Well it’s not that weird that people are talking music in this thread ... it’s not a band pin but the movies prominently feature mix tapes and are very self conscious about what music is playing at all times.

Agreed about the music obsession. Movies and pins are much different entertainment experiences. Movies have scenes that only last part of a song with focus on video. With pins, you are focused on game play and going to hear that song repeat many times. I rather have hundreds of callouts, sound effects, and such than a few songs I have heard a 100 times already. I like the idea of playing short clips of songs for special times in gameplay like jackpots or specials.

I still remember the exact house and the guy's last name "Winkler" that screwed me over probably a hundred times in my first stint delivering pizzas in Plano TX. Mid 50's fat white guy, truly a pathetic specimen of humanity. You could tell the guy was a total slob and gave no f--ks about anything or anyone. Never said a word to me in all those deliveries, typically answered the door in what I would call pajama pants and an undershirt.....in the middle of the day, in the middle of the week. Delivery drivers have long memories. Customers would do well to remember that

I don't think it's a big deal at all. Money is money, and they paid theirs, and got what they wanted. We also had customers that would order a dough ball, have us stretch it out and put it on a screen they had bought from the store. They presumably (?) took it home, put their own stuff on it, and put it in their oven. Or maybe they just really liked eating dough. LOL. I don't know that stores these days would do that... not in the lawsuit-happy world we exist in now.

More finishes in nebula i do. All powdercoat

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That looks f'in awesome.

When you guys are ready im taking orders

That's the impression they've built... but not the Disney of the last 20 years. . Just the Disney hobby and find out all the dirty details of how especially in the mid 2000s leadership ran things quite different.

Two words - Disco Yeti.

Look it up.

Sorry if someone mentioned this already but Stern has posted the promo flyer for the PRO model. Just wanted to make sure this forum saw it (again, if not already posted)

http://www.sternpinball.com/upload/games/guardians-of-the-galaxy/pro/GPTG%20PRO%20Flyer.pdf

Link doesn't work here, page not found is all I am getting.

Here you go...

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if it was used for promotion, it's not a sound track song.

Pop songs...

It doesnt say from when...

Watch it end up as Spice Girls & Milli Vanilli

No those won’t fit in with Come and get your love multiball!

If you wanna get with groot, you gotta get with my friends.

I think you are being pedantic. Track 3 on the Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix Volume 1 is Spirit in the Sky. Thus, it is fair game.

Personally, I hope it is not in the game because that song would be horrible in a game setting.

As would a lot of them. Personally I will be happy with a tastefully done bootleg ROM done with Pinball Browser. The one in my Ironman VE is awesome with only a few changes. Just having Shoot to Thrill would have been enough to make me happy. The STLE one is great too. Not to mention you can pick your own songs if you know what you are doing.

2 more days until IAAPA and we get to see this game! Can't wait for someone to post pics/video!!!!!

Or alternately, it’s on the official soundtrack, therefore it’s literally a soundtrack song.

Also the backstory on that song is awesome, the artist wanted to cash in on the Christian rock craze but knew little about Christianity, so he just threw it together based on his rough impressions. Instant classic!

If Stern can deliver a soundtrack for this pin as good as the one they delivered for Ironman, I doubt many of us would be unhappy, playing IM with the volume cranked up earlier, damn it is one good sounding pin!

it's been awhile since I had the actual soundtrack in my hand. I pulled all the songs off and made them MP3 so I can have them on my car chip. I didn't pull that one off tho. Must have been because it was never in the movie. Seems weird they put it on the soundtrack when it wasn't even used in the movie. never seen that before.

Yeah I put the oversized subwoofer and new backbox speakers in my IMVE and it sounds awesome. GOTG is a SPIKE game so it has much better sound quality. 2.1 sound with no compression... I look forward to playing and hearing this game.

When AC/DC was released, I would sing the praise of the jukebox concept over and over again. It was the greatest game I'd ever owned and you could pick a whole song out of a list of 12 classic AC/DC tracks for variety....then Metallica was released. My favourite band from high school.

Fast forward 4 years of ownership....go to play a game. Despite the variety in songs, it now seems like a chore listening to those tracks even though i still love the songs. In the case of Guardians of the Galaxy, I'm probably a bit younger than most hobbyists (?) and those songs have no connection to me whatsoever and the majority of the soundtrack music doesn't seem like they would fit into a game of fast pinball. Maybe snippets during multiball might be ok, but personally they'd get old fast if it was jukebox style. I like how Tron had some memorable soundtrack music, but also original pinball tracks in the same style. I think a happy medium with Guardians will be fine. Did 90s pinball machines suffer due to lack of movie soundtrack songs?

