What marvel game theme would be coming? Captain America? Thor?

Black Panther pinball?

I think the consensus has been that Stern will announce Led Zeppelin around the end of the year or beginning of next year.

I wonder if Stern will apply the ideas of their patent on user insertable music in LZ.

https://patents.justia.com/patent/10463950

Is there an echo from 10 posts ago?

I believe the rumor is that Lyman and Ritchie will not work together anymore.

I don’t know why if it is true but it has been talked about for several years, and I don’t think they have worked together since ACDC. Perhaps they had some disagreements with that game?

Agreed, but LZ’s design still needs to be a home run.

That is what I am worried about. A good flow shooter that has no personality would be a disappointment when you compare to the games some other designers are putting out recently.

I need to see some interesting mechs.

Jason is John Bonham’s son and he played with Led Zeppelin after his father’s death.

Stranger Things was announced last December so if Stern wants to stick to 3 cornerstone titles a year it would make sense for them to announce Zeppelin between now and the end of the year.

Star Wars The Pin as you said in your podcast does not count as a regular release. We are talking regular mass produced cornerstone releases.

If not LZ, do you have some other theme in mind you think it might be?

Selling at costco seems like a bad idea since they have a generous return policy. I could see someone that is not a pinball enthusiast impulse buying the game and bringing it home and having some problem like lights not working and then taking it back for a refund, or even playing it for a few weeks and then returning it just because they can.

Any losses Stern takes on these dumbed down low sales games will be passed on to the regular customers which is us.

I have only listened to about 3/4 of that podcast episode so far, but I honestly would not expect any hard questions from that type of podcast if you know what I mean. Even the somewhat hard questions are served with a chuckle to show that they don’t expect an answer.
I guess what I am trying to say is that not many of these podcasts are honest journalism and are instead a form of entertainment or hobby notoriety boosting of the podcasters themselves.

I could see the cabinet looking something like this:

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20 somethings are not a big buying demographic of pinball. AC/DC did not have any problems getting people to play and buy and most of their best music was in the 1970s and very early 80s.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/how-old-are-we-on-pinside-1/page/2#post-5415331

Most locations I have seen have a lot of 40-70 year olds playing pinball including league play. The random games at bar might be a different story but those are not where the hobby is at anymore.

When was the last time people watched Toho Godzilla? Just curious. Not meant to sound like I am knocking it, I just don’t remember the last time I saw it on tv anywhere.

Led Zeppelin could have been seeing into the future of Pinside of today when they were writing this :

"Sit with elders of the gentle race
This world has seldom seen
Talk of days for which they sit and wait
And all will be revealed"

So good they should bring the show back to tv.

It teaches me not to care how well a game earns in relation to what games I would want to own.

I think the 50 year old demographic like me watched and enjoyed Stranger Things the show, but we as pinball people mostly realized the game was not something we wanted to own. I played it at barcades and did not take long to lose interest. I can understand why kids gravitate toward a theme they are recently up on but the majority of pinball buyers need more than that. A standard fan layout with little novelty in shots is kind of dead to me. This is why Elwin designs are killing it in sales. His games shoot as well as fans but are way more interesting in shots.

So you are saying you don't know anything about pinball machines?

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When I see a game that looks like that I think of all the fun people must have had playing it which is what caused that filth. My second thought is why is the owner so lazy that they don’t invest a little time in cleaning it up here and there and as a result keeping the resale value of the game up.