It's a flashing sign you're calling from the stream Drink from the well soaked bitter streamYou wrote your number on the back of my receipt before you thought you'd wake upSucker punch Sitter, Sitter, Sitter, Sitter, Sitter, Sitter, Sitter Welcome everybody to Kaneda's Pinball Podcast. I'm your host Kaneda. It is Friday. We are halfway through February and I think all of us are sort of experiencing this moment in the pinball world where we're reflecting on what's about to come, right? We know there's new games from Stern, a new game from Jersey Jack Pinball, a new game from American Pinball, maybe a new game from Raw Thrills or Chicago Gaming Company. We know there's a new multi-morphic game around the corner. A lot of pinball coming. There is a lot of pinball coming into the world. And I think everyone's been quite honest with themselves about 2022 and how it was a very underwhelming year in pinball. So I think most of us are having a little bit of a period of pause and reflection. What are each of us going to do now? Each of our stories in the pinball world is different. Some of you can't wait to get your hands on a new game. Some of you bought a new game. You've got James Bond sitting in your home and you're waiting patiently for code. Some of you preordered Scooby Doo and you can't wait to get that game. We're going to talk about Spooky Pinball is getting games out the door. Congratulations Spooky. It's always great to see a bunch of pinball machines lined up and going out to customers when they said they would get games to customers. Some of us are waiting to see this James Bond 60th. How good is the game going to shoot? Can anything happening on that playfield justify the $20,000 price tag that Stern put on the machine? Now look on this episode of Kaneda's Pinball Podcast we're going to talk all about that. We're going to talk about what's about to come. We're going to talk about the vibe in the pinball community right now. Before I do that I want to thank each and every one of you for being a club member. We are now at 568 club members. We lost one individual. You know it feels like a rocky ship in the ocean. Most of us are having a good time on this Antonio Cruz ship and every once in a while someone goes overboard. But I am so delighted to see the incredible support from For this show and I mean it when I say it, it's the only show that gets right to it. So let's start out this show talking about spooky pinball getting Scooby Doo out the door. This is a good sign. This is a good sign. This means they're confident in the code. It means we're going to start to see these machines on location as early as this weekend and we're going to get some consumer feedback on what it's like to play Scooby Doo pinball. Every time I see photos of this game, I have to say I like what I see. I think the game's colorful. I think it's the right campy theme for pinball. I think spooky pinball heard all of our feedback about freaking what Halloween and Ultraman. Every once in a while, I'll pop into the Ultraman thread and see these people trying to convince themselves they're having a good time. And maybe they are having a good time. But I think those days, I think Spooky's learned you can't make people wait over a year to get a game to the point it should have been at The day you shipped the game. And I think that's one of the themes of 2022, right? At these high prices and even Spooky Pin is a high price game now, people. Remember, Scooby Doo with butter cabinet to your door is a $13,000 proposition. And I don't think now that games are so much more money, we're going to be patient and wait forever for code to be done. I think James Bond has been one of the worst launches in the history of Stern Pinball. And I'm not sure this game will ever overcome it because times have significantly changed. Like you take a game like Stranger Things, right? That game, LE, new in box, I think was like $8,500. And no one wanted it, right? It was like $8,000 to $9,000. Now a Stern LE is 40% more money new in box. And I really do worry, and I mean this, I worry that Stern Pinball and Jersey Jack Pinball have Knapp Arcade, David David Van Es. Knapp Arcade, David David Van Es. This week we have a new pinball company that's going to pass some value on to the customer. And it's going to get really interesting as we head into 2023-2024. Let me ask a question of all of you. What happens when Stern moves into their new factory which is almost like double the size of their current facility? What happens if Stern Pinball can make a thousand games a week? What if Stern Pinball pumps 30 to 40 thousand new pinball machines into the world every single year? We are going to get to the point now, right? Where nothing is scarce, nothing is rare, and all of these games are carrying such a huge price tag. I was just thinking about it too when I was in the shower today. We used to be able to get like two Stern LEs for