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The Super Awesome Pinball Show Bonus - Ed from TPF!

The Super Awesome Pinball Show·podcast_episode·34m 15s·analyzed·Mar 14, 2023
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TL;DR

Texas Pinball Festival 2023 preview with major game releases, celebrity guests, and special events.

Summary

Ed Vanderveen from Texas Pinball Festival (TPF) discusses the upcoming March 24-26, 2023 event in Frisco, Texas, covering new game releases (Queen, Scooby-Doo, Foo Fighters, Galactic Tank Force, Godfather, Pulp Fiction, Final Resistance), guest announcements (Steve Ritchie, Scott Denise, Christopher Franchi, Kerry Hardy, Dennis Nordman, Jack Danger, Roger Sharpe, Michael Bernard, and others), and special programming including screenings of Roger Sharpe's documentary film and Todd Tucky/Emoto's short film.

Key Claims

  • Queen from Two Brothers Pinball was announced and released last year but most people haven't had a chance to play one yet unless they attended Chicago Expo or are connected with Cointaker

    high confidence · Ed discussing game releases at TPF, confirmed by Chris's attendance at Chicago Expo

  • Jack Danger initially announced he was not coming to TPF but threw a 'monkey wrench in at the last minute' to announce he would attend with his new game

    high confidence · Ed discussing Stern's Foo Fighters announcement and Jack's last-minute attendance confirmation

  • Zombie Yeti (Jack Danger's work) will not be at TPF

    high confidence · Ed explicitly states 'Zombie Yeti will not be there, though' in response to Chris asking about the artist

  • Michael Bernard is the artist for Rush pinball and this will be his first Texas Pinball Festival

    high confidence · Ed: 'Michael Bernard, he's the artist for Rush. This will be his very first Texas Pinball Festival.'

  • Mark Ritchie is returning to pinball design after being out of the industry for some time to design Pulp Fiction for Play Mechanics/Chicago Gaming

    high confidence · Ed: 'that's mark richie's return to pinball design game after having been out of designing pinball machines for quite some time'

  • Play Mechanics is using Chicago Gaming to build Pulp Fiction, similar to how Chicago Gaming built Medieval Madness remakes with Stern's help

    medium confidence · Ed speculates on the relationship: 'i say that not you know i don't know what i don't know so maybe play mechanics and chicago gaming will have a forever agreement'

  • Scott Denise designed Final Resistance for Multimorphic

    high confidence · Ed: 'scott denisi he's coming to texas pinball festival... the designer for multimorphics new game'

  • Haggis Pinball from Australia is bringing a Fathom remake and Kelts machines to TPF

    high confidence · Ed: 'Haggis Pinball from Australia is coming and they're bringing, they're going to have their new Fathom remake and a couple of their Kelts'

Notable Quotes

  • “Years ago, I used to like when somebody actually unveiled a game at the show or they announced it at the show. But the downside to that is there's usually only one or two of them at the show. So the model now is when they announce it two, three weeks, a month out, by the time the show rolls around, the manufacturers are ready to bring 10, 15 or so of whatever the new game is”

    Ed Vanderveen @ early in conversation — Explains shift in industry marketing strategy for game announcements and demonstrates TPF's ability to attract fully stocked displays

  • “So hopefully it works out really well and it kind of becomes like a new car show. All the manufacturers bring their newest, latest, and greatest, and that's what we like Texas Pinball Festival to be.”

    Ed Vanderveen @ mid-conversation — Describes the aspiration for TPF as an industry-wide showcase similar to automotive trade shows

  • “I think in 2024 you're going to have to have Jesus there or something. I don't know how you're going to top this here.”

    Chris (host) @ after game announcements — Indicates the 2023 TPF lineup is exceptionally strong and will be difficult to exceed

  • “Mike Vinacore hates me. Why? Oh, that shut you down quick... I went up to him right after the show, and I'm like, Mike, I'm so sorry. We planned this. Jeremy knows about it. It was half Jeremy's idea, and we just forgot to tell you.”

    Chris (host) @ during guest discussion — Reveals interpersonal tension between Chris and Stern's Mike Vinacore related to a Twippies award stunt

  • “I'm saying that because our seminar room is pretty big, but it's not super – you've seen the size of it. I mean, it'll seat a few hundred people, but it's going to be full... if you've already seen it, stay the fuck out of the seminar room so people who haven't seen it can get a chance.”

    Chris (host), clarifying Ed's point @ discussing Roger Sharpe film screening — Demonstrates concern about room capacity for the documentary screening and prioritizes access for first-time viewers

  • “Well, he probably hits his head all the way walking down the aisle of the plane because he's like Sasquatch. He's so huge.”

Entities

Texas Pinball Festival (TPF)eventEd VanderveenpersonChristopher FranchipersonMark RitchiepersonScott DenisepersonJack DangerpersonMichael Bernardperson

Signals

  • ?

    community_signal: Interpersonal tension between Chris (Super Awesome Pinball Show host) and Mike Vinacore (Stern) stemming from Twippies award show stunt where Chris deliberately stomped on a trophy; relationship strained but Chris attempted reconciliation

    medium · Chris: 'Mike Vinacore hates me... I went up to him right after the show, and I'm like, Mike, I'm so sorry. We planned this.'

