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Spooky Pinball Reveals Rick and Morty Pinball Gameplay and Art!

Cary Hardy·video·13m 18s·analyzed·Dec 16, 2019
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TL;DR

Spooky's Rick and Morty pinball officially revealed with $7k-$7.5k pricing and 7,050 unit production.

Summary

Cary Hardy provides a reaction and detailed breakdown of Spooky Pinball's official Rick and Morty pinball reveal, analyzing playfield mechanics, art design, pricing ($7,000 Standard / $7,500 Bloodsucker Edition), and production details (7,050 units, 10 adventures, P3 control system). Hardy validates several of his prior predictions about layout and design while noting some mechanical details like an unusually quick-stopping spinner that warrant clarification.

Key Claims

  • Rick and Morty pinball will feature 10 adventures total based on video callout 'six adventures down, four to go'

    high confidence · Direct quote from official reveal video gameplay footage

  • Standard edition priced at $7,000, Bloodsucker Edition at $7,500 (500 dollar difference)

    high confidence · Hardy reads pricing from official specs shown in reveal materials

  • Production run of 7,050 units announced

    high confidence · Official spec sheet visible in reveal: 'Limited 7050 games made'

  • Game features P3 rock control system, HD LCD, custom voice work from Justin Roiland, video clips and songs from the series

    high confidence · Official reveal specification details

  • MagnaSave is confirmed as a playfield feature with center scoop location

    high confidence · Hardy observes MagnaSave mechanism in action during gameplay footage and confirms scoop positioning

  • Bloodsucker Edition cosmetic differences are limited to armor/art on back glass and side rails, not gameplay features

    medium confidence · Hardy's analysis of official images comparing standard and Bloodsucker editions

  • Hardy's prior cabinet art mock-up was accurate to official design

    medium confidence · Hardy compares his earlier speculative video to official reveal and claims accuracy

  • Game uses a standard spinner with switch mech, not an opto spinner

    medium confidence · Hardy analyzes still images from reveal materials

Notable Quotes

  • “Rick and Morty Pinball Machine. Super fun to play.”

    Cary Hardy (quoting reveal video gameplay)@ 1:31 — Initial reaction to gameplay footage from official reveal

  • “I like this idea a lot better than what I originally thought it was going to be... this is a much better design than I thought it was going to be initially.”

    Cary Hardy@ 2:35 — Hardy revises his earlier speculation about the pop bumper/slingshot hybrid design after seeing official footage

  • “I think it's kind of funny that you have Rick that's like, I'm having multiple jackpots. And that's an Elvira quote, but it's funny that he's using it as well.”

    Cary Hardy@ 5:46 — Notes Easter egg/reference to classic Elvira pinball in Rick and Morty callouts

  • “Rip that spinner, Morty! Six adventures! That spinner did not look to rip... That spinner came to a friggin' halt!”

    Cary Hardy@ 5:57 — Identifies potential mechanical oddity with spinner behavior in gameplay that warrants clarification

  • “If that is correct, then yeah, Bloodsucker Edition is the way to go. $500 for that really nice side rails, the portal and everything on it, yeah, that is definitely the way to go.”

    Cary Hardy@ 11:25 — Judges value proposition of $500 upcharge for cosmetic Bloodsucker Edition features as worthwhile

  • “I think that this game is going to do very well. It's going to sell out. They're going to sell out all of them tomorrow.”

    Cary Hardy@ 12:15 — Hardy predicts rapid sell-out for Rick and Morty release

Entities

Spooky PinballcompanyCary HardypersonRick and MortygameJustin RoilandpersonScott DenisepersonJeff PattersonpersonSterncompany

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Hardy's prior speculative videos about Rick and Morty design validated by official reveal, indicating close community attention to leaks and pre-reveal analysis

    medium · Hardy notes accuracy of his cabinet art mock-up and playfield layout predictions from earlier video despite receiving 'a lot of hate' for speculation

  • ?

    event_signal: Stern is expected to announce new pinball reveal within days following Spooky's Rick and Morty launch, suggesting coordinated or competitive reveal timing

    medium · Hardy states 'it's only a matter of a few days before we get Stern's next reveal. So we'll see how that goes down.'

