Nevertheless, it's supposed to be something there. So I've got, I don't know which game it is. I don't know which company's bringing it. But I've got a top three list. I know the first thing to jump to your mind is maybe American Pinball is going to drag out one of those prototype Circus Voltares for everybody to play at Golden State, get hype, and then open the order banks and then try to sell a bunch of these crazy ringmaster creepy guy raising from the playfield games. Was that like one of those playground balls from the ball pit that dude just stuffed under that circular wire for him just to interact with the ball? It was the weirdest thing in a pinball machine. Nevertheless, you know, that was the first thing, you know, I would think of. But I'm not sure that that's going to happen because I don't think American Pinball needs to do that. They're making the Houdinis right now. They're getting them out. I think they could unveil and just bring it to whatever shows next. I don't know that Golden State is the one that they make or break for Circus Voltaire. Regardless, it's already been announced, though, you know, so it's like it wouldn't have like, oh, my God, did you see this new things out there? They're just like, oh, that's the first place to play it. And if it was going to be there to play from American Pinball, I think they'd already be hyping it up. Like, be sure to check out this game, order it right now. Here's all our distributors. And also, it'll be at the forthcoming Golden State Pinball Festival. Buy your tickets now. Get on down there. So for that reason, I don't think it's them. So that leaves me with, I don't know, like Chicago Gaming Company with Theater of Magic. This has been the other Bally Williams remake that's been, you know, everywhere. It's been more places than Twilight Zone has. And so, I mean, maybe. Now, it's CGC. They're doing another thousand of these Merlin's Purple Potion editions. You know, I don't know that they're ready to release something else, let alone, like, ready to build it. So I'm going to put that as like number two, probably more likely to happen than I think AP would be. But I don't think that's really what's happening. I think what's really what's happening was that words is a Padretti, our friends from northern Indiana, Italy. Same thing are for basically like the geo equivalent portion of like where Gary, Indiana is. That's kind of where Milan, Italy is, where like the Euro Pinball Corp headquarters are. So in Italy's version of Gary, Indiana, these guys are supposedly bolting together the last few of the Predators and then will be changing to. Are you ready for this? Tales of the Damn Arabian Nights of all the games to be rumored to remake. I mean, Twilight Zone is probably the one everybody wants. I mean, outside of Indiana Jones and Adam's family, of course. But I hear, you know, Totan, it looks good. It's the one I would want. Not that I really do. But if I did, of the ones that would generate some hype, this one would be up there. So I'm kind of excited. I think if something does happen, if Planetary is right with all their speculation, I think Theater Tales of the Arabian Nights, I think Pedretti is the one that's doing it. And I think that might be a golden state. Still seems kind of weird. You know, why wouldn't you do the same thing I'm anticipating American Pinball to be doing? And that is coming out and saying, hey, here's our new remake game. Here's the tier levels. Here's how we fix the code. Here's where you can order it. And here's the next show it's going to debut at. I think they would do it that way. I don't think they would just keep everything hush hush and then like, you know, throw a bunch of spotlights at a show with like apologies to show me 1500 people there. And like pull the sheet back and say now introducing Tales of the Arabian Nights. And then like somebody throws confetti in the air or something and blows an air horn. Like, I don't know. But maybe, maybe. And I am excited for everybody at the show. Heck, I might even still go out there and get to play a new remake or whatever. But that's what I'm hearing there. So we'll lead off the show with that. Here's another rumor I didn't expect. Here's one I thought was complete BS when I heard it. And it's regarding everybody's favorite solo orphan, the Pinball Brothers. These people just put out, you remember, the Predator without any Predator assets, the wide body game that nobody could get excited about. Even though I think the layout was kind of fun, even though I'm hearing the code is kind of a mess, whatever, whatever's whatever. We know they ended orders on it. We know they ended production on it or is wrapping up production soon. So my guess is if Tales of the Arabian Nights is not currently eating up real estate over there at Euro Pinball Corp in Milan the Gary Indiana of Italy then I think this would be you know they would be next in line And when I tell you this man like this is ridiculous I don't know. Did I have a NAP report on this already? We heard about the Fifth Element being a rumored title from Barrels of Fun, right? Because they had one of the creatures in that Mythbusters guy's warehouse when they did the whole reveal for Labyrinth. And people got like seriously excited. Like this is I didn't know there was so many like underground Fifth Element fans. You know, I know people like like