I think it would be worth my money just for the callouts alone. That show was one big callout (the movie part anyways). One of my all time favorites (my kids love it too).

I'm a little particular when it comes to MST3k. I prefer the Mike, Kevin, Bill years (the later episodes). For me, those guys would be a must for the pin. As for the integration of the theme, that's a tough one. I guess modes could play clips and call-outs from particular episodes like "Final Sacrifice" or "Puma Man".

Not sure if you guys know this or not but Mike, Kevin, and Bill are still basically doing the MST3k show now called RiffTrax. You can get it on the web and Hulu, check out www.rifftrax.com for all their stuff. If you are looking for a good episode I can suggest a couple. After all these years I'm glad to see these guys still doing it, it's pretty amazing to have basically grown up watching the show and now as an adult watching basically the same show continue.

Yeah, Rifftrax is great live. Been to several of the local rifftrax showings and saw them at dcon as well. Really funny guys and very nice in person. Hope their kickstarter goes well.

There are a million callouts from the show that could be used, but it's definitely a situation where custom speech could easily be recorded without a big budget. The taunts for poor play could be so good.

That pop bumper is awesome. I want a 'Mitchell' target that shouts "MITCHELL!" everytime you hit it.

Push the button Frank

And now I have ANOTHER dream theme!

Perfect call out after putting in a quarter! Unfortunately, a home game would like be on freeplay probably...however, an IR sensor in front of the game would be funny. Walk up to the game and you hear "Push the button, Frank".

How about a target that calls out a random name for the big blond guy from Mutiny in Space each time it's hit?

Beat PunchBeef
Big Brave Brick of Meat
Big McLargeHuge
Blast HardCheese
Blast ThickNeck
Bob Johnson
Bold BigFlank
Bolt VanderHuge
Brick HardMeat
Buck PlankChest
Buff DrinkLots
Buff HardBack
Butch DeadLift
ChunkHead
Chunky
Crud BoneMeal
Crunch ButtSteak
Dirk HardPec
Fist RockBone
Flink
Flint IronStag
Fridge LargeMeat
Gristle McThornBody
Hack BlowFist
Hunk
Lump BeefBroth
Punch RockGroin
Punch Side-Iron
Punt SpeedChunk
Reef BlastBody
Roll Fizzlebeef
Rip SteakFace
Slab BulkHead
Slab SquatThrust
Slam
Slate Fistcrunch
Slate SlabRock
Smash LampJaw
Smoke ManMuscle
Splint ChestHair
Stump BeefKnob
Stump Chunkman
Thick McRunFast
Touch RustRod
Trunk SlamChest
Whip SlagCheek

Would the instruction manual be made out of paper or metal? I got a bet with Joe

As seen here

It would be my first NIB.
Spooky, let's make this happen -- aren't you guys close to Minnesota?
-mof

That is awesome, I would really like to catch one of their shows live sometime. For any of you guys that have not checked it out yet, you don't know what you are missing. Maybe it's just my MS3K nostalgia, but those three voices make me laugh no matter what. They are releasing a new episode next Friday of "The Wizard" one of my favorite movies growing up as a kid. It's the one where Fred Savage is friends with some kid that is competing in a video game tournament. I can't wait to see that. Also, they just started selling old MST3k episodes on their website as well.

I love this idea, I'd buy one in an instant.

Not to knock this off topic, but Joel is trying to restart the show. He's almost hit his Kickstarter goal four days in.

Interesting, I wonder who the other two voices would be (assuming there would be three). Kevin Murphy (Tom Servo), works at Rifftrax now.

Love Mst3k!! (Owned every episode at one point) Love Rifftrax!!! Have over a 100 riffs purchased plus dozens of riffed movies.

Been to The Room and Starship Troopers Riffed live in theaters.

Bigger fan of the show from season 5 - 10 but plenty of great episodes before that. Watch out for snakes!! Or Roxie!!! Would be great call outs from Eegah.

Hope the show does come back but Mike and the bots (Kevin and Trace/Bill) were so magical for me. I never caught any of the Cinematic Titanic movies. It's on my list though.

Oh and there was a show called Cheap Seats that was very similar to Mst3k. Check them out on YouTube.

toyotaboy, what about theater seat locks?

Is that a 24 white wood?

I've always liked you Grinder, now I know why lol. I really want to try to make it to a Rifftrax live show. I own 90% of all their streaming content. My current top 5 Riffs are: ROTOR, Radical Jack, Stone Cold, Birdemic, and Fever Lake.

