What Might Have Pin: Heighway Pinball’s Carnival Pinball Machine (John Trudeau Design)

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Dave Sanders, formerly of Heighway Pinball, shared some interesting info about a planned machine by Heighway Pinball that never made it to production. According to Dave:

The design sketches below include an image of the apron and flippers from Judge Dredd, with the rest of the playfield hand drawn:

The design was done by John Trudeau.

This image is believed to be from Expo in 2012, when Andrew Heighway and John Trudeau were in discussions about him designing a game for Heighway. This was before Trudeau joined Stern Pinball to design Mustang, WWE, and Ghostbusters.

Per Dave Sanders, these design drawings were as far as the game ever got, and after Trudeau joined Stern and they did not continue development of this game.

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