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Lol.. nope. But if their global distribution sucks they are gonna have a bad time.. #rockinrio

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A.) Everyone knew Iron Maiden was the next game.. everyone, it was the worst kept secret in Pinball. George Gomez talked about “Titanium Man” at TPF.

B.) Who gives a shit about the quality of the stupid teaser? It will be watched for like 3 days.

C.). Rules by Keith Elwin will give people a tough game, for all of you cheaters that have your games on 5 ball, infinite extra balls, 5 degree incline, and bitch about no wizard mode in the code yet.

D.). Maiden is awesome. Even if you hate them it’s impossible to not be entertained at their shows. There is lots of cool material to use with their stage show.

E.). A reveal will be coming soon, and plenty of you will find stuff wrong with it even though you likely don’t have the money or won’t buy one anyway.

F.) stern could literally put out the guardians playfield again, and write Iron Maiden in Marker on the side and they will sell 15k games, so anything that you say matters to their sales. Won’t..

G.). If stern asked you to come announce their game on live stream, you would do it despite what you say and you would sound like a complete asshat doing it. At least many of us enjoy jack danger and appreciate what he is doing for Pinball.

I only know the alphabet through G.. Tom!

Nobody knows how many they have or haven’t made.. not even you or your friend who says he knows. They made Metallica for 5 years, everyone you know has a Metallica.. Maiden is going to crush whatever sales they made on Metallica. People that have never played a Pinball will buy this game sight unseen. Then you will have your normal sales on top of that.

Go YouTube rock in rio, and find me a kiss show within the last 30 years that looks like that.

The point is, what everyone is saying “stern is dumb, and this will impact sales” is wrong.. it will sell a ton regardless.

You’re missing the point, Maiden fans will buy it because it’s maiden.. even if they’ve never played a Pinball before. Still, my original point was everyone focusing on how the “poor marketing” will impact sales. It won’t.

I don’t think it will do better than Metallica in the US, but overall I predict it will do better.

I absolutely believe that.

Anticipated Tuesday Morning as per cointaker Facebook page.

Time will tell. Metallica has more going for it than just theme, that’s for sure. But I think there are a lot more Maiden fans than Metallica fans worldwide, and with the new platform, the material to draw from, the design team involved, and the growth of Pinball in general, I still think this will do better than Met.

Either way, I’m excited that Pinball is growing and new awesome themes are being released all the time.

Being “pissed” over a few people announcing that a new pinball machine is coming is a silly reason. They will show it in a few days and the same trolls will be “pissed” about something else.

Still a silly reason to be pissed, we are getting a new game.. we knew it was Maiden. Wait until Tuesday for more details and move on.

That’s only because everyone was afraid they were going to get busted for only having downloaded copies of Metallica’s music

I'm a Metallica fan as well, and went to both shows this summer, I owned a "promium" met and would love an LE.. I'd be in line already for an Iron Maiden LE if I didn't feel kind of burned by my sight-unseen Star Wars LE purchase. I'm not trying to start a war between which band is more popular.. The original point I was trying to make was all of the people who are saying that Stern's sales will suffer, because of the way they "revealed" this game.. or whatever the story will be next week (artwork, limited LE features, similarity to other games, then eventually code, yada yada yada). It won't.. none of it will matter, the game will sell great.. and my prediction, for what it's worth, is that it will be on the line for years, and will sell more than Metallica. Pinball is more popular, the band is globally huge, I have a ton of faith in the design team, etc. That's my prediction, and I'm perfectly capable of being wrong.

Also, can't we all just be excited that pinball has grown to the point that new games are coming out every few months? I'm growing weary of the attacks on stern.. if you don't like it, that's fine.. but go pee in your own cheerio's

Ordered an LE today.. since people are trying to figure out the shortname for this game.. I submit the following

\m/
\m/LE

I love vinyl records, but while shopping games? No thanks.. next thing you know you need to turn the record over and your hands are dirty, you’ve got solder in your teeth and a hot soldering iron in the other..

Also, picture discs? Have some self respect man, those are wall hangers!

Nice! I love those guys!

how about, just buy something else?

or maybe I'm just weary of people saying they hate iron maiden in a thread about an iron maiden game..

Oh I'm going to make this the iron maiden strokefest thread!

But seriously, if we're talking about putting a "KISS" decal on the side of an Iron Maiden game.. I'm going to get mildly offended..

Luckily, if you hate iron maiden but like the gameplay.. just wait long enough and you'll have a new theme with a similar playfield layout.. So if you hate say Metallica, you might really like Guardians of the Galaxy!

I took this video last summer.

I’d be willing to bet Spooky likes it.. they don’t have sales problems, they have production problems (i.e. lots of backorders) and no desire to get bigger. Plus I’m guessing here, but I bet Charlie likes Maiden

Distributors were told "The licensor has first public release posting rights. You will not see these images on Stern’s website until we get the go ahead from the
licensor."

maybe that way stern can claim "they" didn't publicly release them.. it was leaked

I have an order on an LE, and I feel like stern listened to us. Mirrored backglass, shaker motor, hand drawn art, anti-reflective glass, upgraded speaker system..

Design looks awesome, gameplay and rules on the pro are awesome, new ramp mechs look next-level.

I’m thrilled.. Up the irons! Great work Keith and Stern.

Martinlogan dynamo 300 is $200 and a lot better than the Polk 10” everyone buys (in my opinion).

I have a bunch of pioneer Sw-8 that I got open box from Best Buy that are OK. But they were under $100 and probably comparable to the polks people get.

El Dorado City of Gold has 15 drop targets! Metallica only has 3.

Stern != Deadflip.. So they are still within the terms.

yes, the licensor has first rights to releasing the game photos before stern can.. But deadflip is not stern.

we don't know the details of their license agreement, it could have been as specific as "stern will not put images on their website (sternpinball.com) prior to the licensor releasing images," etc.

Feel better dude...

And on that note.. would anyone be interested in doing a trade? My Iron Maiden LE #418 for an Iron Maiden pro plus cash?

Obviously not a long term solution, but why not buy a power strip with a timer on it like for Christmas lights and just have it set to turn off for about a minute once a day? Unless the place is legitimately open 24x7.