The Lucky Flipper will open with primarily modern pinball machines, including Jaws, Jurassic Park, Godzilla, Stranger Things, The Walking Dead, Dungeons & Dragons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Venom, Avengers, King Kong, and several X-Men titles. A refurbished 1993 Judge Dredd machine will also be part of the collection.
Scott expects to rotate machines over time, adding newer releases while eventually bringing in older games as he and his son become more familiar with maintaining them.
For newcomers, he said the best machine is usually the one tied to a favorite movie, show, or character.
“If they like watching Stranger Things, they’re more likely to like banging around on that machine,” Scott said in a conversation with St. Pete Rising. “If you’re a Jurassic Park person, going to use a pinball to catch different dinosaurs and work your way through the paddocks to ultimately have to fight the T. rex is exciting.”
The bar will have six beers on draft, with one national domestic beer and the remainder likely devoted to local or Florida breweries. There will also be canned and bottled beer, wine, seltzers, nonalcoholic beer, soft drinks, and malt-based canned cocktails.
The Lucky Flipper will not serve food, instead encouraging visitors to bring in meals from nearby restaurants.
“The EDGE District has plenty of great food that customers can bring in and enjoy,” Scott said.