Clearly you've never seen Chris is a size small ladies tank top.

As you can tell, with our business model we don't have a ton of distributors. Joe and Chris are because they REALLY care, bust their a**es, and are just damn great guys for pinball in general. Both are a huge part of why Spooky is chugging along just fine. Proud to have them both as business partners.

Please stop making me like you Hilton!

I may have to make this a framed piece of wall art for the ladies room at Spooky... we already have enough scary stuff on the walls in the men's room.

Ok... MODERATOR!!!!

Pretty sure that's the ONLY path to making everyone happy about pinball art... we do all know that art is subjective right?! It's like debating what the greatest song ever written is. You can argue as to why something you like is the best, but you can't prove a thing.

I think Matt did an INCREDIBLY good job. It's not meant to be an 80's clone... It's a modern take on a retro style game. Pretty sure they didn't have crazy full RGB or LCD screens back then either but again, things that make this project unique.

This painting sold for $11.7 million.... Do better can of soup paintings exist? Are they worth more? Does the soup taste better when the painting is worth $11.7 million bucks?

I destroyed 5 reactors late Saturday night. Best game I've ever had! Nice break from working 7 days a week... pretty sure the awesome art is why I played so well.

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The price is $5,995... you can do some upgrade stuff but a distributor decided to jump the gun and post wrong (or incomplete) info.

8 a.m. central tomorrow previous customers will get the correct info and be able to order... new interested parties will get their info later in the day or Tuesday morning depending on how Kayte can keep up on Monday.

Sorry for the confusion! I had the distributor retract his post. All will be explained tomorrow.

No! Since you get one of the mentioned test games, you know enough already. Can't wait to see it on location in Madison!

In the email blast... we'll move the hi res stuff to our website as soon as it's all out there.

Thanks for the patience!!! We're trying to keep up the best we can right now.

IF YOU ARE A PREVIOUS CUSTOMER AND DIDN'T GET AN EMAIL, LET US KNOW RIGHT AWAY!!! About a dozen (out of hundreds) bounced back as undeliverable.

Yes, we will get this done asap! Talking now...

For Australia, it's Dom & Chris... In New Zealand, it's Rotor Dave... you can email Kayte directly for both countries, and they will coordinate the games for pick up / delivery when the time comes (all will ship together).

Thanks!

Games WILL SHIP in 2017... all we are saying for now.

Interior panels...

Interior panels... it's an all new cabinet design, so no idea what will work for mirror blades without a lot of trimming. I'm sure someone will come up with something quick.

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Both are correct.... new music for each reactor, progressively harder to destroy each.

Our animator has already changed quite a few display graphics and is currently working on more.

We're calling this one a "house game"... because we love Scott and he's all family and stuff. Just like Ben Heck and AMH. Gets confusing we know.

Fairly accurate sir! But if after market (looking at you Cliffy) wants to add more external protection, that's kinda up to the owners.

Yes, runs of 50... we are well past the first batch of 50 now. We're going to try and ship initial batch(es) of TnA PRIOR to Alice launch, but at some point we will have both on the line together (same as we did with RZ and Domino's / Jetsons).

AKA pinball haunted houses are about as cool as it gets!!!

Well this we can't wait to see!

Hoping to release later today... first thing tomorrow morning at the latest.

We charge actual shipping (R&L Freight). All games are basically drop shipped from WI so really not a difference in that department. If you like Joe or Chris, buy from them! Wanna go straight to us, that's fine too.

Working on that... but nothing is in place today (sadly). Trying!

If you want it quickly, I'd go the "you" route... if you can wait, then lets see what we can get together! Yet another joy of being a company this size. Growing pains... but they're all good ones. We just want to make sure when we go to Europe officially, everyone is happy on both sides of the pond.

That right there, is the BEST feature in this game!!! Omg we beat the daylights out of the prototype daily just because of the whole strategy (and I love ball stealing!!!)

Lol... hang in there! Doing our best... later tonight... or 8 a.m. central tomorrow if Kayte is looking fried and like she might be reconsidering a job change at work days end (which it rarely does here).

Kayte and Squirrel are doing an awesome job of keeping up, but yep... games are moving!!!

All credit to Scott, Matt, and everyone else involved... just thrilled to be here and doing all this!

And as luck would have it, this just came in the mail!

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Yes... if you order a shirt from Double Danger, they will send it to you... I think ya' pay for the shirt and shipping, but the love they put in... FREE!

If you have ANY questions at all in this regard, call Kayte... 815-541-0054

Waiting for last of production cabling to come in before we go there. Proto game is nice, but that side can be better.

