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FLOG #28 Pinball Expo 2023 Chicago

Dutch Pinball Museum·video·21m 8s·analyzed·Nov 27, 2023
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TL;DR

Dutch Pinball Museum's Expo 2023 Chicago vlog featuring Hall of Fame visit and industry encounters.

Summary

Dutch Pinball Museum team visits the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas and then travels to Pinball Expo 2023 in Chicago. They document gameplay, meet industry figures including American Pinball's David Fix and actors from Galactic Tank Force, discuss their museum's collection strategy, and announce they've ordered a Stern Venom machine for their facility. The vlog captures behind-the-scenes expo culture and interactions with pinball community members.

Key Claims

  • Dutch Pinball Museum ordered a Stern Venom Pro machine that will be delivered soon

    high confidence · Dutch Pinball Museum staff member speaking directly about their recent purchase: 'We even ordered the pro, which will soon be delivered to the museum.'

  • Venom is described as 'a lovely player' and 'really great' by the Dutch Pinball Museum team

    high confidence · Dutch Pinball Museum staff after playing Venom machines at the Hall of Fame: 'what a bloody fast box, that's really great' and 'I think it's a lovely player.'

  • The museum prioritizes acquiring machines in excellent condition that play well over quantity

    high confidence · Dutch Pinball Museum philosophy statement: 'we'd rather try to get a 100-caster, a completely point-gave condition, and play well. I can also have 600.'

  • American Pinball hired professional actors to appear as character animations in Galactic Tank Force

    high confidence · Direct observation and conversation with David Fix at American Pinball factory: 'Nice couple, all actors hired by American Pinball, by David Fix.'

  • The origin of Stern's 'wedge head' cabinet design was to allow closer cabinet spacing so players' elbows wouldn't interfere with button operation

    medium confidence · Explanation provided by a Stern representative at the expo: 'the experts didn't want the buttons to be in the way, so they put the cabinets closer together' by angling the heads.

Notable Quotes

  • “We even ordered the pro, which will soon be delivered to the museum. And it's really, yes, I think it's a lovely player.”

    Dutch Pinball Museum staff member @ ~4:20 — Direct confirmation of museum's Venom purchase and positive reception of the game

  • “what a bloody fast box, that's really great”

    Dutch Pinball Museum staff member @ ~3:50 — Enthusiastic assessment of Venom's gameplay speed and quality

  • “we'd rather try to get a 100-caster, a completely point-gave condition, and play well. I can also have 600.”

    Dutch Pinball Museum curator @ ~8:30 — Articulates museum's acquisition philosophy prioritizing condition and playability over quantity

  • “I said, you not going to believe this guy game over 20 years ago it was my first pinball machine at Twilight Zone”

    Pinball Hall of Fame founder/staff member @ ~10:15 — Personal origin story connecting to Twilight Zone as gateway machine for collector

  • “We're trying to promote girls in pinball. That's the whole purpose of it. Should be more.”

    Members of Sisters group promoting women in pinball @ ~32:40 — Community initiative to increase female participation in pinball gaming

Entities

Dutch Pinball MuseumorganizationPinball Hall of FamevenuePinball Expo 2023eventStern PinballcompanyAmerican PinballcompanyDavid FixpersonVenomgameGalactic Tank Forcegame

Signals

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    product_launch: Dutch Pinball Museum confirms purchase and imminent delivery of Stern Venom Pro machine

    high · Direct statement: 'We even ordered the pro, which will soon be delivered to the museum.'

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    sentiment_shift: Dutch Pinball Museum expresses strong positive sentiment about Venom as a playable game, despite known secondary market issues

    high · Multiple positive descriptors: 'bloody fast box,' 'really great,' 'lovely player' when discussing actual gameplay experience

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    venue_signal: Pinball Hall of Fame maintains operational arcade with playable machines and hosts international visitors

    high · Dutch museum team documented extended visit with gameplay on multiple machines

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    community_signal: Sisters in Pinball group actively working to promote increased female participation in pinball gaming

    high · Direct interview with group members stating purpose: 'We're trying to promote girls in pinball... trying to get more women involved'

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    design_philosophy: Stern's wedge head cabinet design originated from practical ergonomic constraint—angling the heads to allow closer cabinet spacing without interfering with player button operation

    medium · Explanation from Stern representative about intentional design trade-off for space efficiency

