Toy Story 4 is a great pinball machine from JJP and one of Pat Lawlor's better layouts. I had a chance to play an LE on location and enjoyed it. Later this year I had an opportunity to make a trade for the the CE version and I'm glad I did. The CE version is absolutely stunning in person. The metallic red powder coat, sparkle playfield, mirrored back glass, Rad Cals, and the topper all together create an incredible looking pin. The included topper is gorgeous and weighs probably 30lbs alone.
Gameplay is excellent on Toy Story with a design from Pat that offers a lot of flow. Most shots are fairly easy to hit with the side loop being one of the more difficult shots in the game. The Duke Kaboom jump shot is incredible, rewarding (fun!), and is something we've rarely seen in a pin. The carnival landing area that the ball lands on from the jump shot is lit very well with a ring of RGB LED's surrounding it.
The main complaint about Toy Story is well a lack of toys, mechanical toys that is, considering the price of the game. I agree with this view and wish there were more mechanical toys in the game. The "mini" LCD in the game is far too large and the space for it would have been better suited for a mechanical toy. With that being said what is in the game is fun and there's still a good amount mechanically going on in the game. Toy Story 4 has a spinning disk (integrated very well with rules and animations), a pop up jump ramp, two pop up posts next to the jump ramp (Benson posts), a character pop up mech, 4 pop bumpers, physical ball lock, and a real mechanical kick back.
In regards to the ruleset I would say it's moderately deep (in a good way, read more below) and that getting to the wizard more is easier then any other JJP pin to date. Is that good? Yes and no. Yes it's good as more people will actually seeing the wizard mode for a change and at the same time it may be bad as some people do want that nearly impossible wizard mode to unlock. The good thing with the ruleset in Toy Story 4 is that while getting to the wizard mode isn't extremely challenging it's still a challenge and there's a lot of other things to do in the game. For one there's multiple paths in the wizard mode, besides the 7 scenes that need to be played (not completed, just played) to unlock the wizard modes there's 11 carnival modes, I believe 5 multiball modes, a mini wizard mode, and a Benson post mode. One last night about the wizard mode, from what I heard there's multiple stages in it, as well as two different paths to reach / play it. That type of wizard mode actually sounds fun to play versus typical wizard modes that just dump all the balls out onto the playfield where you can basically hit any shot on the playfield for simply points (no objectives / stages).
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