  • $

    market_signal: Hardy predicts Rick and Morty will sell out immediately upon release ('they're going to sell out all of them tomorrow'), indicating strong anticipated demand

    medium · Hardy's prediction based on game quality assessment and Spooky's prior market performance

  • ?

    announcement: Rick and Morty pinball officially revealed by Spooky with full gameplay footage, playfield layout, art, and specifications

    high · Official reveal video with gameplay footage, cabinet art, pricing, and production specs (7,050 units, P3 system, 10 adventures, $7k-$7.5k pricing)

  • ?

    product_strategy: Spooky employs cosmetic-only differentiation for Bloodsucker Edition (back glass art, side rails, portal aesthetics) with $500 premium over Standard

    high · Hardy analyzes official images comparing editions and confirms 'Bloodsucker Edition is merely aesthetics... Artwork is essentially the same. It's just the armor.'

Transcript

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0:00
it's here guys the full reveal for spooky pinballs rick and morty pinball machine has officially dropped i just got the notification so i didn't even want to watch it until i was recording so this is going to be a reaction video as well as going over what we see so let's get started Here we go.
0:39
And away we go. Don't panic. The immortality field was on. Cheating death. Oh, man. Yeah. You got to get to the scoop, Morty. Oh, wait. There's a lot of these things. Shoot the ramp so we can go on another adventure. Morty, hit the ramp on the left side. Head to the garage and we'll go to another dimension I'm having multiple jackpots You gotta kill these parasites, Morty Rent that spinner, Morty Six adventures down, four to go Hey, Button Pusher, nice to meet you Let's play some pinball, come on Hot damn, Morty Great, now you can lock a ball You gotta get to the scoop, Morty Hell yeah I can't take this anymore. Whoa, that was crazy. Rick and Morty Pinball Machine. Super fun to play. How many quarters? I don't know yet, Morty. I'm sure you can adjust that. You can even put it on free play mode if you bought one yourself, but what are the odds of that happening?
1:46
Yeah, what are the odds of that happening? Pretty, uh, okay. As far as reaction goes, I'm sorry I'm not much of a reaction on that one. But that is the reveal of what I saw, and let's nitpick through this. Alright, so here is the shot of the pop bumper that is now in the place of where a slingshot would normally be. Interesting enough, the pop bumper is not just pop bumper completely to where it's able to be used at a full 360 around it. It still has the slingshot format, but the pop bumper can only be... It's, yeah, okay, I like this idea a lot better than what I originally thought it was going to be, and that was just a pop bumper without any actual lane guides. So this is a much better design than I thought it was going to be initially. So, all right. So that's a pretty cool little effect right here. I like this. You can see it kind of like building up. That's pretty cool. So here we can see the MagnaSave in action. so scoop up center of the play field i was correct on that so that's cool rick and morty drop targets um as people have speculated that is correct as well as the little u shape right there i'm kind of curious to see how that works so is that the ball lock play field features interactive ship smith house portal gun a portal slam ring flubel crank an AC lock 2 two ramps anti device There's a lot of these things! Shoot the ramps!
3:28
Alright, so this gives us a really good layout of the playfield right here. So you've got your upper right ramp that feeds back to your right end lane and a left ramp that feeds what?
3:48
Okay, so ramp left side. He just hit that. No, so the garage and everything, it looks like it's just visual. Head to the garage!
3:58
Well, where does it go? Where does that ramp feed to? looks like he hit the left ramp and then where'd it come from it dropped where the hell does it come from it comes back behind there and just drops right there really head to the garage and we'll go to another dimension all right so he uses that upper right flipper to launch around the left and that feeds the portal it looks like. So the portal is underneath the garage. Okay so yes the upper left flipper upper right flipper I'm sorry feeds the portal in the orbit. Okay that's where it leads to it's got an opto center right before you hit the portal. the solenoid that we saw underneath the playfield to the very back where we didn't know where it was coming from or what it was going to be doing looks like it's going to be a locking mech or a diverter like i was expecting it to be that's going to do something with the ball that's up here six adventures down four to go so 10 adventures according to the math on that hey button push custom voiceover from justin roiland adventures from the series video clips and songs from the series, additional music created by Scott Denisey, P3 rock control system, intergalactic custom art, and HD LCD. Limited 7050 games made. So what do we got going on here? Great, now you can walk.
5:35
What is hitting that ball right there? So just like TNA, that center scoop, when you hit it, it comes right back pretty damn quick. I think it's kind of funny that you have Rick that's like, I'm having multiple jackpots.
5:52
And that's an Elvira quote, but it's funny that he's using it as well. Rip that spinner, Morty! Six adventures!
6:03
That spinner did not look to rip. I'll tell you that right now. That spinner came to a friggin' halt!
6:11
