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🔴LIVE - Flip N Out With Friends: Transformers Pinball Reveal Day!!!

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🔴LIVE - Flip N Out With Friends: Transformers Pinball Reveal Day!!!

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We've got a great panel tonight with Joel, Jared, Josh, Sterling and Mike who have all come together to chat about @sternpinballinc's newest game, Transformers! Come join in on the fun:) Purchase...

Highlights

  • Optimus Prime mech was originally designed to move but is now static due to reliability concerns
  • Elizabeth Gieske is one of the two design leads (with Elliot Eismin) for Transformers
  • Stern had access to 70 episodes of the original Transformers series, plus the movie
  • The Optimus Prime cannon can shoot at multiple angles and coordinates with upper flipper combos
  • Stern films marketing videos 1-2 months before release using prototypes at a separate playfield building
  • The playfield insert configuration was changed after the initial marketing video was filmed
  • Elliot Eismin was a mechanical engineer at Stern before becoming a game designer
  • Transformers features 11 major shots across its playfield
  • Hasbro granted permission for Stern to overlay new graphics on original cartoon footage
  • Early attendees at Stern Media Day gave glowing reviews of Transformers code depth and gameplay

Notable quotes

It's clear he did move at one point. And that sculpt was made, it was finished, and they have since kind of neutered it to just be like a static toy.
Joel
If you're going to go static, like at least move the arms from this position, right? Like he looks like he's got a barbecue and he either just got like the best chicken wings of his life or he is trying to imitate a chicken.
Joel
They're really giving Elliot and Elizabeth kind of equal credit towards this, which I think is pretty awesome.
Joel
You can see that on the feature. Watch out. ... Elliot, I'm helping you out here, buddy. I believe in you. Let's work on some enthusiasm.
Joel
If you put a third flipper in the game, don't expect a casual player to use it. Like, ever. That's just, that's what I'm seeing.
Joel
The Soundwave multiball, it'll actually kick out a third [ball]. But I think that's clever, and the reason I think that's clever... the side-to-side action that's going to cause.
Joel
I love that they have the original television show. They didn't mess around. They didn't do anything goofy. They're like, here's the original.
Jared
This is the challenge, right? If you were in Stern's shoes, do you either just... if you feel that the mech is unreliable or if there was problems with it or balls were getting stuck or whatever it was... they obviously pivoted and just said, let's... let's just lean into static.
Joel
The toys themselves were definitely more detailed than the cartoon was for sure... well, it's a little more true to the way the characters were in the cartoon. Not necessarily the toys, which is okay.
Mike
If you look at it, it goes in underneath Megatron and then it comes up through the back of the playfield behind the panel... There's a diverter in this right ramp.
Joel

Entities

  • Hasbro· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Godzilla· game
  • Iron Maiden· game
  • Jaws· game
  • Jurassic Park· game
  • Kong· game
  • Pokemon· game
  • Sonic· game
  • Transformers· game
  • X-Men· game
  • Flip N Out Pinball· organization
  • Stern Insiders· organization
  • The Pinball Studio· organization
  • Elizabeth Gieske· person
  • Elliot Eismin· person
  • Gomez· person
  • Jared· person
  • Joel· person
  • Keith Elwin· person
  • Mike· person
  • Ray Day· person
  • Sterling· person
  • Steve Ritchie· person
  • Zach Sharpe· person

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