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Episode 59: Stern Accidentally Leaked Transformers Pinball… Autobots, Roll Out!

The Flipside Pinball Podcast·podcast_episode·34m 38s·analyzed·May 15, 2026
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TL;DR

Stern accidentally leaks Transformers pinball details before official May 20 launch; Media Day coverage coming.

Summary

Retro Ralph discusses Stern's accidental leak of Transformers pinball details via the Insider Connected app, including playfield renders and cabinet artwork for all three trim levels. The game features a Generation 1 Transformers theme designed by Elliott Eismin, with a unique three-flipper layout and iconic characters like Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Starscream. Media Day is scheduled for May 20, 2026, when the game officially launches and content creators will experience it firsthand.

Key Claims

  • Someone at Stern made a mistake with the Insider Connected app launch date, accidentally publishing Transformers details a week early instead of on the intended May 20 launch day

    high confidence · Retro Ralph's analysis of the leak; he argues this was a simple mistake, not a controlled leak, based on licensing agreements with Hasbro

  • Elliott Eismin is the designer of Transformers, his second game after John Wick

    high confidence · Retro Ralph stated directly; this is confirmed industry knowledge

  • Transformers is a three-flipper game with a unique, non-standard shot layout featuring ramps and toy interactions with Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Starscream

    high confidence · Retro Ralph's detailed analysis of the leaked playfield render

  • The game has been in development for a significant period at Stern, suggesting more mature code at launch

    medium confidence · Retro Ralph references internal Stern data points about development timeline

  • Walking Dead Remastered only received a minor code update (Fish Tank Frenzy topper mode) and has very low location placement (79 Premium units on Pinball Map)

    high confidence · Retro Ralph's live check of Pinball Map during podcast; expressed concern about poor sales performance

  • Jersey Jack Pinball next game (Sonic) is expected to launch very close to Transformers and will feature Steve Ritchie as designer

    medium confidence · Retro Ralph's speculation based on timing and industry gossip; not officially confirmed

Notable Quotes

  • “Someone just made a mistake. They're not controlled leaking it... to think that Stern Pinball leaked it, I don't think that's it at all.”

    Retro Ralph @ ~10:00 — Dismisses conspiracy theories about intentional leaks; provides logical explanation based on licensing constraints

  • “Autobots, roll out! I love that.”

    Retro Ralph @ ~3:00 — Reaction to official trailer reveal; shows enthusiasm for the G1 Transformers theme and iconic tagline

  • “The layout looks really cool... definitely unique, not like a typical fan layout. It's a very cool and unique layout.”

    Retro Ralph @ ~25:00 — Initial design assessment based on leaked playfield render; positive reception to shot layout complexity

  • “I don't look at pinball machines as something that going to gain value... Don't think you're going to buy it and then sell it a couple of months down the road for a profit.”

    Retro Ralph @ ~45:00 — Personal philosophy on collecting; warns against speculative LE purchases based on his track record

  • “Pokemon is getting painful because the next game is out basically next week and what we got was very minor update.”

    Retro Ralph @ ~65:00 — Criticism of Stern's code update frequency and depth for Pokemon; signals community frustration with development pace

Entities

Transformers (Stern)gameRetro RalphpersonElliott EisminpersonGeorge GomezpersonJack DangerpersonStern Pinballcompany

Signals

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    announcement: Stern officially released trailer for Transformers pinball confirming Generation 1 theme and May 20, 2026 launch date with Hasbro branding

    high · Retro Ralph played trailer excerpt: 'Autobots, roll out! The Transformers!' Trailer contains official launch date and licensing logo.

  • ?

    leak_detection: Transformers game details including high-quality playfield render and cabinet artwork for all three trim levels (Pro/Premium/LE) accidentally published in Insider Connected app approximately one week before intended May 20 reveal date

    high · Retro Ralph confirmed details were visible to users who accessed Insider Connected; information spread rapidly across multiple community channels before being taken down within approximately one hour

  • ?

    design_innovation: Transformers features a unique three-flipper layout with non-standard shot architecture including cross-playfield wire form ramps, scoop mechanics feeding to Starscream loop, and toy interactions with Optimus Prime bash, Megatron cannon element, and multiple shot opportunities

    high · Retro Ralph's detailed analysis of leaked playfield render describing ramp configurations, toy placements, and mechanical features suggesting complex modern design

  • ?

    personnel_signal: Elliott Eismin confirmed as designer of Transformers, his second shipped game after John Wick

    high · Retro Ralph stated: 'Elliot Eismin is the designer... His first game he worked on or developed was John Wick. And there's some people that don't like John Wick... But anyways, so. And I think if you haven't played it since like the earlier code, definitely give it another chance... So this is Elliot's second game and this one's Transformers.'

