Big Lebowski

"I think one of the reasons people absorb that price increase is there's a lot in this game. You talk about theme integration. You talk about assets. You talk about upper playfield. That's awesome. Lower playfield. That's awesome. A rug that rolls out."

Dutch Pinball's Big Lebowski price increase from $8,500 to $13,500 is justified by game content

"the Big Lebowski still to this day runs circles around the other companies and what we're getting in pinball"

Big Lebowski still runs circles around other companies' games in creativity and innovation

"Nobody has done anything more creative than the big Lebowski. And you know it. And you know it. Yes, there might be games with better code, but put a machine in front of me from a mechanical standpoint, from a mechanical standpoint where there's like wow toys and interesting stuff happening that interacts with the ball. Name me another game in the last 10 years that beats the big Lebowski. You can't do it."

Big Lebowski is most mechanically creative game in last 10 years

"It's also crazy that this game has been part of the pinball community now for the last 10 years, 10 years into this game's production cycle. And if you order one today, it's almost a year and a half wait to get it."

Big Lebowski wait times are excessive for a 10-year-old design

"When you stand over a Big Lebowski, it is one of the most visually stunning games I've ever seen... This thing was released like eight years ago, and there are still people who paid for this game that never even got it"

Dutch Pinball's The Big Lebowski is visually stunning but has delivery issues

"I still think the Big Lebowski today is one of the greatest theme integrated pinball machines of all time... When you think about it, all of the years and all of the money and all of the resources, why isn't every single new pinball machine as theme integrated as well as the Big Lebowski"

Big Lebowski as the gold standard for theme integration

"It's a better world under glass, I would argue, than any single Pinball machine I've seen in the last seven years. Name me one better world under glass than the big Lebowski. You can't, you just can't do it."

Barry Oursler's Big Lebowski is better world under glass than any game in 7 years

"It is still the greatest world underglass pinball machine I've seen since I've started covering pinball seven years ago... True creativity will last the test of time."

Big Lebowski is still the greatest world under glass pinball machine in 7 years

"without a doubt, probably the coolest toy I've ever seen since covering Pinball. And the thing that makes you when you walk up to the machine, just smile and say, man, they nailed it. They nailed this theme. There maybe is no better lower playfield ever than the bowling alley in the Big Lebowski."

Big Lebowski bowling alley is one of the coolest toys ever in pinball

"Can you imagine if Lyman Sheats jumped on this game and polished it to the end? It would be the most sought after pinball machine I think of all time"

Big Lebowski could be the most sought after machine if Lyman Sheats polished the code

"Still, to this day holds up as probably the best theme integrated game we've seen in the last 10 to 15 years, especially on the playfield side of things"

Big Lebowski has the best theme integration in 10-15 years on the playfield

"How do you get excited about a 12, 5 Lebowski, a 12, 5 Lebowski with the code being where it's at? I mean, for 12, 5, go get it Guns N' Roses, collectives edition when they became available."

Big Lebowski pricing and delays are problematic for a game with incomplete code

"it stands as probably the greatest theme integration of any pinball machine. We've seen in the last 10 years and I would I would challenge you to show me another game. That is theme integrated as well as the big Lebowski"

Big Lebowski has the greatest theme integration of any pinball in the last 10 years

"I saw people flipping the game from anywhere from 18 to $20,000 dollars, people were flipping a game quickly making a profit. They didn't really have to do any work. You got on the list with Melissa and you bought a game that belonged to somebody else"

Scalping Big Lebowski games for profit while others get burned

"I've always said I think Lebowski is one of the best world under glass titles. There's just something about this game that makes me not want to own it anymore. And it really has been the correspondence from Barry of recent newsletters. That makes me say this guy, I just don't want to support this guy."

Big Lebowski is one of the best world under glass titles but doesn't want to own it due to Barry's correspondence

"when you get in front of it and you start playing it, something happens, you're like, it's kind of just a pinball machine. Like it really isn't worth all of the hype and all of the drama and you kind of just wish they would have made enough of these to get everyone their games... Is it worth $20,000? No, it's not. I mean, it's not. It was always priced at what it should have been, which was $8,500."

