You’re thinking of the wrong Halloween. It’s really:

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...so it could still be Evil Dead or Ash vs.

Still holding out hope.

Hard pass for any game featuring any Johnny Depp character.

Guess the joke is on Paramount since they’re releasing Jackass 4 on Sept 2.

I feel so much better about this release and future Spooky releases after reading “He-man (seriously? WtF?)”.

Or hopefully Cats the Musical movie edition!

Cats are hot right now. I understand a decent Bad Cats is worth around $6500!

So music and thunder must add a couple $1000’s to sales value.

No warranty required. Dysfunction is part of the theme!

I'm shallow, so his haircut for starters:

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...wait was that second photo Martina Navratilova?!?! Okay, that was not cool of me.

So @benheck, is this as hard on you ‘to not reveal’ as it is on us to wait? Or are you just enjoying every second of anticipation / speculation?

If his sadistic side is reflected in the evilness of the next release, then I’m perfectly okay with it.

A Twisted Metal pinball could be pretty cool with Sweet Tooth.

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Dusk to Dawn would be a good theme for Spooky

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…yeah that what I heard

Alright, just making shit up. Sorry. I’ll retract that.

Yeah, I liked the movie but am really surprised by the fandom asking for it to be a pin. I put it at about the same level of appeal as romancing the stone, Allan quartermain and the lost city of gold, and the golden child…and ain’t nobody asking for them to be pins!

Galaxy Quest is another ‘okay’ film. These are borderline pin-worthy themes…so they’re definitely NOT spooky-worthy. Spooky can and will do better…they should stay a little ‘twisted’…bring on Evil Dead, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Sin City, TwistedMetal…Dusk to Dawn!

…well, it’s not as good as the themes I suggested…but Mrs says we’re still ‘in’ (especially if they have a Mickey Dolenz gun store clip). So good enough.

Please tell me that this wasn’t one of Kaneda’s fourteen ‘inside scoop’ guesses.

Micky…sorry. Wife was very quick to correct me.(no, I don’t think Spooky should release a Monkees pin).

Scooby-doo meets Michael Meyers?!?!

…with hot Velma, and Fred gets decapitated.

Anyone know if Spooky will be at Pinfest in Allentown? Did they say whether the new pin(s) will be there?

Nice! No problems for you?
Mine kept erasing my billing State and then rejecting purchase. Ended up with 11379. --- still happy

So, whats the over/under for when we see the first low order # spot CE offered for profit in Pinside Market?

...this could create a real mess. I'm sure many of us received our "order received error message" a few minutes after 9:00 CST and kept plugging away until we got successful orders placed. I'd be disappointed if those that received their error messages before a successful order ended up 'jumping the line'.

I don't disagree. The message said exactly "Your order has been received. Thank you for your business! (ID 252)"...but the message had a red X-'d out circle to the left of it, the shopping cart was still full, no confirmation e-mail received, no pending charge on credit card. So many of us kept repaying and refreshing until we didn't receive the error, saw the charge on our credit cards, and received a confirmation email. For me this took about 25 minutes. If my spot was based on my first failed order placement compared to all the other failed order placements, I'd be happy. I'd be disappointed if the failed orders got bumped ahead of my successful order.

Wow, Congratulations Spooky! You're obviously doing many things right. Many of us love your pinball machines and the themes are appealing to many!

But...I wonder if the TRUE GENIUS was in the marketing and building up the absolutely CRAZY anticipation for these titles, as demonstrated today.
Well Done!

I don't think I'm off at all. All I'm saying is that if I got the false order placement message at 9:07 and a successful order placement message at 9:37, I shouldn't have 300 buyers that received the false messages between 9:07 and 9:37 that never tried to fix things jump me in line.

I think Spooky should go with the actual successful order placement times. They COULD TRY to figure out everyone's false order times...but as you've pointed out there are deeper levels of errors with different Buyers and, as I suggested, this would be a HUGE mess. IMO the approach that would be LEAST FAIR would be to penalize those of us that recognized the problem by putting everyone that didn't recognize the problem ahead of us.

If you continue to disagree, so be it. We're all entitled to our opinions.

Great attitude! (sincerely) Sadly, I'm a greedier son-of-a-gun and want the darn thing NOW!

...yes, in that case we are pretty much saying the same thing. Although, I dofeel for the people that got screwed by the false order messages...just not to the degree that it costs me! (see greedy son-of-gun comment above!)

Okay...so who had the "under" on 2:27 CST?

(...and if you're not joking, then sorry to hear your bad news)

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

So anyone know if/how many ended up going to non Fang Club members?

Well said. Thank you!

I like my HW, and I love my ACNC. I also really enjoyed talking to the Spooky group that’s been at Pinfest the last two years. Also service is top notch. Big fan of the company.

However…I’m wondering. I think clearly Spooky took advantage of the hot/starving market back in June/July 2021 by announcing and taking orders for HW before any other manufacturers released their games. At the time it seemed a great move.

But did the move in releasing the games prematurely end up hurting the Spooky reputation and possible sales of their next game? I, personally, don’t mind the growing pains with HW, but it seems these growing pains caused a lot of Spooky hate here on pinside and the, at least current, devaluation of HW and UM.

Anyway…if next game is from Evil Dead franchise…I will try my best to be a first-hour purchase. Pretty much anything else, and I’m going to wait and see what happens.

Anything tarrantino would be pretty cool…also Dusk to Dawn would make a great Spooky title. Sadly, I’m guessing they’ll never happen.

Listen, I love all the Nintendo stuff too…but as a pinball theme?!??

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Let me get this straight:
- We can watch movies, wear tees and and own pins that have the main character as a horrible sadistic demon that cracks jokes and enjoys the suffering of children while he murders them in their sleep
- if that horrible demon is also a pedophile, then we should boycott the franchise and all marketed products altogether.

At least we all seem to agree that pedophilia is bad. I guess that’s a positive.

I want to thumbs down that comment…but I don’t want to thumbs down your post. (I just mean I want to ‘thumbs down’ the fact that a pedo is set free after a short sentence…hopefully he is a changed person and we’re not letting the same troubled person back into society).

The ONLY theme I would be lining up to purchase on day 1 is an Evil Dead (or associated property) with Bruce Campbell callouts. I sorta hope it’s not their next theme (but it needs to be eventually) because I really need to cut back. Im sure even if I decided to not purchase the ED pin, my wife would go behind my back and buy it (how many of you can say that about a pin!!!).

Wife says that if it’s from Evil Dead universe we will be a first hour purchase. Anything else we’ll likely sit this one out.

Looney Tunes!? How could they possibly improve on BBBB? The bar is high.

Dusk to Dawn would be a pretty cool theme.

…that’s why we need humans designing pins!!!

…although AI is getting pretty good at designing humans like Harley.

...if you're going with the fake trailers turned into actual movies, then I think Machete has a lot more content for a pinball machine.
Especially if timed with the release of Machete Kills Again...in Space!