Barrels of Fun
company"Even after they sold all 525 Winchester Mystery Houses, they after that asked people for deposits on a topper. We've never seen a pinball company require a deposit on a topper. That reeked of some cash flow issues"
Barrels of Fun has cash flow issues based on topper deposit requirement
"Look at like Barrels of Fun, for example, growth. No, David Van Es just needs to make great games. And he knows, he knows like, see Dune, making Dune is like the result of picking a theme you think is going to be successful because of how big it is."
Boutique pinball companies like Barrels of Fun succeed by focusing on passionate, culturally interesting themes rather than chasing growth
"I think no company deserves it more than barrels of fun. It really, David, you did it. You legit picked the theme that I would have told you no way. You knocked it out of the park."
Barrels of Fun deserves most improved company award
"I'm 100% convinced they're going to make more. And I think they they did this as a cash grab"
Barrels of Fun/Dune situation was a cash grab and they will make more despite saying final chance
"Dune orders have been very strong with over 500 games sold. Very strong. Come on, David. Let's let's just let's just have a conversation you and me right now, man. Amongst my, you know, 700 listeners right now. Very strong. Winchester. If Dune was very strong, what was Winchester astronomical?"
Barrels of Fun is misleading customers by calling Dune sales 'very strong' when Winchester sold out in days
"I think it's crazy that Winchester Mystery House in two days sold more units than Dune Pinball sold in almost six months. Just think about that for a minute. A billion dollar movie franchise in which David Wenning got all the assets, all the actors, all the likenesses, everything."
Winchester Mystery House sold more units in 2 days than Dune sold in 6 months despite Dune being a billion dollar franchise
"I think also that barrels of fun really did make the right move. And I really do think they made the right move in keeping it to 525. Even after there was tremendously more demand for the game, they didn't add more."
Barrels of Fun made the right move keeping Winchester to 525 units and should be congratulated for their success
"This company has never made two games at the same time ever before. So do you think in the midst of needing to sell Dune games, and they still have Dune on the line, do you think they're going to make these games quickly?"
Barrels of Fun is making a mistake trying to produce two games simultaneously without proven capacity
"David, next time, next time, market research the theme. It's that simple...Dune is a really neat dune game...It's just not a theme that most people in this demo want"
Barrels of Fun (David Van Es) needs better market research on themes
"If you made anything on this back wall, anything, they, it all would have outsold. Do you know... If you made Flintstones, you outsell, doon... If you made Mario Kart... If you made the eight team pinball... Batman 89, Batman 89, just go get it. Make it again. Sell a thousand units in one minute."
Multiple better theme suggestions would have outsold Dune
"David said to me he goes Chris I would I would have I would hate to have a day one sellout and I literally I said it I was like David don't say stupid stuff like that like that's a stupid thing to say why why would a pinball manufacturer ever say I don't want a day one sellout"
David from Barrels of Fun lacks market understanding and should want day-one sellouts
"So Barrels of Fun puts up a Facebook post to sort of highlight Dune Pinball... they start out the Facebook post saying we don't make a box of lights or a slot machine. Okay, so wow, shots fired... you're going to make fun of a game that is the hottest selling game in Pinball right now to promote your game, which can't move units."
Calling out Barrels of Fun for trolling Jersey Jack Pinball in their Facebook post while their own game isn't selling
"I'm not sold that David Van Es knows what the pinball buying community wants... labyrinth and Dune are not that"
Barrels of Fun doesn't understand what pinball buyers want, with Labyrinth and Dune being poor theme choices
"You launched your game too early. It's not ready to be shown. There's zero movie clips in the game right now that are waiting licensure approval. So why would you show up your game to the world for the first time without having a great first impression?"
Barrels of Fun launched Dune too early with incomplete code
"Why do you keep misdirecting everybody's attention and enthusiasm towards Goonies? I don't know what they're doing, but I don't like it... I think David is insecure... Dune didn't land like he thought it would"
Barrels of Fun is making poor marketing decisions by teasing Goonies instead of focusing on Dune sales
"All the clips that will be in the game. There are no muted clips. So you're going to get the scenes directly from the movie."
Barrels of Fun's Dune will have proper movie clips with no muted audio
"Screw you barrels of fun. I don't like you as a company. I think you suck... I'm no longer a fan of barrels of fun"
Direct confrontation with Barrels of Fun over launch strategy
"out of all the companies in pinball right now, I really do want to give barrels of fun, a lot of credit for these sculpts because this is what should be under glass for this much money."
