The Flintstones

The Flintstones: Slot Overview

Yabba dabbo doo, y'all! If that outburst makes any sense at all to you, it's probably because you are conversant with the Hanna-Barbera classic cartoon The Flintstones. Despite originally airing from 1960 to 1966, the prehistoric cartoon regularly continues to be rerun, thereby making it available to modern viewers. Perhaps it's because the show was set in a creative representation of the Stone Age, where humans and dinosaurs coexisted, it has a quality that is both dated in some ways yet timeless in others. Speaking of time, developer Blueprint Gaming, a provider known for its many branded titles, has decided the moment is right to drop The Flintstones online slot, a money symbol collect style game like a big stone tablet on a shoeless toe.

The Flintstones was/is a colourful show, and so is The Flintstones, the online slot. Bedrock appears to be the setting where a 5-reel, 3-row game grid sits in a prehistoric world of green grass and yellow skies. The view is a pleasant one and the lineup of characters by the game logo adds to the nostalgia factor. To this day, it's a wonder how Fred Flintstone could power a car made of wood and stone using only his bare feet. Dude had some strong feet.

Powering The Flintstones slot is a medium-high volatile math model that players can theoretically expect an RTP of 95%. When picking a bet, users may choose a stake of 10 c to $/€25 per spin to get the ball rolling. Regular winning combinations start from the leftmost reel onwards and may fall along 10 built-in paylines.

Big Blueprint Gaming J-A card ranks are The Flintstones' low pays, and hitting 5 matching royals pays 5-7.5 times the bet. High pays are Betty, Wilma, Barney, and the logo, worth 10 to 100 times the stake when landing a line of 5 identical premiums. Wild symbols can be used to help complete winning combinations by substituting for any other symbols except scatters or money symbols. Wilds appear on all reels except the leftmost reel.

The Flintstones: Slot Features

The Flintstones continues Blueprint Gaming's obsession with Money symbol collect games where collect symbols are unlocked on a one-by-one basis. Free spins are available, too, which benefit from a Money symbol multiplier if enough symbols are themselves collected.

Yabba Dabba Doo!

Yabba Dabba Doo! may be triggered at random on any spin, awarding either the Bonus Boost, where additional scatters are added to the reels, or Dino Wilds, where additional wild symbols are added to the reels.

Cash Collect

When starting a game, the Collect Fred symbol is active. When a Money symbol lands on reels 1-4, if a Collect Fred is in view on the rightmost reel, the Cash Collect feature triggers. Fred expands to cover the rightmost reel and collects the cash values imprinted on the Money symbols. When landing a Cashpot Money symbol, the 10x Mini, 25x Minor, 100x Major, or the 2,000x Mega, awards that pot value. Collect symbols are collected when they land in the base game, and their progress is tracked on a trail. When enough Collect symbols have appeared in the base game, players move along the Collect symbol trail, unlocking additional Collect symbol types at set points. These other Collect symbols are:

• Respin Fred - collects any Money symbols before holding the Respin Fred symbol and respinning the first four reels. Any new Cash symbols are also collected.
• Boost Fred - collects all Money symbols in view while awarding a cash boost on the final amount collected.
• Max Collect Fred - upgrades all Money symbols in view to the highest value Money symbol on the grid.
• Super Collect Fred - collects any Money symbols on the reels up to 5 times.

Free Spins

Scatter symbols are present on reels 2, 3, and 4. Hitting 3 scatter symbols awards players 10 free spins. In free spins, Fred symbols are collected when they land. Collecting 3, 6, 9, or 12 Fred collect symbols awards +5 free spins each time, as well as a respective multiplier for any collected Money symbols of x2, x3, x5, or x10.

Super Free Spins

Once the base game collection trail has been completed, the Super Free Spins symbol becomes active on reel 4. Landing 2 scatter symbols plus a Super Free Spins scatter triggers the Super Spins Bonus. Here, 5 free spins are awarded, and on each spin, a Fred collect symbol is guaranteed to land. The same Fred collect symbol cannot land again for the duration of Super Spins. Once all 5 Fred collects have been activated, the feature ends.

The Flintstones: Slot Verdict

Weird timing on this. The original broadcast of The Flintstones ended in 1966 (though it still shows up on TV), and The Flintstones movie was released in 1994. Maybe the studio has inside information about a Flintstones comeback, or maybe someone at the studio was simply feeling nostalgic for a classic cartoon. Spawn motivations are tricky to guess at sometimes. Suppose it's like The Goonies, which Blueprint Gaming continues to milk despite the movie hitting 40 years old at the time of The Flintstones slot review. The studio also likes to milk gaming mechanics, and a similar Money symbol collect function has been used on previous occasions in games like Funky Budha, Crazy Chilli, and The Goonies Hey You Guys.

Similar, but okay, the system has been adjusted for The Flintstones, such as the progress bar trail used to unlock the various Collect symbols and for the chance to get Super Free Spins symbols when the trail is complete. The rest, really, is the same old stuff. Simultaneously land Money symbols and Collect symbols, bam, get cash. Different Collect symbols provide variety, and the Cashpot values provide a dash of motivation. Well, maybe just the Mega, really; the other three are a bit meh. Winning potential technically isn't bad though, with a 10,000x the bet win cap put in place.

In summation, The Flintstones was okay, not terrible, not great. It's in possession of several alterations and evolutions to the sort of Money symbol collect features rife in Blueprint Gaming slots of late, but not so much as to trigger a riotously amped response. The Flintstones is a case of basically more of the same rather than a major advancement, like the way humans dragged themselves out of the Stone Age and into the Bronze Age. Kinda fun, but.