and check it out if you haven't already, but Bobby mentioned that Warner Bros and Fox want crazy amounts of $$$$$ for licenses for their tables. Shutyertrap mentioned Dirty Harry in the podcast and I can also think of Lethal Weapon 3. What other tables would this include?
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A very interesting topic. If Warners and Fox are out, and surely Disney is too, besides Sony, that leaves Universal and Paramount, and the non-majors.
I couldn't resist. I tried to identify the studio that owned every DMD table not in TPA. Here is a really big list of results. I hope it makes sense, ask me if not. Some of these license holder things are complicated, there might be errors.
Maybe good news for Shadow (Universal) and Congo (Paramount)?
I couldn't resist. I tried to identify the studio that owned every DMD table not in TPA. Here is a really big list of results. I hope it makes sense, ask me if not. Some of these license holder things are complicated, there might be errors.
Maybe good news for Shadow (Universal) and Congo (Paramount)?
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Movie/TV studios who might own license for some pinball machines.
source: wikipedia article for movie/tv show, "Distributed by" field.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_film_studio
TPA TPA IPDB IPDB/NUM PINS L PC RELEASE MY FARSIGHT'S MPU
ID TABLE NAME S/P D Mf YEAR-MM PROD RANK RAT/RATS RANK ? DATE ABBR ABBREVIATION SYSTEM
Sony Pictures (owns Columbia)
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Starship Troopers
(Ghostbusters)
Sinbad G 1978-05 13900 134 7.60/50 Y?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind G 1978-10 Y
Charlie's Angels G 1978-11 Y
Krull G 1983-02 Y
Robocop DE 1989-11 Y
Hook D DE 1992-01 146 7.55/59 Y
Last Action Hero D DE 1993-08 56 7.94/88 Y
M.S.'s Frankenstein
Johnny Mnenomic D W 1995-08 81 7.85/92 Y JMn
Godzilla D Se 1998-08 216 7.29/20
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines D St 2003-06 152 7.53/81 Y
Elvis D St 2004-08 159 7.51/83 Y
Wheel of Fortune D St 2007-10 150 7.53/40 Y
Spider-Man D St 2007-06 14 8.15/169 Y
Warner Bros. (subsidiary of Time Warner)
Batman D DE 1991-07 278 7.04/35 Y
Lethal Weapon 3 D DE 1992-06 156 7.52/89 Y
Demolition Man D W 1994-02 84 7.84/126 Y DM
The Flintstones D W 1994-07 Universal made the 1994 movie, but Warners owns the cartoon rights.
Maverick D DE 1994-09 137 7.59/55 Y
Dirty Harry D W 1995-03 166 7.50/85 Y DH
Batman Forever D Se 1995-07 75 7.88/66
Space Jam D Se 1996-12 202 7.35/36
Twister D Se 1996-04 252 7.17/35
Batman D St 2008-07 51 7.95/89 Y
New Line Cinema (merged with Warner Bros.)
Freddy: a Nightmare on Elm Street D G 1994-10 122 7.66/54 Y
Lost In Space D Se 1998-05 --
Austin Powers D St 2001-06 -- Y
The Lord of the Rings D St 2003-12 15 8.15/347 Y
The Hobbit H JJ 201?-?? Y
Time Warner (has Warner Bros. as subsidiary)
The Sopranos (HBO / Time Warner) D St 2005-02 194 7.40/85 Y
Wizard of Oz H JJ 2013-04 79 7.86/40 Y
^-- MGM movie, then Turner Entertainment, subsidiary of Turner Broadcasting
System, which is a subsidiary of Time Warner
Warner Bros. Television (subsidiary of Time Warner)
Gilligan's Island D B 1991-05 -- Y GI
20th Century Fox
Tales from the Crypt D DE 1993-11 36 7.99/127 Y
Independence Day D Se 1996-07 154 7.52/37
The X Files D Se 1997-09 --
The Simpsons Pinball Party D St 2003-02 22 8.08/217 Y
Family Guy D St 2007-?? 106 7.73/100 Y
24 D St 2009-02 -- Y
James Cameron's Avatar D St 2010-08 173 7.47/59 Y
Universal Pictures
Advs. of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Fr. D DE 1993-02 108 7.73/74 Y
Jurassic Park D DE 1993-04 28 8.05/174 Y
The Flintstones D W 1994-07 Universal made the 1994 movie, but Warners owns the cartoon rights.
