Taxi Playfields Gallery is up:
http://classicplayfields.com/photo132.html

Keep in mind that if you buy More than what you asked for in the Pre-Order then some people will not get the 1 that they Pre-Ordered after you as we only make enough to cover the Pre-Order List. So if someone asked for 1 in their Pre-Order eMail and acutally Buys 3 then 2 other people wont get the 1 they Pre-Ordered > so please Buy Responsibly......

it's just that > an EMAIL....Many people click on the eMail Pre-Order Link, which again is just a 'regular' eMail box and type in that they want 2 or 3 of this title....or they simply say I want one of these.....so when it comes time to Order Inserts for a specific title we count up how many people want & that's how many we make ( I have already explained why we can't make 20-30 More than what is Pre-ordered). So let's say we have 115 eMails in the Taxi playfield Pre-Order eMail Box and we add up all the Totals that every body wants & that total is 140 > we will make 155 boards to allow for a few 'bronze' mishaps + the quantity that we surender for the Licensing Compensation + the Partners & the Original Artist. Now, fast forward to us sending out the EMails for a "Call for Payment" and 5 of those people that Originally Pre-Ordered " 1 " Playfield now decide that they are going to buy 3 so that they can "flip them" for a higher price at the end...you see where this is going....those 5 people were to take 1 each ( a total of 5 ) and are now Buying 3 each ( times 5 people ) is now 15 boards > which now means that 10 people on the Original Pre-Order List won't get one because the Flippers went Greedy on their purchase buying more than they originally ordered.....This is 1 of the reasons why people don't get the Playfields they pre-ordered....

believe me > I brought this topic up with CPR a couple of times and tried to rectify it with the same solution you have just spoke of.....We do what we can to try and get everyone a playfield that pre-ordered one.....99% of the time it all works out because there is usually about 15% of the pre-orders that don't actually buy the product that they Pre-Ordered > which allows us to sell them to other poeple on the Pre-order List or the Wait List after the Pre-Order list has been purged....

The eMail that people receive as a Call for Payment ONLY allows for a Maximum of 3...Let's not get carried away with this...

so don't buy it....pretty simple logic...

Running 'both' versions would have turned it into 2 Completely different runs of Playfields...Different set of Films at $1,400/set + All New Screens ( 1 Screen for each Color ) + All new Set-ups...it's like running 2 Different Playfield Titles instead of 1 and we found that 99% of the people we talked to wanted this version (including myself and I need a new playfield for my Marilyn version pin)....

yeah if you don't have an NOS UnFaded one to compare it to you really don't know just how faded those colors really are....A great example is the Fathom playfield, every one of them out there was Very Green when the correct colors were Nice Blues....

not good to judge it that way...some titles like Bad Cats have been on the Pre-Order for years (like 5 now), and Whirlwind was Open on the Pre-Order for a year - then Closed for 3 years - then Re-Opened for another year - then it was made....Other playfields are on the pre-Order for just a couple (6) months and then they are made. it all depends on how fast the pre-Order fills up to our capacity level + what Inserts we have available + what Size Wood we have in stock...and the list goes on & on.....Once we actually Start making the Playfield an average turn-around time is a couple of months and once it's done being Clear-Coated we wait a couple of weeks to start shipping them so that the clear-coat can Breath and Cure befor putting in into a box.....

Status Timeline:
http://classicplayfields.com/index.html

I guess the artwork is ok as nobody has been bashing it.....

Chris, my post wasn't directed at you, I was just posting in general about the artwork, sorry if you felt I was directing it at you, but Thanks, I hope everyone is pleased with the artwork.....