It's the fuel that keeps the Pinside Forums running.

But it helps when you can trick people into themes they think they're attached to. Such as Transformers which EVERYONE agrees were the worst movies ever 100% (yes even the peopl ethat watch them and like them!), but people bought it because there was some other Transformers stuff that was good before that.

Pretty amazing really.

I'm always interested if companies will do something like Muppets that has just recently failed pretty bad on TV.
People keep asking for munsters which has the same recent history

EDIT: To me it's all kind of crazy...just arguing over such similar age groups. Toy Story is just as "adult" as frikkin POTC is; It's not like it's Deadpool or anything.

Whilst I agree with your logic, it's most likely because this thread and many other are full of people with cash in their hands dreaming of the same repeated themes.

hahaha OK tough guy...tame your steel horse!

Strangly I can;t get my wife into that flick even though she usually has good taste. Classic.

Naw, terrifying puppets could be great for the family
Man that was one weird ass movie

As soon as the video screen hit Stern lines I've been saying "Gals Panic."

Sorry I guess that isn't JJp related.

Really? Crazy Wizard of Oz vibes with flying monkeys and holy shit man the colors.....THE COLORS

I watched that one just because Paul Walker had just died & hadn't seen any in awHile. It was pretty damn fun I'll tell you that.

$8000

Gremlins would be awesome...ET is unwatchably bad now.

I was just as amazed as you would be. A fantastic movie from my childhood that I just can't be a part of; puke bad.
But again that's just me...I mean when my daughter is old enough I'll see it again for the first time. After she watches Watership Down & Rats of NIMH of course.

Sign me up I want to play ET...never did. Played a little of Indiana Jones (watched my brother play it all) and I'm ready now. Sometimes when I'm board I watch youtube vids of the walkthrough.

Sorry is this the confession board?

Appreciate it but I'll have to wait for a movie...I don't read.

There are 10,000 perfect themes out there

And that's near the top of the list

Haha i agree with you there but damn that ride is way more brutal than the movie!

Oh man the ride is all just rape & pillaging coastal towns...of course they probably changed that stuff by now. Totally agree on Depp...Hasvn't wtched on of those movies in over a decade doesn't excite me at all.

That total nuke annielation game or whatever it's called.

Why can't you try to imagine? Let's check your ratings...Avengers #5

"Update: i've increased my rating based on the fact that I cannot stop playing this game. ... This pin IS NOT the movie. Its a pinball machine, and the voices work and to me, now represent the pinball machine very well. "

So it isn;t really the movie that matters?

AFM #4
"Humor and creativity in sounds and dots are more important than current pinball makers seem to realize."

Toy Story is plenty funny and and JJP are making creative games right?

IM #3

" IM s a throwback to the old days, when the games were designed to beat you. So beating IM feels good."

maybe the game will play awesome...don;t here you saying anything aboot IM being a great theme or just like the movies

Etc etc etc...

I'm heading down to my basement to play Flash Gordon....a fantastic movie i love with tons of great moments that have nothing to do with the pinball machine (other than plastic art). Whom cares?

Meh on that flick...but I'd do Manhunter for sure!

I'm in from jump street cause I love Yul Brynner!!!!!!!!!

Haha that's where we disagree...Cox was much better IMO. I didn't like Hopkins almost comedy approach to LecKtor.

But hey opinions are like pinball machines...pinside invented them.

Wait is that a saying?

I do.

Ah Yes I remember having the Toy Story Laserdisk It's funny trying to think back 0n it now but that shit was mindblowing back then.

Seems liek a bargin next to that 4 disc 2001 box set i had!

N.I.C.E!

Anyone still have a DIVX player?

It's John Carpenter in his prime, and him doing a comedy-ish; it's a work of art.

Man that's a niche market right there.

It would take me a minute to think of something worse than POTC

Kind of Debatable because of Whiz Bang

But yes that was a breath of fresh air and fun.

Actually kind of close...just swap the incest for statutory rape and you're golden! Oh and abortions

Not in Germany

Same thing they said when Woz came out

Agree to "kind of" disagree. The pre-order thing sure...but I sit back and think is it really that diff'rent now? Are people not ready to shell out more cash for a full featured super game (I mean we've all heard the growling aboot SW "featureless" machine ). Toy Story is 95, same time as Pulp Fiction which I hear people constantly talking aboot here so i wouldn't say the buying age isn't that far off...I understand you'd think of it as a kid's movie now, but the whole point was it appealed to everyone and the the technology was a big ass deal. I mean I'm just spitballing here...I never hated the idea of WOZ but holy hell you remember what it was like when the theme came out...I 've never heard so much hate!

