You know, so where are we even at here, man? We're like $6,250 to get this thing plus tax, title, and dock fees on top of the $5,500 if you find like somebody with a heist that wants to dump it. um and then you're like you're literally eclipsing ninja eclipse you're eclipsing evil dead evil dead is ten thousand dollars and it comes with a topper and and it's loaded with mechanisms and all the powder coat you would want no jank ramps there's no jank in evil dead and it's like uh who's this product for i'll tell you who it's for and uh and so far i haven't heard back from anybody that owns a multi-market machine as their single system um but it's for the man or woman it has 20 games at home great high-end condition has a multi-morphic already has a ninja eclipse already every stern from the last three years and a couple jersey jackpins including like a i don't know that dialed in that you probably got uh you know it came out when when the game came out um so of course of course you would get a portal and of course you would have fun with it because it is a fun game it is fun to play and it's probably much more fun to play at home um but man i think i'm still thwarted even try as i might to find a way to make the numbers work and get one of these things in my house so i could really kind of explore it especially because my good buddy enzo he loves he's got one he loves it bless him i hope he gets a portal but like it's like the universe or something doesn't want me to participate in this and maybe maybe somebody's trying to give me a message i don't know but i still come by and try to be my polite friendly self whenever i can um no inroads if any well look i'm not entitled to anybody's friendship right you know i i go by vampire rules i go where i'm invited and so it's kind of where it's a little colder in the room around the the p3 booth and maybe that's maybe that's how they want it i don't know uh but the glass looked cool they had some of their invisibility glass there's 150 bucks hell of a value wish i had a truck here to take them home there it is so i played portal there you go uh what else is going on um it's like the the time of merlin right now uh not not one day after merlin's arcade is revealed then we start hearing the mold that the uh medieval madness redux is coming out it's called the merlin edition so the royal edition of medieval madness is back it's purple now and it comes with the topper and it's medieval madness and you know what you're getting and what you're getting is twelve thousand dollars in debt uh essentially the same price as a fully loaded portal you can have a medieval madness and tina fey's in that game um it was fun i i played it it plays fine um it's a big ask and i could see back in the time of the royal edition if they were to have this available i'm sure it would sell a lot better than the enthusiasm leak that i or the the dearth of enthusiasm seen for this release that's a lot of money especially when you know consumer if you order this game it's coming in 2028 or 2027 probably at the earliest because that's just the pace and we've been able to make allowances for that knowing that you know pulp fiction was under nine thousand dollars right well now it's 12 and it's medieval madness and it's not doesn't have the depth of the code doesn't have any lineman sheets code that's getting boosted uh like the 1200 code update for cactus canyon charging for code updates what kind of place are we in now um so that got released it's out there it's fine it's medieval madness it's a royal edition that's now called merlin i wonder if this was the purple potion dragon edition and then they were like you know what let's just go with merlin instead i'm sure it's all a coincidence but if this isn't the year of gelatinous cubes and merlin games um my goodness that takes us to barrels of fun joking around with these guys what a bunch of slapstick shysters i have a good time with those guys uh you know shout out to brian and vanessa over there they're there with four uh what are the labyrinths right um labyrinth feels like it's been out for six years already but we love labyrinth i owned it i loved it i love my mark silk doing the voices on the topper great topper super fun more of that please yes and playing labyrinth again now that it's not been in my collection for six months or more um it's it still holds up it's still fun i still like the integration i like the little fiery heads of pop up all that business i'm in it it's fun to have this game around they're in the last hundred of their build and they'll be moving on to another game and you know they had plans to have this new game at some point at the show and it's just not ready yet and you know what we're gonna have to wait till may until we get the game i'm calling it doonies i've heard everything from goonies to dune to old dune to new dune to fifth element i've heard people that swear up and down i've seen the cabinet i've played the game i know it's this that or the other uh we're gonna find out in a couple weeks what it is but uh brian there he was joking with me he came up and said i'm gonna share with you the name of our next title it's uh it's it's merlin in wonderland or merlin's adventures in wonderland is what they're gonna call it i thought that's just absolutely on trend right now man we'll sell like gangbusters merlin's having a moment you throw a gelatinous cube in there and uh you remove an areola from the lady on the side of the cabinet you're really gonna have something It's just going to fit right in. So that was fun times over there. So there's four labyrinths. The guys are having a good time. Obviously, the new game is not ready yet. But, you know, people are still playing labyrinths, and we're all still having fun. So next TPF, I'm sure we'll see the new game. Maybe it'll shock us with something, but probably it's going to be Dune or Sand related. All