Andrew is there any chance of a look at the backbox Beacons in action?

I am sure there are other people like me who are curious regarding the upgrades and since you posted a photo of the flyer with the beacons on top of the backbox it's impossible to resist asking, if we could see some sneak peaks of the various upgrades available specially over Xmas when people are in the spending mood

With the new replacement toy...how fast can it go from design, test, approval, etc to production, delivery and re-test? Or is it pretty much done already?

thinking about upgrading that SS Ted? About time you stepped into this century

Figured this may be on your short list.

...and you would be right! Just waiting for an unboxing....

Excellent!

I wouldn't mess with Ted. The man shoots lazers out of his eyes for Pete's Sake!

Awesome Andrew thanks for the quick reply, would be great to have a look at the available upgrades in action over xmas, I know I'm particularly interested in the Beacons and Ramp lights for a standard edition game, so I would love to see what else your going to have available, to take more of my money blinging out my game

Got the update email from Heighway. No surprises i could see, basically just what Andrew said. Nice to have a little clarity on the delivery order, though I'm a little fuzzy on what this means:

"50%-paid customers – prioritised on original order date AND payment receipt date"

Either way though, I'm just waiting to see the LE art before anything else. I'm sure it will look good though since i don't feel like they've let us down yet in that department.

Priority of 50% paid customers. First they check the original order date for priority. Then the payment that got there first bumps up. Right?

So...has everyone received a recent email payment shipment update from Andrew? Just checking as I've not received any email since Chicago regarding payment and the email issues Heighway was having.

Could you send an update Andrew to my personal email? I haven't put down any more than the deposit for my LE as I was told to wait while things settled with your email issues. I don't want to get bumped to the back of the line for waiting . thank you!

NM!

Andrew just wanted to ask another quick question while your about. Have you had any thought at any point wirh regards to offering dedicated cabinets?

Say for someone who wants to always keep an Alien an Alien, would it be something that would be financially beneficial to you? To offer dedicated cabinets and decals? I know the swappable system is a key feature of your pins and I know if you keep dropping great titles (hint hint BTTF ) I will most definitely need to use it but I was just curious if it was something you had given any thought to providing there was demand and it would be financially beneficial first and foremost?

Awesome! Appreciate the fast reply thanks.

Hi Andrew. Thanks for all the recent updates and like how it's coming along - any indication as to when the Aussie distributor will be announced?

Thanks

Once an Alien, always an Alien...just sayin...

That was pretty much the thought behind my question, i would love a dedicated Alien cabinet, with every inch covered in artwork, hell while you have Matt doing sculpts why not a special sculpted back box cover?

I would be instantly in on a Giger Edition LE if you were to do a fully sculpted cabinet honoring the late H.R. Giger. I know that's just words on a forum, but that would be some real art. His bars have a lot of unique architecture that could be drawn from.

That would a good mod project for this guy, as I doubt he's actually going to build complete Cthulhu pins:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/new-pinball-machine-wrath-of-cthulhu

Ty for post. Did not know about Giger. What an artist! Checked his official website such impressive work.
http://www.hrgiger.com/

Wish I had the chairs listed under the "Chur Bar" on the website in my game room)

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Also, I have been to the clubs called the "Limelight" in the 80s both in Atlanta and NYC. Did not know the NYC one had a VIP room with Giger's Alien work) (info from website).

Can anyone share any insight on what's replacing the queens chamber.

We don't know yet ... but we could make some predictions ...

Been to the Giger museum, stumbled onto it by accident driving through Switzerland in Gruyeres. It was like, wtf is this doing here?

So cool.

Giger cab art and side rails. Who's making them?

Still very alive.

Aaron
FAST Pinball

The more I look at the flyer the more gloss black powder coated armour is going to look beautiful on Alien.

Backbox sculpts/molds would be an awesome mod aswell if things could be agreed within the licence, power loader back box or xenomorph back box would be a sweet new feature in place of having no side back box art.

If I'm not mistaken, those chairs were based off artwork Giger did for the movie Dune, before it was revamped for David Lynch... Get the book, there's some crazy awesome designs in there

Giger himself actually designed every aspect of his bars from the spine ceilings, to the intentionally uncomfortable chairs. My wife wrote her master's thesis on his bar designs. There were a lot of things considered that I would never have even thought was intentional. And being uncomfortable was actually a fairly central design choice.

Just as a heads up, I just got an email from Morgan regarding settling up. No substantial new info that's not on here already.

Now theres a great theme for pin, Dune.

Only the 2 that are in Switzerland, where he lived. There is (or was? not sure) a third one in Japan somewhere that he initially started helping with, then got pissed off an I think he had already cashed the check, because they finished building it without him. It is substantially lamer than the swiss ones.

Aah, yeah here we go -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giger_Bar

I must have read about this before, because there's a note about the Dune chair too.

Yeah that's true about the Japanese one. They were unable to build to his vision because of the frequent earthquakes. He wanted elevator cars that worked similarly to a more vertical ferris wheel. Tables would be inside and they would travel up and down slowly in a tight loop. The fire marshals said it wouldn't meet building codes given the tectonic activity and, being an artist, he was unwilling to compromise his vision. He left the project and they went ahead and finished it anyway.

I tend to forget about that one since it was basically shunned by Giger. It's definitely in that thesis though haha

Hey Andrew. What about us pinsiders who put money down on the Alien pin thru a distributor? I put some money down to hold an LE model, so I was just curious where we would be on the production list. No hurry though, just curious.

Is there still some Alien Production videos coming to us today

Would like to know the answer to this as well.

It would take three hours to play one game and nobody would have a clue what was going on with the rules.

Awesome video, thanks for posting the update as promised Andrew, that in itself sets you apart from the competition. And the clear on those playfields looks like glass, the more you show of Alien the better it keeps looking

Give the employees some power tools and production will speed up and save their wrists from RSI. Looks cold in that factory too.

The Finished Product looks insanely sweeter than the Proto at Expo!

Exciting Times!

(Was that Chumlee in the assembly line?)

Wow!!! Play fields are amazing!!! And I'm still old fashioned..ultimate care and craftsmanship comes from hand tools ( granted, its slower) way less chance for over torque, marring of screws and bolts, etc., and the care of true hand assembly!!!

Truly Amazing!!!....can't wait!!!...mark

yep nice quality indeed.

I'm curious, what is the use of this sheet of plastic ?

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probably to spot holes and protect the playfield from drill slips

nice video