True. I'm sure there could be both. Zen and Stern have both done similar Marvel titles.

Just look at the flowers mode....

I would love it if they have pop up drop targets ala "24" & "Cactus Canyon"

It would be very cool if the Stern released the LE version in time for the premier of TWD Season 5 in October.

I already have plans to place my DVD Season 1 Mask, Season 2 Zombie w/Screwdriver & Season 3 Heads in a Tank as my topper!

I hope the LE version has Herschel Zombie Head somewhere on it!

Marcus

Every game does not have to have humor! Lets do this Stern!

Drop targets representing zombies and a big prison toy would be cool...hope they can use the title music too.

They need to do the prison like the castle in MM.

How about a Michonne Toy over a slingshot that swings a Katana and beheads a zombie whenever the slingshot fires?

How about a Python revolver that you can load to start a 6 ball multiball? The game fires each ball into play out of a barrel and the chamber actually revolves.

How about a mode where you have to make a combination shot to put a screwdriver through the eye of a walker?

How about an LCD mod like CFTBL that displays scenes from the show in the center of the playfield?

Lots of fantastic ideas can be made from TWD.

Marcus

Coming from someone who would love to own an AFM (but doesn't want to spend that much on one pin), I'd love to see a Walking Dead version of AFM (from a gameplay and layout standpoint).

Oh for the days before Pinball Arcade opened my eyes to pins I'd never experienced.

An animated fronton with Michone's Katana beheading a Zombie...
(a la Bad Cats... the lady would be a bit different, and the cat would be a walker...)

Yup, been awake since it started.

This is not happening soon enough.

Maybe they are waiting for Season 5 to start.

I think Stern should at least announce what the next title is even if production doesn't start for a few months.

I would guess they will announce something by the end of the month, especially if it's really TWD. San Diego Comic Con is the last weekend in July, huge audience there for something like this.

I'd love the pin, without a doubt....but I need the STLE first.

It might deter folks from buying what is available now though. I ordered an IM VE and if they were to announce TWD, folks might cancel there IM VE and wait.

That works both ways though, I'm holding off buying Ironman VE in case the next Stern is TWD. If I knew that I had no interest in the next Stern I would pick up an Ironman. I understand that whole need to sell as many units as possible, plus I don't have any patience. With a re-make I don't see why they couldn't make an announcement.

^^^ sorry sir your card has expired in 1/2013.

Hate to say it but this show is boring to the max. Watching for the first time on AMC for marathon week and it's the same segment over and over again. Walk through the woods or train tracks and kill the slow moving zombies. On a side not I think True Blood is better and I hardly watched that show as well.

Now where did I see this word for word before.....Oh yeah, every post regarding TWD

Is there an actual date, chosen or penciled in, that they will announce the next title, or is it just whenever it happens?

Third post is a charm......oh wait no it's not. For someone that hates TWD and finds it is boring you sure spend a lot of time in he TWD threads.

Sorry was bored yesterday with no soccer game to watch and figured I would cover all threads with same quote. Oh well just thought it would be fun to stir the pot up over a show rather than a pin on forums. So tell me what's so great about the show.

It's a show you really have to watch from season one on to understand. Coming in on a random episode, I would think one would be lost. My wife and I love the show and neither of us are into horror shows.
I don't want to post a long synopse of the show. If you don't like the show, that is cool. I didn't think I would like it either but some of my pinball buddies got me into it. I just thought it was funny you kept posting about it in the different WD threads.

I'm a big fan of the comic book, and a viewer if not a great proponent of the show. On the plus side, the show has got generally good acting and a seemingly solid special effects budget, so there are some great sequences. Check out the first few episodes of Season 1 if you want to see what the show is capable of. On the minus side, there are too many lengthy scenes of relatively pointless dialog (which can feel like banter posing as character development). Season 2 was renowned for this (to the extent that I didn't bother watching most of it and don't feel that I missed anything). And as in most serialized dramas the characters will occassionally make inexplicable, completely out of character decisions/alliance-changes. I sympathize with this -- it takes really good writing to immerse you in a story and keep you from seeing the "strings" controlling the characters, and it must be especially hard with an open-ended TV series where the writers don't have a good sense of how much time they have to fill. Occasionally a show will pull it off (I'm thinking of the Sopranos) but it's rare. In any event, despite its flaws I think the Walking Dead is enjoyable enough and worth starting at the beginning to see if it grabs you. If you do end up watching though, skip Season 2 entirely like I did, you'll miss nothing!

(But what you should really do is pick up the comic book).

Hmm looks like TWD will be next and out in September
and No comic version
Will be TV related.
Now to sit back and wait....

Is this confirmed by an insider somewhere? My boys would want a twd pin bad. I think stylized art of the show characters would look nice. Saw some via Google images. No Photochop work please.

I keep seeing people post that. I'm yet to see proof.

Translating TWD into a pin is going to take some creativity. It's a story of survivors (mostly) staying one step ahead of inexorable death. The characters don't accumulate or accomplish anything, and even when they win physical confrontations it's at great cost or is overall a great tragedy. You guys are talking about prison break multiball - what, it starts with a guy getting his head chopped off and you win when everyone is dead or scattered? Pretty bleak and not the kind of adaption STERN has ever done.

Maybe you'll play the role of the zombies, and modes and shot sequences are how you 'collect' the cast of characters

While I favor Resident Evil as the best Zombie theme option available on the popular market, I can't dismiss the popularity of WD. The opening music, the strong characters and drama should make an awesome pin. It could be mode driven by setting, characters, or timeline and still rock. So many good characters have come and gone. I personally require a Lizzy serial killer mode.

If you're going to make a zombie game, I'd say you have to go with either Romero or TWD (appologies to Racoon City, but the anime nonsense bits are too distracting from my perspective).

I'd love to see some zombie pop-ups or for Stern to somehow come up with some 3D zombie drop targets. Will it be the final DMD we see from Stern?

PLANTS VS ZOMBIES!!!!!!!! (ducks)

lol 1 year and 8 months ago... well done

He is referring to the date on the opening post.

Gary is a jackass if he holds off making a pin because of his own personal tastes.

Well that's what I have been told from the inside (yes)
TWD around Sep. Now I too will have to wait and see if it's true.

Personally I think Dead Rising would make a better Pin