Pinball Expo

"They've paraded the game around different shows. They've brought the talent from the game to the show. Now what?"

"So I heard at pinball Expo that the folks over at Barrels of Fun were excited, they were talking to people and they were really jazzed about their labyrinth pinball machine. And the feedback from the show was great and you know how it is at these shows, you get these guys a little liquored up, they're really excited, they know that this is just the beginning, games are selling, they had a great showing at Expo."

"And I heard someone had a little bit of loose lips on that team and they let it slip that they have the license to a game, that if they make it, I am absolutely going to buy it."

"I saw that American Pinball won for best booth at Chicago Pinball Expo. Okay, cool."

"Like I don't know what David Fix is gonna be able to do to sell more of these galactic tank force games. Do you think people were buying that game left and right at the show?"

"I saw that American Pinball won for best booth at Chicago Pinball Expo. Okay, cool. Like I don't know what David Fix is gonna be able to do to sell more of these galactic tank force games."

"Another crazy thing I heard from pinball Expo, and it wasn't it funny? It's like, Kaneda's pinball podcast covered pinball Expo more than the pinball podcasters who were at the freaking show. Like maybe I just hang back now and just cover this hobby and do everybody's job for them."

"So congratulations again to Barrels of Fun, a brand new company who marches into pinball Expo with machines in boxes and shows Jersey Jack pinball how to do it. They freaking won up Jersey Jack pinball, who's been in pinball for over a decade, who got beat by a startup company that is embarrassing."

"And I talked to more people at the show and they said, Chris, look, the game is beautiful. The game shoots really well. But the main problem in the game, we haven't even talked about the code. Someone said to me, the main problem in this game is there's no objective."

"Okay, so Jersey Jack wheels this game out and they don't have that many to play. And that's the other thing I heard from a lot of you who were at the show. You weren't actually able to jump on the game."

"I said the name on Labyrinth winning in my book, the best showing at Pinball Expo. And I heard from a lot of people, you played it and you ordered it."

"Launching all these games on top of themselves is a mistake. It should not be the way these games are revealed. And I think Jersey Jack is gonna sorely regret going out so early with Elton John."

"And I've always said this. Going to the shows is not really the best way to sell product. The lines are long. People are waiting forever to get on the games."

"I just wanna say a congratulations again to the folks over at Barrels of Fun. I said the name on Labyrinth winning in my book, the best showing at Pinball Expo."

"And that's the other thing I heard from a lot of you who were at the show. You weren't actually able to jump on the game. Like a lot of people just watched people playing the game."

"So you can put as many for sale ads as you want in the world. The only way you're gonna sell this game is if you discount it to people, nobody's paying this much money for this game."

"I think Jersey Jack is gonna sorely regret. Soarly regret going out so early with Elton John. I think they're afraid of Keith Elwin's jaws."

"What was the point of bringing games to Expo and making this your Elton John moment? The point is simply this. This was a sales and marketing decision."

"And it still baffles my mind that people go to these shows as the first moment to get sales. But look, now that the show is over, the real battle begins for all of these companies to get sales of these games."

"But now that Pinball Expo is over, right? The show in Chicago, everybody brought their product. We had all of these new games. We had what? Elton John, Labyrinth, Ripley Edition of Aliens."

"What was the point of revealing this game when it was not on the line? What was the point of bringing games to Expo and making this your Elton John moment?"

"I finally got a good night's sleep and we're gonna talk about who I think won Pinball Expo. We're gonna talk about Elton John. We've had a few more days to absorb this title. I've been hearing from many of you at Pinball Expo what your impressions on the games have been and I'm just gonna say this."

"It's a good time to be in Pinball and watch everything that's going on. The prices are still through the roof. These companies are all battling it out. If I had told you five years ago there are gonna be like 12 pinball companies trying to get our hard earned money."

"If I told you five years ago Stern-Elise are gonna be $13,000 and Jersey Jack CEs are gonna be $15,000 and they're gonna make a thousand other CEs. You would have told me I'm crazy but here we are living in the insane present."

