Slow roasting some popcorn to enjoy the future For Sale ads sure to fill the marketplace.

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Wow - congratulations! Party in Wisconsin tonight. Still a few bumps in the road but many reasons to celebrate.

Cheers!

I have a steak on the grill at a low temperature. Its coming!

Got my order in this morning for a CE, I am curious about what the lead time is on these. Definitely excited to get it unboxed and start flipping it. Still waiting on GNR LE so we shall see which one gets in first.

That's impressive for a small business, but they need to reinvest profits into their company, such as having a website that doesn't run on WordPress, and having a more professional checkout/order interface.

I'm hoping this time around, the don't nickle and dime cutting corners on quality like they did with R&M. Small things ike using single blade flipper switches instead of the ones every other game uses.

I'll be honest, seeing the topper with wires all exposed on the back like the R&M ones, makes me feel like they're still not putting a polished product out, bit we'll have to see when we get our hands on this one.

Congrats, Spooky!

Read the threads but don't think I've seen this answer: How many of the 1,750 are sold direct by Spooky and how many but distributors?

I joined the Halloween CE club today. Hooray ! Picked up a game during the cleanup period. Oh boy, that means I gotta wait 18 short months.

Halloween is a dream theme but I wanted to see pics and video of the game, at least. The artwork everywhere is soooo good that a purchase was inevitable, right? Well I was still on the fence as game sales opened. I spent three hours pouring over everything and sales were done. Right then I decided I’d get one if one came up during order cleanup. One did, so I did.

Gotta say I love the implementation of this theme and the rules are straight forward. The inserts on playfield track all pertinent progress through and including final wizard mode. Will the game flow smoothly? I don’t know or care, it is probably average at least, with the potential to improve to really good or even great - tbd after viewing game play video.

After completing 3 mini-modes and the 6 pumpkin modes of each kill in gory detail. Then lock and start the 7 ball wizard mode. Of course this game has tons of assets from my fave horror movie. Already looks like a home run for my house.

To say the Halloween game ties to the movie is an understatement. Because it is more like Spooky found a way to make JC’s Halloween ooze out of every crack, nuance and butt pretzel throughout the land.

Ordered my CE from Pinball Classics.

Rob was awesome to deal with straight shooter. Very willing to help when Spooky and PinballStar couldn’t thanks again Rob!!! The Man!!!

based on what they've said, it alternates every 50 games. 50 direct, 50 to distros. so it seems half.

Congrats, Spooky!

Read the threads but don't think I've seen this answer: How many of the 1,750 are sold direct by Spooky and how many but distributors?

I recall that being the build order, but didn't necessarily see that it was also the overall distribution (though certainly could be)

I could have written this as well. If it werent a Spooky pin, I would probably have stayed away because of PF worries and lack of support. Ya got me Spooky, I am confident my somewhat crazy blind faith purchase will be worth it.

Halloween CE ordered from PinballSTAR.

Yes!!! That means Halloween 4 CE's will be coming to little ole Delaware!!!

Got a BSE

They have owned their mistakes and are committed to making improvements as per their video update. I have no reason to doubt them and I voted with my wallet today.

So I had a deposition this morning and wasn’t able to get a deposit down by the time the games reportedly sold out.

So I guess if you can’t buy a game in the first couple hours of release these days you are screwed. Awesome.

Congrats to all the asshat flippers that bought these just to resell them for stupid prices afterwards. I guess I’ll just have to get my homebrew game done sooner and play that.

I mean sure its not the deepest or hardest machine to play by any means but for the price in the 2k range you cant beat it. They only made around 2,000 of them. I plan on getting my speaker cover signed by Robert in August. But agree with you would love a modern Elm Street. Every single one of those actors are affordable as most do the horror cons.. outside of Johnny Dep

Relax dude.

If you really want one they are there for the taking, just like Rick and Mortys were for several days after the drop. Joe at Pinballstar has been posting updates in every single Spooky thread for hours, and apparently he's still got them.

Yancy's transmission just went tits up, so he's looking to sell his "spot."

So give someone a call and get your game. No reason to rage post when you could be rage buying.

Pinballstar and Nitro both still have games I believe. Get on it.

Joe at PinballStar still has a few available.

I tried to do a mock up of what I was thinking for a potential printing on air ball protector.

