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The Pinball Show Ep 190: What Is A Dungeon Crawler Carl?

The Pinball Show·podcast_episode·1h 34m·analyzed·Mar 10, 2026
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TL;DR

Pokemon ships to locations; DCC pinball rumor gains credibility; Circus Voltaire remake speculation.

Summary

The Pinball Show discusses Pokemon Pinball's production timeline and location shipping rollout, analyzes secondary market speculation around Pokémon LE pricing, explores the emerging Dungeon Crawler Carl pinball rumor as a book-to-pinball adaptation with strong fan support, and debates American Pinball's likely Circus Voltaire remake direction.

Key Claims

  • Pokemon Location Pro games are shipping everywhere with early positive code feedback and strong community reception

    high confidence · The Pinball Show host discussing current Stern production updates and location feedback

  • Pokemon LE secondary market prices will likely settle in the $20,000 range for a year or longer, unless exceptional code drives them higher (Pirates of the Caribbean model) or they depreciate back to MSRP

    medium confidence · Host speculation based on code quality as determining factor; references Flip N Out Pinball Patreon discussion mentioning potential six/seven figure values for certain numbered units

  • Dungeon Crawler Carl has sold over 6 million copies as of late last year and is ranked #2 in action/adventure fantasy and #5 in sci-fi on Amazon Books

    medium confidence · Host cites AI summary; sourced from book rankings

  • Dungeon Crawler Carl has a TV series in development with Seth MacFarlane

    medium confidence · Host mentions TV development as supporting evidence for IP viability

  • Author Matt Deniman mentioned a pinball machine being made during a book tour stop, with Tim Kitzrow cited as source of rumor

    high confidence · Dennis explains the source of Dungeon Crawler Carl pinball rumor via Kinesis site and author's public statements

  • Dungeon Crawler Carl pinball would likely feature the audiobook narrator as voice talent

    medium confidence · Host speculation that rumor included securing audiobook narrator for game audio

  • Stern has no future build plans for Uncanny X-Men, James Bond, or Stranger Things due to low inventory

    high confidence · Host citing production/inventory data from Stern

  • Avengers Premium is out of stock at Stern Pinball with no future production planned

    high confidence · Host noting current Stern inventory status

  • American Pinball's next remake is widely rumored to be Circus Voltaire, with John Popadiuk likely involved

Notable Quotes

  • “Pokemon Location Pro games are shipping. Woohoo! Everywhere. So many of those games. You're going to see those things everywhere.”

    The Pinball Show host @ early segment — Confirms location deployment scale; comparable to Godzilla and Star Wars rollouts

  • “I could see them sitting at 20 for a year or longer and do the Pirates of the Caribbean thing. I could see them coming back down to MSRP.”

    The Pinball Show host @ Pokemon LE discussion — Articulates secondary market pricing scenarios tied to code quality

  • “I have only – so Tony, my co-host on Eclectic Gamers Podcast is a big Dungeon Crawler Carl fan. And on the way to TPF last year, I listened to the unabridged audio book of the first book.”

    Dennis (co-host) @ DCC discussion — Establishes personal familiarity with source material via audiobook

  • “It's sort of like that. Like you've got this whole thing and it's just like, it's funny, the character dialogues, it's snappy. Think like Aaron Sorkin style, like, banter.”

    Dennis @ DCC description — Compares narrative quality to establish legitimacy of adaptation potential

  • “If you were to ask me which John Popadiuk game you should build. I would tell you start with circus.”

    Host @ Circus Voltaire discussion — Recommends Circus Voltaire as strongest Popadiuk title for remake

  • “I don't think it's a risk. Damn, that's strong. That is strong. Yeah, as long as it's not absurdly priced or anything.”

    Dennis @ DCC risk assessment — Endorses Dungeon Crawler Carl as viable 1000-unit pinball project

  • “There is no reason to allow the investor class to be profiting at this level. They're leaving money on the table.”

    Host @ Secondary market discussion — Critiques manufacturer pricing strategy relative to secondary market resale valuations

  • “The thing about Multimorphic, though, is if you're true to the book, I mean, we said like GD Donut. Like I've not seen Multimorphic have a game with profanity in it.”

Entities

The Pinball ShowmediaDennispersonPokémongameDungeon Crawler CarlgameMatt DenimanpersonStern PinballcompanyAmerican PinballcompanySpooky PinballcompanyMultimorphiccompany

Signals

  • ?

    product_launch: Pokémon Location Pro units shipping nationwide at scale comparable to Godzilla and Star Wars; described as omnipresent deployment

    high · Host: 'Pokemon Location Pro games are shipping. Woohoo! Everywhere. So many of those games. You're going to see those things everywhere.'

  • ?

    code_update: Early code feedback from location operators for Pokémon strongly positive; players praising collectability and Pokédex features

    high · Host: 'after that gameplay video now that games are getting on location always a great sign viewer when people this early in code all are already kind of singing its praises'

  • ?

    collector_signal: Pokémon LE secondary market pricing speculated to settle around $20K for extended period, with code quality as primary value determinant; references to potential six-seven figure units for special serial numbers

    medium · Host cites Flip N Out Patreon discussion; predicts Pirates of Caribbean-style pricing trajectory

  • ?

    machine_intel: Dungeon Crawler Carl pinball rumor gaining traction with multiple credibility signals: author public confirmation, 6M+ book sales, Amazon top rankings, TV adaptation in development, action figures in production

    medium · Host/Dennis cite author Matt Deniman's book tour mentions, Kinesis publication, TV development with Seth MacFarlane, Playmates action figures

  • ?

    rumor_hype: DCC pinball interest list flooding with passionate community emails; DCC acronym adoption; early supporter list includes prominent players and operators

    high · Host: 'the emails started just pouring in with a lot of passionate people about, and they were doing acronyms, Dennis. Can I get on the DCC list?'

Transcript

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Warning, the following episode contains adult language and screaming goats. Listener discretion is advised. Hey you, listener, viewer out there, it's the Pinball Show, episode 190. Are you ready for this smoke?
0:20
Are they, Dennis? Where there's smoke, there's fire. Oh, there is fire. Fire! Hey, that used to be a pinball machine people kinda liked. Yeah, the little bell on top. Yeah, you know, I'm trying to remember. Did the bell ring? Yeah. Could you make it ring? I don't think I ever have achieved bell ring. Yeah. I only played it a few times, but apparently not well. You got to get right in the right spot. It's like up and to the back a little.
0:45
Dennis, it's pinball time. Let's talk pinball. Have you been doing a lot of pinball stuff over the last two weeks? I know you're going to TPF coming up. I am going. Yeah, I'm going. No, I played some of my games. I haven't been. I think a Pokemon just landed yesterday in Kansas City. Really? Improvisation of People's
1:06
Sup might come second. The Wally Winka Show, Knapp Arcade, Bally Williams, Straight Down the Middle, Bally Williams,
1:42
And he's the star of Monster X fearless. And now, the last couple of weeks they've been working on Pokemon Location Pros. So those have been building. Mid-late March, Pokemon LEs, they just keep on taking forever for this release. Late March, Pokemon Location Premiums and regular premiums for that matter, that'll roll into April, to be honest. I even think LEs might go until late March. And then April comes along, we are going to have the remainder of the Pokemon Pros first run for whatever it is for consumers, non-location consumers. And then April is filled with let's catch up with all the stuff that dealers are going to need, Godzilla Pro and Premium, King Kong Pro and Premium, Jaws Pro and Premium, Jurassic Park Pro. And then they did bump up, remember we were talking about them doing a subsequent run of Pokemon Pro and Premiums in June, that would be the second run, they've bumped that up now into May. So they're aiming on early May, if they can get all of that stuff done in April, early May, because it almost feels like after that we may be getting that second cornerstone of 2026 in June. July comes and they're going to do Godzilla Premium again. The one change that I will note, we were supposed to get some March Godzilla Premiums and they bumped that to April. And then Q3 and Q4 is pretty much everything else. There are no future plans to build the Uncanny X-Men, James Bond, even Stranger Things as that inventory is getting lower at Stern Pinball. They have no future build currently scheduled for Stranger Things. Take that as it is. Also, Avengers Premium, now out of stock at Stern Pinball. And they've all to that one, so that's one that we will not see for a while, if ever. Avengers, it's a good game still. I'd like to get one back. Maybe someday you will. Okay, Pokemon Location Pro games are shipping. Woohoo! Everywhere. So many of those games. You're going to see those things everywhere. I'm trying to think the recent release that was like that, where you'd just seen that damn thing everywhere. What would it have been? Godzilla? Yeah, probably Godzilla. Maybe some Star Wars? Not Fall of the Empire, but over time. There seemed to always be a Ritchie Star Wars around here when that came out. But I mean, Star Wars is such an evergreen title. Locations love it. The good news is that after that they did have that gameplay video released from Stern Pinball and a good-looking video it was a lot of fun to watch the good news is that after that gameplay video now that games are getting on location always a great sign viewer when people this early in code all are already kind of singing its praises a lot of great feedback thus far and that's the game can show you Chris Watt, Katie Lewis, I am Grant Bosno Small & Largely Public Favorites Small & Largely Public Favorites Small & Largely People Check Big & Largely ked

