Alice Goes to Wonderland Has Arrived; Pics of Beetlejuice Pinball on the Line; INDISC
By knapparcade
It was a quiet Monday in the world of pinball and arcade news as we here in the Northeastern U.S. dug out from yet another 20 inches of snow, but we're back. Let's start today off with an update on the home pinball machine manufacturer Wonderland Amusements. Those of you who are familiar with the Company will recall that it successfully ran a Kickstarter to fund the production of a flat-pack home physical pinball machine for its first game "Alice Goes to Wonderland." In its last update, Wonderland stated that production of the initial batch of machines for Kickstarter backers was complete, but that the games were stuck waiting in a port in China for shipment to the United States. In an update on Friday, Wonderland stated that the games have now arrived in the U.S. The company's distribution partner is scheduled to begin processing game orders and sending out tracking numbers this week. All of the upgrades for the game that were sold separately, such as the sculpted Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter sculpt will ship directly from Wonderland to customers. Wonderland has also imported replacements for all of the machine's 300+ parts and now has them in stock. I am very curious to see what people who ordered this game think about it. If you got one, make sure to share your thoughts, pics and vids. It's obviously not a commercial-quality pinball machine, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it won't be fun in a home gameroom environment. Below is the official text of the latest update: "Happy Friday Backers! It's been a long time coming but we're incredibly proud and excited to finally announce the following: All Kickstarter units have arrived in the US! Our distribution partner, Spreetail, will begin processing orders and sending out tracking numbers by early next week. One important note – the confirmation emails will not come from a WonderlandAmusements.com address, but rather from Spreetail directly. Please keep an eye on your inbox and possibly your spam folder just in case. As we've said previously, we are not fulfilling in backer number order. Orders are being fulfilled based on which distribution center is handling them and overall logistics efficiency. That said, the gap between the first shipment going out and the last should only be a few days. Note that all upgrade accessories are coming from us directly here at Wonderland and will also be going out next week. Tracking numbers for those will come from our support email address. Day 1 Code Update We're also excited to say that we have locked the release version of the game code. We are genuinely excited for you to power up your machines and experience the final build. One important thing to keep in mind: once you have built your machine, you will want to connect it to your WI-FI immediately so you can receive the code update. This also allows you to log your high scores on the Worldwide Leaderboard. As always, we will continue improving things over time, but this is the official release version and we are looking forward to hearing your thoughts once you have had time to play. Assembly Tips and Tricks video We will be posting an Assembly Tips and Tricks video shortly to help guide you through setup. Assembly was designed to be straightforward, but we wanted to share some tips that we've accumulated while assembling machines at our offices. This will not be a comprehensive build video – just a brief run though of a few places we think some added explanation might help. Need help? Contact our Support email If you encounter any issue at all with your machine, please contact us directly at Support@WonderlandAmusements.com. Please do not send technical or product support issues to us here on Kickstarter as that will significantly slow down response time. We will be monitoring the support inbox daily – likely hourly – as machines begin arriving. Some of you have also asked about replacement parts availability from Day One. We're happy to say we are stocked up with spares for every one of the 300+ parts, all labeled and ready to ship, if needed. Sharing is caring! Last but not least, we’re excited for you to finally experience our first pinball machine, Alice Goes to Wonderland. Please share your thoughts, critiques, and compliments with us here on Kickstarter, on social media, or privately via our Support email. We’d especially love to see photos and videos of your machines and gameplay. We built this machine to bring people together for some fun, friendly competition, and we can’t wait to see it in action in your homes! – The Wonderland Amusements Team"
Yesterday Don from Don'ts Pinball Podcast, who now works for Spooky Pinball, shared a short video on YouTube of the Company's new game Beetlejuice on the production line with the caption: "Beetlejuice is movin' out!" Below is that video as well as two brand new tutorials from Spooky Pinball on how to set the game up and install the topper:
The huge annual INDISC (It Never Drains in Southern California) pinball tournament is coming later this week, Thursday February 26th through Sunday March 1st at the Murrieta Hot Springs Resort in California. INDISC consists of a whopping seven tournaments over the course of four days, including the The Open IFPA World Championship, which is one of the largest tournaments in the World. I suspect that some of the tournaments will be streamed on Twitch on the iepinball channel. If so, I'll tune in and check it out. UPDATE: The stream will actually be on the Aimless Pinball channel on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/aimlesspinball . I have added the stream schedule below. https://www.indisc.com/
The INDISC Tournament Schedule
