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Why no love for TMNT ?

By pookycade

3 years ago


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#6 3 years ago
Quoted from pookycade:

TNMT seemed to have been launched with great fanfare and hype, and if one looks at the ratings they aren’t half bad. Despite this there seems to be an epidemic of people unloading their TNMTs at pretty discount prices almost immediately. Perhaps I am just being particularly attentive, but this doesn’t seem an isolated move at all. Seems even more than Stranger Things which was pretty much derided the moment it came out. Thoughts ? Too little room and too many new pins coming out ? I do ask this out of self interest since I may want to buy one and wonder if I am missing something.

It's a totally hit or miss theme. I personally am not into LZ's music. I mean it's ok, but I don't own a single album nor have I downloaded a single track. Many people aren't into TMNT. But I am as I grew up with the show, and my son grew up with the Nick remake series. For us, it's a perfect theme, a great package for the Pro model, and the Co-op allows us to play as a team. Dwight has also added 2 new great modes (one in game, and one separate) allowing us to have different ways to play. My only gripe is that to get to the wizard mode you need to collect Krang combo, and Triple Mondo jackpot and those are near impossible. You're better off skillfully draining at the beginning of a MB, hoping some fall back through the Krang loop, and then hit the center ramp to hope you just backdoored into one or both of those.

But overall, unless you have a theme that encompasses almost all generations (Star Wars, Star Trek, Spiderman...etc.) you're going to have a targeted theme which will turn off some buyers (IMDN, MET, Munsters). The core audience will have to support the more polarizing ones and therefore probably need stronger game play to make it a success. TMNT isn't a theme for everyone, but for those who it is for, typically end up loving the game play.

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