like $15,000. Now two Stern LEs are like $26,000, $27,000. Have you doubled your salary in like three, four years? In fact, the complete opposite has happened, right? All of our money is worth less in 2023 than it was in 2021 or 2019 when stern prices were a lot more reasonable. And I think a lot of people are feeling it. I'm feeling it. I don't want to run towards any of this stuff. I mean, my motto of late of wait and see is the way I'm going to do it. I'm going to be able to wait and see and play Scooby Doo. I'm going to enjoy Scooby Doo knowing that I don't need to buy one this year, knowing that there's going to be so many I want to say congratulations to Spooky and we really look forward to seeing this game soon. All right, let's go on to the next game that is supposed to be shipping James Bond 60th still nothing about this game We have not seen gameplay and I really do think Stern is stalling and I think for a lot of you out there You don't care about this game I think this game is gonna sit at distributors for a really long time and I do think a year from now You're gonna see this game trade for around ten to twelve thousand dollars, and I don't think anyone's gonna care I was telling someone in a analogy Imagine what a food dish you don like I don care what you sell it to me at I just don want it I feel the same way about toy Story 4 I don want it I don want it at 8 I don care what you sell it to me at I just don want it I feel the same way about Toy Story 4 I don want it I don want it at 8 I don want it at 6 I enjoy playing the game on location tremendously I think Toy Story 4 is one of the greatest modern day location pinball machines we ever seen It is super simple It easy to hop on It easy to have long ball times Your dollar goes a far way playing the game I have no desire to own it And I'm happy with that. Now that wasn't the goal of the machine. And I feel bad for all of you out there who bought LEs of Toy Story. You know why I feel bad? Because imagine if you bought an LE at $12,000 and you loved the machine. Guess what all of those buyers are thinking right now? If I would have taken Kaneda's advice and just wait and see, every single person who bought an LE could have gone and got a CE for the same price they paid for their LE with tax. Okay, and if they had just waited, right? What was the rush to buy the le there was no need to rush and buy one Jersey Jack said they're gonna make 5,000 and I think more and more of you are hearing my advice and you're gonna take my advice trust me Stern's next le is not gonna sell out day one not at 13,000 not if they make a thousand Jersey Jack Pinball's next game is not gonna sell out day one not if it's Godfather not if they make a thousand not if the MSRP is The only way you are going to have a day one sellout. Remember Scooby Doo did not even sell out. TNA did not sell out the second run of the game. There is almost nothing that will sell out day one now unless it is absolutely a magical machine. All right. And that is good news for us because it helps all of us get rid of our FOMO. And when you get rid of your FOMO, guess what? You'll be liberated. And it doesn't matter how much money you have. Nobody wants to pay over for anything. Why would anyone want to pay more money than they have to to get the same exact experience? And I think the big dogs in pinball have overpriced themselves. And speaking of a company that's going to take advantage of this, and I was speaking to people who played the game yesterday. I am predicting that American Pinball's galactic tank force is going to land in the pinball world to a thunderous round of applause. And the reason why I think people are going to be so receptive to this game, I think people are going to see this game, they're going to see what's in it, they're going to see how beautiful it is. I keep hearing about Franchi's art package and how it's just killer and they're gonna see the way the cabinet folds down and it looks like a tank when the cabinet is folded down and there's like a huge bash toy interactive toy in the game and it is a Dennis Nordman World Under Glass and then I'm hearing that they are gonna price this game right around $9,000. $9,000 they're gonna price this game at. Now that is like 40% cheaper than a Stern LE. And you have to ask yourself, shouldn't we as a community be supporting the pinball companies that are giving us great value for the money? Many years ago, I heard from Mr. Sharp over at Stern Pinball and he told me something that is this company's philosophy. He said, if the game is fun, how can you even put a price on that? And my gosh, has Stern Pinball been showing us that they will try to see what the ceiling is on how much money they can charge for a game. But again, they're not charging for fun now. They're charging us for scarcity. They're charging us for FOMO. They're charging us for exclusivity. They're not charging us for fun. There