Steamboat Willie Homebrew

Nice!

What a great looking Pin you created! Love it!

We keep this Animated Wall hanging in the pin room!

I hope I could ask you share a vid?

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Witnessed and played this last night. Tremendous amount of effort put into this one. It made my head spin just how much work goes into these things. Super impressive home brew, and the theme is just brilliant.

I agree, played it last night. I most super impressed with the animation tie-ins. Really really made the theme pop! Very immersive. I think if the flippers had just a little bit more juice this game would be spot on my kind of game. The layout was also a highlight and very interesting. Excellent work!!! You should be proud!

Love the old EM look with the modern LCD screen !
impressive!

Great work!

One word- “Inspirational”

Ok , just noticed the black glove and light saber hilt... phreaking awesome....

Great work!! Def need a video

Great job. Can you (or someone at Louisville) post a video of it in action?

I think it looks GREAT overall, but the apron and plastics art is a bit too busy, and detracts from the nice simplicity of the rest of the playfield.

great job with a cool throw-back theme...a steam whistle noise or a ships bell on the match number would make for a nice end to a game..congrats

Take with phone and post to YouTube , then link it back to thread

Excellent job with the build! Always cool to see something off the mainstream, and home-built. Wish you lots of fun with it and looking forward to see any future work.

Following the thread.

Love it ... beautifully done sir!

Totally geeked out seeing this. Thank you for all your hard work and let me know if you want a better trans lite material for it.

looks great!! , cant wait to have more time to watch the whole video

Wow ! What a beautiful game and an excellent choice of theme. I really could see this going to the market, it’s appealing and unique.

Great job OP, would love to put my (sanitized) fingers on this one !

Beautiful!!!!

This may be too close to the Sun, I can see a C&D in your future. Steamboat Willie is a highly protected asset. I wish you the best, but there is no fair use for a one off.

Seriously tho, nice work

Wow! JUST Amazing!

not sure what you mean by" no fair use of a one off" ?

I bought a steam boat willie poster and video and use them in the pinball machine I made for my own use . please cease and desist??????

WOW, great job, I love what you did!

Awesome build. Wish I could get some time on it.

I think he's referencing incidents in the past where day cares have been C&D'd for having hand-painted Disney characters on the walls, but the difference there is that those were still businesses, where a fair use defense is much less usable as a defense, and I think it also involved trademark. It's likely that you'll actually be safe because 1) you're not selling even a one-off 2) you're not putting it on location and asking people to put quarters into it.

Please don't be offended. The machine is gorgeous, I love your work.

I was just referring to how protective Disney is of this asset. http://copyright.nova.edu/mickey-public-domain/

From a legal standpoint how is this any different from someone painting a picture of Mickey Mouse on their kid's bedroom wall, or on a picture they'll hang in their house? If he isn't selling the machine (keeping it only for personal use) I can't see how Disney can have any problem with it. And I can't imagine Disney would have any legal ground on which to take action against him.

And I'd like to add that I think this is a remarkable achievement. It's incredible.

Not much to imagine.

It's cut and paste art from protected assets to make an object that was not licensed to do so. And, It's being shown publicly.

I too think it's a remarkable achievement and very beautiful to boot.

Really glad I got to play this game and take the video of it!

I'm thankful you overcame your initial doubt to post this. Phenomenal work! Thank you for sharing!

Excellent work, I love the theme! Congrats!

Awesome looking homebrew. Very cool. Also, in about 4 years "Steamboat Willie" will enter the public domain, and then anyone and everyone can use anything from that short film anyway they want. Basically. Hopefully, you'll be able to take it to some more shows when they start having them again.

Way cool! Love the throwback theme and execution. Spot on. You kept it looking old and classic but fresh. I do agree plastics and apron are a bit busy but still well done. I think you should copy the sepia tone with the musical elements used in the translite. Think that would look nice and balanced.

Very impressive. I’d buy one in a heartbeat if this ever moved beyond a home build.

Dude, you were totally robbed: when they gave the intro speech for "best in show" I thought for sure it was you, as it should have been! Taking a new R&M out of the box was crap compared to what you did. Yours was incredible effort and TRUE "out-of-the-box" thinking all around. Folks should note your "function over form" approach... at this stage that's really all that matters right? You learn and THEN make it better, THEN make it pretty... come to think of it, you're like the anti-Jpop ha ha. For what it was, I thought it worked really well. I'm honored that I got to help you out those few minutes on Sunday and can't wait to see how this evolves.

Also, I'm *still* chuckling over your "eh, let it burn!" on the Road Kings.... sometimes you just gotta, right?

I'll definitely be reaching out once I get my own homebrew idea off the ground (I know what to do, I just need to round up the parts).

Unless they get it extended again. Also, you'd have to pull the assets from an ORIGINAL print of the film, not any of the digit restorations that you'd probably be able to source today - they'd sue based on the restoration copyright date instead. Also, pretty sure the character of mickey mouse in general is trademarked.

They can be tricky to find. Here's a filter string that helps across common amp ratings:

https://www.mouser.com/TE-Connectivity/Circuit-Protection/Circuit-Breakers-Accessories/Circuit-Breakers/_/N-axfui?P=1yzuletZ1z0x8giZ1z0x8haZ1z0x8ehZ1z0x87jZ1z0x8ggZ1z0x878Z1z0x8glZ1z0x8fvZ1yzs6iiZ1y95b0c

That's one manufacturer that I know made some of mine, but probably not all as I built my assortment over a year or so. I don't know why there are redundant offerings for the same amperage, so double check the specs, but at a glance they look like what I have and should work. You need to solder a dead fuse across the terminals so you can clip them in.

For what little they cost they're an absolute must; don't know how many fuses I've saved when chasing down various issues. Good piece of mind to install out of habit while you're working on a machine or new project too.

Yeah, generally speaking, a one-off fan work isn't going to attract Disney's attention in that way. It's literally not worth it to them to smack one person down for a single machine, even on the trademark front, since there's no attempt to pass it off as an official work, and there's not money being made. Worst case, if the machine is offered for sale as a one-off, they may then take notice and pass along a cease and desist at that point (which would be basically, "strip it and sell it for parts").

It isn't to say they aren't already aware of the machine's existence, but it's not at the level it's worth the lawyer's salary to draft anything up to send.