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Transcript

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0:00
Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the Flipside Podcast. I'm your host, Retro Ralph, and we are here for episode number 59. And we're going to talk all about what happened today. Some crazy stuff. Transformers, leaks, the trailer, then a leak. It's all crazy. I'm going to give you the whole day's events and timelines and tell you what's going on and what we can expect over the next week or so. So let's get right into it. But before we do, I need to give a quick, quick and brief word from our sponsor, Flip N Out Pinball. If you're looking for a new pinball machine or a used pinball machine, go check out Flip N Out Pinball. All the information will be in the description of this video or audio if you're listening on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. All right, guys, let's get right into it because this has been a crazy whirlwind of events. So first, we're going to start off with the trailer. We got the official trailer for Transformers. We all kind of knew it was Transformers. We all knew it was G1. This was no surprise. We just didn't know what day the trailer was going to drop, but we knew it had to be sometime this week because Media Day is literally a week from today. So a week from today, I will be at Stern Pinball playing this game, and I get to bring all that information to you as far as how it plays, what I'm thinking about the game, if I'm going to get it, all of that fun stuff. But before we get too far into it, for those of you that might have missed it, although I'm pretty sure if you're listening to this, you probably saw it. But let's just watch the trailer one time just to kind of get that all out of the way. So let's do that real fast.
1:59
Autobots, roll out! The Transformers! More than beats me! The Transformers! All right, there you have it. I got to hear Autobots roll out one more time because it just sounds so cool. Ready?
2:22
Autobots, roll out! I love that. All right, anyways, so we got the trailer, you know, and obviously whenever those teaser trailers drop, they were doing this thing for a little while. Like Stern was doing this thing for a short period of time where they would show you something of the game, like a mechanism or something. It seems like they've gone back to just the teasers where it's just, okay, you know what the theme is going to be. Like the teaser is, here's confirmation of the theme. I personally really like when they show the little thing because it gets me really excited. Sorry, that's going to sound bad and someone's going to clip that. I get excited when they show you those little glimpses of the playfield because it's giving you something. Like here's the main mech in the game. Like when they showed the dragon in Dungeons and Dragons, I was like, oh, I might really want this game. And that looks like a badass mech, right? Like they showed it front and center. It was super cool. They didn't do that. They didn't show us anything. But it didn't matter because very shortly after that trailer dropped, I was on a work call. I couldn't pay attention to it. I saw in the corner of my eye one of my group chats.
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Jersey Jack Pinballcompany
Steve Ritchieperson
John Borgperson
Keith Elwinperson
Masonperson
Flip N Out Pinballcompany
Insider Connectedproduct
Pinball Mapproduct
Pinsideorganization
[name withheld pending review]game
[name withheld pending review]game
John Wick (Stern)game
Loser Kid Pinball Podcastproduct
Sonic the Hedgehog (Jersey Jack Pinball)game
Marcocompany
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Texas Pinball Festival (TPF)event
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product_strategy: Transformers will be released in Pro, Premium, and LE trim levels with distinct cabinet artwork featuring Autobot/Decepticon color theming (purple and red) on backbox and side art

high · Leaked Insider Connected data showed all three backbox translite versions; LE features purple (Decepticon) and red (Autobot) color scheme with faction-specific artwork on speaker panels

  • ?

    product_concern: Pokémon Pinball receiving minimal code updates despite new game (Transformers) launching in approximately one week, suggesting stretched development resources or lower update priority

    medium · Retro Ralph: 'Pokemon is getting painful because the next game is out basically next week and what we got was very minor update. So that's kind of a bummer.'

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    market_signal: The Walking Dead Remastered shows very low location placement at 79 Premium units on Pinball Map, indicating poor sales/acceptance in arcade and location market compared to typical Stern release

    high · Retro Ralph live-checked Pinball Map during recording: 'The Walking Dead Remastered... total premiums, it says 79. Really? That's it?... I think it might be... I don't think this game sold well.'

  • ?

    event_signal: Stern Media Day scheduled for May 20, 2026 (Transformers official launch date) where content creators will play and film coverage of game; NDA previously required but may be relaxed given early public trailer release

    high · Retro Ralph confirmed attendance: 'So I'll be going to Media Day next Wednesday... So and I and I will be Mason will be with me. So we're going to do a whole video on that.'

