No worries. I hope we get our games too.

Throwing my support behind this post. I'm one of those in the "waiting for refund" boat and have generally stopped posting in this thread because I'm sick of people who just want their money back in a reasonable time-frame being attacked.

I hope you get your refund soon.
That is my biggest hate on Pinside is the constant bickering. I just wanna talk pinball man!!!

The people that want their $$$ back should get it promptly and the people that want the games they paid for should get those hopefully faster.

Nobody should be attacking anybody here other than Andrew.

I like Andrew but when you take people's $$$ and make representations that aren't true consistently then you have to step up and take the heat. Sometimes Andrew has done that.

However, Andrew, at this point, you need to start providing at least weekly "briefings" on status and WHY things are being delayed and WHEN issues are going to be taken care of. The following week, review the progress and tell us where we stand AGAIN.

The mistake we made with Jpop was just letting it go, on and on.

How about some answers on HOW you plan on ramping up production. Employees on the line. Status of current funding, etc.

Unfortunately how it is on almost every new title in some way, shape, or form. I generally go to the TAF, TZ, or WCS club threads when I want a non combative read.

There are valid points that members want to get out, all the way to pure, irrational hate geared towards pinsiders at times. Hopefully, the latter will be cyclic in nature and calm down, when (if), cash, quality, code, delivery, etc. issues finally stabilize.

Most of it doesn't bother me until we start going after each other for no good reason.

We collectively need to stop sending large quantities of cash to all the manufacturers. This desire to have a game with a .50 cent number on it is insane. Make a product then sell it. We send people money and human nature takes over. That's why we have credit cards. When you have a large sum of money out there then tempers rise. Stop preordering and that would take away a lot of heat on here and make manufacturers do what they need to do. Everybody wants to be the first and a fool and his money have become easy targets in pinball. People are even on Craigslist and eBay scamming people nowadays. The word is out people into pinball have money and blind desire and probably very little street smarts.

Pinball is a hell of a drug. Hi I'm Buzz and I'm an addict.

That might be true. I've only played it once, and watched up close as a friend played it, both at Allentown. We both thought the flow was a little unusual in that no orbit shots returned to a flipper as far as our experience and recollection. Is that accurate? It's kind of weird that way.

Saw this on imgur today and thought it was cool enough to post here.

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Covenant 12 pm showing. On the way

However, married people are perfectly fine with 30+ days for a refund.

No date on the one that comes with the game.

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I saw it last night and I give it a 6.5

Just saw it with the wifey... I'd give it a 7/10. Decent enough for $5.70 tickets.

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Yes, Ill be posting in the 'owners' thread from now on:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/get-away-from-her-you-bitch-alien-club-all-members-expendable

out of 6 ???

Can anybody directly help me please? Want to play the game but I need to adjust the PF screen. Don't know how to do it. Somebody wrote something about the foam being used but I cannot find it.

HELP you Alien owner ! For god's sake!

Sadly no but also not out of 100

I thought Prometheus was better..sorry...

EEEEEEEEEEEEE....... NOT GETTING GOOD REVIEWS......

Four Phillips head screw under the playfield on corners of LCD frame. Easy to adjust. Hard to adjust it just right. I had to add lock washers to the screws to get it to hold.

Thanks!

Now I tried to play. When I shoot the ball into the airlock scoop the ball stays in there. No mode starts. Ball doesn't come out. Flipper buttons, start button and everything not working

What to do???

sounds like you lost power to all coils... is the coin door open? that sometimes kills power to all high powered coils for safety....

Have the same phenomenon when the ball goes out through the main flipper fingers. Nothing happens. As in the test menus everything is working my friend says it's gotta do with the software. Mine says software date 11.05.2017 V0.9

Worse than that dumpster fire??? No way...can't possibly be.

Coming soon!!!

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Well I was disappointed and might agree with Ted although not quite that bad

Predictable and just not scary at all

How Aliens rocked our world so long ago. Here is a clip from Roger Ebert back when Aliens just came out.

At least the pinball covers the 2 best of the series.

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Wow being a kid of the 90s it's interesting to see the take on Aliens when it was released. I remember watching Alien & Aliens way before I should have and Alien scared the hell out of me kept pausing it and going back to it, while Aliens scared me a little but I just couldn't stop watching it I was like a kid on a sugar rush scene after scene.

But they where both pretty much par for the course at the time with a lot of the hyper/ott macho violence of the late 80s early 90s being the majority of my movie experiences. Funny seeing a reviewers take nearly 10 years before my own generations take on the films, me and my friends definitely "enjoyed" both movies immensely as did most of my school.

Back on topic of pinball Alien was one of the best licences Heighway could have picked up to get them on the map in a big way, if they can get mass production up and running asap and game #3 has a killer licence (would love to see a T1/T2 pin) it will make Heighway a big player.

Andrew may be releasing these games to soon. Has there been ANY game that has not needed a TON of tweaks and fixes right out of the box? Or is quality control just that bad?

