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Looks like fun to me!

I hope to play this machine at the next SB auction in September. It looks nice.

Good find... Doesn't look too bad... Is it me or does the DMD animation look very "EGA"...

It looks like there is a ball lock under the link.  It seems like it might grab the ball from both sides to hold it into place with metal posts.  I hope to check with one in September at Starburst in Montreal.

LOVE the backglass.. very cool.  Hopefully cool enough to draw people to the machine.

Quoted from machine.slave

  Hopefully cool enough to draw people to the machine.

Not for me...... its like too much has Iron Man...... Iron Man is a very good game but not two in a row....why not a GOLDORAK Pinball....  


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Quoted from machine.slave

LOVE the backglass.. very cool.  Hopefully cool enough to draw people to the machine.

reminds me of the stuff we had everywhere in the 80s when I was a kid. Sooo.... not that cool to my eyes, I actually find that cheesy.

Quoted from joce

Not for me...... its like too much has Iron Man...... Iron Man is a very good game but not two in a row

exactly what i was thinking....   back glass looks cool!

Seems like they kind of missed the highlight of the movie which was all the unearthly iridescent colour.  Doesn't seem like they went out on a limb at all.  These days they really should be switching to a digital screen playing cut scenes instead of sticking with DMD animations....IMHO.  But then again, that could be another "Pinball 2000" fiasco.  

Quoted from websherpa

Doesn't seem like they went out on a limb at all.  These days they really should be switching to a digital screen playing cut scenes instead of sticking with DMD animations....IMHO.  But then again, that could be another "Pinball 2000" fiasco.  

Agree, but I think they'd need some young coding talent to pull that off.   Not that it's complicated, just not probably a skillset the current coders have.   Although, I like to see "art" in a pinball, and an LCD would probably lead to mini-youtube segments.   I guess the current DMD animations are just electronic samplings of the movies anyways with little to no artistic input.

Quoted from Tuborg

Agree, but I think they'd need some young coding talent to pull that off.   Not that it's complicated, just not probably a skillset the current coders have.   Although, I like to see "art" in a pinball, and an LCD would probably lead to mini-youtube segments.   I guess the current DMD animations are just electronic samplings of the movies anyways with little to no artistic input.

Exactly, they're just showing clips anyways, they may as well show them in a quality that's better than a cell phone.

While us old timers may prefer the touch of hand drawn art, it doesn't sell anymore and is more costly. Just look at slot machines. They all play full motion video and are selling like hot cakes.

I think the animations on new stern pins are terrible, and I agree with the idea of them putting a real display if they want realistic cut scenes, however, I love dmd's. Pay someone to do good dmd animations, or pay for an LCD or something! Stern Is always cutting features out of there games to "cut costs" but when you sell a new machine with multiple "SPINNERS" you shouldn't charge as much as a machine with multiple toys or anything else out of the past 30 years. And for god's sake put high power solenoids in the slingshots!!!!!!!!

I realize that stern needs to do certain things to stay in business, but real artwork instead of copy and paste Photoshop couldn't be that much more expensive. And yes, before anyone puts a bounty on my head, I should be thankful that there is new machines being built, and I am. But there is soooooo much more you can do with modern pinball than recycled ramps, and magnet features from the last few games in a row.