  • ?

    competitive_signal: Jersey Jack Pinball's Sonic (designed by Steve Ritchie) expected to launch near Transformers timeframe, creating competitive buying pressure for collectors/operators with limited budgets; both machines represent 'head to head' competition

    medium · Retro Ralph: 'Right on the cusp probably of JJP's next game... it is interesting for these two companies to almost be feeling like it feels like they're about to go head to head with each other... You've got Steve Ritchie making Sonic... if you're only buying one game this year or two or whatever... I don't know. Are you more of a Sonic fan or a Transformers fan?'

  • ?

    content_signal: Retro Ralph planning compressed, fast-paced Media Day video content following Pokémon template, with editing/publication target of Saturday (two days post-event), plus interim social media content on Facebook

    high · Retro Ralph explained: 'probably won't have that video out till probably the weekend... hopefully if I don't make things too complex, then it should be fast... We're going to experience Media Day as I experience Media Day... I'll try to capture that and reduce it down into something that's like nugget size.'

  • ?

    code_update: The Walking Dead Remastered received v0.91 code update adding Fish Tank Frenzy topper-specific mode (activated by hitting right ramp 9 times to collect 3 heads 3 times), representing limited expansion from John Borg's previously discussed broader development plans

    high · Retro Ralph: 'Fish Tank Frenzy... is a topper specific mode... you hit the right ramp nine times... you got to collect the three heads three times... It's just this new topper mode... it's just a bummer that that's really all they gave us.'

  • ?

    rumor_hype: Community speculation that Optimus Prime toy may feature transformation mechanic (falling down into truck mode then rising back up) based on visual appearance of feet joint structure; unconfirmed and disputed by some claiming definitive knowledge it doesn't transform

    low · Retro Ralph: 'I heard someone say that Optimus transforms and then I heard someone say, no, he definitely 100 percent doesn't transform... it almost looks like something that... would almost fall down into a truck and then come back up... But I don't know. I've heard people say, no, I 100% know that he doesn't transform.'

  • ?

    licensing_signal: Media Day NDA referenced pending license approval, but official trailer with confirmed May 20 launch date and Hasbro logo suggests approval already obtained; Stern used precautionary NDA approach

    high · Retro Ralph: 'they had an NDA for us to sign because it said that they were still pending license or approval. But the fact that they put the trailer out with an actual date and the Hasbro logo is on it... I really don't think there's much of an NDA... I think they did that out of precautionary measures.'