Barrels of Fun excels at sculpts and 3D playfield design
"Do they have their head in the sand, the marketing department?... They haven't given me anything. They haven't given you anything... David Van Es, you got my cell phone number. Call me. You're not doing any market research."
Frustrated with Barrels of Fun's complete lack of marketing for their upcoming game
"I mean this when I say this gang over at barrels of fun guys, come on, come on. I want to see some hype... If you were my marketing departments, I would fire you."
Frustrated criticism of Barrels of Fun's lack of marketing and hype building
"I'm going to tell you right now I think you're marketing around this game. Is horrendous because there is no marketing around this game there's no hype there's no build up and now you know you're going up against Keith Owen and you don't do the very thing that spooky does."
Barrels of Fun's marketing is horrendous with zero hype 9 days before launch
"I want to talk about a reaction I had to a conversation I had with my friends at barrels of fun so they're mad at me they're not happy with me right there not they're not happy with me they think I haven't given their company enough credit"
Barrels of Fun team is mad at Kaneda for not giving them enough credit
"Nobody cares if this company is making Dune. They are doing it all wrong... David Van Es is waiting too long and he's going to release this game on top of everything else. And it's just not going to work out."
Barrels of Fun is making a mistake with Dune theme
"I actually think it's Little Shop of Horrors... If you're called barrels of fun, are you really going to make Dune? Dune is not a fun movie. It's a serious sort of sci-fi melodramatic movie. It's not fun."
Barrels of Fun's second game is Little Shop of Horrors, not Dune
"You've got 52 weeks in a year... you're going to launch your game on the same exact week as Keith Elwin. You didn't listen to a word I said to you, David Van Es, when we talked."
Barrels of Fun choosing to launch the same week as Keith Elwin's game is extremely stupid
"I just I can't imagine what is being said in the boardroom over at barrels. What are you guys waiting for? You're legitimately going to wait and and like drop your game right on top of Harry Potter. That is crazy."
Barrels of Fun needs to announce their game before Harry Potter launches
"I've never seen a pinball company do customer service on this level. That's absolutely amazing."
Barrels of Fun provided exceptional customer service with free playfield replacement
"The most surprising thing was they named the damn company Barrels of Freakin' Fun. That might have been the most surprising move in the history of pinball that you would put in all of this hard work and name a company that."
Barrels of Fun company name was the most surprising moment in pinball history
"I have 100% confirmation that our friends over at Barrels of Fun, they are not working on the fifth element pinball. This rumor has been spreading for a while. It is not happening."
Barrels of Fun not working on Fifth Element pinball
"We need more of this passion in pinball. Not handing Eric Meunier the godfather and he's never really seen the movie and is not a huge fan of the property. It's not just handing Steve Ritchie Elton John and say, here's your assignment. These guys made the theme they really wanted to make."
Barrels of Fun's Labyrinth video with Adam Savage shows the right kind of passion - designers who genuinely love the property they're making
"I heard that Barrels of Fun's Labyrinth sold two to one over Elton John. Two to one. The Labyrinth beat out Elton John orders two to one."
Barrels of Fun Labyrinth outsold Elton John 2:1
"barrels of fun rocked up with 10 machines, 10 machines in boxes that people could go home with. And I want to give a big shout out to barrels of fun. Yes, I'm not going to make fun of their name today because they did something amazing. They showed up at the show with 10 games in boxes, which Jersey Jack Pinball couldn't do."
Barrels of Fun impressed by bringing actual finished games to Expo unlike Jersey Jack
"I think this company is the number one threat right now to spooky pinball this company has a lot of ex spooky people"
Barrels of Fun is the number one threat to Spooky Pinball due to ex-Spooky employees
"we are simply branching out and starting a new pinball company with the worst name in the history of pinball companies"
Barrels of Fun has the worst company name in pinball history
"I think this company is doing a lot right. I like the fact that they did do this teaser campaign. I like that this game didn't leak. Like they really controlled the narrative on their own product."
Kaneda thinks the mystery pinball company did a good job with their teaser campaign and keeping Labyrinth secret
"this mystery pinball company, which now we know the name and it is the worst name you could possibly pick for a pinball company... I would never buy a pinball machine from a company called Barrels of Fun."
Kaneda is extremely negative about the 'Barrels of Fun' company name, calling it the worst possible name
"It reeks of cash flow problems... I've never seen a company ever require a pre-order deposit on a topper that hasn't even been made yet."
Barrels of Fun's topper pre-order requirement reeks of cash flow problems