I love that dumb movie.. when I first saw that scene, I was like "OMG, what an obscure character to imitate, but dana carvey is NAILING IT!".

"Are you telling me all you got is a little weiner, and some tiny nuts?"

I wonder if I can pay with IOU slips? Our word is our bond...

Those are as good as money sir.. Like this pinball IOU.. nine thousand dollars, might wanna hang onto that one.

Never watched a POTC movie, don't' care for the theme.. but man that layout looks fun. Kudos to the new designer. JJP is killing it, keep it up!

Anyone that says operators won't buy this are wrong. Unlike Dialed in, this theme has staying power for the general public. I'm guessing even if an operator paid back half his investment, he could sell it off for not much less than he paid for it.

Also hasn't Stern had a lot of issues lately with random resets and node boards failing? Nevermind the boards failing, how pissed off is a customer going to be if he lost his money during a reset, not to mention they might have been in the middle of a really good game. If a game reset on me, I might shove it in frustration.

nobody has done a comparison of Stern VS JJP

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It's not a matter of pulling quotes from the movie.. I'm sure there are music scores behind many of the quotes you'd want to pull. Yes, the studio probably has the audio separated, but now pay someone to dig up specific audio is more cost. Eric also talked about him wanting specific speech like "JACKPOT" which is obviously never said in the movie, so now you have to hire the actor (who gets paid millions of dollars for a movie) to specifically record audio. Yes, you could JUST record those specific callouts, but then the audio wouldn't be consistent. Go play back to the future on Zed pinball fx 3, all the callouts were re-recorded even though there's only maybe a dozen new things they say that aren't in the movie, and they probably mostly did that not because of licensing but so that the audio sounds consistent.

Heck, just look at wizard of oz.. obviously they couldn't hire the witch to say "I got your ball", that actress is dead. But you have to admit, playing that for first time, the person they got to do the speech was spot on.

absolutely factual. Jack was really proud to say at the initial seminar at expo "Wizard of OZ bill of material?! to HELL with that, I'm building what I want", which is crazy talk when you pre-announce the final price. It's one thing to just build a pinball, figure out your BOM, then announce.. it's another to announce retail price before you know what it's going to cost to build.

I design new product often at my job, and there's NO way we would announce pricing without not only building a prototype, but multiple revisions of the prototype until we were happy with the features, quality, strength, reliability, UL compliance, production volume vendor pricing, estimated production time it takes to build each unit so we can factor in hourly labor rate, production fixtures. I admire Jack's passion and alternative way of running a company, but it sure bit him in the ass early on. It's only because he keeps building great quality games that he continues to sell them.

Exactly.. gigabyte is a cash cow, so they don't need to necessarily feel rushed to put out a pinball in order to keep afloat. Homepin is sort of this way too, they are building replacement williams boards (stocked at pinball life), and I believe some hankin stuff.