Episode 176 - The Name is TSR, New TSR
Tony temporarily revives the tabletop segment in the introduction to talk about a "new" TSR. Pinball: We discuss Stern Pinball's delayed reveal of James Bond, Homepin's reveal of Spinal Tap, a bit...
Highlights
- Wizards of the Coast filed an injunction against TSR LLC for using owned logos and distributing problematic playtest material for Star Frontiers: New Genesis
- New TSR's Star Frontiers playtest material contained explicitly racist, bigoted, anti-trans, and alt-right character creation content
- Pinball Brothers requested $125,000 for the Playboy license from Deep Root in early May 2018, not $75,000 as Dennis previously stated
- Pinball Brothers wanted over $500,000 for the Queen license
- Deep Root was budgeting $85,000 per game in development costs in 2018
- James Bond pinball photos were taken over the weekend when games arrived, by someone affiliated with the UK trade show event
- The Bond licensor (Danjek LLC) was very upset about the photo leaks and is extremely protective of the license
- Stern's James Bond reveal is the worst Stern launch Dennis has seen in over 10 years in the hobby
- 007store.com inadvertently released professional images of the Pro and Premium James Bond models on Friday, September 16th
- Stern delayed the James Bond reveal by nine days total due to Queen Elizabeth II's death and mourning period considerations
Notable quotes
“The audacity of it is amazing to me. Wizard is not like some little nobody entity that would let this obviously they're not letting it slide.”
“I have never seen Stern have such an embarrassing launch in this entire period. This is the new... I was trying to think what was the last really bad launch was? Probably Batman 66.”
“The moment those games were shipped out of the factory, they knew or they should have known they no longer had control over the reveal narrative.”
“The correct answer in something like that is always to drop your good, ready, high-quality images. I think that's the best way to preempt stuff like that.”
“This definitely feels like a very last minute unexpected change and the kind of mistakes you expect to see out of something like that.”
“The thing is, is they're still selling, Wizards still sell stuff TSR branded. Because they own it. Yeah. They just digitized it and they released it.”
“It sounded like multiple people, and one of those people started to just leak it all over the place.”
Entities
- 007store.com· company
- Danjek LLC· company
- Deep Root Pinball· company
- Hasbro· company
- Pinball Brothers· company
- SoundCloud· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- TSR LLC· company
- Wizards of the Coast· company
- Dennis· person
- Ernie Gygax Jr.· person
- Gary Gygax· person
- George Gomez· person
- Justin Lanasa· person
- Queen Elizabeth II· person
- Tony· person
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