THIS WEEK IN PINBALL – 5/22: Pinball Pottermania, Wayne Neyens, A New Pinball Company, Pinball Tennessee & MORE

Pinball Pottermania and Joe Kaminkow’s Machine of Secrets

• Joe Kaminkow, noted pinball industry insider, sparked a bout of Pottermania with his out-of-the-blue Facebook post revealing that Jersey Jack Pinball had acquired the license to Harry Potter, long a dream theme for many pinball fans.

• Just about everyone in pinball media has covered the story, and while the facts of the case remain elusive, we particularly like the takes from Triple Drain Pinball Podcast and LoserKid Pinball Podcast which both offered some more inside-baseball discussions about what’s probably going on and why Kaminkow (who is typically associated with Stern Pinball) would make such a move.