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Pinball Industry News: April 2018 Re-cap

PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago1 hr 11 min listenBy Martin Ayub, Jonathan Joosten
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Heighway Pinball is liquidated, Thunderbirds is in production, Iron Maiden LE artwork revealed and more.

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Highlights

  • Heighway Pinball is undergoing voluntary liquidation after investor group took over from Andrew Highway in June 2017
  • Assets and completed machines from Heighway have been shipped to Sweden where two of the four investors are located
  • Pinball Brothers was established by the same directors/investors of Heighway and has shifted purchasing, sales, and potentially game licenses away from Heighway
  • Most liquidation creditors will receive nothing because Heighway's remaining factory assets are minimal and unlikely to cover liquidator fees
  • The Alien license expired at the end of 2017 with a 90-day sell-off period, forcing remaining stock to be sold as demo/secondhand rather than new
  • Thunderbirds Are Go was announced at least four years prior and took an extended development cycle before entering production at Homepin
  • Stern showcased Batman, Star Wars, and Aerosmith at a China AAA trade show while Gary Stern and Dave Peterson were present
  • Cassandra Peterson confirmed she was one week away from voice recording sessions for her Elvira pinball game at the time of a comic-con appearance

Notable quotes

“they have decided that they are going to liquidate the company which means basically that any of the assets that remain in the company will be sold off and the funds used to reimburse those people who are owed money by the company”
Martin
“all the stock and all the completed machines have been shipped out of the company and moved to...Sweden”
Martin
“I need to be able to have editorial control over what we publish. So I said, okay, well, all we can do then is we can do a written version”
Martin
“the whole artwork package and the fact that we're back to a proper back glass that's really cool to see rather than just having a regular trans light which has become something of a cut down version, looks like Stern are actually putting some serious money into this”
Jonathan
“he turned it into a great game. I absolutely agree, yes. It was almost, you know, it was a great game waiting for an accessible theme, I suppose.”
Jonathan
“the two upper flippers are positioned in such a way that you have a sort of a loop within a loop, if that makes sense. But once you have a multiple going and you get balls in front of those flippers at the top, if you see how you can shoot two balls at the same time going in opposite directions and then crossing, it's just simply beautiful.”
Martin

Entities

  • Heighway Pinball· company
  • Homepin· company
  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Pinball Brothers· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Pinball Expo· event
  • UK Pinfest· event
  • Alien· game
  • Elvira· game
  • Iron Maiden· game
  • Thunderbirds Are Go· game
  • Andrew Highway· person
  • Cassandra Peterson· person
  • Dave Sanders· person
  • Gary Stern· person
  • Jeremy Packer· person
  • Jonathan Houston· person
  • Keith Elwin· person
  • Martin· person
  • Mike Kalinowski· person

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