Texas Pinball Festival

"When I was at Texas pinball Festival, they were talking, I believe, which is going to be a month or two in games until games went out. It's taking quite a bit longer."

"Texas is... I think is one of the best shows in the country right now."

"Texas is more... I think it's like a collector. It's more of a collector's show, so I've tried to bring in a lot of the collectors to help me mold the show and to give them something."

"Because there's not too many vendors at TPF. You're right. It's more like... A lot of like the collectors are there, a lot of the new games are there."

"Like we have a best-in-show contest, similar to Texas. We have a lot of nice games that come to the show."

"There's like no arcade games at Texas."

"Because there's not too many vendors at TPF."

"at that moment and at that show they had a moment to try and restore some credibility and and that that would have been the moment where I said like here's here's the financial reality and how we can get the games made"

"bop 3.0 announcement at expo just sort of was it an expo or TPF I forget was a TPF it was a TPF yeah yeah that see to me that was the moment where I I just would have like got up and walked out of the room and been like never again with these guys because it just showed a complete lack of common sense and completely tone deaf to like where their company was at"

"you have Heighway Pinball with their games you have big Lebowski you have Spooky you have other people that brought games to Texas pinball festival who's gonna build why I'm doing more three Jerry still doing his thing"

"And this is exactly what George Gomez told me would happen to these guys when I shared that taxi ride with him back from Texas pinball Festival two years ago. He said to me, and I repeat, Dutch pinball will never make it because they are contract manufacturing the game."

"This is exactly what George Gomez told me would happen to these guys when I shared that taxi ride with him back from Texas pinball Festival two years ago. He said to me, and I repeat, Dutch pinball will never make it because they are contract manufacturing the game."

"well, we've said on this podcast many times and I, I walked out of Texas pinball Festival saying this, you know, we see all the new games out there and you hear a lot about how expensive pinball machines are becoming these days. The best bang for the buck has to be AAerosmith Pro for $5,200."

"when Brad gets his game at TPF and the xenomorph board doesn't work and he's being told you'll get the board any day now That was over a month ago and he was guaranteed that it wouldn't take like two weeks"

"With TPF behind us and having learned a great deal from the assembly of the first eight machines We spent much of April identifying and tweaking things that weren't robust enough for machines going to customers The result is we are a few weeks behind schedule on our first production run"

"Now, Chris, what did you think of American Pinball actually being able to bring a working game to TPF in under like five months? Obviously, they put a lot of hard soul in it, and they put their nose to the grindstone, which they should be absolutely commended for."

"I'm like, I really don't know why you guys went to TPF, though. I commend you for making a working game happen in such a short period of time. But what good does it do to show the majority of your game eight, nine months before it's available?"

"And the first way you show that to the world is with people's crappy cell phone footage of it and you've sort of already revealed one of your coolest things ever in such a non-glorious way."

"I would ask if I were an owner when was the alien LE artwork submitted? Was it submitted before TPF or after?"

"i think it's absolutely when i jumped on Aerosmith pro at TPF i really i came away from that show being like this pin is fifty two hundred bucks with an LCD dirty donny artwork which is some of the best art on any machine ever this amazing toy great sound for fifty two hundred"

"and i agree because when when i was at texas pinball festival in the op said he basically said like our lawyers is telling us to wait it could be a month it could be a year"

"and i kind of was like it made everything else seem overpriced seem kind of silly"

"I had a had a TPS basically well ahead you know contacting Melissa and working out a deal with her basically to be able to bring the game home from TPS"

"Brad who went to TPF with some money in his pocket and walked out of TPF with an alien. Now he went in pre-order to the game for years, he didn't do any of that stuff. He simply called a distributor and inked a deal to get a game"

"probably my favorite game from the entire Texas pinball festival last weekend was dialed in and I think they hit a home run with it"

"I you know coming at a TPS I was like man everything you're kind of just like annoyed by there's all the lights and sounds after a while that every game to sort of underwhelms at these shows"

"I don't even think like to be honest the show floor is a good place at all to get customers I don't they should the alien should have been in a dark room you know blacked out the windows and Andrew should have had people come through there one by one to truly experience it"

"I do know that there were people that approached Andrew at TPF asking to buy the games and and they had to kind of say that they were already spoken for"

"You got beautiful Texas weather. You got everything. You got great restaurant. Perry's stay-couse."

"I actually got to play a lot more games Saturday night after I recorded my podcast. So I want to give you a little bit of what I felt when I finally got the hop on stuff in the lines were shorter."

"You have a somewhat comfortable floor to stand on for hours. You got beautiful Texas weather. You got everything. You got great restaurant. Perry's stay-cous."

"Once again, great show. Best show in America for pinball. It gives you a little bit of everything. You got a tournament. You got all these games on free play. You got great seminars. You got great announcements. You got great reveals."

"Once again, great show. Best show in America for pinball. It gives you a little bit of everything."

"I want to thank all the awesome people I ran into. You know, it's about the people. So the show's great. The show's great."

"This story feels very similar to many other stories we've encountered in the world of pinball. And there's one common denominator that leads people to end up in moments like this."

"You got a tournament. You got all these games on free play. You got great seminars. You got great announcements. You got great reveals. You have a somewhat comfortable floor to stand on for hours."

"And unfortunately, it seems to be the major news story coming out of T-P-F. Is what is the future of Dutch pinball and will people who bought early-achiever additions of the Big Lebowski ever get their pinball machines? That is what we're going to discuss on this episode of Kaneda's Pinball Podcast. And after we discuss Dutch pinball, I'm going to go over my overall final thoughts on Texas pinball Festival."

"And after we discuss Dutch pinball, I'm going to go over my overall final thoughts on Texas pinball Festival. Pick my favorite game of the show and just give you my final observations."

"i also think those lines are indicative of how popular a game is and a theme is right now so there were constant lines for alien all throughout the show constant lines for dialed in not as much of a line not as much attention for attack from Mars remake because people have played that game right"

"when it comes to where the lines are at at texas pinball festival uh and i also think those lines are indicative of how popular a game is and a theme is right now so there were constant lines for alien all throughout the show constant lines for dialed in"

"when i'm walking around the show remember just like a year or two ago how many people thought america's most haunted would be worth eight nine thousand dollars and how rare it was there's a bunch of them on the floor there's like two of them on the floor i saw here at texas"

"so much stuff gets talked about and shared at these shows before your seminar and i think i think it's just a lesson for all these companies if you want to keep something absolutely secret the best way to do it if you don't want the information to be spread at the show is reveal before the show"

"i've had an amazing time at texas pinball festival"

"the line the line to get an autograph from Elvira was humongous it was ginormous i was wrong there is a lot a lot of people who love Elvira the character is classic is timeless"

"everyone out there i want to say TPF is the shit you gotta go if you can and there's so many exciting games coming out"

"there's no lines to play the game there will be no lines to play batman next year there will be no lines to play Ghostbusters in six months um it you know the attention goes to the new titles when it comes to where the lines are at at texas pinball festival"

"That was one thing that when I was in the room, I just didn't. You just couldn't see the game. Even when they pulled the curtain off, you wanted to just like rush up and see what was there."

"You know, I always find it funny when these seminars go on and people are talking and talking and talking. Show us the game. Just pull off the curtain and reveal the game."

"do I think that this game visually has the same pop and wow as John's game? It doesn't. I still am in love with the previous version of Houdini that I saw."

"First, I just want to say thank you to Kim and Ed who run the show. They're amazing. I was super happy when I got here to get my packet that said press and media on it and they hooked me up with an exhibitor badge and all this great stuff."