Texas Pinball Festival

"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?"

"I think what's fun about TPF is you're in Frisco, you've got the embassy suites, you've got Perry's Steakhouse, you've got Wildpitch, which is the weirdest and most awkward place to go into because I feel so bad for the women who work there."

"Now normally as we go into TPF, we're all really excited because there's usually going to be a big game reveal or some big announcement, but I must say this year, there really isn't anything humongous happening at the show other than we're going to see Weird Al for the first time."

"Normally this is a very exciting time in pinball, because normally TPF is the show in which all of the big news happens in pinball, but lately that hasn't been the case."

"I fully expect TPF to be even more fun than Expo because the facilities and the embassy suites is a lot more better situated than the pinball expo destination because at Expo you couldn't go anywhere, like everything was just in the hotel."

"It's still going to be a great show, Ed and Kim put on an amazing show, there are always a ton of machines to play, and you know that the greatest part of these shows is just coming together and it's been a long time since we've all been together."

"Now I'm hearing a rumor that the next JJP game will be revealed at MGC, but they might show us some photos at TPF. Now here's what I think will happen. I think if anything, they will just reveal that the game is Toy Story."

"It's been the only new pinball machine announced and revealed in March before TPF. And now that it looks like Toy Story will not be at TPF, Jerry's got the hot game at TPF."

"And I think he was terrified that Toy Story was going to come to TPF and just take over the Pinball world. And so he got in front of that by announcing Weird Out."

"I think he was terrified that Toy Story was going to come to TPF and just take over the Pinball world. And so he got in front of that by announcing Weird Out."

"And let's say you jump on his game and you play it at TPF and you love it. And you say, man, I want to order one. Great. You know when you're going to get your game? It's going to be over a year from the moment you play that game at TPF."

"So he marches into TPF with Weird Out. It will be the newest game at the show. And he's going to get a lot of attention."

"I think this game is gonna have a really good showing at TPF I do I think he's gonna get more orders for this game after TPF I think his greatest challenge is going to be fulfilling the orders"

"Personally, I'm just devastated by the news that Jersey Jack is not bringing Toy Story to TPF. Now look, Jerry's got a great window right now to sell this game."

"And 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."

"Jersey Jack is not coming to TPF with anything, which means Weird Al will be the only new game we are playing at TPF next to Cactus Canyon, which is not a new game."

"And I know that JJP I think is going to try to surprise us the way they did with dialed in. Like they're going to usher these games in and pull the sheets off of them."

"rumored to be coming to TPF on the line in April. Think about this serendipitous timing if you're JJP. Stern Pinball, as announced, we're not coming out with a new game in April. No one's going to be ordering more Stern machines because of the backlog, which means all of the money will flow to JJP"

"I wish like Ed and Kim could go to JJP and say can we officially communicate that a new game is going to be at TPF this year because I think that drives a lot of attendance."

"I think going to TPF now is all going to be about Toy Story. Now if Toy Story does not make its way to TPF, there pretty much is almost no reason to go."

"I will be going to TPF to hang out with you guys. Now I just think TPF will be so much better if we get a new game release at TPF."

"But it's an exciting time in Pinball because as we get closer to TPF, more and more will be revealed."

"But look, I think when we get to TPF and Jerry's got his new game, he can't make them that fast. How many P3s can Jerry make a week? Let's say he gets 200 orders for the Weird Al game. When are you getting your game? That's the problem is people are not going to want to wait 8 months to get something that you reveal today."

"Damien, I'm still going to shake your hand and buy you a beer if you let me at TPF. It's not personal, man."

"So the next question becomes like, when are we going to see Venom? Are we going to see it by TPF? I don't think so. I think we're going to see Venom sometime in April, May."

"I don't want to see him at Texas. I don't think we should see them at Texas because they need to make up for some of the lost ground."

"Ego is the hardest thing to overcome with all of these pinball companies. They want to be with the crowds. But if you don't have anything new to sell, it's a waste of money to be with the crowds."

