Only a matter of time…

Zero chance I'm paying that. I'm not seeing anything that excites me here... if anything, I feel like I'm on the exit ramp watching this silliness continue on down the highway.

Still think this would make a great pin with Mr Yeti's or Mr Franchi's art. I think it's been forgotten. Many can identify with Statler and Waldorf here anyway.
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I guess we will see…not sure this is where I would have spent time and money investment. How about doing VOC before you determine what is good for your customers. These features have less to do with pinball and more about trying to find future sources of revenue. If you think otherwise, just wait and see down the road.

You do not do all this additional pinball hardware & software along with website development along with giving away things for free! There will be a revenue stream to this.

JJP had the license. Dunno if they still do, though.

Is there a specific date for an announcement?

Could be one of the next games, I suppose. But if not, it would be a nice change of pace after Gojira.

Not yet. Gomez said sometime in September for Elwin's next game.

Thank you for taking the time to let us know!

Did Stern reunite them?

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They reunite every few years for whatever BTTF anniversary it is.

But a 36 year anniversary?

I’m still stuck on this! WAPP would make for a good homebrew. Just sayin

I was reading in some thread on here that based on historical data or something that sept 23 should be the day…

I know there's a lot of emotion with any price increase, but inflation is real right now to the average consumer, regardless of what government figures show.

Here in the Tampa area, homes around me are up about $75-100K in the last 6 months, restaurants are charging 10-20% more, lamb chops (the one food item I track, are up about 20% per pound). Repairs and services are in such demand that it's hard to get someone to return calls here. I recently tried to hire a caregiver for my Sister and struck out finding anyone interested in that type of work without guaranteeing certain hours and conditions. It's kind of crazy out there right now, at least here in Florida.

Add in the usual Supply and Demand dynamics resulting from pin inventory shortages and yeah, pins are going up in price, however difficult it might be to pin the increase on any particular commodity. My concern is how long will this last before we get a pricing correction?

Lol, the only pricing correction we are likely to see is up. And FWIW, things in Florida are always crazy. I think its something in the water

Except they just raised their price $800 this week. I am reevaluating whether I can justify a NIB purchase again.

These increases are just too much. Too many other inflationary pressures on my paycheck for items that are necessities and more important.

Mystery prize (add a ball, more mode time, etc) revealed by blowing it up by who else…. Crazy Harry. And the occasional heckle from Statler and Waldorf.
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An animatronic Statler and Waldorf Topper with all the heckles would be an absolute must.

Maybe you can watch an add to earn an extra ball

You joke, but there's a million ways that pinball internet fueled push advertising can go wrong. MATCH screen brought to you by Match.com. High score scroll brought to you by Red Bull - what pros crave. It could get really gross. Of course it won't all happen at once, but this is a pandora's box of bad tools and revenue builders that cost almost nothing for Stern to implement so they'll eventually do them all.

Just disconnect? As long as the pin still works normally without it, then it is an option you can choose.

Personally the only things that would make me enjoy this feature is to have certain goals, and to compare these with friends, so anywhere you would play a pin, you scan your code and try to get the goal. Or even a highscore, your friends receive your new highscore and then can try to get passed it.
For the rest I couldn't care less for the connected stuff

If you don't want all the pin content because to get it all you'll have to be connected. And like toppers and topper DLC, it will happen slowly. Stern knows how to boil a frog.

That’s when you stay oldschool…
That is, unless you route….

Going forward that reader and board will be in all games - has to add to game costs.
We will be paying for it even if we don't use it.

I would have rather had another spinner, pop bumper or something adding to actual gameplay.

Agree - and a cost to the buyer of the machine. That board and reader have costs to Stern - passed on to the buyer. Somebody has to pay for it. These costs will start right away and be built into the costs of machines.

Not to mention what can happen associated with this down the road... future sources of revenue...

Sounds a bit like the pinbar - deeproot - UGH ! Say it ain't so Joe .

Unique user ID codes. Tracking us. Maybe we should wear tinfoil hats at shows ! - Ha Ha.

Agreed. I dont even want the feature.

I was wondering if not having this added to my JP Premium would make it harder to sell later, but not having it might actually make it more desirable. The JP crowd loves their custom code.

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Godzilla, with the orchestra music incredible.

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For me I would want yours without the stupid reader. I am supposed to trade my MBr SE straight up for a JP premium and now will have to cover the $1000 price increase and then not be able to use the custom movie code for it possibly.

My dude likes the Misfits? Love it! Been spending alot of time together lately working on BTTF callouts no doubt.

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You wouldn't want MJF doing callouts. He doesn't sound like Marty anymore unfortunately. They should get the guy who did Marty for the video game.

He has the delivery, they could pitch him up slightly and thin his voice with an EQ and it would be pretty close.

But I doubt they'd want to pay what he gets anyway. They'll go for a sound-alike. Just fingers crossed it's not Shitty Beast from X-Men.

The guy who voiced Marty in The Telltale BTTF game was amazing.

DUDE! ....use whatever connections you have or think you have to make this happen! haha

What about the ultimate superhero battle .
Anyone know where the full version of this is .
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Excellent , thanks mate .

Good point.The unsure hero describing the unsung hero (Spike 2)on youtube..We dont have a solution yet but be sure we will rip you off as soon as we can.

They will start loosing a lot of sales I would say probably 75-80 percent of people that buy a new pin put back a little at a time just to be able to afford one pin in a year we’re maybe the other 25 percent are well off enough to buy more so u keep raising prices like your doing u will see the industry take a big fall people want have that extra money for a 9-1000$ pin with food n gas prices going up basically just keeping your self a flot in this day n time.
I’ve got my guardians galaxy n just got my Munster premium n was going to try n swing tmnt or Deadpool or put 500$ down on Elvira but now I’m rethinking this is nuts

It’s kind of nuts. BM66 was $7700 iirc now $8300 but maybe $9000 for a bare bones premium no fancy side rails or shaker or art blades.

I was buying STLE for $7700 back in the day or AFM LE for $8k

The used market is going up too and the new pins are selling out as well.

If BM66 is going to follow EHOH price like normal then the next batch of them will be $9200.

After thought....

What if 'Godzilla' is actually the code name for BTTF because it is going to be HUUUUUUGE!

That’s been speculated a lot lately. However, I don’t think that will be the case. We’ll find out here in a couple of weeks