Amen.

Imagine if all the preorder money was in Twitter...

Just like predator...

Hope these will be built soon for the owners.....

Imagine it was in Eastman Kodak...

Man the artwork looks freaking amazing.

Hey you guys check his FB page.New pic of play field detail.A newton ball shot with some stand ups

Thanks Silverunicorn I couldn't get it to upload

Hmmm, I see "Tiger Saw" has morphed into "Lion Saw". Never understood Tiger Saw, maybe Lion Saw will make more sense...

You guys must be stoked, its looking good .After all that this has got to be considered good news.
Art package is impressive.

With the cut out in the plastic, I wonder if there is a ball resting against the newton ball that goes up to hit a target under the plastic. I know people don't like all the purple, but I think the colors look great and the lit up plastics look great.

I don't think that looks right ... Maybe he just staged the photo as a tribute to "tiger saw"

You can see the cut out in the timber is for 3 stand up targets, not a Newton ball. A Newton ball will move if it's mounted like that.

rd

I assumed that the ball had a welded post under it, so that it was screwed in from underneath.

Either way it doesn't look like the play field was cut with it in mind.

Knock...Knock..

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Newton balls do have a post on them. However they are usually mounted through a post sized hole in the PF. If it was mounted on a slot with a washer above and below, it'll move. Hence why I thought it was a mock up.

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rd

New Blog Posts on the Magic Girl blog with a link to some pretty awesome lookin playfield feature pics....

Nice! Good to see more and more info coming out for you guys!

Hopefully it is something you can share soon.

Chris

Fattrain can you post a few pics here for us?

He could, but then he would have to kill us.

It looks beautiful!

_{Post edited by jlm33: not talking about the Knocker of course}

I like everything I see except that newton ball, looks like someone took out a stand-up target and just shoved a newton ball in there as an afterthought, I HOPE that changes....

All I want is to see a playing game and get some feedback from real players.

Yeah, the close up shot of a playfield feature is nice and all but it's more of the same. Zero progress. Same old same old.

Show a video of the game flipping. That's what people need to see!

I disagree, it is something. We are seeing areas of the pin that make it seem a lot closer to completion. That's a good thing.

The "lebowski" MG reveal was scheduled for Dec 17th I believe, so we're approaching 2 months past that date with only bread crumbs.

Not sure how this bodes for our RAZAs.

I have to go back to a quote of Iceman's, that nothing we've said or done affects how John does anything. These breadcrumbs are how he wants to unveil his games, no matter how late they are and pissed off his customers are.

Anyone buying into future games will at least know what they're buying into going forward. When I came into raza, these things weren't known.

We've already seen the prototype machines with the crazy-glued ramps. All this is, is close-ups of those. He is literally trickling out close-ups of the *same thing everyone has already seen*, albeit not close up. These aren't progress shots.

Ya, it's a cautionary tale for sure. i think AIW will get off the ground judging from these photos. But I have decided I'd rather have 4-5 pins today than pay 21k (Canadian $) for AIW and possibly wait 3 or 4 years with no info, hoping the project is funded by games 4 and 5... it's all too big a gamble for me.

What if I were to tell you that AIW will have a Liger Saw?

That's what happens when you lay a TOM Playfield on top of a MG playfield.

These things will breed!

rd

Pretty much my favorite animal

Me too....

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I like that girl's personality...

It really seems odd to have a newton ball in a stand-up slot. I can't think of any advantage this design would have over just drilling the holes needed for whatever posts you would use to secure it in place. Like Rotodave said, if it's just a peg with washers on both sides, it will move and probably end up jacking up the stand-ups next to it. So either John has redesigned the newton ball to require a slot for some reason, or the playfield was designed for 3 stand-ups, and the newton ball was added after the fact in some post-whitewood tinkering. I wouldn't be surprised by either, but if it is the latter, that's not what you want to be showing off in great detail on your "almost finished game" I would think. I still for the life of me can't think of any advantage a redesigned "Slot" newton-ball would have.

Maybe it's a magnet that switches polarity

That's sure what it looks like. Did he even do a flipping whitewood? It seems like he just skipped straight to the artwork and then realized he'd better figure out a game to go with it.

I'm actually shocked he's using standard standup targets, and not something he reengineered from scratch.

I'm actually shocked he's using standard standup targets, and not something he reengineered from scratch.

Hey retro_p, do you actually know something other people don't since you're downvoting anyone who says these are just pics of what we've already seen?

Just shocked by all the negativity... we've seen pictures of 3 full prototypes sitting in a row, tons of gorgeous art, and indications that he's been working on a production path. I think these are going to be amazing games. Sorry for playing negativity police, but it gets a little old.

Not if it's an adjustable newton ball !!!!! Hmm, that would be an industry first. You can adjust outlane posts on any other game but there has never been an adjustable newton before.

I hadn't considered that. I guess a 3 position plate would lock it down and allow it to be moved, though I wonder what advantage of moving the Newton would add to gameplay, especially if there is a ball behind it.

It's not negativity, it's realism. Sorry man, but it is what it is. If Jpop doesn't want negativity he can solve that by actually doing what he promised, it's not the people in the forum that are the problem.

You're shocked?

Obviously the negativity is simply a reaction to extended timelines. Game was announced 4 years ago, deposits put down 3.5 years ago, 2 years go by before we see a set of prototype artwork options. We've seen the same 3 prototype cabinets for the better part of the last year, but only from a distance, with occasional closeups of selective playfield sections, parts of unfinished backglass art outlines, and if we're lucky a brief glimpse of the playfield w/ramps. What we see looks great and progress is there, but it's been years in the making.

While I find this pretty funny, I also wonder how far off it is.

Any MG owners who haven't done so, check out the live link to the sounds and FX, they are pretty sweet. With Williams vet Rob B doing the sounds, Clearly Jpop has a depth of vision that far exceeds merely the art package. Yes, I paid for this thing when Reagan was in office, but after all I've seen (in person and posted) I think patience over pitchforks is the better path here.

I like the sounds based on the short clips. How they tie it all together should be pretty good.

Chris

That is one hour I will never get back.

Beautiful artwork at least what has been revealed. I have always liked his art packages.

All the ramps and mechanisms in the back of the PF look like they will be very cool.

Look how much the cabinet was modified to accommodate these.

Someone should take all pics from this thread and start it over. IMO

I really hope these come to life because I want to play every last one of them.

JPOP may be slow but he is one hell of a pinball enthusiast with great ideas.

All the best just wish it was a shorter read. "I have no horse in this race" unless I win the powerball then I would like to buy at least one of each