Obviously I'm not arguing they could do better with a fresher more grown up theme like Guardians. Jesus I hardly know they were making that POTC crap still...talk aboot a stale title.

No in the fact that Rocky doesn;t win at the end, but kind of yes as Rocky kind of sexually assaults Adrain in his apartment in the first one. I mean seriously...whom has seen it lately? Rocky has like 10 knives laying around his place and sticking in the wall...it's a pretty scary place.

Maybe they aren't nerdy little dweebs? Oh sorry...you all probably prefer halfings?
Or maybe because the hobbit movies where pure shit? But even so, the theme itself isn't as bad as the movies, and there's a lot to pull from.

yeah they need a bunch more wizard modes so everyone can get to one and feel good aboot themselves.

Most do. I thought the logo movie was almost unwatchable. I only finished because I was on a plane.

Just as well since I would have that kind of cash again but I can;t think of a weaker title that POTC.

I mean obviously GNR but nothing after that

Good, make it all Roger Moore he aint gonna complain. Hell make it straight "For Your Eyes Only" and skip all the rest of the fluff.

I think a lot's of people do...didn;t quite get that quip either.

My thoughts exactly.

Except I was watching the 3rd one, literally 10 years ago.

If odin were here he'd point out they don't make too many relevant themes anymore.
POTC sounds horrible to me but the movie lets see.... = Worldwide: $789,900,073! Still going strong it seems.

I'm not detecting a change

Yes it's jaws with Iron Maiden music just like the last, *looks at Pinside join date,* 6 years worth of releases were.

Correct on scale issue & also the user has the ability to not allow them...although the default is 'On' I believe

It be even better if they created their own sci-fantasy movie trilogy and THEN took clip from it to put in their pinball machine.

No we've switched to the dream journal portion of the thread. Please mention the themes you would love to see but have no chance of being made.

Guys any chance it could be Hudson Hawk? I feel like it might be right after POTC!?!

In for a Kit-Kat LE!!!

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Uff that's a big jump for something already that high

Well much like Color Blind people & vegans you'll know how many because they'll be sure to tell you.

See

Like many things on Pinside it was an idea a couple people started and it snowballed into a thing. Few people mention it, then more, then it's a great idea, then it's the next title, oh wait maybe now? etc etc forever.

Hope you're right

It's just ASSumed since every new release has price hikes it seems.

Bro you gotta get a new phone that's unacceptable.

Side note, Hopefully it's Disneyworld and not that cramped little land.

Back to the point at hand though I loved riding that train around the park...that's good stuff right there. Of course I liked the gondolas too

Yep Land still clings to that Matterhorn fact till their last breath!

Well they paid all those billions for it

I liked MGM also...the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacluar was fun

Quite frankly without Mr Toad's Wild Ride they both suck

Looks interesting but I'm just seeing it now. Pretty cool shit going on for sure.

So seems everyone has decided this is like the Hobbit reveal that was going to end Stern and not like the DI reveal that was going to end JJP? Hopefully it's a hybrid and people are happy with the reveal and the game itself.

How many people have been complaining aboot having to hit the action button?

Rotating center looks pretty sweet ass but the inserts are a little too LOTR for me. Not a big deal or anything just first thing i thought of.

Now you're a Stern fan? You do nothing but shit rip them all day long.

Because you've played them both?

Yep great guy... Got my DI from him

I hope not, it's pinball and they should be yellow.

Love the old school oulane/inlanes....but the whole sand bar/beach thing by the action button looks damn budget and i could do without it.

I don't know but Dialed in Carries over Tilt warning to the next ball....don;t know if that;s what is being talked aboot.

I mean it did till I turned it off..stupid shit.

"2. Collecting Gold
Needing to use the action button to collect gold could potentially get a little tiresome."

Again pressing a button on a button pressing game might be too much to handle. WTF

Do the other 2 buttons get a little annoying?

Edit: it's also not a video mode

So Neither JJP before this had a scoop eh? The interesting question going forward is the clear going to be brittle or is it just the design of this game? Other games have a saucer and wondering if those will break down easily or not?

Yeah like Stern changed to...I guess since between each game they all jack up the price might as well get something for it.

I am bummed, and for the record it cost 8K.