Episode 1207: "Huge Exclusive News Friday!"
Kaneda reveals Stern Mountain Dew, Transformers, Fallout LEs; Jersey Jack Sonic confirmed.
Stuff you haven't heard yet or anywhere else! Best $5 money can buy in Pinball!
Synopsis
Kaneda breaks exclusive industry news including Stern's Mountain Dew commissioned pinball machine, upcoming Transformers game with Pat Lee artwork and split Autobot/Decepticon limited editions, confirmed Fallout pinball based on the Amazon TV show with Walter Goggins voiceover, and Jersey Jack's announcement of Sonic the Hedgehog pinball debuting at Southern Fried Gaming Expo in late July/early August. Kaneda expresses concerns about Stern's artistic direction choices across recent releases.
Highlights
- Stern Pinball is making a Mountain Dew pinball machine as a commissioned game by PepsiCo
- Pat Lee is the artist for the new Transformers pinball machine
- Transformers LE will have a split design between Decepticon and Autobot variants
- Transformers main toy will be a transforming Optimus Prime that converts from truck to robot form
- Fallout pinball is based on the Amazon TV show, not the video game
- Walter Goggins is signed to do voice call-outs for Fallout pinball
- Fallout Pro/Premium use TV show artwork; LE uses Vault-Tec/video game style artwork
- Jersey Jack is planning to reveal Sonic the Hedgehog at Southern Fried Gaming Expo end of July/early August
- King Kong LE machines are selling for approximately $9,000 on secondary market, down from $13,000-$15,000 new
- King Kong's value loss is solely due to artistic direction and style choices
Notable quotes
“Pokemon, in my honest opinion, is the best looking Stern machine in a really, really long time. Because that looks like Pokemon and thank the pinball gods that the Pokemon company did not allow Stern Pinball to choose its own artist”
“This is not how I would have approached G1 Transformers. This is not the art style of G1. And if you're going to make a G1 Transformer pinball machine, having art like this again just doesn't connect with the fan base”
“LEs for 13 grand should come with exclusive toppers and an exclusive mode or two. I'm not asking them to do exclusive mechs, but yes, for 13 grand, those 500 owners should have a few wizard modes or mini wizard modes that nobody else has.”
“King Kong is losing thousands of dollars in value only, and I mean this only, because of the artistic direction of the game.”
“You can now go get an LE with a topper for nine grand, no tax. That's a loss. The kids are about to run through the door”
“I think this game is going to be like the biggest Stern hit of the year. I really do. I think more than Transformers. I think the art package could be what stings Transformers.”
“There should be only a total of 500 Transformer LEs. That's it. You need to get back now to a consistent move where these LEs are always going to be somewhat hard to get.”
Entities
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- PepsiCo· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Southern Fried Gaming Expo· event
- Fallout· game
- King Kong· game
- Pokemon· game
- Sonic the Hedgehog· game
- Transformers· game
- Walking Dead· game
- Pinside· organization
- George Gomez· person
- Kaneda· person
- Keith Elwin· person
- Pat Lee· person
- Walter Goggins· person
- Zombie Eddie· person
- Mountain Dew· product
- Optimus Prime· product
- Vault-Tec· product
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