Avatar Pinball

"are you a fan of avatar? And that is something you really need to think about because there's moments in this game... if it was another movie where a major battle is happening like the battle for Helms deep. When you hear that it instantly like teleports you to like that moment in Lord of the Rings... And then when you hear the battle of Awaitutu you know you're like huh."

Avatar theme is polarizing and requires personal connection to enjoy

"Just on that alone, I don't know how you buy anything other than the CE... how can you spend 12 grand and know that you're not getting the full effect?"

Avatar CE is the only version worth buying due to Bader playfield and full UV effects

"Jersey Jack is going to stream a fully featured game that is done. It's not going to have incomplete code... I think Avatar is going to stream 10 times better than X-Men did"

Avatar will stream much better than X-Men and will be a fully featured, complete game

"When people look at Avatar and say it's loaded, I don't think it's loaded. I really don't... it doesn't strike me as a game where the bomb is back to what it used to be"

Jersey Jack Avatar is not loaded like their historical machines

"I just don't see a single wow mechanism in the game... nothing in this game right now as I look at the different angles of it, I just don't see a single wow mechanism in the game"

Avatar Battle for Pandora is underwhelming compared to Jersey Jack's earlier games

"I don't think they're going to sell, if they make a thousand CEs, I don't think they're going to sell very well. A thousand at 15k a pop just feels like a non-starter"

Avatar CE won't sell well at $15k for 1000 units

"I believe it's going to be dead on arrival. I don't think people want it. I don't think people are going to warm up to this theme"

Avatar will be dead on arrival and people would rather have Muppets pinball

"You can't name four characters from the movie. You have no idea what the heck the Hallelujah Mountains are. This game is gonna be dead on arrival. You heard it here first later."

Prediction: Avatar pinball will be dead on arrival because people can't name characters from the movie and have no connection to the theme.

"when you put this jersey jack avatar next to everything else in the pinball market I do think it's going to embarrass everything else that's out there"

Avatar will embarrass everything else in the pinball market when placed next to other games

"I think this thing is going to be stranger things on crack with much better mechanisms than stranger things"

Avatar will be like Stranger Things on crack with better mechanisms

"there's only one way this pin is gonna work, there's only one way it's gonna make all of us eat Pandora Crow, there's only one way it's gonna make money, there's only one way it's gonna wow us and that is if this pinball machine delivers the same kind of never seen before spectacle that the movie delivered when we first saw it"

Avatar pinball could work if it delivers never-before-seen spectacle like the movies did

"Avatar is a terrible theme for pinball, and Jersey Jack continues to make what I think are just decisions between Leonard Abbas and Jack Guarnieri, which again, telegraph to me, they don't do any market research"

Avatar is a terrible theme for pinball due to lack of memorable characters and cultural staying power

"if it's Avatar, I don't think it's going to work... Avatar is no longer iconic... the box office numbers don't really indicate how much people emotionally care or are invested in it."

Avatar won't work as a pinball theme despite box office success

"Over 90% of people hope it's not Avatar. And if it is Avatar, I'm real, I feel bad for Jersey Jack because it's like clearly the people don't want this... That's bad market research."

Avatar theme poll shows 90% don't want it, indicating bad market research by Jersey Jack

"I think if Mark Seiden's game is Avatar 2, I don't think it will do well. And the reason I think that is I think the hype and the enthusiasm around the Avatar movies, even though they made money, I think we all just went to see it out of curiosity, but it didn't land. It didn't land culturally with people."

Avatar Way of Water would not work well as a pinball theme

"And I think if Jersey Jack makes Avatar 2, I think it's going to go down a lot like The Hobbit."

Avatar 2 would be a poor pinball theme choice, similar to The Hobbit failure