My inside contact tells me their is NO new band pinball title allocated for 2013 at all. Metallica is simply a rumor of hope versus fact i am told.
A KISS machine wont be profitable to Stern at $3,000 a machine in licence fees IMO surely ??. Maybe $300 or $500 tops i would have thought ???
I wish like Nino they did one, but it wont ever happen with these figures, unless I am missing something....no matter how many they sell, the figures just cant add up, not with those licence fees, and its a risk to Stern to even try unless the fee comes down to something reasonable....
Gene Simmons i ilke, but his ego sometimes is a little big and thinking that placing a silly amount per machine will make the machines more collectable wont transpire into sales for Stern. Money is just too hard to come by these days. Unless they do a 500 run at $12,000 each, maybe that would work ????? Do a JJP and get all machines sold sight unseen, lock your capital in $$ then proceed. This may work...?
The KISS army is huge yes, but will they buy a pinball that someone wants 9 or 10 grand for.....pinball fans who are KISS fans equals yes, but it doesnt mean KISS fans who have never bought a pinball before ever will rush out n get one.......
Shame Gene Simmons doesnt make the fee reasonable so thousands of machines could get sold at reasonable prices versus no machines ever....
I remember being an Ace Frehly fan when I was aboy 8 or 10, and I went to the drive in movies to see the KISS movie, all great memories...A new Stern KISS machine would be awesome.....hope someday they can make a great one with all this new technology...imagine a LCD with movie clips or the jukebox like AC/DC, all very very cool.
