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Should Stern do multiple themes for the same playfield designs?

By OldSchoolBlood

5 years ago


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    “Should Stern do multiple themes of the same playfield design?”

    • Yes 45 votes
      45%
    • No 55 votes
      55%

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    #23 5 years ago

    if the playfield layout is great then yes

    liked the look of archer but it became iron maiden which looks cool but not a fan of the music.

    did a similar thread a few weeks ago with over 500 votes and ended up being close to 50/50
    https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/would-you-support-stern-in-re-theming-iron-maiden-for-another-game

    #24 5 years ago

    on the cost saving I had a very rough guesstimate

    As for cost to re-theme Iron Maiden game back to say Archer:
    - layout - (25%) - not alot which frees Keith to be a little involved but also working on his next game
    - mechs & manufacturing (0%)- win-win, as mechs / parts are swappable between the games which would possibly give stern a improved buying power ?
    - toys - (100%) - new character plastics, toys, etc
    - rules - (50%) - since many seem very very cool maybe a 50% change for adapting to the theme (50% time) - same rules designer
    - sounds - (100%) - yes a new cost (time and license)
    - callouts - (100%) - yes a new cost (time and license)
    - art - (100%) - yes a new cost (time and license)

    I know this is a very broad, vague and rough estimate, but roughly 7 areas = 475 / 700 = 68% new cost = so roughly 32% saving.

    so if stern are doing vaults why not do a re-theme

    #28 5 years ago
    Quoted from sunnRAT:

    That was a biased poll with 7 of the 9 options being "YES" for retheme.
    But go ahead and submit your findings to Stern. Since what you found was 50/50, maybe they will consider halting further production of Iron Maiden (because the music is so terrible) and use the remaining parts/stock to build Archer machines.

    it wasn't a biased poll, as the poll just having options, because at the end of the day people could only vote once, and vote for a no or a yes option - no for keeping just iron maiden or yes to use as another themed game but only one vote allowed

    end of the day just a fun poll, so not worth the stress of some peoples reactions

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