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Transcript

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0:00
So, we're back in Las Vegas. Pinball Hall of Fame. We've been there last year. So, another story to tell than the last time. Otherwise, it's just as good to show the video from last year. We're here. This week we're going to the Expo in Chicago. So, if you're in America anyway, even though the distances are very large, you're going to the Pinball Hall of Fame. Yeah, Flipper, it's still cool. We're going in, trying to do it differently than the other times. We'll see what happens.
1:21
You made our day and I made yours. I'm glad you started. Here we are again. Let's take a walk. We've seen it a bit last time.
1:46
You can find it on our channel during the film. We're here at the Pinball Circus. We came here and the machine we were playing for was on a break for two months. It couldn't be played. This man from Pinball Professionals had made it in literally five seconds. We could still play it, but we had some problems. So we could play it for a while, which was very special.
2:20
Roadrunner, we could play it for a while too. But he didn't do it very quickly. It seems that the briefing was made of it.
2:29
Pinball Circusvenue
Twilight Zonegame
Pinball Professionalsorganization
Sisters in Pinballorganization

event_signal: Pinball Expo 2023 Chicago featured manufacturer presence, industry figures, and professional content creation; attracted international attendees

high · Dutch Pinball Museum's comprehensive video documentation of expo interactions and gameplay

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    manufacturing_signal: American Pinball invested in professional actors to enhance game animations and character presence, supporting broader marketing and promotion efforts

    high · Observation of professional actors at expo and factory tour discussion of casting decisions by David Fix

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    content_signal: Dutch Pinball Museum produces ongoing video content documenting pinball tourism, venue visits, and community interaction

    high · Multi-part vlog series covering Hall of Fame, Expo, and factory tour with narrative storytelling

