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Charlie’s in Tokyo.... just vacay or....Nintendo?

By Dantesmark

5 years ago


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    “Why is Charlie in Japan?”

    • Nintendo license 8 votes
      29%
    • Ultraman license 2 votes
      7%
    • Mega man license 1 vote
      4%
    • He’s chillin with Hattori Hanzo 5 votes
      18%
    • Just a vacay... nothing more 12 votes
      43%

    (28 votes)

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    #1 5 years ago

    Is this just a vacation, or do we think he may be looking into a new licence as well?

    Thoughts?
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    #2 5 years ago

    Just a vacation. No or.

    #4 5 years ago

    It's both. He said so on the FB page.

    #5 5 years ago

    Imagine an Ultraman pin!

    #6 5 years ago
    Quoted from Crile1:

    Imagine an Ultraman pin!

    OH I JUST DID and now need to figure out the rest of my 23hrs , 59min and 59 seconds of my day....

    #7 5 years ago

    To each their own. But Ultraman is one of those shows that I fondly remember from my childhood. Running outside and pointing my capsule in the air and transforming into Ultraman to do battle with invading monsters was how I spent many a summer afternoon.

    #8 5 years ago

    I'd rather have an 8th man or Astroboy pinball.

    #9 5 years ago

    I hope he goes to Kyoto and convinces Nintendo to give him a license for something. I still can't believe no one has tried to cash in on Nintendo nostalgia yet, other than Gottlieb back in the day. They could sell a thousand Legend of Zelda machines no problem (if you promise Chuck isn't doing the layout)

    #10 5 years ago

    I kno a lot of people like Ultraman, but i dont think its a good theme for pinball.
    Just my opinion.

    Ive been thinking of what theme, based in Japan, would make a killer, take-my-money-now pin.... heres the answer....

    Nintendo

    Could be a Mario, Zelda, Metroid, or maybe an all encompassing Nintendo pin!

    Think about and sign me up for an LE Chuck!

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    #12 5 years ago

    Paging ZMeny on that Ultraman photo in OP's post...aka "astronaut guy with no face and a fin on his head."

    #13 5 years ago

    Lol... i told him a couple hours ago.

    #14 5 years ago

    I hope he's not taking a one way trip to Aokigahara.

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    #15 5 years ago

    Jersey Jack was in Osaka, Japan on Thursday, so maybe there's a convention or something.

    #16 5 years ago

    If Nintendo, I vote Mega Man.

    #17 5 years ago
    Quoted from Crile1:

    If Nintendo, I vote Mega Man.

    That's Capcom down in Osaka

    #18 5 years ago

    Mega Man is a Capcom property.

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    #19 5 years ago

    He went for the sushi. You can't get that in Benton WI.

    #20 5 years ago

    If he wanted Nintendo licensing, he could have just went over to Redmond WA at Nintendo USA.

    #21 5 years ago

    Pokemon would be cool

    #22 5 years ago
    Quoted from comment23:

    If he wanted Nintendo licensing, he could have just went over to Redmond WA at Nintendo USA.

    Unless Reggie said you gots to talk to my boss.

    #23 5 years ago
    Quoted from Dantesmark:

    Unless Reggie said you gots to talk to my boss.

    It would go to the US Partnerships department. Reggie sits a floor above.

    #25 5 years ago

    Awesome vacation !

    #26 5 years ago

    He saw the Tokyo Perfect Drift pin and wanted to give it a go.

    https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/tokyo-perfect-drift

    #27 5 years ago

    Zelda and Pokemon. Both are huge franchises, neither have had a pinball made.

    I’d prefer Zelda. That’s a day one deposit, sight unseen.

    But

    Pokemon could really work well for pinball, and connect with a younger audience. Nintendo owns a part in Pokemon, but you’d need the Pokemon company to sign off on it. Not nintendo.

    #28 5 years ago
    Quoted from Bryan_Kelly:

    He went for the sushi. You can't get that in Benton WI.

    Well, technically you could, but it’d probably be about as good as the Mexican food I’m afraid.
    Cruising over to Galena’s Little Tokyo Restaurant looks pretty promising though! (Minus whatever that white stuff is on the crab roll... )
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    #29 5 years ago

    Mothra beat Godzilla then ate all my sweaters.

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    #30 5 years ago

    Zelda would be a grail theme for me, but I would hope that JJP does it if anyone.

    No offense to Spooky or any other manufacturers, just a personal opinion.

    #31 5 years ago

    Godzilla 3rd Gen, Mothra and King Ghidorah would be the perfect choice!

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    #32 5 years ago

    Studio Ghibli pinball confirmed!

    Hopefully something interesting comes from this trip sooner rather than later.

    #33 5 years ago
    Quoted from mackey256:

    Studio Ghibli pinball confirmed!
    Hopefully something interesting comes from this trip sooner rather than later.

    Wow. I never thought about that. Howl’s moving castle pin could be very very cool.

    Hit a switch to change the door location. Have multiple modes in each door location.
    Move the castle mode
    Keep calsifer burning hurry-ups

    #34 5 years ago

    Agrre it would b cool... but not mainstream enough to be successful.

    #35 5 years ago
    Quoted from Rasavage:

    Jersey Jack was in Osaka, Japan on Thursday, so maybe there's a convention or something.

    If both Jersey Jack and Charlie were in Japan within a week of each other but not at the same time, you can bet money that one of them approached a Japanese company for a license. Were I a Japanese company and free unexpected money from a license deal was offered to me, you can bet money that I'd be on the phone getting counter offers from the competition before accepting an offer. What this likely means to us is that we can expect some sort of Japanese licensed pinball machine coming to us in mid to late 2020.

    With all that said... I hope it's Nintendo!

    #37 5 years ago

    Would be super cool if Charlie were able to get one of his dream Toho licenses. However, he has such a passion for Godzilla that I could also see him flying to Japan (while heavily sedated) just to see that stuff anyway. Spooky is going to be hard at work on on Alice for much of 2019. I assume Scott's next game will be reveled at the mid-2019, with the bulk of production of that game in 2020. I have to assume Scott is designing that game with a theme secured, so unless it was just dotting i's, I doubt this trip was related to that game. So...if this was a business trip to secure a new theme, it seems like it would almost have to be a mid to late-2020 release.

    #38 5 years ago

    Agreed

    #39 5 years ago

    I don't think spooky is at a level yet to hold a nintendo license.

    #40 5 years ago

    Prolly true...

    #41 5 years ago

    It's been done before and to be honest smb as a pin sucks big time. I'm a huge nintendo collector and had smb pin for awhile. I don't think any nintendo game would translate into a good pin.

    #42 5 years ago

    What bout smw

    #43 5 years ago
    Quoted from mario_1_up:

    It's been done before and to be honest smb as a pin sucks big time. I'm a huge nintendo collector and had smb pin for awhile. I don't think any nintendo game would translate into a good pin.

    Not even Kirby's Pinball Land?

    #44 5 years ago

    novelty game. Maybe it's that it was created by premier. By far the worst line of dmd games ever put out.

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