Jersey Jack Pinball

"I think those are horrible titles for pinball I really do. I think if you look at the pinball demographic and even if you want to get kids in the pinball I think there are so many better franchises to go after."

Jersey Jack should choose better themes like Transformers G1, Goonies, Blade Runner instead of Muppets/Beatles

"Jersey Jack Pinball is the modern day version of BLE Williams. These games are going to be seen years from now as the best built games that tried the hardest to put the best elements and be the most innovative and use the best materials possible to make Pinball machines."

Jersey Jack Pinball is the modern day Williams - highest quality manufacturer

"There's no way you can say that there's a pinball machine that provides better quality than a Jersey Jack machine in the hobby"

Jersey Jack creates unmatched quality that no other manufacturer matches

"I think when you're pursuing a license and you can't get the main character for that license or that film or that franchise I think you walk away. I think it's a colossal mistake a colossal marketing mistake To ever go after a property where you can't use the main characters"

Making Pirates without Johnny Depp would be a colossal marketing mistake

"Jersey Jack has since the beginning of his company set himself on a mission to make the best possible Pinball machines out there without cutting any corners"

Jersey Jack has always set mission to make best possible pinball machines without cutting corners

"I fundamentally believe if you put a dialed in next to a Star Wars or next to a modern stern you're still getting better value right now from Jersey Jack pinball"

Jersey Jack Pinball provides better value than Stern or modern competitors

"I do know that Jersey Jack quality is just going to be better. That's just a no-brainer."

Jersey Jack Pinball will have better quality than Stern

"I think everybody has done a 180 on Dialed In. I think the game couldn't have been launched in a worse way at Expo. And I think since then, you know, people were just like, the theme is terrible. I hate this game. There's no way people are going to be into this theme. And then people started to play it. They started to love it."

Jersey Jack Pinball has significantly improved since Dialed In's poor launch

"I love Jersey Jack's going to give me the quality. Now the problem with Jersey Jack is I just can't get the themes right. Right. I just don't get why Jack can't get that killer theme out at the right time."

Jersey Jack has quality but terrible theme selection

"Jersey Jack, I've done a 180 on Jersey Jack. I don't know if you can tell. You can go back and listen to some of my previous podcasts. And I remember one specifically, man, where I was down on Jersey Jack. I was calling these guys a Ponzi scheme."

Complete 180 on Jersey Jack Pinball - they've turned the corner

"Jack's machines in the climate today, I think they're worth the price when you put them next to what Stern is trying to charge for an equal amount. And I don't think anyone would disagree with that. Like you can't put a Batman 66 next to a guy held in and say these two machines cost the same amount of money."

Jersey Jack Pinball machines are worth their price compared to Stern equivalents

"I think Jersey Jack made them look very lazy and I think it ended up benefiting them at the end"

Jersey Jack made Stern look lazy and forced improvement

"the one thing you said was was really correct and I played a bunch of games at the show and and I'll tell you the one thing is the quality of the Jersey Jack games is just above all the other all the other games I mean they really look like and feel like they're they're put together you know very well very solid"

Jersey Jack Pinball builds machines with superior quality compared to other manufacturers

"I couldn't help but juxtapose the two visualizations between highways production line and Jersey Jacks. So Jersey Jacks production line really, really exciting image."

Jersey Jack Pinball has proper assembly line setup vs Heighway

"if anyone out there thinks that the financial burdens that have played JJP that have plagued highway Are just gone. I think you're fooling yourselves. I think you're fooling yourselves"

Believes financial problems at JJP and highway haven't gone away despite recent games

"I think we all agree that Jack is a salesman. And he spins like nobody else. And even though every time he says something, usually the complete opposite happens"

Jersey Jack Pinball/Jack Guarnieri is a salesman who spins constantly and goes against his word

"the $15,000 price tag is absurd for what you're getting... artificial scarcity is okay if the value of what you're receiving is equitable"

Jersey Jack Pinball's $15,000 price tag is absurd for what you're getting - artificial scarcity without equitable value

"I actually believe probably half of those are legitimate. Maybe 75 people out there want to spend $12,500 on a DialedIn Collector's Edition."

Jersey Jack only got 75 legitimate Dialed In Collector's Edition orders, not the claimed 150

"I want to have distributors representing me. I don't want the 800 pound gorillas and I won't mention any names, but more corporate type, you know, entities. I really want people that are in the hobby, that are active, that know the collectors and are respected and are going to treat customers that they, you know, end up getting by selling my game the same way that I would treat them."

Jersey Jack selects hobby-passionate distributors over corporate entities

"I think if Jersey Jack is gonna show this game at expo this game needs to ship to customers within three months. I really do if he's not this close to shipping it then I think revealing it at expo is a mistake"

JJP needs to ship Pat Lawlor's game within 3 months of reveal or it's a mistake

"Is it going to be at expo we hope so but that's what I'm hearing I'm hearing that toy story is going to be Jersey Jack pinball's fourth pin. You heard it here you've heard it from some other people but I'm hearing from additional sources that that it is being worked on at Jersey Jack pinball."

Prediction: Toy Story will be Jersey Jack Pinball's fourth pinball machine, based on multiple sources saying it's being worked on.

"So if we factor in on average is doing about three years to get the pin out. I mean we're looking at 20 I mean 2019 2020 even past that"

Jersey Jack Pinball takes too long between releases - averaging about 3 years per pin

"I even think toy stories are much better a theme for a pinball machine than those busters. And it's just one of those sort of like classic movies that everybody loves. I even considered toy story one the first one to be one of the best movies of all time."