high confidence · Host notes 'everybody's running with the same rumor now' and cites Rachel Ralph commentary

  • Spooky could have produced 3,000 Beetlejuice units and sold every one, leaving money on the table in the secondary market

    medium confidence · Host speculation on Spooky's production strategy and secondary market dynamics

    • Host @ DCC manufacturer fit analysis — Identifies family-friendly constraints at Multimorphic vs. Spooky's willingness for mature content

  • “It's like, this is, this is like me looking at Beetlejuice and like, Spooky, why did you make so few?”

    Host @ Production volume discussion — Questions Spooky's conservative production strategy for high-demand titles

  • “We want more CGC, we want less suey. This is my new tagline.”

    Host @ Circus Voltaire aesthetic debate — Expresses preference for classical artwork over contemporary-style remakes

    • John Popadiuk
    person
    Circus Voltairegame
    Beetlejuicegame
    Tim Kitzrowperson
    Seth MacFarlaneperson
    Tonyperson
    Rachel Ralphperson
    Kenperson
    Flip N Out Pinballmedia
    TPFevent
    Kinesisorganization
  • ?

    licensing_signal: Author Matt Deniman's direct involvement in pinball project licensing seen as authenticity/authenticity advantage vs. corporate IP licensing; compared to Spooky's Rick and Morty creator access

    medium · Host: 'given all of that, it kind of reminds me of like, you'll probably hate this comparison. Let me use Rick and Morty... the access Spooky had because the desire of the creator was there'

  • ?

    product_strategy: Debate over whether small manufacturers should raise prices or increase production volume to capture secondary market value; Spooky noted as leaving money on table with conservative Beetlejuice volumes

    medium · Host: 'There is no reason to allow the investor class to be profiting at this level. They're leaving money on the table.'

  • ?

    industry_signal: American Pinball actively pursuing classic game remakes; Circus Voltaire emerging as consensus rumor choice among community and industry commentators including Rachel Ralph

    high · Host: 'Everybody's running with the same rumor now. It's almost like a foregone... Circus Voltaire as their upcoming remake game'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Tension between classical/period-authentic design vs. contemporary 'suey' aesthetic in remakes; host advocates for preserving original art direction over modernization

    medium · Host: 'We want more CGC, we want less suey. This is my new tagline.'

  • ?

    product_concern: Build quality concerns cited as limiting production volumes during rapid manufacturing scaling; referenced Scooby Doo struggles when exceeding optimal output

    medium · Host/Dennis discuss Bugs' concerns about maintaining quality above certain production thresholds

  • ?

    content_signal: Flip N Out Pinball stream attracted ~600 concurrent viewers with 6K post-stream views; unboxing video reached 150K views; Beetlejuice content performing exceptionally

    high · Host: 'Joel had like close to 600 viewers... Just phenomenal kind of stuff... 150,000 views at this point'

  • ?

    supply_chain_signal: Stern halting future production on multiple established titles (X-Men, James Bond, Stranger Things) due to inventory management; Avengers Premium completely sold out with no restock planned

    high · Host: 'There are no future plans to build the Uncanny X-Men, James Bond... Avengers Premium, now out of stock at Stern Pinball'

