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Ep 143: All's Quiet
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Even though things are quiet, we still catch up on the recent rumors of games that are coming out soon. We talk Stern rumors, Alice in Wonderland, the most up to date Haggis info.
Highlights
- Metallica vault edition is rumored to be Premium-only, not a three-tier release
- Haggis Fathom playfields suffered delamination issues during shipping due to heat warping the protective acrylic layer
- Stern has three production lines at the factory
- X-Men '97 is the 'cornerstone' Stern release coming next, not Pokémon
- Ellen's next game after King Kong is Leviathan
- Flippin' Out lost approximately $90,000 on Haggis Funhouse issues (NAP Arcade report, possibly underestimated)
- George Gomez explained that dimpling on pinball playfields is inevitable due to steel ball hardness exceeding wood hardness
- Keanu Reeves appeared unaware of his John Wick pinball machine during Comic-Con
Notable quotes
“This is one of the reasons why going through a distributor like Flippin' Out is to your advantage. Because you have an advocate for you with the manufacturer.”
“I think he's got – and that's the thing too: they actually ask their designers, 'Like, we have this license. Who wants to do it?' And so they've actually dropped licenses because it's not resonated with anyone.”
“The problem is the cover-up of an issue always ends up being worse than the problem itself.”
“When a company starts, they typically start small and they start building up slowly. And the challenge is once you start building up, you need to go from 10 miles an hour to 20 miles an hour... if you start jumping steps and trying to go ahead of what your company is qualified to do, there are going to be lessons that you have not learned.”
“If I have to pull a whole freaking pinball playfield out to swap it out, we've got an issue.”
“If you buy these machines, expect to use them as they are intended. Expect to use them as machines. Otherwise, they're a museum piece.”
“I'm hearing that. And honestly, it's gotten so quiet. It usually gets this quiet when we're about to have a release.”
“There's a billion Metallicas out there. And they don't want to invest a lot of resources into two-tiering it.”
Entities
- Flippin' Out Pinball· company
- Haggis Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Godzilla 70th Edition· game
- Jaws 50th Anniversary· game
- King Kong· game
- Leviathan· game
- Metallica· game
- Pokémon· game
- X-Men '97· game
- Deadpool and Wolverine· movie
- Loser Kid Pinball Podcast· organization
- Ellen (Stern designer)· person
- George Gomez· person
- Jack Danger· person
- John Borg· person
- Josh Roop· person
- Kerry Hardy· person
- Scott Larson· person
- Zach Minney· person
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