Yes... for the most part. You're early in the builds, that much I can confirm.

HUGE thank you to everyone who put faith in this game, and made it A RECORD DAY AT SPOOKY!!!

We can't thank you enough for the patience... and I have a feeling once this game gets out there and played more, it's going to just keep going.

From our family to yours, THANK YOU. We don't take your support lightly... just glad to be here.

Pretty sure Jay and Chris are working on a calendar together right now... so we got THAT going for us.

I believe this to be 100% correct... shaker is just a tiny bit different in set up than it is on Rob Zombie.

Will be on our website later today... still playing catch-up.

All emails have been sent to EVERYONE on all lists... Kayte is still getting swamped, but if you want to reach out to her, sales are now wide open.

Still shocked on how this is going over... but glad it's being embraced as well as it is!!! Oh, and Scott Danesi is awesome.

Everything Scott knows about being awesome, he learned from Jay.

184 Ridge Ave, Benton WI... Scott's kinda like a cat and startles easy so just come here.

Hopefully Lawrence's Pub and Eatery lets us put one of these in there too. Kinda getting crowded in the pin corner in there! Lol.

Getting some confusion on this whole "build 50 at a time" thing... this means Spooky BUYS / BUILDS 50 at a time. Doesn't mean if you are game #201 we have to sell 49 more before we build yours.

There will be no gap in production times, everyone that wants a game will get one. When sales slow, we'll do a "last call" and build a final batch of 50. When will that occur? Hopefully in 2035.

It officially past AMH as our 2nd best selling game of all time earlier today. Long way to catch RZ, but never say never! I think the initial sales will slow soon and pick up again as this gets out there. Playing it is the games BEST selling point!

Nice to finally be in a position to be able to let a game like this run. Wasn't an option just a couple years ago. Growth is good!

NOBODY is more awesomer than Scott Danesi. Also, LIONMAN! Because, LIONMAN!

Hop on over to the Pinball Life open house! TnA will be there tearing it up for 2 whole days during Expo. Get some great deals, eat some snacks, play a s**t ton of pinball.

Jay took the car and Kayte... sure will miss that car!

Ps... it's not my car but was fun to pretend for 10 min! Kayte is still here and she's vetter than the car.

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Let's be clear... we are FINANCING a new house, and selling the one we've lived in for the last 20 years. Figured we better do it now before I'm Bryan Kelly's age and it hurts to do ... well, anything really.

TnA's start moving faster real quick. Just waiting for the mini pc's to arrive (hoping by Friday!)

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Hoping when Alice Cooper is fully revealed, we have some games ready to ship BEFORE we announce it. I hate making anyone wait, and I hate sitting on $ even more. Kind of a necessary thing at our level, but working crazy hard to reduce that as much as possible.

We don't want to remove a thing from Scott's original game.

This game might be more bang for the buck than anything out there. We weren't blowing smoke when we said we ate money to keep the price down on this one. It's really expensive to build, but we want as many people to get to enjoy it as possible! Scott, Spooky, and every vendor involved helped do all we can to make this something really special for those willing to give it a chance.

Your playfield is next up... your "Butter Cabinet" gets done tomorrow along with the Butter game we are taking to the Pinball Life Open House. Jeepers old man... "are we there yet, are we there yet"...

Brad is sharp... probably because he's much younger than Bryan.

All mechanical parts will be available at Pinball Life and aren't going anywhere anytime soon. When we have time to document all this for public record, we'll do our best. We're 5 games deep, and 1 email is all it takes to ever find out what ya' need if something breaks.

Pinball Life will also be a supplier for the TnA boards if you'd like to grab spares... it's a tried and true product and REALLY robust! Scott and I have both tried to murder them in various ways. It can be done but you REALLY gotta screw up.

I hope we get to help you with that leverage A BUNCH Gerry!!! So far, so great.

The bottom side of the playfield may look intimidating, but trust me... if I can figure it out, smart people will get it fast. Between Gerry's product and Scott's use of it, just nothing but goodness in this game. Very stable, very reliable, very robust.

Quite a few of the first 10 games are going on location. We'll have one at Lawrence's here in Benton beating the daylights out of it as well.

Back to work... more TnA's coming VERY soon!

How come he gets beer?! We actually assembled this thing!

Count me in. If Bug isn't off being a crazy teenager I'll bring him so Spooky actually has a good player on hand.

Looks like a pizza and pinball kinda day!

Six more wrapped up and ready to roll out the door right now... starting to get quicker now that the minions are sorting out the new system!

