I second the Led Zeppelin pin, I too was hoping Stern would actually do one.
And while they should have been giving credit where it was due. Zeppelin sold millions of records based on the way they played those tunes, very few have heard or cares about the original versions of those songs. I guess other than people who search you-tube in an attempt to discredit things based on their own dislike for something.
After all music is all about taste, what one dislikes another may love.
As for the Hannah Montana comment, how many 6-12 year old girls do you see playing pinball? Zeppelin is outdated? In less than two months Page/Plant's No Quarter sold 1 million records in 2004-05. And they are collectively the 3rd highest sellers in the US with 106 million sold.
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Battlestar Galactica has potential to be an awesome "themed" pin. Cylons, the Galactica, Vipers, why the potential for cool toys and modes is limitless.
Pins owned:�� Bally - Twilight Zone (1993) Williams - Star Trek The Next Generation (1993) Bally - Scared Stiff (1996) Stern - Lord of the Rings (2004)
Battlestar Galactica has potential to be an awesome "themed" pin. Cylons, the Galactica, Vipers, why the potential for cool toys and modes is limitless.
Agreed. Although, I thought that the ships in Mars Trek looked a lot like the ships in the original BSG. Plus, the ship on the spinners looked like the ship from Futurama.
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-Medieval Madness! -Indiana Jones (Williams) -Star Trek: The Next Generation -Champion Pub -Terminator 3 -Congo -Johnny Mnemonic -Tales of the Arabian Nights
Nightmare Before Christmas, (But good luck getting this licence). Very cool movie that has a HUGE cult following.
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Here are games I would like to acquire this year, or sometime...
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After all music is all about taste, what one dislikes another may love.
Exactly. At any rate I didn't say I didn't like to listen to Led Zeppelin if you read the post. That fact was irrelevant to the point. The point was regarding the merit in investing $1 million in developing a game after an old band. With that many records still sold it may be viable.
Looks like licensing would be a b**** though. You would have to pay a long list of writers.
And while they should have been giving credit where it was due. Zeppelin sold millions of records based on the way they played those tunes, very few have heard or cares about the original versions of those songs. I guess other than people who search you-tube in an attempt to discredit things based on their own dislike for something.
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it's about Zep being arrogant pompus greedy bastards depriving the original authors the money they are due.
Guess how much Jimi Hendrix estate collects in mechanical royalties? i use Jimi as example since those were the figures i read in 2004..... It's on the average between 1 and 3 million per hit song, each and every year. let me repeat that. each and every year, big hits like "all along the watch tower" and "purple haze" bring in a couple million EACH AND EVERY YEAR. PER SONG... that's for the radio play, liscencing for films,tv, commercials and all the cover versions of the tune. the author rights is about 3-5%. So, lets use a mid figure of 2 million... the song author is entitled to 66K...
now for sake of argument and to over simplify inflation, change in royalty rates, some years better than others, etc... let's put that 66K figure from 2004 down to 7K..
7K X 36 years since 1972 == $252K
That is some serious chunk of change Zep decided to put in their own pockets and not the song writer.
Zep wasn't the first, nor the last... Even Celine Dion tries to f.oqk song writers over from their full mechanical royalties.
If you were one of those uncredited artists, would you just chuckle it off? hell, just from 2004 to 2008: it's 4 years X 66K = $264K.. it wouldn't bother you that souless, wankers pocket 8 million (because of something you created) and they throw salt on the wound by keeping the $264K that is rightful yours?
it's about Zep being arrogant pompus greedy bastards depriving the original authors the money they are due.
Guess how much Jimi Hendrix estate collects in mechanical royalties? i use Jimi as example since those were the figures i read in 2004..... It's on the average between 1 and 3 million per hit song, each and every year. let me repeat that. each and every year, big hits like "all along the watch tower" and "purple haze" bring in a couple million EACH AND EVERY YEAR. PER SONG... that's for the radio play, liscencing for films,tv, commercials and all the cover versions of the tune. the author rights is about 3-5%. So, lets use a mid figure of 2 million... the song author is entitled to 66K...
now for sake of argument and to over simplify inflation, change in royalty rates, some years better than others, etc... let's put that 66K figure from 2004 down to 7K..
7K X 36 years since 1972 == $252K
That is some serious chunk of change Zep decided to put in their own pockets and not the song writer.
Zep wasn't the first, nor the last... Even Celine Dion tries to f.oqk song writers over from their full mechanical royalties.
If you were one of those uncredited artists, would you just chuckle it off? hell, just from 2004 to 2008: it's 4 years X 66K = $264K.. it wouldn't bother you that souless, wankers pocket 8 million (because of something you created) and they throw salt on the wound by keeping the $264K that is rightful yours?
All the Along the Watchtower was written by Bob Dylan and covered by Hendrix, so that's not a great example.
I wrote Zeppelin should have given credit where it was due ie. royalties, so I'm not really disagreeing with you.
Anyway, this is getting off topic. I'd still like to see a Zeppelin pin regardless of whether they are/were pompous greedy bastards.
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If we're talking about a music themed pin then my vote would be for the Headstones. I saw them a few times while they were still together. Dollar for dollar, one of the best shows I've ever seen.
you know what I'd LOVE to see... is a "giant robot in space" theme.. you could make the pinballs his eyeballs, and when you lock them into his sockets you get multi-ball! And! And the flippers could be his fingers!! Sweet action.. and you could call this magical machine "Robo*Pin" or something.
... oh, and don't forget to make it drain like a dirty whore!!
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... I would love to see that with MAACA members on it! I think I can take on most of you!!! 
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