# Hardy LIVE! Stern Pinball Leaks their Next Cornerstone Game Images?

**Source:** Cary Hardy YouTube Live Streams  
**Type:** video  
**Published:** 2026-05-13  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcau9nsvUIo

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## Analysis

Stern Pinball accidentally leaked detailed Transformers pinball game images via their Insider Connected app on the day of official announcement. Cary Hardy analyzes the playfield, discussing mechanical features like a cannon-wielding Megatron, a static Optimus Prime bash toy, and complex ramp geometry. He speculates on Pro/Premium/LE differences, compares it favorably to Pokemon, and discusses community reception and operator concerns about moving parts.

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] Stern Pinball leaked full Transformers playfield and art images via Insider Connected application on the same day as official announcement — _Cary Hardy confirmed playfield images came from Insider Connected after receiving screenshots from patrons_
- [HIGH] Megatron features a rotating cannon that can fire pinballs across the playfield — _Cary Hardy's analysis of playfield image showing coil, magnet diverter, and rotating mechanism; chat participant 'Frank' confirmed 'Megatron Cannon'_
- [MEDIUM] Optimus Prime is a static bash toy and does not transform or move vertically — _Chat participant 'Kale' stated Optimus does not transform or go up/down; Cary Hardy acknowledged taking this 'as gospel' from Kale who knows people with insider knowledge_
- [MEDIUM] Transformers will be a three-flipper game — _Cary Hardy identified three flipper positions in playfield analysis_
- [HIGH] Stern did a Transformers pinball game in 2011 — _Cary Hardy pulled up and displayed 2011 Transformers machine for comparison, showing similar blue/red (Autobots/Decepticons) color scheme_
- [MEDIUM] Pokemon code updates are moving too slowly, causing players to hit progression walls — _Chat participant 'Jesse Loves Pinball' raised concern; Cary Hardy echoed sentiment that players are stuck at low version numbers (.82) with no new Pokemon releases_
- [MEDIUM] Moving parts and motors on location machines are problematic for operators — _Cary Hardy's opinion shared with agreement from operators in chat (Cale mentioned); discussed as reason Pro versions strip moving features_
- [HIGH] IE Pinball is asking for $20,000+ for an unproduced Resident Evil pinball machine — _Cary Hardy listed this as an active pitch/pre-order campaign during opening segment_

### Notable Quotes

> "They took it as on their own accord, really, to do it themselves... either one, it's purposeful, or two, it was a very bad mistake."
> — **Cary Hardy**, Early in stream
> _Speculates whether Stern intentionally or accidentally leaked the Transformers images via Insider Connected_

> "This could potentially hurt their relationship with Hasbro. But the good thing is that at least it's not leaked by people like me or Kaneda or anything like that. This is on them."
> — **Cary Hardy**, Early analysis
> _Notes the leak came from Stern, not community leakers, reducing blame on external parties but raising licensing risk_

> "I am not a Transformers fan, so when you see me call a certain Transformer the wrong name or whatever, that's why."
> — **Cary Hardy**, Mid-stream
> _Establishes Hardy's knowledge gap on IP details, frames his analysis as mechanical/design-focused rather than IP-focused_

> "This game looks much more entertaining to me than Pokemon. I mean, there are just certain games that you can look at and go, okay, cool, the game exists."
> — **Cary Hardy**, Mid-stream
> _Compares favorably to recent Pokemon machine; positions Transformers as more compelling design than recent Stern release_

> "Motors on location are just asking for trouble... You're just implementing something that can go wrong."
> — **Cary Hardy**, Late-stream
> _Industry perspective on why Pro versions lack moving features; validates operator concerns about machine downtime_

> "So for Megatron to be firing his cannon, moving, that's going to be sweet."
> — **Cary Hardy**, Mid-stream playfield analysis
> _Expresses excitement about the rotating cannon mechanic as a novelty feature_

> "This will be technically when it comes to sales wise, I think you're going to have from Stern two bangers. You're going to get Pokemon, which is a great seller... Now you're going to have this game that's going to have everyone knows what Transformers is."
> — **Cary Hardy**, Late-stream analysis
> _Predicts strong commercial performance for Transformers due to IP recognition and design novelty_

> "I wonder, do you think that there's a part of me that's like they could have made a Decepticon version and then they could have made an Autobots version."
> — **Cary Hardy**, Cabinet art discussion
> _Speculates on collector variant potential with faction-specific LE versions_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Stern Pinball | company | Major pinball manufacturer; released/leaked Transformers playfield images via Insider Connected app |
| Transformers Limited Edition | game | Upcoming Stern pinball machine based on Transformers IP; officially announced; leaked playfield images show Megatron cannon and static Optimus Prime |
| Cary Hardy | person | Content creator and pinball analyst; host of this stream; analyzes leaked Transformers playfield in detail |
| Hasbro | company | Transformers IP rights holder; potential licensing risk from Stern's image leak mentioned |
| Elliot Eismin | person | Game designer for Transformers; previously designed John Wick pinball |
| Jersey Jack Pinball | company | Manufacturer with Sonic pinball machine 'just around the corner'; Cary Hardy wants them to book him for next game |
| Sonic | game | Upcoming JJP pinball machine; described as 'just around the corner' |
| Pokemon | game | Recent Stern pinball release; criticized for slow code updates and progression walls; compared unfavorably to Transformers design |
| John Wick | game | Previous Stern game designed by Elliot Eismin; referenced for comparison to Transformers |
| IE Pinball | company | New/unproven pinball manufacturer requesting $20,000+ pre-orders for Resident Evil machine; has never produced a game |
| Resident Evil | game | Proposed IE Pinball title; pre-orders at $20,000+ from manufacturer with no production history |
| Pedretti | company | Manufacturer officially announcing Tales of the Arabian Nights remake |
| Tales of the Arabian Nights | game | Game remake announced by Pedretti |
| George Gomez | person | Stern designer known as 'toy guy'; attended TPF event to fix Pokemon machines; associated with game design philosophy |
| Bug | person | Designer from Spooky Pinball; sent Cary Hardy comparison image noting Optimus Prime resembles Luke from Spooky's game |
| Spooky Pinball | company | Manufacturer; designed game with 'Luke' toy (compared to Optimus Prime design) |
| Ozzy | person | Stream participant/patron; donated $100 to stream while vacationing in Jamaica |
| Kale | person | Chat participant; identified as location operator with insider knowledge about Optimus Prime mechanics; stated Prime does not move/transform |
| Insiders Connected | product | Stern Pinball's internal application where Transformers playfield images were leaked |
| Pinside | website | Pinball community forum/database where Cary Hardy pulled screenshots to display playfield images |
| Cidercade | venue | Arcade venue approximately one hour from Hardy's location; typically installs LE machines |
| TPF | event | Tournament/show event where Pokemon machines were present and George Gomez did repairs |

