Quoted from John_I:Since I've been collecting pins in 2001 two of my dream themes have been made: ACDC and WPT. To top that off both were made by my favorite designer.
I'd like to see a Three Stooges machine or Monty Python. Also a reboot of South Park would be nice. I love Pink Floyd and Led Zep, but I am not sure music other than hard driving rock n roll is a good theme for a pin.
OK, that's pretty cool RE: AC/DC and WPT. Good for you! I can definitely understand how satisfying that would be.
Just for me, as I know there are many fans, but the current SP machine is a fairly close match for my feelings about the show... the other themes you mentioned are all tremendously appealing to me though. I glance over, and you're located in the town where I was born! Cue the TZ music...
My license plate that currently reads BALLYWMS used to read FLOYDZEP for many years. I was the lead singer in a Zep tribute band for 15 years or so off and on, and I've collected truly countless hours of bootlegs from both bands. Sad to say, the bar is simply too high for me for a Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin pinball machine.
I'm afraid that to even begin to have a chance to not disappoint me, it would take a Keefer-level superfan as head brainiac and a time machine to build it at WMS at the height of big-budget awesomeness. I hate to say it, but in some ways I'm glad some things have NOT been done if they were ultimately going to be "an admirable effort but..." It's much more fun to imagine how cool that theme might be than the reality of something like Austin Powers.
Difference is that Austin Powers was just a brief, minor movie franchise. If the PF or LZ machines were bad enough it would turn into something that I should at least mildly appreciate into something that actually causes me to facepalm when people bring it up in casual conversation. I know there are MANY people for whom the same would be true for the Stooges or Python, and I would certainly be able to relate to that--have loved MP for decades and watched the Stooges with my older brothers from earliest memory.
Music would have to be chosen carefully, but by and large I agree with you that a lot of PF and LZ music really does not lend itself well to pinball--AC/DC and Metallica are a much better match IMHO.
Just $.02. Fun thread!