Looking very very nice indeed.
One little observation: how shootable is the left entry to the horseshoe loop? Relative to the vector angle from the right flipper, it looks pretty cramped. That's also a lot of shots to have to fit adequately into a standard-body size. I'm also assume that the rabbit hole is a luck feature if the ball falls into it from a rebound or from a slow roll down the right orbit, since there doesn't appear to be a direct shot to it. If John Popadiuk were to take a look at that, I know exactly what he'd say; it would be a magnificently cool feature to make it deliberately unshootable under normal conditions, but place a target or a rubber in such a position that a good player could deliberately shoot for a rebound off that and into the rabbit hole.
May I make one suggestion? It looks like your ramps and inner shots are quite narrow. Outer orbit shots are often narrow, since these frequently have a fairly long leading edge that the ball can roll up before entering the shot. But it still looks like you might need a little more room to make everything play as sweetly as possible. I see two possible ways of doing this, without having to widen the field.
First: change the captive ball type without changing the shot. You can save the space of the two posts at the front, if you replace it with the sort of captive ball found on many Sterns - a front ball which is fixed down on a stand with a thick wire loop over the top, and a back ball behind it through to which the collision momentum is transferred. The entire width of the captive ball shot then becomes the back ball and its enclosure. This has two other effects too - the front ball is more exposed than it would be behind the posts, and as a spherical solid hit surface, produces a much greater range of rebound angles when struck.
Second: the most expendable shot to save more room looks like the left horsehoe entry. Don't block it off or anything, but make it an exit only by tucking the lane under the ramp a bit and moving the captive ball over. Now, there would be an actual point to this without diminishing anything from the game. If the lane is an exit, that means you don't have to angle to guide wall directly back to the flipper. You could get some very interesting dynamics indeed if the ball entering the right side and exiting the left is flung at the right slingshot instead, so it stays on the move for much longer afterwards. Also, you should definitely play around with that exit angle a bit if you do that, because imagine if you had it set up the shot into the horsehoe had the potential to hit the right slingshot, then the left, and be fired at the right target bank or even possibiy right into the rabbit hole. How cool would THAT be?
Thanks for the suggestions Eala. As of right now the flow and shots in the game are working very well. The horseshoe orbit right now is actually kind of interesting - a right flipper hit to the left entrance sends the ball through the orbit and down to the left flipper, a properly timed left flipper hit sends the ball back up the right entrance, through the orbit and to the right flipper, kinda like a ping pong effect. IMHO I prefer games that remove the slings shots from the equation if you've made a good hit - i.e. slingshot contact should be from f#$%& up a shot - I don't like it when orbit shots around the outside come down and hit the slings - my theory is why should you be punished with a random ball movement from a slingshot when you made the shot you wanted. Your idea is cool though... I might tweak it just to see how that plays as well. As for the captive ball -yes indeed, your suggestion for changing the captive style is a very good one, I will definitely implement it (going with the two big rubber posts has just been simpler for testing purposes...).
The rabbit hole as of right now is accessible with a left flipper hit - there's just enough angle there to shoot it in. This is something I've tweaked on WOOLY as well - to make sure Pandora's Box is also a shot you can get from the left flipper - was tricky in the current
VP release.
Both ramps in the current build are actually almost too easy to hit... they play very similar to the ramps on CFTBL - which are very fun IMO. I plan on trying something similar in AIW compared to "Unlimited Millions" and the "Double Feature" concept - I love trying to build that value up to 16 mil and then hit the move your car shot...
The main issue as of right now is more in the pop bumper region. I've had to mess around with the sizing and location of those bumpers to get decent action - too much or too little bumping is tough to get consistently! I'm close now though - although the sizing on the bumpers definitely isn't standard and would be an issue if I ever build this as a real pin, but what the heck, that's why you gotta love
VP, right?
I've also made some tweaks to the left upper playfield - instead of the toy cat being there I've changed it to a tea cup. Once you light mad hatter by hitting shots on the upper playfield a diverter will engage that will send the ball from the upper playfield ramp down where the cat toy is currently into a tea cup. Once you get three balls int he tea cup, the tea cup will "tip" with a controlled spill of the balls. Depending on how all that goes, it might change into the tea cup "breaking" and splitting apart to let the balls loose. As for the right upper playfield, I can't remember if I posted it earlier, but the theory there is as you complete the loop shot the guillotine goes up and up and up until eventually it comes down and releases the second ball for the two ball "off with your head" multiball...
Ahhh... so much fun pinball work to do and so little time. Too bad you gotta fit in real pinball playing time with the development work!!
WOW !!! 
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