times now, too. Once with my 9 year old (who would rather it be based on the movies LOL). The voices bug me, but we will see how it is in person. The shoot this over and over rules also annoy me. I haven't seen Mummite say if Steve Blum was involved or not. He was working with him on another game and was going to ask. I do love the dots. That Beast sequence is fantastic. Showing him in original 60's form, then poof, 90's form, poof, current form. Nice. I also love the massive amount of features in this one. Also hoping there is something to achieve if you complete both Danger Room and Dark Phoenix.

Here's my take on the voices; first few voices sound great. The ones that sound 'iffy' are the ones at the end. But those voices were bare, meaning no background noise or music. If you were to play the voice call outs to some top pins by themselves they tend to sound out of place. Bottom line....we neeeed more!

Great point, and kind of goes to what I was saying about hearing the voices in "context".

Did you notice in the reflection of this picture that Wolverine is where Magneto should be... I wonder after watching the video that maybe there were thinking of switching the 2 figures and Wolverine would lock the balls and magneto would have the balls go crazy after hitting him, like others mentioned earlier in the post.

wolv_mag_switch.jpg

Um, Magneto is there covered up by packing material, and Wolverine is where he's supposed to be. Nice try though!

Looks to me like Wolverine should be lower closer to the flippers, the reflection shows him closer to the DMD...

If you look at the black blob (packing material) that's closest to the DMD, that's covering up Magneto. You can see a little bit of the red sticking out behind it. Wolvy is in front of that black packing blob.

Don't you see Magneto's head? It's the big red thing reflecting at the bottom (meaning nearer) of the DMD.

I guess he did in Marvel vs Capcom 3 also:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/i3Kqfhk5DFg?autoplay=1&rel=0

1:42 mark

I also noticed that the Blackbird plastic WAS there. It's right there above the scoop where it was on all of the promo pictures. There is also a clear plastic above it that may have been confusing you.

Ya I see Magnetos head now! Guess the angle threw me off...in fact the angle is still throwing me off!

Save the image and then mirror it....it's a little less confusing then.

I really don't get why people think Magneto and Wolverine should be switched.
Magneto - controls metal (locks balls, spins balls around, captures balls on magnet)
Wolverine - Slashes at the ball with his claws(hence the magnet in front of him to send the ball out of control)

I understand why Borg was the one narrating the video, but he sure does seem depressed in his narration. I would love to see someone with a little more passion in his speaking talking about the machine. Outside of that, the game does look fun, and I can't wait to try it out.

I thought the video was great and more than I expected. Can't wait for my wolverine edition!

Borg did a great job, you can see he's not a professional speaker but there is nobody better to pitch the game.

The voices were not great but if that the main thing people are complaining about then I think Stern has a winner.

Exactly agree.

I know not everyone agrees but the voices are pretty important. I think of the speech/music combo in LOTR. To me that makes the game so well done! As for the rules I really dont see the shoot over and over? yes there are some things you must hit repeatdely to accomplish some goals, but there are also several modes which he didnt seem to get into. I had to choose between this and AC/DC and since I didnt get a chance to play this and I knew I enjoyed AC/DC I went with that. X-men looks to be a great game too though. I think anyone who bought an LE will be able to get their money back and then some if they dont like it as its a pretty rare title. I probably should have bought one played it for a little and sold it

Looks fun, but definitely not worth it to me $$-wise. The voices and large toys are kind of meh to me. Some dots looked great, others so so.

I think liscensed titles are easier for us to notice subtleties though. We have pre-conceived notions of what we expect x,y, and z to look/sound like and if doesn't fit it easy for us disregard and therefore criticize vs. an original theme. The fact that it is X-Men and there have been more iterations of the concept than probably any liscensed pin further compounds these notions.

With that said, my initial statement holds in that it doesn't sound like I'd expect it to and some of the dots don't look like I'd want them to (i.e.Magneto eh, really like Prof X dots).

I would have liked three smaller toys.

This game looks great!! I anticipated the haters, every stern release has them. But I'm sorry, this game has a lot of potential and just looks amazing so far.

Your correct regarding the haters but, they typically have just as many or more raving fanboys.

I'm confused.

Who's the programmer of this game?

Who's the game designer of this game?