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Ep 100: KaBoom and Elwin Pinball with Tim Kitzrow
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4 years and counting! Josh and Scott talk recent news and have the iconic voice of 90s Bally Williams, Tim Kitzrow join the show.
Highlights
- Pinball Brothers and Pedretti are merging to form Euro Pinball Corps to combine manufacturing capacity with remake kit expertise
- Spooky Pinball is doubling the size of their facility and has begun production on Scooby-Doo
- Scott Einz joined the voice cast of Scooby-Doo, performing voices for Scooby, Shaggy, Scrappy, and all villains
- Halloween and Ultraman Spooky games sold out immediately while Scooby-Doo is still available, indicating market softening
- Stern is planning Bond Pro/Premium production runs in January, April, and June, with limited quantities suggesting potential Stranger Things scenario of future price escalation
- Keith Elwin designs appear in 6 months of Stern's 2024 production schedule (January-June, plus December), dominating the manufacturer's output
- Stern currently has four active designers (Borg, Danger, Eddie, and Elwin) with many canceled games; Borg only has Rush remaining and Danger has no games on the line
- Stern is combating recession by cutting underperforming titles and relying on greatest-hits rereleases and Elwin designs
- Of the top 15 games on Pinside rankings, seven are from Stern and still in production, with Elwin having all four of his games in the top 15
- INDISC finals featured Keith Elwin winning, Escher Lefkoff placing second (by 6,000 points in 1.5M point game), and Travis Muri taking third
Notable quotes
“Now I know what Josh Sharp feels like.”
“They have now started production on Scooby-Doo itself and they plan on doubling the size of their facility. It sounds like Spooky's no longer going to be boutique in my opinion.”
“Have you looked at this tentative production schedule? It might as well be called Elwin Pinball at this point.”
“This is the way that they're combating the recession, is they're using the old catalog of Elwin to get them through to the next year, at the very least.”
“Pinball needs you too.”
“I think it will turn out to be a solid game and all these games are going to be on the PC and PC only. So, I'm hoping that it stays in the cooker long enough to make it.”
“The pinball community is a much better place with you guys being a positive part of it.”
Entities
- Euro Pinball Corps· company
- Pedretti· company
- Pinball Brothers· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Loser Kid Pinball Podcast· organization
- Andy Rosa· person
- Ashley Weaver· person
- Borg· person
- Bug· person
- Eddie· person
- Escher Lefkoff· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Jason McDonald· person
- Jason Zahler· person
- Joe· person
- Josh Roop· person
- Karl DeAngelo· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Lyman Sheets Jr.· person
- Nicole Sharpe· person
- Rob Burke· person
- Scott Einz· person
- Scott Larson· person
- Tom Walsh· person
- Travis Muri· person
- Zach Sharpe· person
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