They will if you're as genuinely nice (don't let the cranky old guy routine fool you) as Bryan and his wife Deb... Let's just say that new game production is insanely intense, and Scott & I both had a rough week getting things up to par. There are ALWAYS surprises in early production no matter how well prepared you think you are.

So to take 3 games to 3 really good friends, spend a good 24 hours just remembering WHY we wanted to do all this in the first place, and wish a good friend a happy 40th birthday while visiting an insanely cool place (aka Tilt Pinball Bar)... much needed, and actually a bit of de-stress relief.

Some of our absolute best friends on this planet are pinball people. Just getting to hang out with them and actually play a few games... what it's all about right there.

To all our MN friends... thanks for once again making us feel at home.

That was just a set of stainless speaker covers we proto'd this week... wait till you see the rest of it!

And the pop bumper washer adjustment mentioned previously has already been done. If you gap the switch close it really isn't an issue but the washer trick just makes that less critical for a snappy hit.

We really do care! I think those beautiful full color glossy apron / instruction cards i always forget until the last minute even come in tomorrow.

Small flood of games left yesterday... more leaving today. MOST if not all of the first 75 should be done by the 1st.

Numbers aren't always 100% accurate. We have 9 games done for Australia... later numbers are in there because it's crazy expensive to not ship them all at once. 3 went to Germany yesterday as well. Butter cabinets tend to get done in groups because of cure time / handling them with kid gloves.

More TnA leaving today! Always a few hiccups in early production and we're no different. Hired 2 new guys to speed things up in the last few weeks and off we go again.

Yep... right now it's 8 to 10 per week, which is where we kinda need to be. If sales get any more heavy, we'll hire and increase that. TnA is working towards being our biggest seller to date. With Alice right behind it, we've got some thinking to do.

GREAT problems to be solving... and we will.

100% right you are! Every single time we've shipped a batch, more orders come in. Every time a new location game gets on route, we get orders with people telling us "I got to play it at..."

The game is the best salesman we have. Just great to see a game this unique making a splash out there!

He assaulted Kayte's squirrel and turtle!!!

I can't wait to move and clean up the yard with a giant concrete Lionm*n statue (censored in case you can't say Lionm*n in this thread).

Not yet... not quite as simple as it looks right now. Anything we do like this needs to be tested completely and super simple to install.

We'll figure it out soon. I get to spend some time with Scott again tomorrow, and that's always a good thing.

And a customer walked in, played it, and ordered one already.

Thanks for the support Pints & Pixels, and everyone else who is buying or just giving TnA some love... this has already been a wild ride and I think it's just getting started!!!

Rascal beat me to it!

Bunch of them went out last week, trying hard to get as many out this week for Christmas as we can.

We kinda consider this the highest compliment we can get!

Thanks a ton for the faith.

Remember patient pinball dudes & dudettes... game numbers are a bit misleading. Butter cabinets get run in batches, overseas games have to go together, and some pinball show / operator games line jumped a bit to help get more games where people can play them (like INDISC).

Just inspected and cleared 4 more games this morning!

And they will be as much as possible.

We aren't selling games out the back door to vendors, we aren't letting game #100 go before game #50 because we like somebody better, we aren't doing ANYTHING shady.

If we fill all the home orders first, operators get pissed. If we don't get games to operators, those who want to play on location (many of which are potential buyers) get pissed. If we don't get games to shows that are counting on them for attendees to play... EVERYONE AT THAT SHOW gets pissed. If we send a dozen games to Australia... doesn't make it even possible to ship them 1 at a time in order. They MUST go in a container all at once or the shipping costs go through the roof.

And this is just scratching the surface of what we deal with on a daily basis.

Doing our best. Never going to be a perfect system for any of this.

This guy gets it!

Great job Noob Noob.

Couldn't agree more! It's pinball... it's fun! We're not going anywhere, and we take the "I want mine now" stuff as a compliment to what Scott has made.

After the minor early production hiccups, games are moving out at a very steady pace. Again, anyone who wants to visit the shop... we've pretty much got an open door policy here. Just don't ask me if you can "see Alice Cooper" or "what is your next game". We kinda get that a lot.

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We know people who do!

Seriously, I'm not offended by any of this... Trying to keep everyone happy all the time is a tall order, but we really do care and try.

On the bright side, nobody remembers those first 2 years here better than I do... and having people wanting their games quicker is a WHOLE LOT BETTER than wondering how we're going to stay afloat if games don't start selling.

THANK YOU!!! So do we. Can't wait to get that game to you, and we will.

Yep... all good sir!