You may have a short causing loss of power at 70v. Open game, remove balls, lift playfield, close coin door. Check the 70v fuse section and see if they are lit as bright as the 12 v section. If not, at least on my game I had a short in the side panel LED strip. They are connected on the lower left area of bottom of driver board. Disconnected it and it was fine. But check those leds under the fuses first with coin door shut to get a better idea. Also just check what type of switch is in the scoop and see if it's connected properly or something just came off. But having nothing work tells me it's more than that switch.

You don't have to wait for Andrew regarding this request. All is publicly available information.

https://companycheck.co.uk/company/08087382/HEIGHWAY-PINBALL-LIMITED/companies-house-data

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09144305

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08087382

I don't trust any of that info. Def not audited.

Andrew asked for $$$ last year before expo stating our pins were ready for the initial phase of production.

Some people paid in full to go to the front of the line. Why not just tell the truth? Early supporters should have been at the top of the list, period. Then, when it actually true that games are ready to be produced then ask for the $$$.

With what you've said it would make sense.
2016
Available funds $10,216
Net worth $230,605
Liabilities(money owing) $484,216

that is inaccurate. There are up-post that can act as diverters from each orbit. Depending on the mode you are in or objective you are shooting for, the post will go up to either stop the ball or stay down to have it scream past. You were likely in a mode where you want the ball diverted to pops to either hit the pops or to help set up an upper right flipper shot. The code is sophisticated in this sense and the posts work very well. With the limited play I can see how you would miss this/ be in a single mode which diverted.

lol. you are quoting non-audited data, from a secondary source that is over a year old...

It's simply an open source provided by the government that shows the company annual return filed by Andrew. Nothing more and nothing less. 2017 will be available end of Q4.

100% agree this is how it should be. But then no one in their right mind would pay upfront and Heighway would have no money.

Check the Stern threads..."tweaks" are not unique to Heighway for a NIB game. Good grief.

Good grief Ted. You really have a bone to pick with Heighway it seems and honestly you just look silly.

Why dont you fly over to Madison and we can hang out? I can lift up the hood of a bunch of new games and walk you through the things that show the quality of the build of Heighway games relative to others. I think it would be eye opening to you to see with your own eyes and get a real understanding of the value and quality comparisons in both the engineering/design and actual build out.

Covenant was nearly as bad as Alien Ressurrction to me. Makes the series look like it needs to be retired. Still excited as hell to finally play (and likely order) the pin, however. So glad they stuck to just the first two films for it.

Completely agree. my take: With some difficulty, it managed to clear the relatively low bar of becoming the third best film in the series.

The continuation of some of the thematic stuff that was going on in Prometheus was disappointing.

Still can't wait for the game! (well, I CAN, but I won't enjoy it. )

It is indeed non-audited, due to the exemption that small companies are afforded. That does not however mean that the directors of the company are not legally obliged to file accurate accounts at Companies House, which they are. As the only director of HW Pinball, Andrew is entirely responsible for filing these accounts accurately. Notice the highlighting. Doesn't get much more primary than that.

Given the above, are you still going to imply that they are inaccurate, or misrepresent the company's solvency, or cast doubt on their veracity?

Also, the accounts are the most recently available.

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sell pinballs and have all your private info and laundry put out on pinside.
guys i am fully paid for my le. i got an invoice last year asking for payment and i sent it in. waiting for the call and i am gonna pay for whatever extras i want. i am waiting patiently, if my game is not delivered this year i will be getting worried. this year is flying by and we are almost in june. for me its fair to give andrew and heighway a few more months to get set up so i can get a game that isnt rushed and gonna need a ton of work.
i am seeing pins getting delivered there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Haha yep, he put himself in a position to have to lie about the status of "production ready" to raise $$$ to actually get some production going.

It's taking so long now that some people are asking for refunds and other long long term supporters like myself won't send in any additional funds until the reality of ramped up production occurs.

It shouldn't be incumbent upon pinheads to fund this project to get it done. And those that have been there from day one shouldn't have to pay the price because others are willing to fully fund it and go to the front of the line. It's NOT what our contract says with Heighway.

Either way, its the reality after many years of creating two pinball machines and the first one in FT, another unlicensed theme, not selling well.

Andrew has a home run on his hands. I hope he can execute the ramp up eventually, much sooner than later. Maybe 3rd party funding is in the works, it shouldn't have to be on the backs of pinheads.

I agree. Officially not vaporware any longer. There's cash out there to be taken in from new machine sales, playfield kits to be sold to the Full Throttle owners (me included), it is a desirable title, and even if it isn't a title for everyone (what is?) it's been favorably received and there is money to be made finally.

Sideshow Collectibles New Topper!

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Exactly, the more up front and honest the better, especially when they are asking for our $$$ up front.

When i got the request for funds last year and i called to find out how to send in funds, the people accepting funds and the methods changed during that time. Decided to wait until more clarity and details on ultimate LE delivery would occur. We have the artwork now and some standards going out.

When Andrew completes his task and job on his end, actually getting my LE ready for production, then my $$ goes in. Still has a lot to prove.

And only $1799!!! Whatta bargain!