Heighway Pinball - Full Throttle (Motorbike racing theme)

[swinks]

Today Pingame Journal released a interview with the guy from Heighway at the Chicago pinball show (Oct 2012) where the first game has been changed to a Full Throttle (Motorbike theme) with features like pop up spinning motor wheel sort of pop bumpers etc.

Tour the Globe competing in the world championship - Motorcross, Stunt Biking, Circuit, Drag and Street Racing with up to a 6 ball multiball frenzy.

The are going to have the game ready for a London show in Jan 2013 and aiming to go into production around March 2013.

More machines to pick from - Heighway, Stern, JJP and SkitBpinball - exciting times

http://www.youtube.com/pinjournal

I know this is probably going to go into production but quantities unknown at this stage so will leave it in this section for the moment.

http://www.pinballnews.com/news/fullthrottle.html

[Pop Bumper Pete]

Much better
While I did like the freshness of Circe, the overall feeling on the theme was WTF???

Full Throttle is a great theme, I hope it does well for them

[swinks]

I am not a motorbike fan, but I like the concept of the different racing, The rising wheel spinners even the HSII ball spinner thing at the back. I would if any Aussie company will become a importer - there you go Cavey a business for you.

[Caveoftreasures]

It has a NO FEAR style of feel like the 1995 release from Williams which is a good pinball. I like this title from them versus the other animal themed machine etc.

Wouldnt mind being a Stern dealer oneday so would have to leave out importing other pinny brands but a good idea for someone in Australia to become a dealer for those English guys.

[pinsanity]

The last minute theme change just reinforces how precarious the pinball manufacturing world is, despite all the talk of a mass revival. No-one dares to go outside the square anymore - just stick with the same rehashed themes that have been seen countless times before.

Disappointing.

[ktm450]

Cool theme, there are very few bike themed games, especially road bikes

[oldskool1969]

was really looking forward to Circes, oh well thats what I get for not being MAINSTREAM ppppffffftttt
This does look pretty cool though I must admit

[Pop Bumper Pete]

More news about Heighway's 'Full Throttle' machine

While happy to see another pinball maker, I feel that these guys seem to biting off more than they can chew

http://www.pinballnews.com/games/fullthrottle/index3.html

[swinks]

I am not into motorbikes but the game is looking good and some originality there as well. 

Well done guys 

thanks for posting Pete 

[Caveoftreasures]

hey, won't the ball flying around break these globes above the targets.....?

I hope someone has a a cool 3 to 5 million dollars minimum to get this whole operation up n running..........
.....personally, I would have tried doing a deal with Stern or JJP for a title to sell all over the world or europe ?.........rather than going it alone...he should have spoken to JJP/Jack and asked him what massive task was awaiting him.......and if the deal doesnt work, bye bye 3 to 5 million in set up fees...massive gamble.....perhaps a pre-sale like Woz would have been smarter first, then deck out a factory with other peoples money......? 

[ktm450]

That photo is a mock up of what it could look like not a production layout.
Why bag them out already, i would think they have the funds and resources available to make it happen or they would not bother. At least they are showing some initiative and doing something a bit different. Good luck to them hopefully we get another pinball producer to choose from.

[Caveoftreasures]

I hope they do really well, but it is a massive investment to build a factory out and hire all the office and production floor staff and then get everything ready and all the stock/parts to produce pinball machines.  Its alot of money to risk without pre-sales like JJP did. Hope they succeed.

[coon82]

More news about Heighway's 'Full Throttle' machine

While happy to see another pinball maker, I feel that these guys seem to biting off more than they can chew

http://www.pinballnews.com/games/fullthrottle/index3.html

Interesting to hear they are looking well into the future with different titles and Circe's Animal House is still on the cards down the track. I think it's a good move to choose a safer theme, at least for the first couple of titles . Maybe boring to some keeping a fairly set formula, but for me it's a smart move to build up the clientele before taking a gamble like that.

[coon82]

I am not into motorbikes but the game is looking good and some originality there as well. 

Well done guys 

thanks for posting Pete 

+1

[swinks]

Here is a update, boy it is looking nice

http://www.pinballnews.com/games/fullthrottle/index4.html