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I’d love to see a Stranger Things pin come together. I don’t recall anyone specifically building a Stranger Things pin, but ideas have been thrown around.

It is getting harder and harder to keep track of all the projects people are working on these days in the FAST family. While most share their themes, there are still some who keep that close to the vest.

I have been too busy to do anything about it myself. I can’t wait until the move is done and the new shop space is setup!

Aaron
FAST Pinball

Yeah,I had those walkie talkies from Radio Shack when I was a kid.

anyone else think it was completely wrong that someone could put in 6 letters in a classic arcade for high score?

I think Spooky could do this show justice in a pinball. Realistically it would fit with a 1-200 person order. I shotgun pin #11 off the line and it better be game 11 and not switching badges with game 16

Yep I agree! I think a low number run. And it fits them.

Someone should retheme a Space Station. Music is already perfect. Lock balls to get to upside down world. Change multiball gi to red.

I’m not a fan of spooky pins at all. If Alice Cooper is a huge leap forward, then I’ll be onboard with thieir flagship pins going forward. Not for me as of now though.

TNA on the other hand, whoa baby I want that game bad.

I hope stern makes one so then I can actually afford one. Haha

The show really got a budget boost for the 2nd season.

The actor they hired to play the young Bowie was spot on.

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Just watched season 1 and season two in about a weeks time. The wife and I absolutely love this show!! So much potential for a pin!!

I feel that that is a theme that will feel real dated, real fast. However, the creators have said that they want to go 4 - 5 seasons, so if someone is gonna do it, they better get on it now!

I watched both seasons in 3 days.Fantastic show.

Also binged this week.
Nancy has eye looks that pierce.
Made me think of another actress in memory.
Can you guess without an image search?

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Probably the only theme that would get me to open my wallet for another nib!

Most of the time, i long for the days of non-themed pins, so i agree with Neo generally.

HOWEVER, sometimes all sorts of wonderful toys/rules/features fit together in an exciting way by virtue of the theme. This one makes a lot of sense to me because of all the feature-based tie-ins.

Yea, I apologize for saying it but I don't want spooky to do this pin. I'd much rather see AP or JJP. Also, not trolling you but aren't you worried that with TNA you're only playing half the field at a time? And the action is basically the same every time?

Anyone see the Firepower in the second season? Giving pinball some recognition

Just call Netflix's licensing office and ask if you can license a pinball machine.

They are putting their logo on every piece of crap in the world.

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Nope!!

LOLOLOLOL

I thought Greg was the one that drank a lot?

As long as it has the 80's B-movie music I'm in.

Have just discovered stranger things and watched all three seasons . Love the series and it's so well done . At first I didn't think it would make a good pin , but now it makes total sense . Of course you would want all the video and sound clips and as many songs as possible . I would like to see a StarCourt Upper Playfield and you would have to have a walkie talkie , and the cars play a role you could have a few cars around the Playfield . I like the Christmas lights idea I think that would work well . You good have a machine Mech for the " key " with a laser which points into a gobble hole or a scoop for the " gate " . It would have to be mode-based with your end goal being to kill the monster . Overall I think it would be a great theme for a pin .

Yeah, this has quickly shot to the top of the pinball theme hope list

More ideas:

No lower playfield or upper playfield that is the upside down. Use the artwork and lighting instead. Also physical diverters and shots that change when you’re in the upside down.

Also have the upside down be somewhere in the game that you can be sent if you get lost or you have to find somebody. Don’t just make it a mode. And when your in the upside down make the software in the game harder. Like no tilt warnings and you only have a certain amount of time to get out or you get stuck there and your ball ends.

I’d like you to be able to choose characters at the start of each ball. So if you pick one kid ball one and get lost in the upside down mode or drain (that’s getting lost too), then that character needs helped being rescued. So ball two you pick a kid that is still available, and you have now rescue the other kids that are currently stuck in the upside down.

