Star Wars

"I liked The way the characters Down by the flipper area were positioned better. I think the way they ended up with them just kind of going across on a straight line like that Is it is not too creative? It just looks I don't know just doesn't look great"

Star Wars Pro playfield artwork looks poor, middle version was better

"We don't get a shaker motor anymore. So that's been yanked out... We don't get Stern's new anti-reflective glass. That's another additional option."

Star Wars LE doesn't provide good value compared to other packages due to missing features

"I feel like there'd be so much more of the Star Wars world brought to life and there just isn't, right?... seeing tie fighters blow up on screens to me is not as much fun as actually physically seeing amazing toys interact with the ball."

Star Wars lacks physical toys and relies too much on screens instead of under-glass elements

"I think Star Wars deserved better than what we've seen so far."

Star Wars deserved better than Stern's treatment

"Star Wars is like this game. It really is like this game to me that metaphorically feels like this death star hovering over Heighway Pinball, this death star hovering over Jersey Jack Pinball, this death star, maybe even hovering over spooky Pinball."

Star Wars will be like a Death Star hovering over competitors

"There is no there is no denying the fact that Star Wars is just going to own it this summer. Good luck. Good luck going against Star Wars."

Star Wars theme will dominate summer regardless of quality

"And I think that's why Star Wars is going to be the best selling stern of all time. And if you think it's not going to be, you're crazy."

Star Wars will be the best selling Stern of all time due to emotional connection and theme power

"I do think Stern's missed a real golden opportunity to broaden the number of people that would have seen this machine with the Star Wars fan celebration and now may forth being missed"

Stern Pinball is missing golden opportunity by not revealing Star Wars on May 4th

"The hype is huge. The expectations are through the roof. What are my what's my gut tell me about this my gut tells me that people's expectations are so damn high that I just don't know if the game can live up to the expectations."

Star Wars expectations are dangerously high and may lead to disappointment

"I don't know about you guys but when we first hear the Star Wars theme song playing through the Stern spike system with the great audio, I think it's going to be a game changer"

Star Wars pinball will be a game changer with LCD and modern audio system

"this machine is not going to be hand drawn from scratch. It is going to repurpose other artists' work similar to Batman. They are going to take hand drawn Star Wars artwork that wasn't made specifically for the machine and they are going to put it on the Star Wars cabinet and playfield."

Star Wars pinball artwork will be disappointing because Stern is repurposing existing artwork instead of hand-drawn original art

"but here's my prediction of what's going to happen for Star Wars and I think it's going to be just like AC/DC. I think they're going to do a light side of the force and a dark side of the force. I think they're probably going to make 500 of each a"

Prediction: Star Wars will have light side and dark side versions like AC/DC, with 500 of each made.

"all these games still have failed to generate the level of conversation and excitement and anticipation that is star wars"

Star Wars will dominate despite all other game releases

"Star Wars is going to be the original trilogy. It's based on episodes three, four and five. So new hope, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi."

Star Wars will be based on original trilogy episodes 4, 5, and 6

"I was told Chris, you might want to go elsewhere. I already have 70, 70 deposits down on Star Wars LE and I'm not even charming to get that many."

Star Wars LE is already essentially sold out before announcement - one major distributor has 70+ deposits

"I don't want it to just be like a Ritchie flow pin without amazing toys and amazing things. I think the pinball machine needs to have more magic and more toys, more mech and not just be like flowy ramps, like Star Trek or Game of Thrones."

Star Wars pinball should focus on amazing toys and mechs rather than just flow and ramps

"I would love to see Jersey Jack make Star Wars I mean I'd like all the companies but I'd like to see them do it only because you know I'd like to see the big screen"

Jersey Jack Pinball would be the best choice to make a Star Wars pinball machine

"I don't think you're going to see the hysteria to get one. The same way you did with Ghostbusters because of how beautiful Ghostbusters was. The same way you did with Batman because I still think Batman looks much better than Star Wars."

