Ummm, the numbers game. Imagine all distros and Spooky coridinating on the same second…it’s just not possible. Let’s be a little understanding.

They could also make a setting in the menus for extended mode intros on/off. That way if you're an intro skipper you don't have to do that. You just get a 2 second establishing shot and the mode starts if the extended mode intros are set to off.

Having search ability on a hollywood edge/sound ideas database is very helpful for this. I have about 150k effects and can usually find that kind of thing using plain text that gives me a list of suspects to listen to.

No transfer fee if you sell your spot. Some dealers charge for that.

hahaha. Velma leaves her mark.

I thing it might be.

Put something scary in for one of them. I LOVE watching kids playing around with the buttons on machines and getting a fright, then going to tell their friends about this cool thing the machine does when you press a button, then having it do nothing when they try to show them because it's timed before it can repeat. AfMr with the topper and the sound was GREAT for this.

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CE #320

Cant Wait

We need spooky to do good considering the other companies like JJP and STERN and raping us with their high prices unfortunately

But isn't that on brand for a classic Bond theme?

Lowest spooky price is 7800.

And Spooky’s prices didn’t go up though. Look how much Sterns prices have. Premiums are near $10k now and Spookys CE is near $10k but you are getting an equivalent to an LE but more. Real knocker,topper, amplifier, and a 10” subwoofer. And a Spooky CE is way cheaper than a Stern LE.

The CEs went up $800.

Spooky are great people; they love pinball and put their heart and souls into their machines and they are still giving us a full collectors edition for under 10 k; I for one appreciate what they do for pinball; charley and kt took a big risk starting this up several years ago; and I give them both max respect for taking the big chance that they did and making this a family business and making all the recent changes to make their product even better.
Mad love guys and all us pinheads greatly appreciate the entire team at spooky

A Stern Pro is a solid deal when you consider the code depth of pins like GZ, JP or Rush. But yeah, Scooby-Doo is a full funderful package without the nut-punch sticker shock of some other titles (that actually offer less - TS4, Bond SLE). Good for Spooky.

Bit the bullet, ordered the Blood Sucker edition! I REALLY wish they'd get some photos of the different editions up. Also would have been nice to see a more clear list with photos of the features each model has. I'm most curious if the "mine entrance" on the CE is just the draw gate, or the entire brick wall. I'm hoping just the gate. Had the CE used The Mystery Machine graphics, I might have went that route. Either way....my first NIB. Just got into pinball in October! Going from 1979 Williams Flash to to 2023 Scooby Doo!

I wonder if spooky would do that for you. Done be shy to email Morgan and ask. You would have a unique CE. Since all games are built “to order” as far as cabinet goes (because of the butter option, and the fact that each person gets asked individually) it shouldnt be that big of an effort on their part. Not many would ask for that so it shouldn’t start meddling with their line.

I never thought I would hear people complain there is too much content , especially when you can skip it .
Talk about not being able to please all the people all the time

Interactive content is one thing. Content you just watch each time you reach a certain spot is not the same and will get old fast. 18 seconds is an ice age in pinball. Skipping is ok, having a menu option to turn off extended intros ALSO is even better, especially for a home environment.

It really doesn't take much effort to press both Flippers at once , especially since you fingers are already on the buttons

Doesn't bother me, but if you can offer an option that will satisfy even more people, why not do it. It would be trivial to do in software. Look at the crazy list of settings options on a JJP game menu...

I get what you're saying but they'll still have to have a little bit of an intro , they couldn't totally skip it all together . I think as soon as you start to see the mode intro hit the flippers to skip it , would be a lot quicker .

I stand corrected but my other points I made(that you left out of the rest of my post) still stand. Spooky gives you way more in a CE at sterns premium cost, and gives you more than Sterns LE’s priced at $13k

They had to pay for that pin gulp somehow

just kidding, just kidding

$800 in a drop in the bucket compared to 13k and 15k for LEs and CEs from Stern and JJP. I appreciate Spooky for what they do and the connection they have with the collectors.

