Episode 31: Harry Potter - The Final Countdown, will it live up to the hype?!
🎙️ In this episode of TheFlipside, we dive into the highly anticipated release from Jersey Jack Pinball: the Harry Potter pinball machine! With one of the most beloved franchises in cinematic...
Highlights
- Jersey Jack sells approximately 90% of their machines to home buyers, compared to Stern's 70%
- Harry Potter will share the same playfield across Arcade, Wizard, and CE editions
- Jersey Jack had a flipper feel issue that they addressed, making it more responsive similar to Stern's standard
- The Arcade Edition of Harry Potter is priced at $10,000 and will lack features like Invisiglass, art blades, powder-coated armor, and shaker motor
- Jersey Jack is making unlimited CEs for Harry Potter rather than capping production
- Eric Menear is the lead designer for Harry Potter
- JJP's Arcade Edition strategy previously had 'marginal success' with Guns N' Roses
- Jersey Jack is roughly the second-largest pinball manufacturer in the world by volume and sales
Notable quotes
“Jersey Jack said so, and that's the bottom line. Because Jersey Jack said so.”
“They have all these assets. They have all the assets to the movies... if you say all the assets. So knowing that, let's take that as fact.”
“I think Jersey Jack almost got penalized for being transparent with their community... they got people excited about something that was a prototype and then when they had to take that mech out... it was almost like people lost interest.”
“If this thing plays good, I think this might be the game where you're going to want to get your hands on it.”
“It doesn't feel like a Spooky game in the sense that it feels like they've upped their quality so much that this is like the next level of their progression.”
Entities
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Dialed In!· game
- Dune· game
- Elton John· game
- Evil Dead· game
- Harry Potter· game
- King Kong· game
- Medieval Madness· game
- Pirates of the Caribbean· game
- Christopher Franchi· person
- Eric Menear· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Jamie Birchall· person
- Kale Hernandez· person
- Ken Cromwell· person
- Nicole Minney· person
- Retro Ralph· person
- Rob· person
- Zach Sharpe· person
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