    • It's all circus. Stern once built a decor for one of the fairs. And they kicked it at the Pinball Hall of Fame. I said, why don't you just send it to the Netherlands in a container? We know something about that too. Very nice is, four Venoms on the ride, the pro and the premium. We just played it, what a bloody fast box, that's really great. We even ordered the pro, which will soon be delivered to the museum. And it's really, yes, I think it's a lovely player.
    3:08
    I just played this one, I said it last time, playing honkball, I think it's so nice. STIRN, flipping I'm going to play you a little bit of the 40 sound. Oh, and this one. They have a good relationship with the Nielsen Sterns. I've been told once, and maybe they've told it before, they call this a wedge head. And that's because the experts didn't want the buttons to be in the way, so they put the cabinets closer together. That's what we came up with. If we make the heads a bit slanted, they can, say, opposite each other. There is always a distance between your flippers. And that's how the players can just press the button. Because, yes, space is space. And that's where the wedge head came from. We met this gentleman at the expo. And he's doing some repairs here for the EM generation. This is the guy who came up with all these cool things, which we made our own version of in the museum.
    5:01
    Not this year, not this year. So 10 up, was it a wish? You have a list, make something, do they have a specific list? Do this or do that or you just work on them It doesn work so I have to figure it out right Oh yeah That all I know That all I know You will figure it out I will figure it out Yes Thanks, and see you again. Yes, bye. We also have very nice t-shirts for sale in our shop. And then I sometimes order 100, and then you get an offer and a price, and then you have to sell it. And there's a very small march on it, yes, because they also like it when you sell it. And then I sometimes get 100, and then you get an offer and a price, and then you have to sell it. And then there's a very small march on it, yes, because they also like it when you sell it. I'm going to take a look at a very small myshop, because they also like it when people wear your t-shirt. If you buy 100,000 of these at the same time, you'll get a very nice discount. But where do you load all those t-shirts? I would say I do storage wash, inventory. Who doesn't know storage wash in America? And then you do a garage box rental where you put all your t-shirts in and if you need them, you take them out. No, we put it in the middle of the museum.
    6:05
    And there's a lot more. I'm a fan of the game. Do you like it here too? Yes. You don't have to play. It looks so good. It's so sad. It's the hands that are shaking. You have to make choices. They make choices. We also make choices. We always say, we'd rather try to get a 100-caster, a completely point-gave condition, and play well. I can also have 600. You just put it down. And a nice card says, don't put money in dark machines. That means, if you don't see any lights on, don't throw in any coins, because you're just missing your coin.
    6:52
    I've had that before. Arcades. Looks more like it than it looks. Yep, yep, yep. That's nice. Let's go the other way.
    7:34
    Reporters can add banners shopping malls to their shopping Cuban and other , visitors 237-338-1415 팀 Well folks, that was our round again. The annual visit to the Pinball Hall of Fame. I'll say it myself, but I don't know. Nice to be able to flippin' somewhere. And thank you, we're going to the Expo tomorrow and then we'll make a video again.
    9:24
    Top! Thank you! Yeah, would you mind to sign? No, that's fine. Really. Something to make sure it's got ink. I tried it before. It's okay.
    10:14
    Great. There you go. Thank you very much. You're welcome. I loved your stuff I was you know somebody sent me a link to that video I watched it and I pointed it out to her I said you not going to believe this guy game over 20 years ago it was my first pinball machine at Twilight Zone That the reason I collected about five years more pinball machines And I thought, yeah, every game you see about five or ten machines together, and you don't see the artwork and things like that. And now, some more space, I think, why don't we build a complete pinball machine where you walk in? And then I thought, yeah, the first thing was to try this out. It's one of my favorites, seeing people make a complete and try this. So I thought when I first saw the video, I thought it had to be a museum. I didn't realize it was here. Because it would make a great museum. Because Teolis is telling the story. But I said, oh, don't everyone has to know that it's home, at home. But that's the reason why we fly into another country, but we are staying in Holland.
    11:25
    Closed Captioning Provided by the Amara.org community Wow, look at that. Oh, you gotta figure it out. I know what you're doing. Wow. Oh, I got one. Uh, uh, it's a little... There's a little gambit over here. That makes more legal. Uh, uh, Sure. Uh, uh, All right, take the base off. I think it's wood. Is it metal or wood? Acrylic. All right.
    12:43
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    13:51
    Hurry up, connect! Well, we're standing here next to the Big Lebowski. We're in America with Dutch Pinball. Everything comes together today. Everything comes together. This is Charles. Charles is a friend of us. The sound is a big setback. I'm going to try to do it with a voiceover. Here we are with the ladies of Galactic Tank Force. The American Pinball hit, the pinball podcast is based on a tank. And this is the full crew who will come to the fore as animations in the game. And quietly they keep coming to participate in the show. It was very hilarious, but you don't do that much without audio. But I don't want to use these images because they are too beautiful to leave. Nice talk, the lady in red hair, I will add a photo of her at this moment. Unrecognizable when you see her without a outfit. I was having a nice conversation with her. I didn't know... I was having a conversation with a lady and she said, I'm that lady with the red hair from the Collectic Tank Force and it was something that was unimaginable. The Nutty Professor, nice, with a heavy German accent. And the Collectic Tank Force is about winning cows making ice cream and a whole box of them Another vlog from us we see the tour in the factory of American Pinball And, yeah, what can I say? Nice couple, all actors hired by American Pinball, by David Fix. Now the man is a bit angry in his German. Jawohl. If all goes well, there will be another character. I'm going to tell you some nonsense.
    16:27
    Big laugh. Hey, look, here comes the star, the duke. Have you not played the flippin' cast yet? Well, it will probably happen one day, come on your way. At this moment, all four actors are at the Expo. And, uh, we had a great time. Yes, he says thumbs up for our viewers. Yes, confirmed. Well, nice.
    17:09
    New York, New York. So what is not on camera is every night we go to the fire pit, we get a lot of booze, and then we're going to sing songs. And Brian out beats me. So he is the star of the evening. And tonight we're going to do it again. Your wife is coming. My wife is coming. I'm praying that she keeps me away from it. The newest addition of Stern. In a few weeks we have it in our house. We ordered it. It's a great game. Venom. We are fans and I am Om.
    17:52
    Yes. Come and play in the museum. It's really great. So, what do you think of the game? It's a great game.
    18:02
    Oh, we can do it for our Dutch viewers, but we can also do it in Dutch, right? I hope. I hope you want to. We've already spoken to several people, who thought they were Dutch, but they seem to be Dutch. So, is it something, Karel? Yes. All ordered? Not yet. But it will happen. I just lost all my Legos. You have to lock them in, then you can hold on.
    18:36
    And since Todd was a young boy, he played the silver ball. From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all. But he ain't seen nothing like it. She's a sister from Torrey Spelling. She got the same names. Not the last names, but the front names. But you can also be a sister if you have the same front names. These are the three sisters, right? You are actually sisters? No, no, no. But you behave like sisters. No, we're just in the name of the... What does the... We're trying to promote girls in pinball. That's the whole purpose of it. Should be more. Yes. We're trying to get more women involved in pinball. That's why we're doing it. You're doing a good job. Thank you. Awesome. It's so nice meeting you. So sisters are doing it for themselves. Go on. So sisters are doing it for themselves. Go on!
    19:52
    We will play a clip of his play a little closer so, look it up by surprise. Money Juliet Editorial Cut
    20:57
    Filmed by Stephen Havey, Robbie Wood, icki Sp graduate student,