Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Ep 37: Holy Crap, Harry Potter!
Triple Drain Pinball Podcast Episode 37: Holy Crap, Harry Potter! Hosts: Joel Engelberth, Tom Graf, & Travis Murie Well, Harry Potter was just announced… kind of. The three of us dive into that and...
Highlights
- Joe Kaminkow posted on Facebook that Jersey Jack Pinball has secured the Harry Potter pinball license
- The Facebook post was subsequently deleted but was screenshotted and shared on multiple platforms including Pinside and by Jason Knaps
- The Harry Potter post image was likely photoshopped years ago by Jack Danger and reposted by Kamenkow
- Kamenkow doubled down on the post by responding to comments rather than deleting it immediately, suggesting he was not hacked
- JK Rowling has historically been opposed to pinball games and has made negative comments about pinball
- The post has caused immediate freezing of consumer spending as potential buyers wait for confirmation and details
- Distributors already have speculation pre-order lists for Harry Potter CE models dating back years
- JJP's most recent games (Guns N' Roses, Toy Story, Godfather) have inventory sitting on distributor shelves
Notable quotes
“Jersey Jack has secured the license for Harry Potter for pinball no waiting no speculation they locked it in”
“It's going to freeze up a lot of money in the industry... when I saw that, I was just like, man, this is going to be a shit show.”
“There's no reason to be upset about it... let's all root behind jjp to make the best possible harry potter pin period so that we can all enjoy it in some manner”
“I don't see it being any lower than $18,500, and I could see it easily being $20,000 for a CE, and it would sell out, no doubt”
“If they could do it, I would not put all movies in the same pen. If they could do it, I would split it up into a trilogy or something like that. More than one pen. Yeah, come out with a new pen for like one per year.”
“Three sentences on Facebook could immediately freeze... You know, I wonder how many distributors have people, immediately it did yeah no no doubt it did”
“When the Beatles license was announced, they said it was one of the most expensive licenses Stern has ever paid for and it was reflected in the price”
Entities
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Godfather· game
- Guns N' Roses (JJP)· game
- Harry Potter· game
- Toy Story (JJP)· game
- TPN (The Pinball Network)· organization
- Triple Drain Pinball Podcast· organization
- Eric Minier· person
- Gary Stern· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Jason Knaps· person
- JK Rowling· person
- Joe Kamenkow· person
- Joel· person
- Mark Striden· person
- Steve Ritchie· person
- Tom Graff· person
- Travis· person
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