Yeah. I know. But CGC is taking so long to get those PFs out. I still have yet to see or play one. After they are done with PF, maybe CGC makes more sure selling remakes like MM, AFM, MB. Or, they find they like making original machines and they go for making Kill Bill. We'll see.

Same. 41 years old here, and I would consider Pokemon a dream theme. I’ll be all in on it.

New Pin? KISS after the final show has now happened after 50 years, Avatars to come. The Netflix documentary 'Shout it out Loud' coming. FF, IM is not even in the ballpark in design, gameplay etc IMO. KISS are hard to get in Mint Cond. Opinion please from the forum?

Your not allowed to acknowledge who made them because most everyone in this hobby is a stuck up for Williams/Bally

Mario world < the pin
Mushroom world (kitty redemption game).

But let's push out another uninspired fan layout and slap a paid theme onto it so we feel good about ourselves.

Maybe we can ask designers to create I dunno a "gold wings"/"tag team" style layout or is it too much to ask for something other than the stuff we are getting.

But let's not waste time on creativity when we can take the easy way out.

Honestly, an LCD screen ain't adding much to the cost. I can go buy a 70" from Sam's right now for about $400.

The clips, assets, and man hours into the code to bring it all together into some semblance of a game might cost a little.

But yeah... Stern ain't losing any sleep over their bottom dollar by adding an LCD screen vs not.

I would say that’s a good prize

'79 Bally? I have a mint condition (restored) Kiss with overlay. Beautiful. Make me an offer

… I’m not sure if you want/like the ‘79, but the Stern’s 2015 is definitely an amazing game in my personal opinion (bolted at home, period!)

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Get a color dmd in that thing and it's even better

I’ll be damned…. Looks amazing, thanks!

Somebody is announcing The Princess Bride in a few days:

As seen in the grocery store today in South Carolina... The franchise is on the cover of Time and even the magazine opted to go for the "collect all four covers." Stern could easily do a limited run of each of the four cornerstone characters and they would sell.

Not my preferred theme but it does lend itself to pinball incredibly well. The pokeball, is... well, ball-shaped and hitting shots to collect different characters, completing battles to level up and evolve characters, and the idea of using insider connect to establish location pins as gyms is an absolute no brainer for leaderboard rankings. So much potential with insider, evolution, and gym/training. If they do build this, I hope they integrate these ideas. I'd be a limited contributor since I probably won't find one within 100 miles of Wyoming but it would still be fun to try on location.

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It has a topper in this silhouette. People say Multimorphic but have any of their modules come with a topper? The tag line is “the next chapter begins”. Who would be starting their next chapter? CGC with their own new titles? Seems fitting to announce since Pulp is already rolling down the line.

Barrels of Fun. Their next chapter after Labyrinth. The drop will also get people looking at Labyrinth again to finish up the sales run and sell the last few for production.

The weird al special edition had a topper.

Stern teasing X-Men 97

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The voice acting is overall incredibly weak. Boo.

Sounds about the same as the original show to me, I didn't mind it then

This isn’t happening. Sorry.

Stern makes comments all over social media related to properties they have done in the past and present. Means nothing.

So all your machines weigh the same? An EM is the same as a modern Stern? Wow... just wow.

Cyclops sounds right.... Wolverine sounds like utter garbage.
Not enough other voices to really judge, hope they get Rouge right.

The animation is a B.... not equal to the original, but not bad.
The real problem is Disney-Marvel will screw it up for sure. Everything they touch is a woke mess.
Cash in and destroy a good product from the past = that's the business model.

But how old were you 27 years ago? Kids forgive a lot in entertainment.

No need for apologies. It's a recent rumor surprise that I didn't expect nor want, given the last X-Men outing.

x-men animation and voice work was never that great.

Batman on the other hand…..

I think the theme is fine though, let’s see how the layout comes together. I see combo powers working together in the trailer (gambit charging wolverine’s claws) maybe it will be a center point on the game.

Umm you do realize what x-men is about right?

I’m sure you’ll find someway to blame Disney for its messaging of racial inclusivity and fighting authoritarianism to protect the rights of a small group that the majority fears because they are different.

So CGC announcing on Feb 19, 2024 and game shipping possibly Feb 2029. Ya, sounds about right.

At least you didnt disagree that box office returns are way off. Lots of reasons for sure!

So if there’s a blue light special between now and the summer cornerstone (I’m guessing that will be MET kicking off Spike3), I think it will be something out of left field. I’d bet GZ75 will be the buffer between summer CS and Pokémon in the Fall. The next game is very intriguing with all the info we got from GG himself. I’m thinking it’s the perfect spot for a remade Spike pin. Any guesses?

Everyone can look in and see whatever fits their narrative. To me, it's pretty clearly Endgame ended that entire Avengers storyline and there's nothing left.
Avenger Girls? No one cares. Quantumania? no one cares.

As to this I don't know what the hell an Xmen 97 is. If it's Elwin i'll always give it a chance but another comic book collection from him seems boring; don't need another 2d fighting meter game.

That's literally EVERYONE'S business model.

My buddy is in the voice cast. I'm excited to see where it goes

Agreed. There could have been a chance for a good, new story if they didn't put all the trash out to just produce volume for streaming, but they NAILED it in that Thanos era and should have left it dormant a while and put together a good, cohesive story for the next wave. A quality movie or 2 for the last few years would have been SO much better than every little piece of trash they have been putting out (with a small group of exceptions). Hard to find Marvel content worth watching these days. Derailed a bit there, but passion runs deep lol.

Didn’t Gomez say something about ghost busters being one of the easier ones to re-release? The history of the designer put aside I don’t think he would comment like that if it wasn’t a posisbility.

Is there any solid rumors on pokémon or is it just wishful thinking? It still seems to be a stretch to me, i would think Wick would be a summer or fall release.

Nothing solid on Pokémon but it seems a no brainer for Team Danger. When there’s this much chatter and it keeps up it’s almost a given. Wick seemed to have died down.

https://www.knapparcade.org/post/more-smoke-for-the-stern-pinball-is-making-an-x-men-97-pinball-machine

The X-Men arcade game may have been my first exposure to the IP. I still remember a number of the horribly great callouts. Would love to have them used/recreated as Easter eggs in a pin

NU-THING MOVES THE BLOB

Welcome... TO DIE!

Go and rescue Kitty from the cave

As long as he's not Wolverine, the standout terrible voice in that short trailer, you can still be friends.

I can’t argue danger and pokemon would be a great fit, I just don’t see nintendo licensing pokemon. I know they are pushing out a lot more mario stuff, lego’s, kids games but this sure feels like a pipe dream(pun intended).

Jaws, foo fighters, venom where a forgone conclusion before they came out Pokemon doesn’t feel that way to me but I’m happy to be wrong

lol, i’m not worried, I’m sure you’ll just resample the audio for us using your Jaws trick

I think Borg is up next. Elwin (Jaws), Eddy (Venom), Danger (Foo Fighters). It makes sense to be Borg. Unless Gomez is back in the game

Same voice actor as the original series which was fine, but I think Steve Blum has done it better in more recent versions of the character.

But that theme song is an absolute banger

Is Tony Hawk/ bones brigade still in the running…..

Much rather have that, than a new Metallica..

I’m still super excited about the dmd remasters
TRON, LOTR, Iron Man? Let’s gooooooooo!

A pinball grinding some handrails! Hell yeah!

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Or George.

I would love if Borg got his shot to redeem on Raiders!

Hopefully George updates another classic Stern

I’m going to steal the thechakapakuni2 Kiss ‘79 Bally very soon …