Turner Pinball Production Update; A Cool Look at Beetlejuice Pinball Topper Production; Pokémon Pinball Production Update
By knapparcade
And we're back. I took a couple of days off last week to go watch the NCAA men's basketball Sweet 16 in Washington DC. Alas, my beloved St. John's Red Storm lost a nail-biter to Duke. My wife and I still had a great time in our nation's capital catching up with friends, watching the game and hitting the museums. Last week was fairly quiet. Not much has happened since my Monday article. Still, I have collected a bunch of my proverbial Random Stuff to talk about. First up, let's talk about Turner Pinball. Grownup Adjacent Pinball shared a great, short interview with Chris Turner on YouTube about his company's latest game, Yukon Yeti by Dennis Nordman. From that interview, we got a little bit of production information about the game. The plan right now is for Turner to produce the first 100 Yukon Yeti units in its current facility. The next 400 games will be built in the new, larger facility that Turner is currently in the process of building. I shared images of the land and information about the plans for it here a week or two ago. Turner also stated at the time of this interview more than half of the Yukon Yeti games have been sold. In other Turner Pinball news, they announced that the Arcade Edition of its current production game Merlin's Arcade is sold out and that it only has 30 Legendary Edition units of that game remaining. Below I have embedded the aforementioned interview and a brand new gameplay video of Yukon Yeti.
Last week, Spooky Pinball gave us a really cool behind-the-scenes look at the production of its fancy topper for its latest pin Beetlejuice. The Beetlejuice topper is being produced by Gary Tunnicliffe and his crew, the same people who were responsible for Spooky's Epic Evil Dead topper.
Last up, I have a quick note about Stern Pinball. The Limited Edition version of its latest game Pokémon is now on the production line and shipping out to customers. Given Stern's massive production capacity, it shouldn't take them long to crank through all 750 LEs. Once they're complete, Stern will begin building Premium games for locations then consumers before switching back to building Pro machines. Below is a new video from Stern sharing some highlights from the recent Texas Pinball Festival
