Stranger Things

"for 13,000, I'm all in on a $13,000 Stranger Things. I'd rather play that game than most of the new LEs that have a thousand units."

Stranger Things LE at $13,000 is a fair price and good buy

"that is one of the most wow moments in Pinball since I've been playing Pinball. And it just really worked. Like it really gave me that feeling the game was in the upside down. And I just want to say this is how Stranger Things should have came out on day one."

Stranger Things with UV kit creates amazing atmosphere and wow moments

"They're absolutely going to trump Brian Eddy's new game with one of Brian Eddy's older titles. And if that doesn't send a signal to everybody in this pinball world that Stern pinball is capable of failure."

Stern re-releasing Stranger Things shows Venom is a failure

"Stop buying Stranger Things Pros and Premiums people. Stern is going to rerun that game. Why would you spend $13,000 on an old premium when you are going to be able to have it new and box?"

Stop buying overpriced Stranger Things games - Stern will rerun them

"But remember, it's only season one and season two of Stranger Things. And I think as time goes on, and this is just my prediction, I think as time goes on, properties like Stranger Things are not going to age as well as properties like Ghostbusters and properties like Jurassic Park."

Prediction: Properties like Stranger Things will not age as well as properties like Ghostbusters and Jurassic Park.

"How is it that stranger things UV kit, which was designed for this game from day one, which Stern held back from the community and then made people spend extra money to buy it so they could unlock this really cool feature in the game that was planned from day one. That wins best Pinball mod of 2020"

Stern's UV kit winning best mod category is unfair because it's a manufacturer accessory, not a real mod

"I'm so tired of the stranger things apologists coming at me 18 months after this game has been out... telling me that now I have to like stranger things. Now it's a great game. Now there's a topper available."

Stranger Things is still ugly and bad despite 18 months of apologists defending it

"I'm here to tell all of you who feel that way from the rest of us in the community we don't care we don't care that you're enjoying it... the game was a miss for what could have been stranger things this game does not create the magic of that show it just doesn't"

Stranger Things was a miss and doesn't capture the magic of the show, despite some fans defending it

"The man who came back after all these years and sort of underwhelmed us with stranger things"

Brian Eddy underwhelmed with Stranger Things after his legendary career

"Then the pinball machine just failed to capture the excitement around that show. It failed to capture the vibe and the campiness of that 1980s world that we love so much."

Stranger Things failed to capture the excitement and 1980s vibe of the show

"Stranger things is a game that's gonna keep going down and down and down and value... It's never gonna come back"

Stranger Things will keep going down in value

"Like nobody cares about stranger things anymore. Nobody. Stranger things came and went. And it's one of the biggest properties in the world and somehow Stern just released a complete dud... Nobody cares about stranger things. It's a great game to buy for $9,000 if you want to lose $2,000 in two months."

Stranger Things is a complete failure that nobody cares about anymore

"I said Stranger Things is a middle of the road game. It's middle of the road for me. It's not horrible. It's not terrible... I think it's a fun game to play. I just wouldn't want to own one"

Stranger Things is middle of the road, not amazing or terrible

"The game is not even that good everybody knows it everyone knows it except for the people who bought it who want to make apologies for it... This game these L.E's this game is going to be a $7,000 L.E in a year everybody knows it"

Stranger Things pinball is not a good game and will lose significant value

"this feature is cooler than the projector. It really is. It actually adds more of the ambiance of the stranger things world than that stupid projector. I'm serious. The projector is dumb. It's not necessary. This is much cooler."

The UV effect is cooler than the projector and should have replaced it entirely

"I heard from Jack Danger that it looks really impressive in person"

Jack Danger's endorsement that it looks impressive in person

"it was a fumbled launch. It was one of the worst ways to show the projector ever. The code is uninspiring. I get that there's a lot of modes in it, but the callouts and the way you play the game, it just doesn't pull you in."

Stranger Things pinball was a fumbled launch with uninspiring code despite having many modes

"stranger things just feels like a dud on the personality scale compared to those other games"

Stranger Things lacks personality compared to Medieval Madness and Attack from Mars

"You should not have to open up a $9,000 pinball machine and start taking it apart... You shouldn't have to use a rubber band to reposition the demo gorgon toy because until because it's sitting too far back"

Stranger Things has serious quality control issues that are unacceptable for a $9,100 game

"I've said it from the very beginning stranger things is gonna go down as one of those Stern machines that you quickly forget"

Stranger Things will be quickly forgotten as one of those forgettable Stern machines

"think about how bad the callouts are in stranger things they're horrible they have no emotion there's no passion there's no energy it's just they're just it's like they they've they've phoned it in and they didn't even get creative with the script"

Stranger Things callouts are horrible - no emotion, passion or energy, they phoned it in

"It's a terrible shot. No one... I mean, it's amazing when you put a center toy in which even the tournament players are like just avoided."

Stranger Things Demogorgon is terrible shot that tournament players avoid

"stranger things has been a miss. It has been. We're going to get any more excitement than it has now. Never. I don't care if they project, you know, a URL that you can go do to get free money. It's not going to ever get people that excited again. It's over. Sorry, I said it's over."

Stranger Things is over and will never generate excitement again

"I keep reading all the people who bought it in the Stranger Things Club, you know, carrying the torch. Oh, code's just going to make this game amazing. No, it's not. It's not the game we want it. It's not the game you want it. Just be honest with yourselves, people."

