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Actually a great shooter and real challenge to do the ultimate stack. Looks amazing in colordmd also!

I like the callouts personally.

1,000,000 fish bonus.

The theme would probably tie to the new movie, but Godzilla Final Wars is my kids' favorite. Best Godzilla movie ever, almost too awesome for a pinbacll machine would be my only concern.

It has aliens, the legendary Don Frye, the "Japanese Keanue Reeves" Masahiro Matsuoka, a rubber suited Godzilla, and for your consideration, the following monster appearences:

Godzilla
Rodan
Anguirus
Zilla
King Caesar
Kamacuras
Kumonga
Manda
Ebirah
Gigan
Mothra
Minilla
Hedorah
Monster X/Keizer Ghidorah
Varan
Baragon
Gaira
Gezora
Titanosaurus
Megaguirus
Fake Godzilla
Godzilla Junior

Special Edition wide body needed for this.

Or perhaps more likely, they will just shelve the licence for a few years until the next movie is released? The acquisition was a cock block to Spooky anyway. They've shelved licences before (Superman anyone?)

I'd love to see Toho Godzilla pin, but I'd be (pleasantly) shocked if it happened at Stern.

Agreed, they won't even build a pin with the license.

I wonder if that tattoo artist could be convince to try playfield art, would be a perfect fit for the theme.

Name one good spooky pin not designed by SD. Stern will do it better.

I’m hoping we get Pharoahe Monch’s Gojira:

Hope you get what you ask for.
Nice of Stern to give prizes and support you, even tho you never miss a chance to shit on them.

I read the spooky interview about Godzilla.

I think they should just make a gamera instead then.

I was just watching Godzilla trailers and moved to gamera trailers instead. Also I was thinking how great it was to watch those giant rubber monsters battling it out.

Infra man.

Or a shaw brothers pin.

nothing wrong with holding a company accountable for their failures and expecting things to be fixed/improved. We dont all have to gobble everything they do up with vigor like you do. Honestly if we all lapped it up like you do, then I imagine we would still be getting poor code on each release, chipping pfs, and some of the other junk they put out and deemed acceptable.

Can't disagree with you so far, which must mean you haven't finished talking ...

ah, there's the Whysnow we've come to know and love, keepin' it respectful as usual.

Remember someone gobbled up and gaged a lot vigor on skit B highway sausage. Just sayin’

Stern has made mistakes, as humans do.
They have tried to correct and learn from them, while still remaining a profitable company.
I support them because I enjoy playing (most of) their machines, and the games they make provide a good part of my income as well.
You like to crap on them, and call out every mistake that they have ever made, using ANY chance to do so...
Then waffle and be first in line to take support and prizes, anything you can get, launch party on!
You'll probly sit around at the launch, ragging any perceived fault you can find on the early code, badmouthing the company that provided prizes and support for your tournament.
...Don't forget to collect that IFPA dollar....

LOL if you want to only state the facts you should start with the fact JJP can barely get a game out. Fact two one more $500 price increase may be the end of JJP.Fact 3 the only hit they have had sold most under $7500. JJP downfall will be price not quality

Man, a Shaw bros pin would be stellar...get some Gordon Liu action with some dubbed words not matching up with moving lips...love this idea!

What does JJP have to do with this thread?

We all get it, you don't like JJP, do you have to tell us about it in every thread?

You also seem to have no clue what actually constitutes a fact.

I would have been happy to stay on topic but my response was to a off topic post "I will take one with:
a bash toy that spits balls SDTM
splitting cabs with no corner brackets
ghosting inserts
failing node boards that lack schematics and are unobtanium in 24 months
chipping playfields
design flaws that require immediate fixes and added protectors
recycled code from lonnie
large sculptures that dont interact with the game but block you view
intermittently weak flippers
an orbit that always dumps to the pops
inserts that never get coded
poorly done call outs with the same hillbilly voice from twd and the sparky/jacky dude
yup, that should about cover it " one dumb ass off topic post deserves an other

The only one missing is Varan, who did have his own movie. Dude gets no respect.

The "big" 4 are Gman, Rodan, Mothera, and Ghidrah. I'm sure any pin would be focused on the new movie and those 4 creatures. Even if they did a LE and take it back to the "classics" like WWE, they could use the two original movies that included those 4. (Ghidrah the Three Headed Monster, and Godzilla vs. Monster Zero).

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Any new speculation on this one? This is a theme for which I may well hold a spot open in my space-limited lineup.

Blue Öyster Cult on the soundtrack, kudasai:

godzilla throughout the years ! but 1960's godzilla is my fave ! destroy all monsters would be the modes

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Hope they make it. Dont waste the license...

Charlie spoke that he knew who the designer at Stern is who is working on it, so it's being made.

Good to know.

Seems like a lot of money to spend just to bury the competition... I also heard Gorge Gomez give an interview in which he essentially denied that this was what they did. Maybe he's lying...

I'm just going off of interviews Charlie has given, but he said he gets along with everyone at Stern except 1 person.

Pinball is a small world. Most people get along, but there are just a few dicks that mess it up and make it less fun for everyone. Stern certainly has one of those aformention dicks.

Likely Godzilla license was secured as to not compete with Jurassic Park

It deserves the pinsound treatment

L O L

Like spooky would be shipping Godzilla by now?
Also, there aren't many good to great pinball themes left! Can't blame Stern for grabbing what they can.

False, it was secured because they knew Spooky wanted it. Most of the other companies will work together, ship games overseas together, etc. Stern just does there thing and tries to smash the "competition" when possible. This was an attempt to smash Spooky. Again, there are great people working at Stern. I own Stern machines and like them, but a few employees in their company seem to try to make pinball less fun.

I think that's a fair statement. We know 2019 is Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle and after that we'll have Haunted House Party (?). Maybe they would have had this jump the line, but I have to assume Charlie would want to do Godzilla himself. Would he want to be the lead designer on two games in a row? At the earliest it seems like it would have been a target for 2021.

I'd be interested to hear more about how the other companies are cooperating/collaborating. Doesn't relate to the specific practice of snagging licenses you don't plan to produce to jam the competition (if that's what actually happened here), but I hadn't seen a ton of stories about JJP/CGC/Spooky/American working together. Joint international shipping would make sense for smaller manufacturers that cannot fill a container on their own, but were there other examples?

Yep. Just speculation, likely wrong.

Hey Criterion thought highly enough of them they made it their 1000th release. Clearly people still love the big guy. Hell my sole buy at Allentown outside of the motzrella sticks and mountain dew or the one coffee was a King of the Monsters silkscreen print

Because it might not be based on a 65 year old monster...it might be based on Godzilla vs. King Kong which is coming next year...