I thought Jack already confirmed a Golden girls pin. That would be a completely different direction as Gomez pointed out

I would be in. Dream theme status.

r/incels is leaking again

Ha - yeah this comment is so sad. My wife is in her younger 30's and is into pinball. I wouldn't have a nice collection if it were not her idea. She makes more money so she picks most of the games. For Christmas she asked for pinball mods. And to top it off... we have several friends who are women who also play regularly that are our age. Our Godzilla LE is "hers" and she reminds me of that with a smile quite often.

Having said that my wife would find Barbie very objectionable. She wants BTTF like so many others.

Here's a question......

How many BTTF LE's would they need to build to meet demand? I wonder if they'd ever do the Spooky way and allow an open build on their most expensive model. Demand is going to be off the hook...... I hear Cru is on every list that exists and could tie up the 1st 1000 units all on his own.

Just talked to Gary. He said the new GI JOE pin is coming along great. The assets are all there, it's loaded with mechs, and the art is phenomenal.

It seems so obvious that lots of women are into pinball. Sure, not every woman is into pinball but the same is true of any sub-group I can think of. But the worst part of this attitude, to me at least, is the sense that people who say this are basically implying that the pinball scene shouldn't even bother trying to cater to or appeal to women because "they don't even care anyway." Either way, the pinball scene in general doesn't give a shit about this stupid mentality and, from what I can tell, more women than ever are getting into pinball.

With that being said, I definitely get a weird feeling when people say how companies should release machines with "women's themes," it feels like a heart in the right place kind of sentiment but maybe missing the mark on the execution a bit. Like, don't women like Metallica, Walking Dead, The Simpsons, etc.? Seems like "Women's themes" are already represented in that regard. Though I do agree that companies being open to less historically conventional themes, like Barbie for example, is a good thing, the reality is that a business NEEDS to cater to where the money is and less conventional themes are inherently more risky just like original themes.

I wouldn't mind a Barbie pinball machine. Only if it played Aqua's Barbie girl on repeat 24/7 though.
Also. Some of the women i've met and consider to be friends with are some of the best pinball players in my region. Coincidence? maybe but your statement is highly ignorant.

Hoping for a BTTF The Pin myself.

It reminds me of sports teams making their gear in pink "to appeal to women". Uh, women can wear your regular team logos you know.

There is no universal appeal. I don't personally understand why so many people think BTTF is a great pin movie for instance. I like the film, it's from a nostalgic time in my life, it has these iconic moments, and I also just don't have much of a desire to watch clips of it on a pinball screen. But that's the beauty of different stroke for different folks, and I hope people who want it get their game still.

Happy New Year Stern Pinball Champions !

All I want to know is WTF happened to KME JAWS ???
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They wont update the units. Just update the price. No use upping the units as its no longer really an LE if its the same number made as pros or premiums.

Today is the release of the new James Bond Super LE pin right? Will someone with all access please publish a picture in this treat?

Yes, and there is a separate thread for that game:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/james-bond-60th-edition-sle-super-limited-elwin-hype-thread/page/37

You can also just check Stern's website later today:
https://sternpinball.com/game/james-bond-007/

Gomez did say the 2 new cornerstones are great themes. Should be interesting to see what Danger and Eddy come up with. Then Zombie Yeti on art for them

https://www.knapparcade.org/post/stern-pinball-officially-reveals-keith-elwin-designed-james-bond-60th-anniversary-limited-edition

Looks fairly cool and i do love the idea of having 4 spinners to rip but at potentially 30K (or more) AUD it's a big Nahhhhh from me

GNR LE poster art cabinet, with spinning record and slash hat. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

5k Topper extra.
James will be on a drone jetpack or flying Aston Martin that integrates and charges on the topper and hovers over the game and flies around the room at certain moments during the game making call outs.

Do it!

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The baseball clowns will give the millennials nightmares.

Baseball Furies Multiball!
Some kind of subway mechanism (to travel to the next gang zone and get closer to home turf)
Come Out To Play Multiball/Wizard Mode (clink...clink...clink)
Molotov Cocktail bash toy maybe?
Maybe a ferris wheel ball lock to represent Coney Island?
Each mode started could be a different gang to be "fought" before moving on to the next rival territory as you try to clear your name and find out who shot Cyrus.

That movie is so jank but it's a classic in my house.

Yeah, gotta admit, that would be cool.
The call outs.... Plenty!
Shit! The chicks are packed. The chicks are packed!

Im so glad someone else has the same thought! And I could have guessed it would have been you my friend! Hahahaha.

I think a LOT of people would dig The Warriors as a pin, especially if Deadpool-type license was taken to embellish and expand the base movie events.

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Last 2 pages made me really pumped for …. BTTF and Pokémon Go! I’d pass on He-Man cause I’ve never watched a complete episode. It is just a theme I don’t care for, but happy to see people want it.