    • 3:27
    And I'm like, man, I just wish I could look at it, please. And then I could read like I knew it was Transformers just dropped. Transformers just dropped. And I'm all, oh, this is killing me. So I'm on a Zoom call. I'm like, yeah, my portfolio is strong to very strong right now, and I think we need to go because the market fluctuations are causing disruptions in this Zoom call. I don't even know what I said. I don't know, but I was like, I had to stay on the call, so I didn't get to see it until after the call, so it was painful. But then as that happens, then all of a sudden I'm seeing a flurry of messages in various different locations because somehow on the Insider Connected app where you can go and look at all your games, Transformers was listed as a title. And if you clicked on it, you would see details about the play field and details about all three trim levels. So clearly, I think if I had to say what happened, there are people that will say this is a control that this is a leak that they did intentionally. That's you're giving them way too much credit. I love Stern and I have lots of friends over there. They're all great people. Someone just made a mistake. They're not controlled leaking it. And I'll tell you why that's a silly thing to say, because they have definitely been in communication with Hasbro, who knows what the launch date is and probably had to agree to that launch date and everything. So to launch before the launch date or show reveal too much before the launch date, that would be, you know, not going against whatever agreement they've agreed to. They definitely set launch times and launch dates and have to get that all cleared through Hasbro. So, I mean, you know, providing all the licensor approval is all there. So like to think that Stern Control leaked it, I don't think that's it at all. I think someone just simply made a mistake and they had the wrong Wednesday. So someone in the Insider Connected team was like, all right, this stuff's all going to go live in the Insider Connected app, and it's going to happen on May 20th. Wednesday, May 20th. Wait. No, it's a Wednesday. No, it's May 13th. May 13th. Oh, yeah, May 13th is the day. So that guy, it is cubicle probably someday. I don't know when. Set that all up. It's going to go live. We're all good. All right, boss man, we're good. And then this guy's going about his day. Everything's great. He's forgetting all about May 20th, right? Because he's like, yeah, my stuff's set for launch day. It's all good. And then George Gomez comes walking through the building. Hey, is there something going on with Insider Connection? And that guy's like, oh, shit. So I think somehow a simple mistake was made. That's it. I really do think that's all. I don't think they do controlled leaks because it would be too hard to do that kind of stuff with and not put themselves in jeopardy I think you can just put that one to bed. It just was a mistake. Now, it sucks because I like surprises. I like to be surprised about what the new game looks like. I want all that. But I will say, I'm not going to show the pictures on this episode just because I feel like there are definitely people that probably didn't see it. And if you want to see it, you can seek it out. It's all over the internet everywhere now. And probably all over Pinside as well. But I just think I want to let them have that time to launch it the way they want that they want to properly launch it. I don't feel like, you know, if anyone wants to show it, that's on them. I'm not going to show it. But if you want to go see it, you can you can pretty much find it pretty easily. But I will say this. I will say I think it looks really cool. Like I'm actually kind of, you know, I am bummed that we had the leak because I feel like I'm not a big fan of leaks. I like to be surprised and all that. But unfortunately, in today's day and age, it's like almost impossible for anything to come out without some kind of leak happening, Which is kind of a bummer, you know, I really do enjoy seeing things for the first time. But hey, I think that those days are kind of over. It's almost impossible to launch something without having it leak somewhere. But anyways, so I think it looks really good. I think it looks fun. I think the layout looks cool. It definitely looks like Elliot Eisman is coming with something that's going to be really interesting for a lot of people. And I'm glad because, honestly, I think there are definitely various different opinions about John Wick and people that like it. So just so you know, if you don't know this, Elliot Eisman is the designer. His first game he worked on or developed was John Wick. And there's some people that don't like John Wick, people that like John Wick. I feel like there's – I don't know. It's like a mixed game. I really like the game, and I really love what they did with the code with it now. So I wasn't one of those John Wick haters. I really enjoyed John Wick. But anyways, so. And I think if you haven't played it since like the earlier code, definitely give it another chance if you can on location or whatever. So this is Elliot's second game and this one's Transformers. But. I think what's cool is I like the fact that it's generation one. That's what I grew up with as a kid. I had, you know, I had Optimus Prime toys. I had a Megatron toy. I had Starscream I had all those like I didn have all of them but I definitely had various different toys and Transformers was something I used to watch on TV quite often So as a kid so it is really cool that they went with the Generation 1 Transformers and they have various different you know sculpts on the playfield representing Optimus Prime
    8:49
