Quoted from flynnibus:Wooly tho is more akin to TBL - just because you have a game you built, and can even reproduce manually, does not really make it production ready.
The initial number of MG (16) was not that different from the number of Wooly pins assembled (6). In both cases this seemed doable with a very limited infrastructure - no factory required, Do it yourself assembly, etc.
I am pretty sure people would have lined up to help JPop for free... Hell, he would have probably convinced people to pay for that (Pinball assembly lessons 101)
But the similarity ends here.
- Scott was not trying to reinvent the well with each part.
- His prototype was working and fully playable. People paid for an actual product (I did!)
- As soon as JPop announced he would then build 100+ or more RAZA, the Assembled-in-your-garage approach would not work anymore.