You've seen ghostbusters right?

I thought I was reading a post I had made. Had a small hole in the box when delivered, GZ Premium. Unboxed, it’s a total mess. The playfield dropped into the bottom of the cabinet, the top box will not unfold all the way, the glass won’t even go back in when the playfield was put back in place. Top box will light up, but the playfield is dead. There was plywood splinters everywhere.

I was promised an exchange on the February run. It’s been sitting in my man cave for over a month. I take out all my pinball needs on my Guardian of the Galaxy, so it’s not all bad.

That sucks. I’ve had 4 NIB deliveries and had to refuse 2 of them. The distributors always did a great job of getting things right, but they’re at the mercy of Stern, and it took months in each situation. Between the neverending delays, price increases and total shipping gamble, I’ve backed off NIB for a while

Buy/sell/trade local…meet cool people, check out different gamerooms, and get your games home in one piece

And Primus.

He’s drawn real people in his non pinball work too.

Jeremy is a talented illustrator, he’s perfectly capable of multiple styles.

Foo Fighters has zero appeal. As does another superhero (Venom).

How about Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers for a music pin? Floyd is a no brainer as well, although the rights are a mess if you want to use anything from the Wall.

How about a Martian pin? (Based on the Movie). That would work well for pinball I think. Or 2001 a Space Odyssey? Or even just an unlicensed Mars pin might be cool.

In the Time Stands Still documentary something along the lines of the following was said. “Rush may not be your favorite band, but they are someone in your favorite band’s favorite band”

Shoot "Collect Your Own Feces" 4 times to light "Grow Potatoes Multiball"! Not sure on that one... It was a cool movie, but I'm not sure the pace is right.

these are all terrible ideas, for what it's worth

If Stern is moving forward with Foo Fighters it’s apparent they are targeting the generation that grew up in the 90s, such as myself. With that being said, I wouldn’t even consider a Foo Fighters machine but would buy a Pearl Jam machine day 1.

Mumble Multiball!

Which Mfg teased cabinet artwork of an unlicensed space theme machine a year or two ago? Was it Spooky or maybe Deeproot?

American has Galactic Tank Force. Maybe that's what you're thinking of?

Hahahahaha

If Elvira is delayed again hopefully they won’t squeeze in yet another price increase.
My Sister in law has been waiting a long time for hers. The price increase and long delay has her questioning the purchase. Distro said no problem if you want a full deposit refund because he claims to have a fairly long list of buyers to take her spot.

That’s it, thank you! Can’t wait to see and play it!

It was Spooky.

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Dennis Nordman-designed, so I'm very interested in it, as well.

I totally forgot about this one. Given how poor Halloween's video assets are, it's probably better that Spooky sticks to licenses with abundant animated video assets available like Scooby/Treehouse of Horror/Futurama/Batman Animated Series.

I'd love to see a Vampire Hunter D or Trigun if they branch into anime.

Lol, over 500 callouts by Eddie Vedder, but you won’t be able to understand them , I think I’d pass on that. I listened to a pretty wide variety in the 90’s, but not grunge for the most part (some sound garden). From that era NIN, Tool, Cake, Eels, Beck, Ben Folds, Liz Phair, Sublime, Cypress Hill, They Might Be Giants, REM, Everclear, Blink 182, Green Day, Rage Against the Machine, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan (no new albums but I caught them in concert) etc. were all in my rotation but only a few might make good pins.

This is actually the machine I was talking about. Thank you for posting! I am excited to play both of these machines. Lots of potential and no money spent for licensing that hopefully was used for better mechs and features.

Coming soon … 2018!
Pinball Mfg is hard and sometimes painfully slow.

Sadly, I don't think we are going to see it built. I was so excited for this too.

NIN and Cypress Hill could be interesting titles. Would Stern ever build a machine with a pot leaf on a backglass/ playfield? Cheech and Chong Up In Smoke (with custom callouts) also would have huge potential except it’s not family friendly. That’s probably more of a Spooky/American Pinball title.