  • ?

    community_signal: TPF planning special screenings of Roger Sharpe documentary film and Todd Tucky/Emoto short film, demonstrating convention expansion into media/documentary content beyond traditional pinball gameplay

    high · Detailed discussion of film screenings on specific dates with Q&A sessions; noted as major draw for 2023 event

  • ?

    community_signal: Homebrew/custom pinball games having elevated status at TPF with dedicated section and Twippy award nominees bringing machines; Jake's Dukes of Hazard and Jesse the Pinball Dog Part Two specifically mentioned

    medium · Ed discusses custom games category, Twippy nominees bringing homebrew machines, 'huge thing right now' status

  • ?

    competitive_signal: John Borg's Rush pinball (with artist Michael Bernard) anticipated to perform strongly in Twippy community awards; Michael Bernard making first-time TPF appearance specifically for award recognition

    medium · Ed states 'I think that he and John Borg are expecting to win a few Twippies, which is why he's coming to the show'

  • ?

    design_philosophy: Christopher Franchi creating cross-manufacturer banner display (Galactic Tank Force and Godfather) for TPF, indicating dual involvement with American Pinball and Jersey Jack

Transcript

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0:00
The following is a super awesome pinball show bonus content special report. Well, heck fire everybody, spring is just around the corner. March 24th is vastly approaching and that can only mean one thing. It's time for everybody to head south for a little bit of pinball action and some southern hospitality. We gotta wrap that easy, we're gonna party. We're scared women and wines. Yeah, I'll show you where it's at. Come on, let's get back on deck, it's time.
0:44
March 24th through the 26th are the dates set for the Texas Pinball Festival at the lovely Embassy Suites in Frisco, Texas. And here to tell us all about it is one half, the dynamic duo, also with his wife Kim, that throw this award-winning pinball party. We are, of course, talking about Mr. Ed Vanderbeen. Howdy, y'all! How are you doing, sir? I'm doing fantastic. How are you doing, Chris? It seems like forever since we've done this. Yeah, if those of you remember way back, Ed used to be on this show until he got busy.
1:16
Always busy. Yeah. And, official correction, I'm one-third of the show. There are three main organizers, myself, Paul McKinney, and my lovely wife, Kim. Okay, I always forget about Paul. I'm sorry, Paul. I always forget about Paul, but he's in the background. He's a quiet. He is. Paul takes care of the hotel and the taxes and the banking and all that kind of stuff. Well, I'm going to say in 2023, you are the golden boy of pinball conventions because you have a humdinger coming up. Really? I was just thinking, I don't know what we're going to talk about for this episode. It's been a crazy month in pinball, but that's all going to shine on Texas Pinball Festival. You're going to reap all the benefits of all of these releases.
2:04
Years ago, I used to like when somebody actually unveiled a game at the show or they announced it at the show. But the downside to that is there's usually only one or two of them at the show. So the model now is when they announce it two, three weeks, a month out, by the time the show rolls around, the manufacturers are ready to bring 10, 15 or so of whatever the new game is, which makes it nice for us. And they also get to work out some of the hiccups that come with every new pinball machine that come out. Yeah, but let's go down the line. I'll try to do this as best in order as possible as far as release goes, but I am getting old and my mind's slipping. But I believe the first out of the gate was Scooby-Doo. Well, technically Queen from Two Brothers Pinball. Well, yeah, that's true. Now, I know that's been an old one. That was actually announced and released last year, but nobody has, unless you went to Chicago Expo or you're hooked up with Cointaker, I'm going to say most people probably haven't got a chance to play one yet. Good news is I'm hooked up with Cointakers. This show is sponsored in part and in full by Cointaker Amusements. Get all your pinball needs at Cointaker.com. And I was at Chicago Expo. I know. So, yes, you are. Chris and Melissa will be coming out to the show and bringing some surprises as well. So, we can't talk about that. And they've got an awesome spot, too. I mean, they are literally dead center of the show floor, Cointaker is. And that's just the way it kind of worked out this year with the floor plan. That wasn't anything they specifically requested. That's just kind of the way it happened. Oh, that's just a lie. Chris was being a prima donna. We're at the middle of the show where I'm not coming. No, it just worked out that way because, you know, Marco Specialties expanded their booth, And Jersey Jack's got a big, giant booth, and it's just kind of the way it worked out. Okay, so we've got Queen. Then we've got Scooby-Doo. Then comes Stern with Foo Fighters, right? With Foo Fighters. The Foo. And Jack, who was announcing that he was not going to be at TPF, throws the monkey wrench in at the last minute. He goes, hey, everybody, I'm going to be at TPF. So Jack will be there with his new game. Jack's coming. We're excited to have him. I mean, it would have been nice to announce him a month ago, but that's fine. We did get Jack in just under the wire. So that's good. It'll be good to see him. And his new game, Zombie Yeti, will not be there, though. No fun for me. You know, us artists like to hang out together and be cool. Hey! You saw Mr. Bernard, the Rush artist, is coming. This will be his first Texas Pinball Festival. I did not see that. I'm glad you brought that up. Michael Bernard, he's the artist for Rush. This will be his very first Texas Pinball Festival. He's super excited about coming. I'm sure he'll be hanging out with John Borg. As will I. We've already got plans. Okay, so let's get through the pins. that's all right that's what i do best we'll get through the pins then we'll get through the guests all right so after foo fighters the next to be announced was what which one american pinball hasn't have they actually dropped the name yet i know they've been teasing yeah this is a new game so i think that was the next one that started getting teased it was on an image and it was on a copyright so we do know it's galactic tank force there you go so that will be there in numbers with a very handsome display, might I add. I'm not just a pinball designer. I also design fun stand-up banners and things. So, yeah, they'll have a nice display there. And then after that, Godfather came in. I might have had something to do with that, too. I think so. Two games in one show. How about that? So, yes, Jersey Jack will, of course, be there with a bunch of those. I just ordered mine today. Yay! I told myself, I'm like, you know, I love The Godfather. Great movie. I own it on Blu-ray. I do as well. I watch it often. It is a great movie, and it's surprising that when I've talked to a few people since Jersey Jack has announced The Godfather who have said, I have not seen The Godfather. It's one of those movies that when people tell you they've never seen it, you're surprised, especially. Now, I get it, 20-year-olds, I mean some younger people, but if you're 40 years old or older and someone says, I've never seen The Godfather, it's just really surprising to me. Where were you, smoking doobies under the bleachers? Exactly. So what I usually tell people is, well, the key to watching The Godfather is to only watch one and two and then just stop. Right. Don't even mess with the rest of them. Just one and two and just be done with it. Yeah, that's good advice. Solid advice. So Jersey Jack will be there with Godfather, both. I think I believe both versions. It looks great. I can't wait to play it. Did you watch the stream last night? No, I'm cutting out time for this. But right now it is TPF all the time. I mean, and when I'm not working on TPF, what little spare time I do get, I just do a brain meltdown watching TV or something and don't do anything. Okay, so we've got that. And then after that was? Pulp Fiction just got announced. And so I know people are excited about that. I've seen some. That's another one that, you know, that movie has been out for 30, 30 or 25 years, 30 years. Man, we're old.