Big Lebowski is a great game but not worth the hype or $20,000 price

"Big Lebowski might be the greatest Theme integrated pin of all time in terms of the full package"

Big Lebowski has perfect theme integration

"Dutch Pinball put the world under glass perfectly, perfectly. So when you stand over that game it just pops out at you like big Lebowski"

Big Lebowski succeeded because it perfectly represents the movie world under glass

"The code is Spartan... if you're used to playing modern Stern games, modern Jersey Jack games with nice code, you are going to be sorely disappointed. I hear in what the big Lebowski will bring to the table code wise. It's very, very barren. And it doesn't have a lot of depth."

Big Lebowski is overrated with sparse code and limited replay value

"I received legitimate offers for this Pinball machine of $12,000, $13,000 and a verified legitimate offer of $20,000 for the big lebowski Pinball... I did not accept any of those offers and it's simply because I don't think that's the right thing to do"

Refusing to flip Big Lebowski for profit despite receiving $20,000 offers

"I'm getting, here's what's got me worried is I think Lebowski has so much hype because of the story and the rarity and it's unobtainium, right? And when something becomes unobtainium, we project greatness on to it because it's an experience."

Big Lebowski hype is inflated due to rarity rather than actual gameplay quality

"if you got one of the 40 a.r.a. big Lebowski games The last thing you should be doing on planet earth is boasting and bragging and And like rubbing it in people's faces... I think that is just despicable behavior"

Big Lebowski buyers shouldn't brag about getting the game since it comes at others' expense

"I think the greatest world under glass we've seen since the BLE Williams era and it also has phenomenal coding in it... I think the best theme integration I've ever seen since I've been covering this pinball hobby maybe the best movie theme integration of all time"

Big Lebowski has the best theme integration of all time, better than BLE Williams era

"I don't think it's unfair. Like I don't think it falls on the people buying the games... So like I don't think it falls on those people. I think they should feel uncomfortable doing it. But I don't really think it falls on their shoulders"

People buying Big Lebowski games from CoinTaker shouldn't be vilified - it's not their fault

"Not only is the big Lebowski coming back. And there are 38 games, maybe 40, going from air a to CoinTaker to be sold to new buyers for $12,500."

Big Lebowski pinball is coming back with 38-40 games from Aera going to CoinTaker for $12,500

"They could have charged $15,000 for all 40 of those games and they would have got it."

Big Lebowski games could have been priced at $15,000 and still sold

"When you get something that was the source of many other people's pain and agony, it doesn't have the same response you think... Maybe this is a little bit too much hyperbole, but the games are somewhat cursed in a way. It won't give that level of satisfaction that you might think."

Buying Big Lebowski games now is ethically questionable but understandable - games will be cursed and won't provide satisfaction

"I still think the greatest pinball magic that we've seen in the last 10 years is the big Lebowski by far I would rather own a big Lebowski than anything else out there on the market that game runs circles around everything else"

Big Lebowski is the greatest pinball magic of the last 10 years

"Now, my prediction is this though. And because while we're on Dutch, is that one of these other pinball manufacturers out there will go get the big Lebowski game and manufacture it."

Prediction: One of the other pinball manufacturers will acquire and manufacture the Big Lebowski game.

"That game is the big Lebowski. I still have a heart on for that game. It makes my heart on so limp when I think about the two wet noodles that ran that company so piss poorly from a business standpoint, but they made the best fucking game I've seen in pinball in the last five to ten years without a doubt."

The Big Lebowski is the best modern pinball game

"Its design has had massive electronic and mechanical problems... No parts, no service, and there's no concern about attempting to get it working again."

Big Lebowski has massive reliability problems with no support

"by the time the big Lebowski comes out, we'll be playing virtual reality pinball. It'll be no longer fresh, no longer new, no longer innovative. And who cares? Like four years later by the time this game comes out after they've revealed it"

Dutch Pinball's Big Lebowski delays are excessive and tiresome

"I still think the big Lebowski is one of the greatest pinball machines we've seen in a really long time... when you talk about theme integration and you look at the big Lebowski and you put a big Lebowski next the Batman 66. It is a joke which one is better which one has better theme integration"

Big Lebowski is one of the greatest pinball machines ever made and has better theme integration than Batman 66

"I think it is one of the coolest pinball machines I've ever seen. I think it's one of those pinball machines that is packed. It is jam packed with awesome features, with magical items. It is the world under glass that we all want."

