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Ep 145 X-men and Avatar
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Jersey Jack teasing Avatar, Stern Pinball revealing X-Men?! What a crazy day! We talk about both in depth along with our review of the Pinsnake!
Highlights
- Avatar franchise has generated over $3 billion in total box office revenue, with the sequel earning over $1 billion post-pandemic
- Avatar merchandise has only generated approximately $153 million in gross profit despite the film's massive box office success
- The last offset flipper design in pinball was Gold Wings in 1986
- X-Men is a B-tier theme in terms of marketability, below A-tier franchises like Harry Potter and Star Wars
- Wayson Chang is the code/software designer for X-Men and has previously worked on Jurassic Park Home Edition, Heavy Metal Monsters, and Deadpool
- X-Men features a Sentinel head mechanical element with actual ball paths around it rather than empty space behind it
- The Danger Room is accessed via a high-risk, high-reward shot on the right side that feeds into a single mini flipper
- X-Men Pro model does not include the articulating Sentinel hand animation that appears on Premium/LE versions
Notable quotes
“I went from like anxiety, panic, whatever it is...pinball has been on a downhill slope for a couple years now. Things have felt a little stale. And so when you hear a risk being taken where it's offset flippers...it makes you like, 'Oh, crap, are we just trying stuff now?' And then this comes out, and you're like, 'Oh, this feels new and unique, but yet familiar.'”
“This qualifies as 'I want different. I want different. I want that.' Yeah, because it looks really good.”
“Avatar holds the record for most money made for a movie...it's over three billion dollars. But if you ask when was the last time you saw someone wearing an Avatar shirt? When was the last time you saw someone sporting Avatar gear? That's nothing compared to a movie.”
“If you took the top 25 franchises of all time, Harry Potter's up there. Star Wars is up there. Pokémon's up there...X-Men is a little: it's a smaller: it caters to a smaller audience.”
“The Sentinel literally gives you the finger to stop the ball. I think it's really cool that the hand comes down and smashes the wire form.”
“This is a game that has a potential of feeling like a Deadpool or swapping out a Deadpool because it looks tough. It has some interesting shots with velocity, but it also is taking it to a next level.”
“We've talked about this on our show before...Marvel requests him. There is no ifs, ands, or buts. They will wait to get him. And so he is obviously doing justice to the source material.”
“I want to play this game. I can't wait for Expo. Is it October already? Can we go? Yeah, like now.”
Entities
- Flippin' Out Pinball· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Pinball Expo· event
- Avatar: Battle for Pandora· game
- Deadpool· game
- Foo Fighters· game
- Gold Wings· game
- Jurassic Park Home Edition· game
- X-Men· game
- George Gomez· person
- Jack Danger· person
- Jim Lee· person
- Josh Roop· person
- Marty Haynes· person
- Scott Larson· person
- Todd McFarlane· person
- Wayson Chang· person
- Zombie Yeti· person
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