### Signals

- **[leak_detection]** Stern Pinball Insider Connected app leaked full Transformers playfield and art images on official announcement day (confidence: high) — Cary Hardy confirmed screenshots came from Insider Connected application and he was able to access and verify in the live app
- **[licensing_signal]** Stern's accidental image leak via Insider Connected may damage relationship with Hasbro (Transformers IP holder) (confidence: medium) — Cary Hardy explicitly noted: 'This could potentially hurt their relationship with Hasbro'
- **[design_innovation]** Transformers features a rotating Megatron cannon that fires pinballs across playfield — rare mechanic in recent Stern games (confidence: high) — Playfield analysis identified coil, magnet diverter, and rotating mechanism; chat participants confirmed cannon fires across playfield; Hardy noted this is uncommon in modern Stern releases
- **[design_philosophy]** Pro tier Transformers will lack moving parts (Megatron cannon) to reduce operator maintenance burden and failure risk (confidence: medium) — Hardy speculated moving features will be removed in Pro tier; explained operator preference for simpler machines; chat operators (Kale) agreed motors cause downtime
- **[code_update]** Pokemon pinball stuck in low version numbers (v.82) with no new Pokemon releases; players hitting progression walls (confidence: medium) — Chat participant 'Jesse Loves Pinball' raised concern; Hardy echoed that players have no new collectibles and Pokedex not updated
- **[product_strategy]** Transformers positioned as mass-market appeal title leveraging universal IP recognition, contrasted with niche Pokemon audience (confidence: medium) — Hardy stated 'everyone knows what Transformers is' and expects strong sales due to IP recognition vs Pokemon's narrower appeal
- **[sentiment_shift]** Community disappointment that Optimus Prime is static bash toy, not transforming/moving mechanic; some felt it betrays designer intent (confidence: medium) — Hardy noted 'I feel disappointed because I know that George is a toy guy' and chat expressed surprise that Prime doesn't transform
- **[market_signal]** Venues like Cidercade prefer LE machines despite higher cost, suggesting sustained demand for premium features in location market (confidence: medium) — Hardy mentioned Cidercade (one hour away) 'typically get LEs' suggesting strong LE adoption at quality venues
- **[competitive_signal]** Transformers playfield layout received more positive reception than Pokemon's layout; characterized as more 'convoluted' in interesting way (confidence: medium) — Hardy stated 'this game looks much more entertaining to me than Pokemon' and praised layout complexity vs Pokemon's simplicity
- **[manufacturing_signal]** Multiple new pinball manufacturers (IE Pinball, Pedretti) entering market; IE Pinball attempting to raise capital for unproven production (confidence: medium) — Hardy noted IE Pinball has 'never produced a machine yet, but give us 20 plus grand for a Resident Evil machine' suggesting market saturation risk
- **[product_launch]** Transformers announcement and leak occurred same day; Sonic (JJP) and Tales of the Arabian Nights (Pedretti) remakes also announced around same period (confidence: high) — Hardy listed all three announcements as happening within same streaming window: Transformers at 11am Central, leak 30min later, plus JJP Sonic and Pedretti announcements
- **[rumor_hype]** Hardy speculated whether Stern might release faction-specific LE variants (Decepticons vs Autobots) to drive collector FOMO (confidence: low) — Hardy posed: 'could have made a Decepticon version and then they could have made an Autobots version... 250 Decepticons and then like 250 Autobots as the LEs?'

