The disaster stuff never really got through to me ( only played a few games on it). I just can't unsee the phone ( with a battery life indicator that you have to hit a shot to " charge"....f**k, and iPhone looking icons on it during certain sequences) or the title.

Again, a great looking, well built, and potentially fun machine...just not for me.

Un-populated playfield pic is up as is some more info about the game at PinballNews.com. Looks pretty cool.

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I can never use the term "dialed in" again when describing my machines working perfectly.

Thax this helps me figure out a few shots and things.... looks like trap door at crazy bobs? Definitely lots great shots and things

Despite that douche holding his cell phone up, that playfield looks pretty cool.

Yeah, he doesn't seem to fit in right. Everything else looks awesome!

We can make a decal and cover him up.

He's just searching for a signal. Probably so he can refresh Pinside to bitch about his own game.

Lmao

Now that was some funny sh*t.

I was so f'n wrong it hurts.
I didn't fully believe the leaker bc I though it sounded dumb.

Since the leaker was 100% accurate, I'll start to believe.
JJP #4 Toy Story sounds great and I'm hoping that I'm blown away. See you at Expo 2018 Toy Story.

* I'm currently drunk, again.

Yes maybe the new features as posted will help the game and be neat to see in action.

The Hobbit standard edition is $8000, I think they should have a Dialed In standard for no more than $7995.

Would you rather watch ghostbusters or play on your cell phone?

That's why I think this theme is such a huge swing and a miss. If I were the CEO, i would have this game immediately re-themed into Disaster City. Get all traces of the guy holding the cell phone off of the game.

If you mean the new ghostbusters movie? I would rather play on my cell.

I'm a buyer of JJP (and stern for that matter) games. I have both a woz and a hobbit and had cash in hand for JJP#3 but the name of the game needs to change. I heard someone recommend "Quantum City"? That makes perfect sense. As long as they tone down the cell phone references then I'm good to go. May even be in for a CE version (I like the purple, it's pretty).

Dialed in is the name of the wizard mode in the game.
Each letter had an insert....will be a PITA to change

I say leave it Dialed In ... that's what they built and brought to the show. Great to see JJP unveil a new pin like that. Grats!

thanks Gary

But seriously this game has too much wrong with it even before you consider the big price. Awful name. Awful artwork. Looks way inferior to the first two games. Builder toy on a stick. Cellphone on playfield that rings.

It will be very interesting to see how Jack handles a failure. Who will he blame ?

You said it. I thought 'Dialed In' sounded so stupid there was no way in hell that was the actual name or that it could be a cell phone theme. Well, the leaker was right.

I want to like this thing and wanted this to be my first NIB after seeing WOZ and Hobbit but if I couldn't pull the trigger on those it's not happening here.

Toy Story sounds promising. At least it's a better much better theme than WOZ.

Michelangelo.

Has anyone started a pre-order club post yet? All these other threads have mostly become bitch fests. It's fine to go ranting about how Jack and Gary are destroying pinball and these games all suck but I'd like to filter that out from more constructive and interesting conversations about the game.

I think the main thing would be naming the pin something else. There have been countless movies and books that have bombed over the years because the title simply did not reflect well enough the content. Dialed In is not working with a very large group of people. I would say 90% of the people have a serious issue with the title. I can't remember the last time there was this much talk around a title. Yes it would cost time/money. But if they don't, it could cost sales. They really could use a crystal ball right now! Not an easy decision either way.

The game shoots and plays very well. The layout is light years better than woz and hobbit and is very refreshing from what we have had lately. The launch shot is cool. This game suffers in the art department and price point. The sim city video screen is uninspired to me as well. I enjoyed playing it. Would I buy at $9k, no way. If they had stuck with the breaking news, faux new reports on the screen, it would have been so much better.

But you could argue in this case that constructive= move on quickly to game 4. I've never known such a negative response on such a scale for any game.

Exactly my thought. I am in the market for a JJP pin or maybe a different high end. I won't just buy the first one that comes along. At this price, it's got to be super good including theme.

I think this would have been better as a disaster or Si-Fi mishap type movie. But as it is, you can't un-ring a bell. This pin is mainly about a cell phone and those other things like scratching off a ticket etc..

Good points Skins. I agree. They could have sold quite well at just less than 7k. But a machine MUST tick all the boxes at 9k+ these days. It's no good people liking it. Buying is all the counts.

I hear you but keep in mind, lawlor was never going to live up to the hype people had in their minds. Did you see some of the ideas people were postulating in this thread? LOL. Splitting playfield, raising playfields, water playfields. No one could every live up to the hype. If jjp listed this game at $7,800-$8,200 and people actually played it, they would have a winner regardless of theme/art. Jjp shot themselves in the foot on 7000 le's at $9,000. Terrible decision. I have to wonder if that was at the insistence of the new partner or if jack truely believed this was the winning sales model.

That's what we would expect from Pat Lawlor right? His layouts are pure genius.

And that's the bottom line unfortunately.

Bingo. That's correct. The margin of error is razor thin when you tip toe into this price bracket.

After making one correct call after another he has now made a shocking decision. He has got the likely sales way wrong.

Experts of Dangerous...?

Quantum City will be the Add-A-Ball or two-player version. No word yet on the Italian version.

This art package was created in Photoshop, and Momjeans McCellphone is reused all over the art package. It would be really simple to remove him. Honestly, it maybe be minor and superficial, but removing him would give me a bit more interest in this game. The theater, phone, and "Red & Ted" toys on the playfield already give the game character. Momjeans detracts from it all.

If the shit hit the fan and is was truly a city "disaster" cell phones probably would not be working. Disasters effect cell towers too.

It's a magic cell phone.

/"magic!"/...

OK so off topic a bit but... Cell towers do well in disasters. In the Christchurch earthquake one of the providers had battery back ups on each tower and they service for a day or two giving them time to get generators out. Since then the other providers have beefed up battery backups. I have more confidence in my cell phone working in a disaster then my land line. They will be slammed with demand but the infrastructure is pretty robust.

I think we have a winner for the central character's name.

I can't get past this. It looks like a Fisher-Price pinball machine. Nobody, I mean nobody, builds a giant robot and then dresses it in overalls and a cap. Make the damn thing look like a robot, not the neighbor working in the yard.

And why the hell is "Ted" holding two lightning bolts? Does he do that in the "comic book"?

Isn't it because he works for the power company and thats what you do when you work for the power company?

Power company workers hold lightning bolts?

If I see someone holding a lightning bolt in a comic book, I am thinking Thor or Zeus, not the local power company worker.

Only dead power company workers. I was joking....he's the worst thing on the game IMO. Not sure if I could get over him. You're right, he looks like Zeus in overalls.

Overall, the game doesn't look TOO bad, except for Momjeans, Zeus, and Red. For some odd reason, Red bothers me the most as she simply looks so out of place.

It might be a great playing game, but as my wife said: "A pinball machine about cellphones? You have got to be kidding" I would never buy this pin, but am looking forward to the next one from JJP. They are moving in the right direction ... mostly.

I just watched some gameplay footage, and his lightning bolts actually light up and flash, which seems like it would look pretty cool in person.

This game needs a cameo of the "Can you hear me now?" guy that walks across the screen sometimes

Whats with the kiddie crap? Jesus make something cool already, Blade Runner or something Sci Fi/action style.

You are the angriest Canadian I have ever seen. Did your favorite hockey team lose or something?

From day 1, Jack has said he's going to do games for a family demographic. You're not going to get blood, guts or killer robot apocalypses.

You will once the wife sees what the pin cost.