Hats off to Spooky for listening and trying to give everything people have asked for at a reasonable price point .

Mine was more of a resource/dev cost. Those things could be diverted elsewhere.

In the current cloud computing environment with online ordering systems it is in fact absolutely possible. There may be other reasons they are not doing it this way but it's not a complex problem to solve. At the bare minimum all the ordering could simply be ranked by order completion/submission time within the Spooky ordering system. This might not give a specific dist a preference but event that can be handled through hourly/daily/(pick your interval) ranking of orders using distributor as a filter and assigning an order # etc.. These are all handled by simple database queries, it's not rocket science.

If distributors are handling their orders via email and spreadsheet then that's the problem that needs fixed.

I'm aware that Spooky's online ordering had issues so that needs solved as well but there is no reason that this isn't a solvable problem. One which I agree should be looked into for future orders.

Some people don’t want Scrappy, I thought a funny Scrappy call out like 1 second drain after ball save would be funny. But the masses want less.

Stern LE’s are priced at $14k ATBTWDNC (After Topper Before Tax Without Delivery No Customs). So that’s probably the figure you want to reference.

Spooky installs an “Exclusive” topper on their CE, while Stern makes you buy one. Stern won’t give it to you for years and you won’t know if it’ll be priced at $700 or $2k. But if you are still in the hobby, congrats on scoring a topper!

OK, perhaps we are taking the whole acronym thing a bit too far.....

Spooky offers 3 models of Scooby Doo and an option for butter cabinet. Differences are documented, but they do not offer ala cart. So they cannot build a CE trim level pin with SE cabinet art This isn’t Burger King. Spooky will do anything to sell you a game, but they won’t do that.

I agree they could and should be building your specific game and that is how the game is :
identified with #, sold, made and delivered. It is always going to you, so why not let me customize the game ala cart? Doesn’t seem hard to do, but pinball is hard. It would be an advantage to offering custom machines for 1/2 price of a Hyundai.

SpookyLuke or SpookyBug

I have seen some Distros still advertising spaces available in their order blocks. If these are not filled, is spooky going to still build all the games in numerical order, or will the unfilled numbers be skipped?

Couldn't disagree with you more. That's the beauty of pinball!

Meatloaf confirmed as next Spooky theme

I assume They will build and ship to the distro who has bought them.

His name was Robert Paulsen.

Wait a minute....his parents didn't name him Meatloaf when he was born?

Check out this post for delivery date estimates.

It would then be possible for someone that never pre-ordered to jump the line.

Maybe this has been discussed but seems the very right of the playfield is not fully utilized .. I guess it’s for the bravery meter .

I read that the upper playfield is the full wide body width and fully utilized and is one reason for the wide body cab

I may have missed it, but would be great if each case offered a unique perk on completion/unmasking. That would add a level of strategy to choosing cases and locking them in.

That's a good idea.

RM

Yup. And also with 5 habitrails I think it could feel crowded and visibility could be an issue if it was a standard. Also the upper PF like Green-Machine said.

The space kook laugh would be perfect!!!

Confused, doesn't sound like you were responding to my comment about sales order vrs delivery order?

Both good points that didn't immediately come to mind. I.e. that the distributors had agreed to purchase said machines and they are simply going to hold them in inventory and sell them. Cars on the lot so to speak. Not that I like the way car's are sold but that is the nature of the way that process is handled.

Still, I think that's a missed opportunity on the game. While I get the bravery meter, that's a LOT of real estate to chew up for that feature.

It's intentional to have that space occupied and not used in playfield geometry as it would make it play slow and floaty like a traditional widebody game. What makes the game fun is that it's a standard size playfield in a widebody cabinet and plays fast. There is a slingshot kicker on the right side of the playfield that adds some side to side action on the game.

I really think that one of those three bank drop targets should have been in place of that weird right side extra sling. Having six drops piled together seems a bit overkill when they’re was another area for a set.