and john trudeau?

did I hear someone state that the reveal is for a hot topic boutique themed machine?

with modes revolving around: posers, wannabes, the misfits (more than just a t-shirt brand), and the trend of the week

yes, but the topper will not be available until 2022 (and will have to be redesigned because it'll end up being c-3po, cast in silver with a gold leg

hamilton the musical, or a pin based on mark (or dorothy) hamil[l]?

I'm wondering if this doesn't turn into something akin to the autographed KISS LE fiasco
200 made available, and 196 were still available for sale, right up until they pulled the listing from the kiss webstore site

I get that they are attempting to extend their market share by trying new and different things, but the price gap doesn't seem to be large enough between this and a "real" used SW pro

their target audience is definitely NOT anyone with ANY previous knowledge of pinball

what are you talking about?!? this guy is a f*cking genius. from all of his half-hearted attempts at guessing, hemming and hawing and then taking a side and then flipping like a politician, the slow clap, the dinosaur sound effects...
this list goes on and on and on and on and on

what's not to like about a 13 minute long video from a guy that can't even figure out how to zoom in on an image of a webpage?

plus, he's humble too. he even admitted that he couldn't have done a better job with the art. are we sure that this isn't the guy that did all of the voice over work for stern for TWD?

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umm... no, they don't. even gary stern reflected that home users accounts for the majority of their sales 2 or more years ago

I can't provide a link for something that I heard firsthand. gary (and stern as a whole) finally admitted that the private sector is where the majority of their machines are going.

I'll concede that pinball as a whole has seen growth in the past couple of years and there are many [new] retail establishments that now have games on location, but those seem to fluctuate if the establishments do not have an on-site or contracted technician (bar owners for the most part are not techs and do not want to be). the fact that pinball machines are mechanical and can have a whole host of things go wrong vs. a video game is the reason why many bars will try them out and then you see them gone a few months later.

my hats off to the operators putting in new games for us to play given the increased investment costs. I'm fortunate to live in an area where no less than 4 establishments within a 30min drive purchase just about every new game that is made available

go back and watch their inauguration into the rock 'n roll hall of fame and you might change your view. rush fans are probably one of the most passionate groups of people that you will ever meet and to my knowledge no other band received such a resounding ovation even before the name of the band was announced. the fact they were together for 40+ years and did nothing but continue to build a larger fan base over the years (with parents bring their kids towards the end of their concert runs) speaks volumes

stranger things could be really cool if they did take a page out of the book that was gottlieb's krull with a completely separate playfield inside the cabinet but used a camera to display everything on the lcd panel, inversing the vertical and horizontal axises on the image so that everything was in fact upside-down.

of course this is a pipe dream because the costs would shoot the retail price over the $12K mark

and maybe this is the reason why there are so many issues straight out of the box with so many stern titles recently. maybe stern should be taking the time and QA/QCing the machines instead of rushing them off the line and into shipping boxes

there are now 5 or 6 movies to draw new content and animation clips from (depending on how it was licensed/re-licensed

so, what you're saying is if a crue pinball was made, it would have to be a widebody?

I don't understand why stern couldn't use a heavier 5/8" diameter ball to get the feel closer to how a 1-1/16" ball moves

and here I thought it was an american platypus and that man was a massage therapist using the tried and tested technology to work the kinks out of the distressed animal

or given the way that stern has been nickeling and diming everyone, the pro would be all red, the premium red w/ white and the LE red with both black and white and the $2200 topper would unlock an additional song

I like this, but let's up the ante a bit and take a page from elvira and cirqus vortaire and make part of the backglass/translite transparent so that we can actually have working gears showing

jack's at least 5' 4" by my count

actually, I think he's about 6' 4"
(but he's no todd mccullough

I heard that he's only 6' 7" because he wears lifts. "he's heightening"

well, given how deep their catalog is, there was no way the song selection was going to please everyone.

I can't believe that they're slamming 17 tracks into the game. that's a first and some of the tracks are epic long songs; la villa strangiato, cygnus x-1 books 1 & 2, 2112 and working man

now, fingers crossed that the layout hits it out of the park

that sir, is a kufi cap

explain to me how all of the bands that you would prefer and named are not dad rock??

so, by your own comment, here are the bands you listed and the year they were formed:
slayer - 1981
motorhead - 1975
black sabbath - 1968
ramones - 1974
nine inch nails - 1987
devo - 1973
beastie boys - 1981
wu-tang clan - 1992

other than the wu-tang clan, my age puts me in your category of being a father to elder millennials and I listened to all of these bands growing up. either your math (or your logic) is wrong sir

08-2004 - elvis
03-2012 - ac/dc
2013 - metallica
05-2015 - kiss
02-2017 - aerosmith
03-2018 - iron maiden
11-2018 - beatles
12-2018 - primus (retheme)
12-2020 - led zeppelin
12-2021 - rush

looking at stern's pin releases, since ac/dc, they pretty much keep it to one music pin every year or two (with the exception of 2018)
since 2012, by the numbers, stern has released 9 music pins and 39 pins in total (so... about 25%)

and the sad part is that while she (and they) looking stunning in that photo, another 20+ years will take its toll. maybe that's why fit (and smaller) age a lot better

back on topic:
my rush LE accessory has arrived
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I'm hoping for comic book. lots more to pick & choose from and I really like the comic book spider-man version. they would pair up nicely

I think that a p3 lower playfield could be very interesting for a video game themed pinball giving the dev's the ability to change the goals and playfield imagery

or
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000IZAKLQ/ref=sspa_dk_detail_6

when you want to smell like a hero instead of an anti-hero

if they do dune, will stern only give us half a pin (like WB did by releasing the 1st half of the movie without green-lighting the second?

