Texas Pinball Festival

"we're gonna see Scooby-Doo's on location probably end of this month early January and then we're absolutely gonna be able to play this game come TPF"

"I'm not going to TPF. This is not an indictment of that show. Kim and Ed put on a great show."

"I am not going to Texas. I'm not going to TPF. This is not an indictment of that show. Kim and Ed put on a great show."

"I don't want to support these award shows anymore. I think both award shows that are happening in pinball right now are just not fun."

"It was absolutely painful sitting through that show last year."

"I think the TWIPYs, a lot of the fun is gone from the show. I think the TWIPYs have really gone downhill since Greg and Zach stopped being the hosts of the show."

"And was I going to go to Texas Pinball Festival for the TWIPYs? And I want each and every one of you to know a few things."

"People are not gonna travel to TPF for the TWIPYs. And that's my other point. I don't feel like going to Texas this year. I always used to wanna go there for the TWIPYs but now I don't even care."

"Why am I gonna spend money to be in a room in which everybody else I know is not gonna be able to see the show? I might as well just make a canned acceptance video and a defeat video and give it to them and say, hey, if I win, can you edit this into your rebroadcasting of the TWIPYs?"

"I would just have to assume if they're not going to do it in the winter, they're going to wait to like TPF to do it."

"Do they do anything special at Expo at TPF anywhere? They really don't. And I mean this like, yeah, they set up shop and Marco sets up their booth, but all they ever want to do is take your money."

"So making these TNAs will take Spooky to the end of the year and then we will most likely see Scooby-Doo sometime around March like TPF timeframe."

"I think we're gonna see the CESlide all the way to 12.5 by Texas Pinball Festival."

"You know, 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."

"So why did you reveal a game when you knew you were like maybe six or more months away from being able to really turn on the assembly line? And here we are almost six months later since the game was revealed. I think it's been like five months, right? He revealed it right before TPF."

"And I think they want to move on to their next stuff come Expo and TPF. If I was a betting man, I think they'll announce around Expo the next run of TNAs. And I think they're going to save Scooby-Doo for some time around Texas Pinball Festival."

"I think Keith Elwin's game is gonna be the game that comes out in March, April. I think this is gonna be the game we see at TPF. I think this is gonna be the big first game of 2023 from Stern Pinball and so look for that."

"And then all of these people at the show could jump on it and play the machine before the order banks opened up. Those were the good days. Those days are gone. Those days are gone."

"Now I think all of us missed the good old years in which they used to bring the game to a show. Remember these days? They would show up with the game at a show like at TPF. They would bring dialed in. They would bring pire to the Caribbean."

"And then I think Spooky announces its next game sometime around TPF spring of 2023."

"Usually what's fun about Allentown is all of the new games that came out at TPF. You can get more time on them at Allentown. Guess what? Nothing new came out at TPF."

"You know one thing Steven said when he was talking about Merlin's arcade and showing up at TPF with a booth filled with Merlin's arcade artwork but no game. And I'm just over this whole approach."

"We missed the Texas Pinball Festival, T.P.F. got canceled for us and Robert kind of dodged a bullet there."

"But the promises that were made for the upcoming TPF were just not coming to fruition. That was the big launch promise."

"Because Robert was saying that we were just going to show for TPF. We were just going to show the Graza again."

"Like I saw the Pinball Brothers guys there at TPF. I didn't want to talk to them."

"Anyway, they had a great showing at TPF. They did. They had a constant line to play this game."

"I wanted to say thank you for the deep group sponsorships of several pinball things. A couple years ago at TPF, the Wizards Championship and the good prize that went along with that, you supported great organizations like This Week in Pinball."

"Did you see the JJP seminar at TPF? Jack said something in the seminar that was very interesting. He said something like, when we go after a license, we get everything with that license. And I'm like, what? How did Jack even come to that conclusion?"

"I was just at Texas Pinball Festival. The only Jersey Jack machine that was there in the entire show was one title Guns N' Roses."

"I think a lot of you out there used to bring your machines to shows because these machines were cheap. Here's the real issue with inflation. Now that your machines are worth so much more money, you don't wanna bring them to a show."

"And yes, if you go to these pinball shows to play pinball, you're gonna wait online. There's a lot of people. It's not even a good experience to get the game. Like you can't absorb a game at TPF."

"Well, first I wanna thank Ed and Kim for putting on the show. It was a great show."

"I think Marco's setup was great too. They had a lot of games, a lot of rushes, a lot of Mandalorians, right? A lot of games were there and you didn't have to wait that long."

"The variety of machines, when it comes to what's new in Pinball, just wasn't represented as nicely as it usually is."

"You go to a Pinball show to hang out with people. You go for your friends and your family from around the world that love Pinball."

"I think Jersey Jack Pinball has the best setup. They had the Guns N' Roses machines set up perfectly and there were a lot of them. And then you could turn the volume up as you were playing the game."

"From all over the world, it is amazing when you go to a show like TPF and you see people from Australia, from France, from Germany, from Texas, from New York, from all over the world, and we're all there because of pinball."

"You know, I go on Pinside and people complain about, oh, the show needs to be in a bigger venue. Oh, I had to wait forever to play the games."

"We're going to be at Texas pinball Festival. We're going to be getting some pinball news there. I'm going to be going live from the show as frequently as I can."

"So I will hop on it at TPF and find out, but I was a little worried there, I was like, you know, I mean, I get all the assets are there, I get if you're a weird out fan, you're absolutely going to love this, but is this going to be a rewarding pinball experience?"

"Marty's working over at Haggis and he's not going to TPF. And I'm just here to tell you this is the difference between Kaneda's Pinball Podcast podcast and other shows that selectively bury information and don't go after companies when they should."

"Alright, so deeproot auction. Going to be a fun Friday over at Texas pinball Festival. If you're going to the show, remember I will be at Perry's Steakhouse between 5.30 and 7.30pm."

"And I just want to hear from the horse's mouth itself what went on with all of the playfield issues with Guns N' Roses. I want him to answer that question and I hope he's preparing an answer that is satisfactory. And I'm going to be there and I'm going to be filming on Facebook live and I'm going to just ask him in a very polite way what went on."

"I am totally shocked that Jersey Jack pinball is not calling over to Mirco and saying, dude, don't come to T.P.F. We don't need you there. We don't need you to create a distraction."

"And he wants to march in the Texas pinball festival and do a panel seminar to talk about this thing. Ironically, his tales of the Arabian night kit is called the forgotten tales."

"And even if he doesn't do a Q&A, I mean this, if he tries to avoid doing a Q&A, I am going to stand up and ask this question. He's going to be there. They can't keep me out of the room and I'm going to make sure we get an answer to this question."

"Alright, so deeproot auction. Going to be a fun Friday over at Texas pinball Festival."

"I know what they're going to try to do and make TPF a moment, but it's not about that."

"The same way I'm going to hold Mirco accountable when he comes to TPF and gets up on stage and wants to talk about his playfield process. I'm going to ask him what happened with Guns N' Roses? What happened with the last Jersey Jack games? And has he fixed the problem?"