right, so what else do we got? What else do we got? So much to talk about. Got to see in person the final build of the Pulp Fiction topper. It's out near the Wormholes booth out in the hallway. Talk to Robin and Alec from the Electric Playground. Shout out to you guys. And they walked me through all the features of the topper. It looks really cool. I played a Pulp Fiction with the LE topper as well. Also looks cool. So no matter which way you go, whether you get the aftermarket topper or you got yourself an LE topper or your LE is coming, you're going to have a great playing game with a cool topper. and uh you know the price is just it's fourteen hundred dollars if that's too much don't get it if that's a bargain go ahead and get it um and there's only going to be 300 of them but the ball rolling mechanism was much better than what i was picturing because you know i thought oh cool you know gun fires ball rolls out but then ball rolls back into a gun well it's implemented much better when you see it in person it didn't seem out of place or not um the ball rolls down the gun sounds the lights they're all integrated and timed properly and it was fun and he was showing me some ideas for some other effects and things they would like to have it do i like the fact that the actual rgb lights on the topper match the rgb light show that is going on at the game at the same time i'm not sure exactly how they accomplished that i know before they use light sensors that would basically turn on and off their electronic system um but now they probably hacked into or found a way to splice into the actual code of the LED boards to get those different colors. It's beyond my scope of understanding. All I know is it was great seeing a topper that's aftermarket, but matches the light show on the game with the different colors, plus the kinetic satisfaction of that ball. I like it. People have fair criticism of it, and you're entitled to your opinion, and whatever way you think about this thing, you're correct. I know I am in on getting myself one of these. Can't wait. going to put it up on my se and i'm just going to have pulp fiction cgc time so that's going to be super fun what else is going on there's still so much to talk about uh jersey jack's new announcement that happened today um i got to play blues brothers you guys and the jank the jank is is real over in that whole corner of tpf so on the extreme far end away from spooky away from jjp away from multimorphic is uh nitro's got their own little area over there it's the only place to find American Pinball Games. Should you be looking for them, they're over there. They have a Signature Edition Galactic Tank Force with the treads and David Fix's signature and the 3D lenticular trans light, and it's under $10,000. The game was originally like $15,999 at MSRP. Nobody bought it. I think there's still over 100 of them in existence in a box somewhere in a warehouse. So if you want to get one of these things and you're this late to the party, call up Nitro and get yourself one. I also got to play ABBA again. um this thing also was jank also is nine thousand dollars and that's the discounted show price and it was the arrival edition so the ladies are arriving i loaded up the predator chopper and uh the left flipper was having some hang-ups where it would just kind of hang out like at full erection even when you let go of the the flipper button so that was fun i still put up a uh you know the 10 million point score or something and i got the multiball twice while was playing even with a jank flipper so that was fun but can you imagine spending ten thousand dollars and getting an abba home and having just just weird flipper issues and you could have had evil dead man for 10 g's oh my good gravy speaking of good gravy so i got excited when i saw that home pins new release blues brothers was over there the open source um essentially stars rip off only it doesn't have the star spinner what the hell are they even doing I played two games on this with my buddy Brad. We were just rocking this thing. And it was interesting. It played better than I thought it would. Like, it's not total dog crap. You know, it's not quite Thunderbirds. Thunderbirds is a bad game in a bad way, but I do have fun with it because the shaking palm trees is so silly. And that weird ramp to nowhere that gives you a light that means nothing. It's got a place in my heart. I do have a place for bad games. Bad games that are good fun. ABBA is a bad game that's good fun. Barbecue is a bad game. It's bad fun. This was a bad game that made me feel bad about myself, especially the paltry topper with the dancing plastics. Very strange, which, I mean, in its own way, I liked. I don't know. The jump ramp orbit on the left is fine. Everything else, it's got the stupidest ball path ever on the lower right-hand side of the game. I didn't really notice this, but there's, like, the jankiest of the jank little ball path that's over there on the right. It's not even engineered very well. It's not smooth. The ball doesn't roll around there good at all. It doesn't return to an in lane in any kind of satisfaction. Literally anything else that you put there would be more interesting. Even if it was just a gaping hole that dropped the ball straight into the cabinet, never to be seen again, would be more fun than this janky freaking thing. This looks like something sitting on my homebrew right now that I haven't even spent any time on. Just like janked it and threw it in there. It's like the worst ball guide ever. Hilarious. The game, otherwise, plays okay. It's obviously a game made by somebody that's not a pinball designer. And I not saying I could do any better But what a game The dude from Nitro I swear to God he walked up to me and told me that this game is And I laughed loudly I could not hold it back. Like, this is a $3,200 game all day if it's anything, if it's anything. And