87: Times Be Changin'
Why do we want time to speed up or slow down? What's happening to the Pinball market? Does someone need to 'Figure it out'? Are we happy for Jack Danger? Tune in plug-in strap on and get your ears...
Highlights
- Jurassic Park Premium machines are currently selling for around $7,200, significantly down from launch prices near $10,000
- Pinball is a luxury item for collectors in their age range and the younger generation is not adopting the hobby at comparable rates
- New pinball machines purchased in-box and resold within weeks typically lose $2,000 in value
- Stern's current pricing strategy (maintaining high MSRPs) combined with lower limited edition runs is unsustainable for long-term growth
- The pinball market is experiencing sustained depreciation that will not stabilize without significant changes to production volume and pricing
Notable quotes
“I would like to get back into more of that and it's just tough because of work and the more I get into work the less creative juice I have to do things like this”
“Go into the page where they are for sale Command or control a copy all paste that into ChatGPT... look at the prices... Then you get yourself some information.”
“It just keeps going down and then ask it to project into 10 years. Don't, don't, don't do 10 years. That'll scare the shit out of you.”
“I don't want to lose a month's worth of living expenses. I'm going to fucking play this up. I'm over it.”
“If Star Wars comes out and it's code 1.0... The Stern Pro is going to be $200 less... Those LEs would sell out ASAP.”
“We don't need those fucks. Make a little less games... We'll keep the hobby afloat.”
“You got someone who will just give you the money you want... I don't know what's happening. Especially like in this market.”
“But why is it in pinball there's so many weird fucks? So many weird... I guess I might be a weird fuck to a lot of you, which is cool, I guess.”
Entities
- Flippin' Out Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Black Knight Sword of Rage Pro· game
- Fantastic Four· game
- Ghostbusters Pro· game
- Iron Man Pro Vault Edition· game
- Jaws· game
- Jurassic Park Premium· game
- Lord of the Rings· game
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pro· game
- Total Nuclear Annihilation· game
- Walking Dead Pro remake· game
- Pinball Party Podcast· organization
- George Lucas· person
- Jason· person
- Kale· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Retro Ralph· person/media
- Don's Pinball Podcast· product
- Nudge Magazine· product
- Pinball Market Trends· product
- Pinball Prices· product
- The Super Awesome Pinball Show· product
- Triple Drain Podcast· product
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