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The Spinner Is Lit - Episode 6: Pinball Show the Love
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The Spinner Is Lit - Episode 6: Pinball Show the Love by The Spinner Is Lit Pinball Podcast
Highlights
- Pinnagogo reached peak of 270 games on Saturday
- Batman '66 LE editions are limited to 120 machines per series (240 total LE), with first series named after Batman episodes and second series after Bat-gadgets
- Batman '66 price range is $9,000-$15,000 across Pro/Premium/LE tiers
- Dark Knight Batman pinball is available used for around $8,000, compared to Batman '66 Premium at similar price
- Embryon (1980 Bally wide body) had approximately 2,200 units produced, with fewer than 1,000 estimated playable examples remaining in the US
- Northwest Pinball Show (March 9-11, Tacoma WA) will feature approximately 400 total games (pinball and arcade combined)
- Jersey Jack Pinball likely secured licensing for Toy Story, Muppets, and/or Pirates of the Caribbean, with announcement expected October 2017 for summer 2018 release
- Willy Wonka received 91 of ~500 votes (18%) on Stern Kapow survey, making it top vote-getter for next Stern premium release
- Star Wars is Stern's next major release (referred to as 'Nick Stern is Star Wars' with high confidence in rumor)
- Guardians of the Galaxy is the likely next Stern release after Star Wars
Notable quotes
“There's always room for one more game.”
“The price will always be an issue for me on that it just it would literally have to be the most epic best pinball machine on the planet for me to consider the price point that it sits at.”
“Multiball is the big weakness of this game...once you're there, there is no reward other than you have two bright and shiny balls traveling around the playfield.”
“J.K. Rowling was absolutely dead set against pinball machine being licensed for the Harry Potter license.”
“Batman '66, the Batmobile was coming off of the spinner platform and blocking you know so where the spinner couldn't spin”
“They announced – they announced – they dialed in, what, in October of last year, and it's now just starting to ship. So the guess is that this October they'll announce the next title.”
“There's no end in sight, which makes me, you know, always goes back to can we really, our little hobby and our little coin op friends really support the sheer number of titles that are coming out?”
“My recommendation is stop buying your glue at the dollar store”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Comet Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- California Extreme· event
- Northwest Pinball Show· event
- Pinnagogo· event
- Rocky Mountain Pinball Show· event
- Batman '66· game
- Dark Knight· game
- Dial-In· game
- Embryon· game
- Chris Kouros (aka Kaneda)· person
- Jersey Jack Guarnieri· person
- Joe Kamenko· person
- Mo· person
- Rusty· person
- Seth Holder· person
- Spencer· person
- Steve· person
- Coin-Op· venue
- Electric Bat Arcade· venue
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