I find the new ad format hard to read, so if your eyes are glazing over here's the important part:

Taking names for pre-orders of my Shadow translite, just go here:

http://www.aurichlawson.com/shadow/pre-order.html

I'll take names for a bit, and then close this down and put the order in, probably next week, depending on response.

Thanks. Every time I think I'm done with it people start asking me about it again. If you're on my waiting list from before you should have a PM from me with the link too, just sign up once.

Sorry it took so long. Honestly organizing and shipping these takes a fair amount of time and effort, and with Alien I just plain wasn't up for it. Now that I've submitted the playfield art to Fox I've got a little breather. Still a lot going on, and we'll see how they respond, but I used the downtime to get this moving again.

Thanks man! I honestly thought about completely redrawing it, I did this one with a mouse, and I've got a Wacom Cintiq now that would be a lot of fun to use on this, and give me a hell of a lot more control. But I just don't have time right now to do something like that. And I didn't want to make anyone who got the old one mad because I did a "better" one. You're always your own worst critic though.

Next backglass I do is going to be the Alien LE art. Just waiting until the playfield is approved. Fox has it now, but who knows if it's good to go or needs a lot of changes. Just have to wait and see!

Thanks Art! I have some flakey post lights in my Shadow, thinking I might replace them with your Matrix lights.

Honestly I might put then under every post game I have, it's such a great look. Very classy. And if you want to know my personal trick, try mixing the color of your post and your LEDs. My Shadow has purple posts lit with blue LEDs, and it's a beautiful effect, almost a gradient of color, as the bottom really turns blue and then fades to a purple at the top.

I have the neon green posts from TMNT in my Scared Stiff, they would look killer I think with post LEDs. Yellow would be ideal, but since these don't come in it maybe green, maybe white.

Everyone should check this out. Doing the post lights isn't a big deal, but it is a PITA, and requires some soldering skill with the pads. This makes it drop dead easy, do it all in 20 minutes, both slingshots, unless you have to take off a lot of ramp stuff or something.

http://www.cometpinball.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=1871

Maybe, I won't know until later. Any extras I get will be initially held to support people who have any issues. Shipping damage is rare, but it happens every once in a while. I try and stay prepared.

And to be totally honest, I just don't have a lot of time to manage special orders right now. I'm sort of squeezing between the raindrops already to make this happen.

That said, if I do later I'd be happy to help people out. Just going to prioritize the full kit folks first.

Thanks man. At least for now I'm going to leave it. Better to put energy into something new I think, and not look backwards.

Do you mean for the Pro? Or literally something for the lower playfield for Premiums?

Gotcha. That's a bit of a hack, it wasn't meant for that.

That said ... I did start something specifically for the lower playfields. Just haven't had time to work on it with Alien. So at some point when I'm free to tinker some more I have a Metallica mod to finish, and this ACDC one. No hacking required, different design actually meant to go down there.

Yeah, "list of things to keep busy with" is one of the few thing I'm having no problem continuing to build!

Weekend bump, I think I'll try and put the print order in next week, just want to give everyone a chance to see this first.

I honestly dunno if I'll ever try and do Demo Man, that might be a project for someone else to tackle. We'll see, but there's a list of things I'd rather do instead.

Damnit Pete, you still haven't swapped that speaker panel? Don't make me buy a plane ticket!!

Took this to PM, not really something I want to get into.

pmWolf, you know, someone wants just a speaker panel. If you want to sell it to him lemme know and I'll hook you two up.

Looks like the pre-orders have slowed down. I'll make it a goal to put the order in with my printer this week. If you want in best to do it soon, but I'll get a few extras to cover people who missed this.

I've been meaning to do it for a while, people PM me slowly but regularly about it still. Sorry it took so much time.

I'm going to try and wrap up this little Metallica roadcase speaker panel decal I'm doing for anyone who needs one so I can get it in with the same order and then I'll put it in.

Star Trek project is dead now.

I'm going to put the Shadow order in today, so give me a couple weeks to get them printed and shipped to me and I'll contact everyone.

I've emailed my printer, waiting to hear back from him. Assuming all goes well the order will be going in shortly. I'll keep everyone updated.

I ordered a few extra, so just sign up, any extras will go to people on the list in order.

I have a couple people still on my waiting list, so if you got in late and haven't heard from me that's why. If people drop out I'll contact anyone who's at the bottom of the list.

Got the prints, need to start breaking it all down, taping up boxes, etc.

The first batch of orders will go out tomorrow, started packing today and will do more tonight. Anything I can't finish tomorrow will get packed up this weekend. You should start getting shipping notices from PayPal once I print up the labels.

Okay, I have a few special orders to take care of, everyone who's in that group has talked to me personally already and I'll get back to you shortly. And I have a few international people to do, those take longer because of the customs paperwork. All you guys will be set soon.

Everyone else should have a shipping notice. About to run boxes to the post office so these can get processed while I work on the things that take more personal attention to get packed up. Depending on how your local post office is you'll either get 2 or 3 day priority, so I'd think everyone should have them by Tuesday.

If you're on my list and didn't get my email, spam filters or whatever, please PM me. I'm sitting on your order, and if I don't hear from you I'm going to move on to other people who are waiting and you might find that you miss out.

Every time I do these now I wonder if it's the last time, at some point the demand just won't be there.

Or, if you're on the list and don't want it anymore, no worries, just let me know! Be helpful to hear you're out, no problem.

I just want to make sure I don't need my last extra one to cover something damaged in shipping, it happens occasionally (luckily pretty rare). So prefer to sell these other first, be sure everyone is okay, and then that would be fine.

Ha, technically I already did!

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/getaway-hsii-restoration-and-customization/page/9#post-2736363

Was just a one off though, not my photography, wouldn't sell it.

I've got a couple orders to get out, with the post xmas stuff I'm a little behind, took some time off. I'll get those out.