Episode 96 - Direct Clear
Pinball: Pinball discussion covers how Spooky Pinball addressed past clearcoat issues, an update to how Jersey Jack Pinball is responding to their ongoing clearcoat challenges, a discussion about...
Highlights
- Jersey Jack Pinball CEO Jack is calling customers who purchased $550 unpopulated playfield solutions and refunding their money, now offering free playfield replacements for severe damage.
- Stern installed metal washers on Jurassic Park playfields at the factory as a solution to clearcoat bubbling.
- Spooky Pinball sent out dozens of free playfields (likely unpopulated) to Total Nuclear Annihilation owners with clearcoat damage.
- Dutch Pinball has nearly full parts for 25–50 Big Lebowski games in off-site storage (storage pod/cube).
- Dutch Pinball estimates needing to produce 400–500 Big Lebowski games total (135 free to pre-orderers, remainder to sell) to fulfill obligations and break even.
- Barry believes he can sell 500 additional Big Lebowski machines at $12,500 each beyond the 400–500 needed for pre-orders.
- Dutch Pinball production target is to deliver all 135 pre-orders by end of next year, requiring approximately 8 machines per week.
- Dutch Pinball's initial production crew will consist of Barry, a person named Gus, and volunteers.
Notable quotes
“I think the solution really should be, in an ideal world, the populated play field. Where they send you a populated play field and you are asked on their dime to ship back your bad one populated.”
“Barry and Gus and their friends who loaned them money and wants to try and hopefully maybe get their money back are going to help them hand-build 500 pinball machines and sell them for the price of a CE Wonka.”
“I think Barry's insane.”
“If the washer from the factory stops it from blistering, I think that's a perfectly acceptable solution. As long as people can be assured that their game won't develop the damage.”
“These were not the little, well, almost what I felt like were microscopic bubbles. I've seen some people show in their photos. Some of these blisters were the size of you trying to learn to play guitar blisters.”
Entities
- Dutch Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- KC Game Con· event
- 403 Club· organization
- ARA· organization
- Pinball News and Pinball Magazine Podcast· organization
- Pinside· organization
- This Week in Pinball· organization
- Barry· person
- Charlie Emery· person
- Dennis· person
- Fosaisu· person
- Gus· person
- Jack· person
- Jonathan· person
- Ken Cromwell· person
- Tony· person
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