Batman and Ghostbusters limited editions were more desirable than Star Wars LE will be

"I think Jersey Jack should be thrilled right now. I think Dildin just remained at the top of people's short list of which game to go in on. I mean, once you put a Dildin playfield next to Star Wars, after this, forget it. It's not even close."

Jersey Jack Pinball should be thrilled because Dialed In will now clearly beat Star Wars

"I hate that game because I love Star Wars. I think Richie's Star Wars is. It is an abomination of the theme. I think the shots are too difficult. I think the lack of magic and the toys is pathetic. I think the tie fighter on a spring is beyond pathetic."

Steve Ritchie's Star Wars is terrible and an abomination

"i think we're going to get a teaser video of the pinball game okay i think it's going to be like an amalgamation of like it's coming in you know just a little teaser it's not going to be the full reveal"

Stern will reveal Star Wars pinball as a teaser at fan convention then full reveal on May 4th

"look, personally, I'm still not sold on Star Wars. I'm still not sold. I don't know if I see the Star Wars universe that I wanted to underclass. I have Star Wars ordered."

Kaneda is skeptical about Star Wars pinball despite having ordered one

"more people are going to buy this game outside of the pinball die hearts and any other machine because star wars collectors are a different breed they are different breed"

Star Wars collectors are different breed who will buy this game beyond typical pinball enthusiasts

"I told my friends at Stern immediately. I was like, this looks like shit. This looks like shit. And I think you guys are going in the wrong direction. How can you go from AAerosmith to this? How can you go from Ghostbusters to this?"

Star Wars pinball artwork is a major disappointment - looks terrible and uninspired

"I can take five Richie design games and I guarantee you I could put a Frankenstein together that is Star Wars."

Prediction: Could create a Frankenstein Star Wars pinball machine using shots and layouts from five different Richie design games.

"I mean, they look just like a Game of Thrones inserts, just, just arrow on top of arrow, on top of arrow, on top of arrow, on top of like mode. I think that is so unoriginal and uninspired, absolutely uninspired."

Game of Thrones-style arrow inserts are unoriginal and uninspired for Star Wars

"I believe that this game puts the player as Han Solo. Once I started thinking about what's on this game, what's on the inserts, it started to make complete sense that Steve Ritchie wanted to make a Star Wars trilogy game where the player assumes the role of Han Solo."

Star Wars pinball puts the player in the role of Han Solo, not Luke Skywalker, based on the mode names and artwork focus

"Stern's Star Wars to me is the biggest fucking miss of all time. Stern Ghostbusters is another huge fucking design miss. How the fuck do you let John Trudeau put a flipper gap like that?"

Star Wars and Ghostbusters are major design misses from Stern

"I think the arts mediocre, I think when I look at it, I just, to me, the one thing, this is like the new stern that just I can't get over it. Look at the pop bumpers on Simpson's Pinball Party. They're the nuclear reactors, right? There's like this sense of like art is not just on the playfield, but art is also the sculpting of the toys and the mechanisms. And on Star Wars, they're just dropping like landows face on a pop bumper that's flat with no depth, nothing."

Star Wars pinball is mediocre art that disappoints given the theme's magnitude

"See it's stuff like this lines like stop asking for so much. You can lower your expectations from Stern Pinball and you'll love it. And we could all live life like that... this apologetic approach to Star Wars Pinball is the reason why Stern won't learn their lesson."

Star Wars apologists are lowering expectations and enabling Stern's mediocrity

"So like AAerosmith, whenever people see the ball being flung into the toy box, that's freaking cool... What is Star Wars? Got nothing. It's got a tie fighter on a spring, a bunch of dropped targets that are stolen from AC/DC and an LCD screen."

Star Wars pinball lacks magical shots and physical interaction

"it looks like a big Star Wars lunch box, it looks like a lunch box, an 8,000, 9,000 dollar light box"

Star Wars pinball artwork is disappointing and looks like a lunch box