LEGO has BTTF fans covered. this was just unveiled this morning and goes on sale apr 1st
https://www.lego.com/en-us/lego-delorean-is-back?cmp=emc-c=PROMO-eid=4481-d=3/18/2022-n=NEWSLETTER_WK11_CONTROL-sid=6368757-jid=49911-s=NEWS-t=MIX-a=ACTIVE-tst=Variant_A_10107&j=49911&sfmc_sub=6368757&l=259_HTML&u=4997945&mid=510004361&jb=21843

seems familiar but I'm not sure which pinsider this might refer to

did someone say "no doubt"?
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I've just heard that true lies is the next cornerstone stern title for 2023 and guess what, it comes packaged with an "official" blu-ray disc
there will also be a super limited version (just like batman 66) that will come with the UHD 4K version

ha! I just sold my NIB HD-DVD drive for the 360, along with 30 HD-DVDs (including the heroes box set)

if rush isn't selling that well, why does stern keep putting it back on the line? I would think that a company like stern would have a handle on what is selling well and manage their manufacturing around that (which is what I believe that they are doing)

Urban Dictionary - Pommy
a term used to describe the appearance/personality and overall character of a stereotype british person
There are way too many pommy dickheads in this place

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pommy
what a shite site. I had to correct at least 4 grammar and spelling errors in their 2 line definition/example

rush was one of the games that I wanted to be epic. is it? no, not by a long shot. there is nothing new or innovative in the game. however, it's a solid game that has great flow and plays great with a well integrated theme. tim and ray did a great job on the software and continue to make it better and better.

in my mind, if we really want to talk about people who need to be convinced that their game isn't all that they think it is, let's chat with the people that think that led zeppelin is a game that should be in the top 100. better than fathom?!? I don't think so

if, as you say, it wasn't successful in stern's eyes, then they only have themselves to blame
1) the UV light reactive paint on the playfield should have been a listed feature
2) the UV kit should have been included with the LE edition machines
3) the availability for both the UV light kit and the projector (as a replacement part and for future build runs) should have been better planned out
4) they should have play tested the demi-gorgon more before shipping the game. it was a huge turn off for players (including better than average players), when your success ratio to get a ball in the mouth is less than 5%
5) for shows that are on-going, all companies are shooting themselves in the foot when you only license 1 or 2 seasons worth of content

I believe you mean the "discovery" section of 2112. such a shame that the movie really chopped / cut up some of the best parts of the book, the use of the ultraman power-up changed to gundam due to licensing issues, etc...

technically, wasn't batman 66 considered a "cornerstone" title? (it did not have a pro version)
I think that their definition of a cornerstone title is one that is developed and produced in-house by stern employed staff (engineers, designers, etc...)

the cover art for the soundtrack was awesome
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as long as johnny the boy and bubba are also in the pin. better yet, do a road warrior pin so you could have the humongous, wez and the toadie

come on now. it's just like the phishing emails that everyone one is sent with things like the "l og in" buttons and such

why would stern put out a pinball machine based on a t-shirt design?

does anyone know if either michael j. fox or christopher lloyd has a restraining order against @crujones4life?

so... what you're saying is that LE version of jack's he-man game will be split like ac/dc was? 750 moss man editions / 750 stinkor editions
each featuring a odor-rama effect for wizard modes?

I was in stern's offices around expo time and they had actually just received quantity of the projectors. funny thing is that I believe that they were all sold before we left the building after chatting with the people that we were there to see

I didn't realize that 3 people on pinside posting repeated images equates to a deafening roar

I just saw this
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[begin rant]
you may want to tell this generation's workers that. fact is, they don't seem to have the drive that past generations did. the whole #metoo, #cancelthis, #cancelthat and other garbage that people are leaning on isn't going to get them anywhere in the business world. I partially blame participation trophies for some of this.

plain and simple fact: you will won't always be a winner. teaching our youth that goes a long way on how they can cope will handling defeat later in life. failure to do that early on, is basically setting them up for failure.

when people can't even take the time to count out the correct change (and their cash registers tells them how much to give out), then we have larger issues. the best is the "deer in the headlights" look that you typically get after they've pressed $20 in and then you add a few more coins after the fact to make the change that you're returned easier to manage (as well as ridding yourself of a pocket full of change), they are literally dumbfounded and don't know what to do.

when even fast food joints can't get help at $15+ an hour (which is over $30K a year) for an unskilled labor position, where is this overwhelming desire to work?

