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The Pinball Show Ep 117: Danksgiving
PodcastAnalysis updated 3d ago1 hr 43 min listen
The Pinball Show Episode 117: Danksgiving Hosts: Dennis Kriesel & Zach Meny - Pinball Thankfulness - Stern Pinball Production Updates - Zombie Nug or Yeti Error? - Stern Making Big Moves
Highlights
- Stern Pinball is moving to a new facility in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, expanding from 110,000 to 160,000+ square feet (nearly 50% larger)
- James Bond 007 Pro models are shipping this week with launch parties planned for end of November/beginning of December
- Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and Star Wars comic home editions are being discontinued ('last call')
- Cactus Canyon LE shipping is being bottlenecked by Planetary Pinball taking first crack at inventory
- Cactus Canyon expansion code will include saloon doors as an accessory, originally designed for the prototype
- Dutch Pinball has hired additional assembly line employees to increase Big Lebowski production speed in 2023
- Home edition pricing has increased to near Pro pricing levels, making them uncompetitive as a distinct product tier
- Stern Pinball Pro pricing will be $6,999 starting January 1st (recently increased from $5,000)
Notable quotes
“I'm thankful for a lot of things, including the friends I've made in pinball. I'm thankful to the creators, those designing, whether it's the play field or the engineers in the mechs or the coders, those manufacturers in pinball, those creating the thing I love the most.”
“I'm not thankful for gouging, but it's not just manufacturers either. It's secondhand market and its behavior.”
“Planetary Pinball will be hoovering up most of those first run LEs as they typically get first crack at any new production items coming off the line, leaving the scraps to remaining CGC distributors.”
“This game absolutely sucked. It felt like a poorly done game from the early 90s, like a bad Data East one... floaty with only a few shots, weak flippers, and the theme integration was bland.”
“My blind guess is now that they jacked the home edition prices up to where most of us remember pros being under. And so now that it's a pro price... you just so close to the pro price at this stage I think a lot of people are like, it's just not worth it.”
“I think to them, I think to Stern, it's just anathema to pinball. They can't go that far. Especially when they can't keep up with the production they have now.”
Entities
- Chicago Gaming Company· company
- Dutch Pinball· company
- Flippin' Out Pinball· company
- Planetary Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Cactus Canyon· game
- James Bond 007· game
- Jurassic Park Home Edition· game
- Spinal Tap· game
- Star Wars Home Edition· game
- Pinball Hall of Fame· organization
- Craig Bobby· person
- Dan Rosenstein· person
- Dennis Creasel· person
- George Gomez· person
- Josh Sharp· person
- Lyman Sheets· person
- Raymond Davidson· person
- Zach· person
- Mandalorian topper· product
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