My guess is it will be a bunch of covers from songs from the movie by the Bach/Small Experience. Cool way to get those songs in there, likely wouldn’t be possible to use the original recordings.

God, I hope not. I don't need the Bach/Small version of a Journey song. Ever.

I kinda wish they didn't bother with this license. The art so far doesn't feel edgy or sexy, which my memory of the film and the tone of the art back then, is how things felt.

This falls more towards the Playboy going clothed for a few years, somewhat recently.

Anyone else feeling this vibe or lack thereof?

I’m thinking the don felder song. It rules!

And maybe mob rules.

I’m getting the vibe you don’t understand this project at all, despite it being spelled out a dozen times.

It’s a contract job. A company paid stern to make these and are selling them to their own customers. Stern didn’t pay for the license.

I do understand the vibe, thanks for your unsolicited appraisal of my vibe knowledge.

I am not criticizing Stern or whomever paid for this art. I am criticizing the tone of it. Whomever initiated this, doesn't matter to me.

Once the info came last week, it was a contract job, a reskin of Star Wars Homepin, and most likely a modern take sans film assets and original soundtrack, that was already a massive set of strikes against this. Not to mention pricing.

Hell...no Hagar alone sucks quite a lot....

Who wants to tell him?

I'm a Metal Head.
Price point Killed any interest to add this this title to my collection.
2k less and ya might have had my dollars "Heavy Metal contract" dude/s.

I can see a couple of hundred selling at the stupid price.
maybe a few hundred more had it been priced right.

Ah well, it's all about testing the limits I suppose.

It sounds like this will include music from the movie. Incendium has replied on Facebook that this will include Blue Oyster Cult’s Veteran Of The Psychic Wars, and songs they couldn’t license, they covered.

Why the DMD display though? Unless the code is being built off an existing title like Supreme to save time and development costs? And with DMD, is it still SPIKE 2 or SAM?

I think it would have been a cool license if based off the movie and using LCD. But, these overpriced, non-cornerstone games are generally underwhelming so I'm not expecting much and it's certainly not on my wishlist.

Rob

I read that earlier tonight too! Covered and licensed, and sometimes both of the same song.

Set list released on 3/20.

Maybe SPIKE 1 or SAM Save costs by burning down old stock of boards?

Again, Stern was contracted to build the games. They've already been paid, the company that contracted them set the price.

It’s pointless.

Even when they get it...they don’t get it.

Thanks guys, post edited to reflect my ignorance.

I do think the game will be cool.

Phew..lucky you! An offending Penitent Pinsider usually has to self swat 50 times with a dirty sock filled with pitted pinballs.

At least the licensor seems to be engaging it's customers on some level already. That's a decent sign!

This punk shit, Circle of Shit & the Dicks and all. That can go to hell. I don't care.

Contract hits! Sabbathian Black! Red dots! Pop bumbers! Youth Gone Wild! Metal!

In the unlikely case I ever see one, I'll pay and play poorly, so operators look out!

It really doesn’t matter “who” set the price. The price is the price. And it’s a pretty damn important thing to consider when many of us here buy games for personal collections. Contract game, no contract game, it’s still a pinball machine with a price. It’s fair to judge it as such.

Well....it being a contract game, has to imply that both the manufacturer and license holder have some say in it's creation and cost. Unless someone is an insider for either company, and wants to share inside info, I'm going to assume it was a mutual decision to...some...degree.

And even if not, then one company or the other, set the price, and did so quite high for seemingly not a fully new design/layout, and possibly less features than a regular Stern pin.

welcome to Aussie pricing my friend, just add your 10percent gst & your getting close

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heavy metal the magazine really has nothing to do with . heavy metal the genre . the magazine started in 1977 far before bands were called metal bands for the most part ! the 8300 price tag will keep me away unfortunatley

Just saw this via Kaneda's page. Glad he posted it.

It's......kinda there. I wasn't going to buy it either way, so.

Looks like shit... But like you, I wasnt a buyer anyway. This will definitely be a rare pin, for all the wrong reasons.

No matter how much I want to like this game based on theme alone. It just keeps getting worse and worse. If this were a normal corner stone game or even a KaPow I would have been a buyer. I'd still think about it if game was priced at 3k but this is crazy man, just crazy.

Maybe Stern didn't design the artwork. Maybe that was part of the contract...maybe...

