Stranger Things started 5 years ago in 2016

Agreed but a great book

Never even finished Armada

Ready Player Two has very few redeeming moments. I enjoyed the first book quite a bit too.

please god no

I’ll take #7 and #2 if you meant TOHO Godzilla. Stern is not making kong vs zilla despite that being what we want to get. Also odds for Harry Potter should be 1/100.

Hope Stern has this in mind for 2022. GOT prequel just went into production.

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After what they did with the original GOT series I hope no one watches it, and the fat man needs to get off his arse and finish the books.

you aren't kidding. season 7 was even worse than the Read Player One movie!

Imagine the possibilities! A bubble machine on top of the backbox à la Whirlwind's Fan, super long baton flippers, an accordion bash toy!

So you are saying the license might be cheap?

Well, I’m 100% sure that you could do better. You, being one of the greatest writers and directors that the world has ever seen

Rumored that the Mandalorian has an upper playfield with 6 drop targets. Big ship in the middle with a ramp that drops down for a shot or lock? Sounds interesting

Well, obviously you must mean Mandalorian Prem/LE... and the Pro will have like a flat plastic and a flasher bulb.

Ya, I don't doubt it LOL

I actually prefer a lot of pro models but if its similar to black knight (missing the upper playfield) thats a really a big change I wouldn’t like.

I'll say it again: I've watched the series front to back four or five times. It's awesome, and even better when you binge watch it. Stuff that didn't make sense in the early seasons make sense when you get to the "awful" last season. (I still loved it, though!)

This sounds like what the designer WANTS to put in the game. Once Gary wraps his lips around it he’ll suck away all the chrome.

Since everyone here seems to be spouting their support for the same three or four themes, I thought Id weigh in and throw out a couple of fresh ideas.

Im a fairly new pinball owner, but have grown up playing pinball since I was little. Something I've noticed back then, and even moreso now is that a lot of these pins are superstars in the pop culture arena. Yes, it makes sense for pins like BTTF to be remade or Mandolorian to be done for the first time, but how about some other pop culture superstars?

1. Dungeons & Dragons - the titular tabletop rpg is really hot right now. With the new version of the game out for a couple of years now, I can see an awesome fantasy-themed pinball being a major hit with not only pinball enthusiasts, but D&D fans as well.

2. Scooby Doo - How has this not been made into a pinball machine yet?? Scooby Doo is easily one of the most iconic tv shows ever made. Shows and movies are still being made featuring Scoob and the gang. It is massively popular still and come on.. a Scooby Snacks multiball would be incredible.

I doubt itd be hard for Stern to get the liscencing for either of these.

Spooky is making this

Nope. False rumor.

Man Accordion = #7 sounds a lot like another title being mentioned as a favorite...

Good Wager. Welk at the Wire.

Mando pro white wood. The flow is going to be off the charts with this one.

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That's the premium model, the pro doesn't get those expensive in-lane guides.

I'm a little disappointed. I really like it when games have the dual in lanes, at least on one side.

Wait a sec, are you saying this is Weird Al????

I'm in on an LE if that is the case.

TOHO Godzilla for sure but I still will get one if from the new movies for sure. If Harry Potter hasn’t happened yet I don’t see it ever happening. Especially since cancel culture cancelled J.K Rowling. Just my opinion of course.

I much prefer if it was Beetlejuice. Another one of those titles which should have been made already. Beetlejuice suits Spooky perfectly.

AWOTM

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Relevant TWIP article for those with long memories.

https://www.thisweekinpinball.com/twip-tuesday-february-26th-2019/

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I almost dropped my load when I heard this.

Then blue balls. Such a missed opportunity for a great pin that would sell.

If it’s Mando and Brian Eddy, 6 drops on the upper playfield sounds similar to Shadow!

He kinda remade AFM for Stranger Things, so if he’s doing a rehash of Shadow, AWESOME!! One of my favourite games and layouts ever!

Hopefully the ramps have diverters on them so Grogu can use the force and change your ramp directions.

Three years ago this was posted. I still don’t see HP happening. HP is past it’s sell by date. My opinion of course.

And yet Batman 66 successfully exists. Also "its".

Not so sure here.. There are quite a few HP fans out there, very many that grew up on it, and those are soon coming of age where they will have that disposable income to buy a pinball machine when wanting that nostalgia.. Not that it would not do great now too, but I think HP would do well if released now, or some point in the future.

