Contact Kingpin Games. Chris Minuer. 608-522-5001.

Been collecting the series as they release in steelbook. Great stuff! I hope I land a CE.

20210705_194315.jpg

Hopefully the site hold up, r&m was a shit show, I lost a couple hundred spots by accidentally getting 2 in my cart and taking the time to remove one (the site was very slow).

Hopefully it's been tooled up for this drop but honestly I wouldn't blame them if it was a similar experience. It can be tough to do proper load testing and site tuning/hosting and as far as they care it's a once a year(+-.5) problem. They'll all be sold before the end of the week without any site fixes.

Its all new since RaM... fingers crossed. It will be stress tested for sure!

Wonder if Japanese language call outs are available or programmed in? Wonder if anybody in Japan will buy one?

You all have certainly built up a perfect storm to hit your site at 9am!

This pin looks so fun. Artwork is killer. Topper is eh, but I think at first glance this is a winner.

This is going to be a test of buying power in the market. GnR and Mando selling our CE/LE respectively almost immediately.

I’m not sure what’s going to happen with these. If they sold 550 TNA over months on months yet if they sell 500 Ultraman or 1250 Halloween in one day that’ll be very impressive.

I’m likely going to pass until I can play and hope to get someone’s early pre order if the bail out later on.

When do we see gameplay?

I have a feeling they’re going to slate at least a few for Japan seeing as Toho is stationed there.

Ultraman is a Tsuburaya production. Godzilla is Toho.

This is a great theme. I'm actually impressed Spooky got this, and I'd choose this over Halloween.

They certainly aren't $11 any longer.

I don’t expect them to sell all 1,750 units in one day

You had to grow up with it like I did

Unless the flippers buy them up for later sale.

Stern reading this - anyone remember FG/Shrek?

6457724C-99EC-48BE-94BE-D5C4C62386EC (resized).jpeg

I hope they put something on this bridge. It's a little bit of an eyesore. Maybe some art or something.

20210705_213408.jpg

I disagree. Horror fans are die hard and Halloween one is considered one of the greatest of all time. It is one of the OG slasher films with the Canadian film Black Christmas and Italian Bay of a blood preceding it by a few years.

Many of the horror Facebook groups I'm in are already posting about it. I could see wealthy horror fans just buying or for decoration.

There are several lines in English and Japanese both... so you hear English followed by Japanese.

There are a few lines specifically ONLY in Japanese to give a shout out to that market.

Basically we wanted to give a HUGE thank you to our Japanese friends. We love what Ultraman is. The history, the culture, the absolute joy it brings to our lives. I grew up on all of this... passed it on to my kids. Its everywhere in our home. Bug and I hit the best weekend of the year every year at G Fest absorbing all the kaiju goodness we can. We've done this since he was 7.

This one means a lot to my family. Extremely special! Can't tell you how thrilled we are that there are more fans out there, and maybe we'll make a few more.

If there is a double subway and dual inlane lifters but only one ramp exit which all the upper playfield activity feeds, and all the left side trap holes also feed the left inlane, then what feeds the right inlane lifter? Where does the other subway enter from? My guess would be the scoop, as an easy means of balancing the flow between the left and right main flippers.

You just gave the flippers a stroke.

You just made people who want to own this game to play it very happy.

Hey Charlie - first off all, congrats on the reveals…both games look gorgeous & I think the theme choices & implementation are great. Ultraman, while old, feels really new for pinball. We really haven’t seen anything Japanese/anime yet & you’re the first to bring it. I think there’s def crossover with Kaiju show/toy lovers and pinball.

Quick question/suggestion…will there be subtitles on the LCD for Japanese dialog? I think that would be a really nice touch if possible.

Most of what gets said in Japanese is also said in English, but yeah... for the Japanese specific lines... why not?! Sounds like fun to me.

Our voice actress will be in the shop soon to see the game. I'll get her to do a little translating!

It was important to us to also have some text on the display showing JACKPOT! and other essential pinball items in both languages as well. Just neat little touches to make it more user friendly in Japan and well, I just like seeing it that way too. Feels right in this game.

