Launch to shipping is getting shorter for JJP. DI launch to shipping was about 8 months. My guess is JJP4 will be launched at Expo and shipping by TPF, that's about 5 months.

I think it's best if we all just expect a terrible theme where they can't use the likeness of anybody. Then we may be pleasantly surprised.

Thanks, great interview. Excited to see what Eric can do.

Toy Story would be awesome.

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Toy Story would be awesome!

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Road Runner would be cool.

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Artwork and theme is nice though.

Of course, all this and more, you need to raise your expectations.

It was leaked a couple of years ago by a disgruntled ex-JJP employee. This was before DI was revealed or the theme was known and the guy predicted that JJP3 would be a cell-phone game and accurately described some of the features so everybody naturally assumes he was right about POTC and Toy Story being the next 2 games as well.

They should be able to make a better widebody now that Pat is on board. I imagine he's helping Eric tweak the shots to make them feel good. I know he Pat helped out a little on the Hobbit but it was right at the end of development and all he could do is open up the shot to the pops.

So DI started shipping in around June this year, right? I think after the reveal at Expo this year they will try to start shipping by TPF. That would be smart. Maybe start to think about retiring the older games, TH and WOZ.

Maybe, that's true for Stern but I think that JJP should just concentrate on building up a nice portfolio of games so they have something for everyone. After all they only have 3 games available at the moment, which isn't too many choices, especially if TH is retired.

https://buffalopinball.com/2017/10/02/live-twitch-reveal-jersey-jack-pinball-game-4-at-pinball-expo/

Looks like the third flipper has a dedicated shot.

Is that an LCD on the apron, a decal, or does it represent a smart phone lying there?

Position of the pops is awesome. Nice to see something different. Lower pop exposed right near the outlane. Reminds me of Paragon.

I haven't seen the movies, is the upper playfield a ship? What is that thing in the top left hand corner.

Go back a couple of pages

I wonder if the chest opens. Payback for Stern stealing the Quantum theatre, JJP has stolen the Aerosmith toy box.

Isn't that just the wire on the apron, was on DI too.

Ryan, do you know what the top left corner is?

Looks like you can shoot the scoop as well, that's going to be crazy low on the right flipper.

Yeah, but there's a small (light blue) arrow insert pointing to it, so I assume you can shoot it as well.

Count the shots on this bad boy, I stopped at 16...

5 flippers again. Same as WOZ, right?

Actually, I got up to 23 shots counting standups and the upper playfield shots. But that's just what I can see clearly in the low-res pic, probably many more.

It's not a fake people, or else JJP have way too much time on their hands.

So that upper playfield really moves, side to side, like a ship? That would be cool.

I guess the private reveal for DICE owners must be right about now?

Apparently a built-in LCD compass.

That's really the advantage of releasing the whole game at once, you can't focus on just the art.

You can shoot it, there's an insert pointing to it, but also a subway return to flipper.

No wonder Keith was tired, so much to code for in this.

Maybe they are going to alternate widebodies and narrowbodies. So that would mean narrow body Toy Story is next, seeing as the original leak was right about DI and POTC.

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Re: the above, please can everyone take the poll:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/jjp-survey-dialed-in-vs-pirates-of-the-caribbean

JJP absolutely made the right call. You're acting like there isn't call-outs and movie clips of actors' faces because of a lack of "effort" or some kind of poorly-thought-out error of judgement when, in reality, there is a limited amount of money that can go towards developing a pinball machine and they thought very carefully about how to spend it. Now, they can put that money towards purchasing the license of a song or two, or call-outs from another B-grade actor (Depp is likely too expensive and simply out of the question), maybe even get someone else's face up on the LCD or...they can put the deck of a freakin' ship on the playfield which rocks with the motion of the sea and shoots a pinball into another ship and has teeny-tiny little lanterns on it which flicker just like real lanterns do.

Fact is, they chose to put the money into developing and making real interactive physical objects from the movie and not into overpriced 2D clips, call-outs, or music, all elements you can get elsewhere. Yes, they chose pinball and I, for one, applaud that decision.

I guess there is the up the middle shot to lock balls in the chest for new players. The chest is fairly prominent and the standup targets to light lock are directly to the right and left of the chest shot. I imagine new players will work out fairly quickly that they need to hit those and then lock balls in the chest.

Pretty sure there's movie clips when you start a chapter, just not of actors' faces. Or are those clips not from the movies?

Nope.

Its already out.

Haven't watched yet, but are the map awards integrated?

I'm sure there have been many cuts before, it's just that we didn't know about them. The Hobbit was originally going to have a dragon which ate the ball, for example.