"One is an ugly duckling by choice and one is an aesthetically over the top like ostentatious glitzy glamorous Elton John and it's just nuts right Elton John rocks around in like Gucci sequence on tour and then you've got these goblins from 1986 that are Jim Henson Muppets and you couldn't get radically different visual pinball presentations."

"it's kind of funny to me that the two games sort of battling it out for best at Expo is this beautifully aesthetic Elton John and then you've got this game with all of these ugly goblins on it in labyrinth but look they're so radically different."

"I predicted that Elton John was going to win Expo. It didn't win Expo. It didn't even come close to winning Expo."

"This is disgusting, people. This is where we're at in Pinball. Let's shut down anybody who wants to tell you something truthful or something that is not just another shill in the Pinball content space and we're going to take away his media credentials."

"How ridiculous it is that Jersey Jack revealed this game at Expo when this game is not on the line. I love it. Some of the big distributors you asked them, when is this game going to be made?"

"So then why did they show the game at Expo? If the game is not in a box, freaking barrels of fun rocked up with 10 machines, 10 machines in boxes that people could go home with."

"You know, I predicted that Elton John was going to win Expo. It didn't win Expo. It didn't even come close to winning Expo."

"Let's shut down anybody who wants to tell you something truthful or something that is not just another shill in the Pinball content space and we're going to take away his media credentials. We're going to ban Kaneda from Pinside for 10 years. I mean, it's absolutely shameful what is going on and the sort of echo chamber they're trying to create, but we're not going to fall for it and people aren't falling for it."

"The labyrinth games were played for 14 hours straight at Pinball Expo. 14 hours straight. And they didn't have any single issues with the games."

"I mean, I think it was so disgusting that David Fixed revoked Cary Hardy's media credentials at Pinball Expo simply because Cary Hardy said some truthful things about Galactic Tank Force, so David Fixed yanked his media credentials."

"freaking 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."

"You know, did you see the photos last night? I was laughing so hard. There were photos of people starting to gather at that arcade where the media mixer is. And look at the photos. It's on Knapp's Arcade. Look how miserable everybody looks."

"And then we're gonna talk about what is gonna be the biggest game at Pinball Expo. It's not gonna be any of these games we've been talking about. It's gonna be Ninja Eclipse by Turner Pinball. Quite possibly the most anticipated game in the history of Pinball."

"And I think a lot of newbies that are traveling there for the first time who are going to Chicago pinball Expo for four days. Some of them are going for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. They're going for four full days. And I think some people might even stay over for the pinball Olympics. Maybe that's five days. I'm just here to tell you right now, it's a lot. It's a lot of days for not a lot of square footage to cover. You see the entire show in like an hour."

"I do want to give my condolences. I've had some friends who are at pinball Expo right now and they're like, man, the show's pretty small. It is very small."

"It's impossible to have hype for more than like two weeks. I mean, trust me when I say this, like three weeks from now, how are they going to maintain a hype for the labyrinth?"

"If this game is shown to the world tomorrow and those games are not ready to go out the door, huge, huge implications if that's the case."

"Jersey Jack pinballs Elton John. I've been predicting it's going to win over pinball expo. It absolutely is going to win over pinball expo."

"We are on the eve of Pinball Expo. What will happen? Will we see Elton John games on the line when they reveal the game?"

"It's like a few times a year all these manufacturers decide to make the biggest marketing mistake and reveal all of their things on top of each other. Everyone's plans just colliding all at once."

"It's the last great hope of Pinball Expo. It really is. It really is."

"Jersey Jack Pinball's Elton John is gonna win Pinball Expo. We now know it's coming to the show."

"It's the last great hope of Pinball Expo. It really is. And think about Jersey Jack with all of their rainbow lights and all of their crazy atmospheric stuff."

"And I'm seeing people who are going to Pinball Expo. They're gonna be at the show and they've already placed an order on the freaking Labyrinth. What is this? Is this what pinball positivity is now?"

"This is it. There's no other surprises. It's not going to be pinball adventures. It's not going to be ninja clips from Turner Pinball. This is it, and I'm telling you right now, I'm making a prediction. Elton John's going to win."

"knowing what we know now about what's going to be at this show, tell me what are you excited about? What are you really excited about right now?"