Die Hard. I never really got into it, but I get it. And like Fifth Element, like I've seen it and I like Chris Tucker's character. But I didn't know there was this like fervor behind like, no way they are making my dream pinball theme of Fifth Element. Right. Well, what I'm hearing and it wasn't just from one place either. Like as soon as I put this out there, like, are you guys hearing this? It was like, oh, yeah, dude. Like, yeah, I think that's happening. So did the Pinball Brothers license Fifth Element? Well, if they did, we know they don't have to worry about licensing Bruce because they don't go after the main character from the thing. Because this is your journey through Flotsam Paradise, right? Chris Tucker, Betty Beauty in there and doing movie call outs or something. We have to if they're doing this. So I don't know. Is the Pinball Brother, the dude over there, the one that hung around, are they really doing Fifth Element? Personally, I'm more excited about that, just the prospect of it, than I was for Predator because I wasn't a huge Predator fan or anything. But if they can load a game with Chris Tucker call-outs and then just show images of Bruce, maybe without talking, maybe without, maybe it could be fun. Maybe it could be fun. I know you're dismissing the Pinball Brothers, right? Like these guys haven't made a game that anybody's wanted ever. Queen was garbage. Alien was someone else's design. Predator, Preda don't, right? Remember ABBA. Yeah. ABBA, okay, terrible thing for pinball. Like, don't try to make a viable company and this is what you pick. That being said, tell me you haven't had fun playing ABBA. I know we've all had fun playing ABBA. It's like the Vespa motor scooter of pinball machines, right? Like, you don't want your friends to see you on one, but like, you'll knock it around and have a good time on it. And you won't be mad when someone drags her to your house. Am I right? Am I right? I had an ABBA in my house and damn it if we didn't have a fun time on it. So I think there is potential there. If you can build me something that is a little bit more complex than ABBA, a little wide body that shoots a little better, load it with some Chris Tucker. I might be willing to meet you halfway and at least consider like this being a good idea. I'm excited now, man. This is new Pinball. I want to see it. So when are we going to see this thing? Haven't heard. I have no idea like who brought this rumor out. Who was there asking like, OK, finally, we're done with Predator. What do the Pinball brothers have to bring us next? Jengiz, are you in on this? This guy, man, he won't tell me nothing. His mouth is an iron lint trap, but supposedly he's in cahoots with these folks just trying to see if they can maybe launch things a little bit better next time or push a little bit harder for some assets or work to keep that price under 10,000 euro dollar dues or whatever they have. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? So I haven't heard anything of confirmation of this. I haven't heard timing on this. But Fifth Element from Pinball Brothers. Did that get your little tendrils twiggling? Y'all let me know. Let me know down there in the comments. All right. What I think the next game that I'm most excited about, and probably if you were to poll people and they did like they filled in the Scantron bubble sheet, I think the next game release that the most people in Pinball are excited about is actually the code update for Pokemon, right? This game came out from Stern Pinball, Stern Pinball's touting that this is their fastest selling Pinball machine that they have made. Not the greatest in numbers. That still goes to Godzilla. Godzilla hit, probably didn't generate a ton of excitement right away, but as people played it, we all know, we all ordered it, man. Everybody had a Godzilla, and it's still in demand because it's still an incredible game with nuanced gameplay and nice flow and a good mix of a lot of fun mechanisms and spinners and gameplay. And then it's funny as well with the call-outs. You can play it in Japanese. It's kind of a perfect game. Side note, so is Jaws, man. Played that game yesterday up here in Northeast Ohio. And yeah, hell of a game. I walk in, I get a quarter billion points. I caught the Thresher Shark. I'm playing through modes. I'm just having such a great time playing this game with all of its assets. Folks, if you are a pinball company and you're looking at making a pinball machine themed after a motion picture, Jaws is the template. That's it right there. You know, I think Jaws, I think Evil Dead, you know, find the callouts and everything and jam them in there, man. Jaws is just such a just a fun to play game. And I was just playing the pro. I didn't even have the upper play field or anything. I didn't even have the drop targets. And I still had such a great, impressive time on it. Now, Pokemon is no Jaws for sure. But my hope is that it can be loaded with so much of the content from the TV show, the callouts, gameplay moments, fun little things to do, fun hurry ups that can pop up. Uh, leveling systems, catching 182 Pokemon. Like there's so much more to this game. And I think Kaneda was right when he mentioned it, that Pokemon out right now, it's like playing the beta version of the game. A couple of multi balls in there. There's a wizard mode in there. You can play each of the