Mike, in my opinion, if you stop posting here because of a troll the troll wins and you and the rest of us lose.

As other's have said, report it to the moderators. They can use the thread eject or sub forum eject tool to prevent a proven troll from posting in your threads.

If you don't open a moderator feedback discussion, they might not see the problem.

Fantastic! They don't build'em like that anymore. Good to see Homepin putting the quality back in.

I disagree. If you're purely talking BOM, looks to me like Thunderbirds has more in it than any of the pre Iron Maiden Stern Pros or pre Alice Cooper Spooky's.

The orange DMD is a minus, but the EL back box sides are cool.

What does TNA have in it at $6K?

Game play and aesthetics are subjective.

Lack of LCD makes a game look dated, but it's been only 1.5yrs since Stern released their first LCD game.

I like the logo, though it may look a little large and out of balance on the instruction card. Maybe half the size would look about right.

I disagree. In terms of playfield features, I think it has more going for it than SW. Whether it's fun to shoot is a different story. Will have to play it first.

Hmm...pretty big variation in Bally games in 86. Compared to a game like Strange Science, all of today's Pros are lacking when it comes to playfield features.

Certainly there have been advancements in eventual code depth, rgb lighting and display effects.

Reminds me a little of a doctor with a gruff bedside manner. Mike may lose a few sales due to the way he presents himself, but...

If the game is good, it will sell.

If it isn't good it won't sell. Doesn't matter how nice he is.

One way to look at it is if Mike is already in the hole 3mil and there are only 10 pre-orders to deal with, even if he paid $1000 each to ship to their door, it's a drop in the bucket at this point.

If you look at the big picture, maybe it's better to take a small loss to take care of your earliest supporters and generate goodwill.

That was a very long time ago. If I remember correctly, some people were really going after Mike at the time. I think partly due to his comments regarding the use of PC based control systems in pinball machines, like JJP, versus dedicated hardware like Bally/Williams.

He has since explained away those comments and made his machine compatible with the US.

To me, Mike comes across as a passionate, no BS person who doesn't suffer fools and doesn't play nice just because it would be the "smart" thing to do.

Before he started on Thunderbirds, he would comment on how other manufacturers were doing it wrong and how he could do it better.

Never met him, so don't know if I would like him, but I do respect him for putting his money where his mouth is and for pushing forward through all the set backs and heart ache.