I'm with you, TPF is the show to announce the new game and talk about what's new and different compared to the original even if the game itself is not ready yet. It's a missed opportunity to get a large amount of pinheads excited about what's in the pipeline.
Regardless, I plan on having a blast at TPF but at they same time was looking forward to the reveal

techandstuff (resized).jpg

I still hope they'll announce and showcase it at NWPAS this coming weekend

Expanded code would be great, and I'd expect if they did that they'd also include an option to play with the original rules. That would be huge!

Glad to see this is finally happening, MB is a great game and I miss mine that I sold a few years back. Maybe it's time to get a new one

I can't believe though that CE/UL approval has been holding this back, same thing delayed MMR many months so you'd think they'd know the process by now and not let it delay things...

They didn't explicitly say that, but they did mention that they just received the UL/CE approval and that same process delayed MMR by several months. My guess is that was holding them back, but who knows.

MMR was approved by WMS and Roger Sharpe (http://www.planetarypinball.com/pps-mmr-wms-legal-approval-recieved/) and that took a while too. Just by looking at the MMR development process you get an idea on how long these things might take

I wouldn't expect anyone to break the NDA, but very happy to see positive reactions. At least based on those, it's fair to assume it doesn't suck - without that we'd just have to speculate more

Wolfman does not have a figure in the original MB, there's a mod for that though. Maybe that's added in the remake?

See the https://thisweekinpinball.com/11-cool-easter-eggs-in-pinball-machines/ for an explanation on it and other Easter eggs