Or just have it take you through the seasons as a mode based game with iconic scenes as the multiballs and wizard modes.

So many ways to approach making this into an amazing pinball experience.

I think a theme like this would really help to get the younger generation interested in Pinball .

I really like the idea of picking your kid and if they get stuck in the upside down world you have to rescue them

On wonka you don't choose the kid you're going for before launching the ball, you qualify the kid and then you complete that kid by hitting all the lit inserts.

All I gotta say is it better have magnets, lots of strong magnets. They get stronger as eleven develops her skills, then after a battle she gets weak and you have to wait for her to recharge.

I also think that after 3 seasons there are enough enemies to battle now.
Demogorgon
The Vines
Demo-Dogs
Mind Flayer
Spider Monster
Zombie humans/rats

Maybe elevens Powers could be used through a Magna save

I would be very interested in a Stranger Things pin. They have knocked it out of the park with season 3!

Multimorphic P3 might be a good choice for that aspect.

“We NEED A Stranger Things Pin!”..............No we don’t!

I was this guy until I started watching it... which was around 8pm Friday night, and now I'm already a 3rd of the way complete into Season 3. This is a pin that ab-so-lute-ly should happen. So many good ideas presented in this thread already.

I'd also add a cool idea for the roots/tubes from Season 2 could be a scoop into a subway that has little blue PF inserts along it's path with vine decals so you can see the ball moving through the underground root tubes.

Also, when in the upside down mode with the different lighting, you could have either a disco ball or ST/Prem laser effect going to represent the floating specs.

I love the show, but that doesn’t mean it would translate to a great theme for a pinball machine. Just my opinion......

I’d rather have more of the physical aspect. Too much open space on P3.

Should it come out now or after the next and last season?

Fantastic show

I think there’s plenty to make it now, but waiting until the end would be awesome too.

I'd be down for a Stranger Things pinball. Needs a Will switch frenzy every time you hit a switch it yells Will where's Will.

This is a perfect pinball license in my view. Stranger Things is one of my favorite things I've ever seen on TV/film.

I hope spooky gets this license. They’d do a good job with it

I dont need to see a bunch of teeny kids sitting on a bed and making out. been there done that.

Lmfao

Multimorphic P3 isn't a good substitute for a mechanical pinball experience. It just isn't.

I don't disagree Chuck, My comment was more about the PF being able to emulate the different 'worlds' (above ground, in the caves, etc.) of Stranger Things rather than having a lower and upper PF like Haunted House.

These are my top want themes for PINS, of which I think have a great chance of happening:

Stranger Things
JAWS
Jurassic World
TRON (VE / Revamped version or might make an '82 version etc)

Would it make sense to strike while the iron is hot & release Stranger Things now with having 1- (likely) 2 more seasons left, or do they want to wait to see what other content they could add to the machine. I think at this point with the end of Season 3 they have PLENTY to incorporate. Jaws will celebrate it's 45th anniversary next year, Jurassic World just got a re-theme from previously Jurassic Park in Hollywood Universal Studios, with Orlando Universal Studios about to receive a Jurassic World Roller coaster in 2020/21. Also in 2021 the final installment of Jurassic World "3" comes out. Disney's currently building the Tron rollercoaster and celebrating their 50th in 2021. LOTS of great titles or at least themes to me on the horizon.

Stern's popular previous TV Themes made into pinball;

Game Of Thrones
The Sopranos
Walking Dead
The Simpsons (TSPP Pinball Party)
Family Guy

I can't see them or [insert any pinball company] not wanting to pump out a Stranger Things Pin as IMO the license is insanely HOT right now. I'm actually surprised Big Bang Theory never got made. I'm sure of it that at some point between 2019-2021 STRANGER THINGS "WILL" HAPPEN.

Just finished season 3. God this show is so effing good.

I'm spewing I watched season 3 so quickly but couldn't help it , kept saying to the wife one more , one more , one more . Now have to wait a year to see the next season . Suppose I just go back and watch it from the start again .