Rock Band Stage Kit with lights, smoke leaked by GameStop

As if playing Rock Band wasn't one of the greatest group gaming experiences to come along in years, it appears that a new accessory is set to amp up the fun even more by bringing an "interactive light and smoke stage show" to your already thrashing performances. Apparently you can already pre-order this so-called Rock Band Stage Kit from GameStop for 100 bucks, although they've since pulled the box image from the product page, so you'll have to rely on the screencap above to see what you're paying all that money for. Ships on June 23rd, according to the retailer's site, giving us plenty of time to install a proper stage and stadium seating in our game room.

[Via Technabob]

[matt @ Jan 13th 2008 2:27PM]

lol

[Chebwa @ Jan 13th 2008 5:01PM]

To anybody out there considering purchasing it...

God help you.

[monkfishbandana @ Jan 14th 2008 2:26PM]

Are you kidding! There's no way I'm buying until the box reads "interactive light, smoke stage show and MORE COWBELL".

[monkfishbandana @ Jan 14th 2008 2:26PM]

Are you kidding! There's no way I'm buying until the box reads "interactive light, smoke stage show and MORE COWBELL".

[Rjay @ Jan 14th 2008 3:06PM]

I heard the next add-on to Rockband is going to be called Rockband Groupies and its basically a software mod that tells you its pregnant after each big show.

[Joe @ Jan 13th 2008 2:27PM]

Three words: German light show!

[Rae @ Jan 13th 2008 4:03PM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRCds3Aes4o

[Walt @ Jan 13th 2008 2:36PM]

I am awaiting my 18" Stonehenge props that drop on cue.

[FrankTheCrank @ Jan 13th 2008 2:54PM]

Which way to the stage?

[capncrunch @ Jan 14th 2008 8:56PM]

props for quoting the best rock film EVER

[Ignatius @ Jan 13th 2008 2:45PM]

Wow.

I thought we were trying to move away from the image that these games make you feel like a rockstar.

[giantenemycrab @ Jan 13th 2008 3:02PM]

we are? I must have missed that memo :/

[tcc3 @ Jan 14th 2008 9:31AM]

Yeah, that would be the whole point of these games.

[robothouse @ Jan 13th 2008 2:56PM]

Okay, I'll admit, Rock Band and Guitar Hero are incredibly fun and sometimes I actually do feel like I'm "rocking out", but this is ridiculous. If you have to take your video game experience this far, you might as well learn to play a real instrument.

[MDB @ Jan 13th 2008 4:20PM]

Wow! That was the most original comment I've ever read! Thank you so much for commenting, robothouse! Such witty and original banter is the only reason I wake up in the morning!

[MoonRocket @ Jan 13th 2008 5:03PM]

And yet his comment is more highly ranked than your own.

[ScareyJ @ Jan 13th 2008 5:47PM]

Sounds like someone fell off their homemade stage this morning?

@robothouse, totally agree.

[Perno @ Jan 13th 2008 8:30PM]

So if you know how to play a real instrument, then you automatically get a light show with fog machine? How about I just buy this fog machine add-on and not go through years of learning an instrument?

I actually agree with MDB, I'm sick of people with the comments saying "learn a real instrument". F OFF!!! I like virtual instruments, and don't have time for the real thing!!!

Whew, much better. :)

[i.c. weiner @ Jan 13th 2008 9:31PM]

the reason that people don't want to play real instruments is that their fingers are to fat to pull the strings

[Carnivore @ Jan 14th 2008 2:43AM]

Real guitars are for old people.

[neil @ Jan 22nd 2008 6:55AM]

ROOOBBOOOTT HOUUSEEEEE!

i just really wanted to say.. err type that. its fun, try it. well saying it anyway.

[kingofwale @ Jan 13th 2008 2:57PM]

how long will they take to come up with blow-up groupies?

[Dragod @ Jan 13th 2008 3:07PM]

You can already get those... You just have to go into a "different" sort of store. ;)

[whoiscraig @ Jan 13th 2008 2:59PM]

This will not help you get chicks.

[Chuckles McGee @ Jan 13th 2008 3:34PM]

But I've never seen a virtual crowd go this wild!

[Rafer @ Jan 13th 2008 2:59PM]

As if we didnt have enough fail in the world... They already have them you just cant buy them at gamestop.

[giantenemycrab @ Jan 13th 2008 3:00PM]

Limited time offer: coupon that guarantees that you will never, EVER, get laid! A $20 offer, your's free just for calling!

[Anthony @ Jan 13th 2008 3:01PM]

next they'll come out with the fake needles and pills you do before you rock out that can go along with being a rocker :-P

[Grant @ Jan 13th 2008 3:08PM]

heroine hero FTW!

[Reader @ Jan 13th 2008 3:13PM]

You never catch the dragon.

[Dragod @ Jan 13th 2008 3:30PM]

You never know.. If you keep trying, you might catch him one day.

[Grant @ Jan 13th 2008 3:19PM]

Money-back Lifetime Virginity Guarantee!

[jake61341 @ Jan 13th 2008 3:28PM]

I'm in a real rock band and we don't have an interactive light and smoke stage show!

[Jamesology @ Jan 13th 2008 8:50PM]

Tehn obviously your not a real Rock Band, LMAO. jk jk

[Taylor @ Jan 13th 2008 10:36PM]

yeah, my band is too cheap to care about lights...

but we do have a fog machine, and it smells like maple syrup with a hint of second hand smoke...

[Joseph @ Jan 14th 2008 1:29PM]

@Taylor, you make it sound like you're playing at Waffle House.

[Boynamedsue @ Jan 13th 2008 3:36PM]

I can't wait for my Call of Duty 4 vest add on that sprays blood all over the room when i'm shot.

[Gadget Chick @ Jan 13th 2008 3:43PM]

LOL

[Shane @ Jan 13th 2008 5:12PM]

AAAAHHHHH!!!! YOU KILLED GADGIE THE ENGADGET MASCOT!

[Stupidiot @ Jan 13th 2008 3:39PM]

Can someone please tell me when this game's going to make its way into the clutches of us Europeans? The UK is practically the birthplace of rock!

[i.c. weiner @ Jan 13th 2008 9:57PM]

USA! USA! USA!

[i.c. weiner @ Jan 13th 2008 9:57PM]

USA! USA! USA!

[goodrev @ Jan 14th 2008 1:59PM]

umm..where did you come up with that "fact"? Granted, at several points throughout history you guys have out-rocked us.. but rock n roll's a U.S. invention.

[Lemmiwinks @ Jan 14th 2008 4:00PM]

"practically" ...but not quite.

[Rask @ Jan 13th 2008 3:47PM]

I think this is for the Rock Band Expansion, Rock Band: Back Stage Pass.

This this, you get to hit buttons and pull levers on beat with the band's performance. It's for those people that have always wanted to be part of the technical crew!

[Pasha @ Jan 18th 2008 2:13PM]

...I'd play it.

[Brian @ Jan 13th 2008 3:58PM]

Ok, I'll be in the minority in saying this, but this would be pretty cool provided that it is synchronized with the music.

[CubeGuy @ Jan 13th 2008 4:25PM]

If this works as promised, I wouldn't mind getting this for school functions.

[Michael @ Jan 13th 2008 4:27PM]

I think this a pretty neat idea. I know my wife would roll her eyes if I told her about it, but she has been known to rock it out with me. It seems goofy, but that special kind of goofy that can be fun.

[ammi @ Jan 13th 2008 4:59PM]

This seems like it would be far more suited to a DJ music game.

Oh well. That would be cool.