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## Transcript

Thank you for watching. Thank you. Thank you for watching. That's when you get the negative feedback because you don't agree with how they think. I mean, it's basically a Led Zeppelin jukebox with flippers. The game is going to sell. He just did a mic drop and then walked the hell out of the room. That's big dick energy if I've ever seen it. It's pinball. It shouldn't be too serious. I mean, if you take pinball to a serious level, you get The Godfather. Lie back down. I know I'm going to get some hate from those of you out there that are probably doing it, but that's what it is. The backlash says Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles right there at the top and four inches up. If that, the title's there again. That makes no sense. And I mean, what's concerning to me is that through the whole build process, no one brought it up that, hey, maybe we should make this a little bit better. No one mentioned it? We believe this idea to be the best course of action for us and for you. But mainly because it's going to cost us nothing. If he dies, he dies. We need to find out what these suckers will pay for a crappy product that your toddler drew for us. She draws on a first grade level. And the thing is, I know one of the people over social media has informed me that a lot of the times, at least as of three years ago, majority of the things that I would post or say to them was blocked. Why are you promoting and asking for deposits on a game that's still six months out? What's up guys? Welcome to the stream and the channel obviously where I talk and do everything pinball. Oh my god, look at my hair. This is the results of getting on the motorcycle and driving around. And I love how my game back here literally just did my call out because I said my catchphrase. What's going on, everybody? Let's see who all is in chat so far. We'll see. We just started up. We're creeping up on right now. I know people are still getting off work. People are probably driving from getting off work. I'm not going to crack open a beer, but I am going to crack open an energy drink. Lovely Carl Weathers. Hats off to you, guys. Well, honestly, pinball itself has been a little quiet, but guys, it's about to take the F off. Stringer already coming in strong with the $2. Let me go ahead and give you a little bit of a love on that one. Here it goes. Thank you very much. Looking at Beetlejuice. Yeah, crazy hair, guys. But yeah, things are about to take the F off with different manufacturers. We've got IE Pinball that's trying to sell over a $20, 000 pinball machine. Never produced a machine yet, but give us 20 plus grand for a Resident Evil machine. Good luck with that. Then you've got Pedretti that's officially made it official that they are releasing Tales of the Arabian Nights remake. You've got Stern that are released as of 11 Central Time today that it is in fact Transformers. And then, what, maybe 30 minutes later, if that, we got a lot more on Transformers than we bargained for. And that's what we're going to be talking about. And of course, everybody should know about Sonic is coming out from JJP, which is honestly just around the corner. Thank you very much there, Todd, for the $2. Let me take my vitamins here. All right, so for those that have been living under a rock, let's just get the teaser trailer knocked up and out of the way that Stern Pinball released this morning. Autobots! Get this pulled up for you guys. Play. Roll out! Autobots! The Transformers! More than meets the eye! Autobots, roll out! of leaks, okay? It's one thing if someone's talking about the play field, but the thing that they really do not like is images. As long as images don't get out and about, they're pretty okay with the leaks. I mean, like, yeah, granted, they would like everything to be a surprise, but they are very adamant about not leaking images of their upcoming products. So, anybody that does that is, like, you know, frowned upon. So, I guess they took it as on their own accord, really, to do it themselves. So, like, it's one of those things where I'm out and about driving, and I see that they released their trailer, so I shared it to my patrons and everything. Like, oh, here's the teaser trailer. It's official. It's Transformers. And then I get a message and it's a play field. And it's screenshots that look like it's within the Insider Connected application. And due to the nature of AI and everything, I have to take everything with a grain of salt. Thank you very much, NewtonT2R9 for the $10. Very much appreciated. We'll get you some love on that one, get you back up on screen. Noticing I was not showing everything on my display right there. But, so I'm like, um, of course I save the images and then I share them on to my patrons and I'm like, can I get a confirmation that this is in fact in the Insider Connected application kind of thing? And sure enough, it's confirmed that yes, it was. And so I got to a point where I could open the Insider Connected and there it was. Lo and behold, the entire frickin' playfield image as well as some of the art. We're not getting the entire cabinet art package, but we did get, let me get some images for you guys here. Sorry, I should have had this ready to go. So let's do the play field first maybe. And I'm going to utilize Pinside for this. And we're going to just scan through for those that have not seen it. Let's just go through the main display right here. And here we go. So let me give you a minute to take this in. Can I zoom in a little bit further? No? All right, fine. So let's give everybody a minute to just kind of take it in. Ozzy coming in freaking strong with $100. He was enjoying Jamaica right now with his beautiful wife. Y'all need to step up your game and show us some love. Oh, Ozzy's over there in Jamaica right now enjoying some Jamaican cigars. Thank you for watching. Back to the game again. Obviously, they've leaked this game. This could potentially hurt their relationship with Hasbro. But the good thing is that at least it's not leaked by people like me or Kaneda or anything like that. This is on them. They did this. So either one, it's purposeful, or two, it was a very bad mistake. But, like I said, the other good thing about this is that I think the game looks freaking great. So that's a plus. Three to five notches from what I saw inside of John Wick. All right, I don't want to ignore you guys on chat, so let me get some ketchup going on here. Looks a hell of a lot better than Pokemon. Yep, I would agree. Russell coming in gay. Looks promising. Ozzy is a gangster. Oh, they see right through you, Ozzy. They know. Looks like a foil Art Blades. Blades? Maybe? I don't know. I know that they're kind of like stepping away from the foil art because it can kind of make things look dull. And I think Transformers is definitely one of those things that you still want it to be bright and colorful. So I'm curious, but I think definitely with like mechanical nature of the Transformers in general, you kind of want a little bit of that shiny, you know, look to