The Mandalorian

"When Mandalorian came out, it felt like Brian Eddy was designing something else and they reskinned it as Mandalorian. It made no sense. Why is there an upper playfield? That's his helmet. That doesn't make any sense"

Mandalorian felt like a reskinned game, not designed from the ground up

"When you have Grogu and Force Powers and did not find an interesting way to use magnets to control the force in the game. I mean it was just like begging for those kinds of toys."

Mandalorian was underwhelming and missed opportunities for Force-themed toys

"This is pinball DLC. This is it people. You have to pay more money to get the most out of your game."

Mandalorian $2000 topper is pinball DLC - paying more to unlock full game potential

"I think Mandalorian was a total miss. I think the mechs in Mandalorian were uninspired and I'm hoping he does something fun with Venom."

Brian Eddy's Mandalorian was a total miss with uninspired mechs

"Mandalorian did not live up to Stern's expectations... It's another example of how Stern just can't hit a home run with a Star Wars property... it's a game that just does not capture the magic of the show"

Mandalorian failed to meet Stern's expectations and doesn't capture the magic of Star Wars

"I really wouldn't be surprised if Stern pinball charges fifteen hundred dollars for this topper. I mean, they're seeing the way the use game toppers are going now. And if they limit this thing to, let's say, just a thousand of them, they could probably charge two thousand dollars for a Mandalorian topper"

Mandalorian topper could cost $1500-2000 due to high secondhand prices showing companies pricing ceiling not reached

"I will never forgive Stern pinball for taking my Star Wars dreams and flushing them down the toilet with games that can't integrate the magic of the property into pinball... Like what a lazy, lazy game Mandalorian is when I look at the integration of that theme into it."

Stern Pinball wasted the Star Wars/Mandalorian license with lazy theme integration

"Mandalorian lacks all of that magic and all of that world under glass that I talked about at the beginning of this show"

Mandalorian lacks magic and world under glass

"Well, David, what's the upper playfield have to do with the show? I'm just going to ask you like it's just rotating helmet"

Mandalorian's upper playfield (rotating helmet) doesn't connect to the show's theme

"Yes, I wish there was more magic in the game. It doesn't matter. It's not going to happen. The game is what it is. The game is fun and I get it. I can hear the Stern fanboys tell me that that's all that matters. Chris, if the game is fun, everything is worth 9200 bucks according to these fanboys."

Mandalorian is gorgeous but lacks magic, overpriced at $9200

"It shoots better than Stranger Things... for the subject matter, I just wanted there to be a little bit more innovation or something mechanically that wowes you on the playfield."

Mandalorian shoots better than Stranger Things but lacks innovation

"I think man is going to be a middle of the road game I do I think people will enjoy it I think like all pinball it will be fun but I do think it's going to get pretty monotonous just because of the way the game is designed and the layout"

Mandalorian gameplay concerns

"I just don't see anything under the glass that truly wows me. And I do think the shots in the game are going to get kind of repetitive and it's going to come down to one thing. It's going to come down to whether or not the code will save this game. But I'm also at the point now where I'm tired of the code always having to bail out the lack of magic underneath the glass."

Mandalorian Pinball lacks magic under glass despite great theme

"How can you look at the Mandalorian pinball machine people and not use baby Grogu to use the force powers to magnetically save the ball from draining"

Mandalorian missed obvious Baby Grogu force power mechanic

"They simply just put the Herman monster the Batman 66 the off the shelf part magnet they just stuck them right in front of the doll Grogu that's just there for no reason I mean he doesn't do anything it's literally a doll just sitting there"

The Mandalorian's use of magnets for Grogu's force powers is uncreative and disappointing

"over the weekend a distributor out there sold the Mandalorian LE site unseen for $13,000 and within four hours they sold their entire allotment at that price"

Distributors selling Mandalorian LE for $13k sight unseen shows pricing madness - buyers paying $4k over MSRP without seeing the game

"Mark my words if you don't play as Mando as the protagonist in this pinball experience I think it's gonna start to go off the rails very quickly."

Prediction: If the Mandalorian pinball game doesn't feature the player as Mando as the protagonist, it will start to go off the rails very quickly.

"But the fact that these games moved in just a few hours and if he had twice as many games He would have sold twice as many I guarantee that that would have happened."

Prediction: If the seller had twice as many Mandalorian games available, he would have sold twice as many.

"For those of you who say the show is lame, no, you're lame. Okay, let me repeat that. If you think the Mandalorian is lame, you're lame. It's great."

If you think The Mandalorian show is lame, you're lame - it's great entertainment

"this is the kind of theme that's going to have the kind of mass appeal that Stern hasn't had in a while your wife doesn't want Elvira in the house you know that your kids don't care about Elvira your kids don't care about Batman 66 your wife doesn't care about Batman 66 and so here we have the perfect theme for pinball"

The Mandalorian is perfect family-friendly theme with mass appeal

"Let me repeat that the Mandalorian is the best Star Wars content in the world right now. It is for a lot of us out there who love Star Wars so much, who were super disappointed in the recent movies that came out because they were pretty horrible."

The Mandalorian is the best Star Wars content right now and redeems Star Wars after disappointing recent movies

"We're going to see it in just a few weeks. So take it, discuss it, deconstruct it, insult Kaneda. Do what you do best, but you heard it here. The Mandalorian."

Prediction: The Mandalorian pinball game will be released in a few weeks.

"This is gonna sell like hotcakes, people... All you fool spending $36,000 on pie or to the care being collect his additions, wake the F up. Wake up, people. Stern Pinball's about to clobber so many companies."

Stern Pinball's rumored Mandalorian game will sell like hotcakes while people spending $36k on Pirates of the Caribbean collector's editions need to wake up

"I look at this game and I look at the Mandalorian theme and I look at the three main toys in the game... How is that exciting? How is that a moment? Why are we accepting this stuff?"

The Mandalorian pinball machine lacks creative mechanical elements and magical moments despite the rich source material