DPP #173 "Pinball at the Beach wrap up! Rumors and Reviews!"

Post-Beach recap: D&D fixed, Stern pipeline confirmed, Harry Potter imminent at JJP, Evil Dead dominates, Franchi to Spooky

Synopsis

Don covers Pinball at the Beach 2025 event, discussing D&D dragon issues and LE production restart, major rumors from Stern (King Kong in May, prequel Star Wars in November, Ghostbusters remaster in Q4), Jersey Jack's Harry Potter announcement (TBA for TPF, LE+CE at $12-15k pricing), Spooky's Evil Dead dominating the show with 130 units remaining, and Christopher Franchi joining Spooky as exclusive artist with Beetlejuice likely in development.

Entities

• Barrels of Fun (Dutch Pinball)· company
• Jersey Jack Pinball· company
• Spooky Pinball· company
• Stern Pinball· company
• Pinball at the Beach· event
• Texas Pinball Festival· event
• Avatar (Jersey Jack)· game
• Dungeons & Dragons (Stern)· game
• Evil Dead (Spooky)· game
• Ghostbusters (Stern remaster)· game
• Harry Potter (Jersey Jack)· game
• King Kong (Stern)· game
• Star Wars prequel trilogy (Stern)· game
• Toy Story 4 (Jersey Jack)· game
• Walking Dead (Stern)· game
• Brian Eddy· person
• Christopher Franchi· person
• Don· person
• Dwight Sullivan· person
• Elizabeth Gieske· person
• Eric Menear· person
• John Borg· person
• Keith Elwin· person
• Ken Cromwell· person
• Spooky Luke· person