Dune Pinball First Impressions (SDTM, 2025)

“I was just like, 'Okay, it's just: it saved me a little bit of money.' They're probably not going to like hearing this. Sorry, Barrels, but like when I heard Dune, I was like, 'Yeah, awesome movie. Yeah, fine with it.'”

“This is kind of Radical 2.0... the whimsy of ramps. That whole mechanism to the right... That staging where it kinetically kicks a ball out, hits the ball back. Yeah. That's Radical.”

“Every section is like its own multiple-stage world. Like almost like you've got components and you've got these modules that are almost just setting all over that playfield. Like they utilized every square inch that they could.”

“This is everything a pinball player wants... this is why we're in the industry. This is why we're in this hobby. Like this is the stuff that we love.”

“I want it in the backboard so it's more ambient into the environment that you're building... this is like what I want... this seems like it's taking it up that next notch.”

“The worm can eat the ball. But it can eat it. It looked like in that video, am I wrong? It ate it when it was completely down. Like it just sucked it in the ground... It goes into a subway. And it's so smooth and creepy looking.”

“Two games? No, you're doing something... I think Barrels is going to be that same way... after this, I think they've hit two home runs here.”

“I crapped all over Johnny Crapp with Jurassic Park, really bad... But this is stunning. This is beautiful and it should be... great job Johnny Bergeson.”

“I love when things are integrated so well that you can't picture any other toy that it doesn't fit better into... you're getting that multi: it's not just a coil, you're getting that reaction. You're getting that physical.”

“Whatever they do next, it's like oh, it's going to: you can put these in your collection without having to worry about theme as much.”