![]() One toy, only one, but which establishes the identity of the machine. To sum up the spirit of this board, it is a condensed version of what a pinball machine should be, without adding anything. Two bumpers at the bottom of the board are served by 3 classic lanes, with a light to move with the buttons to double the bonuses. No more little car, no more cabin with ramps. It simply releases the balls during multiballs by opening the jaw. Then, the T-Rex head is still present but it doesn’t move anymore like on the Premium and LE versions. And it makes the ball jump! You don’t see that on every machine. But we gain one that runs along the bottom of the playfield. Let’s take a tour of the playfield.įirst of all, the ramps have lost the twisted look that Keith Elwin (the designer of the Pro, Premium and LE) is so fond of. The fact that the designer has changed proves that the ambition is not only to strip down a board to meet the specifications. But that would be an easy shortcut and would not do justice to this new machine. are drooling with envy! The Jurassic Park Pin playfield, more than a stripped down version of the Pro’sĬertainly the theme, the artwork, and the T-Rex’s head make us think of a poor man’s version. Of course, haters will point out that it’s about simplifying the design of an existing pinball machine, which must be a lot easier than starting from scratch. It’s a fairy tale for Deadflip, who goes from fan to influencer, and from influencer to designer. Jack Danger, SW Pin designer and pinfluencer. For those who don’t know him, Jack is basically a youtuber who has made a nice little place for himself: he hosts all the Stern reveals, without any exclusive contract! The proof is that Spooky Pinball also called on him for the first Ultraman and Halloween demo. Now, the question: is the Pin playfield giving us our money’s worth ? Deadflip, from pinfluencer to designerīefore we get into the content of the playfield, let’s note that Jack Danger, aka Deadflip, is credited with the lead design. At the same time, the Pro, Premium and LE have gained at least 15%. Note that the price of the Jurassic Park Pin is the same as that of the Star Wars Pin, even though they are 2 years apart. Nothing to complain about, the price is right. My NASA calculator shows me a price reduction of 33% compared to the Pro version and 56% compared to the Limited Edition. A month before, Godzilla was selling for $6,899 in its Pro version, $8,999 for its Premium version and $10,499 in Limited Edition. ![]() So, is the promise kept? The US price is $4,599. The whole point of this format is to reduce the face price of pinball. Star Wars Pin’s box A slimming cure for the price In addition, a license such as Star Wars or Jurassic Park is expensive, so running it on multiple editions makes it profitable. ![]() With the machines released in 2019 still on the production lines, Stern is killing two birds with one stone by producing Pro, Premium, Limited Edition and Pin together. For Jurassic Park in particular, the spinners and targets seem to match. This can be slingshots or mechanical elements that are less visible because they are under the playfield. Widebody ruuuuuuules!” Home Edition format for economies of scaleīeyond the relevance of the “Pin” to vary the profile of the clientele, Stern also acts as an informed industrialist with this format: a Pin shares some of its parts with its big brother. So I paraphrase my colleague Paris_Pinball_addict by saying “a playfield can be bigger, but certainly not smaller. Good for us, because if the size of the backglass is a matter of taste and height, the size of the board changes the game completely. This Jurassic Park pinball inherits this history and dimensions that bring it closer to Star Wars than to Spiderman. ![]() They finally settled for reducing the size of the front panel by about 8 inches for their third attempt: Star Wars Home Edition aka Star Wars Pin. Stern first tried his hand at offering Spiderman and Transformers pinball machines that were two-thirds the size of standard machines. This “home edition” format (another name for the Pin) is not the first of its kind. ![]()
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