    There's Megatron, and Starscream is in there too. There's one other one, but I can't remember it off the top of my head. It's a three-flipper game, so I think that's kind of neat. And the shot layout looks really cool, like definitely unique, not like a typical fan layout. It's a very cool and unique layout. There's the one thing I was trying to like really look at it and try to decipher like how things work. And I'm not going to do that in this podcast. I'm just going to give you my initial thoughts. But there is an Optimus Prime sculpt there in the left hand corner. And it looks like you bash him and then there's a lock that gets lit on the right. But that lock shot looks really cool because it's like a scoop you hit and then the Vuck sends it. I guess you're shooting to get into a yeah, you're shooting it, you're shooting it into this scoop and then the Vuck shoots it up and over into Starscream. It looks like so there's this like loop around that goes all the way back to Starscream. And I don't know where the balls come out of from there, but it looks really neat. Like that looks really cool. And then Megatron has like this cannon thing. And the hole in it looks like it's big enough to shoot a pinball. I have no idea whether it does or doesn't. It doesn't really make sense that it would, but it's hard to tell when you're looking at something from above. But yeah, without getting into all the details, the layout looks really cool, and it's hard to determine all the shots, but there's a right ramp, there's a little ramp in front of Megatron, There's the little right there's a flipper on the right hand side that looks like it can shoot to some interesting shots on the left. There's this mechanism that's above the there's two wire forms that go across the like two wire form ramps that go across the play field. And I can't really fully figure out like how those are fed because there's just a lot going on there. And the right ramp almost looks like it wraps around the backboard. And there's just anyways, if you guys go out and seek it out and see it, I think, you know, you'll find it interesting.
    10:55
    I don't think anybody's going to look at this and go, this looks boring. It looks really cool. So we'll see. The only thing that's kind of tough to determine is I was watching people argue about like the quality of the sculpts and if they looked like they looked like the toys they had as kids and stuff. And I look at them and I go, I don't fully remember what my trend like I had them and I don't fully remember, like what Optimus looked like. Like I know what Optimus looks like, but I mean, I don't remember like what that toy I had exactly looked like. So I'm looking at it and it doesn't look exactly how I remember it. But I also know that there was like a million variants of Optimus Prime. And the other thing, too, is this thing. I don't know what this thing does in the game, but obviously if it's going to be in a pinball machine that it has to be able to withstand some kind of force that it's going to get and hits on it from balls and stuff like that. So it obviously couldn't be the exact replica or it couldn't be an exact toy because it looks like it does things and might interact with the ball in some way. Anyway, but also it's licensed by Hasbro. So Hasbro is going to have the full say in like what that thing looks like. You know what I mean? They're not going to want their toy represented in a way that might not look like a Transformer. So I'm not really worried about like these sculpts not looking good. And most of them, it's just a hard angle to really determine what they exactly look like. But but I don't know, it looks really cool to me. So I'm excited to play it next next Wednesday. So I'll be going to Media Day next Wednesday. So and I and I will be Mason will be with me. So we're going to do a whole video on that. So everything I'm going to try to really just like I did last time with Pokemon. The whole goal of this video is to bring you on this this like journey with me. Right. You're you're you're at Media Day with me and you're going to experience Media Day as I experience Media Day. Anyway, I'm going to do a better job at there's a there's a segment that they do every time, no matter what the game is, where the design team, so the designer and the software engineer, everybody, the mechanical engineers, everyone is up there talking about the game and they're giving you like an overview. So it's kind of like almost a tutorial, some basics of how to play it. And it's pretty cool. Like they do a really good job and they did a great job in Pokemon, Jack Danger and George Gomez did a great job. But I didn't film a lot of that. And it might be boring to watch it in its entirety, but I want to try to capture that and reduce it down into something that's like nugget size. Because I like my videos to move quickly. Like it's entertainment. It's pinball entertainment content. So I don't hang on anything for too long. And that's just the style that I've kind of fallen into. And I like it to be more of like you're coming to my channel to watch an entertaining piece of pinball content. But if you want the longer form, like raw, uncut, then that's probably not me, right? Like that's not – I do some of that, but that's – my videos are more like fast-paced. But anyways, that's just how I like to do things. I think it keeps it fun.
    14:05
    But I'm going to try to figure out how to sort of compress that segment into something that's still interesting for the person that's watching it. And and maybe something that you wouldn't that you wouldn't maybe find out until, you know, Stern publishes like a later video, like they're behind the scenes or whatever, whatever they do. You know, those videos they do that usually come out way, way later. And you're almost like we're almost on to the next game. Like, what is this video? Like, I don't even think they did a Pokemon like making of yet. Right. They do those like making of or behind the scenes things. I don't even think I've seen one of those. So they haven't even done Pokemon yet. And we're on to the next game. So there you go. Maybe they're not doing those videos anymore. I'm not sure. So what's interesting about this whole thing? So this whole day was crazy. Everyone was chatting and talking and trying to assess every little piece of the play field. And, you know, there's definitely things about the game that people don't know, like what things how how things interact mechanically with the ball. I heard someone say that Optimus transforms and then I heard someone say, no, he definitely 100 percent doesn't transform. It sure as hell looks like he would almost fall down into a truck and then come back up. It looks like it because it almost looks like there's like a joint type of thing by his feet. But I don't know. I've heard people say, no, I 100% know that he doesn't transform. So I don't know. Maybe maybe the rumor before was that he would transform. But I don't know. Maybe that proved to be unreliable or maybe for some reason they changed it. Obviously, that was never confirmed, but it was just rumors that we heard that there was some kind of big