Sharknado licensed pin?

If it isn't Jaws but is some other Fishing based game then I'd say it's been pretty good marketing knowing the Jaws hint would get us talking.

Reflectocab is a new technique that is very hard to describe but looks amazing. Similar to what is used on street signs to assist with reading at night time.
The cabinet looks like it is glowing from backlighting when in a dark room.

Despite being a single level playfield there is a decent amount going on with this game. It has a LOT of drop targets, there is a reason why most modern games tend to feature stand up targets over drops. They are very expensive and complex mechanism, but they are so much more rewarding to hit.

A friend has the original Fathom and I really enjoyed it. The additional rules 2.0 that come with the Mermaid Edition would increase the depth of the game and make it even more fun.

Good to see a flipping video. All my hard work finally seeing the light of day.

70% of it probably!!
All the CAD work for cabinet, mechs, playfield.
Designs for updated mechs, PCBs.

An even bigger story there with more chapters.
I guess the polite way to put it would be a difference in how things should be done.

Given everything that had happened at Haggis in the last year I'm honestly surprised that machines are actually going out.
Very happy for the customers.

Sounds like you personally know this person.

I'm very keen to see who designs the next game.

That means they are probably averaging 1 a week which isn't great for those at the tail end of the queue.

Dont you mean 3 a month? We are in 8th month and if they only have 20 or so made. 3 a week would be closer to 90 machines made.
So the pace is worse than you mention. It is more like 5 years+

Wow so it looks like they are requesting payment for 100+ machines ahead of where they are upto.
I guess they will be hitting up season ticket holders for payment of Centaur to help finish off the last 150 in about 3 years!

The flipper mechs are modern WPC. Flipper strength would be adjustable in code, there could be some show fade but by default they should be snappy.
The drop target mechs were kept fairly consistent with the original ones because we were using the same targets. I created an opto board to replace the switches for sensing when they are down and instead of using a coil + plunger solution to drop the inlines in code, that is done with a magnet and arm (similar to other modern 'smart' drop targets).

It went on the back burner while doing Haggis stuff. But...
Working on it currently. Tweaking some of the shots a bit because geometry was a bit tight but it is staying roughly the same. Hopefully have my 2nd WW cut before the end of the year and can fine tune and start coding modes etc...

I'd be very surprised if War of the Worlds gets actually made. Other than MR and Damien the rest of the team that started work on that machine is no longer at Haggis. And there is currently no-one there who could pick up the CAD work. They'd likely be starting from scratch for that machine.

That was always doubtful when it got pushed back for Fathom. That was still in early stages and without anyone to do the mech/CAD work (I dont think they have hired anyone recently on that front) it wont have been touched in the last 2 years. I'm surprised Centaur even got announced. But then again that was just re-using all the Fathom mechs but putting them in different places. There is only so long that the company can keep going without significant money company. I would have expected a message like this sometime last year.

Yep. Exactly. All the CAD had to be done to cut the playfield. It was definitely cheaper to design/cut/bend and assemble their own mechs than try to source those older parts.
The issue was with staffing/labour. When they had peak staff they weren't ready to be pumping out 50 a month. Then 6-12 months after moving into the factory I dont believe there was enough staff there to be doing any reasonable number of games to still not be bleeding capital. There weren't ill intentions or a scheme to take peoples money but I think it was managed poorly and people were mislead as to where Haggis was at and their capability to produce a decent amount in a small time frame.
Given Australia's labour costs I'm not sure the manufacturing side should have been attempted here. It may have worked better if the design/prototype was done in Aus and then the rest done in China.