Thanks for that reminder.

We could all agree NOT to order until we have seen some game play...

Last call for NZ orders ... you have till 10pm tonight to let me know what you want.

Dave.

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Yeah…. good luck with that. I’m cool with being the owner of Ultraman #1

Any past NIB Spooky buyers from Canada here? If Im buying from Nitro BC or Spooky US directly, are provincial taxes applied or is that part of the brokering/delivery fee?
Ive only ever bought NIB Sterns and they were always from P1. Thanks in advance.

Eh, bought via spooky... GST was applied when the items was shipped so was part of the shipping via the broker. I'd assume that GST would be applied directly from Nitro if bought through them.

There are are just over 300 posts in this thread by many of the same people. There are 500 units. Outside of pinside how many buyers do you think there are that even know about what is happening in a couple hours and paid to be a member? The math on them selling out in one day seems off. ACNC took much longer at 500. R&M is a big license and wildly popular title with a huge fan base, totally different.

Then again... I could be wrong. I'm no expert.

I would bet on a sellout, but I don't blaim anyone for waiting.

I think ultra man is gone today, halloween I think lasts months. 1250 is a lot, and you have to subtract all the ultra man buyers from that lot. It’s also a horror theme which eliminates family buyers. Then Godzilla will come out in September and Halloween will be old news.

I'd guess neither title sells out day one (maybe UM could). But I would not be surprised if Spooky sells 1000 pins today.

I'll take the under. Keep in mind that distributers have "lists" of buyers. Once they a publicly available a decent number are instantly claimed.

Very partially. My left eye doesn't see green and blue as well as my right eye...like if I close one and open the other and switch in sequence it's very obvious. Grass doesn't look as vibrant and the sky pretty muted.

When we repainted Crescendo, I let my wife handle all the color matching, heh.

Ordering through PinballSTAR FAQ -

I am getting alot of the same questions so wanted to put them out here for everyone... All of us selling - Spooky Direct and other distributors all have our own systems for ordering... This below only applies to PinballSTAR.

1. You MUST be on our email blast list to get our 'READY TO ORDER' email. To get on our email list you must email us before say 8:30am CST this morning so we can add you. If you email after then we can't guarantee you'll get our email blast.

2. We do not do orders over phone, text, or direct email - it becomes impossible to control our inventory levels - doing it by our email blast and paypal has worked wonderfully in the past as many of you know. If you paid via paypal, and got a confirmation from paypal then you got your game. It's that simple. It will take us a few days to email everyone a confirmation email - please be patient.

3. CHECK YOUR SPAM... many times our emails since they come from our email service will be marked as Spam so if you don't see it in your inbox at 9:00 am CST - check your spam it may be in there.

4. In our email we will have paypal buttons you click to whisk you to paypal where you will pay with one click. You do not need a paypal account, but if you don't have one you'll just have to enter your info vs just having it all prefilled by paypal once you log in. It's easy quick and there is no risk of our website crashing or other potential problems outside of our control.

5. We have inventory levels set for each model - we have assigned them based on our allotment per game (so many for Halloween, so many for Ultraman) and also so many for Standard, Bloodsuckers, and Collectors. We have assigned the majority to Collectors of each game as we feel that is what most want.
We have plenty of games to sell.

6. Fang Club - This is a Spooky thing. It's purchased through Spooky. You need to have it in place to order early today. If games sell out everywhere there may be no later on sale date to the 'non Fang Club' public. So, buy your Fang Club membership today before 9 CST.

7. Can you buy one of each game - yes.

8. We only sell to USA - if you are overseas buy from Spooky direct please. You may get our email blast outside of the USA if you signed up for it, but please buy direct if so.

We are hopeful Spooky will have a glorious SELL OUT day today across the board. Spooky sells direct and there are a very few other wonderful hand picked distributors they work with - myself / PinballSTAR, Chris Meunier / Kingpin, Rob Anthony / Pinball Classics, Tommy Floyd / Nitro (Canada), and others outside of the US I don't know offhand... Any of these folks will do a stellar job for you that's why there's only a few of us - if one distributor is sold out try another you'll get the same A+ service from anyone. Our goal is to work together to promote Spooky and take care of any and all Spooky customers.

Hope this helps... Good luck to everyone... TY for supporting Spooky and your distributors.

Joe Newhart
PinballSTAR Amusements
[email protected]

i wont order cause that design doesnt look like it plays good. i need to see gameplay video for this one. too bad
you have to wonder why there is no gameplay video????

Yep, secured my BSE Ultraman via Chris at Kingpin! Now the celebration and wait begins

I’m reading these in Robocop’s voice.

You have 36 minutes to decide.

I would love to have an option to change the audio between Japanese and English in the settings.
Super Excited about an Ultraman Release!

I was thinking more Saw.

Haha - You have 31 minutes to comply!

I know everyone thinks there's some nefarious reason, but it really is probably only a bit of 2 things. License constraints, and possibly the code isn't quite ready to show off yet. It does indeed make anyone on the fence hesitant to buy one. I really hate this aspect of pinball.

This is a super exciting day. I think everyone agrees that Ultraman sells out before Halloween…but how quickly will the sell out be?

Hour tops.

UM by noon, HWN by the weekend.

R&M took about 4 hours to sell out with 750 machines.
That said, COVID drove demand for home use through the roof.
Be interesting to see.

I'm not sure what is going to happen here in 6 minutes but I don't want to risk having to pay a premium aftermarket price for a really cool aesthetic.

With a few minutes to go the shop page is already starting to load a bit slower. Should be interesting to see...

FOMO!!!

Spooky's site already crashing. lol

I had the RM site xperience wont tell that mess in detail. Spooky promised they´ll ramp up and stress test...

I got 1 in my Cart but.......

Call a distributer, you get extra Customer Service, get locked in on a game, no stress of the slow shop page and you get to support Spooke and a Distro.

I secured my UM BSE and moved on with my day already .

i watch this one from the sidelines popcorn is ready. Site down...

That's as far as I could get too

Looks like UM CE already sold out?

I can't deal with the buying direct shopping cart shenanigans anymore. Hopefully Kingpin has an Ultraman for me. Otherwise, I'll just pass. I love you and the crew, Charlie but ya have to stop saying things are fixed each time.

I am stuck on the Checkout Process. Ugh

Bloodsucker locked in through PinballStar, could not be more excited!

Email Chris over there. I had a feeling the shop would crash so I just made arrangements through Kingpin and am sipping coffee, watching the new Loki and comfortable in the knowledge that my UM BSE is in the queue.

I wonder how many folks accidentally bought 3 of these things

I got one. It’s Spooky how hard that was.

So they really need a load balancer over there.
9:08 successfully checked out with UKR CE

Only errors through the website...but have a receipt via email and Spooky has my money. Seems like a winner is me?

I can't get to the checkout page...

PROFIT!

I hope to god I got thru the Checkout process.. Still Waiting 504 everytime.

Just wait.
My cart came up with a Halloween CE in it.
Had to wait until UKR CE reappeared, removed Halloween after adding a UKR BSE and CE.
Finally managed to get just the CE ordered and just got my email.

A CE will be heading to Louisiana!

All the rest of you, buy Blood Suckers so I get my game faster!