is no way James Bond 60th is going to be more fun to play than games like Godzilla or Iron Maiden or games like Elvira, right? Or games like Tron. And none of those games came out with a $20,000 sticker. So I expect American Pinball who will be launching this game at Texas Pinball Festival. I expect them to really land in the community with a thunderous applause. Now look, I told David Fix, guys, start teasing this game a little bit though. You're going to reveal this game to the world at TPF. They haven't even themselves announced that. But Texas Pinball Festival on its own Facebook page has already told us Dennis Nordman will be here with his new game at TPF. So David Fix, trust me, Christopher Franchi, trust me, don't hold it all back. At least we got a teaser thing from P3 Multimorphic with Scott Denisi's next game, Carbon. At least they're trying to get people excited and put their next title on the map. But here's what's weird about P3's next game. If you order a P3 today, the wait to get one is one year. I'm not even come close and I mean this come close to fulfilling the orders for the weird al games and you're going to announce another game when you are so backlogged on your existing orders for weird al I don't understand see I wouldn't buy a multi morphic game for one reason right now I just don't want to wait and I think Jerry needs to figure this out look there's a silent majority of people out there that just don't like the platform and even Scott Denisi has a following in pinball and he's great with lights and he's great with music. He's not the best designer from a layout standpoint. I mean, he'll be the first person to admit that. So it's going to be interesting to see what he does with the P3 system. Now, look, I also think Scott Denisi because he is such a he is such a conductor, if you will, of lights and sounds. It's going to be interesting to see what he does with the multimorphic platform. I'm not going to spend $13,000 though to get one. I'll play it at a show. I'll enjoy it, but I'm not spending this much money anymore. It's just too much. Like all of it is too much. And the whole proposition of the multi-morphic is well, you buy one game and then you can add like $3,500 new games to the platform. But let's think about it for a minute. So you buy Scott Danesi's next game. Let's just not even add tax or anything. You're 13.5 in. Then you add another game. You add heist. Okay now you at Okay then you add another game Let say you add Weird Al So now you at like almost in on this platform Okay so what happens when you try to go sell this machine What are you listed for No one going to pay you for a multi morphic because now you got to sell it and someone going to want to have all the games Like this isn a video game console where millions of people own the NES and if you sell like the system it easy If you sell individual games it easy No like this is like if you gonna go all in on Multimorphic you gonna go all in on Multimorphic And I just think there's just enough people out there that just don't get the same pinball feel when they play the Multimorphic platform. It doesn't feel exactly the same as a normal pinball machine. It's got like four buttons on the side. You know, it's quirky. It's weird. It's different. Like you got to be into that, right? You got to be into that. But clearly the marketplace and this is not even me being like opinionated. Clearly the pinball market hasn't really gravitated towards the platform. And I also think that people like to look at their games when the games are off. Like there is something beautiful about a row of pinball machines when they're not even turned on. And when you turn off the I'm gonna use a cargument. It's like opening up someone's car garage and some guy has like a Ferrari where you can see the beautiful body and it's like someone's got the same Ferrari but with a black car cover over it. Which one is more exciting to open up the door and look at even when it's not in motion? Tantanita, no more carguments on this episode, I promise. But I did find the teaser video for Scott and E.C.'s Carbon a little bit funny because like 75% of the people who are working on it, their credentials are like weird owls museum of hilarity. Of course, like yeah, they work at Multimorphic. It's like it was a little bit of like a weird flex. It wasn't that impressive. But when are we going to see this game? Like is Jerry going to bring this game to TPF? And then it just begs the question if you want�ky out of the baticios by the time ofdot mag among them are in regions in 7 tall 경찰 texas I think he's really struggling with distracting i'd go onto jersey jack pinball still i said like a month ago that I thought we were going to see jjp 18 february 20th is a damn happen is a knock and hat and I don't know if there's absolutely no momentum There's no excitement. Jersey Jack Marketing is doing absolutely nothing to get people