Yeah, if done right...but Stern usually isn't that great when it comes to custom voices. Batman = Terrible. Transformers = Terrible. Ironman kinda worked...you had movie quotes mixed with customs from a good Jarvis soundalike and Random McMilitaryDude. X-Men is partially good - but you've got ShittyBeast and ScreachyStorm in the mix. If the actors and writing is good, then yeah - custom can totally work. So - you think the soundalikes for the Avengers sounded like the real actors? Downey's tough to imitate, so I'd be impressed if they got it right. Is there a Sam Jackson voice?

I just learned from a fellow Pinsider that the custom voices in LOTR & IJ were actually a Rhys-Davies soundalike!!! So, I guess it's possible to find good custom actors. I actually thought the Depp soundalike and Shrek soundalikes were good...so - hey, there's a shot they'll get this one right.

STTNG was the real actors from the show. This won't be the real actors from the movie.

Regarding the 4 vs 6 ball: They mostly drain quick and your down to 3 or 2 quickly. I'm not hung up on this. I think the Pro looks solid and am getting tired of the cross over. I'd actually prefer my ACDC premium not have it cuz I'd like to choose weather or not to load the cannon. Definitely looking forward to some game play and seeing how the rules and speech are.

The market keeps supporting the price. They're looking for a ceiling. Obviously they are selling out so they'll keep going up until sales suffer.

It looks like Loki is under the playfield in front of Hulk and gets smashed up and down by Hulk.
Love the targets that are tucked back on the right, and the ball lock too! Looks like a hell of a good pin to me.

cause jjp made something different. just joking... meh!

extra wood for extra money?

You have 100% confirmation on this, yes?

I mentioned a while back it would have been cool to have Colson doing the custom speech. Stern hasn't paid an actual actor from the film/show of the game since Avatar.

Voice actors in the Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes cartoon are really really good. They use those I think everyone will be happy. I know Ironman sounds quite a bit like RDJ, and the others either sound like the actors themselves, or much better imo.

Dave Chappelle will do the voice of Samuel Jackson.

Are you kidding me? You think Stern is going to get those guys to do custom call outs?

Vid, I thought you were smarter than that.

I also remember Beast and Storm in X-men. But with X-men they could get away with it because it's not based on the movies, it was based off the broader comic theme. With Avengers it's the movie, so why go with a voice actor? When I hit Iron Man mode, I want to hear Robert Downey Jr's voice, just like in the Iron Man pin.

OK, so no confirmation....

why not take it from the movie? thats what they did (most of it) with lord of the rings. and the rest was from the original actors.

Seriously? KEF confirm? That's outstanding soundalike work in LOTR then. I stand corrected then, doesn't matter who does it so long as its done well. But yeah, custom sound alike stuff hasn't been done very well on a few titles... Like you, I cringe at the thought of the SJ and RDJr sound alike work, but could be good stuff, never know. I didn't like Deppalike, but the Rhys-Daviesalike (if that's true) is wickedly good obviously because I was completely fooled.

Many actors enjoy doing pinball voiceover work, just because it's pinball.

You read back in the Williams days about actors even giving suggestions and lines not on their scripts because they enjoyed the idea.

Ahhh the Williams days......those were the DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lol I know that hulk green color and I have it in stock. For those of you with pro's who want green let me know. Ill Do a group shoot of hulk LE green powder. image.jpg

With 99.9% certainty, I can say that Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, Hackeye, Capt Am will not have the real actors doing custom speech.

How much more do you think it costs Stern to make the LE over the PRO version?

I understand charging a premium on an LE but $2600 more. Seems like gouging your best and most loyal customers.

What do the rest of you think?

To early to judge. Can't wait to see some video and play it. Over all looks really nice.

They also enjoy it because it's the easiest paycheck they could ever ask for.

Still no confirmation though.

When you make a factual statement, you have to know 100%, not 99%.

You can hurt reputations and lose Stern business when you make a possibly false statement.

