Just as DE Simpsons eventually led to the great TSPP - I think South Park could be revisited as a new modern game. Operators will remember the earnings of the original and be interested. Pin enthusiast/South Park fans who love the show but know the old game blows would be interested. Could be the perfect game for Stern's new platform as they could pull TONS clips for a color display - and the animation is simple enough that they could make custom animation (or have the SP animators do it) relatively easily.

While I loved Futurama (mostly...the last few seasons weren't very good aside from a few eps), it's done and gone. It's got a passionate cult fanbase but it never caught on with the masses. South Park on the other hand, is still alive and kicking and is part of pop culture in a way that Futurama never was. It will still be a relevant property as long as it's on the air, and pretty evergreen after the fact. It's a good time to strike on a new SP pin, IMO.

Operators would not buy the old South Park again...they bring them to auctions and are lucky if they can get $1500...they'd have no reason to spend NIB money on a re-issue of the old game. If it were a completely new game, that's another story.

It would just be a new game. DE Simpsons vs. Stern Simpsons Pinball Party. Same license, different games. One based on the first season, the other based on the established legacy.

Flash Gordon had claim to "FG" so Family Guy became "FGY"