http://www.dutchpinball.com


400 was the figure coming from talk from the private TBL party and their was 3-4 of the DP team there as well as being present at Pinball Life's show with a machine and it was the highlight of the show, with alot of people being wowed. There was 2 private TBL parties and only people that had paid a deposit were allowed in and could bring one friend so on both nights it looked to have a good crowd. Exactly 1 year ago it was a mystery of who they were as they had the countdown timer for around New Years to release info. The guys did the DMD version of Pinbot which is selling well and pretty sure the dutch guy that does the lcd animations for JJP is part of DP team as well. If anything they are way in front of Stern with a lcd intergration. Before that they started with using Proc and developed their programming skills. They are all keen pinballers with apparently some nice collections. You would be surprised that there is a healthy pinball community in Holland:
- Ministry of Pinball parts supplier
- Dutch Pinball
- Jonathon who writes the Pinball mag
- another small team building the real Timeshock pinball
- Robin you owns and runs Pinside (the biggest Pinball forum around)

They brought over 3 working proto types in early code so people could touch, see and know they are the real deal. I think that alone is impressive and a big expense but the best way to secure confidence and support.

As for designers, pretty sure their team are, no big name US designers, but if it is a good layout and good game play with good art a designers name shouldn't matter once people play and see and start talking about it. Sometimes companies use well known designers to speed up the confidence.

Great read Jady, very informative. Thanks for posting. I'm not a huge fan of the movie but I really like what I've seen so far from the Dutch Pinball guys, TBL looks like it's going to be a cracker.