  • Roger Sharpe's documentary 'Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game' is being released in theaters on March 17th and won the fan favorite award at a film festival

    high confidence · Ed confirms March 17th release and Chris confirms fan favorite award from film festival screening

  • Christopher Franchi and American Pinball created only 50 copies of a special Galactic Tank Force print

    high confidence · Franchi: 'we got together with American Pinball and we did a very special Galactic Tank Force print that there's only going to be 50 of'

    • Chris (host) @ discussing Dennis Nordman — Lighthearted banter about Dennis Nordman's physical stature and cautious travel habits

  • “I suspect that he, well, he is excited about coming. This is his first Texas Pinball Festival. I think that he and John Borg are expecting to win a few Twippies”

    Ed Vanderveen @ discussing Michael Bernard — Indicates Rush pinball (Borg/Bernard collaboration) is expected to perform well in community awards

  • “when I was a kid and someone said the food truck, it was like, they call them roach coaches for a reason. I mean, it was like just the little white van and sausage biscuits.”

    Ed Vanderveen @ discussing food truck features — Reflects on the evolution of food truck industry and TPF's commitment to quality amenities

  • “I love this game. It is a fun game... I'm not a big Rush fan, but I'm a big Borg fan. So I went over to play it, and they couldn't get me off the game.”

    Chris (host) @ discussing Rush playability — Demonstrates the quality of John Borg's design work on Rush can convert skeptics

  • “Butch Peel. He's an engineer. He started out with Jersey Jack. Now he is with Chicago Gaming, so he'll be there.”

    Ed Vanderveen @ discussing guest personnel — Confirms personnel move from Jersey Jack to Chicago Gaming

    • Dennis Nordman
    person
    Roger Sharpeperson
    Kerry Hardyperson
    John Borgperson
    Steve Ritchieperson
    Butch Peelperson
    Todd Tuckyperson
    Emotoperson
    Stern Pinballcompany
    Jersey Jack Pinballcompany
    American Pinballcompany
    Chicago Gamingcompany
    Multimorphiccompany
    Two Brothers Pinballcompany
    Haggis Pinballcompany
    Cointaker Amusementscompany
    Marco Specialtiescompany

    high · Franchi describes two-sided 7.5ft banner with American Pinball/Godfather on one side, 'not playing favorites'

  • ?

    event_signal: Texas Pinball Festival 2023 is positioning itself as an industry-wide showcase similar to automotive trade shows, with coordinated multi-manufacturer game releases creating an unprecedented lineup

    high · Ed emphasizes manufacturers announcing games weeks in advance to have stock ready; quotes Chris about topping this in 2024; describes intentional coordination to avoid previous single/double game announcements

  • ?

    licensing_signal: Roger Sharpe documentary 'Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game' releasing theatrically March 17 and available on streaming (Apple TV/Prime); won fan favorite award at film festival

    high · Ed confirms March 17th theatrical release and Chris confirms fan favorite award at festival

