Back when the first Pro Pinball Kickstarter was born, one of the announcements that excited me the most was that Pat Lawlor was going to team up with the Pro Pinball guys to make a completely new virtual table - one that could in theory even be built into a physical machine.
Pat Lawlor certainly needs no introduction on a forum like this. I personally am a big Lawlor fan (my most played table on Pinball Arcade being Whirlwind, closely followed by Twilight Zone and Ripleys Believe It Or Not), I adore his imaginative, dense and intricate tables, and his taste for picking interesting themes and fully realizing them into the playfield designs.
Here´s Lawlor talking about Addams Family. Can you see how he can barely contain his smile? He knows he has a hit on his hands.
I really loved the videos on the first Kickstarter - those were rather silly ones, with Pat and Ade very obviously having a great time together. Graphic artist John Youssi making a little drive-by appearance was a sweet moment as well. Lawlor on the playfield design, Youssi making his trademark colorful graphics, and the whole PP team realizing the table in glorious photorealism - I got really excited. And who wouldn´t want to see those virtual whiteboards?
"Pat, you´re shaking it!"
So I´m wondering what happened to the plans you guys made. I assume the goal is to first remaster the currently existing PP tables one after the other, and the original table coming after that? I´d think that the original table would be more costly than the remasters, given that there would be more people to pay, not to mention the actual design, testing etc taking more time.
I guess this is very early to ask, given that PP Remastered is just a freshly born puppy at this point, and maybe there´s some plans you don´t want to reveal yet.
But I am just too curious to not ask
Great Pinsider interview from sept 2012
One last video: Stern factory tour during the production of RBION, with the legendary Steve Ritchie making an appearance as well!