Way less interested now.

In the pics, I'm seeing cliffy like protectors on 2 scoops, but not the hedge/city scoops. Will that change, you think?

Pics of other editions are going live on the Spooky facebook page.

They will. I believe they are scrambling to change out trim and do photo shoots to give us a taste of the other editions.

SpookyCharlie SpookyLuke I'm trying to direct a buddy of mine to the Spooky shop to buy his fang club membership, so he can get a Halloween tomorrow, but the shop only has Canada and International memberships available at present. Just wanted to let you guys know.

Another I can think of in recent years is the Stern SW home pin and Heavy Metal retheme. 3 drops in front of the Deathstar ramp. Don't know what it's called on the Heavy Metal game.

Technically, it is John Carpenter's Halloween. Some have suggested JCH and UKR. They make sense to me.

I was thinking standard until I saw the prism powder on the BSE. That coupled with all the extras is worth the extra 1K to me. My previous most expensive pin was a NIB BM66. This will top that, now.

They don't really do that allotment thing in house. Now, there are 2 distributors outside of the US, so I'd speculate 1/5 or so is pre allocated outside of US via distributors. With buying Spooky direct, they sell to whomever buys, wherever they are.

Luke posted that he'd get something up in the next few days.

I really dig the LED strips. I think I will add that silicone sleeve to them. These are Spooky's answer to JJP's hotrails and Stern's expression lighting.

The Halloween pin was posted/discussed on a few horror forums and sites, so I'm sure they were in the loop. My horror fan buddy knew about it before I told him, so I'm sure some non pin folks got in on Halloween, at least.

At least 16 from a quick count. 10 on main level, 3 on each upper level.

Freddy vs Jason next? I'd be so in on that one. Robert Englund is a down to earth dude. Custom callouts.

To be fair, facebook photos of the BSE don't do that sweet powercoat any justice, but that little video shows it off nicely.

All of those would be on my list too. Big trouble in little China being at the top.

A13 and IJ4 prestage balls for the ark multiball and the gimmick 13 ball mb.

I still like JCH best.

I think the beta capsule is a 360 degree RGB flasher. Not 100% on that. Ben?

I was teetering on getting an entry and by the time I said f it and was gonna grab one, they had just sold out.

I have always thought plastic protectors are overkill. Especially the way they are installed. To be most effective the plastic protector should be installed under the metal post that secures the plastic star post. Kind of how you are supposed to install fender washers under sling posts. Stern still does this wrong on every game and if you don't change them soonish, the metal washer ends up stuck to the sling plastic and will remove art if you try to remedy it. I firmly believe some sort of protection should be employed and I use clear fender washers in my games and I place them in places where a plastic is prone to break like slings or BSD target bank or Taxi target bank plastic for instance.

Indeed. I joined the fang club before Rick and Morty was even announced because I loved the look of that first year poster. It's proudly displayed in my main floor hallway. And this year's goodies are cool too. Love the Lugosi plastics.

Not really relevant to the next spooky topic, but I nearly bought one of those surplus Alice Cooper games that popped up about a month ago. Luckily I was too late and could grab an Ultraman.

In the fang club email, they listed about a dozen states where they are required to collect sales tax and Wisconsin is one. I don't know if going through a distributor avoids that or not. Hopefully so.

My son started collecting VHS when he moved out a few years back. I'm mostly digital when it comes to that stuff, but I get the nostalgia aspect.

That's how I experienced TNA for the first time. It was Southern Fried Gaming Expo 2017. My friend had a vendor booth and we were right next to Spooky. We got to chit chat with Scott and the Spooky crew and he showed us the preliminary art planned for the game. It played so good and being a fan of classic Bally games, I was hooked. And that soundtrack was bumping the whole show. Missed out on one, but might be down for a 2.0.

There are 2 stand-ups. The big one and that small one. There should be a small cross section for that one too.

Possibly fell into the box. Perhaps check the packing materials.

Ugh

Theoretically speaking, a customer could order any of the 3 versions from you, correct? I know the CE is the most popular, so you likely expect that to be the one requested.