transforming mech, which kind of makes sense that that would be Optimus Prime. So I don't know. Maybe there'll be some other surprises in the game. But for right now, what I'm seeing and the layout, it is very interesting to me. And I think this is going to be one a game that if you're into Transformers, you're definitely going to, you know, probably want to at least play on location or potentially pick up. Now, they did also leak out unintentionally the models. So we know what the pro it's not the whole cabinet art. It was just the back box. If you tried to click it, it didn't go to anything. But there was Pro Premium and the LE. I will say the – I was looking at these for a while. The Pro is almost my favorite back glass out of all of them, but the LE is cool too. I think the Premium is the one I like the least, but the cool thing about these translates is they always make available for sale the Pro or Premium translates. Translate, you can just buy them. They don't sell usually. You can get them through some shady places on the internet. You can get LE Reproductions. But if you want to buy the officially licensed thing, they always have them available at Marco. You can go to Marco and buy. So if someone likes, like on my Jaws, I really like the Pro Translate. So I have the Pro Translate on my premium Jaws. So you can always do that. But for some reason, I think the Pro is cool, but I like the LE as well. So I don't know what I'm going to do on this because I am a big Transformers fan. This layout looks really cool. So I can see myself definitely going in on an LE on this one Now here what I going My track record not I never I don look at pinball machines as something that going to gain value Like I don't look at it that way. I don't want to lose a bunch of money if I'm going to sell it. But I don't look at them as like this investment that that's going to appreciate in value. It's a depreciating asset as far as I'm concerned in the most in most cases. And I think it's healthy to look at it that way. It's not something that's probably going to go up in value. But I will say, if you follow my track record, if you have bought any of the LEs that I've bought, then you're losing money. And this isn't working out so well. So all I'm saying is buy it because you like it. Don't think you're going to buy it and then, you know, sell it a couple of months down the road for a profit. Probably not going to happen. At least if it's the one I'm buying, then I could never be that lucky because the one that is raising in value or has gone up in value is Pokemon. And guess what? That's the LE I didn't buy. So there you go. So just know that that's how the cookie crumbles if you're Retro Ralph. So I'm just saying outside of that, you know, what's really also interesting is a right on the cusp probably of JJP's next game. So it is interesting for these two companies to almost be feeling like it feels like they're about to go head to head with each other. And I know it's not a competition, but you've got to think if you're working at those companies, you obviously want to have a successful game. So I'm sure there's some healthy competition on both sides of the fence. But I haven't seen Sonic. I don't know anything about Sonic. But I just know that from what I've heard, it sounds like it's going to be another banger for JJP. So I think there's going to be some people that are going to have a hard time figuring out where they want to allocate their money if they're only buying one game this year or two or whatever. But if you have a limited budget and you're only going to get one, like, I don't know. Are you more of a Sonic fan or a Transformers fan? And maybe you got Steve Ritchie. You got Steve Ritchie making Sonic. I mean, you know what I'm saying? Steve Ritchie's the man. So we'll see. We'll see where this goes. But, you know, some people might have the funds to buy both. And then there you go. But I think these two games are going to launch very close to each other. You know, not not not exactly. I don't I don't think JJP is going to is ready quite yet, at least from what I can tell. But I do think we are going to see them launch pretty soon within this window that these two games are going to be out on top of each other. And it will be interesting to see the community reaction to both of them. Because obviously no one's played either one yet. Next week will be the week that we'll finally get to play Transformers. And if it plays the way it looks like it would play, it looks really cool. When I originally looked at it, it almost looked like something that Elwin designed just because he does a lot of those cross playfield things. So that's pretty cool. Like I'm I don't know, I'm excited for it. But getting back real quick to round out the cabinet stuff, the LE, they've done like an Autobot Decepticon color thing just like they did in the old version, which was like 2014. I can't remember what year that is, but the original version, we've got Autobots and Decepticons and it looks like on the back box, the side art on the back box is also Autobots Decepticons. I can only see one side of it, but I can only assume that Decepticons has a Decepticon in the speaker, sort of the speaker panel, you know, the inserts that have the little designs. And then the other one has Autobots. And so it's got the purple and red. So and then on the right side, which is Decepticons, it has Decepticon art. So it looks it looks pretty cool. So it's got this like whole purple and and red thing going on. All powder coated looks looks nice, but it doesn't show I can't see anything below that. So I don't know like what the side art of the cabinets look like. That didn't that didn't get released. It was just that. And then they quickly, I think, realized that they made a mistake and then they got that, you know, they got that taken down pretty quick. I think it was down in the in the I don't know, maybe it took.
