Reveal of the ABBA pinball Machine

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Pinball Brothers släpper nytt spel i samarbete med Abba

3 april 2024 05:03

Örebroföretaget Pinball Brothers släpper ett nytt flipperspel – i samarbete med Abba.

Det blir det första officiella Abba-flipperspelet.

– Abba är inte involverade i projektet dagligdags, men vi har kontakt och de har godkänt saker under vägen, säger Daniel Janson, vd Pinball Brothers AB. 

Pinball Brothers lanza nuevo juego en colaboración con Abba

3 april 2024 05:03

La empresa Pinball Brothers de Oregón lanza un nuevo juego de pinball – en colaboración con Abba.

Será el primer juego oficial de pinball de Abba.

– Abba no participan en el proyecto a diario, pero estamos en contacto y han aprobado cosas en el camino, dice Daniel Janson, director ejecutivo de Pinball Brothers AB.

https://www.na.se/artikel/pinball-brothers-slapper-nytt-spel-i-samarbete-med-abba/

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 Pinball Brothers today confirmed that their third game release after Alien and Queen will be based on the world-famous musical artists, ABBA.

The backglass image from the ABBA game

The game will feature twenty ABBA tracks – probably the most tracks by an artist or group incorporated into any single pinball machine – and will include footage from their ABBA Voyage stage show held in London.

This show features holographic performances of the band from their younger days, depicting how they would have appeared in 1979. The concert uses motion capture technology to reproduce the band’s actions and characteristics, and has received highly positive reviews, selling over 1.5 million tickets to date and generating revenue of over $150m. ABBA Voyage opened in May 2022 and is currently extended until November 2024, with the possibility to extend further until April 2026.

Pinball Brothers will be holding a launch event for their ABBA game in the Swedish city of Örebro on 6th April, 2024 – exactly 50 years to the day since ABBA launched themselves onto the worldwide musical stage by winning the Eurovision Song Contest, held in the UK city of Brighton, with the song Waterloo.

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ABBA VOYAGE & ARRIVAL ANNOUNCED

Pinball Brothers have released more details and pictures of their third title, based on the Swedish band ABBA.

The playfield of the new ABBA game

The playfield design is by Alexander Spohr, with sound design by Olof Gustafsson, video graphics by Kelly Mazurowski and cabinet/playfield artwork by Andreas Bennwik.

The game comes in two versions – Arrival Limited Edition (maximum 500 units) and Voyage Collector Edition (maximum 300 units). The Arrival Edition uses representations of the band from 1976, the year of the Arrival album release along with a clean, understated geometric design.

Some of those tracks are yet to be revealed, but we can bring you details of the first sixteen:

Dancing Queen

Does Your Mother Know

Eagle

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

Knowing Me, Knowing You

Mamma Mia

Money, Money, Money

Ring Ring S.O.S.

Summer Night City

Super Trouper

Take A Chance On Me

The Winner Takes It All

Tiger

Voulez-Vous

Waterloo

The first sixteen ABBA tracks revealed

The company have also provided a feature matrix comparing the two models. The Arrival Limited Edition (500 units) has a MRSP of US$9,995 while the Voyage Collector Edition is priced $1,000 higher at US$10,995.

We’ll be back with much more from the ABBA launch party this weekend, so check back for all the latest news right here at Pinball News.

https://www.pinballnews.com/site/2024/04/01/pinball-brothers-confirms-abba/

ABBA Voyage - Las Vegas

 

ABBA land 'multi-million-dollar' deal to bring avatar show to Las Vegas

ABBA are reportedly poised to ink a multi-million-dollar deal to bring 'ABBA Voyage' to Las Vegas.

The Swedish pop icons are said to be working with Resorts World to bring their hugely popular avatar show that currently takes place at the custom-built ABBA Arena in London to Sin City.

A source told the Daily Star newspaper: "ABBA has been secretly in talks for a while about getting a deal in Vegas.

"The music of Abba is well liked in the US.

"And the unique selling point of avatars makes it more than an ABBA show as the spectacular is something that could well wow audiences."

It's not the first time there has been talks of the show heading to Vegas, as back in 2021, the 'Dancing Queen' hitmakers were the subject of a fierce bidding war between venues for a potential 2024 avatar residency.

The group - comprising Benny Andersson, 77, Agnetha Faltskog, 73, Bjorn Ulvaeus, 78, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, also 78 - had MGM Resorts, Caesars Palace and Resorts World locked in a battle to host the 'Waterloo' hitmakers' digital avatar show named after the record on The Strip.

And it appears Resorts World have won the bidding war.

It has even been claimed the 'Money, Money, Money' hitmakers could rake in close to £1 billion if they agree to a deal.

A source told The Sun newspaper's Bizarre column at the time: “There is a huge appetite for Abba’s new show 'Voyage' in Las Vegas.

"MGM Resorts, Caesars Palace and Resorts World are desperate to secure it and have been locked in a bidding war over it.

“Abba’s appeal is global and it would be a huge showcase to have this new avatar technology on the Vegas Strip.

“Talks are in the early stages between promoters and the big three casinos here for ­entertainment.

“The word is that the major decision, aside from the money deal, is about the best fit for the sound facility and creating an intimate crowd.

“The dream would be for the show to move to the States after its London run and in Vegas, it’s believed it could make almost £1billion.

“Plans at the moment are ­centred around a suggested 2024 opening which would coincide with the 50th anniversary of their 'Eurovision' win and the release of chart-topper 'Waterloo'."

Bjorn previously insisted this type of concert means the run could go on forever.

He said: “Abbatars never tire. They can do 10 shows a day. No private jets. No riders. No worries about voices."

