Quoted from Sparky:So a lot of people are making guesses, but not putting their money where their mouth is.
I will donate $100 to Pinside if it doesn't start with an H and end with an N.
Someone make this a key post
Quoted from Sparky:So a lot of people are making guesses, but not putting their money where their mouth is.
I will donate $100 to Pinside if it doesn't start with an H and end with an N.
Someone make this a key post
I have to stick with Scooby been preaching too much .Halloween is my gut feeling .The Shining, I’m scared I’ll have a grabber .
Quoted from P1nhead:Someone make this a key post
Wait I thought Halloween was officially denied. If not, def my #1 preference even more than Freddy
New trailer just dropped too!
Quoted from PinBalt:Could someone overlay the pumpkin snd the playfield cutout?
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I mean.. mayyybe it could fit in that space?
halloween pocket (resized).pngQuoted from oneballjab:Well here’s my magnificent seven...
1) Big Trouble In Little China
2) Evil Dead
3) Little Shop Of Horrors
4) Lost Boys
5) Beetlejuice
6) The Thing
7) Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Go ahead Spooky, make my day!
You started off really strong with 1,2 and 4, but you went way off the ranch there at the end.
Quoted from Zablon:The reality is, that's a narrative that sounds good, but isn't true. 50 or so games were pre allocated to 'top people' if you remember that whole ordeal. Around half went to distros. that left only around 300ish on Spooky's site. **numbers aren't exact**
Unpopular opinion is if they are going to 'simplify' things by having 3 tiers (smh) then they should 'simplify' things by either going all distro or only on their web site. They have yet to announce what changes they've made to this process and that is concerning. I have a feeling they are going to 'spring' those changes on us with the announcement and you are going to see a lot of people who aren't hammering refresh on pinside or facebook completely confused about how to order.
Actually we will be doing a video to clear these things up early in the week!
Quoted from SpookyLuke:Actually we will be doing a video to clear these things up early in the week!
Good to hear!
Quoted from SpookyLuke:Actually we will be doing a video to clear these things up early in the week!
Awesome news to wake up to!
Quoted from SpookyLuke:Actually we will be doing a video to clear these things up early in the week!
Deleted, didnt have coffee yet!
Quoted from SpookyLuke:Actually we will be doing a video to clear these things up early in the week!
Lots of clues in this quote: "Actually" could be Love Actually. '"Will" could relate to a Will Smith theme? Men in Black possibly? "video" is Videodrome, obviously. "Things" is The Thing, maybe. "Up", hope it's not the Disney flick. "Week", something kinky for the grown ups - 9 1/2 weeks perhaps.
Quoted from SLAMT1LT:Lots of clues in this quote: "Actually" could be Love Actually. '"Will" could relate to a Will Smith theme? Men in Black possibly? "video" is Videodrome, obviously. "Things" is The Thing, maybe. "Up", hope it's not the Disney flick. "Week", something kinky for the grown ups - 9 1/2 weeks perhaps.
How about zero clues to do with the new title, but all about how to order games.
Quoted from PinballManiac40:How about zero clues to do with the new title, but all about how to order games.
*woosh*
I don’t think Halloween could be any good.
Only because there is no memorable quotes.
No real main character to even care about.
Jamie lee Curtis screaming every second is about the only call out they can use.
Obviously Micheal doesn’t talk.
Please tell me some good call outs for this theme ?
Stacked and Loaded refers to the multiple play levels...? Also the Halloween Pumpkin and knife logo does seem to fit as overlaid
on the board.
Quoted from SLAMT1LT:Pretty sure Camp Crystal was F13.
D'oh! Hadn't had coffee yet!
Exactly, and who wants to look up at the LCD and just see ten minute long slow pans of a dark room? Booooring. The theme is too slow, pensive and uneventful to work with the kinetic energy of modern pinball imo
Quoted from Wariodolby:I don’t think Halloween could be any good.
Only because there is no memorable quotes.
No real main character to even care about.
Jamie lee Curtis screaming every second is about the only call out they can use.
Obviously Micheal doesn’t talk.
Please tell me some good call outs for this theme ?
Quoted from Wariodolby:I don’t think Halloween could be any good.
Only because there is no memorable quotes.
No real main character to even care about.
Jamie lee Curtis screaming every second is about the only call out they can use.
Obviously Micheal doesn’t talk.
