Stern Pinball's Flippin' Entertainment Centers at Revenge Of

Stern Pinball·video·5m 52s·analyzed·Mar 8, 2024

Analysis

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TL;DR

Revenge Of combines comics, pinball, and community in LA with Stern Army verification.

Summary

Revenge Of is a comic book store/pinball arcade/community space in Los Angeles's Glassell Park neighborhood owned by three former television industry professionals. The venue serves as an official Stern Army location, hosting leagues, tournaments, women's events, and community programming while maintaining a family-friendly, inclusive environment. The owners emphasize immersive branding, event production, and creating a welcoming space for both newcomers and experienced pinball players.

Key Claims

Revenge Of owners started collecting pinball machines in 2020 during pandemic lockdowns in Los Angeles
high confidence · Direct statement from owner about venue origins
Revenge Of is an official Stern Army verified location
high confidence · Explicit statement by Tyler White, league director
Revenge Of hosts women's tournaments monthly with new female players participating regularly
high confidence · Tyler White states 'I host women's tournaments here once or twice a month, and every tournament we're getting new girls'
Revenge Of is celebrating two-year anniversary with 36-hour open play event and Jaws tournament
high confidence · Owner describes upcoming anniversary weekend plans
Stern Insider Connected leaderboards have driven player participation at Revenge Of
high confidence · Tyler White: 'the implementation of the Insider Connected leaderboards on the Stern machines—it's really been a way for us to drive players'
Large pinball league community exists across Los Angeles with multiple leagues
high confidence · Owner states 'there's a ton of pinball leagues all over' in LA

Notable Quotes

“you're walking into your local geek bodega. You can pick up a sandwich, you can grab a comic, you can sit and play a pinball game in the middle of your day.”
Revenge Of owner/operator @ opening — Core value proposition and venue positioning
“We wanted it to be like a 360-degree world you stepped into—where everything Revenge of branded, top to bottom.”
Revenge Of owner (television background) @ mid-video — Demonstrates immersive branding strategy derived from TV/production experience
“Stern is an amazing company that really puts in a lot of effort to bring pinball community to life.”
Revenge Of owner @ mid-video — Positive endorsement of Stern's community involvement
“I'm essentially like everyone's pinball best friend. We just try to be the most welcoming league, in the sense that I want people to come here to learn pinball for the first time.”
Tyler White, league director @ mid-video — Defines venue philosophy and inclusivity approach
“We've been very excited at the implementation of the Insider Connected leaderboards on the Stern machines—it's really been a way for us to drive players to come in and participate in a casual competitive nature.”
Tyler White @ mid-video — Indicates Stern feature adoption and business impact
“We really are striving to create a communal space for people to come hang out, have a drink, have a bite to eat, play pinball, play a game of Magic.”
Venue representative @ closing — Multi-purpose venue positioning and revenue diversification
“We really like the fact that people can feel safe in expressing their fun.”
Venue representative @ closing — Core community values and safe space positioning

Entities

Revenge Oforganization Tyler WhitepersonStern PinballcompanyGlassell ParkorganizationStern Armyorganization Jawsgame Insider Connectedproduct

Signals

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business_signal: Los Angeles pinball market shows robust league activity and community infrastructure across multiple venues
high · Owner states 'there's actually a lot of great pinball players in the LA community—there's a ton of pinball leagues all over'
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community_signal: Stern Insider Connected leaderboards successfully driving player participation at Revenge Of location
high · Tyler White: 'the implementation of the Insider Connected leaderboards on the Stern machines—it's really been a way for us to drive players to come in and participate'
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event_signal: Women's pinball tournament programming attracting new female players monthly at Revenge Of
high · Tyler White: 'I host women's tournaments here once or twice a month, and every tournament we're getting new girls that are having their first experience with pinball tournaments'
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community_signal: Stern is actively supporting location-based pinball venues through official verification program and community development
high · Owner states 'Revenge of is an official Stern Army verified location. Stern is an amazing company that really puts in a lot of effort to bring pinball community to life'
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event_signal: Jaws 50th Anniversary pinball machine launch event at Revenge Of with tournament programming
high · Owner describes two-year anniversary weekend featuring 'Jaws tournament with the first Jaws machine in our store' and extended 36-hour open play event

Transcript

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[Music] what you walk into revenge of you're walking into your local geek Bodega you can pick up a sandwich you can grab a comic you can sit and play a pinball game in the middle of your day revenge of is a comic book store SL pinball arcade SLC Community Gathering space in the glassel Park neighborhood of Los Angeles so the three of us that are owners here at reveng of come from the television industry we started collecting pinball machines back in 2020 as Co obviously shut down everything here in Los Angeles you couldn't go anywhere to play we ended up collecting quite a few pinball machines on our own between the three of us so we decided why not make them available to the public and what goes better with pinball than comics and uh visual [Music] narratives so the initial idea of the space was to be a place that kind of has everything that you would want uh for a nerd but then we also thought it would be cool to maybe have a spaceship element to it so that's where the the first pinball room came to be that's kind of the the spaceship uh of the bodega you know there were already uh pinball locations that were in bars or in restaurants and we decided let's do something different our television background uh really kind of glued us into the whole branding thing we wanted it to be like a 360 World you stepped into that everything reveng of branded top to bottom they r a different artists to create new designs I'm not repping it today but I have at least 10 different shirts at

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home so here we with Vena we are an official Stern Army verified location Stern is an amazing company that really puts in a lot of effort to bring pinball Community to life there's actually a lot of great pinball players in the LA Community there's a a ton of pinball leagues um all over and it was important to us to kind of uh make our own Mark in the community and and create another space for everyone my name is Tyler white I'm the league director here at revenge of um I'm essentially like everyone's pinball best friend we just try to be the most welcoming league in the sense of I want people to come here to learn pinball for the first time whether you're that player whether you've played pinball for a decade plus this is a league that can kind of cater to everyone everyone shows up people get paired up randomly you play and essentially after 2 weeks we take everyone's scores and we um put them into divisions so in divisional play you get paired up against people who you know scored similar to you scored you know in your range I host women's tournaments here once or twice a month and every tournament we're getting new girls that are having their first experience with pinball tournaments they want to go to a space where they can feel comfortable and dip their toe in the water this is a familyfriendly place all I just can play we try to make it fun we've been very excited at the implementation of The Insider connected leader boards on the CERN maches has really been a way for us to drive players to come in to participate in a casual competitive nature as they're playing [Music] pinball so we've become kind of well known for our um event programming and as production designers and and production people we kind of go all out when it comes to our events uh big parking lot parties and bringing other vendors in and food trucks and things like that this weekend's our 2-year anniversary and to celebrate we're doing 36 hours of uh straight open Play time we're going to have a Jaws tournament with the uh first Jaws machine in our store we wanted to bring out the Jaws machine kind of cover it up and just leave it out for a whole day and just let people get excited about it we were able to like also get some Jaws board games and we've got some fun Graphics that we're throwing up and everyone's really excited for this new Jaws machine so we're we're stoked four 2