I love how original the layout is. Infinitely more interesting than the snoozer WOZ layout. Hulk toy seems to have great potential. Art is a mixed bag. I'm very interested to see how this plays.

So you're saying' there's a chance.

Sure. Stephanie Rogers got $50 for her voice in BOP.

Who? lol

Who? lol

Stephanie Rogers - singer, actress, MILF

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thank you for saying what needed to be said
the avengers animated tv show has good voices, obv with such a big license i would have guessed taking movie clips was going to happen but if the custom voices sound good more power to them. that gimli "imitation" sounds fishy but if its true just goes to show how great custom actors can be!

I was thinking the same thing. Can you say "drac trac"?

Ummm, no...not for me at least.

I'd certainly put my pinballs in her mou... Nevermind

Dont like the theme, i dont find it a very good looking pin.

But i think gameplay wise this could be a winner. Many long shots, and some interesting shots.

If the code is ace this will be a very fun game i think.

Okay, well I was referring to actual movie stars, you know, the ones that make a living off of acting. They love voiceover work for video games and crap, takes them less than a day, and they make a decent chunk of change (a lot more than $50, lol).

More like 1 in a million.

So ipdb is wrong and I've been mislead this whole time? I still think its truly Rhys-Davies especially in IJ, unless this can be truly confirmed.

As for Stern being cheap as hell with this sort of stuff, I think bad sound/voices will basically ruin Avengers for me. This pin should have voice clips from the movie, plus one hired actor from the movie doing custom pin call outs. I don't think Stern has done this since Avatar. Stephen Lang is pretty awesome in that pin.

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man if thats not him it's pretty damn good!

Take a chance, you might like women after all.

J/K

I bet she was something back in the 80s during the BOP days.

You're not paying for materials. You're paying for a collectible. They're making these games for people who spend $10k-$15k on restored MM and AFM. You're buying 1 of 250 limited machines...compared to those other games, it's a bargain!

That being said, of course we'd all love it if these games were cheaper...as crazy as it sounds, Avengers would be more of an "impulse buy" for me if it was priced like TFLE or Tron LE were (mid 5k) ...As it keeps climbing, I really have to play it first or see it in action in a video and see if it really speaks to me, ya know?

I kinda want a game w/ some toys/features that AREN'T a bash toy character. Especially a hero. Why am I bashing a hero? It was weird with Mick Jagger, Optimus Prime, X-Men, and now this. It's nice that he has lots of animated movement and has multiple aspects ( drop targets, saucer launch, magnet, lifts ramp). I'm ready for something ENTIRELY different though.

Those drops have extended heads on them that make the bridge across the gap.

Think of the drop that blocks the multiball ramp in Space Shuttle. The balls don't get stuck in this very heavily traveled area because the drop is made for that kind of purpose.

Bashing Hulk makes some sense, gotta make him angry!

He's always angry.

They got THE REAL Steve Ritchie for AC/DC!!!!

not bad for movie comic....but for that kind of money...and to be honest,,anything with a magnet gives me shivers.....its hard to shake off that feeling after xmen

As long as we don't find out it was a cover band!

I've always been told it was Rhys and the kid that played Frodo who did the actual voice over for the LOTR, can't see how 'a pinsider told me' would change that to false. But for the avengers the call outs have to be good to make the pin work. The toys have to be durable but otherwise who cares when you're focused on the ball moving around? I think the key will be an approachable yet deep ruleset with a flow that feels smooth and intentional and not random or too tight. At least to be fun for ME lol How soon will we see one on location? I travel all over so I'm dying to see if I can find one soon (sure can't see SLC getting any on location soon )

Actually, just comparing this to "The Pin"'s layout, they're almost the same.. placement of the spinning cube, placement of the changing lanes, the pop bumpers, the ball lock

lol!

I see what you did there, Gomez...

Playfield artwork is dead. Get a shovel.

They should have got the real devil.