Or Stern is the man, and the shark represents the death of pinball lol

Perhaps they are doing a tie-in game to this new Jaws 5 - Resurface movie ???

I know it's a fan made trailer but maybe they are thinking about another remake on the theme. After all ... nobody can write anything new worthwhile anymore for TV or movies.
It's so much easier to re-write crap on a known theme that will draw people in to buy tickets.

i think a Jaws pin would be awesome! Never really gave it much thought (a jaws pin) but after thinking about it would be cool.

I hope to god that they were just joking on Facebook. I did get to see the stick figure concept art earlier today.

Universal was rumored earlier this year, to have been working on starting production on a reboot of the original Jaws movie (presented in 3D for some theatres). Tracy Morgan was supposedly hit up to play the role of Richard Dreyfuss' character, Matt Hooper. Should give you a hint as to the already bad direction that box office train wreck is going. Maybe Stern is trying to say something, and its a sign of where pinball is going?

I wonder if you will have to shoot the ball into the mouth of the shark? Naaah, too complicated. The shark rises out of the playfield and you hit it with the ball over and over.
No, too expensive. The rubber shark toy sold at the beach tourist shop sits there and you hit it with the ball over and over.

When you think about how much money the first film made, as well as how much of an impact it had on pop culture in general, it's kind of shocking that they never did make a Jaws pin.

Bally already made a shark-themed game. It was called Nip-It.
Whoops, that was alligators, wasn't it? Sorry!

If they are working on a new movie and ol' Spielberg is on it, that would be right up Stern's alley I'm thinking. And I agree that it would be a sweet thing to turn into a pinball machine. They could dust off Lance Henrickson for quotes...

I don't know Im not feeling this theme that much - for me it would have been good back in the day but growing up at the time of the original jaws then making a pin of the new one - ahh - Im kind of over these movie themed pins (I know I know they make money, and this has been beaten to death)

I think there are better options out there but hey I'll take it as long as someone keeps making pins.

I think they need to make a pin called - "It's Me or your Hobby" where you have to battle your wife or girlfriend to convince her you need to buy another pin, you could do things like break up multiball, hit the captive ball to throw your chicks sh*t on the front lawn to make room for another pin, hit the drop targets to spell a-d-d-i-c-t-i-o-n, secret Lock where you hide a pin in the shed then you have to hit the ramps to keep it hidden for a week till you can bring it to your buddys house. Tax return - where you score some extra cash from taxes then you have to hit the loops to gain access to a computer then the internet, then online to search graigslist to build your collection. objective to build your collection by gaining money but also not pissing off the ladies - in the end you get both...secret mode where you have to decide what to do - take lady to dinner and a movie - or lie and goto local bar where there is a pin - like jackbot you gamble, in the beginning you could choose to be the girl or be the guy... watchout for the dog house - if you sleep in there, you will forfeit a pin from your collection.

I dunno, a shark toy that poops out balls for the multi-ball might be sweet.

Originally posted by fusion301:

"I think they need to make a pin called - "It's Me or your Hobby" where you have to battle your wife or girlfriend to convince her you need to buy another pin ..."

OMG, I'm literally tearing from laughing so hard! Your hypothetical machine pretty much perfectly describes the situation in my house. You should have seen the look on my wife's face the other day when I told her I was on the lookout for a third pin.

I got that same look today from mine too.

I would like a new Bond. Whenever the third movie comes out they would have plenty of content for modes and stuff.

Sealclubber I decided to add dates to your post, to put things in perspective

Stern in 1998:
shoot the ball into the mouth of the shark

Stern in 2005:
the shark rises out of the playfield and you hit it with the ball over and over

Stern in 2010:
the rubber shark toy sold at the beach tourist shop sits there and you hit it with the ball over and over

Stern in 2015(?):
the plastic shark sign stands behind a target labeled 'shark' hit the target with the ball over and over to make the light above the sign go out

Sorry, not that I'm bitter or anything...

I just got to the mode on "Me or your Hobby" where I had to wait 2 days to figure out the best way to ask - I used the spinner to choose, "I will flip this pin for cash" made the keep for 1 month shot. Im almost to the wizard mode -(Warehouse Raid - wifes at Girls night out)

You forgot about the super wizard mode ... "Buy her some diamond earrings and then gently break it to her that a new pin will be arriving later that afternoon".

That is the first pin I've hit the Super Wizard Mode on more than once.

Perhaps they are saying that with the generic gameplay of their last few pins they have finally jumped the shark.

back in '75' that movie scared the ____ out of me,
took me a few days before swimming alone in the pool again.

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Yeah, my mom won't swim in anything deeper than her waist because of that movie, unless its a pool.

Another franchise much too late, like making an Indiana Jones for the Crystal Skull movie.
Jaws 1 = Amazing
Jaws 2-Infinity = Terrible

sorry to bump an old thread ... but man would I love to see a JAWS theme from stern or JJP or anyone else. I found an original FPT I played it and LOVED IT! hopefully if Spielberg pumps out a Jaws 5 lol :

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Nice looking machine. I don't think I've ever seen that previously. Thanks for posting the pics.

I would be on for a jaws pin. Friday the 13th even better.

That's a nice FPT game. I'd love to see a Jaws pin.

What's up with the chicklets right by the outlanes? Couldn't ever hit them short of bumping off the dividers? That's wierd placement.

Perfect to retheme Baywatch as Jaws.

Two other cool features would be a lower playfield in the shape of the shark's head . As if you were inside Jaws with red LED's and bones like on Scared Stiff ramp on the inside.You would need to hit a certain amount of drop targets to escape. The top of the playfield could have a random shark fin that would pop up on a moving target / track. But none of this will ever happen... One can dream.

*Reads thread*
*Looks for stick figure on Stern's Facebook page*
*Wonders why it's not there*
*Re-reads original post*
*Sees "1 year ago" as the date*
*Looks for poster who bumped this year+ old thread*
*Facepalm*

Still rofling over here. Someone break out a rofl copter jpg

I kept wondering why I couldn't give Gambit a thumbs up for starting the thread! Ha! Thread necromacy...gotta love it!

Is it entirely possible for Stern Pinball to allow the collectors to choose a theme almost a voting system ? Is it possible to fund the theme idea? In other words if a certain amount of money was raised if the title was approved would Stern actually go ahead and develop a title this way? Even though considered an older movie Jaws is considered 133 all time on IMDB (Wizard of Oz 142). I know that's not really anything to gauge. However I think It would be really cool if Stern let you vote on a 70's,80's,90's etc.. movie for them to theme. For instance Jaws, Goonies, Labyrinth, E.T. I think would all make fun playfields.

Hmm, they wouldn't be able to do it as just random people voting; they'd need to make sure the voters were the buyers. Best way for them to implement it would be for them to talk with their own distributors and have the distributors vote on it if they wanted to do something like that...then, everyone could lobby their own distributor.

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Kiss

OMG that is Fing funny.

Just for the novelty of it I would also buy the "It's you or my hobby" pin NIB.