    • 5:49
    A lot of fun. Like I could see where that would be almost semi addictive where you're really wanting to try to capture all of them. And then if they do implement special types of things like on the video games or Pokemon Go's like where you get the shiny versions like find a shiny and I can and then the Pokedex apparently is freaking awesome too that Stern's got so I was glad to hear that. isteinine Nevertheless, When can I earn a pinball pinball? I'm People were talking in our last episode, we were talking about like our takes on the collectability, on how this title in particular brings an aspect of collectability that we're, as pinball people, not quite accustomed to.
    7:20
    But we got a lot of feedback on that. Some people heard me out of context, and especially I put like a little, a short, a real social media short form, the dime a hands bit that we did. John Popadiuk, Bob Betor, Knapp Arcade, Bally Williams, Straight Down the Middle, Bally Williams,
    8:04
    and those being the stipulations that I think makes it go 30, 40, 50 to the moon, 100,000 miles. I was listening to the Patreon of the pinball, or the Flip N Out Pinball Podcast. They have a Patreon paywall episode. Yeah. And I was listening to that. And those guys, yeah, Ken was talking to some Pokemon guy, store owner, or something like that, and said yes, they The for certain numbers they could see six figures even seven figures for certain and i thought this is madness but so that's what i want to clear that up because people like is actually it's going to go for forty fifty thousand all these at least i'm like not that if anything i think the alleys as we'll see later on i think they'll settle back down unless this changes hits that pokemon hobby I don't know if that will or not, but if it stays in pinball and a little bit into the Pokemon, I think the Ellie's could, I could see them sitting at 20 for a year or longer and do the Pirates of the Caribbean thing. I could see them coming back down to MSRP. I could see a scenario for, for both really. I think what, what's going to determine that is the legs that it has with code. That's essentially what if it's if it's one of the top 10 best coded games from Stern in the last couple of decades, we might see closer to 20. If it comes out and it's more it's good, but then I think it'll be a normal le kind of thing, maybe with just a hit of collectability because of the IP. But but we shall see. What do you think, Dennis? Uh, yeah, I, so the thing about the, I get it with the, the Ellie numbers and I, I thought that was, and I didn't, I didn't watch the reel, so I don't know if that was as articulated as we did on the main episode where, you know, it was about like, like maybe number 25 is, you know, a $50,000 game because number 25 is Pokemon and Pikachu signed number on the cards. Um, it's squirrely. Uh, I mean, he's not a squirrel, he's a mouse. Squirrely. It's it's squirrelly because the there are a lot of factors like that obviously that number thing doesn't tie to a lot of pinball licenses it's very unique to certain things like like Pokemon another thing is that we don't really at least I don't understand the behavior of Pokemon collectors like how many of them are Pokemon collectors and how many of them are Pokemon card collectors just because a card goes for millions of dollars doesn't mean they have a lick of interest. John Popadiuk, Bob Betor, Keith Elwin, Laser Los, Bowen Kerins, Larry K. Sheats Jr., John Popadiuk, Bob Betor, Knapp Arcade, Ballywin, Straight Down the Middle, Ballywin, But so yeah, we'll see. I personally I don't I think they're gonna they made enough le's here that I I don't think that these are all gonna be my final guess will be many of them will be available for under 20,000 I'll say yeah I think so will it be more than MSRP it's less than a thousand games I can still see sitting above MSRP just because of the license like but I don't know but I guess if you're really you know if you really love Pokemon there's no reason in my head to feel bad about it. www.willywonka.com St đấy Masters Mentor,
    12:39
    remain possible unique The game's got a good pedigree, I think. It looks clean. I'm very interested to get my hands on one. I don't know when, though. I guess when the LEs ship. I'll be able to get my hands on one. Yeah, that would probably be a good guess. I wanted to get a pro for the showroom. Whatever. You got plenty of other stuff you can play. Like Beetlejuice. If it's back from Jolt. Well, if he didn't mess up my butter. What do you think the odds are that he dings that butter cabinet? 30%. Oh my gosh. Probably cry. Nah, you'll be fine. Dennis, I have a question. What is a dungeon crawler crawl? It's a book series. Okay. You're going to have to walk me through this, man, because this is kind of another trending topic over the last couple of weeks. The Willy Wonka Podcast is brought to you by the Willy Wonka Podcast Network. www.willywink.com I'd still argue on this one that this theme is not widely popular, but popular enough that the emails started just pouring in with a lot of passionate people about, and they were doing acronyms, Dennis. Can I get on the DCC list? And poor Cromwell was like, what the fuck is D? Guys, I don't even know what DCC is. Can you at least let? So we felt old. What is this? Okay. Well, and I'm not an expert on it either. So now, I read about it on Kinetis' site. Okay. And my understanding is the source of the pinball machine was the author of the book series, Matt Deniman, was on one of his book tour stops and he mentioned a variety of the adaptations that are happening and he said there's a pinball machine being made. Oh, okay. Cool. Tim Kitzrow is the source of the rumor. There's definitely something there. So, I have only – so Tony, my co-host on Eclectic Gamers Podcast is a big Dungeon Crawler Karl fan. And on the way to TPF last year, I listened to the unabridged audio book of the first book. Why does everybody listen to – the audio book is like where everybody is at with this thing. All of these are in the description below. The link for the book is in the description below. If you have any questions or other questions, please feel free to email me at johnpatch.com. Thank you for watching. I'll see you next time. See you then. Bye. This is a fantasy subgenre. I love those books that says, should you turn to page 29 or wait until page 30? That's choose your own adventure, which is written in second person. But the idea is think a fantasy story like Sorcerers in Magic. I've watched weird porn. Think Harry Potter, except the RPG part means that there are role playing mechanics as a part of the story. Like the people level up. They have stats that they get to do. And there can be potions that modify statistics, like things like that. So a lot of them may be more like equipment. Like here are your boots of quiet footfall. Oh! Boots of quiet footfall? Like Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility. Nothing screams nerd like that. So that's the category. Is this super nerdy? The construct is nerdy. And yes, because there's RPG elements, you might feel it's very nerdy. I like your good role play. That's sort of the premise. So here's – so the story is – it's kind of a sci-fi fantasy blend but – Surprise, surprise. So the nutshell plot which you find out very early in the first book. So I don't feel this is spoilers. I think this would be in any description of the story but skip ahead a minute if you're worried is aliens have come to earth and they wipe out everything off of the surface. All the buildings and everything are eliminated. There was a, when they arrived, there was just a timer and these gates open up for people to go below ground. Anyone who doesn't, didn't go below ground is dead. Are we doing, God, all the fallout, man. It just- Kinda. So, and what they've done is they have gamified earth. Anyone who survived and went down into the tunnel is now on like the first level, and I don't remember, it's like 18 levels of a dungeon, just like playing Diablo. Okay. Where there are levels that you go down. And so you're there and now you're in essentially a video game. The play, the humans are the players. Other planets they have conquered are now the NPCs and the monsters and all of that. You find gear, you level up. They have people who are serving as guides. There are safe rooms and you have time limits to get to the next level. And each level is harder. So Karl is just like an everyman who, but he played a lot of video games. So he gets the mechanic that's being and this is being televised universe wide or whatever. So people are watching this for entertainment. So Karl knows Karl knows what's going on.
    19:14
    Early in the story, he finds a room where there are essentially guides like a tutorial. And they're like, this is how this works. They they want it to be entertaining. So they teach people if they can get far enough early on. I mean, they didn't tell anyone that they had to go below ground. He just happened to see a power walkthrough guide. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's some other stuff, yeah, that, that, you know, you start to learn how to play, so to speak. So it's Karl. Ready Player One feel to it too. Kinda, yeah. Ready Player One, though, they deliberately would go into the virtual world. Yeah. To do the stuff. This is the world. The real world is the game. The real world is gone. It's now a game. The only way to, for him to survive is to make it through all X number of levels of the, of the dungeon. Is that main protagonist kind of snarky and a little edgy, a little with his mouth? That's what I'm envisioning this story needing. Not so much. Not mouthing? A little bit. He's got that, I'm going to stereotype, he's got a gamer vibe. Oh yeah. Like a gamer, maybe a bit of a loser, kind of the motif they've run with him. I didn't say that, Dennis said that. Well, that's the sort of, like he's got like his life- I'm going to say this. Like, his life wasn't great. You have a YouTube video about me. His life wasn't great. So he goes in with his ex-girlfriend's cat, Donut. That's cute. I like that. So that's how it starts. Now as he goes along, he encounters- That's when he curses the Donut. Okay. Got it. Yeah. The cat's name is Princess Donut. GD Donut. Got it. Yes. Okay. Well, so Donut's in his party. And as he goes along, he meets people and he gets, he has a party. It's like a role playing game. You build a party. When you play Dungeons and Dragons, you don't go on an adventure on your own. You play with other people. Other colleagues. He finds other people as he goes along. They have different abilities and different skills and he, you know, and early on you run into a lot of people that can't figure it out or, or like- Figure it out. There's all, it, well, there's, yeah, you got like, there's like people from nursing homes who happen to get down there. Like- Oh man. John Popadiuk, Bob Betor, The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. Is there a love interest with one of the aliens that he has maybe? I haven't gotten to the part with a love interest. Wait until that book series. But who knows what happens in books two through eight or whatever. Well, you'll find out on your way down to TVF. Well, Tony tells me book two is the last book that's short enough for us to do Texas. Oh, okay. Everything else is too long. Get a little drawn out. So this is the last one that's under 16 hours. Is there any IP besides audio? Is there any visual stuff? Is there any comic books? Is there any cartoons? Is there any movies? Is there anything they can pull from or is this all original content they'd have to create visually for a pinball? It'd probably be original content. I think the author also mentioned like there's a graphic novel in the works. There's some action figures that's being made by Playmates, excuse me, like a real RPG, ми
    23:07
    www.ota-com. John Popadiuk Bob Betor Keith Elwin Laser Los Bowen Kerins Lyman F Sheats Jr orbit ramps Automated Amusements Python Anghelo Joe Kaminkow the hell is like these people not only are they like filling up this list but the enthusiasm that they have with like this is almost a sure thing It doesn matter what they put in a pinball machine I in kind of thing It was very surprising John Popadiuk, Bob Betor, The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. John Popadiuk, Bob Betor, Knapp Arcade, And you're opening loot boxes to get your gear as you fight a bunch of goblins and stuff. Like it's all, it's told really well. It's relatable to anyone who's played that style of video game. I mean, I don't read as much fiction as I used to, but like I haven't had, and fun's a dangerous word because this was a very fun, at least the first book was a very fun book, but I was surprised at how good it was much like when I read Andy Weir. There were 35 seulement Andy Weir is like a hard science writer style person. And I read The Martian, not audiobook, I physically read it, and then I've heard Hail Mary, so I know that story. Like, really, really good. And then in this case, it's kind of like that. Like you've got this whole thing and it's just like, it's funny, the character dialogues, it's snappy. Think like Aaron Sorkin style, like, banter. Like he's kind of got that going on. That's maybe the best analogy I can kind of give you. It's entertaining. It's about to get paid. The Wally Williams Show, The Knapp Arcade, Straight Down the Middle, Backglass, Tanyo Klyce, Nowhere is it safe for amateur fantasy footballers to JJ Nice helping out though Jay Dadere, hyper senior from Gracie and an assistant from Dol reside in the New 2014 proceded picture and edited poster of Airplane The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. The thing about Multimorphic is you'd be able to get the level stuff on the screen so you could progress through the IE dungeon. Like that's going to lend itself extremely well.
    27:45
    The thing where I hesitate on Multimorphic, though, is if you're true to the book, I mean, we said like GD Donut. Like I've not seen Multimorphic have a game with profanity in it. Spooky will have no qualms about that. They have no problem with that. Yeah. And so it's not like laden with but it's just like I just don't I don't know if it's family friendly enough for multi morphic and much in that same vein for Stern, quite frankly, even if I think this is too small still for Stern to want to I think they want to stick with things that have movies and TV shows. And if Dungeon Crawler Carl gets one of those, I could see Stern being interested, but they've never done a book. No. And that's what this is, is a book. And so, you know, I don't think Harry Potter would have ever gotten a pinball machine if it didn't have movies. I don't care how popular the books are. Where's our Wheel of Time, you know, pinball machine? And it has a show. I don't know if the show's good or not. I haven't seen it. I don't think so. Do you, if you're running a pinball manufacturer, do you take this risk? I think this one, if we're talking especially a thousand units or less, I don't think it's a risk. Damn, that's strong. That is strong. Yeah, as long as it's not absurdly priced or anything. I mean, I think the rumor included that they got the guy who reads the audio books to do the audio for the game. It's like, this is, this is like me looking at Beetlejuice and like, Spooky, why did you make so few? This was going The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. Trans Eng.
    30:18
    The photo from Kinetisys was wearing a GD Donut shirt. So there's stuff. Okay. There, you know. That seems like a big risk. But if it's small run, okay. I just at one point. Anything you don't know, you're always very suspicious of. And I understand that. Because I'm, and the reason being, I am super mainstream. I am, I am about as mainstream as they come. And that stuff's going to sell better than stuff that's not, generally speaking, less So, yeah, I absolutely would, yeah I would never know Dungeon Crawler Carl and I wonder yeah I don't know I I don't know. AI summary says that Dungeon Crawler Carl has sold over 6 million copies as of late last year. Okay that's yeah I would say that's really good does it I don't know don't know but makes me We want to read the book. So there's that. I'll have to check it out. But at what point in that list of intellectual properties do you get to Dungeon Crawler Karl? I mean, call me an ass, but... Oh, and a TV series is in development with Seth MacFarlane. Okay. Supposedly. I need to watch the new season of TED. I think that's out now. I don't know. Highly ranked, number two in action and adventure fantasy on Amazon, number five in science fiction adventures at Amazon for books. Anyway, no, I get it, but if we're talking a thousand units or less, I think it was probably a pretty affordable license. That's on IPC. He's making a lot of deals lately, so it's starting to take off. So maybe it is a little presumptuous, but there's other signs. Like if it's getting action figures, there's starting to be some signs that that there's a lot of interest in this. And you're getting the I don't know how many people read it versus listened to it. But given how worship the audio book is getting that getting the voice on board, getting the whole you've got the support of the actual creator of the books, not some like third person. It's not like dealing with Warner Brothers. So, given all of that, it kind of reminds me of like, you'll probably hate this comparison. Let me use Rick and Morty. Rick and Morty was already a big deal show sort of thing. But I mean like the access Spooky had because the desire of the creator was there. With the creator here talking about this on a book tour, his involvement will make it authentic. It feels like a weird album. John Popadiuk, Bob Betor, Knapp Arcade, Bally Williams, Straight Down the Middle, Bally Williams, Knapp Arcade, David Van Es, Knapp Arcade, John Popadiuk, Bob Betor, Knapp Arcade, This interview provides an in-depth understanding of what makes a person solchen Pinball creator valuable.
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    The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. John Popadiuk, Bob Betor, Keith Elwin, Laser Los, Bowen Kerins, Lyman F. Sheats Jr., orbit ramps, Automated Amusements, Python Anghelo, Joe Kaminkow, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. I hope so. And based on the interest list alone, I have no doubt that it will do well. So if you're interested, email ken at flippinoutpinball.com and we will put you on that list.
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    Interesting. American Pinball on the news. So since we've talked last, we know that they're doing the remakes and stuff like that. Everybody's running with the same rumor now. It's almost like a foregone, I don't know if people are talking, you got Rachel Ralph talking about it. Everybody's running with the rumor Circus Voltaire as their upcoming remake game. So John Popadiuk that we all assumed because then they got Melvin and all that. And Melvin knows one game and that is the J-pop game. He knows those dookies. So we've got Circus Voltaire. I own it. I love it. So I'm not mad at it. It's a smart pick. In fact, it's probably the smartest pick to do with Papa Duke. You want to say Theater of Magic. Tales of Arabian Nights, like they're... Turd of a gameplay. See, Circus Voltaire, I actually like Tales a lot, but broadly speaking, Circus Voltaire is the most respected gameplay of his, maybe aside from World Cup Soccer, but the art is way better on circus. So circus is the best. Theater magic shoots the best. Theater magic's rules are terrible, but... Pretty basic. But you're right. It's... I would say... I prefer shooting theater than I do circus, but a lot of hardcore, like, competitive people also really like circus a lot. It actually appeals to a lot of different groups, so... Circus is just a gorgeous, beautiful pinball machine. And it's got some fun toys, right? The Ringmaster Raisin' Up, that stupid pop-up pop-up pop-bomber. I hated that thing, but it's clever. The Juggler ball lock kind of thing. Yeah, Juggler. The neon light is really cool. Weird ramp routes, just like, maybe not quite as weird as Tails, but pretty strange stuff. Whimsical. Yeah, very whimsical. Scrolls on the side of the head. If you were to ask me which... LCD in the bottom of the game. John Popadiuk game you should build. I would tell you start with circus. Okay. I hope it's circus because I do think you can move some units if... Man, still, bunch of ifs there. Because if it's circus, you know what any manufacturer is going to want to do. Well, I don't know about any manufacturer, but they're going to try to contemporize these. Is that even a word? Yeah, I think so.