characters modes and that's it, you know? And so like, we've all played it several times now. We're having fun with it. We're ready for more. All right. I've downloaded the trial version. I want to now pay for the license and download the full game. That's what I want. And so because of the delay with the Pokemon Company, I don't think that this code drop is going to be just, you know, OK, we're going from 0.7 to 0.74. I think there's a lot of things that are planned for this game, a lot of things that are already coded in this game, and a lot of things are just waiting for the Lich Pin to be lifted to come on out. And so as soon as I get those approvals, whenever they happen, I think the Stern's going to go over, flip the switch, this thing's going to go out, and, you know, Pokemon machines across the country are suddenly going to go dark, download, And pop up in a magical world of mayhem. So that's why I'm saying that this is a game that's about to drop because it's kind of like a game's worth of code. The reason that I'm calling Pokemon a whole code drop is because right now in that box of lights is a beta version of code. And I feel like there is an entire game's worth of code that's about to come out and drop. So I'm excited for that. The thing is, I don't think we have to wait till June for the next turn Cornerstone release or for Sonic the Hedgehog to get this. This could come any day. Hey, this could come now. This could come 10 minutes from now. This could come 15 minutes from now, 20 minutes from now. Stern, whenever you're ready, you go ahead and drop that guy because I'm going to download. I want to play that stuff. But I think there's so much coming from this. And I've played Stern machines that have had simpler layouts before. Monsters with its simple code, Deadpool, Bond. And they were so richly treated with code that it completely changed the game, literally, of the box of $1,000, $10,000 lights that we all love. And playing pinball. So super excited to see what goes on about that. Maine story time. Hello, everybody. How are you doing? My name's Don. I travel for work. It seems like way too freaking much. I was out in Maine for 10 days. Went up to Quebec several times. I do love me some New Brunswick. I had a good time. I saw some moose. Thankfully, I'm done. 10 grueling days, right? I finished. And then I had one golden day off before another four or five day stretch up here in Ohio, which is now thankfully almost done. But what did I do with my one day off? I don't waste any time, man. When I'm working a lot and I finally do get a time off, I'll just go home and kick back and sit back and read like I probably should. I jam pack as much fun and flavor in there as I possibly can. So here's my itinerary for my one day off. I don't know. I think it was a Sunday or something. It might have been a Monday. Could have been a Tuesday. It was Wednesday. It was for sure Wednesday. Here's what happened. I boarded a plane at around 5 a from Bangor Maine flew myself to Chicago landed actually got my bag back super quickly got into my car headed on down the road picked up a sandwich and then before I knew it I was off playing some pinball I was down there in Crown Point, Indiana? Yeah, I believe it was Indiana. I crossed over Indiana, went down south below the Indiana equivalent of Milan, Italy, and then went to Crown Point. I played some pinball at this place called, what was it called? It was like pig themed. Bomber's Barbecue. They got two locations. Crown Point was one of them. So I was at a pot belly sandwich getting myself a BLT with some extra pork on it. And then I was like, you know, I got some time to kill here. Is there any pinball nearby? And lo and behold, this barbecue place was just about to throw its doors open. I go in there and these knuckleheads, they got a Harry Potter arcade edition sitting right next to a Pokemon limited edition ready to go. I believe there was a Jaws there, a handful of the typical Sterns, a Twilight Zone at the end. So like I'm like, great. I'll just go play some bonus Twilight Zone, play some Harry Potter, get my photo up there on the machine. Had a fantastic time. Didn't get any of the meat there because I'd already met my meat quota for the week. But I did see some of their food being served. Looked pretty good. You're in the area. Maybe you check it out. I got a text from my homeboy, Ryan. He's like, bro, stop what you're doing. Costco has logo merchandise right now. He showed me some pictures of like a Costco white shirt and a black shirt, a blazing with the Costco logo. And I'm like, bet. So I turned around, headed up to Costco. The one that was there did not have it, but I did pick up some new flip flops. If you want the new Flo Joes for this season, they're over there. $14.99. I grabbed myself. So I'm set for this summer with some brand new flops, man. They're super cushy. All right. So we head out of Costco. Where am I going next? I went over to Valpo, Indiana. Valparaiso, as it's known. So I hit up Havoc. I found it on my maps. It was on the way. Met this dude that owns a shop. Got myself a complete. Built it from scratch. Had a great time. There's a skate park right up the street, Flounder Skate Park, shredded the hell out of that gnar, man. I got caught up with like two months of like missing skating. It's a freaking winter, dude. It was it was a good time. It was a brutal time. I