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Tucson Pinball Podcast – Episode 76 – PoKME DangerMon
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Tucson Pinball Podcast – Episode 76 – PoKME DangerMon
Highlights
- Pokémon is the #1 highest-grossing media franchise of all time with $98.9 billion in total revenue since 1996
- Pokémon's $98.9B revenue breaks down as ~$91.6B retail sales (cards, toys, merchandise) and ~$6.13B mobile games
- Pokémon box office revenue is $1.156 billion despite weak theatrical performance
- Jersey Jack Pinball has acquired Harry Potter license and will produce multiple machines from the IP
- The original Pokémon Red/Blue versions had version-exclusive creatures (Charmander, Bulbasaur, Squirtle) requiring player trading to complete Pokédex
- Pokémon TCG card game popularity has surged in recent years, with local card shop needing to split elementary/middle school groups into separate sessions
- Time Magazine published a Pokémon special edition titled 'The Games The Shows The Evolution: 25 Years Pokémon in America' calling it 'the world's most valuable media franchise'
- There are over 1,000 Pokémon characters in circulation across franchise generations
Notable quotes
“I don't normally get into rumors because that's exhausting, right? So if you live by the whole, not philosophy, but like if your entire pinball existence is getting excited for the next titles up, like that's exhausting.”
“I am still convinced to this day that Pinside willed Munsters into existence. Even though, I think John Borg has even said, like, I wanted to do that title.”
“Because that's basically what Pokemon is. It's a completionist, like, dream. Because you have the Pokedex, which is like your encyclopedia... And when you fill that out, it's like a stamp book or a sticker collection.”
“So the next one on the list is, this is where it's like, wait, isn't, couldn't this be listed somewhere else? This is called Disney Princess... Like Disney Princess, like isn't that like half the Disney cartoon things?”
“Recently, I don't know if I'm going to do a show on this or not, but recently they have talked about that Jersey Jack Pinball has Harry Potter and they have all the movie... I'm sure that they will do just fine. There is so much content to pick from that it would make me nervous if they only did one pinball machine off of it.”
“And I have thrown several controllers at the TV and you can't do that anymore because you break one or the other. And, you know, with the Nintendo, neither one really broke.”
“I found something... Wikipedia... this is called List of Highest Grossing Media Franchises. And the little subtext says, this is a list of media franchises that have grossed $2 billion and more.”
“Number one on the list is Pokemon. Started in... 1996 total revenue since then 98.9 billion dollars.”
“I mean, there's quite a few on there that's like, I'd play that, I'd play that, I'd play that. Yeah, I'd play that for sure. Oh, I'd buy that one.”
“Like this Sonic the Hedgehog, like I just want to keep going because like all of these... are just amazing.”
Entities
- Epic Worlds· company
- Fast Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Despicable Me· game
- Dragon Ball· game
- Harry Potter / Wizarding World· game
- Mickey Mouse and Friends· game
- Munsters· game
- Pokémon· game
- Star Wars· game
- Pinside· organization
- Time Magazine· organization
- Wikipedia· organization
- Aaron Davis· person
- George Gomez· person
- Jack Danger· person
- John Borg· person
- Detective Pikachu· product
- Game Boy· product
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