  • $

    market_signal: Mark Ritchie returning to active pinball design after extended absence, utilizing Play Mechanics partnership with Chicago Gaming for production

    high · Ed emphasizes Ritchie's return after being 'out of designing pinball machines for quite some time' to design Pulp Fiction

  • ?

    personnel_signal: Butch Peel moved from Jersey Jack Pinball to Chicago Gaming, indicating shift in engineering talent between manufacturers

    high · Ed explicitly states 'He started out with Jersey Jack. Now he is with Chicago Gaming'

  • ?

    announcement: Multiple major pinball machines being showcased at TPF: Queen (Two Brothers), Scooby-Doo (Two Brothers), Foo Fighters (Stern/Jack Danger), Galactic Tank Force (American Pinball/Dennis Nordman), Godfather (Jersey Jack), Pulp Fiction (Play Mechanics/Mark Ritchie), Final Resistance (Multimorphic/Scott Denise)

    high · Ed systematically lists all major releases coming to TPF with manufacturer confirmation

    • 7:01
    You're old. Seems like you. I'm not old. year old you know pulp fiction pulp fiction's coming of course that's mark richie's return to pinball design game after having been out of uh designing pinball machines for quite some time so i know he's he is super excited and and i can't wait to show everybody that game so well i haven't seen the final version of it i did get to a sneak peek with just some artwork and stuff and it looks pretty good it's going to be a neat game yeah now that's chicago gaming and play mechanics yeah play mechanics yeah that's their first uh they're it's it kind of seems like they're doing what chicago gaming did when they first did uh medieval madness you know when chicago gaming first jumped on in doing the uh the remakes they had stern help them build that first game and then i think this is kind of what play mechanics is doing and i say that not you know i don't know what i don't know so maybe play mechanics and chicago gaming will have a forever agreement and chicago gaming will build all of the future play mechanic games or this may just be Chicago Gaming helping them out, so I don't really know the answer to that. But it is Play Mechanics. Mark Ritchie worked for Play Mechanics. Right. And one more game to the new releases is Multimorphic's Final Resistance, which is Scott Denise's new game. Scott will also be at the show. But tell us what you know about that. They just announced it not too long ago, and I have not seen, like I said earlier, I'm so busy with stuff, I've not seen any of the streams or any of the releases other than what just passes through on Facebook I know we shared it on the Texas Pinball Festival Facebook page but I haven seen it myself Looking at it right now I just pulled it up and it looks really cool So yeah so yeah Multimorphic So every manufacturer is going to have their newest latest and greatest at the Texas Pinball Festival. Is that it? No, it was announced last year, but Haggis Pinball from Australia is coming and they're bringing, they're going to have their new Fathom remake and a couple of their Kelts. I know Kelts has been out for a while, but it's still another game that very few people have gotten to see or play so they'll have that there cactus canyon will probably be there too with there'll be a cactus gaming ryan did say that they were going to have some a cactus canyon or two there at the show for people to play then if you just go down the game list i'm i'm just i'm not looking at it in front of me right now but there's a bunch of cool stuff i had one gentleman uh email me and say he was going to bring a batman 66 super le oh yeah yeah he wants to sell it that's usually the best time to sell a game is sure texas golf festival of course i'll just remind people it needs to stay till sunday don't bring a game and have them dragging it out of there on saturday afternoon uh it needs to stay until the end of the show but so yeah if he brings that that'll be great yeah if he wants to sell it for less i'll sign it for him right now it's worth less oh yeah i think i was gonna ask 30 000 for it my goodness and he might get it too yeah i know a couple that have sold for i think 25 and 28 recently so other cool things there's a bunch of the custom uh custom pins coming the dukes of hazard uh just to name one again i'd have to go look at the list but you know the the custom homebrew games is a huge thing right now and so they're jake's dukes of hazard is uh beautiful too yeah i saw that in chicago and so he contacted us and said he was going to bring that i also heard that jake's bringing jesse the pinball dog part two because farlow is officially the pinball so it's pinball pup too but um everybody loves jesse she's a sweet dog but anyway we're here to talk about pinball so we'll have a special little section for the custom homebrew games hopefully we can get them all kind of bunch up together because i know there's a special category i think most of the uh the ones that were nominated in the for the twippy awards are bringing the game to the show other cool games that are coming though before we move on to our guests and these are games that have been there before but of course there'll be a couple safe crackers there We're spitting out the special TPF safecracker tokens. That's pretty popular. Last year, I bought an EM Evil Knievel, which is pretty rare. They only made a few of those. We're going to have two of those at the show again this year. Are they for sale? Everything's for sale, Chris. All right, good. I'm bringing some money. Bring fat stacks of cash, and we'll make a deal. I know the coin takers, so I got a truck to ship it out.
    11:09
    Yes, there'll be two of those. Yeah, there's just going to be so many new pins and so many great restored pins. It's going to be the most amazing show ever. The greatest show on earth. So every year we end the show thinking, my goodness, how can it get any better? And this year is just. Well, you're going to be saying that next year.
    11:29