Let's go back to that. Look at this. Now watch how fast this spinner comes to a halt. Bam! is that on purpose I can't see the full mech behind that but when he says rip a spinner I'm thinking until you know yeah but yeah that's that's that's a little weird for it to just come to a screeching halt like that I wonder that just a minor adjustment or if that how the mechanics of that spinner work because it stopped like like it was ready to take another hit so it looks purposeful okay i think i figured it out because getting the angles on this video is difficult so i have to like watch it multiple times to see how it's put together but if you can see on my screen right here right here this is what I think I believe happens when it comes to launching that ball when you launch that ball it looks like it goes up and it turns into a wire form and then goes on to the play field so it looks like when you hit this left ramp it feeds behind or into the house and then it drops down where it is right here you saw it in the video yourself goes up and then it goes behind the house I guess and then drops down pretty much in the same location where if you were to shoot the ball at the beginning of the game that's what it looks like it looks like the ball would go up here and then fire off and land essentially where it does right here so here's my thing is that I know in my under the playfield view I state that I think that's another trough that's up underneath this area right here where the buck is at the shoots of economic the play field but it doesn't really show us um a multi-ball session essentially if that's where the multi-balls come out at so that's still a little bit of a speculation at that point but it looks like yeah the upper right flipper is what feeds the portal that's the only way to get up there i think that's the only way that you can make that shot too you can't do it any other way except for that upper right flipper all right so i want to say that is pretty much all when it comes to what I can see in the video at this point in time. Let's see if they have a complete actual breakdown of what we are not seeing. Man, as of right now, they don't have Jack Diddley on their website except for the trailer that they've released so far. So unless they've got it on maybe Pennside or something.
8:41
I'm not seeing a deep dive. Jesus, 230 freaking posts. Oh, my lanta. Skipping through a lot of this because a lot of this is still at the point of speculation I speculate this, I speculate that This is what I think it's going to have on it And it's no longer relevant because now we know what it's going to have on it So I'm going to skip past all this Alright, so now we're at the point to where standard is 7k, bloodsucker is 7520 So they've got it priced right where they need to have it Oh!
9:14
They have revealed the pictures finally Oh man! Okay. Ooh, I like that. That looks pretty cool. I especially like the flipper button region with the portal right there. That is pretty wicked. I'm liking this. What's funny is that I was right when it comes to what the cabinet art was going to look like. my mock-up job is pretty damn spot-on to what this artwork is guys so I know I got a lot of hate for that video but uh it was mere speculation and I was right so there you go but is there a deep dive and we have some still images here that will probably give us a better idea of what going on let see here it looks like i was correct again when it comes to when the ball launches it has the wire form and it shoots it out looks like it's going to shoot it to the back of the play field as far as this spinner goes it looks like it's a standard spinner and switch mech it's not even an opto spinner oh and here is the regular version standard cabinet oh see there we go the bloodsucker edition is where it's
10:39
yep man what a way to reel them in guys y'all got this down because the bloodsucker edition looks pretty damn cool what i what i'm glad about is that what it looks like to me is that the Bloodsucker Edition is merely aesthetics of the art and everything on the side. I say art, I mean the armor.
10:59
Artwork is essentially the same. It's just the armor for the back glass portion around the LCD and the side rails and everything. I feel like that's the way it should be. The price is a $500 difference.
11:18
Is that what I'm reading right? what, $7,000 for the regular and $7,500 for the Bloodsucker Edition? If that is correct, then yeah, Bloodsucker Edition is the way to go. $500 for that really nice side rails, the portal and everything on it, yeah, that is definitely the way to go. So as of right now, that's all we have to go on is the trailer. We don't have a deep dive yet. If I was a betting man, I would say Jeff Patterson will have the full deep dive on this game. by next week, especially since it goes on sale tomorrow. I'm pretty sure we're going to have a deep dive on this pretty soon. Matter of fact, let me just make sure we don't already have one. No, we don't have one yet, but if I had to bet, tomorrow morning we will probably have one. So in a nutshell, the game looks how I believed it to look on the outside cabinet-wise. The inside, I was right on a lot of the things. I was wrong on some other things, but overall, I think that this game is going to do very well. It's going to sell out. They're going to sell out all of them tomorrow. And it's only a matter of a few days before we get Stern's next reveal. So we'll see how that goes down. So what do you think about Spooky's new pinball machine from Rick and Morty? Is it everything that you'd hoped it would be? Is it more? Let me know in the comments section down below. If you like what you've seen here, give me that thumbs up. And if you haven't already, do not forget to hit that subscribe button. That way you can be notified of whenever I upload something for your viewing pleasure. until next time guys peace out