as the "Dr Shultz tribute wizard mode" ?

For me:
PF
RD
Django

Django was Jamie Foxxes greatest role, and helps me forget about what a sell out chump he is jivin in all those annoying af Draft King ads

And Christopher Waltz was just goddamn PERFECT.

Lots of ppl are buying SEs

I’m intrigued by the CoinUp online connectivity feature on PF.

Think they will offer the topper as an SE add on like what they did for CCr?

Would be nice but not sure who would make that call? Probably not CGC since this is mostly Play Mechanix on the development side. In addition, doing so would severely water down exclusivity of the LE since the topper is the main attraction. That said, they could certainly make some $$ doing so. I bet a lot of SE folks would cough up $1500 just for the topper...

They have to do 1250 cactus le not 1000 so 33% done.

From what I hear SE sales are going great. But nobody is going to thirsty post about them, there’s no reason to.

This post should be pinned!

Done.

Im late but i just realised that Gimp was on the backglass

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or maybe Grand Theft Auto . . .

Yikes, so maybe summer 2024 until PF LE's are actually going out the door.

I hadn't seen him but was hoping for Buddy Holly!

I think it will depend on parts, not what CCr is up to. Isn’t the CCr delay due to topper parts or something? As long as those issues don’t happen with PF, maybe things will be OK? Delay isn’t a guarantee. The fact that CGC is already being open about holding off till October is a good sign IMO. We’ll see!

I’ll never forget my first PAPA. The pale skin, cargo shorts, wrist and knee braces (for competition). It was pretty hilarious. The community has gotten significantly younger since. It thinks it’s hipper now too…but it’s not.

If they're not going to start making them at the earliest by October why announce it now with so much competition around

Since this has been "baking" for so long (over 4 years, apparently), I'm not surprised they finally went public. With so much bake time, you'd think they'd be in a great position to start building these. Oh well.

Maybe they need the deposit money to start buying the PF specific parts?

One thousand LE deposits at $1k each plus however many SE deposits were sold is well over 1 million dollars.

I would think it would be better to wait for a window when nothing is happening ( which happens a lot ) and be a lot closer to producing them . No matter how good the game is , people get really pissed off with really long wait times .
I've read a lot of people cancelling their Elvira , Cactus Canyon and Godzilla premiums because of the wait times .

My distro was told 60 to 90 days to ship, but guessed August to give some cushion. That seems optimistic but maybe CGC has been able to ramp things up while waiting on that topper part for CCrLE.

If this is true, there’s a lot more to worry about with CGC than taking too long to make games. This is what LOCs are for.

More likely a parts/labor availability issue.

Manufacturing is complex, and it’s hard to have a game plan when you don’t know how many you need to build. A weird game like this wasn’t guaranteed big sales….even Josh said he lost some bets. Stern is in a different position - they KNOW they’re gonna sell 1000 LE’s annd a certain amount of Pros/Prems pretty much no matter what. They can confidently have everything ready to be on the line, so they can reveal, build, ship. CGC didn’t have that confidence on their first non-remake. Announcing early has given them the info they need for how many parts they’re going to have to procure to manufacture.

Does CGC have capacity to run 2 different game lines at once or will they need to wrap up CCr production before recofiguring line to start Pulp Fiction?

If not, they’d put themselves in a good place to do so. They could be selling more MMr, MBr, and AFMr all day long.

Actually CGC had that confidence. I absolutely did NOT have that confidence (leading to so many lost bets).

CGC started releasing production parts months ago to build the first 1000 machines. Unfortunately you can't build with 99% of the parts so we're still in the process of approving parts to then be released for production.

Good/Fast/Cheap ... Pick 2.

CGC picks good and cheap, so it ain't fast

Separate line is being built up for Pulp production.

Just rewatched Pulp Fiction. Yeah, glad I snagged an LE. This is gonna be a gem.

Is it a CGC game? I'm confused about the whose game this is. I thought it was a Play Mechanix game and CGC was just the manufacturer they contracted to build it for them.

Maybe its a CGC game and they contracted with Play Mechanix to design it? All the game info is on CGC's website not Play Mechanix.

Maybe its more of a 50/50 joint venture?

Are Play Mechanix and Raw Thrills the same company?

Nice!

I heard the CFO from Raw Thrills will be working the production line.

Sounds good! Take your time!

Yep, even the old-timers are hipper, albeit with artificial hips. ;>

If you go back to just before the reveal when people were figuring out there was no LCD or ramps and the sky was falling to the genuine excitement once the love and attention soaked in after it was all shown off I think there are more than a few people who would have lost the same bets.

I love pulp fiction but can't support fomo and buying a game before seeing gameplay footage. Not a fan of exclusivity either. I've missed out before on some spooky titles and looks like now as well. Making the topper for SE people who want to cough up the extra cash is the right thing to do. IMO

While not live streaming, the videos that CGC & Flip N Out posted have plenty of gameplay footage. You can definitely tell a lot about the physics, layout, rules, etc. It was enough to satisfy me, in any case.

Not a chance! I'm busy enough keeping the Raw Thrills production line going for our actual 'real business' stuff.

In the world of perceived value, exclusivity is what gives it the value.

My guess is a large percentage of the people who are in on an LE didn't put down a deposit at all...there was no risk to us current CCRLE owners who haven't received their game (800+ units) ....so my guess is most just said yes to the PF LE, which is why it sold out so quickly

So don't buy it yet. I haven't ordered one, and I'm very excited about the game. I'd actually rather play one before ordering personally, and see the art in person.

Either you care enough about a topper to go in now with the extra money, or you don't. I sure don't. If I'd ordered day one it would have been an SE anyways, so all I'm missing out on is time. It's just a pinball, there's no rush.

I received my ccr le 6 weeks ago at #219 and they are around 420 now. That’s about 33 a week. So that’s 25 weeks left just le’s. That’s about right because they said around sept or October for PF. That would be then end of le and maybe a few plus versions.

This says limited edition exclusive but I can’t say nobody has ever changed terms or maybe this is just fake news.
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https://www.pinballnews.com/site/2016/11/04/churchill-cabinet-company-tour/

Enjoyed revisiting this old article. My AFMr LE was the best built pinball machine I’ve ever see. Zero anxiety and much excitement, no matter how long the wait!

I’m guessing Tarantino played a lot of Strikes and Spares at the Corbin Bowl on Ventura Blvd. as a kid. I know I did, and it’s one of my favorite backglasses ever. I dig the PF art.

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There is Rush.

This topper fomo is cracking me up.

“Who needs an LCD screen? I don’t look up at it anyway because I focus on the playfield”

Also

“I need the topper because it’s going to be integrated into the game and act out scenes”

So now you have to look up, even higher than an LCD. Also, somehow a modeled sculpture is going to act out something other than what it is sculpted as? Sorry folks, I think this thing is just going to make the characters twist, and the car headlights blink. Maybe flash some lights here and there.