    Yeah, I don't know. This is either going to work out really well for all the manufacturers or they're all going to go, we're not doing that again. So we're not going to release them all together. We're going to spread it out some. So hopefully it works out really well and it kind of becomes like a new car show. All the manufacturers bring their newest, latest, and greatest, and that's what we like Texas Pinball Festival to be. Yeah, I think in 2024 you're going to have to have Jesus there or something.
    11:53
    I don't know how you're going to top this here. All right, let's get on to the guests. Now, besides the number one guest, your favorite guest of all, me. Do you like me? I mean, if you weren't working with me. Sure, yes. I like you. Who else are we going to have? We've got Mark Ritchie, as you said. Slow down there. See, you're just blowing over yourself. Well, I'm just repeating the ones we already discussed. Well, no, but you are. You are one of our special guests. I think you are one of the first ones we announce. So whenever people ask me, who are your celebrity guests this year? I always say Christopher Franchi. And they say, who the hell is that? I said celebrity.
    12:30
    I'm going to zoom down here. Now I've got the screen pulled up, so we'll look up and see here. I think so. Just going in order of how we announced them. Steve Ritchie was our first guest announcement. Of course, Steve Ritchie has been to every single Texas pinball festival since we started, I think. So he's kind of a staple. He's not doing a talk. I'm sure he will be present during the Jersey Jack pinball seminar. But other than that, Steve will just be there hanging out. He'll be at the autograph session. He'll sign. He'll sign anything you want. He'll sign his game, somebody else's games. Steve will sign anything. So you should put a limit on that because some guys show up there with like portfolios with stacks of flyers and he's sitting there going, how many of these you got? So I'll tell you a quick Steve Ritchie story. Several months ago, Kim and I were in Florida and Steve and his wife, Diana, they came to Florida to hang out with us for a week. And I took Steve to a place called the Pinball Asylum in Fort Myers. And it's a private club and several pinball people. Great collection. They've got over 100 pinball machines set up in the upstairs of this medical center. And a gentleman brought a diner back glass and asked Steve Ritchie to sign it. And that's a Mark Ritchie game. And Steve signed it. He signed the back glass. He didn't say a word. Nobody else said a word either. So I did ask the gentleman about it later, and I guess Steve did provide a voice in the game diner. Somebody in that game. You know what? That story is not as funny as I thought it was. there's much i believe his voiceover was eat better yeah probably next on the list let's move right along here scott denisi he's coming to texas pinball festival i believe he's also known as scott denisey because he's the nicest guy in pinball who is the designer for multimorphics new game and scott's going to be hanging out with us last year he did a dj thing at the after party after the Twippy Awards. I don't think we're doing that this year. Talking to Emoto and the Twippy guys, last year everybody was just so exhausted they just opted to not do that this year. Right. So I don't think Scott's going to be DJing. But he will be at the show hanging out, signing autographs. He'll be at the autograph session. Okay, who's next? Next is you, Christopher Ferranchi. Me. If you haven't seen the picture of Christopher Ferranchi on the Texas Pinball Festival page, you need to go look at it. He looks so serious and he's looking into the camera. Oh, that one. Yeah. It's a great pose. I have a better one. This is great. I'm smiling. I don't look so sinister. But yeah, I will be there. I will have. And you're going to have your artwork for sale? Not a whole lot. But one thing I will have is we got together with American Pinball and we did a very special Galactic Tank Force print that there's only going to be 50 of. But a good chunk of the people who worked on the game will be there. So in addition to me signing it, you can have some other people sign it as well. I don't know how much more I'm going to have over that. I've got some stuff, but I just don't want to bog myself down because I have to spend some time in the American booth. I have to spend some time in the Jersey Jack booth and stuff. This year, I've got you right across the aisle from Cointaker and American Pinball. And then Jersey Jack is not too far, a couple of steps away also. So you're in a great spot. I had a special two-sided stand-up banner made. It's three feet wide and like seven and a half feet tall. I'm going to put it up on the table so it's even higher. And it's got American Pinball's Galactic Tank Force on one side and Jersey Jack's Godfather on the other side. So, not playing favorites. There you go. And, okay, next guest we announced were Jonathan Joosten and Martin Abe. Jonathan Joosten, of course, from Pinball Magazine and Martin Abe from Pinball News. And they're going to be doing their annual traditional, so you think, you know, pinball quiz at the Cypress Bar on Saturday night at 6 o'clock while we're getting ready for the Twippies. And, in fact, Jonathan just messaged me today and told me he hadn't bought his plane ticket yet. And, Jonathan, get your plane ticket. You have to be here. I've already put your picture up. Is the Cypress Bar the bar in the hotel? Yeah, that's the bar in the hotel right outside that lounge where we have the big smoke on Friday night that you never come to. what's a big smoke it's just it's just cigars it's me and a buddy of mine my buddy barry barry gets a shout out because i smoke cigars barry smoke cigars and so barry and i would get together in evenings and it just kind of turned into a thing every year more people join us and so i put it on the schedule it outside on the patio and you can bring your drinks out there And that at 10 10 p on Friday night And Barry will bring a bunch of cigars for the handout if you want one Oh, God, I haven't smoked cigars in so long. I smell them now and it just smells like butt to me. It's just like, you know, you guys would be making fun of me because I'd be there with my little vape thing.
    17:26
