This is an amazing trainwreck of a thread. Thank for insisting I read the whole thing PinballBuzz

I was looking forward to buying this series of books, but I'm highly unlikely to now. Apparently the first one is full of amatuer mistakes, the company is ran by someone with skin thinner than his paper stock, and he publicly conducts himself like a fool. I have zero faith in any more volumes being published.

It really seems like he wanted to hustle a hobby for a bit of money and looked up the biggest personality that he could afford. (I love how much he talks about converting Todd's YouTube subscribers into purchasers of the book. That was the extent of his market research). I hope someone with more experience can work with Todd, and similar individuals, to make a worthwhile publication. I'm sure Todd needs a lot of help with writing and editing, but it's clear that the publisher didn't give a damn about making a quality product in the first place.

Pinside has got to be the best place to learn the lesson of never preorder anything.

They probably took a 2018 calendar and did a find and replace 2018 for 2019. (Edit: yeah, you can tell because the previous month is Dec 17 and next month is Feb 18)

What a great calendar though. It'll be off by one day for the whole year. He should have marketed as a way to troll your friends, that would actually sell!