Lots of possibilities with the theme but AP really needs to step up the quality of their LCD animations.
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Quoted from kvan99:I swear folks, JJP and AP are their own worst enemy. Of all the instant buys out they choose Hot Wheels? Let's make it easy for them
1. The Matrix
2. MIB
3. Red Dead Redemption
4. Star Wars Battlefront or Rebels
5. Lord of the Rings: Middle Earth
6. Wolverine
7. Despicable Me
Etc...etc.... They need to stop listening to whoever is telling them to make these nonesense titles.....damn why can't they be like Stern and just come here and rip off our ideas.
At least 5/7 of those seem dead on arrival at $7k - $10k+. I don't see Stern making any of those themes, maybe the Matrix. A Red Dead Redemption pin could probably be pulled off voice actors from the games are hired and high quality animations are created.
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Quoted from KnockerPTSD:This is compatible to Sterns home line reveals. Fair enough. Companies are allowed to have some flops if they also have hits. Every Dialed In has its Pirates, Every Munsters has its Jurassic Park. Still waiting to see anything good from AP (Houdini defenders jump in here)
I dont know anyone in my league who would want an AP game so far.
Are you really comparing Dialed In to Munsters? Dialed In is hell of an amazing pin.
Quoted from manadams:The main toy is just annoying and it spinning in mid air is more suited for an airplane game than a car game. Maybe they can code it to only spin at certain achievements rather than all the time.
I agree. Just watching the car spin over and over again in the video was giving me a headache. The spinning car appears to the single toy on the game and yet it doesn't interact with the ball, or player even, at all...
Has it been confirmed if pricing is lower on Hot Wheels due to AP scaling back toys / mechs?
Quoted from Bublehead:First off, have you seen what Stern does lately when they “interact” with the ball? The truck in JP? The Black Knight in BKSOR? Pretty beefy toys, with a $$ hit on BOM. With AP “scaling back” from OKT and HOU it is no wonder the most interactive thing in the machine is a drop target and VUK...
Engineering something to take ball strikes AND change the directional of movement of the ball requires more cost, more testing, more hassles. Operators know that if you put a toy on the playfield it better be rock solid, non-destructible, and if it does break, doesn’t take the machine completely out of commission with it. This machine looks like a Stern Pro on steroids that had its heart, liver, and lungs ripped out at the last second. Good for operating at Chuck E. Cheese, but not a great effort for the player/collectors IMO. They would have been better off re-skinning OKT with Hot Wheels art than this scaled back, Pro-like offering. But this may all be for naught with a shrinking economy.
Yes, interactive toys cost money but isn't that why we are paying all time record high prices for games? If these games were still $4k-$5k I can see the justification for minimal toys, plastic ramps, etc. However, for $7k+ there needs to be more than two plastic ramps and orbits to justify the cost of a game in my opinion. A plastic spinning car for $7k+ that doesn't interact with the ball and it being the only real toy on the playfield? I don't see the value there.
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