WoZ and Hobbit Updates

[REVOLUTION]

The LCD really had no effect on my game, I'm staring at the playfield. I do think dmd is ready to be replaced with something, but I don't know how fundamentally the game play will change with LCDs.

I've been saying this all along as well. I don't need a giant TV in the background. I understand it's real purpose is to draw in a crowd, but I honestly think the ColorDMD is the way to go. It mixes new technology (it's also an LCD screen) with a retro look, which is really what Pinball has been for ages. Stern MUST exclusively license that product..

 

[DRANO]

Looks like another update from JJP.
This time with a lower CAD view of the Hobbit.

Not much to see here yet, although the slings appear to have a moving axe toy on them. Kinda fun

Left outlane kickback as well.

 

[REVOLUTION]

looks like it has a raising drain post in the center as well (ie. TSPP). Not sure about those axes.. they'd be a little cheesy IMO.

 

[Vengeance]

Man JJP loves to make those outlanes drain whores. That left outlane/inlane is angled to send the ball out.

 

[Menace]

Man JJP loves to make those outlanes drain whores. That left outlane/inlane is angled to send the ball out.

Could be, but it would depend on where the post that splits the two in-lanes is located. If it's high up, then I would agree. If it's in line or lower than the post between the outlane and in-lane not so much...

D

 

[REVOLUTION]

Apparently Joe Balcer is designing Hobbit as well.

 

[frolic]

This video is WOZ with latest software is starting to look really good:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9ikFDD6gbho[/youtube]

It's a shame the software wasn't ready earlier... if the prototypes rolled out with something closer to this, I think the first impressions would have been quite different.

I'm looking forward to trying it again at a home collector's machine.

 

[mwong168]

Thanks for posting frolic and fixed your youtube link for ya. In the future if you want to embed a video into your post right click on the video and select "Copy Video URL" and then paste that URL between the YouTube tags. When you copy and paste what is in the address bar doesn't work most of the time.

 

[Chambahz]

Wow, those LEDs are something miles above any other pin I've seen.
It'll be cool to check it out in person once they're "out there".