My top 2 would be
Roger Moore
Sean Connery

I’m not a fan of the one actor idea.

At a minimum it needs to be a combo of the slot machine titles that came out recently and I believe Kapow was involved with that so there is a chance.

Slots were
Gold finger
Live and Let Die
Tomorrow Never Dies
Casino Royale
Thunder ball
Diamonds are for Ever.

Package these 6 into one pinball machine and I’m in!

Although I’d like Moonraker and View to a Kill in there as well.

I think it would be pretty complicated to license more than one actor / movie into this game. Licensing for this could be a tangled, expensive, and time consuming web.

I have an old Lp “the best of bond” with every theme song up to octopussy. The album jacket has a ton of photos of Bind girls and stuntmen shots from the flicks and zero actual clear photos of bond actors. The hand drawn bond is a generic Connery type. I’m sure there a reason for that. And the album is from 1984, a far less litigious time.

Anything is possible I’m just not sure it’s feasible. You’d be dealing with numerous estates / actors, not to mention the music, every different film etc. sounds like a nightmare when there are hundreds of much “easier” licenses to pull off unless we could settle for a “one movie” game like goldeneye.

I’m not sure pinside could handle the other option, a Jurassic park-style generic bond pin. It would be a dark night for stern.

If it’s just one movie it isn’t worth doing.

Those slot machines have a shit ton of assets from music, Bond, girls, villains etc...

I think it could be done and as much as I hate to say it, it’s right up Kapow’s alley.

Could be one actor and several movies or 1 movie from each Bond etc...many many options.

I saw this in a Las Vegas casino amongst many other digital slot machines that obviously share intellectual property with modern pinball machines (Wonka, JP, etc.). I think there is at least a chance this is featuring media created by/with a pinball manufacturer.

Just my theory.

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I don’t see any of the actors there, does the slot feature actual actors’ faces?

It does go without saying I think that the slots also probably have a much bigger budget for IP than we do. They are printing money !!!

Sean Connery or don't even bother. Unless they want to make a pin based solely on what is my favorite Bond film.
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I believe I saw Sean's face in some video. That was Thunderball which I see was mentioned already.

I've recently been going back and watching all the movies. The Roger Moore era was horrendous. Timothy Dalton is underrated. Connery wins the prize by a long shot.

I'd be down for another Bond pin. It's a timeless theme that would easily sell.

The new movie is probably going to suck. It is what it is.

The actors are in all of them and there are videos on YouTube showing it.

Like I said, pretty sure Joe K was involved in that licensing deal and wouldn’t surprise me if this was what’s used in a pin.

The remake of Casino Royale was the best Bond film of all-time. Craig.

If your going to make a bond theme , There needs to be a mode where James Bond is in bed all ready to go before the lady shows up and then says “I thought u were going to take care of me personally “

I think roger Moore will be better at this mode

Would have include the theme music and song tracks

1 of my dream themes. I liked all the different era's of Bond. I think a Bond would do very well for Stern. Elwin or Gomez would be sweet.

A pin based on all the Bond films would be great, with 3 or 4 modes for each based on the action scenes.
(LOL, that'd be 100 modes)

This 2012 blu-ray commercial shows the potential...

100 modes or chapters sounds like a JJP machine to me.

I'm tired of all this over serious bullshit. The last Bond movie was fucking awful.

Time to reset - again. This time go back to the goofy Moore years and have a few laughs. Why the hell not?

Craig isn't even the first "serious reboot." Dalton did it 30 years ago.

Variety is the spice of life. The last Bond movie was no fucking fun at all.

As an aside, I hope the next Bond is black, preferably gay. Variety baby!

I'm not ready for him to be a woman though. I heard rumors in the early 90s they were thinking of making Sharon Stone Bond, or having Tarantino direct and make it a 60s period piece. Interesting ideas!

In the end they went with Remmington's Steele's warmed over Connery act. Was a good move for the time and Goldeneye was a fun movie. The rest of his sucked.