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Vampire Hunter D would be awesome-

Maybe Stern should give us a music mix pin. One song each from 16 artists. Pick the top two or three bands and work elements from their iconology into the artwork. I am thinking hip hop would work well. What do ya think? But, we demand expression lighting in it and enough kits be run to bust the current expression logjam.

Funny enough the naming would probably be really important so you could have something as identifiable as a licensed IP. I think I’d prefer these genre/era pins to single band pins.

Same here, I’m hoping they will be revealing it at Texas Pinball coming up.

For anime, I’m glad I’m not the only one old enough to remember Vampire Hunter but I don’t think enough people do to make it viable. They’d probably have to make it Dragonball Z or something. I’m more of a Patlabor guy myself.

The newer Japanese anime is not for me. They lost me when Moe became a fad style. Ugh.

Thought experiment: What if Stranger Things had exactly the same gameplay but instead was titled and themed Attack From Mars: Saucer Of Rage? Replace the demogorgon with a saucer with the same hole to blow it up. How popular would this have been?

There are still some solid anime out there. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba has been good so far.

Has potential to be really good or really bad

Don't like the style and Demon Slayer is infected with the moe trope. Boo.

For something more unique, try One Punch Man. One of the funniest Manga/Anime out there

Maybe. Trailer looks ok. A possibility.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/if-a-pinball-machine-theme-was-an-anime-what-theme-would-you-choose

You're welcome

Oh man, that's my daughters favorite thing right now. Might actually get her to play.

When somebody hears something from their chosen distributor about the ETA on a Godzilla Prem please post.

Thx

should start shipping next friday

I am going to be like that annoying kid asking if we are there yet.

Elvira hit the line yet?

Elvira hit the line yet?

I wonder if Stern is going to be able to meet existing pre-order demand for Elvira.

Seems like there’s an awful lot of people wanting one.

Good one

Any knowledge on Jurassic park premiums?

Tilt Pardon the question, but next and this (pick a day of the week) has always been a topic of debate amongst my friends. So, for clarification, do you mean next Friday as in the 17th or as in the 10th?

I think I remember awhile back on Zach Meny's podcast he said it was 30% of his pre-order list getting covered so some dealers have a lot more orders than allocation.

My distro said he was only getting a quarter of what he asked for (and had deposits sitting for all of them). That can't be fun: calling people waiting for years and telling them "Yeah, sorry about the 25% price increase and oh by the way.... you didn't make the cut either, sorry. Maybe next year IF they make more next year. Glad to have your deposit, call you in a year or so."

Elvira orders really have got shafted big time.

It is great Stern has moved into their new location and are up and running with 50% more capacity. I wonder why Stern didn’t use the old location for few overlapping years. That’s right, if Stern had kept their old location and also used their new location, they would have been able to increase production by 150%. That move would have allowed Stern to work through most of their backlog and make new games.

If Stern was trying to capture maximum sales in order to sell their company, then this was a sure fire way to do it. Imagine Stern spending another $10M at old location over two years as they turnout $110M of product. THEN they’d be primed to sell the company and drop the old factory lease for good.

Most places already sold out of the game just on wait lists. It sucks they have shafted that game as the demand for it is there, even at the ridiculous price. They waited so long to re run it so that demand just built up and one tiny run is pretty sad

New lease starts October 2023. Also, you can't just double your staff whenever you want.

I’m with you, I typically hate band pins, not because I hate the band but because the gameplay just never

Maybe I’m just an anime nerd but I know so many people that would buy a dragon ball Z pinball machine that don’t even like pinball
I’d buy 2 LE’s I’d be so happy, I don’t care who the designer is and if it played like crap. That’s a theme that would have me sold no matter what. And I usually care more about gameplay/code/flow than themes. I think that’s a whole new market of younger buyers for stern to tap into and get into the hobby. Naruto has Been going longer and has a bigger fan base probably. I bet if anyone made an anime pin that would be the 1st

https://www.knapparcade.org/post/stern-pinball-james-bond-60th-anniversary-to-begin-shipping-this-week-stern-production-update