Jersey Jack Pinball
company"Jack Guarnieri is right now sitting in the JJP factory, staring at all of these unsold Toy Story 4s"
Jersey Jack Pinball has unsold Toy Story 4 inventory sitting in warehouse
"JJP is at the lowest it's ever been in terms of brand momentum Brands swagger they need to have a marketing meeting"
Jersey Jack Pinball is at lowest brand momentum ever
"if your game is Godfather and you guys are doing Nothing nothing to just admit It's that and just rip that band-aid off then your marketing efforts are gonna fail Horribly"
Jersey Jack needs to admit if Godfather is their next theme to manage expectations
"I think it's a good sign that Jersey Jack is hiring more coders because if there's one big complaint I hear from current J.J.P. owners, they just don't finish the code."
Jersey Jack needs to hire more coders because they don't finish code for their games
"Where is the finished Pirates of the Caribbean code? Where is the finished Guns N' Roses code? We should be playing the final version of G&R by now. And you absolutely should be playing the final version of Freakin' Pirates of the Caribbean."
Jersey Jack Pinball needs final code updates - Pirates and Guns N' Roses have been waiting years
"So in 13 years, they've only made seven games as of this coming February. Not that effective. In 13 years, Stern Pinball has made, I don't know, I'm just going to guess right now. Stern does about on average three new games a year, 13 years, 39 games from Stern Pinball versus seven from Jersey Jack."
Jersey Jack is not effective - only 7 games in 13 years versus 39 from Stern
"Jersey Jack doesn't even have a single affordable game in pinball right now. Think about it, their LA is almost twice the price of a Stern pro. So now Jersey Jack pinballs are no longer even viable for most people who are just getting into this hobby."
Jersey Jack has priced themselves out of reach for most people entering the hobby
"Jersey Jack unlike Stern makes one big colossal mistake... They don't give you the ability to buy any other new and box machines other than the single game that is on the line today."
Jersey Jack Pinball is in trouble and makes colossal mistake with single-game availability
"Jersey Jack pinball should always behave more like a high-end boutique and less like a mass produced product like Stern... I just think they're making all of these marketing mistakes."
Jersey Jack Pinball is making marketing mistakes and should behave like a high-end boutique, not mass producer
"So thank you once again Jersey Jack pinball for raising pinball prices. Showing everyone what the roof is and then making all of us pay more for stuff"
Jersey Jack Pinball raised pinball prices for everyone and should be blamed
"And I know what everyone's saying right now. Well, Jersey Jack needs to now learn from Stern how to put toys into a game."
Jersey Jack needs to learn from Stern how to put toys in games
"They absolutely overshot the market... I don't think they're going to lower the price. I think there's ego at play. I think there's pride. And I think there's an embarrassment at play"
Jersey Jack Pinball overshot the market with Toy Story 4 pricing and won't lower prices due to ego
"I think this is a real lesson for Jersey Jack pinball. You got to get the collector's editions on the line sooner. You have to... the people who spend the most amount of money get on the plane first. It makes absolutely no sense that you make your wealthiest customers who are forking out the most money wait the longest because it can backfire and it's backfiring right now."
Jersey Jack Pinball needs to prioritize Collector's Edition production and ship to highest-paying customers first
"Why is it that everyone who buys a super expensive machine from JJP, after 200 plays, the rubbers go to crap?"
Jersey Jack Pinball rubber quality is terrible - disintegrates after 200 plays
"all of us look at Jersey Jack Pinball and we say, look, this company can only make one game every 18 months"
Jersey Jack Pinball can only execute one game every 18 months
"Jack got up there at TPF and said, we always get all the assets in all of our games. And I don't think anything can be further from the truth"
Jersey Jack Pinball doesn't actually get all the assets despite claims
"They saw what flippers were getting for GNR and for pirates. But then Jersey Jack themselves is acting like the second hand flipper. But when they launch this game, it's like as if a thousand flippers on day one are trying to sell you a game at an elevated price of $15,000."
Jersey Jack Pinball pricing strategy criticism - acting like flippers
"If they go from Toy Story, which is a whiff to Godfather, which could be a whiff to Billy Joel. Like this could be like three strikes in a row."