    Woos. Going up the list here. We did announce Kerry Hardy as a guest. uh carrie does a lot of stuff for us he does a lot of videos and a lot of he helps us out a lot with the show his brother too does the his brother his brother did the cool 3d thing and you know what he does have a huge following on youtube so i know people they like hanging out with him so come meet carrie hardy at the texas pinball festival and he won best and he won the grand champion last year at the 2022 texas pinball festival for his uh getaway yeah he brought a getaway that was unbelievable yeah he won he won the grand champion next on the list is eric from jersey jack eric mignier i just worked with him uh from jersey jack is going to be there with the godfather everybody's really waiting to see that uh mark ritchie i meet mark ritchie we talked about him already with pulp fiction so have you seen the picture of mark ritchie on the texas pinball festival page i made a comment on that i said it's a great photo yeah george gomez for the photobomb win and then george liked it yeah that's a great that's a great it's a great photo it's a great photo yeah of course uh jerry stallenberg with multimorphics come in and we also announced todd tucky with emoto they're going to be hosting the twippies this year todd wants to be a star well you know what emoto and i talked about that and emoto was looking for a co-host because i guess jack either couldn't do it or i don't know what the reasons were but i suggested todd tucky because everybody loves Todd Tuckey. And so I guess he agreed to do it, and there you have it. And Todd loves the spotlight. He'll shine. He's a big ham. Of course, we announced a couple of Stern guys, Mike Vinacore and John Borg. Everybody loves those guys. Mike Vinacore hates me. Why? Oh, that shut you down quick. You're just like, what? Why? I don't know. I feel like there's a story behind this. He says that he doesn't, but he never says hi, and he gets a shitty look on his face when he sees me. I think it's still because of the twippies. Remember I stomped on Zombie Eddie's trophy? Oh. I went up to him right after the show, and I'm like, Mike, I'm so sorry. We planned this. Jeremy knows about it. It was half Jeremy's idea, and we just forgot to tell you. And he just kind of like brushed me off the rest of that show and ever since. So, Mike, if you're listening to this, don't hate me. I have doubt he hates you. Chris is a nice guy. When he's taking his medicine, he's a super nice guy.
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    All right. Who's next? I'm just kidding. Our next guest is probably is what I've been telling people is our celebrity guest, because I do get a lot of emails of people asking if we were going to have a celebrity guest like we have the last few years. This year, I knew that Roger Sharpe's movie was coming out and I knew it was going to get released. Well, it just worked out that way. I think it's being released in theaters on March 17th. 17th and of course we're going to be screening the movie pinball the man who saved the game which is roger sharp's story about how he testified city council when pinball was still illegal in new york and i've i've seen the movie it is a fun it truly is it's a fun good movie i mean it is a good movie it comes out in theaters i think on the 17th it's also streaming i think you can buy it on probably on apple tv someone said or prime maybe some of the others so we're going to be showing that on saturday but anyway my point being is roger sharp you know is our celebrity guest this year since that movie is about him if you don't want to take ed's word for it by the way it was at a film festival and it won the fan favorite award so it was yeah it was the movie most liked by all the attendees at the film festival roger didn't even know that i sent him a text i said congratulations on the award he's like what award and i told him he's like oh I didn't know that. Cool.
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    So, yeah, it's supposed to be really good. And it's pinball. How can you lose, you know? Yep. So, yeah, we're going to play that movie on Saturday. And I'm going to tell everybody right now, if you've already seen it or you have the opportunity to go see it, by all means, you need to go see it. And I'm saying that because our seminar room is pretty big, but it's not super – you've seen the size of it. I mean, it'll seat a few hundred people, but it's going to be full. I think what Ed's trying to say is if you've already seen it, stay the fuck out of the seminar room so people who haven't seen it can get a chance. Let people who haven't seen it or may not have the opportunity to go see it, let them come see it. So if you've already seen it, just let somebody else see the movie. There you go. Okay, Roger Sharp. Who's next? Dennis Nordman, which really surprised me that he was coming. I was really surprised when he told me he was coming. I'm surprised, too, because I don't think I knew. We just did a game together. Yeah, we love Dennis Nordman. He's always a lot of fun when he comes to the show. You know, he's a little cautious when he travels. I mean, he's no spring chicken like you are. So he's a little more cautious when he, you know, he doesn't go out in, you know, big crowds and stuff anymore. At least I don't think he does. Well, he probably hits his head all the way walking down the aisle of the plane because he's like Sasquatch. He's so huge. But now since he's got this new game coming out, I'm sure David Fix and you and the American Pinball people pressured him into coming to the show, which that's fine with me. We love having him. Absolutely, yeah. And if you don't know, and if you're listening to this show, you should, he is best known for Whitewater. Absolutely best known for Galactic Tank Force. That's right. This is his baby. When you see it, you'll know that that's a very unique game. That's the only one I haven't seen. I've seen everything else. That is the only one I've not seen pictures of the play field. I've seen the cabinet artwork and the back glass and all that, but I've not seen the game itself. Next up on the list, Jack Guarneri is coming to the Texas Pinball Festival. Everybody asks, every time when you see