Quoted from pinsanity:

I've said from the start, it wasn't the theme it was the person behind it and who he surrounded himself with, which turned it from a potential to a boat anchor right from the start back in June 2013. A manufacturer with both integrity and the experience in manufacturing could have easily taken those same assets and made it into something at least playable.
Here's a recap of some of the lowlights -
Moving manufacturing operations to a country that had never seen a pinball machine before.
Using the servile morons of AussieArcade for design input and feedback rather than the main pinball scene of Australia resulting in "the worst pinball machine of all time" as per the TWIPY's, pinside bottom 300, the entire Northern Hemisphere and 98% of Australia.
Not being upfront about your backstory with previous manufacturing attempts of other products and the whereabouts of the monies collected and constantly deflecting when questioned directly resulting in zero domestic demand when it came time to preorder.
Using operating systems of other manufacturers without consent.
Using exact pop bumper designs of other defunct manufacturers.
Threatening to sue those who referred to the title as anything other than Thunderbirds and using local AussieArcade toadies to threaten to sue pinside Admin from anyone who posted critical reviews of the machine or anything referring to said backstory.
Pissing off the world's largest pinball market on the world's largest pinball forum by insulting them repeatedly.
When all else had failed and five years later when the original 17 preorders still hadn't been built, using rotordave's pinside clout as an underhanded marketing tool to mislead the world's biggest pinball forum knowing full well who would be providing reviews (AussieArcade sycophants) since the machine by that stage was widely known in Australia as a unplayable/unsellable pile of shit.