Yeah, I can see the custom speech and custom video raising the price a bit. The game does look cool. Will be keeping an eye on how the code develops as may buy a premium down the road.

You should be able to get a nice HUO premium for a great price once gnr and Eddy's pin drops. People only have so much cash and so much space.

That's my plan next year. That's what I did on IMDN. Waited til this spring and found a mint HUO for just over 5k. Plus it was already dialed in and playing perfectly. I think plenty of potential buyers will let the code progress, and do the wait and see game. No way I personally would preorder this title without AT LEAST playing and seeing it in person

LE ships Monday!

All LEs or just yours?

Sorry, why do you need to make an airball deflector ?
Far out
Im glad im not on the LE guinea pig list.

You thought he meant ALL 400 LE's ship Monday?

Thanks very much for sharing! We are looking forward to getting our game.

Could you please tell us where you think you will be needing the air ball protector for? We make them for all our games as needed. I think air balls are the number 1 contributer to ghosting inserts.

So i came across this video randomly on youtube. And I think watching through this sums up pretty well why people are upset about this Pin. The price tag and the fact that it has maybe not even half as many features as scared Stiff had.

Now that is great.

Truth hurts....haters want to hate for the sake of hating. I, personally, cant wait for mine to deliver.

I forgot how beautiful SS is !

Does SS have Elvira herself with video clips introducing modes?

Case closed.

This picture brings up a good point...When is Elvira passing down the torch to a new talent?

12 years ago? lol...New generation since then. Time for a reboot....And just in time to combat the current craziness our country has been leaning towards...

Denied....It's not about the body..They need to interview the personality...Plus Elvira started off about 8 years younger than this one...

I didn't see the competition video..Looking for an evolution of Elvira, not someone who can copy her mannerisms like an actor...The video I saw her personality wasn't groundbreaking..Elvira was an evolution of morticia and lily Munster...

Soo true. My bad. I would love to be that lucky young woman that figures this out..

This makes no sense regardless of which of the two main options you are referring to.

Sorry couldn't figure out to change the color of my responses. So they are just ------- in front of them.

Maybe I was a bit exaggerated when I said half the features. But SS just has a way more "interesting" looking playfield with maybe the coolest looking ramp in pinball. The art is better. Theres triple the elvira on the PF in much more "interesting" poses.

And at the end of the day, for the price this pin is commanding. There should be no doubt. When compared to a pin of the same theme from 23 years ago, EHOH should be hands down and by far and away the better pin. But its sadly just not.

I mean she is in her 60's. Time to find another future icon...

Wow that trailer... SS is a stone cold classic. The theme and integration are off the scale!

Nobody is selling their SS because of this pin. But on the other hand, it’s amazing how the typical Pinside MO of “when is this pin coming out” to “man this pin sucks” 60 seconds after a video and images are released yet nobody has actually played it to have a real opinion.

People with money will buy them, people that don’t have money will complain about them crunchin on rice cakes.

The video reminds me just how annoying simple the ramps are on e3.

I have a feeling Dennis had something special, My guess is Stern has to dull it down for the usual reasons

Please guys, don't take my feedback as negative, I love 3lvira and may get one at some stage.
I sincerely apologize for feeling let down with this release and maybe I was expecting too much.

Looking at the super cool SS promo vid, Selling my amazing SS now is my biggest regret other than selling my awesome TZ.

Don't fret 3lvira will no doubt be super cool.

Slightly off-topic but there are some HQ 32 Khz wav callouts from SS on this page, Elvira sounds amazing as does the guy:

https://www.planetarypinball.com/mm5/Williams/games/stiff/index.html

Shows you that all of these original recordings are sitting in a vault somewhere. Would love to hear a remastered version of the game sounds, with the quality of music from the trailer along with HQ callouts. Now that I would pay money for...

You should buy a PinSound, and with a bit of editing...

My problem with this game is that there is not enough Elvira video onscreen. Everything else I can forgive.

Elvira should have a window in the corner where she is interacting with the player for the ENTIRE game. Laughing at stuff, joking when the player drains, in making funny comments, in general looking attractive and interested in what's going on. They'd just need to shoot bunch of reaction clips and loop them, tying the special stuff into the game events. They could even have her banter with things like the Deadheads, to make them more interesting...

Instead, she just seems absent 95% of the game, and that is a massive disappointment. I'm sure this won't matter for some players, but the lack of actual Elvira is a deal-breaker for me. Hopefully they are planning on getting Cassandra into the studio to shoot more content. She's the games biggest asset, and has been largely left out of it.

Here's a rough example of what I mean:
Elvira (resized).jpg

Is anyone in the Denver metro getting one of these for location? Would love to play one!

So some people love the game, some are meh on it, others are completely offended by it and post the same crap over and over. Seems like a normal release to me.

True words

I'm waiting for my LE. I think it will be a great pin.

Yeah, Scared Stiffs playfield looks rather bare compared to Elvira 3 now that I look at it. Take away the skull pieces on the ramps and there doesn't appear to be much there. I'm sure someone will make a mod for the ramps on Elvira 3 that adds skull pieces. Overall I'll take a large interactive and detailed haunted house over the much smaller main toy in Scared Still.

ss_new (resized).jpg

For the right price, Cassandra will personally come to your house and sit there while you play. It'll be just like MST3K Live!, but with BOOBS instead of wisecrackin' robot puppets.

My problem with SS has always been that it's just ridiculously easy. I'm into the Stiff-o-meter every game I play and I'm not even a fantastic player. Cool mechs and beautiful game, but it just couldn't last in my home collection as there was no challenge at all. I'm curious about this machine, I love the integration of the old movies like Manos. Want to play one, but may grab a premium if I can.

Makes me wonder. For such a "Premium" Pin. Why didnt they film a promo for this pin?

You're into the stiff-o-meter every game but do you make the 10 shots to complete it. It's pretty hard without losing the ball.

The ramps in this pin remind me of Johnny Mnemonic, in a good way. The ramps are both plastic and have a similar layout. Plastic ramps are faster, so i think this game will be a flow-monster.

They did - go to Stern's website

Ditto, would love to play one on location.

There's some truth to that.

But... Space, code, QC and unmet expectations are the driving force behind most unfulfilled pinball purchases IMO

I will not buy an unwanted pinball machine. Even when the SP500 is @ 3000 pts. Which is why I dont own games I dislike

So it ain't all about limited resources.

Elvira is a possibility for me. It's part of why I'm here. Can't wait to play one & decide! JP looks cool AF too!