Did any good amount of promotion ever occur on any Dr. Who fancies or official channels? As much as I would have expected the most recent tier additions to have an impact, I wouldn't have imagined they would have had that kind of effect on their own and the new tiers don't count for even a third of the gains made in the last few days.
I've noticed that sites seem to be more hesitant to spread news about current Kickstarters. They might not want to be seen as endorsing them if the project is funded but fails to deliver.
We're putting up nice pocket money for the next KS for sure. After the 13K spike on the 9th it has tapered off considerably. Kicktraq now has it trending for 68K, that means a head start of around 14K for the new KS!
Wonder what the next Kickstarter will be.Not many people expected that this Kickstarter would be Dr Who.Either TSPP or IJ would be the most crowd pleasing choices.
Leaning more towards Indiana Jones as it's a Williams table rather then Stern (TSPP, LOTR), also probably the most highly requested of all - currently ranked 4 on IPDB, and 7 on Pinside. Kinda feels incomplete without it, closest we've got is El Dorado City of Gold!
Would also be happy with another curve ball kickstarter such as Guns & Roses or The Shadow.
One thing is for sure, after TAF and DH, I think anything could be possible!
Eldar,the BBC and our ABC are funded by the tax payer.there not allowed to promote products.We don't know if FS did send out promotional emails to any fan sites etc., and if these got buried or ignored. We probably never will. If the sites were ignoring FS, what more can they do? If they keep trying they're going to get marked as spammers and ignored anyway.
As for the BBC, well, they presumably have strict rules about what they can and cannot publicize, and it's entirely likely their rules prohibit them from promoting another company's product in one of their articles. Or something... it's most likely complicated. Maybe they run a story after everything is signed and ready to go.
We don't know if FS did send out promotional emails to any fan sites etc., and if these got buried or ignored. We probably never will.
Mike Lindsey was on our BlahCade Podcast today and spoke quite a lot about the kickstarter.
Mike said he has reached out to various Doctor Who sites, whether they chose to post anything was up to them.
Dr. Who is my most wanted table right now. Never played it before Expo last year. They had 2 DW tables there. Probably had 100 tables total. With most of the other classic tables there, I found myself returning time and time again to Dr. Who.
The one you could hear when entering the room above all others was Dr. Who. The Dalects screaming Exterminate! Exterminate! Knew I had to have a try before leaving the Expo. Found myself returning to DW the most that night. Next day, headed right to that table again.
After Expo I came home and set up VP (Visual Pinball) on my cabinet so I could play Dr. Who. I haven't run VP on my cabinet since the DX11 update came out for TPA months earlier. Dr. Who was so much fun that I took time to get VP working again just to play it some more.
Then it was announced as the next Kickstarter. Perfect.