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The Great British Pinball Podcast Episode 2

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Highlights

  • Expression Lighting is now on three games: Led Zeppelin, Rush, and Foo Fighters
  • Expression Lighting cannot be installed on Foo Fighters Pro but can be installed on Rush Pro (missing recess on Foo Fighters Pro)
  • LED OCD and GI OCD boards have roughly doubled in price from ~$80-100 to ~$300 since COVID/silicon shortage
  • Stern Classics (Stern Electronics games like Dragon Fist, Nineball, Meteor) have 2-3 strategic paths to big points, unlike most games of that era
  • Dragon Fist is extremely rare with approximately 250 ever made
  • Stern pricing has hit the ceiling; LE pricing is 'mad now'
  • Stumbler's LED boards are cheaper than Comet boards in the UK and work as plug-and-play without configuration
  • UK Open 2025 is sold out

Notable quotes

if those manufacturers had access to LEDs and colored LEDs, more important, to enhance inserts or create the right saturation, stuff like that, 110% they would have done LEDs
Scott Rundell
I'm just not one for originality. I don't, I'd rather it look mint and I'd be a reproduction than to have it be original and full of holes.
Scott Rundell
These games are very simple. It's pure pinball. Pinball is its most purest form.
Scott Rundell
It took me 18 minutes 22 seconds [to move the James Bond 007 cabinet without the playfield]
Neil McCray
it's like using a Ferrari if there was a hole in the bodywork of the Ferrari you'd fill it and I said absolutely I'd replace the panel I said I would not be accepting a hole even if it's vintage
Scott Rundell
I don't understand that plunge. It's such a weak plunge as well, and it's like, what were you thinking when you designed that?
Scott Rundell
Star Wars doesn't feel like, to me, like you're in a Star Wars movie in the same way that Mando feels you're in a Mando episode
Scott Rundell
For me, at least, every machine I build, whether it's for me or someone else... it's a go-to product to have. You have to have it.
Scott Rundell
Lord of the Rings is a very good example. If you don't have, I would say, LED OCD in that or Afterglow in that, then you are definitely going to be missing out.
Scott Rundell
if you do incandescence on that game the gi is really sparse on the play field so when you go and put something like incandescence in it it just it's so dark some areas are pretty much pitch black
Scott Rundell

Entities

  • Comet· company
  • Pinball Refinery MI· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • UK Open· event
  • UK Pinfest· event
  • Addams Family· game
  • Creature from the Black Lagoon· game
  • Dragon Fist· game
  • Foo Fighters· game
  • James Bond 007 LE· game
  • Kiss· game
  • Led Zeppelin· game
  • Lord of the Rings· game
  • Mandalorian· game
  • Meteor· game
  • Nineball· game
  • Rush· game
  • Star Wars Pro/Premium· game
  • Tron· game
  • Brad· person
  • James Reid· person
  • Matt Vince· person
  • Neil McCray· person
  • Scott Rundell· person
  • Stumbler· person

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