Removing the coin door has been done many times over the decades, it has failed every single time.

At the end of the day this is a classic remake of a classic game, the whole point of it is to try to recreate the original classic game, removing a huge visual element like a coin door would drastically change the look of the game, which is something you wouldn't want to do in a remake. People seem to accept little changes and modern day improvements, but you would cut out almost all the classic remake buyers if you deviate too much from the original.

People have already posted an alternative for you - buy a blank coin door and get it painted.

For a company that is only just starting out you want to keep things as simple as possible, you don't want to start adding heaps of customisation.

Might be a newly added item to the pack? There wasn't a beanie in my clan Haggis pack ordered last year.

You have Starbucks up your way? I've never seen a Starbucks outside of the major airports. Of course they are located in the airports for the overseas tourists who are used to seeing Starbucks, almost everywhere else Starbucks failed as Aussies like real coffee.

For the Americans who don't know and don't want to Google, in his previous post "Hungry Jacks" is "Burger King", we already had a Burger King here in Australia so your American company needed to use a new name.

In Australia we use cane sugar instead of corn syrup that the US uses.... so ours is more like Mexican Coca-Cola.

Haggis has done that Here's ours, picked up from the factory on Friday, which has the clear bits actually clear.

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Correct, no logo on backglass.

Pretty certain that's a 'no'... but I would assume its possible that you might have a local US dealer bring something???
Next show Haggis will be at is Pinfest (Australia).
I was chatting about Chicago Expo & overseas trips with them only last week and they never mentioned they had any intention of going, of course they may have kept that quiet for a surprise, but I doubt it.
There's no real need to go over anyway.. every mermaid is presold so no need to advertise the game and they have a lot of work ahead of them to manufacture the rest of the games, I say they cant afford to slow down by having team members overseas.

You'll get to experience the long wait all us Australians get with new Stern/JJP on the slow boats. Sometimes the newest stern is being announced and we hadn't even received the previous release. I'm surprised that there are so many in the US willing to spend so much extra to air freight the game.

No logo anywhere on the backglass, even the small copyright text in the bottom right doesnt mention Haggis.

Might not fit, I haven't measure the actual glass, but the backbox is smaller than a Bally, so I would assume smaller backglass.

I still can't get over it, I've played dozens of games and still find it so weird hearing Aussie accents in a pinball.

I found light bleed for you, it does exist, but it's not noticeable in attract mode or gameplay, I've gone 2 weeks not seeing any. I was actually working on proving to you that there is no light bleed..... My plan was to actually try different camera settings on a DSLR instead of just a phone camera to attempt to show the game better...
When I put the game into diagnostic mode and cycled through the lights I was able to notice the light bleed on most inserts.
Then during a very close up inspection during attract mode, the only insert that had very noticeable light bleed was the "in sequence" insert below the drop targets, this insert has a solid single colour all around it which makes it easier to see the light bleed. In attract mode and gameplay you also don't really see it because there is other general illumination light flooding the playfield, plus most lights only flash so you don't get a chance to inspect it closely.
It is there, but the camera greatly exaggerates the light bleed. You really have to go searching for it.

definitely accelerating quite fast - it wasn't that long ago that it appeared they were averaging one game per week, now it looks like it's about 4 games per week, with Damian still sounding very optimistic that they can still significantly increase output.

Given that all the boards are the FAST system, check out their website, there is some basic information and diagrams about the boards there. If that doesn't help I'd say ask FAST for more info about their boards.

No big issues that kill gameplay or affect coins going in.
A few small bugs in the code that should get sorted out eventually.
Displays constantly go blank during a game.
Lost all sound once - it blew a fuse, hasn't happened again so no clue why. The game wouldn't boot after replacing the fuse, but something must have come loose while in there as after reseating all connectors and fuses it was back to normal....