I haven’t played it still so not sure if it’s amazing. I have a standard that was thinking of letting go of as there are a lot of great games coming out. I originally got it because my son likes Godzilla and this was the closest theme but now I have a Godzilla LE on its way. The main reason I haven’t sold is 7k for a standard is a good deal now with how much prices have gone up and how much is in this pin

My guess is many had zero interest in ever taking ownership. They bought after seeing the resale prices of Rick & Morty.

Which is why I said, "I'm sure everyone has their own reason". Also, there's been more than 8 just on here... and pinside isn't the only place that people can post for pins. My local pinball place, the owner has a sign on it that says, "$10k takes this home". So, was just curious if I missed something besides the obvious personal reasons or FOMO.

For the price, this pin is really good. I played the hell out of it and loved the sounds and everything. I was just curious.

This makes more sense to me.

I don't think I've ever heard Jackpot, but I did have one issue where I had an unlimited ball save during Baltan multiball. I tried to recreate it to report it as a bug to Spooky, but I've never been able to recreate that error.

My guess is many had zero interest in ever taking ownership. They bought after seeing the resale prices of Rick & Morty.

This is definitely a big reason IMO

Yeah. I just wrecked my car this last weekend. If I had crap insurance, or needed medical attention, my Ultraman preorder would probably be the first thing to go, since I'm selling Iron Man and Demolition Man to pay for part of it. Doesn't make much sense to hold the preorder if I won't be able to pay for the game later on anyways!

#57 is ready to roll also

Oct 1 - received questions about cab style, shipping
Oct 14 - final invoice
Oct 26 - Ship date

Obviously your experience may vary... but that might help get a sense of timing for those of you further down on the list.

I got my invoice a little faster.
Oct 22 - received questions about cab style, shipping
Oct 27 - final invoice
Still waiting on ship date.

Congratulations!! Enjoy the honeymoon! It continues to impress me the more I play it.

I get that twice as many Halloweens were sold, and that some of the feedback on the initial (Halloween) code was not great, so UM is lower priority. And I'm sure any mode and rule updates added to Halloween will also be added to UM. But my concern is that Spooky is entirely focused on fixing the details in Halloween, things like callouts, animations, video clips, screen info/layout, etc. Hopefully UM will get the same attention to these types of details.

I hope so as well. There isnt a lot of feedback from UM players here either which probably doesn’t help bring it attention. With current code there just isnt a lot to make me keep playing currently. We will see what our code update brings. Hopefully it’s pretty substantial.

The base code between the two games is identical. In terms of polish the biggest thing for me at this point would be larger video assets during the battles and perhaps a better display system for the progress during the Pigmon modes. Something like heath bars would be ideal. I'd make it like Deadpool where the modes are timed and your health goes down over time and the kaiju's heath declines as you hit shots. Based on the updates for Halloween it looks like that's in the works.

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UMCE #77 has made it home!

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#57 made it today! Was initially schedule for Monday, but R&L Carriers had a delay getting it to AZ. That must have been what the extra $10 was for

Had to adjust a rubber on the mid-level upper playfield, balls were getting stuck there 100% of the time, but the rubber on the post was just out of place, adjusting it back into place solved that problem.

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Someone get a game in my hands and we'll have plenty of feedback to give.

Same spot issue on my game. Except my rubber was broken. Had a white replacement on hand so good to go for now. Kind of a chore getting that rear opto back in place when I changed it out but all good.

Anyway...........cool # 57 made it out to Arizona.

kaneda reporting david van es [animations] out at spooky.

We'll just have to see the finished game with the current people working on it, could workout or end up being a wrong turn that stunts their growth as a company.

So how is the code on this game?
Meaning are there many code settings on it in the menu?

I'm going to be addressing this in the near future! But yeah, if you don't realize they have that retention latch, they don't stand a chance. Luckily these boards are inexpensive and easy to replace though!

I am super excited for my BSE just not excited about the wait. Lol. #388

I feel like the code is pretty young and am hoping many more bugfixes are on the horizon.

I have had the mode select and/or spacium store appear on the LCD while in a multiball, and not as a result of hitting the beta capsule hole.

The interaction between having multiple things running modes/multiballs/etc seems inconsistent... maybe I just don't know the rules yet.

Friends who operate a halloween on location have mentioned things like if people put in $2 for 3 games, play a two player game, credit #3 disappears, also mentioned they cannot add service credits or adjust replay scores.

I've seen one or two of the modes where artifacts from the screen up before the started remained, like the balls left and credit count stayed on the screen...

I am hoping and assuming the bugs will get worked out. R&M felt much more polished when we got it, but we were #260 there and had a much lower number , #57, for Ultraman, so that could be part of it as well.

Yes, dear god this. I don't know what the deal with the prior games was, but please leave the locking connectors in place.

The "standard" for RGB connectors in PCs at least SUCKS. There's no retention at all, they fall apart if someone breathes on them. You pretty much have to use little retainer "shells" that clip over anywhere there's a M->F connection. I can't imagine there not being a clip on a pin, so I'm hoping that the 'fix' is documentation only so people know about it.

Just paid invoice for #81. All these preorder games are coming in at once!

Picked up #75 on Thursday. Pretty happy with everything so far! The code needs a lot of polish, for sure. However, it’s enough at present that you still get a pretty good idea right now for how awesome this game could end-up being. I got a little time on it at MGC, but having it at the house really helps to explore a bit (and hear it better too). Also enjoying how it shoots so far as well.

Side note—Noticed that they’re using a Raspberry Pi 4 as the computer for this game. Kinda neat. Was wondering when a manufacturer would consider this.

Now someone should make a mod that lets you switch between booting the game or booting into RetroPie to play games on the screen.

It's actually an x86 single board computer.
We have considered using a PI in the past though, but there were problems both with performance and supply chain.
A more recent PI or compute module would probably work just fine, however the supply chain is effectively non-existent.

I see that now on closer look. Whoops! My bad.

No worries
Easy mistake; they do look similar at a glance.
Just wanted to avoid any confusion

Yea, seems like a significant changing of the guard has occurred at Spooky. Hopefully the new guys can deliver a game as deep and nuanced as R&M with music and sounds that are as good R&M and TNA.

I played Godzilla this weekend at HAAG, both the pro and premium. Both models have hundreds of clips and incredible music and sounds with rules that are super fun and well integrated with the theme. I’m staying confident that Ultraman will get there but Spooky is going to need to let it diverge from HWN code wise and become its own game. They should look at what Stern is doing with Godzilla for some inspiration…rather than looking at HWN and then trying to back something in to UM following the HWN rule structure.

Also, who is replacing Bowen on rule structure? It is important to find someone that likes games who can see what will be fun. It’s a very specific personality that is good on developing things that are fun. The access to the assets Spooky has for UM should lead to UM being a big game by the time it’s finished if Spooky puts resources into it.

Beta Capsule and Michael's knife are in stock as per Spooky Luke

Just found the Club, number 96 reporting and awaiting invoice!

Welcome aboard!

We were starting to get some momentum in the hype thread so hopefully those members will migrate here and keep up the pressure.

SpookyLuke are the beta capsules going to be sent out in order of game build or how will that work?

We have started putting them in games on the line and I believe the girls will be working on shipping them starting from game #1 next week!