Shadow D B 1994-11 25 8.07/202 Y Shad
Apollo 13 D Se 1995-10 93 7.79/54
Waterworld D G 1995-10 -- Y
Barb Wire (Gramercy) D G 1996-04 167 7.49/19 Y
Lost World Jurassic Park D Se 1997-06 264 7.11/44
The Big Lebowski (Gramercy) Du 201?-?? Y
Walt Disney Studios (owns Lucasfilm)
Star Wars D DE 1992-10 65 7.91/109 Y
Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure D W 1993-08 7 8.29/365 Y IJ
Star Wars Trilogy D Se 1997-03 298 6.97/56
Star Wars Episode I H W 1999-06 185 7.42/103 Y SWE1
Pirates of the Caribbean D St 2006-07 138 7.58/148 Y
Indiana Jones D St 2008-04 281 7.03/87 Y
Iron Man D St 2010-?? 62 7.93/87 Y
Disney TRON Legacy D St 2011-?? 23 8.07/80 Y
The Avengers D St 2012-?? ?? Y
X-Men D St 2012-08 ?? Y
DreamWorks (owned by Disney)
Shrek D St 2008-?? 98 7.78/68 Y
Transformers D St 2011-?? 117 7.68/38 Y
Paramount Pictures (owned by Viacom)
Star Trek B 1979-04 Y
Star Trek D DE 1991-10 241 7.20/41 Y
Congo D W 1995-11 40 7.98/107 Y Congo
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles D DE 1991-05 223 7.28/40 Y
South Park D Se 1999-02 300 6.96/83
Star Trek D St 2013-?? ?? Y
(Indiana Jones movies < 2008, now owned by Disney from Lucasfilm)
AMC Networks
The Walking Dead D St 2014-09 ?? Y
CBS Productions
Rescue 911 D G 1994-05 4000c
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation D St 2008-11 -- Y
United Artists
Goldeneye (MGM) D Se 1996-03 110 7.71/42
StudioCanal (or Lionsgate?)
Stargate (MGM) D G 1995-03 34 8.00/141
BBC (British Broadcasting Company)
Doctor Who D B 1992-09 61 7.93/140
FremantleMedia (UK)
Baywatch D Se 1995-02 109 7.72/54
^-- now owned by Paramount? planning a movie?
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invitro, you're as useful to this forum as I am useless to it.
But both just as necessary.
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invitro, you're as useful to this forum as I am useless to it.
Ohhh no. No one's THAT useful. Boom!
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So... no Shadow --> bath salts?
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post of the month, cuz its true.
yeah thanks invitro. ur one of the people here that I read mostly everything u post.
kudos to you.
yeah thanks invitro. ur one of the people here that I read mostly everything u post.
kudos to you.
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I'm glad you mentioned these two, because I screwed both of those two up. The wikipedia article on RCT mentions a movie that Sony Animation was supposed to be making, but this was in 2010. That's why I put it on the Sony list last year. It shouldn't be here... the owner of the license is Atari, which many of you probably know
.Street Fighter was a 1994 movie by Universal Pictures. I think I put it on Sony because wikipedia has Columbia (which is owned by Sony) as the movie's international distributor, and I think I read that the int'l distributor is what counted? Anyway, the pinball machine came out in 1993, and isn't related to the movie, which is live-action and stars J.C. van Damme. (Kinda like Judge Dredd... the pinball is 1993, the big movie with Sly Stallone is 1995). Oops! SF2's license is certainly owned by Capcom.
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Thanks!