This is the way!

I have spoken.

Well first things first Stern doesn’t release games on anniversaries, or to coincide with releases so why would they release another Star Wars game on a “holiday” based on a pun.

No

Dude you need the sarcasm emoji or people gonna think you’re for real.
Which would make you bat-shit crazy ha!

Yeah I think your right. Mando is a hot property

whoops yeah meant Seb Stan lol

This would make for a great topper.

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Bingo. Wonka is the perfect example. There’s no story, but it’s all Wonka and sweet, syrupy goodness. Sssssshhhhhh, don’t tell Kaneda.

One if the coolest games at Pinball Expi 2019.

Really love wonka. I know it doesnt have all the music but I really dont care. The total package is great and I love how that game shoots.

With a new live action movie (reboot) in production, a new Netflix TV series complete and pending release, a new game installment pending for May (I think) and the 25th anniversary happening now.... Resident Evil Pinball would be quite the timing. Perhaps too close to TWD for it to happen, but a guy can dream

really? the pf looks empty but what do I know! Maybe it was a blast.

So are a lot of current Sterns, but they're a blast as well.

I guess I’m bat shit crazy then because the ending of that series was absolute shit. Your opinion may differ and we are all entitled to have an opinion right. Good day.

A blast alone isn't worth $6k - $9k+ for many. We are at the point with these crazy town prices that fun factor and flow (often an excuse for a lack of features in some recent pins) are no longer enough to justify the price tag.

Need more features and toys Take away the standard cabinet and general basic parts in a pin then question what you are getting for $6k - $9k+. $1k per orbit and ramp? $2k for 3 drop targets? $1k for a bobble head on a spring? That's insane but its where we are at.

Personally I can't really understand how it could have any impact on buying a pin or not, for me it definitely doesn't, as long as I don't hate the theme (like TWD, Harry F'ing Potthead or Lord of the Ring) I just want it to look good and play well.
Not even a fan of the Marvel movies, still bought AIQ, just because the art looks great and the playfield has nice shots, ramps etc, couldn't care less if it has ANY reference at all to the movies (or comic books?).
I was even amazed by the fact that someone just wrote to have sold his GOT pin because the latest episodes sucked....what has that got to do anything with playing pinball???

People are buying more than ever. Why would they change? Ultimately we’re paying for a factory with lots of employees to exist...the price is in no way related to the parts.

You can pay for toys and lights and nickel and dime the BOM in your head. I'm paying to have a blast. Period. And if it ain't there, I ain't buying.

Fruit Salad multiball! I have kids that watched the Wiggles constantly so no creeper accusations please lol

Yummy yummy. Great now I won't be able to get this song out of my head all day! Ugh

Personally would love a Star Wars pin based on the Star Wars Holiday Special featuring Bea Arthur, Harvey Korman, and Art Carney. You have to get Chewy home to his wife Malla, son Lumpy, and grand father Itchy to celebrate Life Day. LE purchase day one!!

Kidding of course.

Because home entertainment due to Covid is a large part of what has been driving all time high sales this past year. As more and more people hopefully get vaccinated and we gradually emerge from this mess, I do wonder if demand and sales will continue at the very brisk level they have this past year.

My guess is sales will gradually go back to a similar level they were pre Covid as discretionary and entertainment income shifts to the pent up demand for travel and entertainment outside the home. It will be interesting to see where the market goes from here.

Stir, whip, stir, whip, whip, whip, stir!

I concur, with your assessment.

Since we are either talking Mando or throwing out random ideas based on a Kaneda comment, here is mine...
Contemporary, popular, a fan base, something unexpected, wasnt sure if there was a movie (let's just pretend there isnt), more like Shadow than Afm.
How about Avatar? (The Last Airbender, not the blue people)
I could see some diverters for "Airbending" the ball. Earth would likely just be stand up targets, maybe a smooth loop for water? Fire Nation "battlefield"? Idk. Im just a fan and i see possibilities for pinball. Also, Shadow is probably in my top 5 so id like to see a revisit/reimaginig of that layout

Great idea, but I think the pinball peeps who license themes aren’t in touch with animation outside of the prime time world. Avatar/Korra have a massively passionate fanbase...Nickelodeon is starting a new Avatar Studio to make tons of new show/movies. It’s just gonna get bigger.

Lol Gary at home reading this.

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Avatar (blue people) is a rumored JJP game.

best post in the last 324 pages

JJP sure loves redoing every Stern/DE game. Lol

South Park redo would print money. No one wants another blue peeps Avatar.

He doesn’t need to read Pinside to know how many games they’re selling.

Clock tower would be a great topper, but so would the time circuits and flux capacitor, then again i would rather see those things on the playfield.

This way we can see what potential the game actually could have!

It has also made me a much better pinball player with those tight shots..lol

Didn’t Stern just crack into the Chinese market and have started producing pins there?

Shang-Chi could be a big hit for them there and after just watching the trailer it looks like another MCU Blockbuster! And I wouldn’t mind a modern king-fu themed pin with some MCU sprinkled on top.

https://www.ign.com/videos/shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings-official-teaser-trailer

Unfortunately they will still ask for 8K for it. Joking aside, these prices are getting way out of hand.

JJP has so few release slots, I can't imagine them pissing one away on a series on the decline or irrelevant.

If I'm not mistaken Jack came out and said that Eric's next game is something that hasn't been made before. There is already an Avatar game. You could walk the line and say there isn't an Avatar 2 game but it's splitting hairs.

Avatar 2 the movie, is scheduled to be released in December 16th, 2022.

After all this time does anyone care about Dances With Wolves in space?

*cough cough Pirates cough cough*

Movies aside, Pirates is one of the key attractions at Disney, still. Has been for decades. Avatar (movie or attraction) isn't even in the same league.

Nobody but James Cameron is excited for more Avatar movies. The first one was cool as a theater experience when 3D was getting better but who is actually rewatching this movie? Nobody i know.

I'm with you 100%, but when we were at Disney World last February, the standby line for Avatar Flight of Passage was four hours.

That's mostly because of the middling throughput and newness of the ride. PotC cranks through almost 3500 people per hour decade in, decade out. Avatar is moving only around 1400 people through at peak efficiency, much less if anything goes slightly wrong. That tends to make long lines.

Wait times today are almost the same (45 vs 40 minutes), which means the higher capacity PotC is about 2.5x more popular than Avatar based on riders.

https://www.laughingplace.com/w/p/Disneys-Animal-Kingdom-current-wait-times/

Pin is based on an irrelevant movie series, tho.

Disney owns Avatar now...we’ll see where it goes in the future. Who can say.

As for pinball, the pinball demographic doesn’t really care about Avatar, that’s for sure.

Possible Snoop Dog pin reveal tomorrow? Jin and Juice multiball!