It’s strangely common to use songs in previews that aren’t in the movie (first one I remember noticing was actually “Mr. Blue Sky” from the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind preview, which I was then psyched to hear in the movie and of course did not). But I don’t know how often those songs make it onto the soundtrack! Maybe it was planned to be used in a deleted scene or something? Or maybe they were buying the rights anyway so figured what the hell let’s throw it on the soundtrack? Either way, a bit odd.

Thats just like the movie twister. The trailer showed a tractor tire flying through the windshield during the tornado scene, then when I went and saw the movie it wasnt in the scene...I was so dissapointed, I went to see the tire, not Helen Hunt drivin around with Chet...

Plenty of DE games had licensed music. Lethal Weapon 3 had C&C Music Factory & some others. I think Last Action Hero had AC/DC and some others. Apollo 13 had Spirit in the Sky. Getaway had ZZ Top. Twilight Zone has then Golden Earring song of the same name. Most movie pins had the score music from the movie it was based on. So, in that sense GOTG having songs from the movie wouldn't be out of the ordinary - movie sound is part of a movie's character, and the songs in GOTG are a massive part of the movie's personality and DNA.

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Sorry, I should have been more clear...I don't expect a game to have a full selectable jukebox style audio track in the game unless it's a music themed band pin. If they have parts of two popular "pop" songs from the movies during multiball, I would be happy. But that's just me.

What they think it should be? Like the art for example Aurich? Maybe people should stick with the original art instead of buying crappy rehashes. The art or the music aren't important wouldn't you agree? Why complain with what you get.

Here is a rendered example of what you can expect with the GOTG Pin Stadium kit installed when the UV+Glow flasher option hits the playfield in a brief moment of time. They really made some vivid UV reactive colors on this playfield and it's going to come alive folks!

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Just like they did with Ghostbusters? LOL!!!!

Yea, where's the Bobby Brown song?

Agreed. It shouldn't have a jukebox - just a few songs that work well in the context of certain modes or multiballs.

It needs a Walkman

It needs a Walkman where the reels start spinning everytime the Awesome Mix songs start playing........

+1

Now that's how the LE armour should look.

Yeah, I really like that powder coat job. Might be the first time I splurge on something like this. Do you have a website or a link or anything else to other styles?

Wanna hear all the songs? Just play the Soundtrack in the background.....

Why did Stern choose the broker over the collector for a playfield drop target shot/virtual ball lock? Especially since the orb is opened by the collector's machine in the movie, the pins = pro opened non moving, premium/LE open & close via motor. Benicio del Toro licensing? I hate to nit pick but I just don't find the broker all that important to the movie nor theme, the collector has been in a handful of the Marvel films (3x I believe). The collector is much more memorable character IMO.

That would be cool and the topper could incorporate that idea nicely being something like you see on the Milano scene:

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Benecio del Toro did not want to be apart of GOTG licensing. Collector would have been cool though.

I know this is the wrong pinball machine.
I know the cassette is to big.

I am using Star Wars pinball machine to figure out a good size for the cassette, this is an original for size and color for the cassette. We are going to have the cassette sprockets turning inside.

We are thinking about 2/3 of the original size, what do you guys think?

Dan

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Someone should turn the speaker grills into the walkman..

Didn't someome earlier in this thread show the perfect location for a Walkman, which would be in the apron.

I love the crazy mish-mash of scale in that picture. Tie figher as big as a destroyer as big as the death star. Good stuff.

Unless it’s going in the apron don’t bother, with the groot head and hands on the Prem and LE a cassette in their will not only look out of place but cluttered.

The ideas about having a cassette in the apron or in the speaker grill are awesome and wouldn’t clutter up the playfield, both ideas would be awesome and blend seamlessly into the pin.

Walkman in Groot's hand...

It would just block more of the playfield, I love the idea of the cassette in the apron because it’s like your star lord jamming with his awesome mix tape playing or in the speaker grills so it looks like the cassette player in the Milano both are awesome ideas and would blend seamlessly into the game without cluttering the playfield.

Look at that playfield it’s stunning why would anyone want to block anymore of Franchi’s art? He knocked the art out of the park would be a shame to cover it.

Already been done:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/guardians-of-the-galaxy-is-here/page/29#post-4054813

Pm me for pricing. No just kidding.

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