He worked there. Why do you need to know more than that? Plenty of people have worked there. They all seem to have very similar stories. Wonder why that is.

I'm trying to think of a different way to put this so he doesn't report me again. Hes just a fan boy who sits in the chair and watches because the people there butter him up and he thinks they're his friends.

you can put both those in the older Houdinis as well

The two older ones I owned performed flawlessly with the original power supplies. If your line voltage into your home is stable enough, no issues. Updated power supply might not even be needed if your local electric company provides a good stable consistent feed.

Not the same company it once was, they discarded practically the entire workforce, and all the other issues that have been brought up by key people who worked there or contracted for them.... Some of the come lately fanboys and cheerleaders will just never grasp it all. Just maybe they will when they become ignored as a customer for true service or things go even further south or when the doors close. Or maybe they will never get it.

I have not heard anything on the court case vs AP in Racine County in Wisconsin. So apparently it appears there has been no progress resolving that.
I take it as Business as usual ?

I stopped by the factory yesterday to pick up a few springs. The drop target in my Oktoberfest had a spring break, so they were nice enough to give me a few spares. Saved me a trip to Pinball Life, which was very nice of them.

Sounds like Cuphead is moving along and they are getting it all finalized. Hopefully I'll get to see it at MGC in April!

last rumor I heard several vendors are going to send them to collections, just a rumor can not confirm.

So things are chugging along still but they still haven't bothered to announce a replacement for Fix. And haven't done anything other than talk to distributors privately.

I'm not going to predict sales, but if we get to release with no significant hire announcements, and the designer certainly seems to think he ain't coming back based on a recent facebook post(though his teapot buying is chugging along), this is going to be one for the ages in terms of bizarre launches, though I guess we've gotten used to that in the pinball community.

The only positive I've noticed is my distributer, who I thought stopped ordering from American Pinball(they didn't stock GTF even though they had all the previous releases) has BBQ in their showroom now.

Fix always seemed more interested in attention then running the company

IDK, maybe he wasn't given the power to make the decisions that needed to be made
maybe he lacked the skills to make the correct decisions
probably a lot of both

You have to be careful with the older Houdinis, some also had the garbage Mirco playfields with pooling and cracking issues. These have the clear inserts which also tend to crack. As I'm sure no surprise to you, Zero support from AP on the issues.

I thought they did. Or someone did?

Did they? I haven't really been checking the pinball news much as these lulls between releases are dreadful. All I've heard is that they are "hiring" but no actual announcements. Who did they hire?

I thought it was just a sales guy that was taking on additional duties? Seemed pretty haphazard.

Easy to tell, mirco have clear inserts while the Bader have translucent white. Early on we were doing 50/50, then dropped mirco as he rejected our rejects. However when Fix came on board he told manufacturing to use the mirco playfields that had been rejected, I was not sure at first if he knew as he did not ask anyone who knew the history. I was pretty pissed when I was in factory and saw them being used, but when I explained the history to Fix, he did not seem to care, he felt there was nothing wrong with them.

Oh, that. I guess I thought that was just a placeholder, maybe it wasn't and it's just a get the releases out with no extra money spent plan.

You were Fix'd.

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Haven't you already saw it???

I think he said he saw it before at the factory in one of his posts.

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/the-next-american-pinball/page/134#post-8520777

Some of what he relates about his experiences there I wonder about. Faulty memory, embellishment or something else. Details seemed to be a bit off when we were told about him picking up an Oktoberfest pin directly. First said he got his game on the street where the solely dedicated Aimtron building is , then the other building that is split that actually has the AP facility in it.

Does Fix have any kids ?

Seen it and played it. Very early build, though. Hoping to see it at MGC, which would mean it's 100% complete and ready for purchase!

I picked up the machine at the split facility. Went to talk to Mukesh at the Aimtron building on Vermont St.

Great people over there! So excited for what they have to offer moving forward.

I think you might have forgot what you posted a few times about 30 days ago "you stated you've saw it but haven't got to play it yet"....now you've played it but it's an early build????? So you happen to have played an early build within the last month (in between you not playing and then playing it).

I am always amazed (though not surprised after Deep Root and Haggis) people cheer-lead for a company that owes vendors, former employees, money, threatened content creators with law suits, and tried to get them fired, treat customers poorly etc.

Yep! Fun game, can't wait to see it fully fleshed out.

Now I am wondering is this guy just stroking everybody and its beyond embellishing the cheer leading or having a bad memory or something.

Or if he relates to the owners so well and is at the factory so much that he really should just take a job with AP !

Sounds like a great candidate to take over for the open spot Fix had. Sign the man up.

AP, is going to go live with this machine hopefully shortly, but they still have an early build around and letting people play it to gauge first impressions????? Someone might be stretching the truth.