Sweet! Will there be any bonus's for people with complete X-Mas Sets this year?  

Ooohh I hope so. Will be my first year to be included in that club!

Or those of us with partially complete sets year XX going forward...  

I am just waiting for the official..."Whip out your X-mas Cart d**k collection" thread to start before I show mine....

Mine will be "six long" when 2016 is said and done!  

I'm not shy about showing mine off women love it. 
 

If there is no bonus for completionists the first year that I have it, I will punch a kitten.

Way to go...we all know Brian does not like kittens and now has a way to make somebody punch one.

[insert kitten punch meme]

anyone know if there will be a black friday sale again this year?

Anyone get a score with digits cycling like this? Bug or I just didn't read the manual to know what's happening? It happened less than a minute into ball 1 during multiball and stayed like this throughout the game. I thought more than one digit was cycling initially but I was too busy playing. I wish I played on my AVS because that score is killer  

It's not a bug; it's a feature!  

Does Xmas 2016 save high scores like 2013 and 2015 do?  

Not 100% sure, but every year something goes on sale for Black Friday...

Maybe this will be the year nothing goes on sale, but I would expect there to be some type of black friday specials.
 

Is there a way to shake the table?

and where's that damn kid with my latte?

CAUTION!
Don't look directly at the cart when you power it on. The LED's are super bright (And sexy)!

I don't know if it is official, but this came with my cart yesterday.  

Nope, the only way to save your scores is to upload them to the AVS Online Scoreboard itself.
Sneaky sneaky by the game/AVS develpment team

Mine may have been delayed slightly due to the custom text, but I got my shipping notification yesterday.  

Is this true? The game doesn't actually save high scores? Why would that be removed? Some people don't have internet and some don't even have a computer.

IDK. Xmas 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 all share the same flash mapper PCB. Like UOROM or whatever RetroUSB flash mapper, there is a solder jumper on the PCB whether the game cart will allow software writes to flash. 2013 (Solaris) and 2015 (12 Seconds) supported flash saving. 2012 (Biplanes) and 2014 (Queen Bee) do not.


I'm assuming Xmas Pinball shares the same mapper hardware and could have been configured to store high scores. The typical leaderboard format for DMD Pinball is Grand Champion runner ups 1-4, with three initials.

Brian already said he will not add Xmas homebrews for scoreboard due to "custom ROMs not supported." Either way it is what it is but the hardware would have supported this. Possibly Brian was focused on AVS launch and did not have opportunity to implement score saving.

I do look forward to potential future reissue with additional tables and features, similar to the "AVS Launch" treatment of past releases, namely Quadralords, Solaris, and 12 seconds.  

This quote is from Brian earlier in this thread...

Awesome!  

Bump. I got the score reel glitch twice tonight while playing. The second time I was having a really good game (over six million points on ball 1) before I got stuck.  

Bugfest!