The Pinball Show Ep 155: Drowning Ferrets, Throwing Babies, & Sensual Plastic Sculpting

“If this is a struggle, imagine if you actually wanted to spin up a real journal. Imagine if Pinball News was more than just Martin and a few people who donate articles and actually had to have staff. Like, where would they generate that money from? Not this community.”

“I think there's a lot of hobbyist playing at journalism going on. And I can see where people get frustrated with the amateur nature of it.”

“Eke Mono. Not Chewbacca, Jesus... I can't not at a thousand dollars I can't just because they're so busy to see if they could they didn't stop it's like just because it looked that shitty in the movie you don't want to replicate it.”

“They're selling fantastic. My sources say that industry-wide, it's meh.”

“I've got a nice, healthy allotment of them, and I've got, what, five left? We've sold a crapload of these toppers.”

“Toppers used to be free with games. This is hard for old school people like me. Back in Valley Williams days. You know, I go back almost, not as far back as like David Fix, but I go back a ways.”

“If there's the official Stern one, then I might just do that instead of the flaming building speaker mod for Godzilla.”

“Alex has already developed a new system for dealers. It's almost like a dashboard database type of thing that's online. So if I want to... I can see what orders I have currently. It shows what games are in stock at Stern, and they will update those as they leave.”