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THIS WEEK IN PINBALL: July 15th, 2019

THIS WEEK IN PINBALL: July 15th, 2019

— This Week’s Top 5 Stories —

1. Dutch Pinball Updates

Dutch Pinball shared a significant update last week:

Jaap’s Health

First off, it is very sad to hear that Jaap’s cancer has returned. The doctors saying there is nothing they can do is terrible to hear. Our thoughts are with Jaap and his friends and family.

The Big Lebowski Updates

In addition to the information above, CoinTaker shared the following on Pinside:

There is a lot to untangle in this. From what we can piece together, there are 40 games that are supposed to come to CoinTaker, with a handful of those going to Nitro Pinball. The price of these games is now $12,500 and they appear to already be sold out.

Overall the news on The Big Lebowski’s is encouraging but brings up a lot of questions.

What shape are the machines in if they’ve been sitting in a warehouse for years?
Will replacement parts be available for these games in the future?
The update implies the intent to start building games again – who will manufacture these? Who will fund this?
And about a zillion other questions…

Emotions are high as people in this hobby have lost thousands of dollars buying directly from Dutch Pinball. Here is hoping that things go in the right direction and people get what they paid for. There is still quite a long road ahead for Dutch Pinball, we’ll keep you posted as we learn more.

[Editor’s Note: More and more details on this situation are coming in quickly and regularly, we’ll have an update next week.]

2. Countdown to Stern’s Next Release

There has been a lot of speculation and hype surrounding what is rumored to be Keith Elwin’s second game. It is also rumored to be based on Jurassic Park/World.

What can we expect in the game? The best clues are probably found in a few answers Keith Elwin gave last week on the interview with LoserKid’s Pinball Podcast:

We don’t have a solid release date yet. In that same interview, Keith shared “we’re nearing the home stretch so hopefully all your questions will be answered soon“. We also might have received a hint last week when Keith Elwin changed his Facebook profile picture to this:

For those unfamiliar, that picture is from the movie Total Recall, and the woman pictured repeatedly says the words “Two Weeks, Two Weeks, Two Weeks” in the scene in the movie. Maybe that is when it will be released?

Or more likely, we’re probably looking into this too much and it is a bit of light trolling. It is probably nothing, but worth noting. Maybe we’ll see it sooner than we think…

[Editor’s Note: Here is the clip from Total Recall with the Two Week lady. I have not seen the movie Total Recall and know nothing about the movie or the story, and watching this scene out of context was…interesting?]

3. Slash Confirms New Guns N’ Roses Pinball Machine

Last week, SF Weekly released an article titled “Slash No Longer Hungers for Destruction“. One of the paragraphs in the article shares the following:

Guns N’ Roses has been in the Jersey Jack Pinball rumor mill for a long time now. We look forward to learning more about this game!

4. Bill and Ted’s Zombie Yeti Artwork

Last week Zombie Yeti posted some artwork teasers on Facebook:

Of course we lost our minds speculating on a possible Bill and Ted’s pinball machine! TWIP reached out Zombie Yeti (Jeremy Packer) for clarification, and he shared the following:

So it sounds like it is not pinball art at this time…but don’t give up hope, maybe someday!

5. Countdown to Pinburgh

Only 17 days until the world’s largest pinball tournament takes place at Replay FX! Last week, MyBookie released odds for Pinburgh – Keith Elwin is favored, followed by Raymond Davidson, Daniele Celestino Acciari, Eric Stone, Cayle George, and Zach Sharpe. Check out the full odds and all side bets here!

For the official rules of the Pinburgh tournament, click here!