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#65 Meeting of the Minds - The Classic Pinball Podcast

PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 11 min listenBy George
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When George can’t connect to finish the Voltan episode, Tommy continues to have a conversation with Dave about restorations, collections, location play among other topics.

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Highlights

  • The speaker has completed approximately four playfield swaps and is preparing to do additional Stargazer and Cheetah swaps
  • CPR (Cosmic Pinball Restoration) makes Stargazer playfields; Great Witch (out of Canada) also produces them
  • Multimorphic P3 games weigh 360-380 pounds
  • Multimorphic P3 pricing has remained stable while other manufacturers have raised prices, making P3 more cost-competitive
  • A Cheetah cabinet with serial number 80 is a blue prototype with prototype ROMs containing different sound
  • Acetone paint stripping is significantly easier than sanding for cabinet restoration
  • Original Williams/Bally pinball paint from the era often contained lead
  • Sean at Third Coast is currently experiencing delays due to facility relocation
  • The speaker ordered a Multimorphic P3 with an upcoming licensed title approximately one month before the podcast, with 12-16 week lead time
  • The speaker has completed playfield swaps for multiple machines including a Voltan using a Lost World cabinet that was stripped of parts

Notable quotes

“I basically make enough to pay for most of my parts for another one, at least out of a: what did I pick up?: Electronimo.”
Unnamed restorer
“So there was so much pigment in that paint, for whatever reason, they didn't have to really lay it on thick.”
Unnamed restorer
“I want them to look like, oh, wow, someone spent a lot of time. Not that the other one doesn't mean you spent a lot of time. It means you spent even more time, probably. I want mine to just be visually apparent right away.”
Unnamed restorer
“That's why you hired me. But it's your game. So I want to build this to what you want.”
Unnamed restorer
“Me working with kids with disabilities, that kind of intrigued me as a sort of giving them access to something that would have been very difficult to play before for them.”
Teacher/operator
“With two games go out, three or four come in, you know?”
Experienced restorer
“Every time I sell something for good money, I find all these like cheap projects again. And then I'm like, well, I can't, I can buy three projects now.”
Unnamed speaker
“It's the bane of my existence.”
Restorer doing in-house cabinet painting
“I don't tend to put really expensive machines in my house, and I'm out of space... I've also run out of location in my garage, in my shed, in my storage unit, and at my location.”
Teacher/operator
“I ran out of the corporate gig about a year and a half ago... now it runs itself kind of.”
Experienced restorer

Entities

  • CPR (Cosmic Pinball Restoration)· company
  • Great Witch· company
  • Multimorphic· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Bally Bow and Arrow· game
  • Cheetah· game
  • Cosmic Kart Racing· game
  • Electronimo· game
  • Gottlieb Spirit of 76· game
  • Lexilights Speed· game
  • Lost World· game
  • Meteor· game
  • Star Race· game
  • Stargazer· game
  • Voltan· game
  • Bill Davis· person
  • Christian Marche· person
  • Cruiser Man· person
  • Ed Boon· person
  • George· person
  • Jerry· person
  • Rob Burke· person
  • Sean· person
  • Tommy Skinner· person
  • P3 (Multimorphic Modular Platform)· product

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