Jersey Jack Pinball could have three strikes in a row with Toy Story, Godfather, and Billy Joel
"They put the most bulletproof playfield in the game that nobody really wants. I can't, it makes me want to pull out my hair. Why can't Jersey Jack just get everything right at the same time?"
Jersey Jack's Toy Story 4 has bulletproof playfields but nobody wants the game
"I just don't think Jersey Jack Pinball really understands storytelling...It's almost like this LCD screen has absolutely destroyed some of these people's ability to understand how to tell a story via Pinball."
Jersey Jack doesn't understand storytelling despite having huge LCD screens
"no one realizes how amazing the engineers were over at BLE Williams. They were the true rock stars that made these designers look so amazing. And there's not that many mechanical engineers over at Jersey Jack Pinball."
Jersey Jack Pinball lacks mechanical engineers compared to BLE Williams
"if you reskinned Oktoberfest into Toy Story 4, it would have made people a lot happier because it actually has carnival rides in the game itself"
Oktoberfest would make a better Toy Story game than actual Toy Story
"I'm hearing that Jersey Jack Pinball is not going to offer replacement playfields for Guns N' Roses"
Jersey Jack Pinball may be backing out of their playfield replacement promise
"Stern pinball is going in the right direction. Jersey Jack is going in the wrong direction. That's just how I feel."
Jersey Jack Pinball is going in the wrong direction while Stern is going in the right direction
"I think they realize now that Stern's model works. Simplify the games. Make them easier to understand and make them shoot better."
Jersey Jack realized Stern's simplified model works and adopted it - prioritizing shootability over complex mechs
"I also feel like this launch was really sloppy. I feel like something about it, it was just not well orchestrated. It just wasn't well executed."
Jersey Jack Pinball launch of Toy Story was poorly executed and sloppy
"all of us out there, our nostalgia, our love affair with Toy Story is based on Toy Story 1. That is the movie we grew up falling in love with. That is the movie that have the best storyline. That is the movie 99.9% of pinball fanatics relate to a young boy and his love of toys."
The wrong Toy Story movie was chosen - should have been based on Toy Story 1, not 4
"I think Jersey Jack Pinball is moving towards Stern. And I think they're taking stuff out of games. I don't think they're ever going to make games as packed, as Wizard of Oz, as dialed in, as pired to the Caribbean. I think this is the new Jersey Jack Pinball."
Jersey Jack Pinball is moving towards Stern's simplified approach and charging more for less
"Every single release they've done over the last like six years have had playfield issues from Mirco... There's always that Achilles heel. There's always that one idiotic thing or one quality issue thing that happens with every game that makes us be like, oh, why can't you just get it right?"
Jersey Jack Pinball always has quality issues and one idiotic flaw per game
"I believe that Jersey Jack Pinball should not mirror Stern. They should not try to parody what Stern does because Stern Pinball is the Honda of Pinball. They are the mass market. They're the Honda Civic. They are not the Ferrari, the Bentley, the Rolls. I think Jersey Jack Pinball is a more high-end premium product."
Jersey Jack Pinball should be more premium than Stern and not flood the market
"Jersey Jack Pinball's new game is coming out. I predict that this game is going to be revealed on Monday, the wait is finally over."
Prediction: The new game will be revealed on Monday.
"I was surprised about one thing that wasn't mentioned in this video, which I thought would have been a golden opportunity to mention it. And that is this. We are only selling one per customer, one per customer."
Jersey Jack missed opportunity to implement one-per-customer limit
"But trust me on this, you will not lose money on a Jersey Jack Pinball collectors edition. If you are even on the fence about this game, you would be idiotic to wait because if you wait and then you want it, you're going to lose money. And if you act fast and you get one, you are going to gain money."
Jersey Jack Pinball collector's editions are guaranteed profitable investments
"without knowing when the game is coming out, it's hard to keep your excitement levels high. It's hard to keep your enthusiasm high... from a marketing standpoint, I know they're going to sell everyone. But I really wish Jersey Jack Pinball would just give us a sense of when it's going to happen."
