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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: ChadTower on March 14, 2008, 02:05:05 pm
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Linkage (http://www.pinballsales.com/asp/aa_ShrekPF.asp)
I've been anxious to see this one. If I had the means to pick up a NIB pin this is the first I've seen I would want
(http://www.pinballsales.com/asp/PlayField.jpg)
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Cute with the extra pinball game in the corner.
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Stern has been making some pretty slip-shod units over the last few years. This isn't a new game BTW...just an artwork update. I'd rather have it as a "Family Guy" than "Shrek"...same game.
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Stern has been making some pretty slip-shod units over the last few years. This isn't a new game BTW...just an artwork update. I'd rather have it as a "Family Guy" than "Shrek"...same game.
They should have done Shrek in the first place. Family Guy was a really bad theme for a pin. Every Chuck-E-Cheese in the country would be more than happy to put a Shrek themed pin in. Can't say the same for family guy.
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Stern has been making some pretty slip-shod units over the last few years. This isn't a new game BTW...just an artwork update. I'd rather have it as a "Family Guy" than "Shrek"...same game.
It's not entirely the same game. It will be rebranded in the software, too, with Shrek audio and games. Same playfield layout, ruleset TBD.
I can't stand Family Guy. I'd much rather have this as a Shrek.
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It looks good, but I gotta wonder if the Shrek theme is coming a bit late. I do like it better than Family Guy, but the kids seem ready to move on the next big thing.
A few other licenses that they might have wanted to go after for mainstream success:
-Harry Potter
-Ninja Turtles (the new series appears to be big)
-X-Men (superheroes are big again)
-Transformers
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It looks good, but I gotta wonder if the Shrek theme is coming a bit late. I do like it better than Family Guy, but the kids seem ready to move on the next big thing.
A few other licenses that they might have wanted to go after for mainstream success:
-Harry Potter
-Ninja Turtles (the new series appears to be big)
-X-Men (superheroes are big again)
-Transformers
I'd bet money they tried. Sometimes the big names like those properties mentioned think licensing rights means they can take the pin manufacturer, bend them over, and give it to them dry whenever they please though.
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GI Joe would have been nice.
And really you would choose this pin as your NIB?
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Yep. I'm not talking about some pie in the sky "If I found a Funhouse NIB" scenario... I mean of the pins that have actually been NIB during the time I have owned pins.
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Yep. I'm not talking about some pie in the sky "If I found a Funhouse NIB" scenario... I mean of the pins that have actually been NIB during the time I have owned pins.
I have played a NIB HUO Elvis, and would definitely have that as my NIB.
Speaking of that, Friday night (tonight) is mine and the wife's "pinball date night". We meet at a local pizza place, get a sub and calzone, then play Elvis pinball and Ms. Pacman for an hour or two. Believe it or not, it was her idea. My wife rocks.
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Elvis is one of my favorite pins too. I met a guy in Belgium who owns about every (dm) pin you can think off and despite about 50 (!) pins ready to play in his collection I still had to play a couple of games on his Elvis...(I'm currently working on his SW cockpit and upright....he was desperately looking for someone to fix them....here's some pics of his collection:
http://www.gameroom.be/gazet/view_archief.php?a_id=1205&year=2008&month=1)
I loved The Addams Family too, first time I played it, easy to see why it's a favorite....
I'd prefer a Black Spiderman for a NIB I guess.
I don't know the Family Guy series, but I liked the pin, especially that little extra pinball table on top...
Also played Pirates, great machine, but I hated when I hit the ship. Almost everytime the ball was released from there it would go to the trough without me being able to do anything about it (this was at an arcade and the tilt was WAT too sharp, so I couldn't give it the usual "shake"...
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The Shrek stuff looks good, but I did like how the small pinball machine was "Stewie's" toy in the Family Guy branding. I thought that was rather clever.
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Much as I hate all things "Shrek" I must admit that looks nice.