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Pinball Magazine & Pinball News PINcast May 2024 recap
PodcastAnalysis updated 5d ago3 hr 31 min listenBy Martin Ayub, Jonathan Joosten
It’s a new month, so time to join Jonathan and Martin for a brand new edition of the Pinball Magazine and Pinball News joint Pinball Industry News PINcast looking back on May and the first few...
Highlights
- Dutch Pinball Exclusive's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to launch Q3 2024 (July–September) with approximately 500-unit production run
- John Wick John Wick was supposed to be a week-long reveal but leaked early, dumping all materials at once
- John Wick LE limited to 1,000 units at $12,999 MSRP; Pro $6,999, Premium $9,699
- No guns shown in John Wick static artwork (playfield, side art, backglass) due to licensor restriction; guns only visible on LCD
- Stern flew North American pinball media and content creators to Chicago for factory tours and licensing education, but did not invite international media (confirmed by Zach Sharp)
- Iron Maiden remake confirmed for July 2024 by Australian distributor Amusement Worx
- Metallica is being reissued in updated form, possibly on Spike 3 platform with LCD, later in 2024
- Rumor: Black and White Godzilla 70th Anniversary Edition scheduled for July manufacturing
- Remake titles (Iron Maiden, etc.) will only be Pro and Premium models, not Limited Editions, to avoid customer backlash
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland title chosen (not 'Alice in Wonderland') because latter is copyrighted to Disney; former based on 1865 public-domain book
Notable quotes
“It was a black-and-white pencil line, or pen line, artwork by Zombie Yeti, Jeremy Packer.”
“There went out the door when John Wick week... They do sort of splash all the key information about the game rather than have people guessing.”
“It's not a free choice to be exposed to guns, while when you choose to play a game, then you did make that choice, and then it's okay to show them apparently.”
“George Gomez, Stern's vice president of game design, I believe his complete title is, rushed to do interviews with several podcasters to explain why there were no guns.”
“Where are all the toys in the game? There's really not very much in any of the models, as far as I can see.”
“If you go from the pro to the LE, you're adding, effectively, you're adding $6,000. For what?”
“So Stern figured they needed to jump in to educate these people about what it takes to actually make a game and everything that goes on in the back.”
“You can't promise people when they first buy the game it's a limited edition and then later come out with another limited edition which could be even more limited.”
“The playfield's been redesigned. Melvin says that it's been designed and engineered by him, and knowing John's designs from the past, it's highly unlikely that there was actually a playable version.”
“Neither you or I were invited... it was nothing intentional, but this was the first time they were doing something like this and they only invited domestic media.”
Entities
- Amusement Works (Australia)· company
- Dutch Pinball Exclusive (DPX)· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Zidware· company
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland· game
- Black Knight Sword of Rage· game
- Godzilla 70th Anniversary Edition· game
- Iron Maiden· game
- John Wick· game
- Metallica· game
- Pinball Magazine· organization
- Pinball News· organization
- Alex Eddy· person
- Brian Eddy· person
- Charlie Bernante· person
- Elliot Eisman· person
- George Gomez· person
- Ian McShane· person
- Jeremy Packer (Zombie Yeti)· person
- John Popadiuk· person
- Jonathan Justin· person
- Martin Owen· person
- Melvin Williams· person
- Randy Martinez· person
- Tim Sexton· person
- Zach Sharp· person
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