Toy Story would be a better pinball theme than Ghostbusters and could be the ultimate game changer for Jersey Jack

"Right now, if I look at this company in August of 2016, I have to say that I have changed my opinion of Jersey Jack pinball... I think JJP quality is the best in the business right now"

Changed opinion on Jersey Jack Pinball - now views them positively

"Jersey Jack pinball when he introduced was he raised the bar and what he did is he raised bar because he made stern of that they could charge more for the games right"

Jersey Jack Pinball raised the bar and enabled Stern to charge more for games

"I think they had to get financially bailed out"

Jersey Jack Pinball had to get financially bailed out by investors

"something happened though when the Ruby Red version came out and it was a new LE the wood apron went away... some of those details that people really really really were attracted to and separated the JJP from the rest started to go away."

Jersey Jack Pinball quality has decreased from Wizard of Oz to Hobbit

"Jersey Jack has brought pinball to another level. He has taken a risk that I think against all the obstacles that were in front of him, he went in and decided to make a modern pinball machine when everyone must have told him he was crazy he went and did it."

Jersey Jack brought pinball to another level and took huge risks

"I'm just really really really concerned about the amount of time that's going into some of these games and with the state they're at so they're at three years now and you've got I don't know maybe let's just say two years in development you're at whitewood with this thing"

JJP development times too long - Pat Lawlor game taking years in whitewood

"I think Jersey Jack pinballs are absolutely stunning machines and I really hope they can get their act together and and get the machines out in a more timely manner"

Jersey Jack Pinball makes stunning machines but has serious timing issues

"this is what's great about sharing this feedback. And this is why I never understood why people had such a problem with me posting that. If that image didn't get out there, they would not have been aware of the potential issue"

JJP fixing Hobbit ramp issue shows value of community feedback

"I think JJP when it comes to being a manufacturer is still learning. I mean it is kind of amateur hour over there when it comes to manufacturing."

JJP is amateur hour at manufacturing and ran into financial troubles

"I will go on the record for stating that I think that JJP is a bit of a ponzi scheme. I really do. I think people that order a new Hobbit are going to get it before the people who preordered years ago. And they're using Hobbit preorder money to pay for the WAS machines that people are currently ordering."

Jersey Jack Pinball is in real trouble and might be a Ponzi scheme

"And my prediction, and I'm going to go and record on saying this, I think JJP is in real trouble. I really do. I think that they are not good at it. I'm not 100% sure they're going to make it."

Prediction: JJP is in real trouble and may not survive as a company.

"from 30 feet away in the bar with that beautiful LCD screen, the machine just jumps out at you. I mean it's it's beautiful from a distance and that big screen with its HD visuals just jumps out and it pulls you in and it creates a gravitational pull towards the machine... this is the future pinball and it looks incredible"

Jersey Jack Pinball machines look phenomenal and represent the future of pinball

"It's beautiful though. And I think JJP makes pins that when you look at them, you almost just want to own them because of how much nicer they look than most Stern that are out there and new Stern that are shipping."

Jersey Jack Pinball makes much more beautiful machines than Stern

"Jersey Jack Pinball on the contrary blabs everything online. Every ticket, every fact, and sales number."

Jersey Jack Pinball shares too much information compared to Stern

"You see that with a lot of not only there, but with JJP as well, and why they suddenly brought out these new titles or rehashed old titles and brought them out new"

Jersey Jack Pinball shows signs of financial pressure through rushed releases

"The only one who could really do it is Jack. And I hope Jack can get there because there's no competition. Stern can keep doing this. I've got him monopoly on the market."

Jersey Jack Pinball is the only company that could realistically compete with Stern's monopoly

"we are seeing the same type of playfield wear on Willy Wonka playfield that we saw on Pirates of the Caribbean and by wear I mean that rippling effect of the clear coat around different posts in the game. And so this is a real serious issue"

Jersey Jack playfield quality issues continuing

"Jersey Jack pinball needs to say something. They can't go into radio silence, they can't hide. There are too many pictures of these Guns N' Roses machines falling apart right now"

Jersey Jack Pinball needs to publicly address playfield quality issues

"I wanna make sure Jersey Jack pinball changes its warranty back to cover their actual games. I can't believe the way they just rewrote their warranty where they basically cover nothing"

Jersey Jack should restore warranty coverage for playfields

"They're never going to make enough... Stern could fulfill the Weird Al LE orders in three days."

Jersey Jack Pinball's production capacity limitations vs Stern's efficiency

"Jersey Jack should go high-end and make less games a year What they're doing is absolutely ass"

Jersey Jack Pinball should pivot to high-end games with lower volume production

"the only company we want to make Harry Potter would be Jersey Jack pinball"

Jersey Jack Pinball should be the only company to make Harry Potter pinball

"But if you buy our games, not only do you get it back in the cash box that Bill accept or are a quad swipe, you get it back in the residual if you want to sell that game years later."

Jack Guarnieri claims Jersey Jack games maintain strong resale value

"You've got $2,000 deposit on this game. Are you really going to cut them a check for $7,000 or $8,000 more to get it? You're just throwing more money in the fire."

Questioning the financial wisdom of completing Jersey Jack Pinball pre-orders

"Because I truly believe that JJP since its inception has been on a mission to put as much as they can into pinball. I believe this company and I'm thankful for this company because they pushed pinball innovation. You need to go back and look at what Stern machines looked like before JJP came out."

JJP pushed pinball innovation and made Stern machines better through competition

"i do i want to have competition of course i do and that competition right now is jersey jack pinball that's the company to me that really could give stern for money with the triple a title they've got the manufacturing plant going they've proven they can build games that are of a high high quality"

Jersey Jack Pinball is the only real competition to Stern

"I just got out of the worst presentation I've ever seen in my entire life and I'm tired and I'm exhausted and I'm so fed up with these pinball companies not taking this shit seriously"

Jersey Jack Pinball's presentation at Texas Pinball Festival was completely disastrous and unprofessional