Agreed. Pros are fine for locations. Premiums are the full game. Sorry pro lovers.

The LE is/was the way to go. The art package is stunning, right up there with STLE and RUSH LE. The upper playfield is a must and so rewarding to play once you are able to climb the wave ramp. Upper play field scoring has figured prominently in last 2 code updates, im sure there are more surprises ahead.
I'm feeling no need to do any playfield modding as they got it right this time, getting esthetic mods for the LE/ prem playfield is like a stupid tax or I make too much money tax and im a serial modder, lol. ...with the exception for the bushing and airball fix mods. ...with .87 downloaded, it's going to be a fun weekend.

Buyer beware with The Chopping Mall on Etsy. I ordered 5 things from them before Xmas, including some of their Jaws items. They lied about shipping them twice and have constant excuses, now I'm having to dispute the charge with my CC company, Etsy is useless. They also won't let me leave a negative review, no wonder everyone on Etsy has 4.5 stars or better

The one time I left a less than 5-star review on Etsy, basically saying "this didn't work for me and here's why," but not totally trashing it, the seller/creator blew up at me. Good times.

Joke's on them, now the whole site is flooded with dropshipped AliExpress crap.

I think we should call them “serial modderers”.

I played JAWS quite a bit at The Texas Show. I really appreciate the departure from a traditional layout. I definitely prefer the Pro model. Over the years I have owned a variety of Stern games in various tiers. Ultimately, I buy what I like. I highly recommend everyone does the same.

Well you can call me Mr. Wishy Washy

Keep going back and forth on Pro vs Premium/LE

One day I am like the upper makes a difference and I like it and the next day I am like meh-the Pro plays great! It took me two months to figure out Godzilla and having a feeling I may be on the fence longer with this one. Going to get some good time on both side by side

I think they will make a ton of them. No rush to decide and the used market will be ripe with them in six months when the next “new shiny” is revealed.

Went back and played some more on the LE this week. Looooong games on this pin, me and a buddy played 3 two player games and it was almost an hour and a half later when we got done.
It was a blast, really enjoy this game and the assets are top notch. Some cool new ideas with the layout, great art package, huge fun factor especially competing in a multiplayer game…its a winner with me.

Yeah I'm finding "regular not stellar" games are now lasting 15-20 mins with good games being 20-30 mins. Not as bad as LOTR but I am not a fan of long games. 20-25 mins on JP and you've escaped Nublar. That's way more intense than a slow burn 40 min game.

Etsy customer serviced cancelled and refunded a couple of my orders. I asked why and they said they couldn't say but the person I ordered from was no longer allowed to sell on their platform. The Sellar contacted me directly and said it was a mis-understanding and my orders already shipped. Etsy CS said I'm free to keep anything that might show up but not to hold my breath.

Nothing ever showed up. I was saved the $$.

I've never had any problems with Etsy and that's with probably 50 orders.

Pinstein sent me a couple alt translites to test fit on the Pro and Premium I had before he started selling them. He made two versions, a daytime and a sunset. I put the sunset one on the Premium and the daylight version on the Pro. He even dropped an old spice in there.
Sunset on the Premium
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Daylight on the Pro
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Looks nice, but since I'm the king of nitpickers: why is there a lens flare on Bruce's nose? Seems like an unnecessary "because I can" photoshop trick.

Also I guess it's a collage, but it's still kinda weird to feature two sharks.

This has been your quarterly "piss off an artist for no good reason" post. If Aurich was here he'd say this is why he left pinside.