Jack, ask him to do a somersault because he's too old to do them now. I see. So everybody ask him. We'll just irritate him just for fun. Don't irritate my guests. Everyone's going to tell Prince, you told me to ask you. Damn him. Don't do that. Michael Bernard, we talked about him a little bit already, but Michael Bernard, the artist for Rush, I suspect that he, well, he is excited about coming. This is his first Texas Pinball Festival. I think that he and John Borg are expecting to win a few Twippies, which is why he's coming to the show. I love Rush. We had Rush out at the Super Awesome Pinball Show tailgate party at Cointaker. And I was like, I'm not a big Rush fan, but I'm a big Borg fan. So I went over to play it, and they couldn't get me off the game. I'm like, I love this game. It is a fun game. Yeah, it's really fun. We've announced Butch Peel. He's an engineer. He started out with Jersey Jack. Now he is with Chicago Gaming, so he'll be there. I'm sure working on or setting up the Pulp Fictions and the Cactus Canyon Continues, and he'll be part of Mark Ritchie's seminar. I think that's on Saturday. I met Butch for the first time at Chicago Expo. Nice guy. Butch is a great guy. We like him a lot. Not so much a special guest, but we're also, since we already talked about Roger Sharp's movie, we are going to show Wizards World's Pinball Arcade Presents Skill Shot Baby. That's Emoto's and Todd Tucky's 18-minute short. It's just a clip, though, isn't it? They didn't finish the movie yet. No, yeah, it's an 18-minute short. Join Todd Tucky and Emoto for a screening of the short film Skill Shot Baby on Friday, March 24th, 7 p.m. They're going to show this just before Roger Sharp's movie. It says the short feature features a scene from the future film in which Jake, a newcomer to the game of pinball, meets Bart, a seasoned veteran operator for the first time. Also known as Todd Tucky. They're going to do it. Yeah, they're going to do us and they'll do a Q&A afterwards. And then, of course, the last guest we've announced is Jack Danger.
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    Jack Dangler. You know, that's not his real name, right? I know his real name. I know. So do I. I had to buy him plane tickets, but I won't give it up. I promised him. I promised him. I'd never tell anybody.
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    And of course, just off the top of my head, Jack Danger was the last guest we officially announced. Now, I did get a message from Dwight Sullivan at Stern the other day that he was coming to the show He literally told me two or three days ago and we just haven I think we pretty much done with all of our emails and stuff because the show was just two weeks away well there probably going to be more people there they just wouldn be they wouldn be filed under a special guest but they're they're just as special yeah this this these things are filled with pinball people so right yeah it's everybody's everybody who's anybody in the world of pinball is going to be there so now let's see let's talk about some features i really care about now you got the food trucks going to be there this year? Absolutely. You know what? Those are awesome, aren't they? Yes. When we first started doing those years ago, Paul told me that we were going to have food trucks come to the show instead of outside. And I did not realize how far we've come in food truck technology. Because when I was a kid and someone said the food truck, it was like, they call them roach coaches for a reason. I mean, it was like just the little white van and sausage biscuits. Well, and it was stuff like buying 7-Eleven. It was, you know, it was just, it was not what they are now. And so, yes, we're going to have some amazing food trucks with some amazing food in them. That was my first cheeseburger with an egg on it last year, which was delicious. Your food trucks are awesome, but they're very fancy. You need one there with just like corn dogs and french fries and stuff. Well, that's inside. That's the hotel. Oh, okay. You can get that stuff inside from the hotel in the foyer area. The hotel sets up with that kind of stuff. All right, then just the fancy ones. More fast food. Did you get a chance to go to the National Video Game Museum? You should do that. It's only a few miles away, and it is pretty cool. The National Video Game Museum is right there in Frisco, Texas. And, of course, it's like half price during the Texas Pinball Festival. You get in for $6, and they're going to have a shuttle on Saturday going back and forth all day. Oh, nice. You can jump on one of the shuttles, and they'll take you over there, and you can hang out. And if you buy a raffle ticket for the new-in-box Simpsons pinball party, of course it won't be new-in-box by the time we open it up for the show,
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    but you show them your ticket stub at the National Video Game Museum because part of the proceeds do benefit them. They'll hook you up with a bunch of tokens. Oh, cool. They'll play some of their cool stuff. Nice. Yeah, that sounds cool. Yeah, I want that Simpsons. Isn't that crazy? New in box. And that's the one that I like, too, because there's two. Yes. So that's the couple. Ross and Lisa. Ross and Lisa Vaget. You said Ross and Lisa. Normally, we purchase a new game to do for the charity raffle, and we hadn't bought one yet. And Ross sends me a message, and he says, hey, we've got a brand new in-box Simpsons pinball party that we'd like to donate to the show to be used if you want to use it for your charity raffle. And I was like, absolutely. And at first I didn't. I was like, really? Who in the world has a new in-box Simpsons pinball party? I mean, it's 20 years old. So Paul went over to their house and confirmed it. It's brand new. I asked him. I guess they bought it some time ago. and after playing it, they just didn't go into their collection or they just decided they didn't want it. And then rather than sell it, some people just, they're just nice people. So they donated it to the show. Lisa had asked, there's a charity called Kids Kids, which is a kid pratic. I don't know if you're familiar with him. He's a