Retro Atomic Zombie Adventureland by John Popadiuk

[Richyrich]

Has anyone ordered one of these pins??/

[Cow Corner]

Has anyone ordered one of these pins??/

Nope, I couldn't buy anything sight unseen or unplayed.
I hope it's a cracker...I love the zombie genre, most of my dvd/blu ray collection is zombie related.
Can't wait for World War Z and Zombieland 2 to hit the screens.

[swinks]

Good interview with J Pop on the latest episode of spooky pinball - last 1/4 of the interview. Great historical info as well as his 2 pinballs in the works - magic girl and zombie.

[swinks]

Good interview with J Pop on the latest episode  (24) of spooky pinball - last 1/4 of the interview. Great historical info as well as his 2 pinballs in the works - magic girl and zombie.

http://www.spookypinball.com/podcast-2/

Also can download from iTunes

[Olivia_jason]

Has anyone ordered one of these pins??/

i wish i had the cash to blow, i recon this will be a great machine. with only 99 made it will certainly be rare.

[swinks]

There should be some info of a proto type machine at the Midwest Gaming Classic, the weekend of the 24th coming up.

[Retropin]

only 99 being made?
seems strange

sort of makes sense, if its a starter company. would be hard to sell more and might be playing it safe

as for the price you can understand the high costs, you would have to cover all the tooling it would take to produce a pinball factory

If you make something Limited Edition, you are pretty much guaranteed it will sell out. Collectors LOVE limited numbers of things.. each owning number X of # etc.
Record collecting is/was huge in the UK.. many bands would let it be known that the next pressing would be limited to X numbers..... record was pretty much sold out by pre orders... idea is to try and get very low numbers or last number... its worth more then to a collector. Odd thing is that none of us ever sold anything... it just got collected.

Pinball aint no different, just bigger toys that command deeper pockets.

[swinks]

Here is a recent interview

http://www.gamersdailynews.com/article-3306-Interview-with-Pinball-Designer-John-A-Popadiuk-Jr-on-His-Work-and-the-Ben-Hecks-Zombie-Adventureland-Project.html

[swinks]

a little teaser - Pingame journal interview with

JPop at his studio

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Ben Heck at the MGC
http://youtu.be/1CyuEK7xmio

[swinks]

JPop has released a statement on pinside clearing the air about speculation of the contents of the packet being released in the next week to the 124 people that ave signed up. A lot of discussion about a NDA and what people can share to the world (us pinheads).

"We are looking at 2 options....one under NDA and the other not. So people can choose their flavor. Then we would use FB or the web to get out general news and the nda'ers can hang around more at the studio and stuff. Again main thing is it is a new concept in design, so we are learning too the best way to move forward and not spoil the "end game" fun. Also all this is not real quick but new pinball is being made. Jpop"

[swinks]

Well the 100 people that put deposits on BHZA have received there information packages which has a Non Disclosure Agreement -

Speculation is
"The first rule of Zombie Adventureland is you don't talk about Zombie Adventureland.
The second rule of Zombie Adventureland is you don't talk about Zombie Adventureland.
The third rule of Zombie Adventureland is don't rub it in the rest of our faces you got one ordered and say you can't talk about it with a NDA."

The only info released was that it has areal projected build plan and that a 100% refund is offered at the end if you are not impressed.

We will just have to wait and see what it looks like and how it plays with a extremely slim chance of ever playing one.

[swinks]

Jpop talk at the recent pinball show - nearly 90minutes covering history, magic girl and zombie adventure land.

Source: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/23200121

[swinks]

hear is some art, looks cool - definitely going to be a bright coloured zombie machine

[swinks]

a tid bit

"our new playfield hardcoat with real metal"

[swinks]

it is believed at the 29minute mark is the mock up of BHZL but could be another machine as well.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/25967283