And I like hearing that our RZ game isn't the worst thing ever... I'm still proud of what it became, and yes we were fully aware it wasn't going to suit everyone.

Alice ... whole different animal. Stay tuned, going to be a wild ride.

Happy Friday! Get out there and play some of those location TnA's or hop to your buddy's house and play there. Fun times!

I know where that one is!!!

Just a fedora please. I'm not the rock star Scott is.

Back to working on Alice! Holy hell is pinball hard.

They all do... literally inspected every game that has ever left here. I care and stuff!

Summer help will be back and we'll keep everything moving as fast as we can. TnA is still solo on the line and will be for a while... hoping to get it fairly caught up before Alice starts rolling. Tall task to say the least with it still selling well!

Ahhhhhh yes, the growing pains of a small pinball company. Good problems, but still problems.

Are we proud of Scott and our little team over here in Benton? Yep... sure am!

Getting caught up from TPF... TON of games to inspect and ship! I'm on it.

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So we buy enough product to build 100 (or more) games because we have orders, then some shiny new object comes along and we have thousands invested in games that you changed your mind on and backed out of? No faster way to go out of business than that.

We've stiffed exactly zero people and that's not about to change. Once we get to a level of security that we can REDUCE the initial payment (not a deposit), I will be thrilled to do that. Getting closer every day. We don't have the capitol that the bigger companies have behind them... never have. Our investors are our customers.

If we could build 50 games a week we'd sell 1,000 of these fast. We can't... and I have zero desire to ramp Spooky to that level. Once you get there, you have to feed that monster company forever. Your suppliers do too... not to mention 100 other things that have to fall into place.

What we do isn't perfect, but it's secure and much lower risk. Anyone who wants to visit our shop is welcome to do so... ANYTIME! We are honest, up front, and bust our collective a**es.

Eventually we'll catch up to demand and TnA waits will be much smaller. A hit game on our hands is a GREAT problem to have.

Proud of our company and team.

Aiming for that every 2 weeks, 50 a month. We're admittedly a little short of that right now. Between 10 and 12 a week but gaining speed.

Doing our best...

Now how the hell am I ever gonna get to Chunk level?! And what does that even mean now????

Coming VERY soon!!! I promise. Parts are all finally here and we just need to get the kits assembled.

MGC this weekend, and we'll get after it early next week.

Ok... not really a fan of excessive mods... but DAMN! Those just fit the art and game. SICK!!! I love it. Nice job to whoever made them.

Gamma is the big one... it does make a big difference. But... it's all on how tall you are, lighting, etc etc.

Tweak around with the settings and it really does make a big difference!

1st off... really sorry you had this happen. We'll get you a new set to make it right.

We've personally installed more than 125 games worth of mirror blades to date. With 2 per game, having 1 set too high is .004%. Unless they set both of them too high then it's .008%. Damn human workers!

As Mr. Panda stated, check the trough switches... also, and this may sound silly but it's happened more than once, be sure you have exactly 4 balls in the game.

As always, don't hesitate to reach out to us directly for service questions. We get a ton of emails lost because people use "support" at Spooky, "tech" at Spooky, etc etc. Wrong addresses get here somehow (how I don't know but they eventually filter through) but it can take days.

The correct address is: [email protected]

1st target drop down switch needs an adjustment I suspect.

We've only had to remove 1 set here... my guys just slowly worked them out with brute minion force.

The cabinets are all lined with black laminate, so I'd be afraid the heat from a heat gun might warp that or also loosen the glue that holds the material in place. The fish line trick sounds viable to me.

I'm on her side... and that also beats everything I've done to date on the game!!!

And we have and will continue to do so. We hate that any of this happened, but everyone who has contacted us has been helped.

And I can assure you that much bigger companies margins are MUCH better than ours, so sending out a replacement board doesn't hurt them nearly as much as it does us (or the vendor making them). Fortunately, the vast majority of people were satisfied with the neoprene washer fix and we thank them profusely for understanding the situation. For those who needed more, they got that too.

If you start pulling star posts from virtually any game you're going to see some level of "damage" under there in ALL eras of games. Obviously this was beyond normal and we didn't hide from Pinside and pretend it didn't exist like many would or have. And we're not knocking anyone else ANYWHERE for playfield issues. Absolutely EVERY company has had them to 1 degree or another. It is simply the most complicated and hardest part of manufacturing in a pinball machine. We spare ZERO dollars trying to make our boards the best in the industry, and they have for the most part lived up to our expectations.

The problem HAS been corrected, and we aren't hard to find. Doing our best everyone... every day.

I swear it's swinging exactly in time to the music!!!