excited. And I think we might not even see JJP number 8 until well after TPF now. I just want to see it because if it is Godfather, look, I mean this when I say it and I know they're going to listen to this. If your game is Godfather and you guys are doing nothing, nothing to just admit it's that and just rip that band-aid off, then your marketing efforts are going to fail horribly. They need to manage expectations if that is the theme. They know how unpopular this theme is with distributors, with customers, and if they try to play this like they've got a Back to the Future kind of game or a Ghostbusters kind of theme, and they pull the curtain off of Godfather, you are going to see so many people scratch their head, put their wallets back in their pocket, and they're not going to flock to this thing. Isn't it sad? It's like I feel like 90 plus percent of people out there if you were to pull them Do you want it to be something other than Godfather? They would say yes Even if they don't know what theme it is, they just know they don't want this theme and I'm really worried This is Jack Guarnieri thinking he has an intuition into what people want because we know Jack Guarnieri Sold a ton of Lord of the Rings and that's why he made Hobbit and he sold a lot of A lot of sopranos and that's why he thinks Godfather is going to work. But what Jack doesn't realize is sopranos was contemporary, had a lot more humor, a lot more energy. It was more of a modern take on the mobster drama and Godfather is slow. It is methodical. You could argue it would be boring in pinball format. So we shall see what happens with JJP. I'm just going to say this right now. JJP is at the lowest it's ever been in terms of brand momentum, brand swagger. They need to have a marketing meeting and they need to get this company back on the map somehow. And radio silence is not going to work. And reminding us that we can buy Toy Story today and lose $2,000 to $3,000 is not going to work. This is why you need to try new things in the marketing department. They're not trying anything new. I'm not doing anything new. They're going to do the same thing. They're going to get the same video production company to make another video and that's it. And that's it. And there's nothing else. There's nothing else. They should be teasing this game right now and if they were smart they would let us know it's godfather. Alright, let's go on to Stern Pinball. So here's what I'm hearing about Stern Pinball. Right now, no one really knows. Foo Fighters or Venom. I told you it was going to be Foo Fighters and I also told you it was going to be Venom. Which one is right? I don't really know. I don't even think Stern knows which game it's going to be, but here's the timing I am hearing. I am hearing that Stern Pinball is not going to unveil this game at Texas Pinball Festival. I hear Stern Pinball is going to announce this game, annoyingly so, the week after TPF. So the week of like March 27th or 28th, whatever week that is. And I think you're going to see this game. They're going to drop it on the pinball world after TPF. And then the game is going to be at MGC. The So there you have it like will it be Foo Fighters will it be venom? I think we're gonna see it after TPF So now if you're going to TPF It seems like the two games that are really gonna be the focus of TPF will be Scooby-Doo and this Galactic tank force, you know, we might see Big Bang Bar remake. We might see Twilight Zone We might see Pulp Fiction, but right now I think the two games that are going to own the show are Scooby Doo and freaking Galactic Tank Force and I think there will be a James Bond 60th there and we'll get to jump on it, we'll get to play it and then we'll all go have beers and make fun of the fact that some distributor is trying to sell us the game for $20,000. Alright what else is happening in the pinball world? I want to say congratulations to Mr. Jack Danger. Not only is Jack Danger working on a Stern Cornerstone title but the man himself just Jack Danger has purchased his very own studio in the Chicago area where it will be the permanent home now of dead flip streaming. And I want to say Jack congratulations. Your story and your passion for pinball has opened up so many great opportunities for you and your family. I've met you many times at shows. We've talked many times offline or online but not publicly. I want to say that Jack Danger is one of the greatest personalities and assets to all of pinball And I think he is the best ambassador to pinball next to Kenaida Well maybe him and I if you think about it and you want to get people into pinball and show them a more energetic a more youthful a more handsome if you will spokesperson for pinball there is nobody better than Mr Jack Danger He's almost as handsome as me but he's much taller so he gets more attention when he walks into a room. And when I walk into a room with Jack Danger, it's like