"I want the game on location as soon as possible so you can see and
play what I can see. ONLY THEN will you begin to understand. Only then
will the time spent waiting melt away and you will forget days like
today when you are "disappointed"

I'm an entrepreneur, positive thinker, creative, motivated and
determined. Failure is not where I live. Coming up on 37 years in this
industry. I don't expect all of you to understand where I am or live
where I live. What we are all doing together has never been done this
way and I'm thrilled you are all along for this wild ride. I'm not
feeling bummed or disappointed really - minor setback for x days - OK
- I get it.......

All in all we are in a good place and working very hard to be where we
need to be as soon as we can get there. Much more than this, I cannot
say but Thank You to each of you for being there with us."
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Hey Jack, don't worry about what a few Dbags think.....you are an innovator, positive force and should be applauded for what you are doing for the pinball community........"ILLIGITIMI NON CARBORUNDUM".....one of my favorite Latin sayings from a judge friend of mine..."DON'T LET THE BASTARDS WEAR YOU DOWN"

What I'm looking forward to is seeing the excitement on my kids faces when they get a chance to play this pin......and I'm sure you must be excited for all of the other folks that this pin could bring into the pinball world....

Here's to great success and a better and revived pinball community for the future!

Not at all what he was saying! I didn't include the whole quote....Essentially, pin will be on location sometime next week and the disappointment was over not having it out by the end of this week....

He also makes reference to the movie Tilt that he just watched and admitted had he seen that before he might not have ever ventured into the pinball world....I'd say Jack has come a LONG way from day one and the journey will end up being well worth it for everybody...

I think even he admits now to this....the "update" machine has seen its share of mistakes, and we live and learn.....and hopefully don't continue to make those mistakes....

He knows its time to put out a drop dead date on production for the entire team.....ala Steve Jobs...

I mean he actually did say, right or wrong again that the delay is only a few days and the test will be on location next week....that's what he actually said, now, as for reading between the lines, that has historically been code for "well it might take even a little longer".....

There are actually several replies from Jack addressing the disappointment that the end of the month deadline won't be met and he acknowledges the bungles in communication and states clearly that the delay for test game is a few days delayed apparently for what Keith is working on....

My guess is they don't want to put the game out with mostly unfinished code and take a beating like Stern has gotten.....I think that is a mistake, put it out there, the end result will be great...

At this point, I probably wouldn't have said that either!.....Wait until the pin is out and gets reviewed and then have a laugh about it because we all know it ain't easy, that really doesn't matter....

Hopefully that sentiment changes afterwards!

Well, the code is apparently "pretty much done" and "pretty much" ain't good enough due to what TheLaw just said.....I think they are terrified to put something out unfinished and look hypocritical......either way, it doesn't look good....

And I would have bet Sleeze too that test game would be on location by then and would have lost it....but Sleeze doesn't really believe 90% of what he says....

Hahaha...yep, I sure did Jim! Nobody took me up on it though so I guess close doesn't count

You got a great pin coming out from a guy that's trying to do what he can to help the pinball community grow and become relevant again.....

The guy takes a flurry of crap, non-stop, some of it self inflicted, but at the end of the day I don't know how you can't stand up and cheer for the guy....

Unless of course, you are a total Dbag.....

I would have paid the 1k bet offer for sure....I don't think I really would have put up my LOTR as much as I love it, that had a little bit of a bluff factor in it

Missed deadline yes AND that it's still all good for most of us!

Come on Sleeze you were scared. I suggested leering another Pinsider hold the money. You know what's coming and you will disappear soon enough.

Tried to start a positive Woz thread with some info. It always ends up this way Doesn't it Ted.

Ok so I'm a dumb---- for being a believer. Im a happy dumbshit though!

The only pain I feel is the result of my knee scope today

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You are confused with Barack Obama

If we truly care about pinball and the community I really don't understand why we can't all get along and be thankful about the fact that JJP has helped the excitement level along with pushing Stern to a new level....and I give major props to Stern for his recent line up of pins, its all good for all of us....

Jack is a "pleaser" and makes the mistake too often of telling people what they want to hear and has caused himself all kinds of grief because of it....if that's the worst part about Jack then so be it...

That's just absurd......I guess that's part of the "you didn't build that" crowd mindset ...

Sounds like you are talking about Obama but the difference here is that we will have a pin delivered soon enough.....

The FACT is that Jack has already sold a thousand LE's plus several hundred of the regular on "pre-order".....and the FACT is that if anyone doesn't like the delay they can call and get their money back, there are plenty of people standing in line to get an LE.....and the other FACT (not really a "fact" but likely) is that as soon as this pin comes out the "business" that Jack runs will announce JJP#2 and it will outsell Woz....

so it sounds like he's "running a pretty good business" to me.....despite the delays...

Yep, you guys are lucky Ted! That should be great....are you going before PPE?...