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Episode 93 - T-Rex Ate a Deathstar
PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago1 hr 17 min listenBy Dennis Kriesel & Tony Kurkowski
Pinball: In pinball news, the guys focus on the two big Stern Pinball announcements: Star Wars The Pin and Jurassic Park. Video Games: Video game coverage goes over the Overwatch 2-2-2 lock and new...
Highlights
- Star Wars home edition MSRP is $4,500 with MAP pricing around $4,000, approximately $1,700 cheaper than a Stern Pro
- Star Wars playfield layout is reminiscent of Spider-Man with modified shot placement and added drop targets
- Big Lebowski pre-orders total approximately 300 units, with 185 fully paid for
- Jurassic Park is a Keith Elwin design based on the 1993 film with no movie clips, instead using custom animation
- Wayne Knight (Dennis Nedry actor) is providing character call-outs for Jurassic Park
- Jurassic Park has four ramps and a Newton ball mechanic tied to a vehicle bash toy
- Milestar Electronics was the rebranding of Gottlieb due to contractual constraints from Columbia Pictures acquisition
- Tony qualified for A Division at Carrie's Summer Pinball Tournament for the first time, finishing third overall
Notable quotes
“I think like any of the other home pins is it's trying to be this in-between thing, something that's smaller and cheaper for people to have in their homes as an everyday thing, but still being as close to a full-featured pinball as possible, which means it's going to be in the price range where the people who really want pinball are like, I want a real pinball machine, not this”
“It's not commercial. It's not commercial. So that's fine. But I think the collectors and all that level aren't going to go after this and it still too expensive for the kind of home market”
“If I can go online and buy a not new in box pin that's way better than this for $1,500 or $2,000, why would I spend $4,000 on this?”
“I would like to see that on some other stuff. That's a cool idea. Because it's inexpensive, and it doesn't take up much space, so you can fit those things pretty much anywhere you'd want.”
“I think hope springs eternal. That's what I think. I think they're looking for a way to break into a new market, and I don't think it's going to work.”
“Maybe the right answer then was to try and figure out the way to just let this be commercially operatable and then sell this separate from your pro premium LE tiers. A street series, which was designed to just be cheaper.”
“It's everything about this is full-size. Like the playfield's full-size, the mechs are standard mechs. It's not like the old, what are they, the Zizzle machines?”
Entities
- Dutch Pinball· company
- Gottlieb· company
- Milestar Electronics· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Carrie's Summer Pinball Tournament· event
- Comic-Con· event
- Data East Jurassic Park (1993)· game
- Jurassic Park (Stern Pinball Machine)· game
- Spider-Man (Stern Home Edition)· game
- Star Wars (Stern Pinball Machine)· game
- The Big Lebowski (Dutch Pinball Machine)· game
- Walking Dead (Stern Pinball)· game
- Pinside· organization
- This Week in Pinball· organization
- Carrie Wing· person
- David Thiel· person
- George Gomez· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Wayne Knight· person
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