I'm like Frodo Baggins. It's like he's like Gandalf. And everyone's like, well, Kaneda's here too. I'm down here, guys. And I got a little podcast and I won five Twippies. Oh, speaking of Twippies, right? Oh my God, it's after the Academy Awards this year. It's so late in the year. Oh, so we'll see what happens at the Twippies. It's going to be a fun time. I do love hearing so many people complain about award shows. Isn't it funny when people are like, I don't like award shows and I don't support them and I don't care about awards. So let me talk for 20 minutes on my podcast about how much I don't like awards. And I'll tell you this right now, the reason why these other people are always slamming the awards is because they've never won an award. They're not even in the top three. Some of them are not even in the top ten. It's really easy when you're not that popular to make fun of everybody else that is a little popular. To make fun of everyone else that's having a little bit of success. And yes, I am having a little bit of success with this show. And I am very proud because if you add up every single other pinball podcasters Patreon numbers, all of them combined don't even come close to what we're doing with Kaneda's Pinball Podcast. And trust me, ladies and gentlemen, that's the only number that matters. And nobody else could do what we're doing here. Like we're all in this to have fun. We're all in this to entertain everybody. And sure none of this matters that much. And sure some people say they don't want to be popular and I would argue that none of us are popular. None of us are making a difference in the world. None of us are changing anything. But we're all in the same ring trying to make the most entertaining pinball podcast. And I think when people try to remove the public vote from counting, it's just going to be our little circle of friends that determines what's great in a hobby where there's only three to five games a year. Only your little circle of Friends is gonna determine that? No, no, no, no, no. That's not how pinball is. Pinball is a sport for the people. Pinball is out there for the people. Pinball was never meant to be this inclusive little club that's gonna congratulate each other on all the great stuff we've done. And if we don't get congratulated by the people, we'll just make our own awards and give ourselves our own awards. Yeah, like nobody's gonna see through that. And that is why the Twippies matter and that's why come this March, We're going to see what happens. I think the games were underwhelming and I do mean it. I think the pinball media category at the award shows is probably one of the most interesting to follow. It's definitely the most dramatic. And of course, Canada is always at the center of that so-called controversy. So ladies and gentlemen, I just want to say this to end the show. I've sort of been hinting the fact that Jeff Brenner and I have been going through some stuff personally and we have. And I don't really want to bring too much of it to this show. I will just say this. Family is the most important thing in life. And not just the family you're born into, the family you decide to have. And when you go through tough times in life, you lean on that family. And again, it's not just a family of blood. It's your great friends. It's your great coworkers. And what we're going through right now is just a really difficult time because we don't know what decision to make. And it does have to do with expanding our family. I'll just keep it at that, but I'll just say, you know, we've been to different hospitals and different doctors. And the more we speak to people and the more we do tests, the more we come back and we're sort of still frozen in this moment where we don't really know what to do. And I just want to say this. You don't have to reach out to me. You don't have to say like my thoughts and prayers are with you. You don't have to ask me if I'm okay. We're going to get through this and we're going to get through it together. We're going to get through it with Killian and our family and life will go on. I mean that when I say it because pinball is such a necessary outlet for me. It's a necessary distraction for me and I don't want to bring too much of that other stuff into this show. But I also just want to remind everybody that everybody's going through their own struggles and you never know. You'll never know it on the surface if you saw me walking down the street what's really going on, right? You'll never know it when you see my Facebook lives and I'm so animated, right? I'm not screaming about Multimorphic or making fun of pin stadium. I don't make fun of pin stadium enough. These before and after photos of pin stadium are the most ridiculous thing on planet earth. A pin stadium kit costing $650 is criminal. That is more criminal than James Bond costing 20,000. 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