Episode 169 - Street Level 2042
Pinball: Coverage includes the Elwin walk-off, Stern Pinball soon ending Guardians of the Galaxy and Led Zeppelin production, Jersey Jack Pinball getting close to releasing their new game, Homepin...
Highlights
- Keith Elwin conceded the final game of the IFPA world championship finals on Dialed In when behind by approximately 800,000 points against Escher Lefkoff
- Stern Pinball has informed their distribution network that Guardians of the Galaxy and Led Zeppelin are getting final production runs before discontinuation
- Led Zeppelin has seen significant price cuts and desperate attempts to move inventory in their local area
- Guardians of the Galaxy likely has substantially higher final order counts than Led Zeppelin across all distributors
- There are rumors that Toy Story will have no Standard Collector (SC) version, only two models
- Guns N' Roses LE has passed the 4,000 unit threshold
- Home Pin's Spinal Tap pinball uses both an LCD backbox screen and a standard single-color DMD
- John Norris released a street-level layout called Champs Elise inspired by Tour de France racing
Notable quotes
“You look at your odds of making a comeback. And if you feel you likely won't win the game, you concede, shake hands and move on. It happens all the time and even in championship games. No disrespect, nothing more than an internal calculation.”
“I am not in any way surprised [about Led Zeppelin discontinuation]. I was just surprised Guardians came out such a long time ago.”
“Given how far behind Stern is on production, I think it makes sense to focus on fewer machines.”
“The CE is the LE of JJP. Now, they do have an LE, and it is limited also. But they, like, limit it at $5,000 and thus never actually sell out.”
“Because it lets them charge more for the four machines they're going to sell.”
“This is truly a street level by design. Low bill of materials, off the shelf assembly parts to make it.”
“It's a bad argument. This layout, a two-flipper layout, is not a fan layout, and you can see that it's not a fan layout.”
Entities
- Home Pin· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Champs Elise· game
- Dialed In· game
- Guardians of the Galaxy· game
- Guns N' Roses· game
- Led Zeppelin· game
- Spinal Tap· game
- Toy Story· game
- The Pinball Show· organization
- Dennis· person
- Escher Lefkoff· person
- John Norris· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Sean L.· person
- Tony· person
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