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    So do you keep the... Circus 2.0. Yeah, do you bring the ringmaster... Yeah, Revenge of the Ringmaster. Yeah, do you suey that shit? I hope not. Suey!
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    Like, we want more CGC, we want less suey. This is my new tagline. That would be a good shirt. Suey and the grandma... What was that?
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    Suey, a shit monster. I'll never get over this. It's like someone wanted to make Conker's Bad Fur Day into a pinball machine and they couldn't do it so they just corrupted something else. Suey! Holy shit.
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    Is that corn? I don't remember eating corn. He shoots out corn nuggets. Sorry, Grandma. I don't remember what game was he in. Was it Whirlwind? It was Whirlwind till the day off. Maybe they got confused and thought the whirlwind was swirlwind and it was supposed to be a toilet theme, not a tornado. Okay. Circus Voltaire. Yeah. I think it could do good. It could. But my biggest thing is how classic is it? How well done is an enhanced type of code? How do you bring it into, if it is this year or now, how do you bring it into 2026? And what materials are you using? What's the feel and the build of the game? Is this thing closer to CGC or closer to SUI? Do you think a brand like American, which doesn't necessarily have to sell a huge quantity of games, do you think maybe it would not be best as long as they focused on build Status quo
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    If you're doing that, then you're going to be Alice in Wonderland kind of thing where you have a screen back there. Or Dune, Labyrinth, Winchester kind of stuff. I love that. But it doesn't have to have dots animation for me. But I'm worried about how far it ventures outside of that though. That's all. Well, why don't they let you pick your code? Kind of like how Fathom Revisited wanted to let you pick. The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. I think it's a smart move if it's the case.
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    The Flip N Out Pinball YouTube Stream Wonderful stream, really successful. Bug was in there, which is awesome. Speaking about upcoming code updates, features on the what's coming up. Joel had like close to 600 viewers and for a pinball stream that's like reveal worthy kind of numbers. So nice job Joel. Close to 6,000 post stream views. Just phenomenal kind of stuff. So nicely done. We were doing topper giveaways. Topper giveaways. Fantastic. So, uh, gave a topper away. If I think we gave all kinds of stuff away. I even was willing to give a Beetlejuice topper away if we had hit a thousand viewers, but just like that 10,000 subscriber mark, Joel came up a bit short. He's almost to 9,000. It's getting closer. I think they're gonna be streaming that this Wednesday night with bug I think on video Teaching them how to do it, but the game showed well performed very well People are really loving this game. They're getting the hands on it loving the game I did an unboxing video like a short reel up to 150,000 views at this point. Wow, not bad, right? SLIDE
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    Knew full power. him ifik Khabib Holmes K раз Low Kirk James J. Greer Speaker The Chi Sy Steve Katherine Everybody makes all this money on the second hand and your value of your product stays really high. Or do you make more? Do you make more than a thousand units? We've talked about this before. You can make, like you said, Beetlejuice, hell, they could have made three thousand and sold every one of them. Do you make more? If they do make more, the question is, do they still hold that high value given the extent of what Beetlejuice and Evil Dead are selling for in the secondary market? What do you think? To me, there would be two main considerations if I were them. It would either be up. So if I were running them, I would think this would be my two scenarios would be one, I'd either consider producing more games or two, I would consider raising the price of the ones I produce. There is no reason to allow the investor class to be profiting at this level. It doesn't advantage the company in a meaningful way. They're leaving money on the table. So you either jack your own price up to suck the life out of the secondhand market or go ahead and produce more games. But I know they're very concerned about maintaining the quality if they go too high on the games. You know, Bugs talked about that, I think, like using the example of the Scooby Doo quantity, but they struggled with build quality when they're trying to get that many units out in a 12-month period. So personally, you know, I don't know how well it's going to this not, you know, these products aren't there. There is a tie in to to how the past game has done, but they also are their own standalone things. You know, if they were to come out and say, let's say their next game was Dungeon Crawler Carl, like you can't assume that everything that happens with Beetlejuice is going to just transfer to a thing that maybe half of the people who bought Allそんな вещil한 소리들상 설득울 처�상jawaways고 자신의 해야 고생 Państ 눌러지는 사람들에게 못기늘는 의견을 Rugnak전에 кто 이 책jąttot쳤고 그냥 포기했는지 워싱트의게는 몇� obliged 없죠 wore�き 생각을 먹어�ottle pi centralized in hand realiv��고 했는데요 Bieber, a wallpaper affix rewarded vestavovski player 보퉥자 직장자니 north england's You know, pick your poison. You either keep it unaffordable, but you make the $20,000 or make some more games so more people can actually enjoy your product. Like, pick it. Those are your two choices. I don't think the choice is make the same number and keep selling them at the same price, but that would be if I ran it. I think that PR wise, they're really focused on how they're perceived in the hobbyist community, as they should be because they're a smaller company still. So they need to rely on, it's almost like me as a dealer, I have to rely on doing things above board more than somebody that doesn't have the same type of outlet. So they're very cognizant of that, which is smart. I think that they would rather make more games and increase the price a little bit than increase the price a lot a bit I don think they want that PR They don want to look There a huge risk to it It would not be of the lanes. That's not the lane I would pick, because at some point people will already say, but like the game isn't in this guild values in the eye of the beholder. So I'm I acknowledge this is subjective, but if someone from the outside were to do an analysis of BOM, licensure costs, all that, they will tell you This game is not worth $20,000. It's like literally not worth it. So it's just perception wise people had the money to buy it and to them it was worth it and so they made that decision. But celebrating, I don't see a value for a company, a manufacturer specifically, to celebrate games going for ridiculous amounts of money over what they were charging because that doesn't really help them, not in a meaningful way. This notion of, well, look at all this brand equity. Look at how, oh, people want it. Yeah, it does help them. Yeah, yeah. It's not totally like, like, it's meaningless. It helps future products like no other. Yeah. But it also means it's all, there are a lot of red flags with this because it means there's a huge frustrated population that isn't actually getting the games and what Spooky says they're worth. Well, we hit that now, Dennis, where- That can lead to a bitterness. We get to that now where we have people messaging every week and they're like, hey, you know The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. I was going to say if you want to talk about the video, I'm a fan of Tim Kitzrow. I think he's a great guy. I don't know anything about anything, so it makes it tough. I think that we will see a price increase for their next game. They've already kind of talked about that. You almost have to. You can't be selling $10,000 fricking Beetlejuice. How high they go? I don't think it will be much. They always talk themselves out of profitability. I'm always talking to these guys like, come on, guys. Let's make some money. But they're not – it's not their main focus. The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. The Wally Winka Show, Knapp Arcade, Bally Williams, Straight Down the Middle, Bally Williams,
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    The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. The Sure, sure. They're gonna go. They went at like I would have done 2000 Beetlejuice, but also if I were spooky and this route looks like it's sustainable and like they're like that they figured out the secret sauce of here's what we need to do with the licenses and the theme integration, I would be honestly considering growth, but they don't seem to want to like they don't. And that's up to them. It's a privately held business, but like the the right answer from my perspective is growth. You need to build your manufacturing capability so that you can maintain your quality and build more units. And then you make more money without putting your pricing to stupid levels. But your stress level goes up. That's the problem with that. Not if it's well managed. You hire managers for that. It doesn't have to all be literally like bug overseeing the whole thing, right? Don't you have trusted – get yourself some trusted managers. Get yourself a confident line. Sorry. I'm thinking about my own stuff going on now. Like, oh, God. Yeah, but you – Your issue, Zach, is you want full control over everything. That's the problem, yeah. And to be fair, for a distribution model, at what point would it no longer really be practical for you to be kind of fingers in all the pies? It'd have to, I mean, it's hard to fathom for me. But like Amazon, like Jeff is too busy sailing his super yacht. He's not going to literally manage every aspect of the logistical operation. It's impossible. So, yeah, I, it's fine, whatever, who cares? 2000 is going to sell immediately.
