Fully in for the CE

Hopefully tomorrow when we pre-order purchase from Spooky or our favorite distro's and get those lovely email confirmations, I would hope and think Spooky all their dealers are on board and we don't see a repeat of the JJP GNR CE fiasco. I have a feeling by noon they'll meet their numbers for both releases.

Now where were we......oh yes F5 F5 F5

T-Minus 50 minutes, warming up now with finger pushups.

It's to my understanding that the distro's will need to see proof of your fang club membership for ordering today.

I recall reading that fang club members get a two week early buy opportunity, so maybe in 14 days?

Did it crash or did they take it down to hash out numbers with dealers? I'm getting a JJP vibe hear and don't like it...... hope I'm wrong.

Just a thought, it would be cool if the OP can add a purchase poll with the three models so we can get a feel of what the breakdown looks like. I think more CE's were purchased then any other model.

Just think of those SE buyer's, poor bastards. Halloween 19 " The night his great grandson come home" will be out by the time those are built.

The folks who bought CE's if purchased under the intent for future value then they were wrong for doing so as with any pin purchase. If they like myself purchased for the little extra features because they were fans of the movie then that's the right idea. I just happen to like the inner side blade artwork, laser cut side rails and that topper plus with today's going rate for toppers that ate up that 1k difference already. I also like the interactive RGB speaker lights and grills, not sure if the BSE version had the option but that was another sway factor for me as now I don't have to buy a speaker kit to install.

I will admit, I much rather have the BSE armor color then that gold vein color. I mean really gold vein for one of the greatest serial killers. That's a missed the boat option to me on the CE's, but I might have that re done.

Let me also add lol, my feeling bad for those poor bastards comment is NOT about the version that they have chosen to purchase but rather their timeline in which those machines will be built. I would love to see them have built all three models concurrently with a bit of each rather then all of A, then B then C etc....

Very interested, if you can please keep me posted.

Don't we all, Pinside is like one big AA meeting place.

Evil Dead, hell yeah!!!

Funny the wife and I just watched the Blu Ray Halloween 1978 35th Anniversary Edition, like you said I really hope they had full permissions across the board to use what they like. Just think of the kill scene segments that would be awesome.

If she is that concerned about that, she is more them welcomed to come here and post a selfie

Maybe here

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Oh yeah!!!!!!

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Did you listen to Zach's podcast interviewing Charlie, Bug and Luke? Sounds like some great stuff was implemented in these games. Video of game play is coming soon as well.

Maybe on a standby list and as the duplicates start to get cancelled out they are calling those inline waiting?

and code tester's

So who got 1031? LOL Great number to land.....

HWN CE #335 heading to Staten Island. Ordered from my Distro...

We did as well, Rob was great to deal with.

I did get to play Ultraman today while the whole time transposing the theme and music in my head to Halloween. While playing and afterwards I did get to pick Spooky Lukes brain and Spooky Bug, two great guys and glad I purchased A HWN CE from this group.

Game play:

I was pleasantly surprised how well the game shoots and play, although we were allowed only one ball I was on long enough to post my name so I did have a good ball time for a few minutes. The flippers were a bit soft but that was set purposely that way as I was informed by the spooky crew as not to over stress the machine with all the plays it was about to see, even though they still felt good.

Those ball lifts are amazing and in a show environment very quiet lol, the ball just showing up kept catching me off guard but I like it. All the mech's seem to work really well and flow was real nice, lots of good shots and some great ball speed.

The sound system sound really really good. I even dare to say it sounded better then Sterns sound systems.

The cab and build seem very solid, love the armor feel and coating, just an overall pleasant surprise.

I will be extremely happy when my CE comes around, but at game #335 I was told not to expect it for Halloween lol, who knows maybe years end but it will be well worth the wait for sure.

** Edited ** Shit I forgot about the RGB lighting and effects: Once again Spooky knock it out of the park, I think that covers it lol. The lighting dots in person really didn't affect your vision while playing and really don't look that bad or should I say pronounced as you see in photos.

BTW the playfield was stunning, the clear was beautiful. I know Jersey Jack was around behind when I asked but fuck it I did, I ask if there were any issues like JJP were experiencing. Luke told me directly they have not seen anything like that what so ever on and R&M, Alice Cooper and even this Ultraman was cc'd and dried only for about 4 hours before they built the game on it for the shows and it was holding up extremely well.

Overall guys, I say we are going to love it. It was fun to play.

** BTW: Anyone have a R&M BSE they would like to sell me lol ***

Unfortunately I was told " Probably not " when asked if I would see it by Halloween. Oh well but don't think it will to far long off from then anyway when they get to good rhythm going. Still going to be worth the wait.

Oh yes I also asked about the butter cabs, spooky's daughter ( I'm guessing here ) will be contacting all the buyers as their game is going to the line if the want the butter cab or not. As most already know our game numbers came directly from spooky not the distro's who just relayed the game number onto us.

Never say never lol

Nope it was not, the decals looked really nice and applied well. However the butter cabs will be direct printed onto the cab and clear coated. I was not going with the butter cab but after getting my hands on the machine yesterday and playing it (which is solid btw) I can see this title in my collection for a while so yeah I'll probably go with butter now.

This video does not do the game any justice. Like I had posted yesterday I played it and really enjoyed it. I didn't even get to look at the LCD screen while I playing as a bit was going on including multi-ball but even what i did see of it the colors and video segments were nicely done. What this video did do for me was fill in the blanks a little bit ( remember early code) for the music and sound effects and some call outs as I was hoping they would use. HWN is going to be a killer game ( no pun intended ). Horror fan or not many will relate and enjoy this game.

My .02 HWN for the win. I think JC just gets mentioned as not to confuse between which director version JC or RZ, however this is the only Halloween ever made into pinball to date, because there only ever can be one true Halloween. LOL

I think 5 people in all played Michael in the 78 Halloween

Now seeing it a bit better, that gold trim actually looks pretty nice.

Hell yeah!!!!!!!

Nailed it!!

Jesus Christ Hayfarmer...

You might be able to get a frosted shield like Pinstadium uses and put that over the strips rather then relocation. I will say though while playing the machine they weren't a deterrent from seeing the ball during play.

There is no title or nothing on the CE backglass

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/the-great-halloween-abbreviation-debate-#post-6423039

Decals did look really good when I saw them at the show.

Not exactly, he said he is not allowed to say when but he will NOT be streaming on Friday or Sunday. Big difference especially if there are legalities involved.

Thanks Luke, appreciate all you guys do and just like R&M I'm know this will be a very desirable title with a lot of killing fun factor in the time to come ( sounds sick I know).

I really can't see them going through all that troubles to draw out a slightly animated comic scene just for a place holder. I could be wrong and really hope I'm wrong as this is one aspect I don't particularly care for. It's like Avengers AIQ with still images with slight animations, the movie footage on a loop would be so much better.

Reading all this made me chuckle a bit. People threw 9k down immediately for a CE machine without a single concrete video of any play what so ever ( mind you I'm one of them lol ) and yet the conversation rambles on about a $250.00 piece of glass.

Should it have been offered, yeah maybe so it would have been nice. However we did get a topper, upgraded armor package, shaker, speaker RGB lighting, speaker grills, shooter handle and maybe another small thing or two as where we don't get half of that with a Stern LE release.

I really don't mind paying 250 for a sheet of HD, VooDoo, Invisiglass or whichever as I know paying for some of those upgrades would have been more then twice or three times the price of the glass alone.

Maybe the psychological pressure is a bit too great on the build floor right now