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PS: Sorry for the poor quality.

I never wavered. Since the teaser video, I was in...

I also said they would sell out in the first day.

(I also said Spooky could make a pin about paper clips and it would sell out.)

Happy to be right, and a soon to be CE owner of my first NIB pin.

Drink up, Pinside- It's a happy day!

They haven't sold out, no matter how many times you try to say they have..... lol.

Contact a dealer, a few have some left. Pinball Star had some left as of 3pm

We got in on an Ultraman Bloodsucker from Chris at KingPin right at 8am and now we wait. From what I understand we will see roughly where we are in line in the next few days and sometime in the next 18 months our R&M will finally have a friend that isn't a decade or more older than it .

Wunderbar! I've ordered a CE this time around. Last year I imported 4 (US mfr) from Italy, a GI previously from Germany. Sure your BSE will be a blast! Congrats!

Sorry... "Spooky direct sales" are sold the fuck out.

Edwin would be proud!

I'd be all in on a Clippy horror movie.

Are you sure it's the tranny? A buddy here had the front axle go out on his Fit and it initially looked exactly like a busted transmission. Turned out it was a $150 part instead.

Sorry guys, I was joking. But the sad truth is I do drive a 2009 Honda Fit.

I drive a '99 Tahoe. It keeps going, so why replace it?

More pin money I say.

Well, Clippy was indeed horrible....

...laughed out loud on that one. Nice!

I totally agree individual fang club members should have been limited to one title each if that.....I know of a few people that bought several and are just waiting to flip them.......shame on them......hope bad Karma comes there way. I mean buying a machine site unseen is a risky proposition with no video of play and or sounds/video and understand if you purchased the game, get it play it and are unhappy so you sell it....But to get in line and buy multiples of both titles for the sole purpose to resell at higher prices and take the chance away from legitimate buyers that might want and keep the machine is really a person with no ethics at all. If you want to buy and sell become a damn distributor and do it that way.

I hope the same. I like the topper but I immediately saw the screw in the center of his hand, that has to go at a minimum and then maybe we'll cover up the back with something.

The modders will have a blast with this title. I can see those three hedges getting replaced with a large single hedge and Myers not being as visible etc.

I would probably get the standard instead of the CE though.

Everyone knows how this works and we are all adults, if you wanted to buy a pin this morning there were plenty of ways to do so. If you missed out it clearly wasn’t a priority.

I don’t think this was answered by spooky but it seems to me you play as either Micheal or Laurie depending on the mode .If so that would be very interesting .

Freaking relax will ya. You know I’ll sell you mine for a good price after I play it for a few months. Or we can do a non permanent trade.

I think it's more working your way thought various scenes of the movie.

Now that would make sense .I’ve wanted a true horror pin since in this hobby .When I get this and play for the first time it will be late night pitch black in the basement .I want to shit my pants !

Here buy these the day before you get your game. You can change quickly and keep playing.

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I made the decision to not get either of the machines today and your right I went to the site to see if it was possible to get one at 9am and even though all of the hiccups and the site going down for a bit I still could have gotten one when it came back up. My point is that the same people that will hoard NIB machines for their own gain are the same ones during the beginning of the pandemic walking out of the store with two carts full of damn toilet paper...Only think about how they can benefit themselves and have no care in the world about anyone else.

Trying to win a war on ethics grounds, both on this forum, or in this hobby in general....is like pissing as hard as you can into the wind while aiming upward, trying to hit a target behind you.

All you're going to get is piss spray in your face for the effort.

As long as the option is present, people ARE going to try to arbitrage this crap, and anything else in demand. It's not someone's fault for trying to make a buck, especially in MURICA where money is our only one true god.....if you want to complain, then take it to the vendors that allow people to get away with it in the first place. Are their ethics any better than the flipper if they allow it to happen, because it's beneficial to their bottom line? Not really, IMO....but in my opinion, this is all a moot point. This crap will never go away, and it's not worth the stress to even pay attention when it happens.

you are literally comparing a luxury $10,000 pinball machine to toilet paper. Your argument is as thin as... well... single ply.

Speaking of which, I'll be posting a for trade ad for 5000 rolls of TP for a Halloween CE later. I expect it to go fast!

Congrats Spooky team on a successful day.. Drinks are on Charlie!