There's a reason Transformers costs less.
It's not a terrible game. But it's certainly not a good game.

Transformers is God awful, and the LE is worse than the pro. Shaker deck the worst toy in pinball history.

The best advice is the advice you will hear over and over again, which one do you like to play more? Pinball is a big hobby with a lot of different opinions.

So of course, I case my vote for Jurassic Park. BUT that is because I am not a fan of Transformers LE. For Transformers, I prefer the Pro, and I always have. I feel it shoots better and is just more fun than the LE.

Jurassic Park Pro is a cool game, but is really a players game in my opinion. Better players that love a challenge tend to like it a lot more than casual players. The reason is that it can be a little tough and unrewarding for someone that doesn't want to go deep on the game. That isn't a knock on it at all, I think it is a very fun game. But you need to be in the mood for that kind of game. The great part is that others may disagree with me and say it is a great casual game. I just think it is a bit more serious than other games.

BUT again, those are just my opinions. If it came down to adding one to my game room, it would JP Pro, because I have Transformer Pro already. But even if I didn't, I'd still lean towards Jurassic Park, because it is a better game.

So then we come down to the real question, which is which one you like better.

I have owned both. I had heard transformers wasn’t great but I really liked the theme so I got it. Transformers got old really fast and I had no problem seeing it leave. It didn’t shoot well at all and just kinda felt poorly designed. The modes were and absolute grind too.

JP on the other hand is my favorite game. I have only had the premium but the pro is completely fine on it. I just never get tired of JP. I find it challenging but not frustrating, you always feel like you are making progress and you always have options for what you want to do next. If I could only have one pin, for me it’s easily JP

Legit good fun on that "upper pf". Jp obviously is going to appeal to the more serious pinhead, but if you do not have those reservations about transformers I do think it has good value right now.

I guess getting a beer or checking texts is pretty fun during timing it out.

I have a xformers LE I will be selling. Keeping pro for my route, le Is too nice to route

This would probably be one of the most one-sided polls in Pinside history. Would anyone recommend TF?

I do like TF and would like to own one eventually myself though. I disagree that it doesn't shoot well - maybe a little on the clunky side with the jump ramp and wild returns over the plastics. I like the layout overall. I like the ramp shot into the Optimus bash toy. The code has some interesting elements (the slightly different rules with the two Autobot/Decepticon tiers for example, and I love this style shot multiplier system it uses) but code is ultimately still what lets the machine down in the end. The modes aren't fun and are a pain to finish, never-ending woodchop city.

JP is just a significantly better game. One of the best.

JP by a landslide

Isn't it just trapping and backhanding left
ramp to complete inlanes and light a X shot? Rinse & repeat as I remember.

For I think the Decepticon team/branch that works - you light the multiplier by completing the upper lanes near the pops and/or inlanes with the team logo to match your team choice IIRC. Autobots or vice versa the left inlane would only lincrease bonus x I think, the right inlane is lit for their logo.

What I mainly like about the system is just the fact you light the multiplier and then shoot a shot to double it for the rest of the ball. Get all shots lit for double and a roving tripler moves across all the shots. It's fun to time jackpots or super jackpots for triple. To me it makes something mundane like lane completion worth bothering with, plus gives some strategy options on which shots you multiply, and when, plus skill required to hit the right shot first or risk "wasting" the multiplier.

Not complicated and used in other games I'm sure (Avatar is nearly identical, maybe Rush one of the only newer examples? ), but most multiplier systems of late seem to be timed playfield multipliers instead of shot multipliers and somehow seen to take skillful shooting out of the picture somewhat.

Anyway, maybe that's just me.