Ep 42: Cale’s Expodump

“The only guys who have figured out flippers are the guys who have been in the business making machines the longest and that's Stern. Stern has this flipper feel that's way up here and then everybody else is kind of below it.”

“They're open to feedback. I think...I'm in complete agreement with what you said. It came out during kind of the TPF time...it was so vague...but the best thing they did was like hey we have an awesome theme, it looks great, it's built, it's ready to go. That was like A+.”

“I'm an Elton John fan. But neither one of us want to roll the dice on this one for the simple fact that man they are they are expensive...It's hard for us to make our money back on a Jersey Jack.”

“$12,000 for an Elton John pinball, damn it. It just sucks. I wish the price was lower...I don't think a $12,000 game, a license can't hold that price tag unless you give them the good stuff. Star Wars, Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Mario.”

“We have an issue where there's two different coils on the flipper mechs. And so one of them has a short bobbin...And we're like, we have this short bobbin, so it's just like rattling in there. And...the response was 'we don't know, you know it's nothing we did we order those flipper mechs fully assembled'...and then he was like 'I don't know even know what a bobbin is'”

“Do you realize that the balls are ending up in the coin box? And he's like, looks at us like, oh, no, that doesn't happen with our games.”

“Labyrinth did it right...brought functional games that are ready to go and for sale soon...And Labyrinth sold out. At least direct.”

“I love that they're doing just one model too. You want the game? This is it. You don't have to think about it.”

“The glass and the rails which hold the glass, the whole top just comes off. You pop it...you reach underneath the game like you're opening the hood of your car and you pop this button and the whole thing pops off with like lights, with a stadium style lighting.”

“we even so when we went to Expo, we're like, oh, we'll actually get to talk to these guys...And he seemed very like uninterested in the problems with the game and we were just like you know what fuck this”