DPP #241 "The Lodi Episode"

Don reports on Lodi pinball festival, Transformers/Sonic leaks, and P3 technical issues.

Synopsis

Don returns from the Golden State Pinball Festival in Lodi, California, describing it as a unique "Pinball Burning Man" experience centered around an on-site campground with themed machine displays and heavy social drinking. He covers disappointment about a missing Pedretti game, positive experience with the P3 Multimorphic Weird Al machine (which had technical issues), and provides extensive speculation on upcoming games: Stern's Transformers (releasing May 20th with stationary Optimus Prime due to reliability issues) and Jersey Jack's Sonic the Hedgehog (based on leaked playfield images and one questionable loop photo he suspects may be AI-generated).

Entities

• Ace Gogy's On Tilt· company
• Chicago Gaming· company
• Jersey Jack Pinball· company
• Multimorphic· company
• Pedretti· company
• Spooky Pinball· company
• Stern Pinball· company
• Golden State Pinball Festival· event
• Beetlejuice· game
• Deadpool· game
• Foo Fighters· game
• Rick and Morty· game
• Sonic the Hedgehog· game
• Transformers· game
• Weird Al· game
• Yukon Yeti· game
• Don· person
• Erica's Pinball Journey· person
• Kurt Burgett· person
• Weird Alan Heist· person
• Lodi Fairgrounds· venue
• O'Hare International Airport· venue