Pinball Industry News: October 2019 Re-cap
Martin Ayub (Pinball News) and Jonathan Joosten (Pinball Magazine) discuss the pinball industry news of October 2019, including Pinball Expo, an interview with Rob Berk, an interview with...
Highlights
- 35th Pinball Expo was the best show in at least the last 10 years
- Vendor hall was completely maxed out with vendors for the first time
- Some vendors complained about lost sales due to people being drawn to separate Stern Pin Lounge instead of vendor hall
- Super Canasta is designed by Antonio Arturo of Quetzal Pinball for manufacturing by Bittronic, a Spanish coin-op equipment company
- Kelts pricing is set at $5,250
- Stern factory tour buses left hotels around 9 AM and people were still queuing at 11 AM
- Three games were on Stern's production line during the factory tour: Elvira, Star Wars comic art game, and Jurassic Park
- Cassandra Peterson appeared at two separate signing sessions (Friday and Saturday) rather than dressed as Elvira
Notable quotes
“It was a very good show. I've heard people say it was probably the best Expo in at least the last 10 years”
“Everything about the show, it just got bigger and bigger this year. It really is bursting at the seams, that hotel.”
“The vendor hall was completely maxed out with vendors, something that never happened before, which is a good thing. It's also a sign of how the hobby or the industry, if you want to call it that, is flourishing”
“I managed to blow one of the fuses in the back box”
“They turned up and they weren't taking pre-orders, but they were asking people to register their interest in buying one, and they set a price point on that at $5,250”
“The Black Knight is literally from the back box overlooking you playing the game. The movement of the head, that was rather smooth, I would say. So that looked very nice, very interesting.”
“If you're paying a premium price, then you might expect as well that the cool features that the designer intended to [be included]”
Entities
- Bittronic· company
- Haggis Pinball· company
- Quetzal Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Pinball Expo· event
- Among Us· game
- Black Knight· game
- Deadpool· game
- Elvira: House of Horrors· game
- Iron Maiden· game
- Jurassic Park· game
- Kelts· game
- Star Wars comic art game· game
- Super Canasta· game
- Tokyo Perfect Drift· game
- Pinball Magazine· organization
- Pinball News· organization
- Antonio Arturo· person
- Cassandra Peterson· person
- Gary Stern· person
- Jonathan Euston· person
- Martin Ayer· person
- Rob Burke· person
- Stern Pin Lounge· venue
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