Please tell me some good call outs for this theme ?
Dr. Loomis.. "I shot him 5 times"..
The iconic sound effects and music and soundtrack from John Carpenter..
I agree that Michael and Jason not talking makes it harder to translate to a pin, but you can substitute so much instead. Now a new Freddy Krueger game... he has so many iconic on-liners..
Quoted from Wariodolby:I don’t think Halloween could be any good.
Only because there is no memorable quotes.
No real main character to even care about.
Jamie lee Curtis screaming every second is about the only call out they can use.
Obviously Micheal doesn’t talk.
Please tell me some good call outs for this theme ?
Yeah, this is my opinion as well. If this was a 80's style SS pin, sure, it would be fine, but today requires more integration with assets, so you might get Loomis quotes, Lauri quotes, but that would be it. Then it would be generic callouts - unless you are lucky and get main actors to do callouts. I mean..it's always possible. Just depends on $$ and willingness to do it, but I tend to be a bit pickier about callouts (had this discussion before in the R&M thread - which has amazing callouts). Most non character actor callouts tend to be flat and no excitement.
Quoted from toyotaboy:I mean.. mayyybe it could fit in that space?[quoted image]
Could also be said for Whitewater... fits just the same, but yet isn't halloween... ?
Quoted from jellikit:I am so excited that MacReady and Childs are still around to have done the custom voicework for the machine. Spooky for the win![quoted image]
I can't imagine how a pin would be made out of this, and the backlash to all the gorey video assets, but I'd be in just because someone had the balls to attempt such a feat.
Quoted from Zablon:Yeah, this is my opinion as well. If this was a 80's style SS pin, sure, it would be fine, but today requires more integration with assets, so you might get Loomis quotes, Lauri quotes, but that would be it. Then it would be generic callouts - unless you are lucky and get main actors to do callouts. I mean..it's always possible. Just depends on $$ and willingness to do it, but I tend to be a bit pickier about callouts (had this discussion before in the R&M thread - which has amazing callouts). Most non character actor callouts tend to be flat and no excitement.
Quoted from Zablon:I can't imagine how a pin would be made out of this, and the backlash to all the gorey video assets, but I'd be in just because someone had the balls to attempt such a feat.
I always thought it would be a perfect theme for a pin personally.
Quoted from skink91:I always thought it would be a perfect theme for a pin personally.
My opinion has more to do with what would be required to make it a pin in todays market. In the early days you could make a pinball machine and slap pretty much any theme on it without a ton of thought (I know that's very generic, not belittling designers of the time). Point is, aside from the cab art/pf art and backglass, you didn't have to worry about assets as much. Think about what the movie is and has. Can you imagine a modern pin with this theme without the creature transformations, or the gory stuff? I can't. I think it would be very niche. Maybe...I could be wrong. I would LOVE a great pin on the theme, I just doubt it could be done right.
EDIT: Of course, really all it requires is the will and $$. If the team designing is good and imaginative, any number of questionable themes could turn into a great game. We have to keep in mind we're only talking about ~1000 games.
@Robodobro
That's awesome, but they didn't have to deal with licenses and people saying no
Also, since we're talking about it. Slam, that's a great looking table. I haven't messed with FP in since NMoES and figuring out how to make the assets work on pinDMD.
Quoted from SpookyLuke:Actually we will be doing a video to clear these things up early in the week!
Could you clear up confusion on the timing of the unveil? Please?
There is no confusion. There was never a release date. Don’t be a Karen. The game will revealed when they reveal it.
Quoted from Jack8765:Could you clear up confusion on the timing of the unveil? Please?
Why all the hand wringing? I'm looking forward to the reveal, too, but it's not going on sale immediately upon reveal, so chillax!
Quoted from PinballManiac40:How about zero clues to do with the new title, but all about how to order games.
Mic drop!
Quoted from DanQverymuch:Why all the hand wringing? I'm looking forward to the reveal, too, but it's not going on sale immediately upon reveal, so chillax!
Some of us are waiting for the reveal because if its not a theme we want, we can move on to another pin we do want. So until then we won’t chillax. You may be able to buy more than one NIB, but many of us are not in that situation.
Quoted from BallyKISS1978:Some of us are waiting for the reveal because if its not a theme we want, we can move on to another pin we do want. So until then we won’t chillax. You may be able to buy more than one NIB, but many of us are not in that situation.