them kind of thing. And just to get this clear, I am not a Transformers fan, so when you see me call a certain Transformer the wrong name or whatever, that's why. It's like I'm not anti-Transformers or anything. I've seen some of the movies, I've watched some of the cartoons, and I'm aware of it. But it's not something that I'm really into, so forgive me if I do mess up in there. Now, when Sonic gets released, that's up my aisle. That's what we can talk about. Alright, so, digging the hair to the next shape. Yeah, this is a post enjoying the Carl Weathers, so getting on the motorcycle and letting the wind just blow in my hair. Great. Alright, every model needs a Transformer actually transform. In the game, it looks like that will be Optimus Prime, fingers crossed. Alright, the most interesting layout from them in a while. More shop variety than previous recent releases. Images, theme doesn't seem to speak to me, but the layout looks like a blast. And this is great, guys. This is the kind of feedback that I think is good. I've been seeing some things on Facebook in regards to like, oh, this looks cheap, this whatever, whatever. And it's just like, yeah, but, you know, we're getting leaked images. This isn't the proper way that they wanted to release their game, okay? So this is what we got, but this is honestly better than what we've had before. I mean, we had leaked images of Harry Potter that looked much worse than what we're seeing here, kind of thing. This is a pretty crystal clear shot above the playfield, but we're not getting the full picture, obviously. All right. We'll be 8K in three months, you think? I don't know. Maybe. But in regards to the comments that people are making that, okay, look, the theme is not for me, but it does look freaking fun to play. It the same thing for me with Harry Potter guys if you haven watched my review talking about that is that yeah the Harry Potter is a theme It not for me It doesn stop me from enjoying the hell out of the game though So Transformers could be a game that I don care for the theme very much Not that I don care for it I mean, I care for Transformers more than I would for Harry Potter. But in the end, what really matters is, does the game play good? Is it fun? Does it bring you enjoyment? That's the core, the crux of any machine, is does it bring you enjoyment? Thank you for watching. Spera are sitting over here on the other side of my computer that I still need to open the box and I'm way behind. But I'm getting a product this weekend that I've been looking forward to for a good while. And I think a lot of you are really going to like what this thing is going to do. It is going to do something that I'm pretty sure is going to kill another product out there. So, all right, let's see here. SCAD is a great school. Congrats. I guess I don't know. I must have missed something. Oh, someone's talking about North Junior Technical College, CNC. Oh, one of my patrons right there. So, interested in seeing how them wire forms running parallel to each other works out. Is there a diverter? All right, so let's go over the play field a little bit. Give me some quarters, baby. Like I said, I'm just trying to get caught up on chat, guys. I don't want you to think I'm ignoring you or anything. Who's designing Transformers? This is Elliot Elliot Eismin. His previous game was John Wick. GI Jose sounds like the DE if I should say. Thank you very much, Stringer, for another $2. You know, Stringer, if you just become a patron, then, you know, you could probably save yourself some money right there. Can we get another look at the play field? Optimus looks really cheesy at first glance. Okay, we are definitely going to go over the play field a little bit, guys. We get this down here. I want to bring it up in... Is this going to be working out for me here? We're booting up Photoshop, guys! So, my main thing is, and I'm curious, is do we think that this cannon's going to shoot balls? Do we think that? No. Bueller, Bueller. I think that'd be a missed opportunity if it didn't. 100% yes. Okay, because I'm like, okay, Bill Dogg's like, nope. I mean, my main question on this one, if it does shoot, it looks like it shoots directly down the middle, but perspective is off on this one. But we also have a center post. Thanks for watching. What? Oh, this is the wrong one. I've got too damn many windows open, guys. Here we go. All right, so this is 2011's Transformers. This is what they did, the same thing on this one. The blue on one side and red on the other for Decepticons. So, but yeah, this is 2011. So they've done Transformers before. So this isn't like their first rodeo, guys. All right, so back to Photoshop where we can discuss this play field. Let me bring up chat again. I minimized that on accident. Sorry, guys. Shoot balls, no. Shoot laser blasts, hell yeah. Okay. It would be interesting, but wouldn't that create a drainer? It depends. I mean, I don't think they're going to shoot out like really fast, which, I mean, I don't know. It depends on the structural integrity of that cannon. I mean, I see a coil right up here. Let me, there is a solenoid right there. Now, what that does, I don't know whether it does something behind him where it picks up the ball. I say pick up the ball, but I don't know. We've got something going on right here. And what I think that we're not getting a good representation of, guys, is what Optimus Prime can do. I think there is much more to this than we're seeing in the single image. This, to me, looks like this is him in the fully transformed position, like he's in the full upright. I think a part of me when I first saw this was like, oh, he just goes down into the play field. But what if I'm still on the fence about this, but I think this is how it's going to go, especially with the gap in the middle of his legs right there. I bet this whole front of the truck portion comes down and meets right here. Is Optimus sitting on the toilet? Oh, man. No, but this is very, this does resemble Luke from Spooky Pinball, doesn't it? And that's not my words. That's actually Bug himself telling me that. He sent me a picture and was like, I can't believe they put Luke inside this game. So this is what it looks like. Oh, it's even got tread marks right here, guys. See, I'm learning with you guys. I haven't had time to like really study this. So we're going to explore this together. A bash toy? Yeah, I think this is a bash toy on multiple levels here, Russell. I think we're going to get, well, obviously this can be bashed too. I don't see these legs like going back and the ball going down below, because I don't know where that ball would come out, mainly. I don't know if we've got a subway system that feeds somewhere else, because what goes down must come back up, and I don't know where the hell it would come from. So more than likely, these are probably targets of some sort, but I think this guy right here, he drops down, like the upper torso, drops down, and he covers up right here. Oh my God. Hold on. Can I zoom in? My mind, yeah, this is becoming more and more true the more I look at it. Because