Hi Mike,

Power box looks great.

I' m wondering how the rest of the project is going and the order in which you are tackling things. You seem to have some of the components at a very advanced stage, you already have a production run of the coils and power box for example. Are you building all the generic items which you will use in all your subsequent titles first before you work on the game-specific parts?

How about the design of the Thunderbirds machine? Do you have a flipping whitewood yet?

Just curious, answer as you see fit. Regards, SV.

My main job (apart from actually running the factory and all of the things that this involves) is to design the MECHANICS of Homepin pinballs NOT only Thunderbirds. The parts will, as far as possible, be generic across the range of pinball machines we build with specific mechanisms for individual titles naturally. I am designing the mechanisms and cabinet parts with my small team of engineers and we are concentrating on this part of the project.

We have several iterations of flipping whitewoods for TAG and the actual FINAL design is not yet set in stone but is awfully close.

I am not closely involved in the actual game design, layout, artwork or programming of this or our other games in the works currently. Yes, I oversea the work but I am not directly involved in this part of the job. Others far more talented than I are doing this work (and none of them are Chinese for the record). This work is being done by many different and highly talented people, in four different countries, who are intimately involved with pinball although not necessarily terribly well known to most of the public.

The reveal date is getting closer day by day and I can now actually see the light at the end of the tunnel and it isn't the train coming towards me.......

One of the biggest challenges has been building the machine and all components to meet RoHS standards, this is a very complex and VERY expensive nightmare.