While I fundamentally agree with your point that it's hard to make an art package around a primarily audio based theme like music, I can also say the art is still sloppy and has room for improvement. I'll resurface some of my old points from last year.

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Yeah I get you don’t play the art. Just not much else to talk about. Plus there being some sloppiness in the playfield art makes me concerned about sloppiness in other non-art areas.

I’m really curious how the software shakes out. I’m sure it shoots just fine.

It should be revealing now considering the game was in the works years ago and was in a pop up shop about a year ago. They still don't have it to a decent enough condition to show off 5 minutes? (Granted, I'm sure that video would have to be approved in advance by Queen for promotional reasons...but come on bros, you knew this game was in the pipeline)

It's a fail if they don't use the shaker and knocker in time with the song "We will rock you"

Most interesting thing I noticed was how a lot of their ball guides are plastic bits that are RGB illuminated. Also I sorta liked the idea of the white piano drop targets with black standups behind and in between the drops. But it looks like that got replaced with the white RGB standups

it is how the big boys do it... Some of them don't even bother showing you 15 seconds of actual gameplay.

less is more because you don't want the reality of "oh it's just a pinball game" to sink in too soon

Based on the Bond hype thread, seems like pinball buyers care more about innovation in lubricants

they just gotta make it a few more years till deepfake audio can capture Freddy's essence...

what is dead may truly never die

Sounds like an issue with the switches. Poorly gapped? Maybe a bad connector to the board or a broken wire? Do they have a service manual yet?

It’s pretty bullshit to sell someone a commercial product, at full price, and then they’re being treated like a beta user who is providing valuable feedback back to the company.

There should be a discount of some sort. It’s bizarre they would send sample/prototypes to customers instead of people who specifically sign up to be testers

Like you’re doing work for them at this point…and you get a lesser machine at full price.

(And I don’t want to hear whataboutisms with other pinball companies shipping barely tested games - it’s all bullshit)

Eddy switches are on a few games from the 90s. Using it for inlane switches as part of a giant PCB was a clever ease of manufacturing design by Heighway.

JJP uses a similar idea where they combined a proximity sensor (the one that turns off a phone display when you pick it up) with a LED insert. So then the insert window is both a switch and a lamp