Well you guys don’t have to worry about it anymore now do you?

The curtain has dropped. And the show has gone “dark”. Lol

Gonna be a LONG 6 months!

Curious John why you feel Trailer Trash is an acceptable theme? I know a few people that live in trailer parks and they are good folk.

If you want to argue with the EIA be my guest. Since it’s an “existential threat” you might want to understand the reality!

Europe gets it now.

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Rednecks are the best! I’m one of them. A term of endearment.

And above post was meant for stock market thread. My bad

What was Benny saying? So I could “own” him? Lol. Yeah NOPE, got it all wrong boys

Because one person mentioned it as an alternative theme if TPB couldn't work. Which sort of sums up all of John's decisions that he has made on the project. My question is...if John runs out of napkins, does he run out of ideas?

Me too..Still I would he ashamed to tell my fellow red necks I was making a Trailer Trash pin. Change the name I.m.o

I already suggested a space theme and was down voted.

Trailer Trash may sound fine alongside trailer park boys, but no one is going to want it when they see the final product on its own. One positive is that the chances of a final product coming to completion is close to zero.

These are good suggestions, but the problem as you noted is that John thinks out loud on a forum. It would be really really hard for him not to reveal anything for 6 months despite saying he can

Agree that “Trailer Trash” is an offensive theme. I wouldn’t make a machine with a theme that could be considered as offensive and denigrating to about 20 million US citizens that happen to live in a mobile home.

Custom theme, so add writing dialog, recording his bar buddies saying it, mixing sound FX and music all to the list of things he won't get done by March.

Trailer park paradise

.fixed it!

300 bucks includes pinside discount.

Align the game and toys to a very close TPB theme and your good to go!

John marches to his own beat and does his thing. I talked to him this weekend.

Good guy

I am not going to take the bait here. I will simply state that you have no clue as the the PM's or anything else I was privy to pertaining to the GFM. It would have been fulfilled in one week flat.

By the time you have finished the prototype then you can reapproach the license company but let a professional contact them next time...by phone not email for a face to face meeting In person or zoom.

Easy to say now. But when it comes time to put up, the $2,500 you said was committed? Way too finicky group.

Then again, the drama queens are so starved for it I could see some doing anything to not miss out.

Doesn’t matter now.

How many people would pay $5 bucks a month for 6 months on Patreon to watch the show?

You would have paid $11k now for a “charity case”.

Kaneda has 500 or so for that entertainment train wreck. Lol

I’m liking “Redneck Riviera” or something Redneck. Much better.

Trailer Park Rednecks

So John has had one day of "FOMO to kick in" (his description) and he has now gone dark.

Unless he is the Pod-Father and already has whales hog tied in the Greatwich Bay, isn't that a bit premature? My assumption is that right now he has none and this is prime time to promote.

I don't know any of the details behind the scenes but its outward confusion like this that will keep people coming back. - Let the speculation begin.

Pinballs scammers - even ones who don’t realize they’re about to become one, aren’t entitled to politeness. Especially when they repeatedly ignore rational advice. This community has been burned too many times. Nah, I’ll save my nice side for the good people in pinball.

I'll happily donate some pinball parts from my homebrew box of parts to John. A ball trough and some old flipper mechs should get him going... I could toss in some random ramp parts if he goes Franken Stern Pro model

What if it was Trailer Park Aliens from Outer Space? Then you can do all the bad taste jokes, stereotypes, etc... but it's ok because the little people are purple, have tentacles, and the confederate flag hats are references to a fictional planetary confederacy that lost the intergalactic civil war over robot rights.

It's all a bunch of nonsense that won't happen. So we might as well really lean into the bad idea

Make it, Ben Heck's Trailer Park Aliens from Outer Space. (In 3-D Purple)

Haha, I like it.

benheck how long does it take for my licensing people to get with your people. Two weeks should be sufficient, no?

I'm gonna go with... CEASE AND DESIST!

Nostalgic Nuclear Undead Carnival Trailer Park?

Damn. I hadn’t considered that possibility during my seconds of planning. Oh well. It won’t affect my schedule in the slightest

Maybe the license for this old 1958 movie is available.

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Crowd chanting kill it, kill it!

I'm looking for a whale, who isn't Iceman, to give me $100k to make The Tingler Pinball, otherwise it dies.

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If this thread is now dead, I will miss the daily beer counts.

Agreed. They really held the thread together.

Lol. As long as he comes to the house to build it but that would be cool!

Can maintain it as a beer drinking thread for a while with some Easter Eggs and puzzles since the boys seem to love that.

“Take this job and shove it”? Johnny Paycheck.

“Up against the Wall redneck mother”? Jerry Jeff Walker

Tomorrow will be better!

Wait a second, Ben...
"Percepto" was an original movie gimmick? A buzzing device activated in every movie theater seat?
https://www.nightmarishconjurings.com/2019/09/26/horrible-imaginings-film-review-the-tingler-in-percepto-60th-anniversary/
Amaaazing!

Amarillo by morning, up from San Anton

All Kim’s exes live in Texas!

But Texas is a place I really love

https://anchor.fm/pinball-industry-news/episodes/Pinball-Magazine--Pinball-News-PINcast-June-2022-recap-e1kpmg1

Yes there's a scene in the movie that takes place in a movie theater and it's like "the tingler could be in this very theater!" and then random seats in YOUR theater would buzz.

Same director that made House on Haunted Hill, also with Price.

If he has gone dark, good for him ! Really, it’s the right thing to do. That is the first piece of advice I’ve seen him actually take. Cold turkey is hard though so I hope he keeps it up. I guess Ice gave him the $10K with his proviso he STFU if he wants access to the funds. Well countdown timer on 6 months, and let’s hope it’s something fantastic and not what we fear. Hope for Ice’s sake it will be worth it.

I love how I have him blocked and I still knew Iceman was the whale.

It's like "seeing" a black hole - you don't see it, but you know it's there by how it affects stuff around it.

(black hole analogy apt as that's where Ice's money will be going)

Posted July 16th

Damn it Benny. You can’t announce the “ignore”. It’s against the rules!!!

But thanks for worrying about my $$$.

Even though you can’t see this, if you had me as an advisor you would have a lot more $$.

I’m not trying to be negative here, I love a pinball game, any game, and AMH really wasn’t that bad!!! Except for the etch a sketch artwork

Now, if I’m going to invest in something “known” versus “unknown” and I’ve already seen the “known” from you many years ago…..

I’m gonna take a flyer on Jon Norris, an established designer, that has willingly agreed to work with John.

This isn’t Ben agreeing to work with Jpop.

Or making the wrong business move of not working and partnering with Charlie when you had the chance. Bad move.

One guy is willing to work with others and has ZERO ego. The other has a track record of NOT.

So, let’s see the next game from Benny on his own 8 yrs later. I’m seriously interested

It doesn’t mean i “own you” but I just dropped the mic.

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