Big Lebowski is one of the coolest pinball machines ever made with incredible features

"maybe the thing will even mail-sort and give you the receipt for three years of pain medications and anti-depressants that you've had have been dealing with because you gave them your money all right big Lebowski it's gonna happen you heard it here first"

Prediction: Big Lebowski pinball is going to happen and will come with receipts for pain medications and anti-depressants.

"if I was an owner on the big Lebowski I think all the owners should get together until Barry and you know what don't waste time communicating what you're doing anymore"

Big Lebowski should stop weekly updates and just deliver in October

"one of the reasons he gave me for bailing out, not just because he's so sick of all the DPBS that he's had to put up with over the years, he's also really nervous that if he gets a big Lebowski, what he would do with spare parts, and he doesn't want to have a broken machine down the road"

Greg from Rare Hero bailed out of Big Lebowski due to concerns about future parts support and customer service

"The big Lebowski is a much better game than Alien. Much better game. Ask anyone who's played both."

Big Lebowski is much better than Alien

"Can people just for a second realize that universal is a ginormous multi-billion dollar company that is handling some of the biggest movie properties in the world. They don't give two shits about 300 pinball people."

Universal Studios doesn't care about 300 pinball buyers - PR pressure won't work

"I still think the Lebowski code is so it's not there I'm with all the time it's taken I wish the game sort of spoke to me more it was more energetic but I just I kind of want to go to bed when I play the game it's a beautiful game I love it I think it's a world under glass I just think the code needs to wake the player up more"

Kaneda finds The Big Lebowski pinball code boring and not energetic enough despite being beautiful

"I think the big Lebowski is the most creative. I think this machine has the wow factor I really do you can't tell me that that bowling alley underneath the playfield is not one of the coolest things you've ever seen ever in a pinball machine"

The Big Lebowski has the most creative wow factor of recent releases

"So yes, I would expect better quality coming out of the gate from Dutch. If you're going to bill your company as high quality premium... they're charging $10,000 for it."

Dutch Pinball's quality issues are inexcusable given the time and price

"I think five years from now, the Big Lebowski could be a very sought after rare title from a company that didn't make many of them. I don't think they're going to make hundreds of these things."

The Big Lebowski will have a short production run and become a sought-after rare title

"When I play Lebowski, it just feels like this slow motion sort of like dude... it doesn't get my energy going... I don't know, it doesn't really give me a rush. And I think pinball, because of the way the game is, needs to have a little bit more of that rush and urgency"

Big Lebowski is gorgeous but lacks excitement and energy

"this is the most expensive NIB pinball machine of all time. Has any other NIB pinball machine that came from a factory sold for this amount in the year it was produced?"

Big Lebowski is the most expensive NIB pinball machine of all time

"Because the playing the Big Lebowski, the display and the presentation, it just felt inert to me"

Big Lebowski pinball presentation is boring and inert

"Hey guys if you listen really closely you can hear people golf clapping to the fact that the big Lebowski is now shipping Share that it's like really quiet because nobody gives a shit"

Big Lebowski shipping announcement has no hype because of poor launch management and delays

"my prediction is Lebowski if it ships it's gonna so well I would love to have one I just have a hard time falling in love with that theme as some other people"

Prediction: If Lebowski ships, it will sell very well despite the $10,000 price point.

"I predict that once this pin ships and they can ship in volume and people start seeing this pin in homes and in collections, people are going to want one. And they're going to want one at 10,000 and if it's 10,000 dollars, they're going to t"

Prediction: Once TBL ships in volume and people see it in homes, demand will increase and people will want one even at $10,000.

"to this day, no game has been a more incredible world under glass. Has had better theme integration from a movie people love than the Big Lebowski"

Big Lebowski is still the best themed pinball game ever made