Quoted from TreyBo69:

Lots of deep pocket collectors who are sometimes blinded by their dislike of existing manufacturers and/or unfamiliar with the amount of work that goes into designing and building a game. And there are speculators who hope to get a bargain on the next Big Bang Bar.

Quoted from Mbecker:

They think 95 people are interested in ordering a game based on a feature list saying it’ll have flippers and pinballs and a cabinet and head? No clue what theme.. no idea what it will look like… uh huh. Ballarama please go see the RAZA thread. Less than 100 orders with known theme, layout,art, and a known designer (for better or worse) + at the time, supposedly unlimited funds to get these amazing games out.

Quoted from swinks:

Pretty sure that is the same website, nothing exciting at all - would not know it was about pinball really - has no pinball soul.
They may have started a whitewood as Grant would of got on to that but I reckon Ian is one of these types that since he has patents in place we won't see a thing until they are locked in as he sounds very cautious and protective which is fine. I reckon the excuse of the process of patents changing is BS - I reckon some chat here and then he did some research he has probably realised some things are not as original as he thought so he has had to go back to the drawing board and re-submit which only extends the time until reveal - lucky to be this year. Given these delays on just releasing the kickstarter and showing us images shows that what ever he promises in build and deliver time will not happen on time.
Originally he was going to release the kickstarter late 2021 but wanted higher facebook followers - he has doubled that since that podcast, and he stated it would be at the end of March / early April 2022 but no show.... yet

Quoted from pookycade:

“Innovation is cool but that’s not enough if a game doesn’t play well. How does it feel? Our pinball games are fast, precise, organised and with rulesets that include tantalisingly obscure top level goals. Once you’ve played you won’t want to stop.”
This should be rewritten:
Innovation is cool, but that’s not enough. It needs words to go with it, lots of them, amazingly long, like scrumptious, slickalistic, butterlicious, fantasmagorical. Written in awesome colors no less ! See, nothing is ordinary about Ballarama. And these aren't just any words and colors. Natalie painstakingly tested them with our 10,000 followers so we knew we got them 100% right. And once you read those words and see those colors you know you just have to have it, don’t you ?

Quoted from PhilGreg:

Ballarama in local news.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/former-montreal-mayoral-candidate-balarama-211637864.html

Quoted from blueberryjohnson:

Feels like Ballarama is blowing a golden opportunity to own the moment as the #1 fake pinball company with deeproot in recent news lull.

Quoted from TreyBo69:

Let's not bring Haggis into the conversation. They're totally different than the Ballarama and deeproots of the world. They're struggling yet making progress vs never having a chance.

Quoted from TreyBo69:

Meh, meh, and meh.
I agree things aren’t sunshine and rainbows over there, but they do actually deliver games to customers (however slowly). They may go out of business. I don’t know. But it’s not a comical trainwreck where it should be obvious to anyone with common sense that it’s a disaster.
My guess is they’re just facing the same sort of chip and part shortages, and very long shipping times like everyone else.
I think they can pull out of it if they stick it through