The Pinball Show Ep 186: The Best Pinball Of 2025, Holiday Giveaways, & Other Pindustry News
The Pinball Show Episode 186: The Best Pinball Of 2025, Holiday Giveaways, & Other Pindustry News Hosts: Dennis Kriesel & Zach Meny - Season's Shillings Holiday Giveaway - The Best Pinball Of...
Highlights
- Stern has only seven more shipping days in 2025 (December 15-19 and December 22, 29)
- James Bond Premium has no plans for future production, though not formally vaulted
- Jaws 50th Anniversary represents the final run of that game
- George Gomez designed the new Spike 3 cabinet and expression lighting system
- Stern has used the same MDF material since 2018, including all Godzilla games
- New Spike 3 cabinets use threaded inserts and molded pins instead of glued miter joints
- Cabinet panels from Spike 3 backboxes can fit old cabinets, allowing interchangeability
Notable quotes
“every Godzilla in the world is built with this material”
“the dimensional control and stability of the new cabinet design is more dimensionally stable. It's not as much natural stressors at the joint”
“I just don't know. I've had issues with glue in the past where I've patched cabinets with glue and sometimes the glue job works well and sometimes it doesn't hold”
“Terry Hardy initially asking if Stern is turning into, quote, the Ikea of pinball”
“when these cabinets were getting done out of house, he don't know if they were using this much glue or this much glue”
Entities
- Barrels of Fun· company
- Flippin' Out Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Godzilla· game
- James Bond Premium· game
- Jaws 50th Anniversary· game
- Metallica Remastered· game
- Stranger Things Premium· game
- Walking Dead Remastered· game
- The Pinball Show· organization
- David Van Ness· person
- Dennis· person
- George Gomez· person
- Harry Williams· person
- Kerry Hardy· person
- Randy· person
- Rob· person
- Roger Sharp· person
- Steve Kordek· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
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