you've got this plastic right here. Like, why would you have a plastic right here unless you're trying to keep balls from going in there when they shouldn't be? Because I don't see any other way that the ball would be, like, getting ejected and they're trying to keep the ball from coming out or over. They're trying to keep things from going in. And when would you want to keep things from going in if this SLB right here was taking up real estate down here? Man, this is all kinds of convoluted. Let me get rid of this stuff. Kale, what are you doing on here? Kale here somewhere? Surge, get back to work. Surge and Kale on here. What's going on, guys? All right, so. But this obviously looks like it's a buck that's going to feed up here and then go down here and feed to this. Now, if you can't see, this is a magnet, which means that this right here, this diverter is always up. That magnet activates to divert a ball, which only looks like it can go into whatever this is, guys. And again, I'm not a Transformers fan, so this is probably some sort of Autobot that I don't know the name to. But it's going to go and feed to this. And after that, I don't know. But it looks like it can either go out this way or maybe it can come out down here. Sound wave? Okay, so that's sound wave. Game looks cheap. Stern has fallen. That's a ball lock. Yeah, it's got to be a ball lock. But as far as like what happens when it goes in there, I don't know. It could do a number of things, but that's got to be a ball lock. Because obviously, because it says lock, and then it goes up in here and feeds to it. So yeah, it's going to lock a ball. But after that, I don't know. Am I the only one that just can't get excited about Stern? Look at Pokemon. Everyone loves it. Where's the code? Nope. On to the next game. They moved to fast to give these games what they need. And this resonates to a lot of people, Jesse Loves Pinball. A lot of people that currently have a Pokemon are very upset that the code is not progressing nowhere near as fast as that they would like it to. A lot of people have hit a brick wall when it comes to what else can they do? What's the point of playing other than just to kill some time? They're not after any more Pokemons because no further Pokemons have been released. The Pokedex evidently is still not updated. I would like to think that the next Pokemon update should be something massive. Because they're still in the low 80s. Like .82, I believe. But yeah, I think it resonates to a lot of people. Front opens and shoots the balls across the playfield. Across the playfield. So this, he's saying Soundwave opens up right here. So it falls into this. But how does it shoot out? I'm looking at this from a full mechanic level. Shootout or Fallout? I don't know. I'm curious to see how that works. So you guys can see what I'm talking about. Shooting out is one thing. I don't know if they shoot out. I would have said they probably fall out and maybe even hit the pop bumper that's right here, which would cause a little bit of chaos. Thank you for watching. What are we going to do? What are we going to see? Well, we're going to find out in a week. That's where we're at on that. But I am liking what I'm seeing. This game looks much more entertaining to me than Pokemon. I mean, there are just certain games that you can look at and go, okay, cool, the game exists. I hope people find some entertainment in it. And Pokemon for me was one of those games. I'm like, okay, I played it at TPM. I'm like, all right, it's a game that exists. Hopefully people enjoy it. Not my speed, not for me. But this one looks like it's catering to me. This looks like a big old, for me, this whole area just looks very convoluted. Not like in a bad way, just not enough to where it's easily dissectable. This took me a second to realize what the hell's going on right here. This looks like a 180 ramp. But once you hit this shot, it's like, what happened? What is, what the hell is this? is my thing. I'm like, what is going on right here? Kale, Serge, maybe you can put some insight on that. But that's something I've never seen in a Stern machine before, to my knowledge. That's something different. I don't know what's going on here. Obviously, the ball comes down here, hits this, and then feeds your upper flipper. For those that don't know, this is a three flipper game. You got a flipper right here that's going to give you the ability to hit shots all up here, Hit this. Targets. Landing spot for Cannon. What? What Cannon? What am I missing on Cannon-wise? Frank coming in hot. Mylanta with the $100. Love you long time, Frank. Very much appreciated. And once again, don't forget to have me down for JJP's next game. Just a quick reminder. All right, let me get rid of all this gibberish. All right, this is a piece of black gaff tape covered by pending license artwork. Okay. Oh, man. Megatron Cannon. Where is Megatron? Oh, up here. See, this is what happens, guys, whenever you have someone talking about Transformers that doesn't know Transformers very well. You get an idiot like me that goes, what's Megatron or whatever? And it's just like, okay, so the canon... No. I'm so damn curious about what this game is going to do, guys. I think... Hold on. It's like Megatron fires cannon at that area after it rotates? What? So, hold on. This right here, that rotates. Holy shit. So he fires into this? Holy shit. If that's true, oh my god. Alright. That sounds freaking wicked. And I guess that's probably what this coil does. It's firing the ball somehow or another mechanically. It's attached to the back of Megatron back here so he can swivel. Oh, man. That sounds awesome. So that's obviously going to be taken out of the Pro. This is where it can get interesting. Let's start crossing out what we think is I'm curious of what is going to be gutted out of this. So basically what you already know is anything that moves is going to be taken out. More than likely. I think this is probably too important to take out. I think Megatron is still going to fold up and down. I think if they made him static, then they would have to lose a couple of other items. I think Megatron stays the same. But I don't think you're going to get a shooting Optimus Prime. Guys, I'm already saying the wrong name. Sorry. I think Fat Optimus is going to be still in the game and he may move up and down But I don think you going to get Megatron firing cannon Let see here What else is going to get taken out You're not going to see this guy. Let me get some red X's. We're going to red X the hell out of this, and then we're going to see how right or wrong I am. But I don't think you're going to see. I'm going to make this a little bit bigger here. No bueno on moving. That's not going to move. Whatever this is, that's not going to be there because that's a 3D sculpt of some sort. This will more than likely be a flat plastic and be a virtual ball lock. What else are we seeing, guys? What else do you think? Grimlock Dinobot, okay. Cannon fires like big guns. Man, we just don't see games like that anymore where a ball goes flying. I mean, yeah, you had it