even then, I would feel ripped off. So $5,000, forget it. I'll go buy a $5,500 portal and I don't even have a P3. I'll go sit home and play with that. And I'll have more fun than I will with this jank of the jank. So we didn't expect much from Home Pin. And I did have fun playing it. And I went back to play it again later in the day. And, of course, the machine's off. So, of course, of course. Oh, man. And I had explained to this guy, this sales rep that was trying to sell me on this Blues Brothers, that, of course, I don't like it because the creator of the game has openly said that he makes pinball machines for people that don't like pinball. and then when I told him that the whole sales facade broke down he's like yeah that guy's kind of difficult to deal with and I was like I get it dude I get it best of luck selling the game I'm so glad they brought it so I could play it I hope they keep bringing it to shows this game is just like a legendarily bad game and I want everybody to have the opportunity to drive some joy and fun and mirth from this game it was fun to play I did go back to play it a third time it was off and I couldn't wouldn't um but yeah just what a it's just the universe is so strange sometimes uh so strange let me go to my list what else are we talking about spooky pinball my god dude they've got themselves 10 evil deads a scooby-doo a tcm and a looney tunes and from the time that you know the crowds really started entering about 11 o'clock or noon the whole their booth was just packed full of people just surrounding and everybody was there people from stern came over people from jjp came over turner came over like i didn't see multi-morphic so everybody else that was over there playing some evil dead saw a great interaction i'm gonna go ahead and share it uh mr steve richie himself was in attendance played evil dead and loved himself the hell out of the game including the shotgun uh target bashing thing he says i don't have any idea what the rules are like but this game is effing good and uh you know bug was just sitting there elated taking this all in i wish i recorded it but i'm just glad that i was there to witness this i think this was happening the same time that jersey jack uh seminar was going on so i'm sad that i wasn't there for the jjp seminar but i'm glad i was here for this and so like that was just cool you know just like game recognizing game like like mr black knight himself mr shout con mortal combat himself like come on over and like this game's great like this is what a what a cool i'll have that forever i'll have that forever because i was standing there um otherwise it was just fun times with franchi he let me ride in the back of his power scooter so thank you for that sir um you know everybody's just having a good time and like lines were packed for all 11 evil dead machines like the entire there's still a crowd over there i don't think i think the show ended an hour or so ago there's still a crowd over there playing evil dead i think the spooky guys have already crashed and passed out and the people are still over there playing the damn games so um i didn't see i'm not gonna jinx it but like i wasn't seeing glass off at all i wasn't seeing play fields lifted up i wasn't seeing games getting power cycled like we saw even last year so generationally we're at a different spot now and that's that's why i'm i'm a customer of spooky pinball man i'm just at this point just give me a prescription and every year i'll check out your title and unless it's absolutely dog's dinner um i think i'm gonna have to find a way to make space for it i'm finding a way to make space for harry potter now too and i don't know i'm feeling bad about going against my no new inbox purchases uh in 2025 but if any game was going to break me of that uh resolution i think it's going to be a harry potter that's as loaded as wizard of oz imagine wizard of oz which like a much more compelling theme for modern audiences especially with modern technology everything they've learned over the decade they've been around like implemented into this game i can't wait to see what eric has built okay so we got confirmation eric's the guy we knew this already but now we've heard uh the game's coming out it was multiple millions of dollars for the license it's the movies it's like i'm hearing everything that i like heard one other little tidbit i haven't seen anywhere i'm hearing gold powder coated armor because of course and so yeah i i think uh if everything goes out in plan uh as i have it conceptually in my head i think the move to make would be to go immediately on a collector's edition secure yourself one of these thousand games um or or i think wait it out and get yourself an le or the rumored standard edition uh down the road because this will be a game that i can see being in production for as long as there's demand okay so i don't think you may have to wait if you're not you know first up you know fomo here take my money now i barely saw half of the trailer and i'm already like i'm number 275 for getting my game um you know unless you gotta be that guy or you gotta have a collector's edition i think you could kind of you know sit back and like let's watch but this is this is the game to beat uh for the rest of the year as far as i'm concerned so we're gonna get this game we're gonna get the barrels of fun game like by may uh probably it's dune we'll see how that goes up against potter the i really think it would have done a lot better if it launched here but you know maybe the sculpt isn't back yet who knows uh what else we got we got kong coming out which of course we do it's an elwynn because of course it is um unless they surprise us with pokemon i think we're gonna get kong i don't think it's gonna be called king kong i think it's just gonna be called kong and then you know the uh the myth of the spectral mountain or the the mystery