I certainly don't want to be argumentative, but I thought the whole point was for the customer base to choose which edition they want and that is Spooky's grand scheme. No set amount of any one edition is set in stone until the orders are all closed. I really only wonder because a friend was considering Halloween, but would only be able to swing a standard edition, money wise.

They are numbered, but no plaque, if they follow suit with Rick and Morty.

And some of that number will be Ultraman. Gotta allow for that.

So close

OMG Yes!

Makes total sense. You guys have the official breakdown on how many of each edition were orders for each game? Would be cool info for this curious. Wish I was closer to pinfest. I would've totally made the trip.

I would assume none, so far. You must be a Fang Club member to order a Bloodsucker. Not sure if you need to be to order a CE after the initial 2 week exclusive. Based on Rick and Morty guidelines, standards could be ordered by non members 2 weeks after the initial sale (although, they didn't make it that far). Some distributors still have these games, so non fang club members should be able to order them as of 7/21 and on, but from my recollection, can only order standards, as the Bloodsucker for sure is club members only. Not certain on CE, since it is the new model. If the badge on the game says fang club, you need to be a member to order it, but we haven't seen the badges yet.

I'd guess 7 months, factoring in a couple hundred Ultraman on top of the ~500 Halloween range you are in.

You have made multiple assumptions here. Who says that is a teenage girl? And another assumption that it is Charlie's daughter. That one is just not true. Morgan is not blonde and works in the office. Mrclean made a dumb joke and apologized for it. Move on and let's talk pinball. Jeez.

It does look pretty wide. A ball may possibly miss that entry switch.

They have been working on this playfield for over a year, so fingers crossed that they have that dialed in and we are just being paranoid.

Yeah, the public can create and release games for the multimorphic platform. Pretty cool

Charlie took Halloween to a horror convention in Chicago.

Charlie is being so mean. Taking a pin that no one can order/buy.

Halloween fan: This is awesome, how do I get one?

Charlie: Well, you can't. We sold out.

Oh, I know Joe and Nitro still have them. Was just joking. Hopefully this can generate a sellout on the last few with distributors.

Something similar to this is what I plan to use.

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I thought it looked purple from the vids and pics today. Thanks for the confirmation. It looked blue in some promo pics and purple in others.

They did have a nice polished trailer for each game. Maybe they thought that was enough and I suppose it was with the craziness on ordering day. My guess, and purely a guess, was they needed or wanted to get the announcement out prior to Ultraman day, which was a few days after ordering launched.

You would schedule this to happen right in the middle of my first official IFPA tournament since COVID lol.

A little constructive feedback, I hope. Come up with a better name for the modes than "incidentals" in the bonus count section. Like maybe Battles for Ultraman and Encounters for Halloween?

For this exact reason, I hope I can load Halloween code on my Ultraman every now and then.

Regarding Bug saying they aren't sure if they are going to keep that feature where a locked ball behind the headstone/SSSP pin target will release if you drain your main ball: I hope this stays, otherwise, another player could release a ball locked by the player before them. My vote is to keep that feature to prevent lock stealing. Or if the feature is not kept, still release the ball at the end of each ball, so it can't be used by an opponent. That would be my suggestion.

Agreed. Maybe tourney mode could enable the "clearing it at the end of a ball" option. Like if you didn't use it before you drained, you lost it.

Good point. Maybe have options for the user to decide. Another thing I'm not a huge fan of is the option to restart multiball. I could see it as a throwback IF you haven't collected any jackpots yet, but the way it is presented on the stream, you can just restart Hedge/Baltan any time you drain out of it. Unless I missed something, that is.

I've been rewatching the stream, so things are coming to me as I go. Another thing I hope is adjustable, is that they have a new ball saver come on at the beginning of every mode. That can prolong ball times and I'd wanna turn that off, if possible.

Is it adjustable in the menu?

Near Dark is sooooooo good.

They should really stop dropping these games right before the holidays. I can't swing a deposit even if I love what they reveal. I'm sure many people are in the same position around this time of year.