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    I don't know, maybe they caught it within an hour or so, of course, like everyone was going to it obsessively to see what it looked like and everything. And of course, I was interested, too, but I was I was I was tormented like I was kind of torn because I like to be surprised with everybody else because it's fun. It's fun for everybody to have that experience at the same time. Now, now, I guess what we have to look forward to is no one's seen any gameplay. No one's really seen the rest of the cabinet art. So there's a lot of cool stuff that we'll be able to see. But for the most part, unless that is an old render of the play field, which it doesn't look like it is, it looks like a high quality render. We definitely have a very good idea, if not a full confirmation of like what the layout and design looks like. So anyway, I'm incredibly excited. I'm excited to go to Media Day. I know there's gonna be a lot of content creator friends that are there, so I'm sure you're gonna see a bunch of content. And we probably won't have the video out. Mason and I probably won't have that video out till probably the weekend. So even though it'll be an event on a Wednesday, we probably won't have that out till Saturday. At least that's the goal. So hopefully if I don't make things too complex, then it should be fast. If I try to come up with a million different new ideas while we're filming, then maybe it won't be out that quick. So I'll try to hone it in. I'll try to keep myself on track, but I'm excited. It'll be fun. I haven't seen Mason in a little while. So him and I have so much fun when we work on location together doing things. And then him and I have another project that we'll be doing soon, too, which I cannot talk about, which I'm very excited about. And I think you guys will be excited about that, too. So hopefully I can share more information on that at some point. But but we've got a couple of things in the works. And then I got to get Mason to Arizona because I want to do a full people have asked for this on my Facebook. They've asked for like, hey, I want to know like all the details about when you remodeled your garage. Like, what did you do? Like, how did you insulate your garage door? Well, how do you keep it cool because you live in Arizona where it's ungodly hot in the summer? Like, how do you do that? So I was going to do a video where I do the whole just like a, you know, Not an MTV Cribs thing, but that's what comes to mind when I think about a tour. But yeah, a full tour of the game room and the things that went into it, things I did to it, the before and after, because before it was literally a garage slash arcade restoration room where I would just sand and bondo and paint and apply artwork and graphics and play games. So it was it was kind of this dual purpose, but I never remodeled it because it was always getting trashed like well. And I used to obsessively buy arcade games to the point where I had so many that it was like a big.
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    Crazy nightmare in there. So anyways, that's neither here nor there. This isn't going to be a full hour episode. I think I'm going to wrap it up right now. I just want to give you this little information, this bite size little nugget of what's going on and how crazy today was, because it was absolutely insane. I was getting hit up by everybody, but I'm just really excited to be able to play it. Even though we won't be publishing content like the main content that day, I'll be taking plenty of pictures and probably some fun videos and stuff, and I'll do that. I'll put that on my Facebook just in the meantime between when we can edit the video. But the thing that's interesting before we wrap up is the launch day when we got invited to Media Day, they had an NDA for us to sign because it said that they were still pending license or approval. But the fact that they put the trailer out with an actual date and the Hasbro logo is on it, I really don't think there's much of an NDA because we're going to be there. And I think that at that point, the trailer will already have been launched. So dealers will see it the day before we'll see it. And I'm assuming the day we see it is also the day it launches, because that's what it says in the trailer. If you look at the end of the trailer, I'll put it up one more time.
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    So if you look at the end here, it says May 20th, 2026. So it's set. You know, I mean, you wouldn't you wouldn't put this out into the world if you didn't have that date all figured out and license or approval is already there. So I think they did that out of precautionary measures just in case the license approval hadn't happened yet. So I assuming we will all see it on that Wednesday So you guys will see it We be playing it But I know you be eager to hear like how we like the game Like how does it shoot Is it fun You know and how much code is in it Because I do think there going to be a significant amount of code because supposedly the conversation internally or some of the data points internally at Stern is this game been in development for a while So this wasn't a game that was done really quickly. It actually had time. So that means that the code probably had a little bit more time to soak. So I don't know like what this will launch with. Will it launch with 0.85 or higher or 0.9? Will it be that far along? I'm not sure, but I think it will be more far along than some of the games we've had in recent history like Pokemon. Pokemon is getting painful because the next game is out basically next week and what we got was very minor update. So that's kind of a bummer. I did have one more thing to share before I wrap it up actually because I can keep just talking forever. I did update my Walking Dead code and I can't remember the name of the mode. Is it Fish Frenzy or Topper Frenzy? What is it called? Topper Frenzy? No, Fish. I was going to say Fish Finder but that's Jaws. That's not Fish Finder. What is it called? Something Topper. Oh, Fish Tank Frenzy. So it's a topper specific mode. So I was I was excited that The Walking Dead remastered got more code because I'm a big fan and I think the game is really cool. Obviously, it's a remaster of an old game, but I like this one. I think I think it plays better than the original. So this fish tank frenzy is a special topper mode. And how you qualify it is you hit the right ramp nine times. Basically, you got to hit it nine times. You got to collect the three heads three times, three times three. Yeah, nine. So it's kind of cool. I got to it twice and then I got like two shots and then I drained. So I was like, awesome, man. So I got to go play it a little bit more. But it was just a bummer that that's really all they gave us. They didn't really do anything else. It's just it's just this new topper mode. And I think they made like a couple of small enhancements. So I'm really hoping I think it's at point nine one now. I'm really hoping that there's more going into this because when John Borg was on Loser Kid, he said all this cool stuff and that they had all these cool ideas. So I hope those come to fruition. The problem is my friend Sean was joking with me. He's like, yeah, you and the five other people that own that game are getting the code update. And I really, I really don't think this game sold well. You can kind of tell because if you go on Pinball Map and you look at like how many games are on location of a new Stern, It's usually a significant amount here. Let's do I'm going to do it really quick just because I'm curious. So Pinball map, we're going to go. I'm going to type in. We're doing this live as I'm on here. So I haven't tried this, but so we're going to do The Walking Dead Remastered. So hold on. I'm doing it right now. The Walking Dead Remastered.
