Hello you fool, I love you. I'm on the line. Say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, say it. Welcome everybody, it's Friday. We're doing back-to-back shows. We've got 617 club members. We're breaking all sorts of records. I mean, if you're gonna ask people to donate to your Patreon, you gotta do a show every week. It's that simple. You gotta deliver what the people want. Alright, so here's what we're gonna talk about. We're going to talk about Stern pinball and the code for freaking James Bond and how it is slowly trickling out. And I want to talk about when it comes to games like this where the code is being built while games are in owners homes for like an entire year. Should a pinball company let the owners know what they're planning for the game? I want to talk about that. I want to talk a little bit about multi-morphic and the fact that there is a piece of furniture That all of a sudden makes this Multimorphic endeavor and this platform a little bit more enticing and a little bit more interesting. And I'm surprised that Multimorphic themselves has not made this part of their offering. We're going to talk about that. We will talk about this Illinois College raffle charity thing that Stern Pinball is doing for one of two super collectible signature edition Godzilla machines. We're going to talk about what else? Puny Factory by Pinball Adventures is now officially a real thing. Order Bank's opening up on Monday. Is everyone going to try to grab one of those 120 units? We'll talk about that. And then I want to talk about just what's next for all these new games, right? I'm hearing a lot of people just trying to get in touch with people over at American Pinball, trying to get in touch with people over at Chicago Gaming Company. And why is it hard to get in touch with anybody at a pinball company? I mean, I keep thinking about it. Like if you run a pinball company, let's start with this topic. If you run a pinball company, you should be answering every single email within a single working business day. There is no if, ands or buts about it. There is no excuse. There is no reason why somebody at your place of business Terms are always on call to answer any customer service e-mails. Every single customer experience, they will remember for life. So when a customer sends you an e-mail and they're waiting for a reply, every day that goes by that you ignore them is basically driving that customer further and further away from supporting your company, from buying your products and from being a fan of your institution. And we see this all too often in pinball. I don't understand what anybody does at a pinball company on a random day. Like what are you doing? What is David Fix and Steven Bowden doing on a random Wednesday at American Pinball? They're not working on the assembly Line. They're not designing the next game. How many customer service emails do you even get a day? Just a handful. And even if you don't have an answer, so here's what I think goes on. Someone might email CGC or American Pinball and be like, hey, when am I going to get my game? And you should always, even if you don't have an exact ETA for your customer, at least get back to them and say something. Just tell them the truth. Hey Bob, we got your email about your inquiry about your Cactus Canyon LE. Unfortunately, we're still waiting on a vendor for a very crucial part for your game. You will be the first to know as soon as we know what's going on with your order. Thank you so much for your support. We look forward to talking to you soon. How hard is it to do that? And when I hear about all these emails that end up with no replies for days and weeks, it really does make me wonder, are these companies for real? Why can't they be more professional? And there's a lot on the line. I mean, every single customer's experience, again, will be remembered forever. And every single moment a customer reaches out to you is a moment for you either to solidify a good relationship or to start to turn it sour. And that's on these pinball companies. And I think some of them are really good at getting back to people. And I think some of them are horrible. All right, so let's talk about James Bond Code next. Okay, so James Bondcode is slowly trickling out. We heard Mike Vinikour say, hey, we're planning a lot more for this game. The thing is this, nobody knows what a lot more even means. And with the latest code update, it's like people are trying to understand like what really is changing in the game. I'm a fan of the game and what I get is this. I've been reading the thread. I think what's been interesting about the James Bond code update is what they're doing to the game. I think they're making the game harder in certain areas. I think a lot of like the modes revolve around cue and cue gadgets and cue branches. I don't even know what that means. But I heard that one of the things you have to do to sort of start a mode or get further into the game is hit the freaking missile or the rocket. You gotta hit the rocket. Get ready for it. 18 times! 18 times to start something! There's something like that's way too many times. There's another thing where I think you have to do the orbit six times. And when you're in the thread, you hear all these people being like, why is it requiring so many shots to get anything going in the game? And if you look down at the James Bond playfield, there's a ton. There are a ton of inserts, a ton of characters, a ton of movies, a ton of stuff going on in the game. But as of right now, I don't think people are experiencing most of it. And so it just begs the question look I understand that Stern Pinball is going to take all the time they need to get the game right I also understand that Stern track record is that they usually do at the end of it all get it right But here what I think would be interesting if they would just let people know what they were planning to do in the game Would that spoil it for people? Do you like to not know anything they have planned for the game and you just want to be surprised when a new code update drops? I can see how some people might want that, just like maintain the mystery about what they have planned for the game. Some people would like to just know though what is going to go into this game because then if you're on the fence about buying one at least you have more information about what is in store for James Bond. But again, this is going to be a very slow build. You're going to be waiting a very long time. It seems for what they plan to put in the game. What I'm waiting to see too is like how much more music they put into the game because I think music when it comes to James Bond and the James Bond movies is such an important part of