I'm with you, but I'm really hoping it isn't a theme I want so I DON'T buy another right now I'm sure it will be great regardless. Honestly, pinside has been hell on my wallet because before I found pinside, I was perfectly happy with my 5 pins that I've had for 15+ years
Quoted from BallyKISS1978:Some of us are waiting for the reveal because if its not a theme we want, we can move on to another pin we do want. So until then we won’t chillax. You may be able to buy more than one NIB, but many of us are not in that situation.
I had no idea how deciding what pin to buy next is so life and death!
But yeah, if I decide to read a thread that grows to 4000 posts of meaningless conjecture, that's on me! Go nuts!
And to be honest, I'm a little antsy to find out, myself. When Beetlejuice was on the table, I was more concerned how to come up with the dough, but that title has been ruled out, as I recall.
And under the pf sure looks interesting! Still, I can relax knowing I won't want a CE, whatever the title, so I don't even need to be on the ball like I was for R&M, no four hour "sellout" this time!
Quoted from Zablon:I'm with you, but I'm really hoping it isn't a theme I want so I DON'T buy another right now I'm sure it will be great regardless. Honestly, pinside has been hell on my wallet because before I found pinside, I was perfectly happy with my 5 pins that I've had for 15+ years
Same here, my first 5 pins were from the 70’s, 80’s, and early 90’s. I want Mandalorian, but I want to see what spooky is doing first. I don’t want to regret buying Mando, but I also don’t want to wait next year to get Mando because I missed out on putting a deposit down for the August run because I am waiting for Spooky’s announcement.
Quoted from BallyKISS1978:Same here, my first 5 pins were from the 70’s, 80’s, and early 90’s. I want Mandalorian, but I want to see what spooky is doing first. I don’t want to regret buying Mando, but I also don’t want to wait next year to get Mando because I missed out on putting a deposit down for the August run because I am waiting for Spooky’s announcement.
Crazy how crowded the pinball hobby has become that we wait to pick which one to buy....hard to complain about that.
Quoted from DanQverymuch:I had no idea how deciding what pin to buy next is so life and death!
But yeah, if I decide to read a thread that grows to 4000 posts of meaningless conjecture, that's on me! Go nuts!
And to be honest, I'm a little antsy to find out, myself. When Beetlejuice was on the table, I was more concerned how to come up with the dough, but that title has been ruled out, as I recall.
And under the pf sure looks interesting! Still, I can relax knowing I won't want a CE, whatever the title, so I don't even need to be on the ball like I was for R&M, no four hour "sellout" this time!
Seems your angry in this thread and the UFO thread . Perhaps a little of this Spearmint. This is such a stimulating scent, but it also helps relax the respiratory and nervous system. ...
Quoted from BallyKISS1978:Some of us are waiting for the reveal because if its not a theme we want, we can move on to another pin we do want. So until then we won’t chillax. You may be able to buy more than one NIB, but many of us are not in that situation.
Not really sure this is sympathy worthy, lol.
Anyone able to afford even one machine is in a much better spot than many.
Quoted from mpdpvdpin:There is no confusion. There was never a release date. Don’t be a Karen. The game will revealed when they reveal it.
I’m sincerely thankful we still have a company who can keep a lid on things. So refreshing.
Totally! Would be amazing. And Pirates of the Caribbean the Ride- not the stupid movie franchise.
Quoted from mrclean:Haunted MansioN !! I’m totally IN!!
Would be amazing but not based off the Disney movie (based off a ride), would much prefer it based off strictly the ride! I can see them placing you in a doom buggy in the camera into the backbox to show on the LCD as you “hitch” a ride with a ghost. Madame Leota Can appear to float through a levitating “magnetic crystal ball” where her image is projected onto. You have a functioning old purplish grandfather clock built in the backbox. The topper has the skeleton lifting the coffin. On the playfield a peppers ghost is achieved while displaying the ghost ball room dancers, dancing around the pops. The “stretching room” the playfields stretch towards the top creating multiple playfields. The graveyard scene can be achieved with black light / lighting. Backbox can also have a floating endless hallway effect with the use of mirrors. [quoted image]
Quoted from mpdpvdpin:There is no confusion. There was never a release date. Don’t be a Karen. The game will revealed when they reveal it.
If there’s no confusion, when is it genius?
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