Lets pretend that Bridges was willing to come in for the discounted price of $50k.

Lets pretend that there will be 250 machines made.

$200 from each machine to get custom Dude call-outs. That's a done deal if I could make it.

My buddies didn't die face down in the mud so some strumpet could cheat us out of our clearcoat.

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This is honestly the biggest news ever. Screw a MM remake, I want the money lebowski. I am in for 3-4 of these and will prepay on them. This game is going to be huge for me and a large group of people I know. I seriously can't wait for the details.

Future TBL pinball buyers.

PM me if you have a TBL Pinball Flyer you want to sell. I want one. Thanks.

I'd love a nice scan if someone can post, thanks.

Did a quick license search and came up with not much. Maybe someone with more internet savvy could find more...

From this page: http://www.licensemag.com/license-global/universal-adds-movie-merch

"Funko is planning to make figures for the U.S. and Canada featuring Back to the Future, The Big Lebowski, Bride of Chucky, Scarface and Child’s Play 2."

Chris

The F bomb is dropped 260 times in the movie....
I am sure the creators will run an "arcarde mode" and "adult mode"?

Left out lane..."Shut the f*ck up Donnie!"

Just got a note back from Meg Annand who is Jeff Bridges assistant...

my question...
Would Jeff know about the production of an upcomming Pinball machine being made around The Big Labowski movie?

her reply....
Jeff does not know about this.

Warmly,
Meg

That's true - in interviews he says that he tends to do stuff pretty much because he thinks it will be fun. What would be more fun that helping make a pinball - of course he'd get one out of the deal! But, just sayin - if he doesn't wanna do it - Fred Tatasciore is the guy to get!

You are the reason that they have gone through the trouble of setting up this hoax.

Man, I wonder the damage someone could have done by announcing TBL pinball, taking deposits, then disappearing.

I think there'd have to be some trusted figure behind it or vouching for it for anyone to give them money. The reason guys like Jack, Jpop, Rick, etc can get pre-orders on faith is due to reputation.

For sure,if it is being made in Europe you would have zero recourse.
I would only buy after the game was available from U.S. distributors.

All I know is if this IS real, part of the backglass needs to be mirrored
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Rob I think this thing is too big to be a hoax. High quality printed flyers day one, hot babes handing out said flyers day two, and then on day three they launch the 70 day countdown website with a sign up for notification info? WAY TOO much $$ to throw around on a hoax. Most people I have met in the Pinball world are too cheap to run this type of scam.

also didn't they run that teaser ad before the flyers in the expo program?

Yeah, those have been my thoughts too. Its a awfully large amount of trouble just for a Hoax. No one even seems to know who they are, no one can seem to get any info from the web domain. If this was someone pulling a prank I cant help but feel that someone would have spilled the beans or yelled Gotcha! at this point.

I agree with you.

That's why I think it's a hoax.

Seriously though, I haven't even seen any reasonable guesses as to who could be making this pin. Seems like most of the people who could make a pin are already in the game, unless you have some more Skit-b type guys doing it.

I'm willing to be that whoever it is, it's someone who reads Pinside a lot, based on the theme that they have chosen.

Heighway pinball?

http://domain-kb.com/www/dudepinball.com

Ok, I found this. I cant make much out of it other than it was registered on 10/7, and the Ip address is from Missouri. Don't know what that tells anyone.

I got the same info.

Anybody that would blow this amount of money to perpetrate a hoax will most likely be labeled an eternal jack-ass by the Pin community. They will definitely "own it". Nobody F*cks with the Jesus.

Again - no way Stern is this Savvy to create excitement around an announcement. Thus, I too lean towards a hoax.

The girls were at expo. The blonde handed that flyer to me right in between Pythons talks (10 and 11am Sat)

Also, multiple pics were taken with Python's arms around both of them. If it's a hoax then so be it but they were handing out flyers.

I just meant that in that pic they were not holding anything and didn't appear to be in the expo at that time. The "JJ Taylor" guy submitted the pic.

JJ Taylor is a big beer distributor in MN, don't know if that is any relation, probably not.

For $350 I can get a single page website & imagery built via bootleg software downloaded from a torrent & then hosted online for a few months after splitting an 8ball of stomped on toot with two strippers to pass out flyers

BAM

I'm 10 min from St Charles too lol

Hmmm I know of a few pinball guys in the area...

I sat next to Gary one on one at breakfast last year @ CAX and pitched this game and I can tell you it isn't Stern.
I also mentioned it to Jack at PAGG and I can tell you it isn't JJP.
I don't know if it's a hoax perpetrated by Treehorn's goons or who it is, time will tell until then The Dude will be abiding.

But $350 is too steep a price to run a hoax for a manufacturing owner!
Heck, they won't even pay that amount to finish code on games they've built. (slight dig there, but all in fun).

I can only hope the same attention to detail in shown with the game (if it exists).

Hmmmm and who would they be?

For any of y'all with Netflix streaming service, you can watch the documentary "The Achievers: The Story of the Lebowski Fans". At one point during a tour of his house, one of the "Achievers" shows off his Data East Simpsons pinball machine which he said he bought by selling his car, lol.

I have already sent deposits to JJTaylor, bakushan, those two flyer girls, and all 5 pinball companies. Just trying to cover my bases.

I do find it odd that JJTaylor posted that photo of the girls inside a hotel room. Can you respond and explain where that photo was taken?

Yep, he's got some 'splainin' to do.

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I'd like to be taking their pictures in a hotel room

Do you think the rugpissers did this?

At first I thought it was fake, then I watched this and found out it's legit so now I don't know what to think about anything.

It's all starting to add up!

Phone's ringing dude.......

I actually had a dream last month, I was in charge of creating the RHPS pinball machine. It was pretty cool.

Too much pinball...its in my dreams, and I don't even own a table yet...

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You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me.

Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish. These f-ing amateurs...

Agreed! Marketing sucks and is a total waste of time. I mean, you're totally right. It's a FLOP. NOBODY is paying any attention to these ads. Nobody is talking about it. And thank goodness that you're way too intelligent as to get sucked into this stupid idea and actually waste ANY of your valuable time keeping the thread regarding this potential, yet-unknown concept going.

Kudos, sir, on maintaining your integrity!

Oh, and by the way, "ingaged" means an inbred wedding. I don't think you really want to force Pinheads to marry their own brothers & sisters, do you?

Or do you mean "engaged" ????

Hey, man,... are you gonna find these guys or you know, I mean, you got any promising uh...uh leads or?

What do you mean "OR" ??? Can't a guy be a marketing stuff guy AND a major pimp?

Or maybe I just ran into them when I was leaving my room and they went back to theirs to change and I asked if I could take a picture? (and since they had no flyers, I came online to see who the heck they were.)

Or maybe I'm the evil genius bakushun? (or maybe just evil?)

The only splainin I had to do was to my wife... and begging... and crying... and flowers.