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    Sure, I think so, but have they ever built 2000? I can't remember. Spooky was close on Scooby. It was like 1900 and something. We'll call it 2000, yeah. Sure.
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    But this is a different secret sauce than what they were doing in the Scooby years. Sure. And that wasn't that long ago, but. No. I think that's part of their caution, though, that they remember, you know, early on with Spooky, it became after they finally sold all the America's Most Haunted, starting with Rob Zombie, it became the holy crap, these games, you have to buy them right away before you can even see them. They sell for more use than they do new until Halloween. And then it all kind of went and people would do that because there was still the instinct, this instinct, you have to buy Spooky's right away. You don't get to think, you just have to buy. And then when they started to be turds, people were like, oh my God, I bought Ultraman. Nobody knows what the hell that thing is. And so it doesn't even have the Halloween cache. And then, you know, lots of people who just took, I mean, we know pinball machines that have lost money, but oh my God, like that one was just absolutely, like there were people that were like, I'm not buying another game this year because I took such a bath. I love that spooky pinball listened to people because I think they didn't even know. This wasn't some genius plan. This was a couple of young kids that probably cared a little bit too much about what others think of them. This is me being super transparent. I don't think they would mind my analysis here either. And I think you guys will appreciate it. I think they probably cared a little bit too much about what people thought of them and wanting to people please because they were young, impressionable, and they were really into this hobby, trying to make a successful company. And they overcompensated, which is, I think, what a wonderful thing to do, especially – and they did some with some level of ignorance. We just want to make everybody happy. And here's what people complain about, about our products and other people's products. David Van Es, murdered, We're going to make everybody happy. But then once they realized that holy shit, what these podcasters are talking about was true, what the hobbyists are talking about was true, this is what they want. And they're showing us now secondary market values. They're showing us now with instant sellouts. What I'm excited about is they know what the secret sauce is, so they're going to keep doing that. I think the rest of the industry is realizing, oh shit, look what Spooky's doing. That's what we should, that's what sells games and that's what gets people excited. And I think other manufacturers are going to piggyback off of that and they're going to continue doing the same thing too. So we're going to be seeing IPs that people love, fully loaded games that are very, very beautiful. I think that, yeah, that's kind of where Spooky found its success and they're going to continue rolling with it. And I think that other people are picking up on the same thing or they won't be successful. John Popadiuk, Bob Betor, Keith Elwin, Laser Los, Bowen Kerins, Lyman F. Sheats Jr., orbit ramps, Automated Amusements, Python Anghelo, Joe Kaminkow, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. The Movie That In No Way Deserves To Be A Pinball Machine Harry Potter, what happened with it? Packed? It did great. As everyone said. Stern, Pokemon, people weren't asking for John Wick. They're asking for Pokemon. You give them Pokemon? Look at it. Like, I don't think it's because of Spooky. I think Spooky may have figured it out faster. But I don't think they looked to Spooky and then adapted. I think they were picking up on their sales. I think JJP knew their sales were trash for a number of games now. They're like, our games are fun. People, all the reviews about how they look and stuff are awesome. What are we getting wrong here? I mean, the answer was obvious. You don't attach a four to the end of Toy Story.
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    Nobody asked for Forky. Avatar. Avatar with a kung fu grip. I'm still and they're still if they haven't learned yet, JJP, wake up. It's assets to assets are important. Yeah.
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    That's exciting times. So much excitement that people are going to be like, how can we consume more of you, Dennis and Zach? And it's really simple. All you've got to do is go to patreon.com slash the pinball show and make sure that you're signed up as an official club member. Or be a big baller and go to the Nordman level where you can hang out with us. Happy hour hangouts every month. This month is going to be, what date is that? I'm checking now. www.willywonka.com www.patreon.com I've had a lot of trade offers come in overnight and when I was prepping for the show today, I'm like, after the show I've got to get back to these people. So I thought, why not get back to these people with you people? So you guys can get into the mind of myself on how trade evaluations work, some of the things that I'm keeping in mind as I'm crunching numbers, and some of the information I need, the back and forth, how that works. So if you've ever been interested in how does any of that work? How do you trade in a game? I'm in Minnesota and he's down there, that fellow down there is in Indiana. Does that even make sense? It does. Does it make sense in California? Sure. Does it make sense in Hawaii? No. It doesn't at this time. So jump into that extra content and I'll walk you through the good, the bad, and the ugly of trades and trade evaluations and how they work. And if you'd like that, we'll give you more of that in the future. And if you don't, we won't. So we'll see. But yeah, I got a Harry Potter in on... It wasn't even in on trade. This one I refunded. I gave a refund. A guy had a problem with the lockdown bar. If you see the ad, the lock down bar is like too tight and I think it's because the cabinet, the front board of the cabinet is too wide. I think it's like an eighth inch too wide. They should have probably not put that cabinet together or rejected it or something but they didn't and yeah, it's like rubbing on the lock bar. It works fine but it's just too tight in my opinion and it also, the glass channel for The Playfield of Glass is like not in there as well as I'd want it to be. You know there's some left and right to the Playfield of Glass when you slide in. Some of the recent Sterns there's none and you really have to pull that glass out because it's super tight. But this is a little bit looser than I want. So it's got some, yeah. So we took it back for the customer because it was not up to the standard that it should have been. We took it back and I'm selling it as is now at, uh, what am I in the hole?
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    Right in the hole, a couple of grand. So I'm just trying to recoup as much as I can and not lose as much as I can, but we're going to use that. I'm like, I'm going to lose money. Might as well use this as a, uh, as some exclusive patron content to talk about trades.
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    We got to thank some people, new people to additional people. I think, you know what? Welcome to Team game with spre five and We Bobcat Pokemon. I don't know what Meowth is. He is a cat. Maybe, okay. I like to imagine that that balloon toy is actually him attacking a wife with that little paw. Bobcat story relevant to my life. We got a message from our neighbors. And the neighbor next door, their dog. The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. John Popadiuk, Bob Betor, Keith Elwin, Laser Los, Bowen Kerins, Lyman F. Sheats Jr., orbit ramps, Automated Amusements, Python Anghelo, Joe Kaminkow, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. I've never seen like a pit pug. I've never. They don't. All I see them do is wheeze. I just think of Lord of the Rings. It's just like a twisted, ruinous form, corrupted. And if you see this bug with a lazy eye, but yeah, so there's a Bobcat on a loose. If it attacks Nicole, if it attacks my wife, oh, we gon', it's gon' be in trouble. Oh, fuck that Bobcat up. Go shoot that fucker! Get inside. Okay, thank you, Rob. I'll keep you all posted on the Bobcat sightings. It's like a crazy forest out here. Rob? Thank you! Speaking of scary animals, the panther. Rob, your Pokemon LE is coming soon. There's got to be a panther in Pokemon. Frank, thank you. Falcon. Appreciate your support. Yeah, he's a Pidgey. There's got to be. There's like a pigeon type. Oh, is there? When it evolves, it may be more falcon-esque. Pidge-er-ito. Charlie, thank you for dinging my bell. Ding dong and thank you. Pokemon has lost creativity because they've resorted to like appliances as the monsters. So they do. They have like, look, not that I've been ripping stuff lately, but they've got this stupid, like this is how sad it's become me as a Pokemon person now. Now, I just like opening stuff and cool stuff. Look at this. There's a, it's not a good look of it, but there's a fan. I don't know if you can see it. It's called like fan, fan rotom. So it's a fan. They have like microwave Pokemon and like motor, so they're, they're really, they're stretching to try to, to try to get. That's tough. It's tough. We have to keep coming up with new ones. Look at this one. Check this one out. How cool is that one? For those of you in the video, you've got to watch video. There's a Pikachu. Isn't that cool? Pikachu EX. Oh, and look at this. You'll like this one. This is super nerdy. I've got to do video. Oh, you guys hear that? I'm not super, I'm not Jake Paul all the way. I'm just, I'm a PSA 5, but that's the OG Charizard. Well, hollow. It's not shadowless, you know, but it's still, it's still cool. That's a cool card. See Dennis, I'm a nerd as well. Who are we thinking? You just think Charlie. I'm going to get you some Pokemon to open up. Charlie, thank you for dinging my dong. You know who you are. William! The Dude! Oh my gosh, the dude. I bet the dude's not into Pokemon, neither was I, but dude's a collector like me, so dude will have some Pokemon cards I can guarantee you. Oh shit dude, I'm sorry. I find one in a box of his LE. Goddamn, man. Wanna know? Goddammit, Walter. Wonder which one William's thinking. You fuckin' asshole! You know what? Here's what's sad. I am like, excited to see the game. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, Excited to see which ones randomly Stern sends us as our LE batch.
