Stern - X-Men Pinball (mid 2012)

[Cow Corner]

no play, no buy is my new mantra

Fair enough too, it's a lot of $$$ to shell out on faith alone.

[swinks]

Some LE shots, colours look good and the night crawler pop ups are very similar to the Iron Monger in the way of being hit at the sides and the polycarbonate lid.

[swinks]

and some rules

[swinks]

here is the LE plate

[swinks]

here is a zoom up on a image posted on Stern's Facebook of the board - checklist - seems to be a good and a bad mode

Cyclops - St?????XSD | Juggernaut - Ratchet (Check)
Phoenix - Devastator (Check) | Stryker - Ratchet (Check)
Wolverine - Ratchet (Check) | Sentinels - Ratchet (Check)
rm - Devastator (Check) | Deadpool - ??? (mode)
n?ern? - ????????? | Brotherhood - ??? (mode?)
? - Ratchet (Check) | Hellfire Club - ??? (mode?)
er - Devastator (Check) | Sabretooth - Ratchet unreadable
UNREADABLE JUNK | UNREADABLE JUNK

[Caveoftreasures]

ARE there any members who are seriously thinking of purchasing the X-Men title brand new from AMD etc ?

I am curious to know how many collectors/players are thinking hard about it ?  

(I am thinking about a PRO but will only purchase after playing and getting 100 percent confirmation on the Pro pricing) I think the audio and dots on the DMD will make or break this title. The Tron dots n audio wasnt great at all which is why that title wasnt a big seller, AC/DC was on the other end of the scale with excellent dots n audio, so this X-Men has to be fully loaded with the right software and audio to make it better than any before it.
Do u think this is the key to better sales of this model ?

Who else is thinking about buying one, and which title, a LE or a Pro ?  

[Cow Corner]

here is a zoom up on a image posted on Stern's Facebook of the board - checklist - seems to be a good and a bad mode

Cyclops - St?????XSD | Juggernaut - Ratchet (Check)
Phoenix - Devastator (Check) | Stryker - Ratchet (Check)
Wolverine - Ratchet (Check) | Sentinels - Ratchet (Check)
rm - Devastator (Check) | Deadpool - ??? (mode)
n?ern? - ????????? | Brotherhood - ??? (mode?)
? - Ratchet (Check) | Hellfire Club - ??? (mode?)
er - Devastator (Check) | Sabretooth - Ratchet unreadable
UNREADABLE JUNK | UNREADABLE JUNK

Looks like it could be like the TF ruleset, from a shot and scoring point of view perhaps?

[swinks]

ended up being a checklist, not software.

That aside some custom dots

[Cow Corner]

ended up being a checklist, not software.

That aside some custom dots

Jury is still out on the code, it looks like this game will be a cross of reverse tron layout with a TF style code and those custom dots don't have me jumping for joy.

[Cow Corner]

With a bit of luck there should be a gameplay vid out soon.
I hope the gameplay and audio are top shelf.

[swinks]

They were filming in the last 12 hours rumoured not to be released until end of next week.

[Mr Tilt]

9k for NIb today is alot of dough so it better be good like ACDC BIB to justify $$!

[swinks]

A pinsider was at the factory on the weekend and was lucky enough to play the LE so left a little review after playing 3 games.

"My wife and I were in Chicago over the weekend and we decided to see the Stern factory before we drove back home. We had a tour set up yesterday with Jody (sp?) but due to the storms in the area on sunday there were some power issues and some of the front office folks were not around. I was about to hang my head and leave when out of nowhere the man himself Mr. Gary Stern walks out of the office and says he will take us on a tour, but he needed a few minutes so he let us go into this dark little game room and behold there is a Wolverine LE sitting there. We got to play a few games while he finished up some work and then gave us a tour of the place. I was a little in awe the whole time....it was awesome and I could not thank Gary enough for taking time out of his day for us!

Now for the good stuff. I'm still a bit of a noob but I tried to pay attention while we played. Here's what I do know:
- We started a 2 ball and a 3 ball Magneto multiball.
- The spinner is similar to Twister when multiball is started, but it does seem to spin a tad slower and the balls don't whip around quite as violently. Also, the spinner seemed to kick on quite a bit so it seemed pretty integral....i'm not sure I'd want the Pro after playing the LE.
- I got the Nightcrawler pop ups started once but lost my ball right away. They did pop up and down one at a time pretty quickly.
- I hit the Iceman ramp a few times but never got the ramp to move.
- I would compare the Wolverine bash toy to the Balrog in LOTR. It seemed kinda big at first but after playing I don't think you'd want him to be any smaller.
- Gary said the LE's will start shipping at the end of this week. (I have the Wolverine LE on order so was happy to hear this)
- I also asked him if the next pin is Avengers and he said the next pin will be..............."released in the fall". At least I tried "


in addition some info has been leaked out that 115 of Wolverine and 115 Magneto will be going overseas - so suppose only AMD could tell us how many of those made it to Aus.

[Caveoftreasures]

u are a champion swinksy, that is excellent information.   this title looks terriffic.  i just hope the pro version is still a fun game for those who chose to purchase.
keep the great updates coming. ! 

[Ant68]

Stern Video Released

http://www.youtube.com/embed/kCTm2IM...toplay=1&rel=0