Stranger Things pinball is uninspired and won't be saved by code updates

"I feel like it's a little bit of a mediocre experience overall and I feel like when you play the game you don't really know what your purpose is you don't really know what character you are. It's a little bit of a rudderless stranger things experience to me"

Stranger Things is mediocre overall

"If Kaneda says that stranger things is mediocre, uh-oh. That's not good. We need to sell as many as we can because we paid for this license for five years."

Stranger Things pinball is mediocre

"I do I think Stranger Things is going to go down and it's like a bit of a mediocre game."

Stranger Things pinball will go down as a mediocre game

"I think this game has a lot of people that want to like it a lot more than they probably do. And I think this game has people hating on it a lot more than they probably should. Is that fair? Like, let me just repeat that. The people who want to love it are loving it more than they probably should. And the people who hate it are probably hating it more than they should."

Stranger Things is a polarizing middle-tier game that people love or hate more than they should

"I think it's fair to say after watching the stream that the projector works a okay. Like it works, right? For those of you who were who were thinking it was going to be a catastrophic tech in the game and the mech wasn't going to work. And it was going to be completely underwhelming. I think if you watch the stream tonight, you come away thinking like it works."

Stranger Things Premium projector works okay but doesn't enhance physical experience significantly

"I kind of think this is maybe the worst Pinball machine to put up on the main stage in front of a super large audience to celebrate Pinball innovation and technology."

Stranger Things at CES was a poor showcase for pinball innovation

"Taking a stranger things pinball machine to show the projector feature which needs a really dark room, taking that game to CES. To me is equivalent of showing the world a Dodge Demon for the first time on an auto cross track."

Stern's decision to showcase Stranger Things at CES with projector effects under bright lights lacks common sense

"Stranger things to me is going to be a lot like Star Wars. It's going to be this humongous property that they paid a lot of money for and the pen itself is just average."

Stranger Things is just average like Star Wars - big property, average pin

"I kind of feel like the pro is the way to go on stranger things and I'm going to explain why as I get to the end... I think for once the Stern Pro is just going to be the unanimous way to go."

Stranger Things Pro is the way to go over Premium/LE due to projector concerns

"By the time this game is done and you can give a review that's based on the final product, I guarantee you this. By the time that day comes, nobody will care about stranger things pinball because it'll be so many months from now."

Prediction: By the time Stranger Things pinball is finished, nobody will care about it because it will be so many months from release.

"I really just don't understand what I'm doing in the game... As the player of the game, I don't even know who I am. The game itself has no real introduction... There's absolutely no guidance or there's no beginning of a journey that's communicated in this game at all"

Stranger Things pinball lacks clear player guidance and cohesive structure

"we haven't even talked about how silly the game looks when it's off when you have the premium or the LE and there's just those big white pieces of real estate on the screen and on the ramps that nothing is there it looks it looks bad I mean common sense like who walked over that is like this is what it's going to look like when the games turned off"

The game looks bad when turned off due to blank projection areas

"What is physical in this game that takes elements from stranger things and physical brings them to life in this game? What what's in this game? So let's start there. Let's just ask that very simple question. You got the demogorgon bash toy that's in every version of the game. And obviously that's the villain in the game and that is there. Now after that toy can someone please tell me what is physical in this game that's part of the stranger things universe?"

Stranger Things Pinball lacks physical elements that bring the theme to life compared to other themed machines

"The artwork on the game, I have to say, doesn't feel like artwork. It feels like Photoshop, drag and drop from Netflix... I miss Christopher Franchi so much. He would have made it all even just those images."

Stranger Things artwork feels like lazy Photoshop drag-and-drop from Netflix instead of proper pinball art

"I don't think this game can work or will look very good with any light on in the room. And so it might be the first pinball machine, the premium and the LEDs that have the projector that require you to be in a really dark environment."

Stranger Things pinball won't work in bright rooms due to the projector screen - might be first pinball machine that requires darkness

"The stranger things to me is just like a tidal wave theme. It's like Rick and Morty is sort of like an island with fans on it. But stranger things is like a humongous wall tidal wave of water that's just going to like crash over that Rick and Morty fan base. It's 10 times bigger"

Stranger Things will be much bigger than Rick and Morty but less rare

"stranger things is a ten times larger property it just is stranger things has way more fans than Rick and Morty stranger things is a much more popular show than Rick and Morty"

Stranger Things is a much larger property than Rick and Morty with more fans

"I think it's ludicrous to debate whether or not stranger things is a good theme for pinball. It absolutely is because if you look at the segment where pinball is growing the most, if you look at the age demographic where pinball is becoming the most, you know, the most new people into the hobby. You are talking about probably late 20s to early 40s."

Stranger Things would be a perfect pinball theme for the key demographic of late 20s to early 40s buyers

"I don't care what Zach Meny and Beasel boobs say. Stranger Things was a total miss."

Stranger Things was a total miss

"So I'm hearing that you really only need to get the pro version of the game because the big feature That's in the premium and the LE doesn't really I don't know it doesn't really work that great"

You should only get the Pro version of Stranger Things because the main premium feature doesn't work well

"if you buy one for $9,000 and you buy an LE, congratulations. You're going to be selling that game for $7,500 in six months"

Stranger Things is going to be a financial disaster that loses value quickly

"But here is what I'm hearing it does not work properly Unless you're in a very low lit room a pretty much a dark room like a pitch black room is Optimal to get this thing to work the right way now that's a problem because that won't work in so many different scenarios Locations and environments"

The projector feature in Stranger Things only works properly in very dark rooms, which is problematic for most locations