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The Pinball Show Ep 191: What's Next?

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The Pinball Show Episode 191: What's Next? Hosts: Dennis Kriesel & Zach Meny - Stern Pinball Production Updates - Pokemon Pinball Reactions - What's Next & When Is It Coming? - EXCLUSIVE...

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Highlights

  • Stern built 5,000 Pokemon LEs and has likely already sold that many or close to it
  • 2025 may be a weaker year overall for pinball compared to 2024, despite Stern having a better year than 2024
  • Turner Pinball's Yukon Yeti sold over 50% of its 500-unit run by the start of Texas Pinball Festival
  • Stern's next Cornerstone game will likely ship in June with a teaser reveal in May
  • Turner Pinball retained Chris Granner to improve Yukon Yeti's audio package after community feedback
  • Pokemon game features Insider Connected integration allowing players to collect Pokédex entries across machines
  • Flip N Out sold approximately 3-4x more Pokemon Pros to location operators than typical game orders
  • A Dungeon Crawler Carl pinball machine is rumored/in development based on the audiobook series
  • Uncanny X-Men suffered from poor first impressions that code improvements haven't fully recovered
  • Stern has no current plans to build additional runs of Uncanny X-Men, James Bond, or Stranger Things

Notable quotes

“Pokemon was very special to have... It's not going to nobody's going to be able to kind of in my view... you can't be trying to make jank this into a way and make people decide that there's a scarcity that was never implied.”
Zach (host/Flip N Out operator)
“Could this actually be a weaker year than last year? And I think we're currently set up for it to be quite a bit weaker.”
Dennis (co-host)
“It plays good. I really like the way it shoots. It's refreshing just because it's not an easy shooter... It kicks my ass at times because it's super fast.”
Zach
“Better than Whitewater. In terms of gameplay. The ball lock feature that they have is really cool.”
Dennis
“It's been 84 years... It's maybe 84 days. It's been a while.”
Zach/Dennis
“Do you want this IP and the majority of assets that are going to take a while? Or do you not want this IP at all? That's a fine balance that these manufacturers always have to decide.”
Zach
“They're still building those. I know that their plans are to do another building and add higher staff, scale up, but that takes some time... we're looking at two years.”
Zach
“It's one of those that it's hard to get back that first impression. It's like Walking Dead's reputation... It got great, but for a lot of people, it never recovered from their first experience.”
Dennis
“There's something about collecting and having a Pokédex and stuff like that... pretty much everything is going to be held up all the time by the licensor. The approvals are going to take forever. And that sucks.”
Zach
“I heard he is on one hell of a... he's planning one hell of a redemption tour this year. That's what I'm hearing.”
Zach

Entities

  • Flip N Out Pinball· company
  • Jersey Jack Pinball· company
  • Stern Pinball· company
  • Turner Pinball· company
  • Texas Pinball Festival (TPF)· event
  • Dungeon Crawler Carl· game
  • Godzilla (Stern)· game
  • James Bond (Stern)· game
  • Jaws (Stern)· game
  • Jurassic Park (Stern)· game
  • King Kong (Stern)· game
  • Pokemon (Stern)· game
  • Star Wars: Fall of the Empire (Stern)· game
  • Stranger Things (Stern)· game
  • Uncanny X-Men (Stern)· game
  • Yukon Yeti (Turner Pinball)· game
  • Chris Greener· person
  • Dennis· person
  • Dennis Nordman· person
  • Elliot Eismin· person
  • Joel· person
  • Keith Elwin· person
  • Zach Sharpe· person
  • Insider Connected· product

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