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New Stern Transformers Pin?- $3K REALLY?
MameMaster!:
--- Quote from: phatmeat on October 03, 2012, 09:40:40 am ---The one picture here is the toy version . The actual ones look pretty nice goto the Stern website.
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this "toy" sells for $3K. check the Amazon link! ::)
http://www.amazon.com/Stern-Transformers-Pin-Pinball-Machine/dp/B009AVLBS0
pinballjim:
--- Quote from: Ken Layton on October 03, 2012, 10:18:58 am ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on October 03, 2012, 09:52:28 am ---The company has slowly but surely gone downhill since Lord of the Rings Flight 2000.
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Fixed. ;)
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Snark all you want. Lord of the Rings is the only one that could pass as a 90s Bally Williams (and I'm far from a Bally Williams snob). I don't care for The Simpsons but I can understand why some people like it. But Lord of the Rings was kind of their pinnacle of theme integration and custom junk on the playfield. You can look at the games that came immediately after it and the quality just drops off a cliff (though I enjoyed Elvis and Ripley's).
Premier/Gottlieb had Stargate, Stern had Lord of the Rings.
nickbuol:
--- Quote from: phatmeat on October 03, 2012, 09:40:40 am ---The one picture here is the toy version . The actual ones look pretty nice goto the Stern website.
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I saw just a larger picture of the same thing. Looks like a cardboard "backglass" too.
http://www.sternpinball.com/Community/Blogs/news/transformers-pin.aspx
There are "Pro" versions for $5700 MSRP, and LE versions for $7000 that are "real" pinballs...
Nephasth:
Stern, the world's only maker of "real" pinball games, makes a fake pinball game...
ChadTower:
You're losing me here. Yeah, it's not a full blown commercial pinball machine, but that doesn't make it fake. $3000 does make it way overpriced but it's still a pinball machine.
I wonder if they think the Transformers license is strong enough that the Transformers collector community will carry this. The pinball community certainly won't.
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