It would be incredible to see pinball get popular in Japan. It would be huge for the entire industry.

Man, I had no interest in Halloween…but this game is really calling to me. Guess I have till tomorrow to decide, I’ll need to re-up my gang club membership. I assume I can still get the fang club membership as late as tomorrow and can still get in for Wednesday? Going to be a long day haggling with the wife tomorrow. LOL

Sounds great! Oh, do you see language selection being something that would be done in options, or something the player could do (maybe by holding a button while pressing start to switch from the default language selection?)

Netflix Ultraman season 2 confirmed for 2021.

pasted_image (resized).png

Just started watching season 1 today. I know it won’t be but I kinda wish it was themed off this version. I’m sure that’s the unpopular opinion. No nostalgia value but Bemular and some of the other bad guys just look so much cooler in this one. I also did not grow up with the original.

Certainly would be cool to see Japan become a bit of a pinball market.

My Korean friend was over recently, and despite it being her first time playing pinball, she did really well. I would imagine that with the strong gaming culture in Asia most people who step up to a machine would quickly figure out what to do (and have the hand eye coordination to make that first play worthwhile). It’s hard to sell pinball to somebody if they lose their $1 immediately.

Also want to note that Given the Wizard mode is the Ultra Brothers, the game at least goes up to the 5th season of the show Ultraman Ace.

I never heard of ultraman until I read ready player one. I don't remember if Ultraman was in the movie. Cool idea for a theme though.

Oh hell yeah they got the Corvair in here??? With the fender mirrors and everything, goddamn.

Absolutely awesome theme and I'm very happy to see Spooky adding some much needed variety to the pinball options (I think I said the exact same thing when R+M was announced). I wasn't planning on buying a new pin for a while but Charlie may have just forced my hand.

pasted_image (resized).png

pasted_image2 (resized).png

=_=

wut

I was 100% on Halloween, then weird things started to happen .I’m at 100% Spooky ,85% Halloween ,and 15% Ultraman .I’m not going to pretend I’ve seen any in the last 30 years but I remember being locked in back in the late 70s.I’m going to try to binge watch/listen to whatever I can tomorrow .UM is a total long shot for me but I have a gut feeling after the flipper swoon and things settle down you won’t see this pin for sale on the aftermarket often if ever .

Halloween was a lock for me.. but then who could have predicted this! Amazing reveal

Make a few more fans of Ultraman.

So can we call these pins twins?.I’m calling my local Drive In and request a Halloween/‘68 Ultraman double feature night !

What the? Never heard of ultraman. Maybe the most rediculous title I have ever heard of. Atleast I had heard of Thunderbirds.

Well, which is it? Have you heard of it or not?

Never heard of Ultraman. Doesnt mean the game will be bad. Hopefully they didn't pay for a license!

FTWR WARCHUB

So after watching this I totally see the appeal. I love "prehero" marvel comics and this is like the Japanese version if they had a TV show. I think this theme could be more fun than Halloween

Crazy to me I never heard of him until today and then someone I follow on Instagram shared this today...

Screenshot_20210705-235152_Instagram (resized).jpg

If I was asked to compare this to something I couldn’t .As far as gameplay ,my opinion is with the subway/elevator to both left and right flippers,a random timed shot ,and 7 locks this could be WOZ in a standard body with insane flow on steroids or a IMDN stacked and loaded on steroids.Whichever I just pray I land one .

Love the theme, and art it inspires. Hopefully I will acquire one. Timing will probably have me motivated to sell a nice space shuttle, party zone and black belt so I can fit this in. Got some ideas for mods but realy want deep dive into new Heck boatds see if sny room to play.

Halloween is the theme for me, but I do remember ultraman. Doesn't hit home like Halloween does. But, the art package on UM is crazy. I hope they play us good as they look. If so, might buy my first Spooky pinball. Nicely done!

Does this means the 500 number may not be locked in? What is the latest we can join the fang club and still get that jump on the pre-order?

Reread the full sentence again, he just means they may make a few new fans of the Ultraman franchise.

When does the order window open? Wednesday?

Wednesday 9.00 a.m.