I believe Stern will vault GB. It's just my opinion but I think it will have changes as well. I think Dwight S is on record for saying he'd be for a closer gapped GB vault. Not to get anyone in hot water just my impression. Is Stern due for a vault?

With the backlog and supply chain issues they have, I doubt they do a vault anytime soon.

Agreed. They can't get the materials to make current, active titles... why would they vault something. I believe I heard they are currently backordered well north of 10,000 machines as of early Nov... (I can't remember the exact number but my jaw hit the floor when I heard it)...

I think they are due; I believe ST was the last one. However, they are running a backlog at the moment so I am not sure they are in the best position to do a release any time in the imminent future.

GB would make the most sense as the movie has been freshly released and there is clear demand (as evidenced by the ridiculous secondhand prices).

I REALLY hope they do release a VE and address the flipper gap; if they do this they will simultaneously fix the one and only major flaw with the game AND likely make a few Pinside heads explode when the resale values on "originals" decrease by 30+% overnight, lol.

No need to adjust the flipper gap, games would be too long (but I guess you can put lightning flippers then if you want)

They scrapped Trudeau's deadpool and started from scratch because they didn't want any association with him. They're going to bring back the machine he designed immediately before that one?

Guess it would be a fight of how much Stern wants that dollar dollar bill versus not having any chance of being seen as continuing to profit from the work of a pedophile...

Frankly, I wouldn't be at all shocked if the profits was a larger consideration for them. They've practically proven at this point, you CAN sell *anything* in pinball right now and make a murder off it.

Neither was deadpool.

Stern sells everything they make and has a backlog 10k long. Don't see the need or desire to bring back a machine that runs on the old hardware which also happened to be designed by a convicted pedophile.

I wonder if JT would still get royalties if they ever did remake and sell more of this terrible fucking game.

Did they have any kind of a "morality clause?"

I doubt it. Does Steve Richie still get paid when they vault ST now that he left?

I thought the last Vault was Iron Man, where’s an accurate account of every game vaulted and when? Even on the Pinside database it’s hard to find the different releases

They seem to do this shit pretty quietly. Did Iron Man even get a press release last year?

I had zero idea it had been released until I was owned by a Pinsider.

I wonder...why wouldn't Steve Ritchie still get his royalties? Why wouldn't Nordman get his Elvira royalties?

David Lee Roth still got his royalties from 1984 in 1994.

I agree they shouldn't make more, but because it's a heap of shit, not all the weird things you were saying.

RocknRollgument!

Yes, there’s lots of different guments for sure.

I never said we can’t compare pinball to anything.

It’s always been more about my frustration with people insisting on always comparing pinball - and everything on the planet - to cars, even when it makes no fuckin sense.

Thank you drive thru!

Oh its a thing I do, it wasn't pointed at you.

Just no Trudeau “license plate” editions @25k. Thanks.

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I petition that Stern should build all the back ordered games people have deposits down for instead of releasing a new game and getting further behind.

I petition that the dozens of people your plan will put out of work go to live at your house for a year or until whenever the backlog is exhausted.

I would be willing to let my premium go for $15k lol.

Ok so let’s do a remake but update it some. I can’t afford the scalp prices, but would love to see it updated with a full lcd makeover. Add more code, new movie clips.

Go ahead.
But I don't see Stern doing that any time soon, for the many reasons above plus the added cost to redesign a game taking nearly as much effort as a new game design from scratch.

Seeing the want for the game now i find interesting. All the piss and moan back in 2016. Then the games being sold because of this and that or other something bad. Then a public relations issue for stern. They had a option to make more them but passed. I still like the people who got the game more then once and dumped it now want it again. Do i think stern didn't produce enough of them probably.

As another game come out at the pace their going Ghostbuster games will be sold in favor of a new game. Stern is to busy selling over priced cost reduced games. Then laughing at the topper pricing as they count their money.

The demand is probably from new people who haven’t played it but see the theme and pretty art (take note what drives product demand A.P.)

Also I’m curious if Stern even wants to re-run non-IC games. Might be part of why Met will be redone

You know what, if you didn't score one when they were available, sorry!!

Frozen Empire here next Thursday!!

I just got tickets for Sunday. We are super looking forward to seeing this