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PinballOZwide Podcast - Episode 4 Can We Please Get A GFX Designer!

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Can We Please Get A GFX Designer! If you or anyone you know can draw an awesome back peice for a shirt hit us up!!Thank you to all the people who listened and enjoyed our...

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Highlights

  • Stern has priced official toppers at $3,000+ following secondary market scalping during COVID that saw $3,000-$4,000 prices for $400 toppers
  • Jurassic Park topper was DLC-gated content, but Stern later updated code to allow non-topper owners to access the DLC
  • Stern's R2-D2 Star Wars topper (limited to 500 units) was designed with the limited edition plaque backwards, facing the wall instead of outward
  • Stern released official toppers with insufficient inventory relative to machines in the wild, creating artificial scarcity
  • Matt purchased a 1.5 ton mini excavator for property maintenance, delivery in 2-3 weeks
  • Jared and Matt won 2-0 against each other in their 'Balls of Steel' trophy competition this month

Notable quotes

“I hate it, guys. It's a prick of a machine. Apologies to those that own it. I know there's one on the page. Sorry. I just think it's a shit machine.”
Jared
“I hate those toppers and the way Yeah yeah but I just think they put no thought into the topper The last thing I want to see on Kiss where it's Kiss and Blazin' in the back glass, is a Kiss on top of it.”
Matt
“Stern saw this and thought, Hey we can make money out of this too, if people are going to start paying that for a second hand topper which was only $400 let's go charge people $3000 for a Foo Fighters topper”
Matt
“Even though you don't know what he's saying, you get a good gist. You do. But it's good fun.”
Matt
“I was always a big person that if the machine wasn't released originally with a topper, it didn't deserve a topper. Yeah. I've changed my tune slightly because if you look at Tron, I've seen...an aftermarket topper on the Tron.”
Jared
“Well, back in the day, I liked toppers when they were in the $400 mark...But I just think they put no thought into the topper”
Matt

Entities

  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Melbourne Pinball Expo· event
  • Avatar· game
  • Batman 66· game
  • Data East The Simpsons· game
  • Deadpool· game
  • Fishtails· game
  • Foo Fighters· game
  • Ghostbusters· game
  • Iron Maiden· game
  • John Wick· game
  • Judge Dredd· game
  • Jurassic Park· game
  • Kiss· game
  • Metallica· game
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles· game
  • Tron· game
  • Whitewater· game
  • George· person
  • Jared· person
  • Lucas· person
  • Matt· person
  • Nathan· person
  • Paul· person
  • Star Wars (R2-D2 Topper)· product

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