The ‘Thank You For The Music’ hitmakers teamed up with an 850-strong team from Industrial Light and Magic - the company founded by ‘Star Wars’ creator George Lucas – to create digital versions of themselves for the concert, using months of motion-capture and performance techniques.

The concert experience opened on May 27, 2022, at the ABBA Arena, which is a state-of-the-art 3,000 capacity arena located at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.

https://www.music-news.com/news/UK/172301/ABBA-land-multi-million-dollar-deal-to-bring-avatar-show-to-Las-Vegas

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ABBA Voyage ‘set for Las Vegas debut with multi-million dollar deal’ - RETROPOP

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ABBA Voyage ‘set for Las Vegas debut with multi-million dollar deal’

ABBA are reportedly on the verge of signing a multi-million deal to take ‘ABBA Voyage’ to Las Vegas. 

According to sources, the Swedish supergroup is working with Resorts World to bring the avatar show to Sin City, as it continues to wow crowds in London.

 “ABBA has been secretly in talks for a while about getting a deal in Vegas,” insiders tell the Daily Star. “The music of ABBA is well liked in the US.

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“And the unique selling point of avatars makes it more than an ABBA show as the spectacular is something that could well wow audiences.”

It was previously reported that the group – who this year celebrate 50 years since their Eurovision win with Waterloo – were in discussion with MGM Resorts, Caesars Palace and Resorts World to bring the show to the US, where it would be the first of its kind. 

Having opened in May 2022, performances of the show – which sees the Swedish supergroup recreated as digital avatars – currently take place exclusively at the ABBA Arena in Stratford, east London. 

The venue is purpose built for the show, which offers a 360-degree immersive experience, and speaking to RETROPOP following its launch producer Ludvig Andersson suggested the band was working on creating similar arenas around the world. 

“The biggest dream is to stay in London and we build another one somewhere else,” he said. “Where that would be – I’d like to go places that are maybe not the obvious ones. It would be nice to take it to places that aren’t always visited by the big bands. 

“The dream would be to have one somewhere in South America, one somewhere in Southeast Asia, one in North America. Who knows? But that’s the plan and we’re working on that already.”

‘ABBA Voyage’ currently features 20 songs, including global chart hits and fan favourites, which the group performed on a soundstage wearing motion capture suits to recreate their movements. 

Recalling the sessions, Ludvig confirmed additional performances were filmed, meaning the setlist can be changed and adapted as time passes. 

“We did more songs than we knew we were going to use,” he teases. “So there is more material. 

“If this keeps running and people keep wanting to come and see it, we are intending to change a song out or update the show – because that’s also fun to do.”

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ABBA show reveals famous Glasgow line was dreamt up at the Apollo

 

ABBA show reveals famous Glasgow line was dreamt up at the Apollo

Ann Fotheringham 

A NEW documentary about ABBA reveals the famous line about Glasgow in the song Super Trouper was actually dreamt up on stage in the Apollo.

The legendary city music venue was also the only stop on the worldwide tour where the group had to have an intermission – so the bar could open….

In When ABBA Came to Britain, which marks 50 years of the Swedish supergroup’s links with the UK, singer-songwriter Björn Ulvaeus reveals the line “I was sick and tired of everything, when I called you last night from Glasgow” just “came naturally” to him at the Apollo.



He adds: “The song is about waiting for my new girlfriend, and I was thinking about that while up on stage.”

Super Trouper was the title of track of the band's next album, released in November 1980.

Thomas Johansson, who produced all of the ABBA tours in Britain, says he remembers the Apollo date in particular.

“We had to have an intermission in Glasgow so they could have the bar open,” he recalls with a smile. “It was the only place we had an intermission.”

Broadcaster and author Stuart Marconie says the Glasgow gig, which was the last time ABBA played in Britain, was the “end of an era”.

ABBA at Turnberry (Image: Newsquest)

He adds: “[The city] became immortalised when Björn wrote that line, ‘I was sick and tired of everything, when I called you last night from Glasgow’, and then ‘wishing every show was the last show’ – in terms of the UK, it was the last show.”

The 1979 tour, which also visited North America, Europe and Asia, was the first time ABBA had been on the road for almost three years.

They were still the “biggest-selling group in the history of recorded music”, according to their label, however, and Glasgow went wild for the satin-clad foursome - Björn, Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid, or Frida, Lyngstad.

The Apollo concert, on November 13, 1979, included a performance by children from Hillhead High School. As it was the International Year of the Child, the group had choirs of young people sing with them on I Have A Dream at each concert.

A total of 25 Hillhead pupils rehearsed for four weeks, at lunchtimes and after school, in preparation for the show.

According to our newspaper’s then pop writer, later features editor Russell Kyle, the concert, in front of 3500 fans, got off to a slow start because of problems with the acoustics, but once the problems had been ironed out, the band really hit their stride.

Backed by a nine-piece band, they ran through all of their hits and introduced a sprinkling of newer songs.

He added that the biggest cheer of the night was reserved for Frida, who appeared in a Scotland football top.

“It was three years since Abba’s last show,” he wrote, “but the group seem to have lost none of their appeal.”

Ever since they were introduced on stage at the Brighton Dome, resplendent in unforgettable platform heels and satin, ABBA have held an enduring place in Britain’s hearts and in British pop culture.

The new documentary features previously untransmitted interviews with ABBA, and takes an affectionate look at the band and its fascination with British music, including The Beatles in the 1960s.

After winning the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo in 1974, the band would eventually find global stardom, but their relationship with the UK remains unique.

When Abba Came to Britain will be broadcast on April 6 as part of a dedicated Saturday night of ABBA specials on BBC Two.