unfortunately, these aren't just isolated occurrences.
[/end rant]

seems timely considering that SNL spoofed hello kitty last week

why 'oooof' and 'ouch'?

if stern still has supply chain issues, would it make any sense to announce more than 2 titles and then not be able to produce them in a timely manner?

versions or number made?

as a privately held company, I can understand why they wouldn't reveal the number of machines that were manufactured [competition]
if you meant the variations, then I agree that it would be nice to know

in the case of metallica, we had the following:
limited edition
master of puppets edition

premium
monsters edition (wooden backbox)
dirty donny monsters edition (wooden backbox)
road case edition (metal backbox, band image translite)
monsters edition (metal backbox)

pro
same artwork as premium monsters edition (wooden backbox w/ incandescent lamps)
same artwork as premium monsters edition (metal backbox w/ LED lamps)

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm still waiting to receive my free pinball machine from pinmister
I hope that it's a bond 60th

I'm going to throw this out there for the superhero themes

personally, I'm a fan of the comic art that stern has done for both star wars and the spider-man re-issue, so a marvel two-in-one or team-up theme would be amazing to me. this would all the designer to bring in a lot of lesser known heroes & villains like some of the ones shown below

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corrected this for you

what JJP neglected to show TS4 owners were the effects of smashing a dirty pinball into gabby gabby's face repeatedly. the pretty little girl quickly and literally transforms into a pig-faced, black-faced monstrosity.
the one that I saw on-route looked horrible. and while you can clean off her [out on a bender] raccoon eyes/nfl eye liner, the damage done to the model itself as the nose is chipped away makes me wonder if this was skeletor's wife that was never shown in the comics or cartoons

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this photo from from the 2nd or 3rd time prior to cleaning. I wish I had gotten a photo prior to the first cleaning. she looked like she had black-face on due to all of the coil dust sticking.

I don't think that elwin is next. I'm going to bet that it's borg. elwin did the 60th annv SLE of bond after rush was released.

I guess that I'm not the only one that thought what how bland he was for the vemon promo? his enthusiasm-level equaled that of a sloth and his delivery was almost as if they shot it in one take with a teleprompter and he had no prior access to the content being read to him. maybe a new stern cost-cutting measure?

skydiving? that looks more like you when somewhere to have some guy hug you sideways for a bit

they put an i fly near me but I haven't had time to check it out and even see what the pricing is. I do know that you have to take a few classes before they let you "fly" on your own

wasn't it also determined that crujones4life voted 411 times?

the problem with the home pin model is that at the time that it was initially introduced, it wasn't much cheaper than an actual pro model machine.

so, for about $1,000 less, you didn't get:
- a working coin door
- the playfield was stripped further (even more than the gap between a pro and premium) to reduce costs
- the playfield (and cabinet?) were made out of MDF instead of plywood (a further stern cost-savings, but try and save that machine from a flood or a water pipe leak!

pat, I'd like to solve the puzzle
"WHERE WE'RE GOING WE WON'T NEED ROARS" (obviously this is not the zoo tycoon game that everyone has been clammering about

I like how it can be broken to fit smaller areas of the underside of the playfield. smart thinking on their end. plus, if the board fails, you have a snack while you wait for your replacement board to be shipped

https://www.dictionary.com/e/too-vs-to-vs-two/

correct. draining a topic removes it from your favorites and/or recently viewed tabs and removes the bookmark for the last post that you viewed in the topic.
the only way to technically delete a post is to edit it and remove the contents (most people replace the original content with a period [.])

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dude! spoiler tags!! I was finally going to read the book and watch the movie and now you've gone and ruined them both for me

rush definitely sold over 2,000 units (especially considering that there were 1,000 LEs made and sold). probably closer to 3,500+ machines

are we taking bets on what the buy-in price is for this run? $18K, $20K, $22K
and what [new] must have feature it will contain? piece of gargoyle statue, eye of newt in a jar, 35mm slide from one of the movies/tv specials

you're kidding yourself. I don't think that we'll see a price reduction. the best that we can hope for is that they don't increase prices come january.

replacement node boards that incompatible with anything prior and that will cost owners and owners even more than spike 1 and 2 boards.

as far as I was aware, when stern brought out spike 2, they discontinued production of all spike 1 boards and only the remaining stock were available for purchase.

actually, stern's move consolidated the 2 buildings that they previously owned/leased. there was a 2nd building that was used for cold storage and additional parts.

the move allows them to put everything back into one building, making it much more streamlined and easier to fulfill part requests. previously, part orders could be delayed for days, weeks or even months due to the fact that a number of parts that were ordered were stocked in the cold storage building.

duplicate post somehow

I don't think this is the same situation. toy story could have had a better outing had it been themed around the first movie or the entire franchise (and not just TS4), but no knowing what the agreement was, it may have been what JJP had to work with.

with pokemon, there quite of few ways that stern could go depending on restrictions from nintendo (stick to the original 151, create something surrounding just ash and pikachu, use the current generations, etc...)

so..... based on the past 100 or so posts, what I'm hearing that stern's new game is anger management?