nailed my kickflip, which is what I went there for. And then just, you know, tooled around the bowls and stuff. This was super cool. They built this place to commemorate a local skater from the area. And if you know skateboarding, they had a manual pad there that was a length of like 50 feet or something with sidewalk cuts in it. That when you pull off an Ollie Manual across the whole pad, it goes out to the beat of a Pennywise song. It was so dope. I hit it first try with witnesses. We're just having a great day here in Valpo, Indiana. I wasted like two hours there and then it was heading off east. I had to go to Ohio to work the next day. I was making my way out, just trying to make the most of my day. And I noticed that right between where I'm at and where I'm going is Fort Wayne, Indiana, which I don't know. It's equivalent to Verona, Italy, probably. We're doing Italian and Indiana conversions comparisons. And Fort Wayne, Indiana, as we all should know, is home to Wizards World, one of the greatest location pinball places in the country. I know there's biggies, man. I've been to Next Level. I've been to Interium. I haven't been to that place down near Savannah, Georgia, Pinball Palace. I haven't yet been to Rob Burke's place, but Wizards World put that on the list of like awesome places to go. Oh, I've been to both electric bats also. So like Wizards World is a building in the middle of like nowhere on the northern outskirts of Fort Wayne, Indiana. And when I say that they have everything like they have everything, they don't have any spooky games, but they got everything else, including tons of Sterns from the entire library. If you want to go play Rolling Stones, it's over there. I went over and played Shrek for a while. They got a couple versions of Jurassic Park, lots of EMs, lots of new games, old games, a couple versions of games, lots of LEs on locations. Nearly all of them have the toppers as well. It's one of the few locations I know of that I can just show up and play Heavy Metal. Heavy Metal is like a white label game that Stern put out. The music's incredible. It has the same layout of like the Star Wars Home Edition game that they put out. But the thing is, it's built with, you know, like more substantial materials, not built like a home version. So if you always kind of dug that George Gomez layout, which I have, and you want to play like a full-time version of it or like a full-build version of it, Heavy Metal is the way to go. I think Supreme's the same way, but I still haven't found one of those available to play. But damn it, Heavy Metal is just a fun little game. It's a curiosity in the lineage of Stern. I wouldn't mind having one, but short of that, I like that I can go to Wizard's World and play it. You know, they have their Pokemons there. Everything's got toppers on it. I played a Batman 66, SLE with the topper on location, quarter drop. Like, it's a cool spot, man. It's a cool spot. It's my second time going there. Go check it out. So I went in. I played some Shrek. I played some Batman 66. I played – I had a choice. I had a choice of playing Heavy Metal or Merlin's Arcade, and I had to do Heavy Metal, and then that was the last of my dollars I had to leave. But I'm going to go back. There's a turnaround location there. That's super cool. So, like, if you're crossing through the area, if you're taking the Illinois or Indiana Turnpike, it's not that far of a detour to dip down and check out Wizard's World. It's, like, just a hall of pinball, super chill vibes. They got a little snack counter. You can go get yourself a drink. There's a change machine. It's a quarter drop. But just a cool place, man. Not huge, but, like, there's 200-plus games in there or something crazy. I love it. I dig it there. So the locals know. The locals know. All right. But the whole mission for the rest of the day was to get my butt out to North Canton, Ohio, because I heard tell of a brand new game that just released, like freshly released, like fresh out the box, fresh out the cell. And I got a chance to play it over at my homie's house. So I headed to the Mad Pinball headquarters in North Canton, Ohio. I'm like, dude, Jeff, is it real? And he's like, it's real. I'm like, Jeff, is it happening? And he's like, it's happening. I roll into the garage of the Angelia State there and boom, there she is. Hexa Pinball Zone right next to Space Hunt, the Three Musketeers. This legendary game that was supposed to be at the Texas Pinball Festival making its worldwide debut and then was locked into customs. I heard more of the story. It wasn't just that it was sitting on a dock in Galveston waiting to get let out. No, this game was getting bounced around from like customs operator to customs operator. It's in Ohio. It's in this state. It's in this state. It's over here. It's over there. Like this game went through hell to try to get here. My hope is that's not how every game imported from Hexag goes. It's got to get more streamlined than that. But luckily, this thing finally made it out the box. It didn't make it in time for even Pinbrew, but like it was fresh out and I got to play the dang thing. And right now, I believe the game is over at Pinfest in Allentown, which is going on this weekend. It's Saturday. It's going on right now. Game should be there. My hope is that it holds up. Don, what do you want to know about this game? All right.