each of those films. I thought they were going to get a lot more licensed tracks into the game and also music when it comes to pinball like James Bond. It really is so crucial to creating the atmosphere for the game that really creates those pinball moments you love. And I love it when like the musical score changes when you start a mode and the intensity of the music matches the intensity of the mode. That is when pinball magic really gets special. So I hope they get everything in this game that you want. It still feels like it's gonna take forever and a day. Alright, so speaking of Stern Pinball, that's not taking forever and a day. I am already seeing Foo Fighter unboxing videos. This game is gorgeous. It is beautiful. We're already starting to see people unbox the machine and we're also getting what we normally get with any new pinball launch. We're also getting a few issues. There was a new owner who said after 10 games, his right flipper died. I don't know what it is with these Stern flippers and they what is it the coil stops that keep breaking on the machines. Why can't they upgrade this part? It's almost like the weirdest thing that people are still experiencing this with like brand new games. There was also a new game that got unboxed where one of the soldering joints came loose and the LED light wasn't working and so the We look forward to, due to, coming And I also feel when pinball companies and pinball distributors are watching these videos, Get ready ladies and gentlemen, prices are going to keep going up. The more we show these companies that these individuals have $300,000 in pinball machines, what do you think they're going to do to the future of pinball prices? You think they're going to go down? Absolutely not. And again, I think it's the LEs and the CEs I think we're going to see go up and up and up. I look, I predict Stern LEs are going to be $15,000 within two years. Absolutely. Probably a year from now. I think we're going to see 13-5 next, then 14, then when we get back to the future they're going to charge us like $90,000 for it and everyone's going to be like, take my money now. It is almost terrifying if you ask that simple question. What do you think Stern Pinball could get for a Back to the Future Super Limited Edition if they only made 88 of them? Imagine 88 Delorean Edition Back to the Future Stern Super Limited Edition Machines made by Keith Elwin and Joe Kamakow. How much do you think they could charge for each one? I'm just going to say this right now, don't hate me, but there are enough multi-multi-millionaires in pinball that are also collectors around the world. And don't hate me for saying what I'm about to say. Stern Pinball would sell every single one. If they made an 88 special super limited edition Back to the Future, they could sell each one for $88,000. They could. They would sell out instantly for $88,000. Now look, they would have to put some unique mechanism or upper playfield or something in the game that really differentiates that model. And I don't even know, like even as I say that, I'm like, I bet they could just do a different art package and an exclusive topper. Pinball is the new watch collecting, the new sneaker collecting, the new car collecting. I mean think about it. If you're into cars and you're a car collector, you're looking at cars that are easily six, seven figures and you might have the capital to do that. Have you seen inside Joe Kamakows garage? The guy's got like millions of dollars in cars alone. And so look you know how many Joe Kamikows there are in the world There enough of him to buy 88 of these machines Now look will they do it Will they take Kenaida advice Will you hate me I tell you this too people who would spend on a Back to the Future SLE would really struggle they would struggle to spend a month to sign up for Kenaida Pinball Podcast That what I love the most too These millionaires and then you like hey you a fan of Kenaida They like yup I like hey Can we see your machines They like sure I like how much money you got They like in machines And you like cool Are you a member of the Kinect Club for a month And they like nope nope That where I draw the line No Kinect Club for me All right, so let's move on to this Stern auction. So they're going to auction off two of these Godzilla machines signed by the eight players at the University of Illinois, the football players. Now they did this thing with Zach Sharp, he's an alumni there, so he went over there and he talked to these players about pinball and they made a video about it and now all of a sudden they are going to auction off for charity these two Godzilla premiums that are signed by the players. Now look, I know a lot of people are like, this is stupid, this is dumb, this highly collectible machine and I think everybody needs to realize that not everything is for you. Like I'm gonna talk about this when I talk about the Puny Factory. Not every move in pinball is meant to target you. And you could go about some of these moves two ways. You could get angered by it and say this is the dumbest thing ever. Or you could look at it and say well wait a minute, maybe this is just a charity auction to alumni of the university. That's just gonna bid on this. It's not gonna be pinheads. Why would anybody who's really into pinball wanna own a machine where the players of this T 4 T 6 but this is movie camera outholding shot metro or action D er 3 4 3 2 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 60 . 00 . 0 0 . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 mister you in Cl nouns have been put together into shr eenate runto 206 out of the links that you can see in this one sworn out If that's the case, have you seen the league minimum for the NFL? So look, you could decide to get annoyed by it, but I think life boils down to one simple thing. You are what you pay attention to. If you pay attention to stuff that annoys you, you will be annoyed and angry all day long. It doesn't really anger me. Now let's move on to Punny Factory. So Pinball Adventures has finally, after years in the making, is going to release to the public, To the global pinball marketplace, they are going to release a hundred and twenty units of Puny Factory. Now we've known about Puny Factory for a very long time. We've known about Andrew and Pinball Adventures for a very long time. And now the game is officially for sale. Now look, this is like the ninth game revealed over the last two months. Now here's my take on the Puny Factory. It's not for me. I'm not the target audience. I don't think any of you are the target audience. I think it's going after families and I think they're trying to make a game that's like approachable pinball and it's priced at what $6,500 and then the engraved edition is $7,000. So it's priced in line with the Stern Pro. It's basically priced where entry-level pinball is priced at. Will it be successful with pinheads? I don't think so. I really don't think so. Now Andrew told me they sold about 20% The game is released on the same day as the first game, and Dave Sanders is the designer of the game. If you don't know Dave Sanders, he was working over at Highway Pinball. He was the designer for Full Throttle and for Alien. Dave is a fan of the show. Dave, if you're listening to this, what's up brother? And look, it's a simple game. I know the people who worked on it. I think the big struggle with this game, it's the same struggle with all unlicensed IP games. How do you find buyers for this property? Right. That's the biggest problem. And you're not going to be able to create FOMO by saying we're only making like 120. It doesn't matter. They only made 10 of team pinball as the mafia and those didn't sell. So this is going to be the real challenge with this machine. And ultimately the market will dictate whether or not it's successful. Now look, here's the thing with pinball adventures. I think this will be a moment where people are just observing what is their manufacturing like? Because with With all of these boutiques, it all comes down to the same thing for me. How fast can you make a game? How many games can you make a week? How transparent are you with your customer base about how well you can make a pinball machine? And I think most boutique companies have been really bad when it comes to that level of transparency, so I hope Pinball Adventures at least opens the door a little bit and lets us in to see, you know, what their operations look like and how well they can make a game, what's the quality like. I don think this is the theme for any of you I don think this is the theme for most of you I really don And then the question becomes like will they take this as a learning experience and will they be able to get a theme that will be attractive to the pinball community Because we all know theme is the most important thing So I curious to see a month from now how many punny factories they actually made and will they make the entire run They have some other themes on their website Are they going to move on to something else I not gonna slam these guys because they haven done anything wrong to me They not making anybody buy this game I just think it gonna be a really tough sell simply because of how many games are out there how many games are out there with huge themes, how many games are out there that have way more in it. Think about it, like this game is the same price as a Foo Fighters Pro. I mean for 99.9% of people the conversation will just end there. You know and Foo Fighters Pro compared to this is just Pinball is loaded in comparison. So it's really hard. Like, pinball is a really hard industry. I never quite understand why anybody gets into pinball if you wanna make money. It seems really easy to lose money in pinball and really hard to make money. Alright, so speaking about making money in pinball, let's talk about the most profitable company in the history of pinball, Multimorphic. No, I'm joking. But here's the thing about Multimorphic. So I saw this thing. I was perusing the P3 thread. on a 3A thread that's outboard I was this morning I found myself in the P three thread now but here's the thing there was a really interesting item that I saw that I haven't seen before and it was a display cabinet like shelving that perfectly allow you to store your mini P3 playfield you know the upper playfield that's modular that goes in and out at the game this cabinet allowed you to store it really nicely really cleanly and then all though the sudden it's like wow now all the sudden that looks much Well, look out guys about it and we're nearing the end of our huge month of action here aka Far Cry 3, the so called HY carr we sent you back by banget hy-hat- happy Gal interacted with us. It's gonna still be future Oculus where are inflation, high inflation, festive Buy day the new I'm not saying that the P3 is a bad idea, but I'm saying that it's a good idea to have a P3 that is a little bit more visual and appealing to show how people could bring P3 into their home. I'm surprised that they never thought about this before and I think they should harness this reality, this new consumer insight, and I think they should start making an official P3 multi-morphic display case so everybody can store their games.лан?, tony budde at the pinball marketplace right now people and i'm just seeing man stern pinball and stern collectors i think the stern le is like the older ones are just gonna skyrocket they're gonna keep going up I think the SternLEs, like the older ones, are just gonna skyrocket. They're gonna keep going up. Like you can't find a GhostbustersLE anywhere. Can you even find a Stranger ThingsLE for sale? Can you find a BatmanLE or SLE anywhere? Like these games are unobtainium. And as all these guys open up their freaking like $300,000 pinball collections and their collectors, those are gonna be the games people want. I think Ghostbusters LE to me is gonna be the one that just keeps going to the moon regardless of how bad it shoots. You can make some adjustments, put in those little bit longer flippers and add the stuff to the outlane so it doesn't hop over the rail, but it's just a work of art. I mean every time I see Ghostbusters, it's a freaking work of art. And I mean this people, if Stern vaults that game and puts an LCD in it, I mean get ready, like they could super limited edition Ghostbusters and charge $25,000 and we'd all be like fighting over each other to get one. I know you hate me for saying this stuff people, but every time I see these game rooms, I mean, how can you not think that a collector who's got like hundreds of thousands of dollars in machines and he wants to collect rare pinball machines that make other collectors envious, how can you not think Stern can't sell an $88,000 Back to the Future or a $30,000 Ghostbusters Super Limited Edition? The And they know this and yes, I think they're eventually gonna do all this stuff, but the real problem is it's not about the high-end collector They're gonna make everything else more expensive Like everyone's gonna be paying like eight thousand for pros soon and like twelve thousand for premiums and fifteen thousand for le's It's coming It's coming people and hopefully your kids are out of college by the time that happens because it's gonna get real real A . . . . . . . . . I'm going to do stuff for more of you who have been here for a very long time. So more to come on that. 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