I’d rather have a 90’s B/W retread (aka my CGC MBrLe) than anything JJP has put out since WOZ. Not a build guilty issue, per se, but nothing JJP has done since then has ruffled my feathers (POTC being excluded due to its way to short production run). I had such high hopes on DI and Wonka, but sadly, old Universal classic monsters is a better theme than either of those polished turds. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still pinball, just not my kind of pinball fun.

Killed it as in making sure it is finished, code included, is his point, I believe. JJP fanbois-speak is sometimes hard to translate, but you kind of get used to it after you drink the koolaid....

All this thread really needs is some Stern a$$kissers to start yodeling the company line and our journey to the dark side will be complete....

Your target market is middle aged men looking to recapture some of the glory from their youth... and if your theme song from that period was GNR, and you are middle aged, well then JJP is probably hitting the sweet spot of their target market. I have been surprised by the performance of the retreads... i.e. JP and TMNT, so I guess a GNR retread might work as well. If I was picking a group who is relevant to my target market, it would be a toss up between GNR and U2, or Aerosmith, and well Stern already did that didn't they? Hmmmm... U2 you say? I bet Bono would do it if you donated all the profits to the rain forest preservation society...

GNR is just a marketing smoke screen... what they really are launching is RUSH: the 2112 Pinball Experience which you can only find and play at State and county fairs, truck and tractor pulls in the midwest, and Monster Truck rallies on the west coast. There will be a traveling company going to all the wrestling events too... all in honor of Neil Peart's passing (RIP) or it could be another Lawlor "Theme from outta Nowhere", or maybe a brand new Toy Story pin based on Commode Show's Red and Ted talking heads (although as Woody and Buzz) and you have to rescue the pinball industry from the evil Dr. Sterg

So what is CGC's next game going to be again? Wait, what thread am I in? Damn it! All this talk and I thought it was CGC releasing their next game... wow talk about a buzz kill... GNR? Why are people stoked about a old Data East theme retread from a band that I hear less and less from every year?? If it wasn't for WTTJ being Whodey's favorite Bengals fight song, we would hear from them even less... At least I didn't write a song so frustratingly hard to play that I hate playing it everytime I have to walk on stage... oh sweet child of mine...

This is a very valid point.

I got a private lesson on JJPOTC from Eric... here is the video

I'm the big guy not wearing a hat... the other guy my friend FFejf Knar... or just Fej for short... or Jeff Rank for those not in the know.

It was during this Expo that everyone I know of who played pinball or routed pinball bought one if they could find it. There are about 5 of them owned by players in my pin league. They are bolted to most of their floors...

That "Some Mech?" black hole of death is probably a gobstopper toy reimagined as some GNR relevant spinning device... maybe Pat will recoup some of that money from WW develpment by making Eric reuse it here... or it could be something completely different... my money is on a gobstopper like toy though.

And while I am at it, did anyone notice no drop targets? Not unless they are on an upper PF... I don't see any bank of them... with all those drop targets in Hobbit and none in GNR, where's the money?

Load up the gun for 6 ball multiball... Sounds good, 6 virtual balls locked into it... thats my guess... gobstopper disguised as a revolver and you lock virtual balls in it.

I just like drop targets... they are a staple of pinball mechs... and they act as barricades and dividers, and locking mechs and... well you get a lot of milage out of a set of drops. It allows for whole banks to be scored in one shot, if your good enough... so shoot me if I point it out this has no banks of drops, so it has 2 strikes already. First strike is it's GNR, which has not been one of my band favorites, because in Ohio, where I grew up, well we have heard our share (and then some) of GNR. Right @who-dey? Don't want to piss off the GNR crowd... but not sure I can take Welcome to the Jungle in large quanities if I owned one at home. It may still be a winner, because, well it is Eric...

in my Family Guy and Pinbot if you must insist

I'm hyped for the new Eric design, but bummed about the theme. So I guess I am Hummed.

Jeeeesssssuuuuus this going to be a fricken long weekend.

Says the guy waiting on Covid19 test results...

sure, another blurry, half focused picture of a line of sculpts or mechs that will look sorta like a top hat or rose or gun... we all need that today, right?

Certainly not anything coming out of your pie hole. Take powder Francis.

Says they guy dropping the first f bomb. Class act there dude.

Ok, what in this picture that excites me is not his NIB perch, or his nonchalant semi axle look, but the pallets and pallets of parts in the background in boxes... pins for the masses.

Ok, is it just me, or does the reflection in his glasses show someone playing a pinball machine?

In the right lens (our right, his left) I see a silhouette of a back box and playfield with someone playing it wearing a very white or light color shirt and the dark spot above that looks like the person’s head. You can only tell it’s a machine with someone in front of it, no other detail.

Makes sense... his hard work is done, why not do some “play testing” on the company dime? Only downside- NO BEER!

I guess some Axl loving - hard core panty-bunching - JJP fanboys somehow got the Idea that I’m not a fan of JJP, GNR, or Eric, and so are taking all my post as sarcastic pokes at all three. Not sure where they got that idea... I thought it was quite clear that I think POTC is JJP’s best title to date, and I loved Eric’s design on it (see my post with the YT vid of our personal POTC lesson we got at Expo), and that although not my all time favorite band, I like Slash, not so much Axl, but Paradise City never gets old, just WTTJ since I grew up in and am originally from Dayton, Ohio, where the Bengals (who I still root for) kind of rode it into the ground. So your guess is as good as mine...

People’s homes means “people who have signed NDA’s”... And those “people” are most likely JJP employees or VIPs. Wouldn’t you think JJP would open up actual first dibs to VIPs and people working in the company anyways?

Not defending Kman but it would surprise me that there are NOT any GNR’s in private homes already.

People usually don’t jeopardize their livelihood by leaking pics of their employers products against their wishes, and the list of VIP’s would most likely be a very short list. And to use the plural of house you only need two homes... Slash and Jersey Jack fits that count.

If it easily tells me where I am in regards to how far into the game I have gotten, then sure, maps totally Kick booty

It takes a minute for this to sink in and make sense... but wait for it...

OK, now that you remembered what all those letters stand for... this is actually looking like AGBgoWT had sex with an AC/DC machine while IMDN was watching and jerking off in a corner. And the un-holy trinity threesom produced the most kick ass Rock Themed Pinball Machine ever!!! Can't wait to flip this scalded dog...