My top 5 MST3k Episodes would be: Final Sacrifice, Final Justice, Riding with Death, Prince of Space, and Space Mutiny. I think those would be awesome to integrate in as modes with sound clips and video. Although, it doesn't really cover enough of the entire show, just the later seasons. I think the inline drop targets are a great idea by the way for the doors.

looks like one

Thanks bud! RollerGator is so bad and it hurts so much, won't you?

Wish you were closer and we'd get a bunch of msties together and watch some of our favorites. Your top five are great ones. I can't get enough of Red Zone Cube though. Guard. Water. Sick man.

I also love Space Mutiny, Final Sacrifice, Time Chasers, and Future War.

I was watching Creeping Terror just last night. Another great one!

I donated a $100 to the MST3K Kickstarter fund. Movie sign!!!!

I'm tempted to bump mine up to the $150 tier. The rewards look pretty good.

I bumped my amount to $200! I think we've got six episodes paid for! I wanted a blue ray box set of the episodes. Very excited for this. It would be so awesome if this led to mst3k being picked up by a network/channel

I'm not much of a LCD guy, but this game would have to have an LCD to show a lot of corny acting/monsters. The modes would be incredible and the video clips could be set to random. Several different movies of each genre, sci fi, zombie, vampire etc so you could use several clips for different modes.

The MOST funded project in Kickstarter history!!!! So proud to have helped and can't wait to see what they come up with.

I hope they parlay this into being able to bring the show to reg tv again.

The telethon tonight was really fun. Dana Gould's bit was great. So was the singalong at the end.

"If I may break character for a moment..."

I hope they spend some of the money on getting their pinball machine made -- who's going to introduce them to Spooky, and save the internet? Aren't WI and MN like -- cousins?

-mof

I know! Charlie, get in here!

First off, I would DIE for an MST3K pin!

Second, for those who want Mike and the bots on their pin RIGHT NOW - I've just made a new item called Card Covers on my site, and the first design is for MST3k. Just download, print, cut out the silhouette, and slide right on top of any of your current movie-themed pins where the rule cards could use some love and humor!

"We've got movie sign!"

Download Free @:
http://pinballboy.com/rulecards/mst3k

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Red Manos hand decals (a la The Master's cloak) over the flipper buttons, and Torgo Multiball complete with theme song!

AFM would be a good candidate for a re-theme base on the MST movie: The saucer is pretty spot-on, rubber martians become mu-tants with a little head modding...top it off with a triangular Interocitor DMD!

Awesome pin idea! I hope there'd be a spinning MST3k globe toy somewhere on the playfield.

That sounds like a good looping ramp shot mode. Maybe every time you hit it, a humorously mutated version of the main character appears on the DMD like the repeating hitchhikers in TZ. "LUMP BEEFBROTH" [tiny arms] "PUNCH ROCKGROIN" [upside-down face] "BIG MCLARGEHUGE" [too big for the screen]

I'm in!

Hard to believe the license would be expensive. Rifftrax has been re-releasing old MST3k episodes once a week on top of their other releases. I can't imagine they pay much for the license. Not to mention, you would think Joel would want all the publicity he can get for the reboot.

4 year later one the verge of another wildly successful kickstarter campaign and 2 season with Netflix I wonder if there's any more appetite for this. I honestly can't think of a theme more suited for a pin, and like others have said it would be an automatic buy for many based on brand loyalty alone.

Really hope someone revisits this at some point. I'd personally love to see a Black Mirror pin made, but until MST3K happens it has permanent residency at the top of my wishlist

Have you tried Elvira House of Horror? Pretty similar vibe of making lots of bad movies into modes.

Agreed about her style of comedy. A lot of it is pretty corny. She has a pretty bad hit/miss ratio compared to MST3k machine gun approach of constant jokes.

Or it could just be a generational thing of me being raised on a much more absurdist and referential style of comedy than one based on word play and innuendo. MST3k is definitely more the former than the later.

Anyhow EHOH is probably the closest we’re getting to a MST3k pin. I like how the movies are the real star of pin and some are very well integrated.

Maybe someone could make the ultimate re-mix to include one liners from Crow and Tom Servo and video bits from the show.

And just to say EHOH has its funny and campy charm. The end trailer sequence is some S-tier work by Lyman