![]() ![]() But I think that’s another kettle of fish entirely and is likely best left to a Japanese company that wants to make pinball machines, as they’ll know the Japanese audiences better and can navigate the production committee maze a lot more skillfully. ![]() Your JAPANESE anime fan, on the other hand, well, they’re already spending hundreds of thousands of yen every year on their favorite franchises. I do understand the logic though: These are machines now built with the home user in mind, and fans of current, popular things are rarely expected to have the income necessary to buy a pinball machine.Īdmittedly, your typical western anime fan is NOT wealthy enough to get a pinball machine (the Toyota campaign a few years back centered on Hatsune Miku fell completely flat on its face as they failed to take into account that most anime fans cannot afford a new car, or even have the credit necessary to make monthly payments). Not that Cowboy Bebop isn’t (and I think it’d be a great theme to use), just that when I see stuff like Aerosmith or Total Nuclear Annihilation pop up, it always feels like the industry overall is one that’s stuck in the past. I guess it’s because I go out on location to play these as I don’t have the income to buy them for home use, but I would really like to see something that, say, is currently on the air in Japan or is recent enough to be recognizable to most anime fans. Extreme cross-over appeal to mainstream audiences (for many Americans it was the first anime they took seriously), its air-date was long enough ago that fans of the show are now in a financial/home-owning position to acquire pins, excellent music to draw from, good toy potential (Ein, the Bebop, etc.), and the pinball storytelling could be as simple as pursuing bounties to as advanced as the Spike/Vicious confrontation as the wizard mode. If any anime theme were to get the green light for a pinball machine, I would guess it would be Cowboy Bebop. They did themselves mention about having to build trust though, so they got that part in. As a startup company, I can’t imagine them having more than a few. I’m guessing not all of them will be licensed themes. Also, it’s that sort of series that’s impossible to really depict with only one image, as it isn’t about anything in particular.) ![]() But it’s gotten more famous thanks to the anime. (Yeah, I know, Pop Team Epic began as a webcomic. ![]() If they don’t make one, maybe I’ll give it a try. But who knows? Maybe they’ve secured the rights to a pinball machine of Pop Team Epic, which got really popular really fast. It may also be due to the production committee system requiring talks with several companies rather than just one or two.) I’d like one themed on One Piece, One-Punch Man, Attack on Titan, or JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, all four of which are quite popular. I know Toei is notorious for it, especially in regards to Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon. (I’m guessing it has something to do with the strictness of the licensors. I have NO clue why, but there has never been any physical pinball release with an anime theme. And while I highly doubt it, I do hope deeproot gets at least one anime license. Boy, that show is getting really good around now. I may also be insane for saying this, but I also would like one of Star vs. SEGA made pinball machines, and Sonic is the game franchise most closely tied to pinball, but none have actually existed.) (For that matter, while it’s not a 2010s thing, I have been waiting for a full-size Sonic the Hedgehog pinball machine for longer than I have been into pinball. As much as I like the new releases coming from Stern, Jersey Jack, Spooky, and such, most of them are before my time, and I’d like to see some themes, besides movies, that came out in the 2010s. I wonder if they’re going for more modern, current themes. 11 different games, huh? And they’re going for licensed themes too. ![]()
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