of the crystal banana or whatever non-proprietary name that they come up with myth of terror island is the one i saw battered around and i think that's because the the licensing for king kong is completely insane and convoluted and not even fully settled and so like to the point that you can't even use king with kong unless you pay off like five different people that are all claiming ownership rights of it so i think we're just going to be k-o-n-g kong and then you know the myth of the golden golden bunny slipper whatever it is and you know what you could release a game called the myth of the golden bunny slipper if keith elwynn has designed it because i know it's absolutely going to slap banana peels off your grand nanny's face man i mean how could it not oh jesus or anything else to cover that was so much that was so much we talked portal we talked to merlin edition venom god i love that shooter rod i'm glad i bought it um they have the stern uh lit up mirrored sign for sale now 200 bucks for a stern light up sign that's actually a topper as well $200 go snap one of those up if you haven't already um i it's absurd to see it for that cheap i wonder if lc science had something to do with he's in guangzhou china go check him out on tiktok um i got to play venom today i got to play venom as ghost rider uh which was super fun and i had a great game on venom it's fast it's furious it was a premium version which is the only version you should be playing that or or an le and uh i was talking to the dude i think his name was andy He's working for Fun, I think was the supplier over at the Marco slash Stern big mega booth. So he had a Venom Premium that was brand new out of the box with the topper, with the art blades, with the sight armor, with the shooter rods. So completely loaded with all four accessories we just saw drop this week. And initially he was wanting, you know, like $9,800 or something ridiculous. and uh but he came back and said no no no 8700 i think 8500 8700 for a venom premium with the 400 armor the 100 art blades the 200 shooter rod and the 1400 topper which i was like i considered it i considered it especially since i would save three to four thousand dollars over the cost of a p3 multimorphic portal edition especially when you add the topper in there my goodness man who's this game for well we already covered that um i will say grabbing that shooter rod was so satisfying and uh yeah i had some good times i had some good times uh what else is on here that i want to cover i saw the the christopher franchi lebowski 25th anniversary over the coin taker booth there's only two in existence or one in existence now be one in the future looks freaking fantastic there's an in-and-out burger on the side of the art it's just great go look at the pictures man i'm sure App Arcade's got it up. Fan flippantastic. All right. No American pinball at all at the show, save for the machines that Nitro brought. What did you do else, Don, during the day? Well, I hung out. I talked to everybody. I tried some pin grips. So shout out to Pin Grippy Jr., I think is the guy's name that's making these things. These are 3D printed handles that go on the side of your machine. They go right where you put your hands on the flippers. And essentially the work is thumb protectors to keep your thumb off the glass. They're normally $35. He's got them here for $25. If you want a set of them, go hit him up. It's a silly product that felt very comfortable to rest my thumbs on a space that's not glass, but over the glass on the pin grips. So shout out to Pin Griffey Jr. Sorry, I forgot your actual name. But I walked by there a couple of times and they had a turtle set up with them on there. And like, dang it, if it didn't feel comfortable to rest your thumbs on there. Do you need it? No, absolutely not. But were they fun? Yeah, I had fun with it. Andy's there selling his start buttons. If you want some of the best start buttons in pinball aftermarket, Rocket City Pinball is where you go get them and go get them. I get them. I got the one from Evil Dead from him. Super fun. There's so much more stuff. Like, Back Alley Creations is there. There's a ton more stuff to cover. I'm going to go ahead and wrap this guy up now, just like my Wiener Schnitzel hot dog that I had for lunch. And I will try to find some suitable outro music for you. But I'll probably fail in that aspect because I'm on the road. minutes after midnight and i've been talking for 40 minutes and i already have convention voice um but thanks to everybody man that came up to me today don a what's up give me a dab give me a hand um you know i've got some stickers uh i got some t-shirts out there too many people to thank but mainly the patreon people because like you you fuel me so much man jeremy dude you blow my mind constantly man thanks for being cool marshall from little house of games uh love you guy hope you can pull off uh pinball at the beach again next year let's do it let's all tell marshall that we were really excited we want to go to it and make it an even bigger event than it was this year i'm hopeful fingers crossed man fingers crossed anything else as i hear it of course i will jump on here and let you know i'll be at the texas pinball festival all day tomorrow saturday who knows what's gonna happen i heard there's a happy hour over at the wormhole booth uh let's kick it what do we got for music yeah that'll work don's people podcast gmail.com is how you can get at me order a t-shirt order a mod order whatever you want i'll show up at your i'll show up at your party i'll show up at your business um i'll show up with bagels if you want we'll stop by panera we'll have some fun uh join the patreon at patreon.com backslide don's pinball podcast five dollars to get you in the door we got bonus episodes over there content dropping non-stop also you get some free stickers if you join, which is fun, so do that.