in Houdini. Yeah, you had it in Aerosmith and some other games I'm probably missing right now, but you don't see it very often where a ball fires across a playfield. I remember, and this is something that I knew I got completely wrong, but I remember whenever Elvira's House of Horrors came out, I originally thought that the ball was going to shoot from one side of the playfield into the chest on the left side. Completely wrong about that. Thank you for watching. There you go, T2. You're going way back. The point is, like, yeah, it's not a very common thing you see, especially in recent Stern games. So for Megatron to be firing his cannon, moving, that's going to be sweet. Yeah, Aerosmith is on my list for that one going into the toy box, yeah. Let me get rid of some of these. But I think this is going to be a good one for him, guys. This will be technically when it comes to sales wise, I think you're going to have from Stern two bangers. You're going to get Pokemon, which is a great seller. Granted, you pissed off a lot of people by not getting the code out faster and selling extremely well. Now you're going to have this game that's going to have everyone knows what Transformers is. They may not know the ins and outs of all the character names like myself or whatever, but they are going to recognize a pretty cool looking game or cool shooting game regardless. So I think this is definitely going to be something that people are going to look at and go, wow, that's pretty cool. When you hit the tank, Black Rose has a cannon too, yeah. But the cannon in Black Rose doesn't like, you know, shoot the ball through the air. The wife hates when I fire my cannon. Oh my goodness, Stringer. It's a cool toy, but cannons seem to be typically problematic long term from experience. Yeah, I mean, and that's the thing, and that's why we're not going to get it on the pro. Anything that has a lot of movement, you're not going to get that on your pro. That's going to be for the locations that don't want moving parts. They don't want motors. I mean, they would like them, but you're just implementing something that can go wrong, and operators out there, hell, we've got a couple of them in chat right now. Cale's one of them. I'm pretty sure he would agree with me that motors on location are just asking for trouble. Are they cool? Do they bring a fun factor? Absolutely. But they're also another variable that can cause your game to go down hard. And then you can't earn money. So pros are the preference for locations. Not 100%. You have plenty of locations out there that will get premiums and LEs and everything. I live about an hour away from Cidercade, and they typically get LEs. Thoughts on Totan Remake? I mean, that's pretty much all we have to talk about when it comes to Transformers, I want to say. We could go through more of the play field, but it's a lot of speculation at this point. We could talk a little bit about the art. I don't have a problem with what I'm seeing with the art package so far. I mean, like I said, this is a relatively decent resolution when it comes to what we're seeing here. I'm not a fan of the two-tone powder coat. I know they did that in the last one. Yeah, 2011 they did it, and they're continuing with this one. It's like, I wonder, do you think that there's a part of me that's like they could have made a Decepticon version and then they could have made an Autobots version. But man, I don't know how well that would be accepted among the community. Do you think that'd be a good thing if they made like 250 Decepticons and then like 250 Autobots as the LEs? Do you think that would cause problems or do you think that would cause the collectors out there to just go freaking nuts and they would want a Decepticon or an Autobot? I think there's probably just so much, you know, diverse opinions about whether or not you're on this side or that side kind of thing. I don't know. I'm interested to see what you fans out there, how you think about that. The trailer says bye for home, then plays on location. Can we speculate that maybe just maybe they will show a home Costco version too? Probably. My guess before was Pokemon was going to be the new Costco version, but it's probably going to be Transformers. I mean, they've done Transformers home version before as well. They did a home version for that. So it wouldn't surprise me if Hasbro and them would combine to do Transformers for a Costco again. I think that would be the more likely of the two. Pokemon or Transformers? It'll probably be Transformers. It wouldn't surprise me if they're easier to work with, too. The Transformers Hasbro. Yeah, I could definitely see this at Costco. Yeah. Yeah, Pokemon was cool other than having to remove the two screws from the left orbit. It's flowy. Yeah, I mean, it was one of those things at TPF. I remember seeing George Gomez himself go up to every game that was there to fix it and repair. He was drilling. He was screwing. I was watching George Gomez screw. Feel free to snip that, snap it, whatever. Thanks for watching. Let me see if I lost internet, guys. Doesn't look like I did on my OBS over here. It just looks like, okay, there it is. Everything went blank over here. But it looks like I'm back. I'm back. Nope. Good. All right. Let me bring this back up again because it like totally just looked like I lost communication and everything. All right. Does this still work? Is it still the same link? No, it's not. Evidently, it's a new one. Okay. So I got to change this. So I'm curious what everyone else thinks about this. Let me put up a poll here and everyone can give their feedback on this. Now that that's been updated, I want to see how the toys and mechs. That's back to working again. All right. So, for those that have not seen the play field, if you're just tuning in, let me go through this real quick while I figure out what we're going to do with the poll. So, here is the play field for the Transformers game. Again, this was leaked by Stern Pinball themselves on their Insider Connected application. Optimus 100% does not transform. What? So, he's just always upright like this. That looks like I thought Optimus would fold forward as a truck. That's what I thought too, Ozzy. He's just a bash toy. Okay, well, I mean. I mean, he's got to do something. I mean, if he doesn't transform, then what about him sinking into the playfield? And this truck basically is on touching the playfield, and this is a bash toy. This has got to be a bash toy. Does not go up and down. What the... Come on! He's emotionally transforming. What the... And I'm taking Kale's word for it because I know he knows people that have probably told him what this game does. So I'm going to take it from him as gospel that Optimus Prime is static, which is a little disappointing. But if we got, you know, a moving cannon that fires pinballs, that's pretty cool. But all right, back to the play field again. What you see there is what you get. I repeat, he identifies as a transforming truck. Oh my God, transforming toys, looking cooler. But this is, they're probably true to original. No, man, come