Rock Band Stage Kit smoke machine and strobe light in pictures
By Nilay Patel 
posted May 26th 2008 8:00PM
posted May 26th 2008 8:00PM
GameStop leaked the existence of the $100 Rock Band Stage Kit back in January, and it's updated the listing with the first pictures we've seen of the included smoke machine and strobe light. The smoke machine looks fairly ordinary, but the light features controls so Rock Band vocalists can apparently blind themselves while making selections. The kit's listed with a ship date of August 15, but who knows if that's accurate -- and considering you can pick up a real fogger and strobe light sufficient to glam out your living room for all of $50, we're not exactly waiting on pins and needles.[Via Xbox 360 Fanboy]
Uh-huh, a real smoke machine and strobe for a virtual game.
Soon I'll be frying virtual eggs and bacon in my Wii Pan and bringing them to my virtual bed where my virtual girlfriend is lying there waiting for some virtual... oh, nevermind.
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I ... I just ... don't get it. Ostentatious though the rest of the kit is, at least it all serves its purpose within the scope of the game. This ... this is just further immersing the easily self-deluded into the fantasy that mastering the game will make them the next Yngwie Malmsteen or Neil Peart just because they can "shred" or bang on toy instruments. It's becoming like the adult version of a Fisher Price playset. Sure -- bring on the hookers and blow, the groupies, the roadies, and the tour bus, then cap it all off with a box set of of epic failure for when you hit your drug-fueled bottom looking like a disheveled corpse as the paparazzi catches you exiting a dive bar and puking all over a group of tourists after a wild drunken binge. You may not be Yngwie or Neal, but you'll make a hell of an Amy Winehouse.
So... I'm getting the 'frustrated-musician-that-hates-rhythm-games' vibe from you. Am I in the ballpark here?
You got the musician part right. I don't really care for rhythm games, but I don't hate them. They're just not my kinda thing. Although I _am_ having bad GTA:SA flashbacks of poorly synchronized music that I had to mute if I wanted to have any hope of passing the challenge. Rhythm games are all fine and well -- there's probably nothing better for honing that hand-eye coordination --I just think there's a point at which you're just just taking the whole make-believe angle too far.
I saw that smoke and light kit for sale months ago at a Gamestop when it was still an EB games store.
Funny...I actually saw this at a gamestop a few weeks ago (when I went to buy GTA 4)...
Probably just a mistake, but maybe I'll go back and get a picture
Honestly, if you really want to be in a rock band, why not just pick up a guitar and learn? Or the drums perhaps?
I know I'm only 23 but *gasp* I don't get it. Video games should be used to chill out. Unwind by stealing a few cars or murdering some aliens/zombies/insurgents/politically correct foreign enemies. Since when are video games the central theme to parties? When I go to a party I tend to mill around...have some drinks...talk to people.
Here's a tip: get a life.
This just in, Europe will be getting these too. But only for Xbox 360, will be several months late and cost twice as much.
Isnt this out already? I know ive seen something exactly like this in stores... of course I lol'd
i have the same fog machine, and it is $40 (Spencer's) + $15 gallon of fog juice (Party City)..however, not sure about a strobe light
(south park)...
"YOU ARE A DOUBLE F4G"
I saw this thing at gamestop a week ago, a waste of money. Even the employees think so.