I ordered mine today. Now I have to get my playfield touched up and clear coated. Can't have it looking rough when I get the new stuff put in.

I do it myself. It's not to bad if you have your own HVLP gun and a girlfriend with a garage that is out of town for a few weeks.

The worst part is the sanding and timing it right.

I am on board big time for this. I have ordered and will be going with the color DMD if it is available.

One thing I haven't heard talked about was from watching the gameplay videos, the call outs seem tame. One of the charms of the original game was the suggestive call outs. I think that is one of the things that make the Elvira games so popular. Face it, the majority of pinball players are guys.

I was thinking about all of the really cool slightly suggestive phrases that could be used.

"Do that again"
"Faster"
"You missed"
"I like that"
"Don't stop"
"I can't wait"
"I want it"
etc

I think you are missing a great opportunity here if you already have Stephanie Rogers. Get her to say some of the things we have been waiting 20 years to hear the Bride say.

The original BoP has a family mode which turns off the "Yes, Yes, YESS" and also I think the part where she says, "how do I look?" So it is doable

So Scott.. is that a thumbs down on the dirty talk?

Ok. You can at least video record her saying, "yes, yes, YES". I imagine that will boost your sales by at least 50%. It is about the bottom line, right?

AND... The option for a profanity "ROM" would be a real money maker. Just saying....

Or has it?

Now we just need to get Dutch Pinball on board before they get Stephanie to do the final recordings. I would love to be there when Scott says... "Um... Stephanie... there are just a few more lines we need you to say...."

Hey Scott. I am getting off topic here but it is cool that you are involved in this. You probably don't remember me but I sold you some music stuff years ago on Ebay. Don't remember what it was but I remember the name. (maybe drum machines or midi stuff?)

Since we are old friends.... How about the suggestive Stephanie stuff now?

Can you get her autograph for me next time you see her?

Have her make it out to:

Brad,
yes, yes, YES!
Stephanie

Speaking of hot and high vibration. Where are we with the Stephanie voice-over updates?

(you think I forgot?)

Should we be worried about the licensing hold-up on the 2.0 project?

"Update 12/13/13: We are finalizing the license with the respective companies."

Paid for my 2.0 a few days ago. I am just a few days and a couple minor tweaks from having my BoP fully restored.

Can't wait to play her again... and then with her new "brain"...

Fully restored and ready. Now where's my 2.0 kit?

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Yes. I was able to get the artwork from someone and had them printed here in the states. I loved the purple, but I think the black looks really cool too.

I almost went with the purple grills like you have on yours, but I chickened out and when chrome and silver.

I always wanted the chrome hinges for it. So I got them too. Mike Chestnut hooked me up.
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$8000 by Christmas.

Thanks, but I think $10,000 by Christmas is crazy. But whatever.... you may be right.

So... While we are on the subject. Did Stefanie Rogers finish her voice-over work?

When you say "we need" you are talking about what "I need" too, right?

Thought so. Thanks!!!

Best day ever!!

My 2.0 kit arrived in the mail today!!!

Oh wait.... that was the dream I had last night.... nevermind

Yeah! Mine should have been here by now!! Scott?

I understand about the license issue and no updates.

But I wonder where they are with migrating the DMD art over to color? I know that they mentioned that they needed to make some updates to that in order to work with the color DMD. Is that finished?

Is the code finished? Are kits assembled and ready to go?

Can't we get updates on the other stuff that won't upset the license deal?

Thanks Al

My 2.0 kit just came in the mail today!!!

I am just kidding. But I hope to say this for real soon...

I know. it was mean...

That's the way I looked at it. Pretend that your BoP is still in your collection and you are adding a NEW game with a color DMD and premium speakers for under $2000 without losing the floor space.

For me it is a no brainer.

If you want to see if the problem occurs in the U.S. I am willing to install it. I am #40something I think, but I would be willing to take one for the team.

Thanks for the video it looks great. FYI. You are missing the pan under the rotating head and rubber on your flipper bats. (unless no rubber is required for 2.0)

The gameplay on this does look pretty awesome. I am really sorry for all the mean things I said about Dutch Pinball. Can I have mine now please?

I don't think anyone can argue that something went wrong with the BoP 2.0 project if you look at the facts.

We are already 9 months past the promised deadline and here we are finally doing beta installs with incomplete games and somehow DP had enough free time to have 3 TBL prototypes at expo.

Obviously some of the resources were moved from BoP 2.0 over to TBL, they had to be.

I understand the licensing hold ups, BUT the licensing issues didn't prevent DP from writing code to finish the game and from doing more beta installs. If they had done any of that last summer, we would have our complete kits in our hands right now. My fear now is that the game will never be finished since it appears that no new code has been written (other than color display) in almost a year.

I wondered if that may have been their thinking all along. Get the kit out and let someone else finish the code. I am sure someone with ambition will get sick of waiting and complete the code themselves. Then being the awesome community that pinball is, he will make it available to me. Er. I mean us... I meant us.

I would love to see a poll on who already had a BoP and who went out and bought one after finding out about 2.0. I have had BoP for years and everyone that comes over loves the game. I did do a full restore last winter in preparation for 2.0. I think for me, not having the original game included would have made it a tough decision. By dropping $2000 into a fully restored machine and getting 2 titles was a no brainer. Had I invested close to $4000 to $5000 in one 2.0 machine, I would have looked at other titles in that price range for sure.

*crickets*

Was it the change of the color of the plastic around the display so it will match the limited black edition?

You get it, right Calvin?