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Episode 429: Pinball Expo 2025 Hype
PodcastAnalysis updated 2d ago19 min listen
For 41 years, Pinball Expo has been a staple and a must see for all pinball enthusiasts. Rob Berk shares some of the details and highlights.
Highlights
- Pinball Expo 2025 vendor hall has expanded to 100,000 square feet, up from 25,000 square feet in early years
- Over 40 homebrew games will be exhibited at Expo 2025
- Pat Lawlor seminar this year will likely be his last appearance
- Joe Kaminkow spent one million dollars out of his own pocket to produce the Beatles pinball machine
- Hexa (French pinball manufacturer) will be exhibiting at Expo 2025 for the first time
Notable quotes
“In the early years, we'll say like five, six, seven years ago at the last hotel, it would be like 25,000 square feet of vendor space. Now we're up at 100,000 square feet and we're filling up the show.”
“this most likely will be his last appearance at Pinball Expo. So anyone that is an The Addams Family fan or Whirlwind, I mean, the list just goes on and on and on. But this will be a chance to meet, talk to me, get a picture with Pat Lawlor”
“Joe Kaminkow has got together with a bunch of guys that work at Williams, Eugene Jarvis, Ken Fadestin, and some others, and he's got a little group together called the Homebrew Judging Team.”
“I started buying as many ballet titles as I could. So I have a whole row at pastime to all these ballet titles from the 60s.”
“they're going to put a supermarket of parts and supplies in there. So basically it's scratch and dent parts, discontinued parts, overruns, and it'll be A to Z of parts and supplies.”
Entities
- EuroPin· company
- HEXA Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Marco Specialties· company
- Pastimes Arcade· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Pinball Expo· event
- Aaron Davis· person
- Cliff Schoen· person
- Dan Clark / Sahara Guitars· person
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- Elizabeth Gieske· person
- Emoto· person
- Eugene Jarvis· person
- Gary Stern· person
- Jack Janzik· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Joe Kaminkow· person
- Larry DeMar· person
- Pat Lawlor· person
- Rachel Best· person
- Rebecca Hinsdale· person
- Rob Burke· person
- Roger Sharpe· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
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