I like your purple car. Custom paint, is it? Do you know Volkswagen's old slogan? Fahr figneugen? (Yeah, I butched that. Sorry.)

Elvira is fairly solid for fall, '19.

The summer release is likely to be Eddy's Jurassic World.

The only question is, what title will get an additional run during a lull - and any lulls at all seem unlikely with all these new releases! I'm not talking about Vaults. I'm talking simply about a recent DMD with a lingering license that can be thrown on the line. Metallica Premiums had a run last summer/fall. This summer it could be - what, GOT? My personal vote: TWD!

Yeah, a fresh run of a DMD won't be Stern's next release, but it may be the next thing to come off their line. Just sayin'.

I'm confused. Are these men actors from the film? Such outfits!

The 24th?

You'll notice on KME's Facebook page (and this has been pointed out by others) that on July 10th he posted a temporary profile photo of an actress in Total Recall. If you search YouTube for "Total Recall Head" you can find the very scene. The actress is in fact Ah'nuld in disguise and in the scene he/she says "Two weeks!" repeatedly. So, two weeks from July 10th is Wed, July 24th. When does Replay-FX begin? Thursday the 25th? Is KME telling us Stern will reveal the game on Tuesday, the 23rd, as Tuesday is their typical reveal day? I have heard more than a few people mention that Keith's new game is dropping shortly after Comic-Con, so the following Tuesday or Wednesday would make sense.

Oh, no!

This is bad news.

Probably not a public reveal immediately after a distributors' briefing. Are we all waiting another week then?

Drat!

Sure based on...?

Good point. This theme would earn well, but is it too expensive for Stern?

+1

You're funny!
Ancient TV advertising!

LZ Release Timing:

Tomorrow or early December?

If not tomorrow, probably not any later in November, correct? Tuesday is their typical reveal day. Next Tuesday would be too close to Thanksgiving, I assume.

Which week in December did STh drop last year?

So we read on the Pinball Browser thread. Sad, that. PB is my favorite mod ever. Unless Olivier, the program's creator, has a breakthrough, there will be no chance for PB'ing your LZ or any other Stern that ships now or in the future. Your best hope is to load an obsolete version of your Stern game's code that predates the lockout. SAM games, for instance, can still be PB'd, although there's a chance that the latest MET or ST codes have the lockout, as those games had code updates after Stern decided to thwart PB. I'm not sure. I thought I read that only SPIKE II architecture lent itself to beating PB, so maybe even the latest MET and ST codes are PB-friendly.

Who is predicting a tease tomorrow and a reveal next Tuesday?
Who is predicting a tease next Friday and a reveal the following Tuesday?
Who is predicting a tease on the 18th and reveal on the 22rd, a la Stranger Things last year?

Punk music would have to rank low as a candidate for a music-themed pinball. I can see it earning in a bar at a venue that hosts punk bands - CBGB's or First Avenue, say. Otherwise, I envision a punk pinball turning people off and earning terribly in any other setting. Good Punk music is actually unpleasant to listen to for all but the initiated - and that's part of the point. If you put a machine in a bar with a broad-cross-section clientele and it blares Bad Religion or DK, it will piss off about 90% of the patrons. Doesn't sound like a good earner to me. A DEVO pin - as fun as that would be - would be a New-Wave pin, not a Punk one. A Ramones pin, too, would be something other than a true Punk pin. It's likely you will get plenty of future music pins and that they will all be rock themed. Never jazz. Never country. Never death metal. Never Punk. The two non-rock genres that may see pindom are hip-hop and EDM, but that's a good decade off.

Why do people think Elwin would *want* to work with Sheats, or vice-versa?
Elwin seems to content to code his own games. He might even insist on it. And Sheats probably wouldn't care to be on a project where he wasn't truly the lead. Just a guess.

Okay. You pass as a fan. Cool delay pedal! I can hear Doc Brown saying, "One-point-twenty-one gigawatts?!!!"
And who can forget George and the "Density" blunder? Such a good cast!

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I highly doubt Stern will attempt to duplicate the voices of the deceased actors. It’s more likely they would try to double Ralph Feinnes, the actor who currently plays “M.” Sound-alikes are rarely convincing - to my ear, anyway. Tom Hanks’s brother sounds only slightly like his brother in TS4.

STh is the odds-on favorite for a run between Venom and Elwin's next game?

What happened to the Zach-Meny rumor about Stern running a SAM title? I was thinking MET was coming.

I disagree; Hooper in the cage dealing with Jaws up close was also shot in a tank, and probably numerous other minor images, too.