Also, Batman '66.

Selma! Get me out of here!!!!

Quoting another wrong source doesn't make it correct. Here's the correct title on Stern's own website. You're welcome.
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This time next week, we'll know. Warm or cold.

Agree

Did you have to use the word “fathom” in a Stern thread? That will just start more rumors !

Is it bullshit?!

We are in a Stern thread discussing Sterns next title. People are comparing and have been comparing what Stern makes, with GNR and Pinside moderates my post as trolling!!! Lol, wow!

(I’ll write this differently then so it can’t be compared somehow cross posting or trolling. Ridiculous!)

When I was first introduced to pinball I was told Stern makes pinball machines for real pinball players and enthusiasts like Bally/Williams did, because the Bally/Williams team had most all gone over to Stern, after B/W went out of business. Which is true.

JJP began as a tiny competing company, which they still are, after nearly going out of business 3 times, if it wasn’t for the bailouts of the Abbot family, new owners now. So after trying to run 2 separate double the costs operations JJP wisely combined and located near Stern. This all costs incredible amounts of money to accomplish and is passed on to us the consumer of JJP in the form of very high prices on their products. It certainly is not because of high BOM costs. LEDs are very cheap. Plastics are very cheap as well. Both Stern and JJP overcharge for their product, but of the 2 Sterns is $4k to $7k cheaper with not much more in any 3 level JJP than any 3 level Stern. They do have more, but not this next level “raised the bar” claimed by JJP fanboys. And shot wise, put any modern day Stern against the only 6 JJP has made in over a dozen years and one quickly realizes, shots are not so good compared to a Borg, Richie, Gomez, Elwin or Eddy layout. Pat does some good shooting layouts, but his 2 efforts with JJP are not his best, because the ball gets lost much of the time on both layouts and has issues. Eric’s 2 efforts look good, but don’t shoot all that well. Ball meanders all over the place on POTC, gets lost and does not flow all that well on GNR, but he’s still learning with so little experience under his belt compared to all the other designers mentioned above that have been making great pinball designs many years before he was even born.

If we are being realists, a Stern outperforms and shoots better than any JJP, simply because Stern makes machines for the actual sport of pinball and real pinball enthusiasts. Whereas JJP makes pinball for collectors that like a lot of lights, plastic and don’t mind that all that plastic hides the ball a great deal of the time. Collectors have a different idea on pinball and like the look more than the actual gameplay. So that is my reasons of why I’m glad Stern is making these next big titles, like Mando, Godzilla, BTTF and not any of the small way less experienced companies like JJP.

Then why are you continuing the comparison? I stopped reading after this comment.

Someone else has a different opinion than you. So what? Just accept it and move past it.

Blah blah blah. That tiny company kicked Sterns ass with their very first game, WOZ, made Sterns look like inferior overpriced products, and has been doing it with every release since

By the way, it was you who had a fit a few pages ago going off about JJP and now once again.

And there is the 800 pound gorilla that many just can't see. The word "look". WOZ is a great LOOKING game but it shoots like crap. What a clunker, not to mention the reliability and quality issues it had for the first few years... Worst NIB experience I have had by far.

Agreed. I had an loaded early run standard WOZ that had all the mods. Supposedly, all the problematic non buffered original boards were replaced by JJP for the original owner with buffered boards. He installed them so I figured it would be safer and took the plunge.

Big mistake. After ten months of the replacement buffered board going out, calls to JJP tech support, and finally being asked to buy their new led kit to fix it, I sold it and took my losses.

Not only was it a maintenance headache and nightmare, like you said, the game was a clunker. It was beautiful to look at but I rarely had the urge to turn it on and play it.

ALL the JJP WoZ 1.x light board permutations break eventually. It's a flawed design. That's why they don't use it anymore.

The 2.x lighting is rock solid. We installed it and ran it on route and had no lighting issues after the lighting was changed, which was NOT the case with the 1.x, which were terrible. WoZ was one of the most profitable pins on the route. Definitely stop and go play style, but I really enjoyed it and wouldn't mind having it again. I can't say the same for Hobbit and Dialed In. But all this says is every pin has its fans, even, I assume but have no proof of, absolute dreck like WWE, CSI, Rolling Stones, and 24.