Just amazing what about 9k after taxes and shipping will get you... Maybe closer to 9,400...

I don't hate the art like how most people do.
But, its very underwhelming. Like everything with this pin has been so far.
And that price tag... Its not going to really do any favors for shipping units. Sure Stern made its money.
I do bet though they get a taste of each unit they do sell though.

And coupled with the fact that you're not going to get any toys or real mechs.

It'll still be just one node board for all the pops.(most likely).

And it's a dmd instead of an LCD. LCDs do not cost that much money. Can get them pretty cheap. I know it would cost a bit more to get the animations done for an LCD than an DMD. But, they could do something more like Alice Cooper, and use more of their existing art assets, and just enhance them or modify them to work...

The only way I would consider this is really 4k... My price went down. I know it won't drop that much, and I don't think these will sell enough to even be on the secondary market. So I think this pin will be unobtainium.
And I think I'm okay with that.
A shame cos I enjoy the movie, enjoy the magazine and LOVE the genre of music. This is one one way ticket to midnight I'm going to have to pass on though.

The playfield artwork reminds me of Whoa Nelly pinball period at Stern. I was hoping that they would be looking to expand the hobby with women and be more inclusive..... instead we get boobs. I get that it is true to this license, but you would have thought about this before accepting

Stern probably didn’t do the art, but they could have at least said “hey, you should reconsider the one element that will guarantee sales to collectors”

It's a good thing millions of women around the world aren't spending thousands of dollars getting BOOB jobs. (and then wearing skimpy tops to show them off) Who wants to be forced to look nice pair of boobs. Oh the horror.

Its Elvira's House of Horrors.
Not ohhh the horror...

I mean you were talking about boobs right?!?!?! And we all know that game is built!!!
I mean look at that house toy in it. What a mech....

Plus she's got big boobs!

what is presented here so far looks like Saturday morning kiddy cartoons , is that skeletor?

It's turning into nipplegate on Sterns facebook page. LOL

The playfield(with the blended-in slingshots, etc) looks like a homebrew Visual Pinball table. A bad one at that.

House of whores. Anyone... anyone...? Sigh.

But on a real note. Someone earlier pointed out that once shipped this games will run you 9400.

That's 100 dollars more than I paid for my butter cab, optioned out RaM.

And wasnt the star wars home pin priced at like 4500-5K??

I get the contract thing. I get that people explained that the company that contracted this pun sets the price but one would think that it would behoove Stern to not let a contract pin be almost double the price of the model it's based on let alone out pricing a maxed out pinball from just about anyone else. Themselves included.

From the heavy metal email list

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This really makes me sad. If this was a full game, and they pulled out all the stops and made some LE’s to the quality that they could, I’d be the first in line for one. Makes me want to cry.

Agreed. This is my dream theme. I'm literally counting down the minutes to buy some Blue Oyster Cult tickets right now. But it just doesn't look all that great, and I can't justify (or for that matter afford) buying a home use pinball machine that costs as much as a nice used Cadillac. The art is particularly baffling. Even beyond the music, the ONE THING a Heavy Metal pinball machine ought to have is an art package that looks like it was carried over from an early 1980s issue of the magazine. This just looks too slick and modern. I'm interested to see gameplay, but I'm really underwhelmed so far.

Iceman are you buying one? Maybe an LE?

100% I have been hoping for this pin to be released as a cornerstone game for years but instead we get a re-themed Star Wars "the pin" for double the price and very little relates to the 1981 movie. Tarna and the dead pilot zombies look good though.

$8k+ for a badly re-themed home pin, we have hit peak absurdity.

I think it’s hilarious.

Loved Heavy Metal magazine when it first came out and the movie while a bit uneven has its charms.

Just sad. I understand its a contract job and someone signed off on it but a poor way to handle the license.

I should make a poll on which is the bigger ripoff: $8200 Heavy Metal home edition, or the $15k Elvira couch swatch?

Assuming a patient seller, you could probably resell the couch edition for $10k and lose $5k. You could probably sell Heavy Metal for $4k and only lose $4k. Heavy Metal might actually be less of a rip off...

What a time to be alive!

Sad thing is that no one is going to make a proper Heavy Metal pin after this thinking that it's been done already. Sad day for Heavy Metal fans hoping for a proper pin.

Both, but Elvira is a superb game that will only get better.

This looks cheap, but it's anything but!

Well, it happened once before: https://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=5175

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