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“Four fried chickens and a Coke “ The Blues Brothers pinball
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Without doubt the funniest (and most appropriate) post in this thread!!!!!
Just played Blues Brothers at the EAG
Literally the biggest dream theme for me after Godzilla
So breaks my heart to see and play this!
I can forgive the layout as I enjoy playing classics and it shoots well
But for me the artwork kills it
The artwork is terrible, like really really terrible it’s like it was done on the oldest copy of photoshop you can find with someone half blind.
Hope anyone who buys it enjoys it but I honestly feel a theme of this awesomeness should have been treated with a little more respect and invested more £££ into a decent art package
Literally the biggest dream theme for me after Godzilla
So breaks my heart to see and play this!
I can forgive the layout as I enjoy playing classics and it shoots well
But for me the artwork kills it
The artwork is terrible, like really really terrible it’s like it was done on the oldest copy of photoshop you can find with someone half blind.
Hope anyone who buys it enjoys it but I honestly feel a theme of this awesomeness should have been treated with a little more respect and invested more £££ into a decent art package
Artwork, just like music is very subjective. What you may dislike someone else will love!
I include a portion of the flyer below for you to stew over.
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If you want a quick win, just to let you know you have some typos / inconsistencies on your apron card:
- Switching between multiball and multi-ball
- Make / hit kick-out hole, probably best to choose one or the other
- “immediatly”
- Description of Joliet could use some more punctuation
- Would look better justified rather than left aligned (in my opinion)
Also just to let you know that the website page which should allow you to download the service manual only allows you to download the topper instructions, all the links on the page route to that: https://www.homepin.com/bbservice.html
Thanks for the valuable feedback. I basically copied and pasted the original rules written by the programmer so my fault for not proofreading them before sending out for printing.
I will sort the links on the webpage - actually the "download" button UNDER the actual picture of the manual does work and connects to the manual but the actual picture link is the topper yes. A minor web fix that I will sort out next time I log on to it as admin.
EDIT: Fixed now - The manual actually has several updates and amendments but I'll get to that later - thanks for letting me know: https://www.homepin.com/bbservice.html
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It arrived today
Been so busy it’s still wrapped up but tomorrow it’s gonna get set up and played , I am super excited.. fed ex are an absolute bunch of morons but as always everyone at homepin really helped to get it sorted . Looking forward to a few beers tomorrow and good old sesh… my hook also arrived today so gonna have a bit of bangerang Acton as well
I felt, given the likely artwork budget, it was done remarkably well. It's much better than those horrific photoshop jobs Stern did in the 2000s.
The style was simple pop/poster art, which - if you're not 100% confident - is eye catching while less easy to mess up.
I'd rate it as better than both Stern Bond pins, and they doubtless had a much bigger budget.
Bear in mind, at current price point, The Blues Brothers is competing with a range of second-hand pins and a single NIB, Super Loops. It's effectively a re-themed remake of an 80s pin, which puts it in the same bucket as Haggis Fathom, but dramatically cheaper.
It needs to be judged with that in mind
That logic doesn't work. It's OK to be crap because it's cheap isn't a philosophy to build anything to. Otherwise we'd still have zizzle pins.Bear in mind, at current price point, The Blues Brothers is competing with a range of second-hand pins and a single NIB, Super Loops. It's effectively a re-themed remake of an 80s pin, which puts it in the same bucket as Haggis Fathom, but dramatically cheaper.
It needs to be judged with that in mind
You might be surprised how much "back & forth" with rights owners there is when designing something new, from scratch! Some things that I really liked, they hated and demanded we change it.
Okay. I found, personally, as a fan of 80s classic pins, it delivered on being a NIB classic pin.
Given how many problems I've had with 80s pins (which are typically in the £2k range), I personally think a NIB 80s pin with better music, a compelling theme and strong customer support (hopefully, @Homepin
) is worth at least £1-£2k more than an original classic 80s pin.It's not appropriate to compare The Blues Brothers to a second-hand Bally-Williams title, a NIB Stern, or similar, because it's clearly trying to do something very different.
Obviously, if you don't like playing 80s pins, you won't like this, but that doesn't mean it's a bad game.
I'd rate it as better than both Stern Bond pins.
I Have to pull you up on this, both Bond's are much better games. Artwork, rules, displays, sound, flippers, player feedback, lighting, all better. Blues brothers has a better price and theme (in my opinion), that's all.
I Have to pull you up on this, both Bond's are much better games. Artwork, rules, displays, sound, flippers, player feedback, lighting, all better. Blues brothers has a better price and theme (in my opinion), that's all.
I meant the artwork
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Completely agreeOkay. I found, personally, as a fan of 80s classic pins, it delivered on being a NIB classic pin.
Given how many problems I've had with 80s pins (which are typically in the £2k range), I personally think a NIB 80s pin with better music, a compelling theme and strong customer support (hopefully, @Homepin
It's not appropriate to compare The Blues Brothers to a second-hand Bally-Williams title, a NIB Stern, or similar, because it's clearly trying to do something very different.
Obviously, if you don't like playing 80s pins, you won't like this, but that doesn't mean it's a bad game.
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Me and ivan had a good three hour beer, pizza sesh on the game yesterday… and the verdict is, its great fun, shoots really well , solid build , great audio , art is was it is the cab art is great the PF I get what they are going for it’s an 80’s pop art vibe the translight is all good but I intend to change that anyway . You gotta remember that HP are only able to do what the license allowed . I am more than happy with finally having my dream theme pinball , can’t understand some of the hate but there ya go . Me and Ivan did a little video of the game yesterday will post it up at some stage .
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I filmed a load of it yesterday, will stick it all together with some thoughts …. Don’t worry YouTube content creators your jobs are all safe 