Cowabunga! The Limited Edition of Stern’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the top-tier form of John Borg’s 2020 cartoon brawler, dressed in exclusive art and the fullest feature set — including a player-controlled Glider deflector and a multiball that swells to a riotous eight balls. The whirling centerpiece is a bidirectional spinning disc with a magnet that flings the ball around with delightful unpredictability, fed by an upper-left lock mechanism across a three-flipper layout that supports solo, co-op, and competitive play.
The brilliant hook is turtle selection. Pick your hero at the start and it reshapes your game: choose Donatello and a single right-ramp shot starts Turtle Power Multiball, where other characters need four; Michelangelo hands you five pizza slices off the bat; Raphael starts with an episode lit. The signature mode is Pizza Multiball, where you lock in toppings as you lock balls — and savvy players angle for octopus so they can rip the spinner all game long once Ninja Pizza Multiball begins. Clearing four modes lights Team Up multiball, collected at the right ramp.
Depth abounds, from spelling LAIR to start Training (which permanently boosts all scoring) to the Final Battle that pays out your accumulated episode values in one lump. Backhands are very viable, and a generous “Target Time” setting can hand newcomers up to three minutes on their first ball. With its extra toys and eight-ball ceiling, the TMNT LE is Borg at his most fun and feature-rich, in its most collectible form — a frantic cartoon party deep enough to obsess the pros. Heroes in a half-shell, turtle power!