Really enjoyed reading peoples original ideas on another post for game themes. Thought this would be fun... how about the WORST original ideas for a theme (not one that already exists.
Heres to get you started:
Movie Theme: My dinner with andre, On Golden pond
T.V. theme: Touched by an Angel, Facts of Life
Music: Kenny g (the theme music would be the worst..)
Historical women create bad pinball machines - Helen Keller, Anne Frank, Rosa Parks...
As well as medical procedures/conditions - colonoscopy, balding, too much ear wax...
blankets...
corrugated cardboard....
I mean these are some bad ideas. Yet, if Gomez or Ritchie get to work on it, who knows?
Quoted from mykquillion:Historical women create bad pinball machines - Helen Keller
That machine would have to have solid black backglass!
Quoted from stangbat:Bob Barker's Spayed and Neutered
that would be hilarious! Bob Barker would have to be on the backglass holding up a dog by the hind legs in one hand and a big old scalpel in the other.
Reading, mowing the lawn, shaving, wood carving, dieting, laser corrective vision surgery, painting, etc.
I think all of the above would make for rather crappy themes, but hey, there may be some wood carvers and painters out there that may think otherwise.
A world war ii pin would be freakin' epic but it probably wouldn't do well in parts of asia & europe for some reason.
Quoted from practicalsteve:mykquillion said:
Historical women create bad pinball machines - Helen Keller
That machine would have to have solid black backglass!
I hope they wouldn't take the "Sexy Helen Keller" angle that is so popular these days.
Quoted from The_Dude_Abides:Richard Simons pinball machine [
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Imagine the look and sound of that bad boy....
It'll be a lot like Hardbody..... 
Quoted from gweempose:The Third Reich
Columbine
9/11
AIDS
I was going to start this thread with a schindlers list themed pin but didn't know how well it would be recieved, well done.
Home Ec (wizard mode is baking a cake)
Watergate (find Deepthroat and battle Tricky Dick)
The Lawrence Welk Show (Bubbles!)
Nickelback (the only gimmick is that the coin return doesn't work, but it does dispense earplugs if you get a high enough score)
Quoted from FlipperMagician:Jersey Shore, I can't stand the show for a full minute.
No Fist Pumping (bumping?) multi-ball?
Quoted from EvilJack:While were are at it why not one about John and Kate plus 8 or one about the duggers. Could you imagine the multiball on those machines?
"Mulit-Child" 19 balls and counting.... Get ready .... Flippppppppppppppppp!!!!!!! LOLOLOL
I tried to imagine how some of these could be made. I had a few laughs. The Obama pin could give you points if you do not reach the high score to help you out. You would never have to pay to pla a game.
Veggie Tales
Barney
Dora the Explorer
Thomas the Tank Engine
Wonder Pets
Little Einsteins
The Wiggles
Hanna Montana
...
So basically anything my kids watch. Spongebob would make a good pin though.
Quoted from gweempose:The Third Reich
Hey, that could work... and the bonus would count down how many civilians you'd executed... Can't you see it now? No? Mmm, me neither.
Third world nations - sectarian violence multiball, modes corresponding to tropical diseases, famine, and poverty... maybe even a malaria multiball (oh! Maybe as a subwizard mode, for completing all the disease modes)...
Quoted from herbertbsharp:Public Restroom
with a glory hole
Quoted from Finrod:Any political theme
You could mock politics in general, and come out okay, I think. Just about everyone thinks the other side is corrupt, and that most politicians are at best ineffective, and at worst, malicious.
Quoted from davewtf:with a glory hole
hahahahahahah
Quoted from Rick471:Obama Pinball
Would be a great evil villian in a pin
Quoted from scooter:Would be a great evil villian in a pin
Instead of a score, you could raise the national debt. Table goals would be socializing medicine passing stimulus packages, all for increased debt.
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