on. So, yeah, that's a pretty decent-sized leak, guys, for a playfield image like that. Why is it going over there? Get over here. I'm just happy with my Rush L.E. Stern's best game, in my opinion. All right, well, as long as you enjoy it, that's all that really matters. Pessimist Prime just stands there. It's not more than meets the eye. No, it's exactly what your eye sees. Oh, no, it's like the antithesis of more than meets the eye. No, no, that's actually what you see is what you get. Oh, okay. Oh, man. I feel disappointed because I know that George is a toy guy. He's all about toys. Transformed Optimus Alright, I mean, there you go. It's just like when it comes to Jaws not eating the ball, guys. It wasn't a very, you know, reliable mech. Whether it be a killed flow or just killed the layout, wasn't dependable. Alright. Gonna do plenty of other awesome things. Like, yeah, I mean, so you, man. That would have been pretty cool, though. Megan Fox Maud will fly off the shelf. Oh, yeah. Let me get back to seeing this so you know I haven't seen my ugly face. All right. So for those that are coming in late, what we're getting is this guy, at least on premium and LE, moves from like left and right, oscillates, however you want to say it. And he can fire wherever you tell him to. But I guess ideally you want him to fire into this. Because that was my thing. I saw this metal plate and I'm like, what is that? I'm like, I have never seen this before, but now it makes sense that they want the ball to land on something metal that can take a hit rather than the wooden play field. But I mean, I'm definitely curious to see that in action. Moves, allegedly, two-way orbit. Everything right here, allegedly. Nice hair, Sting, like, I know it. Straight off the motorcycle, come in here and start talking about Transformers. More guns on Transformers than Wick. It's very good for old Elliot here that he's got a game that's actually got some guns on it. The cannon eats the ball. That'd be a hell of a skill shot. If they charge $20, 000, they can make everything move and transform. It's all about making money. Well, yeah, every business is all about making the money. Orbit from Bottom and Ride Flipper. Yeah, for those that can't see it, this is a three-flipper game. The third upper ride flipper is underneath, what was this? Someone said Sound Scream or Star Scream or... I'm going to start calling out names from other franchises just to piss off some people in chat. Soundwave, alright, so Soundwave. Alright. So once you hit the ball underneath Jigglypuff right here, you've got a multitude of shots that go here, to here, to here, and yes, I purposefully said Jigglypuff, guys, I'm not that stupid. But I am stupid to an extent, but not that bad. Optimus has tiny hands. Yeah, I mean, again, this is just images. Things could look better in person. I'm trying to give them all the benefit of the doubt. But the kale keeps feeding me more bad information about the limitations of the speculation that we've got going on right now. Next thing you know, he's going to start saying other things like, yeah, it turns out that this doesn't do that. This only does this. That does this. And it's just like, stop. You've got a little T-Rex arms. Oh, man. Larger hands cost money, Brad. We would have made more money made the hands bigger but just the price just jumped up tremendously Sperry Pintlejuice Evil Dead Merlin Aarcade Harry Pintlejuice Evil Dead Merlin Aarcade Harry Potter I like loopable shots. That is, uh, so if we got this that does this. Am I right there, Cale? Is that right? It's a 180, doesn't it go all the way around? Are you kidding me? Am I wrong again about what the hell this game can do? I'm over here pointing out things that I like about a game. I'm like, this will be great if it did this. And then Cale's like, no, it doesn't do that at all. I'm like, no! You are wronging it, son of a bitch. God. Oh. Side loop to 180 ramp to left in lane. Mylanta. Like, maybe if I should have spent some time actually studying this play field or something instead of out enjoying this beautiful Carl Weathers. Stern does not deserve the benefit of the Godzilla jaws were the last good games. Oh, come on, they've had them past that. Yeah, I think this one already looks to me to be more entertaining than Pokemon, but that's just me. All right. I guess what else do we have in the news to talk about for the next 10 or so minutes, and then I'm going to hop off here. You got me for an hour. I don't like going on for too long. I know some people watch these later on. Maybe Soundwave shoots the ball out and moves, look at the arrows. Uh, no, I think the arrows are probably due to the upper flipper right here. But Kale knows more than me. Garage Toten. I don't want to talk about the garage just yet, Russell. It's, uh, we're getting there. But Toten, in regards to what we're seeing from Pedretti, and I guess we could talk a little bit about the most recent, was it, Team Pinball? Sperry Pintlejuice, Evil Dead, Merlin's Arcade, Harry Potter. And said that, look, Pedretti owes us 90, 000 bucks. They need to pay us kind of thing. And that's in a nutshell. There's a lot more information in there. But they go through it and they're like, hey, give us 90 grand. And then Pedretti's like, no. And so that's where we're at on that. And but it's just that they knew that Pedretti was about to release this game. And not like Pedretti needs any help with doubt. And there's plenty of doubt already out there, guys, from people that have already bought a fun house and have had their issues with it and stuff. So the doubt's already there. But this information starts, gets out there, and so now more doubt and character, if you will, on that. This isn't just about build quality now. This is also looking into the character about the said manufacturer. You'd be amazed at how some people choose what they do with their money on merely just how the company treats other people. And this is one of the reasons why Spooky is doing as well as they are, is because they have basically continuously improved each game. They listen to the public and they try to do whatever they can to keep us happy. Whether that be finally adding in music into, I don't want to say his name, into BJ back here that we were hoping to finally get. They did through much more negotiating and finally got jumping the line in the game. Little stuff like that. But if you started seeing things where Stern owed, I don't know, multiple thousands or whatever dollars to certain people that were making things for their games, you would look at them a little differently, I would like to assume, right? Not saying you would just never buy from them again, but you would definitely look at them a little differently. It's like, yeah, cool game, but I kind of don't want to support you guys due to this and this kind of thing. But I don't know. We're going to see Tales of the Arabian Nights pretty soon. I don't know exactly when. Pedretti hasn't talked to me in a good year or so, so I don't know. Oh, yeah. So right here, we got new Beetlejuice code coming out at the end of