Jersey Jack Pinball's lack of communication is hurting excitement for Toy Story
"every other day I wake up and I forget that it's still Jersey Jack Pinball, that they always find new ways to mess this stuff up, that they can never seem to just get it right. This company is always hampered by delays."
Jersey Jack Pinball always finds new ways to mess things up with delays
"Jersey Jack Pinball, if they've shown us one thing, they know how to not do it right. Like they miss the Hobbit movies when it launched."
Jersey Jack Pinball consistently misses deadlines and opportunities
"I just wish Jersey Jack was able to give us a date by which we could expect their next title... it's so hard to get excited and to maintain your excitement when you don't even know where the finish line is."
Jersey Jack Pinball's lack of communication about release dates is frustrating
"Jersey Jack Pinball is doing a terrible job hyping this game because they're doing nothing. Like what is showing Jen getting into a truck do for us or showing coils?"
Jersey Jack Pinball doing poor job hyping Toy Story
"I think Jersey Jack is going to make a thousand of these. They have never made a thousand CEs. They made 150 CEs for dialed in. They made 200 for pirates. And they made 500 for Wonka and Guns N' Roses."
Jersey Jack Pinball will likely make 1000 Toy Story CEs, more than any previous release
"If you have popped the playfield on the last two Jersey Jack games, Willy Wonka and Guns N' Roses, you are seeing half as much in those games as we saw in the Hobbit, as we saw in Pirates, as we saw in Dialed In and Wizard of Oz."
Jersey Jack's recent games (Willy Wonka, Guns N' Roses) have significantly less content than earlier titles like Hobbit and Pirates
"And that's my argument is when you look at a Jersey Jack game by simple material costs, their games should be at least 30 to 40% more money than a Stern machine... if you put a Jersey Jack game next to a Stern machine, it looks twice as expensive. It looks like there's twice as much in it and there's so much more going on code wise."
Jersey Jack games should cost 30-40% more than Stern due to material costs and quality
"this will be the greatest sales month that any pinball company has had in like 10 years. They're going to get more orders for this one game and every single family that's got pinball in their homes is going to want this game"
Toy Story pinball will be massive commercial success
"If Jersey Jack pinball hired me tomorrow just to be their accessory guy, I could bring in an extra few million dollars a year for Jersey Jack pinball if they just gave me that role"
If Jersey Jack hired Kaneda as accessory guy, he could bring in extra millions per year
"Jersey Jack pinball is leaving millions of dollars on the table...they're releasing crappy toppers to put on top of what I consider to be the most beautiful pinball machines of all time...I am so embarrassed by the toppers on top of Wizard of Oz on top of Willy Wonka on top of Pirates of the Caribbean"
Jersey Jack Pinball is leaving millions on the table by making crappy toppers for beautiful machines
"Something that is for sure family oriented. And if you think about it, Jersey Jack has been pretty much sticking with that theme, with the exception probably of the Godfather."
Jersey Jack should focus on family-friendly themes
"Remember Stern Pinball is making a new game. Fully code it for the most part. Fully featured game. Every four months Stern gives you a new game. Every four months Jersey Jack Pinball in two years usually gives you only one title."
Jersey Jack Pinball consistently fails to deliver two games per year despite having demand, while Stern delivers every four months
"Why can't they go to like Ron Cruzman and, hey, look, Ron, we would like to upscale what you do and create a pinball playfield company and we want you to run it."
Jersey Jack should find alternative playfield supplier instead of being stuck with Mirco
"I think JJP gets out... Toy Story sometime in March, April. And I also think they're going to release Godfather in October, November"
Jersey Jack Pinball will release both Toy Story and Godfather in 2022
"I'm devastated and I'm gutted that there will be no Toy Story at TPF this year. I thought it was going to be there. I have no idea why Jersey Jack takes so long to get anything out the door."
Jersey Jack takes too long to get games out and is devastated Toy Story won't be at TPF
"Dare I say, this company was run better when Jack Guarnieri was at the helm. I think it was. I absolutely think it was."
Jersey Jack Pinball was run better under Jack Guarnieri than current management