You never know where you will find interesting information. That 's why I try to read as much stuff about pinball as possible. I never expected to find info about Goonies in the Multimorphic P3 discussion on Pinside, but that's what happened.
A few members started talking about how a Goonies P3 pinball module would be cool. Surprisingly, Multimorphic's founder chimed in on the subject. Here's what he had to say:
"You won't get me talking about titles very often, but... I've already said the next title is licensed, and I can also say that we choose licenses based on the team's passion for a title and available assets. If the team has passion for a title and access to the assets it needs to do the theme justice, we're in!
Some on our team do love The Goonies, but we couldn't have done it justice with what and who were available. I'm guessing that's why it was still available when we looked into it, as it's been a title y'all have been excited about for a while. There are a number of other beloved titles with similar constraints, many of which are rumored to be coming out soon. We'll be curious to see how they're implemented!
Pinball is hard. Licensing is harder. Predicting how people will react to an implementation of a license... even harder! With Weird Al and The Princess Bride, we were able to create exactly what we hoped we could, and hopefully all superfans of both themes love them. Having a bunch of people working all day every day for 18+ months on a project makes it silly for us to give it anything except the best treatment we possibly can.
- Gerry
The key takeaways from this statement for me is that the Goonies license was still available for pinball when Multimorphic looked into it. I wonder how long ago that was? If it wasn't that long ago then it may still be available, meaning that a game based on the beloved cult classic movie is not in the works.
I also found the "we couldn't do it justice with what and who were available" statement interesting. That probably adds more fuel to the Goonies pinball isn't coming fire. It's a cool license and I personally would love to see a Goonies pinball machine, BUT...if certain important assets from the film aren't available or would at lease be a major hassle for a manufacturer to get then the game probably isn't happening. This doesn't necessarily mean that Goonies pinball won't happen, but it does seem to make it less likely to me.
Back to Multimorphic, its next title after is is done with its production run of The Princess Bride is another licensed theme. I'm looking forward to seeing what they are working on. I have no idea when that will be though. March maybe? That's just a guess.
I came across something else interesting on Pinside the other day, after I shared the pictures that I found of Dutch Pinball Exclusive's playfields for Alice's Adventures in wonderland being printed on Facebook the other day I found a statement about the game in the Alice discussion that mentioned the official start of the game's production has been delayed slightly. Here's the specific quote from Rensh on Pinside, who works for Dutch:
"At the moment its expected that the swapping over TBL->Alice, setting up production, receiving all parts (like the playfields) will take us into February and thus production is, at the moment, expected to be started 2nd part February. This represents a slight delay compared to our initial schedule, but we feel it remains within a manageable timeframe."
Currently, Dutch doesn't expect Alice to hit the production line until the second half of February. When it collected $1,500 deposits for the game, Dutch specifically stated that they will be fully refundable if the buyer's specific game doesn't ship by January 1, 2026. Dutch has commitments to build 500 Alices. If they get too late a start, they run the risk that some people who ordered will want their deposit back.