I think I'm 100% certain that's not gonna happen.

Re:
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
2015 American spy film directed by Guy Ritchie set in 1963
Decent film.
It was a box-office bomb, grossing $107 million worldwide on a $75 million budget.

Your next Bond film is going to look more like a Fast & Furious movie and be directed by Edgar Wright (Baby Driver), it's always a British Director.

Few will agree, but Timothy Dalton was the best Bond.

https://www.eightieskids.com/reasons-why-timothy-dalton-probably-best-james-bond/

You need to get the license for the Aston Martin.....the ball can go in a scoop, you flip the shooter rod top and hit the eject button to shoot at a stand up on the pf. And of course the shooter rod will have to be an L shaped shift lever for maximum effect. It also needs a jump ramp like No Fear. Hmmm, also you need a laser, the laser will be pointing to a surgical table with the Bond figure strapped to it...you have to hit certain shots to stop the laser from cutting Bond in half....lol. this could be great...but you know we'll just end up with a Dr. No bash toy instead.

a general James Bond pinball would be awesome with maybe the approach of 1 x ramp being planes / air travel, another ramp being motorbikes / cars, a subway being under water, a shot to a building for weapon selection, another shot to a hotel for a meetup / hookup with a contact and then the pinball having 30 missions.

Each mission is effectively a mode which is a summary of that particular movie with the mission name being the same or similar to a bond movie.
Each mission / mode being different with a car trip, a plane trip, get weapons, hookup with a contact, introduce proximity mines (so if a shot is red and you go down it, that mission is over) and bobby traps etc and each one in a different order.

OR

how about like the movie Kingsman where you go through 6-8 modes of "00" Training (weapons, hand combat, driving, battles (online against other players) etc) then you are sent out for your first mission (Grand Wizard Mode) to become the next "007" if you succeed and if you do, you put put your name up on the "007" board which can list all the actors in order of the movies and then you get to list your name behind them and the game gives you a fake movie name and the next time you get there a different movie fake movie name is put up - this would be good to be up on the internet where Stern can have 100 fake movies and the highest score for that fake movie gets your name up. This could get around some of the licensing possibly.

I have a Goldeneye and it really integrates well into the movie from the tank multiball, Xenia Onatopp ball squeeze to the second chance eject and of course the satellite shot. So if a new Bond pin (Stern?) is tied well to the next Bond film, No Time to Die, that would be ok with me. Since Daniel Craig's Bond films all follow the same arc with Spectre, elements from all four of his previous Bond outings could be brought in easily.

If Stern does have the license I expect we will be finding out soon enough ...

I'd be OK with JAWS vs JAWS

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How bout another Ward Bond pinball theme?

I know they already did Wagon Train, but this time it could include video scenes from the show and that epic theme song.
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Interesting fact is Gottlieb released Wagon Train in April 0f 1960 with Ward Bond's likeness on the playfield, 7 months before he died of a massive heart attack. His good friend John Wayne did the eulogy. They found a replacement, but the magic was gone and the show was never the same again.

Maybe good time to make a Bond pin in his memory

18 minutes ago I heard a rumor Stern has the license. From you.

That's about it!

Get in…….. it’s happening yes?

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Since this thread was bumped it has to be true.

Would love to see it with a Dr. Who/Game of thrones/TMNT style play.... where you get to pick your "Bond" at start up. And the modes will change in conjunction with that particular Bond.

Hope the game is S.P.E.C.T.R.E and you the player is James Bond and you have to defeat 8 villains (1 for each tentacle) and then head of the organisation.

Even though characters like Jaws may not have fallen under an organisation it could be a cool way to link all the best villains in one game and then have a generic bond - all the faces morphed together

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A hype thread for a theme with 48 comments gets a game, no new BTTF?

If Stern do it right, you'll have the sexiest and coolest pinball machine ever made. There's nothing nerdy or geeky about Bond.