"There is no reason this company should spend money on airline tickets or shipping games to TPF. You don't need to sell more fathoms. You sold them all, but they're still going to do it."

"And this is the mistake all these companies made. Dutch pinball made it. Highway made it. You're going to spend tens of thousands of dollars to fly to Texas to what?"

"I almost bet you that nobody is going to have their Cactus Canyon's by TPF, which is pathetic. It really is pathetic and they never should have launched it if they knew that they had supply chain issues or delays on parts."

"If I'm them, you know, you kind of want to make sure you get games before TPF, but I want to give Damien and Marty and all of them some advice right now. They should not travel to TPF."

"I'm not even sure when Dennis Nordman's game is going to be shown but it's just another company where like week in and week out, it's like you hear nothing from them"

"like they should have waited to TPF to pull the veil off of this game in the right way, and they didn't, and I'm just, that's it, I'm not even going to say anything else"

"I don't know is Jerry gonna bring it to TPF, who knows, who knows but you know it's like I don't give airtime"

"Jersey Jack Pinball is once again sitting idly, probably waiting to TPF to show Toy Story. There's nothing exciting going on."

"Because what a testament to the fact that it is the best pinball show in the world. And even though we had to miss it because of COVID, everybody still considers it the best pinball show in the world."

"And so I put Chicago Pinball Expo because I went to it and it was fun. It's nowhere near as good as TPF, but I couldn't vote for TPF."

"This is probably the most controversial one because they left TPF out of the voting because there was not a TPF last year. I think that was a huge mistake because you could still have a favorite show even if it doesn't happen every year."

"And I think the fact that the award show is going to be at TPF and you didn't put them into this drop down category is a humongous mistake. It would have been such a nice thank you to Ed and Kim and everyone involved in TPF if they could have won this without even having had a show over the last couple of years."

"It would have been such a nice thank you to Ed and Kim and everyone involved in TPF if they could have won this without even having had a show over the last couple of years. Because what a testament to the fact that it is the best pinball show in the world."

"We didn't get it at Expo. Maybe we'll get it at TPF."

"So if that's the case, why didn't they just reveal this game at TPF when they were closer to launch, when they had all parts in-house?"

"So I don't think we're going to see Toy Story this year. Toy Story is going to be a game that we see early 2022. I think they're going to hold it for Texas pinball Festival. And I think that's what's going to happen."

"of course the pinball shows would love you to hold your product until their show because then they can say we're going to be the world reveal of the next game from American pinball and they want you to attend to see that stuff makes total sense but I don't think you need to do it especially if your company I would rather these companies put more of their money into the game than spending a ton of money shuffling them around all these different shows because it's not cheap"

"I know they were thinking they might be able to reveal this game by the end of the year but most likely we will see this game by March of 2022 at TPF but also let me give you some advice David fix and let me give you some advice all you pinball companies you don't have to launch your games around a pinball show it doesn't matter anymore covid has shown us there's absolutely no need to invest all that time energy and money to shuffle your product to these shows or wait for those shows to reveal the games because you can sell out of your games just using something called the internet"

"the internet is the greatest pinball show in town it's got a few billion people at that show every day you don't need to go to these shows I think that's old school marketing it's old school thinking and it's not necessary"

"because you can sell out of your games just using something called the internet the internet is the greatest pinball show in town it's got a few billion people at that show every day you don't need to go to these shows I think that's old school marketing it's old school thinking and it's not necessary"

"It's hard to do it online. They really work better when we're all at a conference or a show like Texas Pinball Festival. And you've got this concentration of hundreds of pinball fanatics all there drinking all day long, partying on a Saturday night, going into a big room and collectively experiencing the award show all together."

"Texas Pinball Festival has been canceled We're not surprised by this With what's going on in the world It was the smart thing to do by Ed It was the responsible thing to do by Ed"

"Now the one thing I will say And I've told this to Jeff I don't know why the TWIPYs Are it still aligned with the timing of TPS When there is no TPS"