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    Why does that excite me, Dennis? I do not know why it would excite you. I'm like, oh, I wonder what numbers and which ones they associate with. I'm like stoked for that. I'm going to probably be like, hey, Tim, we're not shipping out immediately. I'm coming over. I'm looking at what LE numbers come in. I'm so excited. www.willywonka.com Adam, thanks for the continued support. Ted! Ted reached out and he said thanks for the new nickname, The Red October. Such a horrible name. Not as bad as Shaker Motor, but it is... Shaker Motor was fun. Red Trimmer. So the Red October, thank you for... There's probably a submarine Pokemon at this point. Torpedo Indiwather. I would not surprise me at all. What's the pushy line? Something shan't react what's a bullets. What the? I don't know. I thought there was a... Something shan't react what's a bullets. One ding or two dings, I don't know. Give me a ping, Vishilly. That's right. One ping only, please. One ping only. That's exactly what I'm like. How dare you? Because there's no point in normally doing a single ping. Check our distance to target. One ping only, please. Oh, these pretzels are making me thirsty. Davis, thank you so much for the continued support. You are our Costanza. Lupus! Is it Lupus? I tell you, if I was running for office, I would ask for the duck penalty for double-blocking. It made me go back and... This is a lot to go on. This is not a society. This is anarchy! Davis, thank you so much. We've got... Now, this happens every once in a while. But we had a return, a goat return back from pasture to the farmland that is the Pinball Show Screaming Goat Club members. We have a return of, and I'm so glad he's back Dennis. The gopher is back, Doug. He's back, Doug, Doug, Doug. Thank you so much for coming back to us, Doug. We were lost without you. The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., The Gofer and that Poodle. It would not surprise me. So what happens when you mix bad genes? Get them ugly ones. Oh shit. Oh, don't the Brits call that royalty? Oh, see. That was a dig at the... Sorry. That was still a fair enough joke We have a new club member Now for the purposes of monetization I no longer going to use the Alan Parsons Project song because boy YouTube does not like us I was like, I saw a little thing, I was like, Zach, you can't keep putting in actual copyright songs. YouTube will immediately detect it. I did not like that. That was the only thing holding us back from monetizing that last. I was like, man, I like the Bulls lineup. Oh, well. So, uh, but we will still roll our royal red carpet out for our newest Screaming Goat Club member. Welcome to the club, Wally. Wally. Walt. Walter. Yeah. He's kind of tough. Wally's tough. We know Wally. Great guy. Fantastic ass. We know Wally. I'm assuming. He's always sitting whenever we're talking to him. So we know a lot of things about, we could, what did we go nickname wise? Low Hanger Fruit, like you said, was Wally. The Pixar.
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    There's not a lot you can pull from that because it's a fairly quiet. Steve, huh? No, not much. Yeah. Makes it hard. Such a wonderful, wonderful film. I was thinking you go Walter White, I am the danger. You could go that. Maybe we could go that a little bit. But, formally here at the Screamin' Go Club, we know what line of business you're in, which makes this so much better. The You are known as the used car salesman.
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    Yeah, but that tool coat. Oh my gosh. Hey, Wally, what's it going to take for me to get you into this Venom Pro? It's only got 200 used games on it. My God, it's got the topper. There's a couple scratches on the cabinet. They'll buff out. Please throw in a genuine bucket plunger.
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    So you are the used car salesman. With greasy hair and everything. Plaid jacket. Maybe he has plaid jackets. I hope he does. Hold on. Kurt Russell used cars.
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    Yeah. I hope that we know he is in the automotive industry. Too thick. Hey, because it's you. Because it's you. You know what? Let me go talk to my supervisor. I don't know. Let's see what the supervisor says. I don't know if we can come down that low. I'll talk to my boss. That true coat though. Yeah, but I'm saying that true coat, you don't get it. You get oxidation problems. Oh, thank you, Mr. Salesman. Welcome to the club and thanks for the continued support. Over on Discord, we've been talking about Pokemon. We'll talk probably more about it once people get their hands on it. And then as a reminder, the next Happy Hour Hangout is the 18th, Wednesday, right before TPF. I still don't think, I don't know if I'm going to TPF. I still don't know. You're not. You know you're not. I don't think so, but I might. It's during spring break. Damn it, TPF. That's why they do it. I suckered into going to Florida the week after is the spring break or starts like Saturday The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. I'm going to have to have a lot of work during that week. Yeah. I'll be in the hotel room doing work. Maybe I make some new friends. You know what, Dennis? At the age of, what am I, 40, 41? It's not impossible to make new friends, is it? It's just sad. It's harder for adults, which is why they gravitate to hobbies. Here's the sad thing. I don't want to make new friends. I'm good. I don't have time for friends. It's such a commitment. Adopt a Golem philosophy. You don't have any friends Zach, nobody likes you. I'm good with not having. It's just so much work. I'm tired. Murderer! What's potatoes, Princess?
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    So what did we get from that? Okay. What's it doing this dungeon crawler, Carl? Who's he? God damn it, don't ask. Is he taking the Princess? Oh my gosh. I think that, oh yeah, we're about to end this show without doing what people say. Princess. I can visit a princess, Precious. Princess Peach. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for Pinball Market Trance. I like your style, dude. Let's jump into it. Trending up this week, Avatar, the battle for Pandora. Must be a typo. I don't think this should be true, but numbers don't lie. I only report the facts. For whatever reason, we're selling more Avatar in the last couple of weeks. Avatar! Haven't sold one of these things in months! Now all of a sudden people want Avatar. Not even any Avatar. They want Avatar CE. I shit you not. We've sold three avatar CEs in the last two weeks. That's got to be some kind of record for this whole year for any dealer to sell three avatar CEs in two weeks. It's got to be. I should have a little plaque in JJP's factory. It's like the seller of the month kind of thing. I'm sure they have one up in the cartwheel conference room or whatever one they named. It's got to be. But I think my only guess is that now that so many people are getting Harry Potters, and remember, viewer, a lot of people getting Harry Potters are first time pinball owners. They love the Harry Potter franchise so much and everything around it that they are buying that pinball machine. I think that they are so happy with that purchase that they're saying, what else is this company making? And they see something as beautiful, rightfully so, as Avatar CE is, and they're going in on that. And I can't argue that having those two games beside each other is a fricking pinball orgasm, visually speaking. I mean, they are beautiful, beautiful, just drop dead gorgeous games. So I think that's a lot of it, actually. But I was just very surprised by Avatar CE's. Even the price on the secondary market, it has not continued to like go down on that Please subscribe to embaixo of my channel for previous videos and crash the like button!!
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    D- Catholics have hostedать the first rare event of 2018. 08 September 2018 Closed time at 13 Elmwood Square, L.A. Loving the grand design, Vend 기억, departing indie Silicon Dynamics. This is what dealers are doing? No they're not. They've created a little bunch. I don't know how great of a look it is, but a lot of them are positioning what these Pokemon LEs are going for in the secondary market, and they're saying, you know what, maybe I can't sell this thing publicly for $20,000. People will poo poo me if I do that. Some dealers are like, I don't give a shit. Watch me cook. And they don't give a shit and they'll just be like, well you know, I only get a couple some more Mur^^ W workout D 暴 ützen
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    We'll be right back. The Valley Company, Subsidiary of Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., Mirco Playfields, Tim Kitzrow, Scott Danesi. Out of their free will. Is that too much to ask?
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    But they're bundling. Training up is bundling. How do you feel about this practice of bundling six Ellie's just to get your Pokemon Ellie?
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    I mean, it's pretty crass, but... Crass, okay. The level of crass, then. Yeah, I mean, I just don't...
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    I guess if you've just got way too much money and you're desperate for that Pokemon, maybe they buy for it. I wouldn't even want to deal with that inventory. What am I going to do with that? How many people are ready to take six games in? One of them was like two Star Wars LEs. So it's like, come on, dude. You know that whoever's buying this is going to be selling that on the secondary market at a lot.