famous radio DJ who's since passed away, but they take sick kids and they take them to Disney World or something. But that was her charity. She requested that we donate part of the money to Kids Kids. And, of course, the other half is going to go to the National Video Game Museum So come take a chance and win a brand new Simpsons pinball party. And again, yes, it's new in box right now, but Thursday, after we take it out of the box and set it up, and pinball ERS is going to replace all the rubbers and inspect everything. It'll be new-ish in box. Well, we got a color DMD for it. We're going to put leg protectors on it. Titan Pinball is going to give us the rubber kit, and they offered to provide LEDs. And so it'll still be the nicest original Simpsons pinball party ever. Yeah, I'd like to request a Titan pinball right now. Bring me a set of chrome gold flippers for Stern game. I need those there. So I put in my special request. All right, Eric, you hear that on the raffle? How many tickets and how much are tickets? Well, tickets are five dollars each or five for twenty dollars. So normally we I think we only like one or two people that buy just one single ticket. But really, that's all it takes to win. And I have no idea how many people are going. So it's bottomless. Bottomless. Well, I'm trying to remember how many. I want to say we ordered 4,000 or 5,000 tickets. I don't know. I'd have to go back and look, to be honest with you. We've never sold out. We've never sold out, so I'll be shocked. I always weigh over order just so that never happens. The more you sell, the better, too. Yeah, just remember that. It's going to charity. Two charities. Two charities splitting it. What else do we have to talk about? There's the staples that we talked about last year and the year before. There's the Best in Show Awards, which people really bring some of the best pinball machines to the Texas Pinball Festival to take a chance at winning that plaque or ribbon or cash prizes. And, of course, that's on Sunday at the end of the show. Yeah. And also, if you're looking for parts and stuff, this is like the most vendors come out to this show, it seems, because I've been to pretty much all the shows. And I think you get the biggest collection of people with, you know, if you need rubbers or flippers or bumper caps or crazy light up stuff, mods, all that. All the mod makers come out to this show. So there's going to be a ton of stuff to empty your wallet on. I encourage everyone to go take a look at our vendor list and see all who's going to be there. And you said swap meet? But yes, we'll have tons of vendors. But also the swap meet's on Saturday morning. And it gets bigger and bigger every year. That's out in the parking lot? It is out in the parking lot. So you'll find just about anything out there at the swap meet. Yeah, so if you don't see a game that you need in the show, go to the swap meet because it might be in a trailer outside the show. And if you've got a game in your garage you need to get rid of, bring it to the swap meet. You'll sell it. God, I'm getting all excited, all this stuff.
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    Well, and of course, we didn't really talk about the show's theme this year is 3D. So, yeah, Brad Albright did some great artwork for it. He put on the old school 3D glasses. It looks pretty amazing. Of course, we're going to have all the banners hanging from the ceilings. It's going to be in 3D, the cards. So hopefully you'll see a lot of people walking around with 3D glasses. I just think that'll look cool. I think that pretty much covers it. If you have any questions, by all means, go to TexasPenmo.com. By the time everyone hears this, online registration and merchandise sales will be closed because we'll be packing up and getting the badges printed and everything ready to go, the programs. But we will have lots of shirts and merchandise available at the show. You can still get your pass at the show. So you just won't get the badge, but you can buy a weekend pass, and you can buy day-only passes. If you can only come out on Friday or Saturday, you can buy a pass just for that day only. I highly recommend that if you're in the area, this is not only the award-winning best show, but in my opinion, and I don't give out awards, but if I did, you would get the Franchi Award for Best Pinball Convention. Thank you. You're welcome, sir. All right, well, that's going to do it for our Texas Pinball special. I hope to see all of you guys down there in a couple of weeks. And, Ed, you know, I have to thank you for putting on this show because if we didn't go through all the effort, we wouldn't be able to go and have all this fun. So thank you and your family and your helpers and everything else very much for putting on this show. My pleasure. Can't wait to see everybody. And, again, I'll tell everybody, you know, if you see me, by all means, you know, wave and say hello. Don't be offended if I can't sit and chit-chat with you during the show because everybody's super busy. And I tell everybody that. Even when my family and friends come, I tell them. All the volunteers, they're working their butts off. Kim and I and Paul, we're all working our butts off. So by all means, stop and say hello, shake my hands. But if I'm short or I've got to get on to the next thing, that's just how it is. Go say hi to his wife because she's a cutie. Yeah, go say hi to her. You'll get the excuse like, what, what do you need? Nope. Next. Next in line. All right. Thanks, Chris. Thanks for having me.
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    And that's going to do it for this supplemental edition of the Super Awesome Pinball Show. thanks very much to Mr. Ed Vandervine of the Texas Pinball Festival for joining us. We are both looking forward to seeing all of you guys in another week and a half out in Frisco, Texas for what is sure to be the greatest pinball convention ever with all these new games to be played. We'll see you on the next show whenever that is. Until then, take care everybody. Bye-bye. G.T.F.
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    Fire in the disco! Fire in the Taco Bell. Hey, fucking Chalupa sucks, dude.