Seriously Stern, give us one of these themes a year: BTTF, Top Gun 2, Pokémon Go!, Pee-Wee’s Adventure, the Matrix and Kill Bill.

My wife is the one who suggested our first pin - Jurassic Park premium. We got an Elvira House of Horrors last year, and she wants to own all 3 some day. Local arcade has Party Monsters, and she’s working her way up to breaking the GC.

Sad people who can’t fathom life outside their own sad existence say things like “women don’t like pinball”.

I'd be into a Warriors pin. I wrote game ideas for it elsewhere. I think it lends itself well to a pinball adventure.

The story is simple, get from A to B. Fight different gangs along the way (think Stern Jurassic Park). Have a subway like map to track your progress. I thought it would be neat to iterate on the Elvis upper playfield where you're trying to shoot balls into a train door on an elevated train track.

Select your weapons ahead of fighting - telephone, hand to hand, chains, tire iron, switchblades, baseball bats or broken bottles.

Try to avoid running into gangs by completing objectives as you move through NYC, trying to keep the warriors gang together while trying get to Coney but if you fail, you run into a gang. And your gang can get separated various ways. Each gang fight involves a soundtrack song and multiball... You get 1 ball per warrior. complete multiball objectives to defeat the gang, add warriors, and stay alive to keep the warriors together All while the DJ call outs navigates you like the movie.. segments on your journey within the city has mini game modes, where you play to collect weapons for your next fight and reunite with missing warriors for the next gang fight. Mystery spots weapons, random modes start add a warriors to the team (virtual locks for next for multiball), etc. Plenty of fun and surprises with this pin.

Gi Joe !!!!! +1

Woooo ....fine!!!!!

If you start the game with your warriors at, say 5x each, and you have to protect each of your members to maintain that while trying to get to home turf. Battle encounters where you don't make shots for a particular Warrior's hurryups as they fight reduces their multipliers until they hit 0 for the remainder of the game (you have 1x minimum as the player). So, you could make encounters when you run into other gangs or police or whatever. In a battle, melee is expressed as a series of hurryups. Each hurryup is a warrior member vs enemy encounter, so you can have multiple going at once in a gang encounter. So when you encounter the furies, for example, the warrior hurryup series you finish first, protects that warrior member, preserving their multiplier. If you take too long, their multiplier can get beaten down, and it's persistent, so that's bad. Could be pretty cool. So many possibilities with the license.

This is good! Relatively speaking, How expensive could this cult classic license really be? On a scale of 1 to 10 where 10 is the most expensive one ever bought, 1 the least, is it a 3? And that just makes me wonder if anyone knows what actually was the most expensive license in pinball?

My bets on Bond.

Monthly reminder: Next Stern Pin Cornerstone due out 30 January based off of previous releases. See quoted text above for logic.

Note: This only goes off of previous releases of cornerstone pins. Chief Stern Designer Gomez has announced on stream they are likely only doing 2 pins per year until they are caught up (see post 34278). That is not factored in nor the Bond 60th orthe move to a new production line... But historically we would be seeing a launch late January.

My personal educated guess opinion on next cornerstone title would be a Venom pin. A Metallica vault would be the most likely vault if they do one (me thinks).

My "I wish they'd build this pins" are still Harry Potter or Mario (even a movie based one would work).

I'm going to guess it was actually Beatles... but I'm talking out my butt.

Beatles or Zeppelin. At least that was the excuse for Ritchie's anemic BOM on Zeppelin, so...

Maybe , but didn't they only take small snippits of the songs and whatnot?

What I don't understand is: Pinball companies are so needle-stuck on a theme. If the terms or assets aren't favorable to you.... move on!
JJP saying Disney told them TS4 or nothing.... beyond not believing that for a moment..... if they didn't want to give the needed theme or assets..... walk. There's plenty of other fish in the sea.

Same thing with Stern's LZ. Richie was sore that there was no Stairway..... well if they don't want to provide what you want..... walk away. Screw them. You're doing the licensor a favor giving them money and promoting their brand.

The Bond license holder was a pain in the azz.... so flip him the bird and get another theme. Flip him two birds for good measure and wait for him to croak off.
It's really dumb to try and push a rock uphill. Get a license holder that is happy to work with you...... <cough> Cassandra Peterson...<cough>

I'd be happy to see an announcement sooner rather than later - I've been assuming they'd reveal it at Texas Pinball in late March but it would make a lot of sense to announce the name and maybe a few pics prior to that and then have a couple of actual machines at the fest for people to review and hype up. I guess we'll see what happens.

Yes, every licensor out there wants to cash in on the gigantic cash cow that is pinball . I am sure they make more money licensing Funko Pop figures.

New post from JD, another illuminati eye which historically have been hints at his titles. So what we gather from this? Is he-man too on the nose? Is there anything that is trace amounts of foo-fighters or pokemon in this?

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It's pretty on the nose, but technically what he posted is a troll.

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I see no Pokemon in this. Sadly.