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    I don't think necessarily it's a good move. I don't think it's a good move for Stern. But some of this stuff shouldn't be getting sold at MSRP at this point. That's another argument. Yep, yep. That's another argument. But the dealer knows what the rules are. Yeah, I get it, but this is why the rules I crafted are kind of dumb. Because you're getting people trying to get cute, but you end up looking like a puggle. Because this looks really, really ugly. How do you feel about the dealer doing it? I mean, that's the only reason why there would be a bundle would be the dealer. Like there's no other, like no one else would have to jump through such a stupid... I know I'm stupid, but I don't say Pokemon LE is $25,000 and be done with it. You think it's fine for the dealer to do that though? Like no, I think it looks like trash. Okay, so you do think it looks bad? Yeah, full on puggle. Okay. Like it makes me want to be a Bobcat. Oh, attack that bundle. I hate stuff like that. I don't think it's a good look. That happens in watches. Really? Not full on bundles, but they make you, they won't do it in a bundle, but they make you And I'm just maybe if I was a Richie Rich, I would think, oh, please treat me like shit. I can't please kick me some more, daddy. Like, I don't know what that's supposed to be, but I find it incredibly tasteless. I'm surprised that because Stern, in my opinion, has gotten a little loose lately on some of these dealers, the way they're getting rid of games. Not that I've had discussions with them about it, but some of them get a little loose. Like, I know that some of these dealers do some of these are posting these bundles. I know that they have showroom games with three, you know, three plays. So it's I don't, I don't get the. I don't get it. I don't like this. This you like the, you know, this minimum we've talked about before. I don't agree with these companies setting minimums on dealers. I think it's ridiculous. It's an artificial way to try and save, preserve equity on. Yeah. It's not. If you're some of those dealers that's ever deal some skittish bullshit about λη partout, Star Warsющ stark bang station, I like the minimum, as I've said before. Totally fine with the minimum. I think it does work. It works whenever it is supervised. Whenever it is enforced, it works. If it's not enforced, then it becomes a giant effing mess. Right. But I do feel for a – you see, Zach, I have sympathy. I feel for a dealer. Do you have sympathy for me? I have a, well, you know, imagine someone's like, you know what, it's LEs, it's LEs. People are like, I got, you know, okay, this shouldn't be an issue. And if like someone's sitting on like 10 Fall of the Empire LEs, it's like at some point, it's just too much money tied up. And you can't just sit there forever waiting for someone to be dumb enough to pay MSRP. You shouldn't have to. I see both sides. I see both sides because. It's wrong. They didn't force me to buy anything. I chose to buy what I bought. I might have made a bad call on a certain title. The Normal businesses get to run a sale at some point. Sure. It's not on them. They made their money. They need to shut up and let you make yours. If you can't make it, they should let you at least get some cash back out of it. That's why I feel the way I do. I think you might have discussed that. I could tolerate the minimums if it was for a time period. Time period, yes. Yeah. The minimums are enforced for 24 months or something. Then after that, just shut up and let it go. No. Everyone needs to know and play by the same rules. Yes, absolutely. Like three years, but yeah. Okay. Thank you for coming to my Bobcat Talk. Also trending up this week are the Flip N Out Pinball Performance Hats. They're not trending up. We had hats, baby! Well, we sold more than we did a week before. We didn't sell any. They're trending flat. Numbers don't lie. They're not flat. They're curves. Okay. That's good. And PVC. This ain't no embroidered shit. Yeah, that looks like genuine plumbing pipes. This is good stuff right here. Cost more, too, unfortunately. Hats are expensive to buy. thanks for watching about well more about We're still settling at about $18,000, $19,000, $20,000 for a random LE number. So I think that is good because we didn't know, what, two weeks ago, we were like, where are these going to land? We couldn't even believe they even got up to $20,000, but they were surpassing that in some instances. Some because I had some people call me saying I'm lying about the sales that I've seen, Certified sale numbers 27, 28,000, two that I know of that sold. So I'm just lying. You know what my response, I think we talked about it in half air hangout. I was like, why do I give a fuck? Why would I do that? But yeah, but settling around 18 to 20,000 at the moment, I still see it coming down. I can see it going up. I can see it coming down. We talked about this, but that would be objectively trending down a little bit. I still think they could come down some more. I really do. I could see them settling all the way in at 13. I could. The scenario I think is going to be a little higher now, but I could. But there are some of those numbers I don't think so. All trending down this week, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. What, me? Yeah, Al. Sorry. Been through the looking glass. Where's that camera? I didn't like what I saw. Oh shit. I have to go back to my job at the call center. A Puggle is the Alice in Wonderland version of a dog. They told me it was a white rabbit. Puggle! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland are in the low 11s. They are dropping. So they're below MSRP. I don't even know if that's with or without Topper. If you wait for that, who knows? www.willywonka.com Those toppers are going over like $3,000 plus dollars. So we got this thing marked at $13,999. It's going, I think, online, I'm advertising it for $4,600, $14,600. So this is like a savings of $600, $700 bucks. I'm giving you, viewer, bye-bye-bye. Bye-bye-bye! Bob Kidd. And as always, I'm just here to report the facts because numbers don't lie. I ain't got time to lie, people! On Pinball Market Trends.
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    Dennis, where can people catch you? I'll catch you. You can always email clickthegamerspodcast at gmail.com. Yeah, or you could follow us on Facebook, Instagram, all of that stuff. YouTube, please, subscribe. We're trying to get to 10,000 subs before Joel does. I'm embarrassed of that YouTube channel. I don't know mathematically we even could ever catch it, but I'm calling it out here. If you appreciated my beef stick stuff- That's right. Give it YouTube. You don't have to watch. Let's get the subscription and turn off the little bell. We didn't even talk about how popular that Patreon episode was last. Damn. Wow. That one was like, it was like Beetlejuice as a theme. It was a guaranteed hit. The floodgates. There was no reason to even debate that that was going to be popular. Yeah, they opened up and a lot of members from that last episode, a lot of new members. So thank you for that support. You can go to patreon.com slash the pinball show to sign up today. Do that. Damn, we get enough members in there. I'm going to have to really shift a lot of my work focus over to that, to providing the pinball show stuff for you guys. You guys are doing good. All right. Oh, yeah, thepinballshowatgmail.com if you need to email. Straight Down the Middle video series I do on YouTube. The sponsor of this show is Flip N Out Pinball. When I buy my pinball shit I buy from Flip N Out. From toppers or Brainserios I've got it figured out. Flip N Out, figured out. When I make a pinball I make Flip N Out. Flip N Out, figured out. When I buy buy buy I buy from Flip N Out. Buy buy buy! So make sure to buy buy buy and show some love to Flip N Out. Pinball, buy your pinball machine, your arcade machine, your whatever it is. A lot of stuff. Dennis, I cannot wait to show and tell you all the stuff that I'm trying to invest in for Flip N Out Pinball this year. New website in the works. Yeah, new team members are looking to join. Not me. New shipping procedures and new ways to ship and trade in pinball machines. DHL. There's all kinds of cool stuff. I'm getting ready to, speaking of purchasing, getting ready to buy a big pinball collection. Scared the shit out of me. Like, we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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    Ugh. Mm-hmm. Ugh. And logistics to try to get 40-plus pinball machines from... Ugh. Whew. Need another back surgery. The product showcase this week. What do we want it to be this week? Product showcase.
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    I mean, I don't ever pick the product showcase. I know. Because it's not my showcase. I guess it's the hat. The Walking Dead Remastered Alien Premium, Medieval Madness Merlin Edition, Harry Potter, We actually I think have April runs of Arcade and Wizard and maybe CE. So get in on those while you can before it spaces out to June, July and stuff like that. That thing's going to keep selling for a while. King Kong, Jaws, Star Wars Fall of the Empire, pre-owned games, go to Flip N Out Pinball Facebook page as of right now. D&D, Metallica Remastered, just all the games. What else? Oh, I sold that GTF. GTF! The pre-owned one. flows tour and Greg at FlippinOutPinball.com or Ken at FlippinOutPinball.com. Greg does a lot of tech warranty stuff, a lot of trade evaluations. Ken does the interest list stuff, general sales as well, or Nicole at FlippinOutPinball.com. I think we have a billing at FlippinOutPinball.com. And then hopefully here soon we'll announce some new team members and some new changes going forward. Dennis, teach these people something. American Pinball. It's me, the Nordman. Why are you turning down the path of J-pop? Circus Voltaire is a silly place. Tis as silly as the puggle of pinball machines. You should be making Whitewater 2.0. It is what the people want. They want ramps, not ridiculous little jugglers. The way you like it is the best thing you can do in your life. I hope you enjoyed this episode. I hope you enjoyed this episode. And I hope you liked You must not touch me, Karl. I am Princess Butterworth Donut the Third.