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Andy did a closed room reveal yesterday at the UK Pinball Party. No pictures allowed.
Was a real 'wow' moment, seeing the cabinet for the first time. Artwork on side panels and translight is just beautiful. Of course, the side panels on Heighway pins are also back lit, and this works to tremendous effect with the crisp starfield background.
Rotating beacons on the topper were present, and the effect is just chilling. Perfectly captures the effects during the end of Aliens and can imagine them adding greatly to the atmosphere during play
Andy showed us some of the custom moulds too. A translucent egg, painted, and then under lit with four addressable RGB LEDs. This allows effects to be shown, such as a creature moving within the egg. Have to admit i was sceptical when i first heard this at Pinburgh, but having now seen the effect i must confess it is very effective.
Custom mould of the alien queen is also to a very high standard, and fans on the films will not be disappointed. These aren't cheap toy models that other manufacturers might use.
Finally, some footage of the development game modes, demonstrated using virtual pin. Andy did warn that a lot of this was still in progress and liable to change. We saw that the start of the game allows selection of either Alien, or Aliens game modes. The Alien modes includes things such as ' rescue Jonesy', crawling through the tunnels and what looked like some timed modes, such as the self destruct sequence. Was impressed at just how closely these managed to capture the mood and atmosphere of the films.
This was a seriously impressive reveal. Very excited to see what comes next!
It's a really nice piece of work Aurich
Evansville, IN
