EP08 Andrew Lanners My Journey Into Pinball
Episode 8 of The Pinball Studio Podcast features Andrew Lanners of Premier Pinball & Amusement. In this episode, we learn how Andrew’s pinball journey began on the business side buying and selling...
Highlights
- Andrew Lanners has been operating Premier Pinball and Amusement for 6-7 years as an LLC
- Plans to become a Stern distributor as soon as 2026
- Beetlejuice Pinball is at/near release with select units shipping before end of year, majority shipping January onward
- Primary customer base is 1990s-early 2000s pinball machines in $2,000-$4,000 range
- Facebook Marketplace is the primary sales channel, with Pinside as secondary; Craigslist phased out
- First-time pinball buyers are less concerned with decals and cosmetic condition than experienced collectors
- Andrew has processed approximately 60 pinball machines in four years of operation
- Sterling Martin (host) has done Taxi and Strikes and Spares restorations and plans homebrew building
Notable quotes
“The pinball community is so big that it's always fun to connect... outside of your, you know, kind of group of people”
“Facebook Marketplace is the absolute go-to. I mean, there's just nothing better out there. It's free. There's so many people connected in the pinball world on Facebook”
“The first time pinball buyer is really not picky. They're gonna look for a game that's oftentimes a fun family theme a game that 100 working as it should be”
“There is a market for it [rentals], but that also involves having a bunch of games in stock, which kind of goes against what I've kind of ran this business off of, you know, keeping the inventory moving”
“If you put two hundred thousand dollars worth of games in our arcade it takes a while to get two hundred thousand dollars back just to pay that off”
“Beetlejuice... People are going to love that game”
Entities
- Barrels of Fun· company
- Flippin' Out Pinball· company
- Old Town Pinball· company
- Pinball Brothers· company
- Pinball Palace· company
- Premier Pinball and Amusement· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Turner Pinball· company
- Back to the Future· game
- Beetlejuice· game
- Big Buck Hunter· game
- Strikes and Spares· game
- Taxi· game
- Minneapolis· location
- Pinball Studio Podcast· organization
- Andrew Lanners· person
- Sterling Martin· person
- Facebook Marketplace· platform
- Pinside· website/platform
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