this month. And that was released recently. I think it was on JB's JBS show. So, Franchi released that information. So, we got a new code coming out for BJ at the end of the month. I said Franchi and it's back here responding to me. But, um, do we want to talk about Sonic? No. So, I have information in regards to that game, but I know you guys are going to hate me and call me an asshole or whatever, but I'm going to save some of that information for my patrons first, guys. There's not a lot that I can say about it, but I'm liking what I'm seeing so far. Spill the beans? Not on here, Ozzy, but you'll see it on Patreon, man. But people were proclaiming that J.J.P. is going to try to get out in front of Stern's release of Transformers and everything. And then I saw someone else comment on Facebook like, oh, J.J.P. or Stern got word that J.J.P. was about to release, so they purposefully leaked these. The amount of just like people thinking that this is all a conspiracy or all purposefully planned out is hilarious. JJP is not planning to release their game before Stern or anything like that. They are not trying to get in front of them. They're giving Stern their day in the sun. This is their launch window. They're going to have it. But it won't be too long after that that you're going to be seeing what JJP has been working on. What is the next JJP? Sonic the Hedgehog. I thought everybody was aware of that. And not just, it's not the movies. It's, no, hold on. I still haven't fucked this up yet. But this just goes to show you that I'm not just lying or anything when I say that Sonic is a big theme that I really love and I'm looking forward to. But this is going to go on the wall somewhere. Along with my collection of the original Genesis games. But yeah, this is a theme that I'm definitely looking forward to. Russell, coming in with the $50. Thanks for the live. Sperry Pintlejuice, You're going to see a little bit of a, I don't want to use the word recycling, because everyone, especially, you know, designers, they have a formula, if you will. They know what works. They know what they like when they design a game and they're building it. They play the game. If they don't have fun with it, they're not going to be allowing it to go out. So you gotta think naturally if Steve Ritchie likes kickbacks on his left outlanes like you see on Getaway and on a number of his other games. And chances are on Sonic you're gonna see a left out lane kickback. There's you a little something right there guys, on YouTube at least. For my patrons I'll probably do a little more information for them. But again, we're going to see JJP's release after we get everything from Transformers out. The exact time window is to be determined at this point in time. And I wanted to go. I wanted to go up there to see the meaty day for Transformers and everything, visit a bunch of people up there. But guys, have you guys looked at airfare lately? Sperry Pintball. regular economy seating, a hotel place to stay kind of thing, all that, because I'm cheap as can be, not denying that. But when I see a price tag for like, you know, all that just to play a game a couple of weeks before everybody else, and I'm like, no, I don't know. I look at it as like, okay, is it worth it? No, not to me at least. Thank you for watching. Now, it's like, all right, well, now what are you going to be getting in return aside from physically being in front of it and playing it and then promoting their product for them on your own dime? I'm like, no, I'm good kind of thing. It's just like the juice for me isn't worth the squeeze kind of thing. I can wait a couple of weeks and then go play it on location or go to my local distro and play Transformers there kind of thing. I'm not like that. Yeah, no, sorry. To each their own. For you other content creators out there that are going to go there and do that. All right. You do you boo. But I just. Even if it was for me to create content and I could post that content on YouTube without getting demonetized for music because that's my thing. I just don't care about monetization, at least on YouTube. I fucking lose money on almost every video I do because I don't care. I want the video to have a certain song and so be it. And I just won't gain any money on YouTube. But even when I do put out content and it gets a lot of views early or whatever, it definitely does not make my money back from the travel and everything from going to these. No, it doesn't. There is no, oh, I broke even on that deal. No, it doesn't happen. All right, so this chat looks like it's locked up on me over here. But all right. Was there anything else that needed to be discussed? We're right there at the one hour mark. I think my daughter was wanting to watch Moana 2, so I guess I'm probably going to be watching that tonight. So yeah, in a nutshell, I'm liking what I'm seeing in regards to Transformers. Now, granted, it's a little upsetting that we're not getting what I was hoping we were going to get as I was speculating on what this game could do. But I still think it's going to be a much better shooter than what we saw with Pokemon. But to each their own, guys. There's people out there that will play Pokemon and think it's the best game ever. There's people that are going to play this game and think it's the best game ever. And at least you've reached somebody. To each their own. Everyone finds enjoyment in a certain machine that someone else does. As much as I enjoy Harry Potter out there, there's people out there that don't like it, can't stand it for their own reasons. Okay. And that's fine. Everyone has the right to their opinions and how they feel about a machine. Just don't put anybody down for liking said machine. That's where I kind of go, what's your problem? Sperry Pintball LLC, Evil Dead, Merlin's Arcade, Harry Potter. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to end this. I'm going to do a quick live on Patreon, and I'll give you guys just a little bit more information in regards to what's going on with Sonic. But guys, thanks for joining in. I know it's been a while, but like I said, it's about to hit the ground running in regards to what we're seeing in pinball. Manufacturers are releasing the games. It's the window. It's launch time, baby. And we're about to get in there and get all nitty and gritty with it. But, Kale, if you're still here, UN Surge, thanks for joining in and correcting all of my assumptions. Ugh. So, man, I really was hoping that Optimus Prime would do that. It just, it makes sense if he did. That's my main thing. But I'm looking at it now, and I'm like, well, the arm might get in the way if he did fold down. But like you said, I guess they probably had them doing it at first, and then it didn't work out. Something was causing issues. It wasn't consistent, so they yanked it out. All right, guys. Love you a long time. Take it sleazy. But yeah, I'll be on again for sure. I don't know exactly when, but like I said, we've got more stuff coming, guys. So stay tuned. Love you. Bye. Thank you for watching.

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