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Great British Pinball Podcast Episode 13
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 28 min listen
Send us Fan Mail Neil and Scott talk about the new Pinball Republic, Godzilla B&W, the used market, injuries and Haggis!
Highlights
- Pinball Republic has been closed since end of February (5 months) and is reopening at new Westfields location in West Croydon by August Bank Holiday weekend
- The new venue will have approximately 35 games in one row and capacity for up to 60 games with current electrical infrastructure
- Pinball Republic is transitioning to cashless operations due to cost management and banking fees for cash deposits
- Scott purchased his third Alien machine (LV edition, unit ~700 in production run) after adding Sigourney Weaver licensing was secured
- Alien code is now at version 4 with new multiball and bug fixes addressed since initial release
- The Alien topper is manufactured in Israel and experienced color variance issues due to production challenges
- Pinball Brothers gave Scott early access and replacement units as compensation for issues found during prototype testing
- District 82 (US venue) organizes games by designer/era mix (modern/classic) in a layout Pinball Republic is modeling
Notable quotes
“I managed to fall off a ladder... Turns out I was five steps up... I kind of landed on my ass.”
“We've been shut since February... March, April, May, June. It's five months. It's a lot.”
“I'll be honest here, almost, I'm going to say 90% of our money was done electronically anyway.”
“Alien isn't about the alien, right? I mean, don't get me wrong, it's important, but the movie's about the whole human aspect of it. It's all about a female protagonist, isn't it?”
“It's like not having Sarah Connor in Terminator... It'd be like having Godzilla without Godzilla, you know?”
“The shop was a clothes shop before a company called Joy, who I think went bankrupt actually during COVID.”
“We're going to mix it up a little bit... modern classic, modern classic... partly so that we can do some cool stuff with tournaments.”
“I was in this new pinball place which I forgot the name of... in Santa Clara which is Silicon Valley... they had about 25 games.”
Entities
- Pinball Brothers· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern· company
- Westfields· company
- Pinfest· event
- Swavesy· event
- Alien· game
- Black Knight· game
- Jaws· game
- John Wick· game
- Pulp Fiction· game
- Great British Pinball Podcast· organization
- Kato· person
- Mark· person
- Matt· person
- Neil McCray· person
- Scott Rundle· person
- Tim Sexton· person
- Tony Greenwood· person
- District 82· venue
- Pinball Republic· venue
- Santa Clara· venue
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