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    All right. So we're going to say, where are these things? All right. So total premiums, it says 79. Really? That's it? No, it can't be that low.
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    Oh my gosh, I think it might be. Okay, it says there's 80 LEs and 79 premiums. I don't know if that could be right, but that's the total.
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    Huh. So that's not a lot. So I'll give you, just to put that into perspective, we'll do Star Wars. No, yeah, we'll do Star Wars. No, actually, no. Yeah, we'll do Star Wars. We'll do Star Wars Fall of the Empire because I feel like that's fair. Let's do Fall of the Empire. So just to put it in perspective, I did Fall of the Empire Pro and it says there's 415 of them. So just put this, so 80 versus 415 and that was, so I mean you start looking at it that way, like I wonder how many Pokemons there are. And now keep in mind this is only locations that have, you know, that use this app. But let's see what Pokemon has because I bet there's a ton of Pokemons. Holy crap. All right. So I did Pokemon Pros. There's 694 Pokemon Pros. So just to put that into perspective, The Walking Dead Remastered is not on location at a lot of places. So it makes you wonder, like, how many of these things exist at people's homes? You know, so I don't know. I wish I knew that ratio. I mean, if it's you figure what it's. I don't know. I'm not trying to do math right now. I'm too tired. I don't even know. So anyways, you get what I'm saying. You get what I'm saying. Not a lot of Walking Dead Remasters. So I'm enjoying the code, Stern. Thank you so much for giving me the code and my four other friends that own the game. So there you go. So one more thing. I feel like I keep saying one more thing. The last thing is, if you haven't watched the last episode of the Roundtable, we had Franchion and Kale was dropping all sorts of rumors and hints about games in 2026 and even a game into 2027. And so he goes he goes into the future of game releases and he has some bangers in there. And then Franchi was just an awesome guest. It was really cool to have him on. He's fun. I really do like Franchi a lot. I've got to know him a little bit. I wish I could get a chance to hang out with him a little bit more. But every time we're at a show, everyone just gets busy and we say hi and we don't get to hang out as much. But we chat every now and then over text or or the phone. And he's just a good dude. He's fun. He's goofy. And I love that about him. And he was ripping on us in the beginning. He made fun of us all equally, which was which was great. So definitely go check out that episode. It's on the JBS, the JBS show YouTube channel. I'll put a link in the description so you can go directly to it if you want. And then if you enjoy the content, give a subscribe because that's my buddy, Jamie, Jamie Burchill. And he runs the JBS show channel. He's also runs the roundtable podcast. That was his idea to get us all together. And gosh, what an awesome idea because we just all get along so well. And we our intention with that show is to feel like, look, you're you're a fly on the wall as we are three friends just bullshitting about pinball. We don't overly prepare for the show. Sometimes we underprepare. Maybe we should be a little bit more prepared. But but I think that's what people enjoy about it, that we're just off. It's off the cuff, like it's just an off the cuff kind of fun show. So anyways, guys, that is all I had for today. I hope everyone is equally as excited as I am. I don't know. I don't hear many people saying anything. Shoot, my audio levels are screwed up. I don't hear anybody saying anything about Transformers negative. They seem to really like it. The only thing I've seen is maybe feedback on the sculpts. But again, it's hard to tell from that. So I want to see it like I want to see it in real life before I go, you know, taking my pitchforks out and burning the whole house. But yeah, anyways guys, I appreciate it. If you enjoy the content, definitely give me a thumbs up. Consider subscribing to the channel or the audio versions on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. And thank you for all your support. I'm having a blast with this. I can't wait to share with you all the fun stuff that happens at Media Day next week. And we got so much to look forward to. We got Transformers. We got Sonic. Like this is a cool, this is going to be a cool like 30 to 60 days in Pinball for 2026. And I feel like there's going to be plenty of fun pinball, not to mention all the fun pinball that just came out. So and Stern, let's get on this Pokemon thing. Come on now. Like if I go, I would be like flying over to the Pokemon company now and be like, guys, what is going on? Like our fans want this stuff. So I'm sure they'll get it figured out. And I'm sure it really probably is them dragging their feet, the license holder. But hey, if I was Stern, I'd be going over there because they have a game that there's that many. You're just like 700 of them on location, right? So people are clearly enjoying Pokemon. So but but yeah, but who cares about that? That's yesterday's news. No one cares about that. It's all about Transformers now. All right. Anyways, guys, thank you for watching and we will see you on the flip side. See you guys. Thank you. Autobots roll out.
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    Autobots roll out. Autobots Roll Out!