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The Pinball Show Ep 87: What I Like, What I Don’t About The Rush Pinball Machine
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The Pinball Show Episode 87: What I Like, What I Don't About The Rush Pinball Machine Host: Zach Meny - TPS Correspondents Pinball News For The Week - What I Like, What I Don't About Rush Pinball...
Highlights
- Rush LE sold out immediately at increased MSRP of $11,099 (up from Godzilla's $10,499)
- Rush has pre-sold more machines than the total annual Led Zeppelin sales despite initially skeptical market outlook
- Band members themselves selected the mid-playfield avatar artwork and were part of the design team
- Munsters received first code update (V1.10) since March 9, 2020 - nearly 2 years without updates
- Jack Danger joining Stern Pinball's game design studio full-time in 2022
- Rush has 16 selectable songs at game start, 4 main multiballs, 3 time machine multiballs, 3 challenge modes, 1 mini wizard multiball
- Over 600 custom speech callouts from Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Ed Robertson (Barenaked Ladies)
- Stern Insider Connected has 20,000+ registered users with thousands of kits already shipped
- Secondary market pricing: Rush LE hovering around $14,500-$15,000 before machines even ship
- Cactus Canyon Essies small production run beginning this week/next week, with LE expected February and SE+ late March
Notable quotes
“Rush will be the Stern Sleeper hit of 2022, second only to Elowen's next pin due out this summer.”
“It's not about how much the game is, it's what the return is on the game...if you don't see that price dropping on the secondary market, you're not really spending $11,000, are you?”
“The characters mid playfield they're about as bad as the Angus face on AC/DC (Pro)...honestly they may be worse they are bad”
“Who are you selling this product to? Are you selling this to the band members? No...You're selling this to consumers.”
“I'd say it's a mixture of both - the market wanting what's new and people loving John Borg games.”
“I'm worried about the number of multiballs in this game...too many multiballs is not a good thing”
“The pro is good enough...the pro's stacked, it's full, and it's going to make people very, very happy.”
“John Borg games...he going to try to kick me in the nuts with his outlanes and he going to have a fast flowy game.”
“Deadpool...This is becoming the Elvira house of horse...it will continue to be a highly desired game on the secondary market.”
“You've got the most preferred edition of one of the greatest, largest license in all of pinball history...That is prime for the hurricane of an inflated exponentially increased price.”
Entities
- American Pinball· company
- Chicago Gaming Company· company
- Jersey Jack Pinball· company
- Stern Pinball· company
- Deadpool· game
- Led Zeppelin· game
- Munsters· game
- Rush· game
- Star Wars· game
- Deadflip· media
- TPN (The Pinball Network)· media
- Alex Lifeson· person
- Craig Bobby· person
- Dwight Sullivan· person
- Ed Robertson· person
- Gary Stern· person
- Geddy Lee· person
- Jack Danger· person
- John Bernard· person
- John Borg· person
- LTG/Lloyd· person
- Steven Bowden· person
- Tim Sexton· person
- Zach Minney· person
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