Texas the land is beautiful beyond compare, Texas the country and state has a grand tradition and storied history, Texas the government is a hot mess and a national embarrassment.

If he needs to be reminded that he still has a responsibility to the buyers of game number 1 and someone needs to coax him, or beg him, to finish it before designing more playfields, then we are truly lost.

What a bummer of a month to be a pinball hobbyist

Great news. Glad to hear theres a happy ending for all. I'll check back in six months for the unboxing photos.

That does it. Enough is enough! On behalf of these poor souls trapped in translite purgatory, I'm filing a civil suit against Aurich and contacting whichever sheriff, FBI agent or superhero that deals with fraud in Torrence (wherever that is). We need to act before that $100 bet disappears and our (well, their) money (well, not their money per-se, it's no money-down) vanishes.

I'm also forming an anonymous group against him as soon as someone can explain to me how to do that and keep it anonymous.

I have been resisting just dropping in 2 plastic ramps as other folks do. That was good 15 years ago, time for innovation.

It's not procrastination. It's innovation!

For the record. No matter what happens, somebody_ is going to post on here trying to sell us the malarkey that a hail Mary last minute deal was *this close* to saving the project but, alas, it got torpedoed by impatient and selfish customers who had lost faith.

If only they could have held out for another 6 months, and been quieter and more polite in their demands, because I have inside information that the angel was on his way down from heaven to right the ship and take over the project and pay the vendors and get JPop on task and so on... Calling it now.

Let us get it up to 10k posts, then lock the thread. This is only going to get uglier

Or to put it another way, how can you spend $1mil and 4 years in one room and not have anything real to show for it? I would go postal if I was working 10 hour days, isolated from the world, with no progress or point to the day's activities... how can you tinker aimlessly that long and stay sane?

If the games are closer to being done than people give him credit for, and the only thing keeping a video from being shot is John's paranoia and other neuroses, this is an excellent opportunity for Pintasia to restore faith without spending a ton of money. Get two people to John's shop with a camcorder and shoot the video yourselves. I see a lot of positives in Pintasia being in charge, if they are in charge now. Maybe they can get John to pay outstanding invoices next.

Neat idea.

For this thread, you can get 95% of the content without any of the noise if you read only Frolic's posts. Good way to cut 12k posts into a more managable 800 or so:

(https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/jpop-update-thread%E2%80%A6%E2%80%A6%E2%80%A6%E2%80%A6%E2%80%A6mg-raza-and-aiw%E2%80%A6?tu=frolic)

All the cool kids moved on to "El Risitas" long ago. (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/el-risitas-interview-parodies-shocking-interview)

I had a script written for a Predator one but I decided not to post it. Definitely the less hacky alternative to the good 'ol Hitler Reacts video

I have a question about the layout. Watched two videos and I'm still not sure what the shot map is. (for example, LOTR goes, left to right, 'shire' saucer trough, orbit, wireform ramp, inner orbit, ring jump ramp/balrog toy, palantir, gimli saucer, ball lock ramp, orbit). Just curious.

First session of pinball mock court is officially in session. I volunteer to be bailiff. Judge Heck presiding.

Jury pool is limited to jpops debtors. Those of you in the gallery, remember there is a two drink minimum.

I was thinking inferiority complex. All these new and "better" designs for simple parts, so his game stands out. Never satisfied, obsessed with beating the competition and stealing their thunder. The KISS mockup, knowing the rumors of stern KISS... It was about proving himself.

Edit: oh, and the 'jpop' should be when you somehow flail it around without hitting a switch long enough and it goes into a live-ball ball search... Now THATs embarrassing.

Quoting John Popaduik from 2-page update from Jan 2014:

An idea is a powerful thing. JPop heard about the formation of JJP and the WoZ business venture in 2011 and probably thought, "why not me?". It's no coincidence that he decided to be his own pinball manufacturer and started taking deposits for Magic Girl that very summer.

And as evidenced in this update, he clearly thought a lot about his place in the community of businesses and charlatans taking pre-order money to build people pinball machines. We have some real characters among the public figures of pinball - Gary, Jack, Rick, big personalities. But you'd never see them make an update like this. Every paragraph might as well be, "That's what you want?! I can make a better playfield than anybody!"

When rumors of Stern KISS reached a certain point, he made his own un-solicited version. Think about that for a second, he either thought he could steal KISS from stern, and KISS merchandising would be his angel, or he knew how unlikely that was and felt it necessary to one-up Stern anyway.

This is not a healthy mind. I expect this to go on for years.

As mayor quimby would say, it can be two things.

It'd probably be easier to change the thread title by now than re-rail this thread.

No jpop news to speak of, but this has become the popular chat room so chat will continue. Personally I love banzai run and consider it great and a classic, if a bit on the gimmicky side.